Malaysian plane crashes on Ukraine-Russia border - live

[Paul Rigby]

http://ukrainereferendum.blogspot.co.uk/...t-and.html

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MH17 hull parts: Collection of identified parts from the MH17 debris fields

The commentaries appended to some of the key photos reveal a desperate desire to exclude shots from (a) fighter plane(s).

https://storify.com/vpkivimaki/mh17-hull-parts

[Paul Rigby]

MH17 IN CONTEXT (PT. I)

August 1, 2014 by Chris Macavel

The Soul of the East

http://souloftheeast.org/2014/08/01/mh17...text-pt-i/

World public attention is now fixed on the aftermath of the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Donbass in the midst of the Ukrainian civil war. This horrific event is doubtless an immense tragedy worthy of unequivocal condemnation. Before any serious investigation to ascertain direct culpability was established, though, the regime in Kiev and its Western puppet masters spared no time in cynically exploiting this tragedy to gain the maximum dividends to bolster their increasingly weakened position. Unsurprisingly, and with great alacrity, the Kiev regime and the West made not tentative statements, but bold and often hysterical declarations blaming Russia and the militias of Donbass for the tragedy. At the same time, much of the Western and Kiev regime's tenuous "social media" evidence is already discredited by discerning analysts. [1]

Regarding the tragedy of Flight MH17, context is not only instructive but indispensable. Overall, it is no exaggeration to say that at no historical junction since World War II has global political, geopolitical, diplomatic, and economic conditions converged in such a manner to produce conditions conducive to the outbreak of a general world war. With the world's unabated transition from unipolarity to multipolarity, the diminishing of Anglo-American hegemony continues to drive the Empire towards increasingly exporting chaos and conflict to prop itself up. One need only look, inter alia, at East Asia's militarization, Iraq, Honduras, Venezuela on multiple fronts, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine itselfthe state of which is the direct result of a US-NATO regime change' operation.

More specifically, the MH17 tragedy's immediate response should be viewed as part of a long-term US project to geopolitically checkmate Russiathe only great power with the wherewithal and historical dynamism to consistently oppose Western hegemony. MH17 accelerates a strategy that acts through multiple vectors: encirclement through aggressive NATO expansion; subversion through "illegal instruments of soft-power;" economic warfare through unilateral sanctions; and ultimately dismemberment via partition the so-called "Brzezinski Plan." This ambitious project to impose a Carthaginian peace on the Russian Federation was faltering when the MH17 tragedy struck.

As we shall see, the Kiev regime and its puppet masters in Washington faced defeat on all levels. Internationally, the recent Obama regime effort to "isolate" Russia into becoming a pariah state was an abject failure: Moscow continued its path of economic and strategic cooperation with a multitude of emerging and status quo states in the world's transitioning multipolar framework. Notably, Russia solidified its strategic alliance with China through a colossal $400 billion dollar economic energy deal. Additionallyin what is a world historical watershedMoscow helped to broker the BRICS multilateral development bank. This is the first challenge to the "economic hit men" of the Western dominated IMF-World Bank complexa sinew of continued Western and Anglo-American hegemony. Additionally, Washington's attempt to recruit Europe in its bid to "isolate" Russia was unsuccessful with the general European response being tepid at best.

Ukrainian Troops

On the ground in Donbass, the Ukrainian armed forces faced tremendous losses and encirclement. They also faced mounting international awareness of the wanton savagery and human rights violations of its punitive ethnic cleansing operation against the entire population of Donbasswhich in Orwellian terms it calls an "Anti-Terrorist Operation." Additionally, signs of a domestic backlash against the human cost of this so-called "ATO" and its forced conscription started to manifest. Meanwhile, the Ukraine's economy continues a downward economic spiral with the effects of the Western demanded neoliberal austerity regime already being felt by the general populace and only beginning.

