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WATCH: How to Verify a Quote – #SolutionsWatch

How do you tell truth from fiction when it comes to unsourced online information? This week on #SolutionsWatch, James answers a question about how to verify a quotation by showing you step-by-step how to start sourcing information online for yourself!

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p.s.
p.s.
Nov 17, 2024 8:17 PM

(“TV games” … TV plays were meant, of course)

Touch and hold the Pressreader article, then swipe left to “pull” the content across your screen (SmartFlow feature). This horizontal swiping motion reveals all parts of the article that may not be visible through regular scrolling.

entitlement
entitlement
Nov 17, 2024 8:39 AM

as an EX fan of Corbin report, I no longer trust him.
regarding verify quotes
corbin you shill.
how about the RFK jr quote about Trump 2 years ago
and how about the Palestinian quote that RFK and israel genocide being allowed by your
children health defense alphabet agency shills.

judith
judith
Nov 17, 2024 12:13 PM
Reply to  entitlement

Good points about Trump and Kennedy, but it’s CORBETT not Corbin.

And, personally, I do not think he’s a shill.

Howard
Howard
Nov 17, 2024 4:57 PM
Reply to  judith

I think Mr. Corbett is a shill in the same way every pundit is: he has a particular ideological frame of reference and evaluates everything in the context of that frame. This may be okay to a point; and that point is concluding something to be “wrong” simply because it doesn’t add up in the context of his ideology.

For example, he dismisses the idea that the Earth’s resources are finite and that, given the extent of human exploitation of resources, we are rapidly running out of resources. Clearly, any resources on a finite planet ARE finite and WILL at some point be exhausted. But that notion doesn’t fly with Mr. Corbett’s essentially Libertarian point of view.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Nov 17, 2024 8:23 AM

It is really important to double check and triple check supposed quotations, especially from books or speeches.

The Albert Pike Three World Wars one mentioned in the Corbett presentation is a classic false quote.

Not mentioned in the presentation is ‘The Secret Covenant’ document supposedly written by a member of the Illuminati, or some other insider, which was even debunked by G. Edward Griffin. I looked into that one and found a couple of versions online. They both had grammatical errors and were produced on what looked like Microsoft Word. So a supposed member of the Illuminati would make grammatical errors in such an important document? Yet, some people still repost this crap, as if it is true.

Then, there is the 1981 Michael Salomon book with an interview with Jacques Attali, ‘L’avenir de la vie’ (The future of life). Even though themes such as euthanasia and an ageing popualation are discussed, there were wholly invented quotes from Attali about using vaccines to kill off ‘stupid’ people and other similarly derogatory language. From scanned pages of the book that I found, which someone had uploaded, however unavailable to find online as a complete download, these quotes could not be found. It was an open goal for the French fact checkers to jump onboard to debunk the claims. Of course, it is possible that the original book has been changed with a reprint, yet, those making the claims gave no reference links to actual screenshots or scanned pages of the book pages in question either. So where did they get their source quotes from?

If not careful, we are left with bogus information either produced or reposted lazily in good faith by not checking the sources or a deliberate attempt to discredit those who seek the truth by those with a vested interest in seeding misinformation or disinformation.

Lynn Ertell
Lynn Ertell
Nov 17, 2024 3:53 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Another prominent euthanasia enthusiast can be easily verified. From the brother of Rahm Emanuel, who happens to be a doctor.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Nov 18, 2024 6:29 AM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

True. Only the wise guys check the source, and as we know they are unfortunately a minority.. You are a minority guys!

Jonathan
Jonathan
Nov 17, 2024 3:24 AM

I’m not sure you can verify anything now that even video can be so easily faked.

Internet archives are being attacked too.

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.

– George Orwell, 1984.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Nov 18, 2024 10:19 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

It is especially internet archives Orwell refer to because you cant easily change a dated, author and placed history book.
The more they demand digital archives and digital case description the more they will able to falsify any legal case!

Lock down, break down, IT problems, Trojan horse, Troll, Hacking, Virus, m.m. any excuse.

antonym
antonym
Nov 17, 2024 12:37 AM

Yes, use presearch.com

In general, words that notable persons wanted to disseminate publicly they themselves wrote in an article or book or more recently had these recorded on tape or video.

