#UK

Army’s new £5.5bn US-designed Ajax tanks make crew ill and can’t fire shells on the move ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- https://archive.is/ZvVxJ

- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9646487/Armys-new-5-5bn-Ajax-tank-fleet-makes-crews-sick.html

#Belarus #Protasevich

Roman Protasevich, Casualty Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus, Is Spilling The Beans

A TV documentary of the bomb threat against a Ryanair plan (vid) has confirmed our analysis of a false narrative which had been constructed by Belorussian regime change activists.


https://news.1rj.ru/str/Moon_Of_Alabama/1198

#France

Bodies donated to science were sold by a Parisian university for use in military tests to determine whether army vehicles could resist mine blasts

https://archive.is/uzR2l

#Twitter #censorship

Twitter Suspends Organization for Announcing They Will Release More Fauci Emails

https://nationalfile.com/breaking-twitter-suspends-organization-for-announcing-they-will-release-more-fauci-emails/

#Belarus #Protasevich

Roman Protasevich, Casualty Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus, Is Spilling The Beans

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/roman-protasevich-casualty-of-the-ryanair-incident-in-belarus-is-spilling-the-beans.html

#Belarus #Donbass

https://www.donbass-insider.com/2021/06/04/de-facto-dpr-and-lpr-recognition-by-lukashenko-and-flights-to-crimea-ukraine-goes-into-hysterics/

#Belarus #Ryanair flight

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA):

Aircraft Operations Must Not Suffer from Political Interference

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2021-06-04-01/

#Syria #Idlib

https://www.rt.com/news/481299-russian-airforce-syria-idlib/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

#Belarus #Protasevich

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1400627192996892679.html

Western propaganda war against Russian #SputnikV #vaccine

https://www.mid.ru/en/nedostovernie-publikacii/-/asset_publisher/nTzOQTrrCFd0/content/id/4761857

#UK #propaganda #bellingcat

"The Department of War Studies at King’s College London, functions as a school for spooks"

"Bellingcat is held in very high regard by the CIA. “I don’t want to be too dramatic, but we love [Bellingcat],” said Marc Polymeropoulos, the agency’s former deputy chief of operations for Europe and Eurasia. Other officers explained that Bellingcat could be used to outsource and legitimize anti-Russia talking points. “The greatest value of Bellingcat is that we can then go to the Russians and say ‘there you go’ [when they ask for evidence],” added former CIA Chief of Station Daniel Hoffman"

https://www.mintpressnews.com/spy-school-kings-college-london-churning-out-journalists/277582/

#Ukraine #NordStream2

Expect Ukrainian neo-nazis to sabotage transit gas pipeline and then #BlameRussia

"Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov:
"we expect that there will be provocations, attempts at terrorist attacks on our section of the gas pipeline"

https://112.international/politics/interior-minister-ukraine-expects-provocations-from-russia-in-order-to-justify-launch-of-nord-stream-2-61998.html

the inside story of how RT was branded a #ForeignAgent by free press-loving US officials

https://www.rt.com/russia/525773-rt-foreign-agent-officials/

US has promised that Amazon and Facebook will fall under the new global tax rules agreed by the G7 nations. But even in countries with rock-bottom rates, megacorporations have paid effectively nothing for years.

https://www.rt.com/news/525797-big-tech-corporate-tax/

#Canada
How long will it take to #BlameRussia 'new secret weapon'?🙃

https://www.rt.com/news/525763-new-brunswick-mystery-disease/

#Twitter blocks #Nigeria
Nigeria blocks Twitter in return

https://www.rt.com/news/525790-twitter-responds-nigeria-ban/

#Flashback #Syria

Syrian Revolution: "A Syrian officer would receive from 15 to $30,000 for betraying his country. A $137 billion wasted on the attempts to topple Assad’s gov, while some of these funds were stolen by field commanders that became millionaires overnight."

https://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4165&mn=54592&pt=msg&mid=17721817

Space Oddities
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/space-oddities.html

Jeff Bezos is going to space, says a CNN report: Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled...

#UK #NATO #Estonia
#BlameRussia 🙃

https://www.rt.com/russia/525987-british-soldiers-drunk-fault/

British squaddies get drunk, must be Russia's fault! Analyst blames ‘Putin’s operatives’ after soldiers thrown off Estonian train

This is brilliant!

Want to become a journalist covering #Russia for Western media?

Once you get past self-serving bluster, it’s really a very safe, well-paid, and rewarding job but only on condition that you follow a set of guidelines

1. Mastering and parroting a limited set of tropes is probably the most important part of your work as a journalist in Russia. Never forget to mention that Putin used to work for the KGB. Readers should always be reminded of this:

2. Not sure who is doing what? Not sure how Russia works? Just make a sentence with the word ‘Kremlin’. Examples include “this will create problems for the Kremlin,” “the Kremlin is insecure,” etc.

3. This ‘Kremlin’- is always wrong, and its motives are always nefarious.

4. If visitors to your blog or Twitter criticize you for your one-sided coverage, don’t try to argue with them (or explain your reasoning). This will only hurt your professionalism. Instead, call them a "Putin propagandist" & block them on Twitter

5. Your job as a journalist isn’t to be objective. Instead, personal grievances against the Russian authorities should always be prioritized. Remember, Putin is the Stalin of our age.

6. Hyping anti-government demonstrations is of the utmost importance. A demonstration in downtown Moscow of 500 people, at which your fellow journalists outnumber the protesters? Revolution tomorrow!

7. An important rule is that reporting on Russia, for Western media, means NOT researching important issues or looking past the rhetoric. To partially invert what CP Scott once said, “Comment is free, and facts aren’t sacred.”

8. You must also learn to suppress any cognitive dissonance you might get from arguing that Russia is really weak & in a state of seemingly perpetual collapse (“dying bear,” “rusting tanks,” etc), but at the same time a dire threat to Western security & civilization itself.

9. Every non-systemic opposition member is a potential ally. Don’t cover any negative sides of these people, as this will only complicate things for your reader. Ignore that Navalny makes frequent racist remarks or how Pugachev was found 'highly unreliable' by a UK court, etc

10. Speaking of democracy – as far as a democratic journalist like yourself is concerned, anybody who is against Putin is a democrat. Even if they are not.

11. Most of the systemic opposition – i.e., those who participate in Russian elections – are really Kremlin stooges in disguise. Even though the Communists are by far the formal biggest opposition bloc, it's the people the West likes who are the “genuine Russian opposition.”

12. Everything in Russia involves around Putin. There is no one else in Russia, never was, and it is he who decides everything in the biggest country on this planet.

13. You must cultivate a burning, righteous hatred for RT, and anyone who works or even appears there. Never directly compare it with Western media bias, because that is “moral relativism” Attack them like your credibility is on the line! (And it is!)

14. While almost all Russia-focussed news outlets in the English language are state-funded, remember that only those supported by Moscow itself are bad. Thus, RT and Sputnik are “state-run.” But RFE/RL is “US funded" & Meduza & The Moscow Times are "independent," etc.

15. Whenever you study conflicts between Russia and other countries, always blame everything on Russia – regardless of objective facts, and especially when the conflict is with a staunch Western ally.

16. Guessing is fun! In the event you find guessing a bit too taxing on your imagination, just interview some marginal, highly unpopular Russian political figure like Gleb Pavlovsky, Valery Solovey or Evgeny Chichvarkin.

https://www.rt.com/russia/525873-russian-propaganda-western-narrative/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

#Ukraine #WarCrimes
June 2014
Regime bombing #Lugansk, killing civilians