The West and Kiev's exploitation of the MH17 tragedy is intended to reverse these defeats. The tragedy is a boon to the NATO bloc on a number of levels: it provides justification for Russia's US assigned bête noire status on the international level; increased US militarization of Eastern Europe, including a potential direct NATO troop presence in Ukraine; while also preparing US public opinion for increased confrontation with Russia; and it gives impetus to Europe adopting a more virulently anti-Russian position. For the Kiev regime the tragedy lends itself to its unmitigated vilification of all things Russian; it conceals their losses on the ground and notably attempts to legitimize their wanton slaughter of the population of Donbass. Through blaming the destruction of MH17a terrorist-like attack eliciting deep emotional reactionson Russia and the Donbass militias, it permits the Kiev regime to associate Donbass's armed resistance against Kiev's authority with outright terrorism. The Kiev regime's contention that it is waging an "Anti-Terrorist Operation" in Donbass is thus given credence.

"Isolating" Russia

An omnipresent Western ambition for the expansion of their strategic bridgehead' into the Eurasian super-continent reached its apex with the onset of the Ukraine crisis. To begin with, the current regime in Kiev is the product of yet another Washington engineered regime change' operation to create a NATO state (official or de facto) with anti-Russian animus directly within Russia's soft-underbelly.' As it continued its path of conducting independent foreign policy, Russia refused to accept NATO's Ukraine regime change' scenario in totowhich, inter alia, would have rendered the Black Sea a NATO lake. This refusal was expressed through Russia's reunification with Crimea. As a result, the US began a qualitative escalation in geopolitically checkmating Russia: "isolation." US Secretary of State John Kerry warned of measures to "isolate Russia politically, diplomatically and economically" while the New York Times reported, the Obama regime preparing to "retrofit" a "containment" [2] of Russia by holding "together an international consensus against Russia, including even China."

The US subsequently began an aggressive campaign to pursue this policy. "President Barack Obama gathered with world leaders in a day of delicate diplomacy, as he sought to rally the international community Monday around efforts to isolate Russia," AP reported. Obama made stops in Asia for his far-fetched attempt to recruit China for this strategy, the London Guardian reported: "The White House has added meetings with the leaders of China and Japan to Barack Obama's visit to Europe and Saudi Arabia next week, as it seeks to use the six-day trip to build an international coalition and isolate Russia." Obama also visited close Moscow ally Kazakhstan as "part of ongoing effort to isolate Russia."

This attempt to "isolate" Russia territorially the largest nation-state in the world, with the 6th largest economy and the limiting of its supposed "expansionist" designs (never mind the fact that a democratically elected leader was overthrown through Washington's machinations) ended in abject failure. Moscow's path of economic and strategic cooperation with emerging states and Europe continued apace.

In the MENA region Russia clinched an investment cooperation deal with US Gulf state ally Bahrain, to US consternation. Regarding this development, a State Department official noted "this is not the time for any country to conduct business as usual with Russia." Russia also notably continued to cultivate its burgeoning rapprochement with Egypt under the administration Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, clinching a deal for a below market rate gas export deal. Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy had previously stated Egypt would "seek to nurture and leverage" ties to Moscow. Furthermore, there exists the prospect of increased military cooperation, akin to Moscow's relationship with Egypt during the apex of Egypt's influence in the era of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Crucially, Russia solidified what is now in fact a strategic alliance against the US "Empire of Chaos" with China. This took form through a $400 billion energy deal in addition to economic development for Crimea and industrial cooperation in the field of aviation with China. This deal, called by one analyst the manifestation of a "new Eurasian century-in-the-making" included provisions whereby "the giant, state-controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom will agree to supply the giant state-controlled China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with 3.75 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas a day for no less than 30 years, starting in 2018…the equivalent of a quarter of Russia's massive gas exports to all of Europe." Additionally, the major Chinese and Russian central banks clinched deals to begin making payments in their own domestic currencies. RT reported:

VTB, Russia's second biggest lender, has signed a deal with Bank of China, which includes an agreement to pay each other in domestic currencies. Under the agreement, the banks plan to develop their partnership in a number of areas, including cooperation on ruble and renminbi settlements, investment banking, inter-bank lending, trade finance and capital-markets transactions,' says the official VTB statement.

