3. TIL The USA won the last ever Olympic gold medal for rugby in 1924 and are there...

TIL The USA won the last ever Olympic gold medal for rugby in 1924 and are therefore technically still reigning champions.

Globalresearch is an anti-"Western" website that can't distinguish between serious analysis and discreditable junk -- and so publishes both. It's basically the moonbat equivalent to Infowars or WND.

While some of GlobalResearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian concerns, its view of science, economics, and geopolitics is conspiracist -- if something goes wrong, the Jews West didit! The site has long been a crank magnet: If you disagree with "Western" sources on 9/11, or HAARP, or vaccines, or H1N1, or climate change, or anything published by the "mainstream" media, then GlobalResearch is guaranteed to have a page you will love.

Selected conspiracy theories, supported by GlobalResearch:

  • Chemtrails exist and are toxic [1] or are for "geo-engineering" [2]

  • Fluoridation is poison [1][2][3]

  • Genetically modified food is part of a plan to sterilize humanity [1] or, merely, are toxic [2][3]

  • USA nuked Iraq & Afghanistan [1]

  • USA created ISIS [1][2] to use it as a "psychological operations" theater [3]

  • Global warming is a conspiracy [1][2]

  • Charlie Hebdo was a false flag [1]

TLDR: Make sure you salt that story before consuming it -- it might be bullshit.

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