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22 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Wow. US moving against Iranian state-controlled media today.
These images say that the US has seized the domain names. But I am able to access one of the sites at its supposedly-seized name (alalamtv.net) which has been repointed. It looks like the US Govt actually just seized the sites at the host level.
If I am correct about this, the sites will probably be back pretty quickly.
Yup, Press TV is back too. They've moved to a hosting service in Denmark. If this was a US Govt action, they only shut down the webhosts, causing just temporary outages.
A few people are suggesting it might have been a hack, not USG action. If so, it hit sites on multiple hosts in the US and Canada at the same time. Possible but not trivial.
It doesn't look like a hack, but we don't know exactly what it is or isn't yet. Something strange, anyway.

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16 Jun
British people are rightly laughing at this story that confuses the Rugby position "hooker" with the American slang term for a prostitute. But it's actually an example of how certain parasitic "news" sites do business. Image
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15 Jun
In an hour, a "flag march" through Jerusalem will begin. The march was scheduled for last week but delayed until today after police and security services objected to the route.
There is a march of Israeli flags every Jerusalem Day, which marks the reunification of the city under Israeli rule after the Six Day War. That march, mostly of national-religious youths (men and women separated) goes through the Old City to the Western Wall.
What makes the march controversial is that the men march through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Shops are closed and sometimes racist slogans are chanted by some marchers — though the event is once a year and usually not marked by physical violence.
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14 Jun
This has always been the worry. QAnon told people:

1. there's an evil conspiracy
2. Dont worry: Trump, Q and the good guys have beaten it.

Plenty of QAnon believers stopped believing 2 but are still convinced 1 is true. Those people are dangerous.
Here's @Shayan86, @rothschildmd and me worrying about this back in September.
After Biden's inauguration, it was clear that some people were losing faith in "the Plan"

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14 Jun
One thing I was asked was about Ra'am, the Islamist party that joined the new coalition. They joined because they wanted to be part of a government and have influence.
Ra'am would have joined Netanyahu instead if he had the numbers. In fact, they tried to, but the far right parties refused to be in a coalition with them.
By joining the Bennett/Lapid government, they won policy commitments on stuff their voters care about: investment in Bedouin towns in the Negev desert, easing of demolitions, a plan to fight organised crime in Arab communities.
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13 Jun
The Knesset, Israel's parliament, begins the process of testing the confidence of the government-designate. President Rivlin is joining the session.
Naftali Bennett, Prime-Minister designate, takes the podium to introduce the new government. Immediately, hecklers from Likud and their allies start shouting, screaming and preventing him from speaking
The Speaker (currently Likud's Yariv Levin, but about to be replaced) orders right-wing leader Bezalel Smotrich out of the chamber for intense heckling. Heckles continue. Far right leader Itamar ben-Gvir now ordered out too.
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13 Jun
Is it just seven hours before the process to vote in (and swear in) a new government in Israel, and so far I am not seeing any plans for a largescale protest outside the parliament. No buses, no public calls.
Nothing is done until it's done. This isn't Jan 6, a technical procedure for an already-decided outcome. A rebellion of just two or three Knesset members could sink the planned government before it's seated. It's happened before.
At the moment, it seems like there are 61 members out of 120 ready to vote for the government. It doesn't look like there are any surprises. But, well, they wouldn't be surprises if we expected them.
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