Implicitly, the dollar, a sinew of US world supremacy, is excluded from this immense forthcoming deepening of Sino-Russian economic cooperation. That Russia and China committed to a colossal 30 year $400 billion deal signifies a long-term partnership between the two world powers that speaks of a strategic component.

At the Fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures, China called for a new regional security pact including Russia and Iran. "We need to innovate our security cooperation (and) establish new regional security cooperation architecture," Chinese President Xi Xinping remarked. Xi also issued a veiled warning against the US's anti-Chinese militarization in East Asia, asserting "To beef up military alliances targeted at a third party is not conducive to maintaining common security in the region." The facts speak of a Chinese recognition that the same vectors of subversion and encirclement arrayed against Russia are arrayed against it. Far from aiding in the "isolation" of Russia, or other quixotic American dream scenarios, China understands it must lean on Russia in a mutually beneficial relationship to check the "Empire of Chaos." Indeed, it was US theoretician Zbigniew Brzezinski, an eminence grise of Obama regime foreign policy, who once referred to a potential Russo-Chinese-Iranian alliance as the most "dangerous scenario" for US primacy on the Eurasian super-continent. [3]

Such a harrowing anti-US strategic framework is arguably beginning to take form, albeit still inchoate. In the wake of the US attempt to "isolate" Russia, signs of a Russo-Iranian rapprochement emerged. As the New York Times reported Russia began negotiating an $8 billion to $10 billion energy deal with Iran. The deal also included a provision for Moscow to export 500 megawatts of electricity and the construction of new hydroelectric and thermal generating plants with a transition network in Iran. Russo-Iranian relations have been mixed with disagreements over the Busheir nuclear reactor and the Moscow's non-fulfillment of a contract for the shipment of Russia's advanced S-300 SAM. The US's increasingly aggressive posture against Russia increases Moscow's willingness to adopt a position more beneficial to Iran in both cases.

Meanwhile, Indiaa stalwart Moscow allyunder the new administration of Prime Minister Narenda Modi expressed a desire to deepen its ties with Russia on a multitude of levels. After placing Russia as "our country's greatest friend," Modi indicated India was keen to deepen Russo-Indian cooperation including in the areas of defense, investment, trade, and nuclear energy. A prospective $40 billion major Russia-India energy pipeline is also in discussion, and the Indian Navy will have arrived in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East for naval exercises. In another positive development, after years of mutual acrimony with Japan due to issues such as territorial disputes, rapprochement between the two neighbors continued with Japan already procuring 9.5 percent of its liquefied natural gas from Russia. Also worth noting is the signing of the treaty by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan that brings into being the Eurasian Economic Union, pending the ratification of each country's respective parliaments. This is Moscow's answer to large economic blocs which increasingly come to dominate the international political landscape. This effectively nullifies the Obama regime's Kazakhstan avenue of "isolation" against Russia.

Outside of the Eurasian super-continent Russian President Vladimir Putin also made successful inroads with a tour of Latin America. Putin began his Latin American tour by writing off 90% of Cuba's debt, a figure of $32 billion. Putin also signed an agreement for oil exploration in Caribbean waters which contain most of the estimated 124 million barrels of Cuba's crude.

Putin met with Uruguay's President Pepe Mujixa to discuss the construction of a deep-water port. The Russian president made a stop in Nicaragua with an unannounced visit to President Daniel Ortega. The leaders discussed the deliveries of agricultural machinery, the placement of GLONASS land stations on the territories of Nicaragua, as well as interaction in other areas such as pharmacology. Putin met also with Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, and Bolivia's Evo Morales among others.

In Argentina, Putin and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed an agreement for peaceful nuclear energy with Russia helping to build its third nuclear reactor. Russia will aid in areas such as the design, operation, and decommissioning of old nuclear power plants. Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom will also tender for the construction of two nuclear power plants. According to Reuters, Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom would offer "comfortable" financial terms to Argentina. In Brazil, Putin signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff regarding Rosatom and Brazil's Camargo Correa, envisioning the construction of a nuclear power plant and a spent fuel storage facility in Brazil.