Any secondary, tertiary etc. verbiage is not only less reliable but also less note worthy.

Penelope
Penelope
Nov 17, 2024 12:17 AM

If you know a vaxx believer, this movie is a model in how to verify quotes. It includes the video quotes of doctors & nurses & financial coders for the hospitals.
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/videos/vaxxed-3-or-authorized-to-kill-movie/

judith
judith
Nov 17, 2024 12:25 PM
Reply to  Penelope

This is an interesting movie, however, I think watching all of the individual video interviews that the movie was composed from is much more illuminating and complete.

The individual videos are available on Children’s Health Defense site under The Bus.

Polly Tommey of Children’s Health Defense, and producer of the first two VAXXED movies, thought she would tour the country on a bus and interview people who’d been covid vaccine injured.

What she unveiled, as well, and rather shockingly, was the utter corruption and lethality of the covid hospital protocol which cost many many people their lives.

All those people who “died of covid”? died from hospital protocol.

If you’re jumping up and down with joy, as are many, over the new USA administration, just listen to families and friends who watched loved ones die ALONE in a hospital. Listen to the treatment people received when it was discovered they’d not been vaxxed.
Listen to direct family orders that were never followed or just blatantly disobeyed.

The interviews are harrowing.

I applaud Tommey’s efforts, but I do not think this film does her tour justice. The videos themselves are the most enlightening.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Nov 18, 2024 6:39 AM
Reply to  judith

I dare to say, even if somebody says they are all in it, Trump is a Doo and no different, that I prefer Tulsi and JFK RFK Martin Luther King., Jacqueline Kennedy and Trump, in Trump’s Administration than so many else.

I know many will hate me for this.

les online
les online
Nov 16, 2024 11:54 PM

‘Women who intend “No Sex Till 2028” because of Trump’s Victory are gonna
turn a lotta men queer.’
And you can quote me on that !

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Nov 17, 2024 5:29 AM
Reply to  les online

Seems a bit of fallacious logic to me. As long as there are plenty of women wanting lots of consensual, no-strings sex, then all the men punished by ‘No Sex until 2028’ women can just have some fun without being in committed, faithful relationships.

It’s an open goal for the Escort industry, the prostitution industry. And for women who want lots of sex with lots of men, especially those who are married with abstemious wives, some of whom may be in the process of getting a divorce.

Some may turn queer, but they may have harboured those tendencies already, just hadn’t confronted them.
,

Penelope
Penelope
Nov 16, 2024 10:29 PM

Here’s a quote from Steve Kirsch’s newsletter:
New Hampshire legislature special committee issues scathing report that eviscerates the federal and state COVID response
Is it accurate? He has an advance copy, quotes copiously from it. It’s amusing how he translates select paragraphs out of bureaucratese into ribald, casual speech.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-hampshire-legislature-special

Way to go, NH Republicans. (The Dems, still defending covid policies, should be ashamed)

mgeo
mgeo
Nov 17, 2024 6:32 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Eviscerates: More hot air. No prosecution or compensation.

judith
judith
Nov 17, 2024 12:28 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Interesting. I found his ribald interpretations off-putting Once I read one or two “this is sh*t” I stopped stopped reading.

To each their own, but I just can’t take that seriously.

To folk unfamiliar with New Hampshire, it is the “Live free or die” state. No income tax.
They also did a large study on EMF exposure and risks a few years ago.

So it is not surprising if, indeed, the report is scathing.

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Nov 16, 2024 9:15 PM

Very easy if it’s on the MSM best treat it as either totally false, manipulated or out of context.

les online
les online
Nov 16, 2024 8:45 PM

“DEMOCRACY is at stake” was a very popular quote in the USA ’til a
coupla weeks ago, and i still havent figured out who started the quote…

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Nov 17, 2024 5:30 AM
Reply to  les online

There IS no democracy in the US POTUS race. You can’t be one of the two chosen candidates unless you serve billionaires, many of whom are Jewish Zionists.

The world is mostly populated by non-Jews who are not Zionists.

Democracy would represent such majority views.

underground poet
underground poet
Nov 17, 2024 12:36 PM
Reply to  les online

Democrats in general, who were down to their last strike, used it as the go to phrase hoping it could gain them the momentum needed to win the race, is what I noticed of the quote. Hard cores would have said it was on the line.