Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- May 31 – Ryanair Bomb Threat In Belarus – 'Western' Media Narrative Disagrees With The Facts
- June 2 – Timeline, Narrative Control And Consequences Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus
- June 4 – Roman Protasevich, Casualty Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus, Is Spilling The Beans
Related:
– EU officially bans Belarusian carriers from its airspace & airports over Ryanair forced landing – RT
– Russian language transcript of the Portasevich interview – ONT
- June 3 – Switzerland Cancels Putin-Biden Summit
Related:
– Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 24th St Petersburg International Economic Forum. (Transcript) – Kremlin
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Other issues:
"More complicated story" = They lie.
- Israel says 1967 land conquests weren’t planned. Declassified documents tell a more complicated story. – Forward / Haaretz
> The IDF’s meticulous preparations to conquer the territories had already begun early in the 1960s. They were, in part, the product of the short and bitter Israeli experience in the conquest — and subsequent evacuation — of the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip in the Sinai War of 1956.
It’s against this background that we should understand the document titled “Proposal to Organize the Military Government,” written by IDF head of operations, Col. Elad Peled, in June 1961, and presented to Chief of Staff Tzvi Tzur. Six years before the Six-Day War, the proposal consisted of detailed initial planning for the forces that would be needed to rule in what would become the occupied territories.
Two years later, in August 1963, the IDF’s General Staff Branch (afterward the Operations Branch), which was then headed by Yitzhak Rabin, drew up a widely circulated directive regarding the organization of the military government in the territories. This order sheds light, in its words, on Israel’s “expected directions of expansion,” which in the assessment of the security personnel would be the focus of the next war. These territories included the West Bank, Sinai, the Syrian Heights and Damascus, and southern Lebanon up to the Litani River. <
Uighurs:
MoA had two pieces about the ever changing testimony of Uighur 'witnesses':
- "Uighurs forced to eat pork" – Horror Stories Told By Chinese Defector Seem To Evolve – Dec 5 2020
- Why Do These Uighur Witnesses' Stories Constantly Change? – Feb 4 2021
Now others are catching up on the phenomenon:
Ben Mauk @benmauk – 13:23 utc · May 27, 2021
Sayragul Sauytbay makes some wild claims in her new book on surviving a reeducation camp in Xinjiang. The claims don't at all accord with those she made at her extradition trial in Kazakhstan, which I attended. Call me incredulous. I'm upset the claims are now being amplified.
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Liberty:
- Assange’s Father and Brother Touring U.S. to Demand Journalist’s Freedom – LA Progressive
- Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA TODAY records ID'ing readers – USA Today
- U.S. Waged Secret Legal Battle to Obtain Emails of 4 Times Reporters – NY Times
- The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists – Mintpress News
- Diverse six-justice majority rejects broad reading of computer-fraud law – SCOTUSblog
Fun:
- Building a river table (vid) – Liziqu
Use as open thread …