The BRICS Alternative

Perhaps, the most potentially threatening to the "Empire of Chaos"yet auspicious for the developing worldwas the establishment of the BRICS development bank as an alternative to the draconian and predatory IMF-World Bank complex. The US and the West have long been criticized of implementing policies of neo-colonialism' acting through these postwar Bretton Woods institutions. IMF/World Bank economic prescriptions for the developing' world, known as the Washington consensus,' have notoriously failed to facilitate economic development and have often been characterized as instruments of draconian economic exploitation.

For the developing world the establishment of the BRICS development bank represents the first significant systematic challenge or counterpoise to this US dollar and private central bank dominated arrangement. And, as Russian President Putin explained, it should become "a system of measures that would help prevent the harassment of countries that do not agree with some foreign policy decisions made by the United States and their allies." A Nobel Prize winning economist described the BRICS bank as a "fundamental change in global economic and political power." According to one analyst: "Way beyond economy and finance, this is essentially about geopolitics as in emerging powers offering an alternative to the failed Washington consensus. Or, as consensus apologists say, the BRICS may be able to alleviate challenges' they face from the international financial system.' The strategy also happens to be one of the key nodes of the progressively solidified China-Russia alliance." Taken in context, "For Russia, the creation of a $100 billion BRICS development bank and a reserve currency fund worth another $100 billion is a political coup. Just as the West freezes Russia out of its own economic system as punishment for its politics in Ukraine… Russia is tying itself into the financial superstructure of the next generation of economic heavyweights: India, Brazil, China and South Africa." Overall, these developments pose an enormous challenge to the Western-dominated economic order since the end of World War II.

[1] For example see: "Key Piece of Video "Evidence" for Russian Responsibility for Malaysian Plane Shootdown Debunked," "Audio Proof' of Ukrainian Rebel Responsibility for Malaysian Flight Downing is Fake," "US Admits Its MH17 Evidence' is Based on YouTube Clips & Social Media Posts: AP Journalist Challenges State Department Spokesperson on official narrative," "Ukraine: No "Western" Interest In INvestigating MH17," "The Most Pathetic Case of Backpedaling I have Seen in My Life," "The Catastrophe of MH17: BBC in the Search of "BUK" The Video Report Censored by BBC," "The Russian Military Finally Speaks!" "Evidence Continues to Emerge MH17 Is a False Flag Operation," "Multiple Reports: Ukrainian Fighter Jets Were With Malaysian Flight 17 When it Was Shot Down,"among others.

[2] It must be said that this is not a policy of "containment," but encirclement. Despite the New York Times's claim that the Obama regime pursues a retrofitting of George F. Kennan's strategy of "containment," Kennan architect of "containment" was firmly against continuing NATO expansion against Russia. He argued this policy demonstrated profound ignorance of Russia. The Obama regime's current policy can be understood as a militant and aggressive policy of NATO expansion against Russia in opposition to Kennan.

[3] See Zbigniew Brzezinski , The Grand Chessboard, pp., 55. "Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an "antihegemonic" coalition united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances…Averting this contingency, however remote it may be, will require a display of US geostrategic skill on the western, eastern, and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously," wrote Brzezinski.

[Paul Rigby]

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At last, something from the CIA:

Map of a Tragedy:How MH17 Came Apart Over Ukraine

The Wall Street Journal cataloged and mapped some of the debris of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which fell across three Ukrainian villages after the Boeing 777 was brought down on July 17, allegedly by a surface-to-air missile.

Reporting by Jon Ostrower in Washington, D.C., Alexander Kolyandr, Margaret Coker and Paul Sonne in Ukraine
Interactive by Stuart A. Thompson / The Wall Street Journal

http://graphics.wsj.com/mh17-crash-map/?mod=e2tw

[Paul Rigby]

Just the baseless hypothesis of an uninformed amateur, nothing more

Monday, 4 August 2014

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.co.uk/2014...is-of.html

First, a disclaimer: I am not a pilot nor an air traffic controller, and I never served with air defense units. I did spend some time with an airforce, but my role was one of electronic intercept analysis. So what follows are just the musings of an uninformed amateur. Caveat emptor.

