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Peter R Quiñones

Since July 2017, Pete Quiñones has been the host of The Pete Quiñones Show (previously known as Free Man Beyond the Wall). His program has focused on the opposition to the globalist project that has undermined historical endeavors. His current interests include philosophy and historical revisionism.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

Can’t tell30% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Governor of Florida has proposed a ban on anti-Israel social media posts.Said by BNone of the provided sources report that Florida's governor proposed banning anti-Israel social media posts. The closest material concerns state bills and laws on Israel boycotts and pension divestment, which do not mention social media posts, so the sources neither confirm nor refute the claim. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage, which asserts the governor 'now wants to ban any anti-Israel uh social media post.'Can’t tell40% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Irgun called themselves a terrorist organization in the mid-1940s.Said by BThe sources show the British and many commentators labeled the Irgun a terrorist organization in the 1940s, but none states that the Irgun itself called itself a terrorist organization. The Daily Beast ties the open self-description to Lehi, and Wikipedia says Irgun militants called themselves "Havlagah breakers," so the claim is neither confirmed nor refuted. The extracted claim faithfully matches the passage.Can’t tell40% confidence2 sourcesOct 1, 2026The U.S. State Department stated in the 1940s that the plan for dividing Palestine would require genocide.Said by BNone of the provided sources mention genocide in connection with partition. The 1947 State Department memo in FRUS (Henderson to the Secretary of State) calls any partition plan 'unworkable' but does not mention genocide, so the sources neither support nor contradict the claim. The claim also reflects the post's wording, which is garbled ('it would require MA it would require genocide') and is the claimant's own assertion, not evidence.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026The U.S. State Department in 1948 stated that the plan for dividing Palestine would require genocide.Said by BNone of the provided sources mention the State Department describing the partition plan as requiring genocide. The closest sources show the U.S. abandoning partition in March 1948 because the plan could not be implemented by peaceful means, which is not the same statement, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted from these sources. The claim also tracks the post's passage faithfully, and the passage itself is the claimant's words, not evidence.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026Of 375 people in the main Bolshevik institutions when they moved to Moscow, 300 to 325 were Jewish.Said by BNone of the provided sources reports the specific count of 375 people in the main Bolshevik institutions on moving to Moscow or a figure of 300 to 325 Jewish members. The closest source, an archive.org compilation (credibility 0.40, unrated), gives different counts for other bodies, such as 23 Jews of 101 VtsIK members, which concern a different body and are not the same referent. The extraction is a faithful, if garbled, rendering of the passage, so the claim is graded as stated.Can’t tell35% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026In the 1990s, about 80% of the Soviet economy was liquidated.Said by BNo source addresses the claim that about 80% of the Soviet economy was liquidated in the 1990s, and the extraction faithfully reflects the passage. The sources give related but different measures, such as output declines and privatization counts, which neither support nor refute a liquidation share.Can’t tell30% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Vladimir Putin received 54% of the vote in an election.The claim departs from the passage: the post says Yeltsin, not Putin, 'somehow got 54% of the vote' (1996 re-election), so the extraction changed the referent. The sources show Yeltsin with about 54% in 1996 and United Russia with 54% in 2016 Duma voting, but none shows Putin personally receiving 54%.Can’t tell35% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026Boeing employed 600 former Soviet scientists in 1999.Said by BNo source gives Boeing's 1999 headcount of former Soviet scientists, so the 600 figure cannot be checked. Nearby figures (about 700 Russian engineers at its Moscow center in 2002, per Bloomberg; 500 workers in seven cities, undated, per an unrated source) do not settle the 1999 number, and a 1999 Boeing-era paper says Boeing generally worked through contracts rather than hiring individual scientists directly. The passage says Boeing had 600 former Soviet scientists 'at its disposal,' which is looser than 'employed,' and the claim drops that wording.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Vladimir Putin stopped the flow of American guns and drugs into Russia from Afghanistan.Said by BNone of the provided sources addresses Putin stopping the flow of American guns and drugs into Russia from Afghanistan. Sources on Afghan drug trafficking and US-Russia ties do not mention such an action, and the claim is a passing remark in a podcast rather than a documented fact.Can’t tell45% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Vladimir Putin spoke German without an accent.Said by BTier-1 sources (Reuters, AP) and CNN confirm Putin speaks fluent German, which supports the core of the claim. No authoritative source addresses whether he speaks it without an accent; the only accent reference is an unrated Reddit comment claiming an Austrian accent, which is not comparable authority. The claim's extraction matches the passage ('He spoke German without an accent'), so the referent is Putin.Can’t tell35% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested while on his way to sign documents to sell Yukos oil fields to Exxon Mobil.The sources confirm Khodorkovsky was arrested on October 25, 2003, at Novosibirsk airport, while Yukos was negotiating a stake sale to Chevron or ExxonMobil. No source says he was on his way to sign documents, and the sources describe a stake sale rather than the sale of oil fields, so the specific anecdote cannot be verified. The post names the person as 'Michael Korkowski' and the company as 'UCOS'; the extraction resolved these to Khodorkovsky and Yukos, which the post's own references support.Can’t tell25% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026Approximately 10,000 foreign advisors worked in Russian ministries and departments during the 1990s.Said by BNo source gives a count of foreign advisors in Russian ministries in the 1990s, so the 10,000 figure is neither confirmed nor refuted. The closest sources are IMF technical-assistance records (about 63 person-years over 1991-2001, roughly 25.7 long-term advisor person-years) and a GAO note on EU TACIS contractors, but these cover only particular programs, not all foreign advisors, so they do not contradict the claim. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage, which is the claimant's own unsourced assertion.

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