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Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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True95% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is 80 years old.Lula was 80 years old on the claim's date of 2026-10-03, as AP (published 2026-10-05), Reuters (2026-07-31) and WSJ (2026-10-04) all state, and Britannica's birth date of October 27, 1945 is consistent with that. He turned 81 on October 27, 2026, a later change that does not affect the verdict. The extracted claim faithfully matches the passage's wording.True70% confidence3 sourcesOct 3, 2026Xfinity Cyber Secure provides protection against online threats and risky sites for every device.Xfinity's own product pages and a Comcast corporate story describe Xfinity CyberSecure as a built-in network-level feature that screens for malware, phishing and other online threats across every device connected to the Xfinity gateway, and a Reuters report on the Xfinity Shield platform, which includes it, is consistent with that. The post's claim matches these descriptions, and the later Comcast page does not change the state of affairs as of 2026-10-07. Most of the support comes from the company's own material, so confidence is capped.True80% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Xfinity Shield offers a guaranteed WiFi price for five years.The post's claim that subscribers can lock in one WiFi price for five years, guaranteed, is supported by Xfinity's own page (published 2026-10-14) describing a 5-Year Price Guarantee on select internet plans, and by a 2026-09-28 review site and a 2025 CNET article describing the same guarantee. The extracted wording 'Xfinity Shield offers' is a slight reframing, since the guarantee is attached to internet plans with Xfinity Shield features rather than being a Shield-specific product, but this is a minor label difference; the sources do not contradict the core assertion, and the post's own 'select plans only' and 'Xfinity gateway required' restrictions are consistent with the guarantee being conditional. Sources are from after the 2026-10-03 post date but describe a standing offer, so the state on that date is judged as continuous.True88% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026Since September 2, 2025, the US military has carried out at least 70 strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean Basin and the eastern Pacific Ocean.Said by AMultiple sources show the U.S. had carried out about 70 or more boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific by early October 2026, which matches the claim's 'at least 70' as of the post date. The sources do not directly address the 'civilian' label beyond describing the targets as small civilian or alleged drug boats, and the 'at least 70' count is consistent with the later tallies of 72 and 'more than 70'.True85% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Only three out of 28 total survivors of US military boat strikes have been rescued.Said by AThe claim matches the passage's figure: AP (republished by NBC and Newsday) and The Intercept both report 28 survivors of US boat strikes, with only three ever rescued, based on SOUTHCOM social media data and Airwars-linked reporting. The claim drops the 'Per Air Wars' attribution, which does not change the graded assertion, and no source contradicts the figures.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True88% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026At least 234 people have been killed by US military strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean Basin and the eastern Pacific Ocean since September 2, 2025.Said by AThe claim's figure is a floor ('at least 234'), and sources show the death toll was at least 234 by early October 2026 and higher later: AP reported at least 235 in 70 strikes, and the NYT tracker showed 244 by late October. The post's own attribution to the New York Times is consistent with the NYT tracker, though the extracted claim drops that attribution.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The US military reactivated the Roosevelt Roads military base in Puerto Rico.Said by AMultiple independent sources (Reuters visual investigation, Military.com, Wikipedia, NBC News, and a Puerto Rico-focused report) document that the US military reactivated the formerly closed Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, beginning around September to November 2025. The claim is supported; the exact reactivation date varies by source, which is a peripheral detail, and the claim is a faithful extraction of the passage.True85% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Defense Secretary Pete Hegazy announced Operation Southern Spear as the overarching DOD operation to disrupt the flow of narcotics in the Western Hemisphere.Said by AThe claim is supported: the Lead Inspector General report to Congress states that on November 13, 2025, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear as the overarching DoW operation to disrupt Western Hemisphere narcotics flow from cartels designated as terrorist organizations. The post and claim spell the secretary's name 'Hegazy', but the sources identify the same official as Pete Hegseth, so this is treated as a misspelling rather than a different referent; the claim also omits the November 13 date, which is not a contradiction.True95% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Trump administration issued an executive order on January 20, 2025, that labels groups as foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists.Executive Order 14157, 'Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,' was signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025, per the Federal Register, White House, govinfo, and CRS sources. The claim faithfully reflects the passage and the order's text matches its description.True92% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Operation Southern Spear has evolved into Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere.Said by AMultiple independent reliable sources report that Joint Task Force Southern Spear was retired in early August 2026 and replaced by Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere, and that SOUTHCOM described the change as an evolution of Southern Spear, so the claim held as of 2026-10-03. The post's 'Sphere' is a typo for 'Spear' and the extraction faithfully reflects the passage.True80% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Airwars has identified 26 victims of US boat strikes by their full names.Said by AThe claim matches the post's passage: a list compiled by Airwars identifies 26 victims by full name. Airwars' own August 2026 report says 26 of those killed have been publicly named, and secondary coverage citing Airwars' analysis reports the same count. The sources credit journalists and researchers rather than the U.S. government for the identifications, which is context rather than a contradiction.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True92% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Ben Saul, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, stated that U.S. boat strikes are in violation of the right to life and international law.Said by AMultiple tier1 outlets (BBC, UPI, ABC, and others) report that Ben Saul, UN Special Rapporteur, issued a briefing note stating the US boat strikes violate the right to life and international law, quoting the same language the claim paraphrases. The extracted claim faithfully reflects the passage's quoted assertion and no source contradicts it.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.