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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA story from a RW white supremacist holocaust denying site has 100 recs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027798083Regardless of how we feel about an issue, can we at least make sure we understand where a story is coming from? Inadvertently spreading the "truth" according to Hal Turner is not what we want to be doing on DU.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)does have a lot of people who's critical thinking skills are pretty clearly lacking.
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hack89
(39,171 posts)let's find legitimate sources to start with.
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hack89
(39,171 posts)surely even you know the difference?
Hal Turner has an agenda - everything he says and writes will be colored by that agenda. Why not find an "illegitimate" source whose agenda is not hate and racism?
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)She was in a unit preparing to bring back vehicles after the Iraq war. She is from the South Pacific and there has been no breast cancer in her genetic family background. Several other women in her unit were diagnosed with different cancers. It seems they came in contact with depleted uranium on those vehicles. The hospital back in the states she has her chemo at was loaded with young men and women with all kinds of strange cancers. So I tend to believe this story.
hack89
(39,171 posts)then I would question your judgement.
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)I purposely did not go into detail about some things I was told by her. There are a lot of young soldiers suffering from strange cancers not reported. There's a dirty secret not being reported in the MSM.
Demonaut
(8,937 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)edhopper
(33,652 posts)or this
http://www.veteransspeakout.com/category/references-websites/marijuana/
I think you should retract your allegation.
hack89
(39,171 posts)that is the hate site in question. Look at the actual story - the source is in the first line.
You should explain that you are not saying Vets Speak Out is right wing.
Also, this story is confirmed by multiple sources.
hack89
(39,171 posts)http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/11/21/navy-sailors-report-radiation-sickness-japan-quake-tsunami-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant/
not right wing sites.
I understand your problem with the post, i just asked that you could be clearer about your objection.
So I'll let you stew in your anger for now.
hack89
(39,171 posts)I think the Navy was reckless and needlessly exposed sailors to radiation. I support their law suit.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Thanks for the heads up
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)Here was my response on the other thread:
I did not go directly to the link in the OP, but googled Veterans Speak Out (in case there was a wiki/rationalwiki article on the site). No wiki, so I went to the site's homepage and did not see anything wrong with it.
Now that I went to the direct link provided in the OP and saw that the article was sourced from TRN, I agree with your comment (as well as the alerter's comment: The story come from a RW white supremacist site).
I guess I should have clicked on the direct link in the first place!
Also, I wish the alerter was a bit more specific regarding the source. For example: The source that Veterans Speak Out uses is an article from Hal Turner/Turner Radio Network. Here is a helpful link: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/hal-turner
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)I had not seen the other post, but I will no better than to comment or even click on it.