Moon of Alabama

I cannot access the link right now but many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels").

So US-sponsored Israeli terrorists bombing Palestinian women and children will also make it to hacker news top page? Syria's tyrant is not a US-sponsored one so we must highlight his brutality?

How about US-sponsored Egyptian, Yemeni, Bahraini and other butchers? I don't remember seeing anything about their misery making it to the first page of Hacker News.

Jul 24, 2012
German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria
By John Rosenthal

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html

Caught: Staged CNN Syria Interviews Faked By Activist Danny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg

CNN BUSTED!!! AGAIN more Fake videos from the Libya, Syria conflict

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1v5eQLCj_s

06/19/2012
Eyewitnesses Contradict Houla Massacre Claims

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eyewitnesses-contradict-claims-that-rebels-carried-out-houla-massacre-a-839593.html

Prime German Paper: Syrian Rebels Committed Houla Massacre

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/06/prime-german-paper-syrian-rebels-committed-houla-massacre.html

The prime German daily, the center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has a new report (in German) about the Houla massacre. The author is Rainer Hermann who…

What is more worrying for Boeing is that a SW fix might not be that easy to implement.

According to that article [0], the fix is running too slowly on the Flight Control Computers, that are based on a 80286 architecture.

I am not sure how reliable this info is, and that should not be surprising given the cost of verification or certification of an aircraft, but I am still surprised that a 2019 plane, has still some HW and SW from the 1980ies.

Edit : There are actually more details in Wikipedia [1]

>In June 2019, "in a special Boeing simulator that is designed for engineering reviews"[75], FAA pilots performed a stress testing scenario – an abnormal condition identified through FMEA after the MCAS update was implemented[76] – for evaluating the effect of a fault in a microprocessor: as expected from the scenario, the horizontal stabilizer pointed the nose downward. Although the test pilot ultimately recovered control, the system was slow to respond to the proper runaway stabilizer checklist steps, due to an 80286[77] microprocessor being overwhelmed with data. The FAA characterized the slow responsiveness as "catastrophic", whereas Boeing initially classified it as "major". The solution appears to consist in rerouting data across multiple chips. Boeing stated that the issue can be fixed in software.[78] The software change will not be ready for evaluation until at least September 2019.[79] Boeing also said that it agreed with additional requirements that the FAA required…

Saudi Arabia's artificial famine in Yemen has been subject to a worldwide media blockade for well over a year.[1][2] This has taken the shape of systematic under-reporting, preposterously low accounts of the death toll - usually treating the hundred of millions of children dead from famine as collateral damage, or avoiding the subject entirely - whitewashing of the motivations of the conflict and obscuring of its trajectory.

As Gary Brecher pointed out earlier this year, it's not that these stories don't sell. Mainstream news media was rife with accounts of starvation in war-torn Syria in years past:

> But the hundreds of thousands of verified, real famine and epidemic cases in Yemen get very little coverage. There’s nothing subtle about why not. The Syrian Sunni jihadis were de facto allies of the US/UK/Saudi/Israel/UAE bloc. So their suffering needed to be amplified. The Shia Yemenis can be slandered with one word: “Iran.” Anything touched by Iran, for Anglo media, is inherently evil, and anything done to those so tainted needs no further justification. The “Houthi,” i.e. the Shia of NW Yemen, are allegedly puppets or proxies for Iran, the Shia Mister Big of journalistic imagination, and therefore legitimate targets for even the nastiest war of extermination (such as by hunger and disease).

Now, at this late date, we have the New York Times's first real reckoning with Saudi Arabia's crimes. Not only that: there's meta-reporting on the story's traffic on Facebook[3], a…

Okay, my fren, you bring up this rape allegations a lot so let's clear that up once and for all:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/rape-allegations-against-russian-troops-in-ukraine-were-fake.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-02-ukraine-fires-human-rights-chief-russian-rape.html
https://waronfakes.com/common/fake-russian-soldiers-are-raping-women-and-teenagers/

> Okay show me some evidence that isn't from some Russian propagandist site.

Though I don't fully get what defines "propagandist site", but ok, I'll try:

https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-started
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/31/ukraine-land-mines-russia/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/a-ukrainian-tochka-u-missile-killed-dozens-at-kramatorsk-train-station.html
https://tass.com/emergencies/1434847
https://beyondhighbrow.com/2022/03/29/ukrainians-torturing-people-and-war-crimes-videos/
https://www.sott.net/article/293871-Ukraine-war-crimes-report-Torture-and-inhumane-treatment-of-civilians

See? Ukraine does some fucked up shit too. Didn't you know about it?

> A theory with no credibility either.

You gave me nothing to work with aside from "I saw it in some pro-russian tg channel", I could come up with dozens of similar shit from pro-ukrainian channels.

> caught in 4k, with an admission on camera its all 'fake news propaganda'.

Link the video then.

> Russia should get out of Ukraine

They will. Once the goals of special operation are achieved. Leaving…

> You're saying that Swiss-based Protonmail is worse for privacy than Australian-based fastmail?

I'm claiming that neither of them are good for privacy. As a sibling wrote so well: "encrypted email just isn’t a thing. The minute you send a message to someone else it’s out in the wild."

I have zero interest in my email being encrypted or protected or anonymous. So ProtonMail's value proposition is meaningless to me. But the fact that ProtonMail masquerades and markets their email as private and encrypted is the problem. They're subject to subpoenas, just like everyone else, and if they are going to market their service as private, encrypted, or anonymous, then they are misleading at best and lying at worst:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/05/how-protonmail-lost-the-public-trust-it-needs-to-do-business.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/comment/e21tfqw/

Lots of other interesting dirt if you do some basic google searches.

So I chose Fastmail because of their honesty. I know what I'm getting. Their prices are great, apps are great, web interface is great. They've been around since 1999 -- longer than Gmail. I used their free tier first then moved to paid with a custom name some time ago. Clearly they're not going anywhere. I'm not sure what else you can ask for in an email provider?

kay, my fren, you bring up this rape allegations a lot so let's clear that up once and for all:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/rape-allegations-again... https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-02-ukraine-fires-human-r... https://waronfakes.com/common/fake-russian-soldiers-are-rapi...

Let's do this.

> https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/rape-allegations-again...

What is this even? this is a random post on a random website that literally just spews out pro Russian propaganda nearly constantly.

> https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-02-ukraine-fires-human-r...

> Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a far-right, anti-vaccination conspiracy theory and fake news website known for promoting alternative medicine, pseudoscience, disinformation, and far-right extremism.[1][9] The website began publishing articles in 2008 and is based in the United States.[1][6]

> https://waronfakes.com/common/fake-russian-soldiers-are-rapi...

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-how-a-fact-checking-website-is-spreading-russian-propaganda/a-61062940

Funny that all your sources appear to spread misinformation and disinformation, do you have any sources that are mainstream or have any credibility?.

> Though I don't fully get what defines "propagandist site", but ok, I'll try:
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-s... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/31/ukraine-land...…