What I will try to do here is present a possible scenario which takes into account the basic facts established so far. Here goes:

The plan was for the Ukies to shoot down the MH17 using a totally inappropriate aircraft: the Su-25, which is a "tree hugging" close air support aircraft. Why? After all, the Ukies do have some Mig-29s and even some Su-27, but these are much fewer in number and much easier to track. A few of them have been seen in the skies over Novorussia, but only rarely. In contrast, the Su-25 has been a ever-present presence in the skies ever since the conflict began. Some say that the Su-25 cannot fly over 7'000m. That is not true. The problem is that it's cockpit is not pressurized, but the airframe itself has powerful engines which can bring the aircraft well over 10'000m. All the pilot would need is some good warm clothing and an oxygen mask. No, the big drawback of sending the Su-25 so high is that it's engines are not designed to be used at that altitude and that it will not be able to fly fast enough to catch-up with a cruising Boeing. But what if the Su-25 carried a missile?

Turns out that the Su-25 can carry the R-60 air-to-air missile which can fly at over 3'000km per hour and thus easily catch up with a cruising airliner. So the Su-25+R-60 combination has a flight envelope which is sufficient to attack a Boeing.

There is something else that the Su-25 lacks to function has an interceptor: a radar. Well, this is not quite true, the Su-25 has a radar, but it is designed for navigation, not air-to-air combat. However, the R-60 missile does not need a radar, it has its own infrared homing warhead. So if the pilot of the Su-25 can point his aircraft in the general direction of a heat emitting target, and if that target is not too fast or too far away, the R-60 will be able to lock on to it and close in. The R-60 is a pretty small missile with a short range, under 8'000m, but it so happens that that Russian radar operators reported the Su-25 at about 3-5'000m from MH17.

Still, it is not easy to visually acquire the correct aircraft from the cockpit of a Su-25, then get within the correct range and then fire. There are clouds, sunlight, other aircraft. And the Su-25 has no air-to-air radar with a search and track mode. So what could the Ukies have done? Provided another radar?

In comes the 3 BukM1 transporter erector launcher and radar (TELAR) and the at least one early warning (long range) radar which all had just been moved in the day before MH17 was shot down, and then immediately withdrawn. The radars of each Buk TELAR and the long range early warning radar whose signal have been detected by the Russians could have easily guided the Su-25 to its target, either by a encrypted datalink or even by radio commands.

Combining all of the above, here is my totally primitive and possibly completely mistaken hypothesis:

The Ukies guided the Su-25 to MH17 by using the Buk radar capabilities. As soon as he was in reach, the SU-25 fire a R-60 missile which hit one of the two engines. At this point, the MH17 sharply turned to one side and lost altitude (the hit engine would lose power and its drag would sharply pull the Boeing to one side). The Su-25 then easily closed in and opened fire with his cannon, which has a range of 4'000m, shredding the cockpit and cabin with 30mm rounds. Had the pilot of the Su-25 failed to catch with MH17 or if the R-60 missile had failed, the Buks on the ground were ready to shoot, but they probably did not have to. Once MH17 was clearly destroyed, the pilot of the Su-25 could have easily landed anywhere in the Ukraine without drawing any attention.

This was a good plan, but it failed to take into account the sharp turn made by MH17 which instead of continuing on its path towards Russia turned around and fell into a contested by Resistance-controlled field.

One more thing: if my hypothesis is correct and the first impact on MH17 was from a rather small R-60 missile (3kg warhead) into an engine, the flight deck did probably not suffer an immediate and catastrophic depressurization. If so, the pilots would have had the time to report an explosion. This is why the recordings of the Kiev ATC were seized by the SBU and why the result of the analysis of the flight recorders takes so much time: the Empire needs to wipe away the recording of the pilots' last words. Conversely, if MH17 had been destroyed by a BukM1 missile (70kg warhead) the depressurization would have been immediate and catastrophic. The problem with wiping the flight recorders is that if the pilots had the time to send a mayday then it would have been recorded not only by the USA and Russia, but by at least two more West European countries. Even if the latter would comply with the US orders, the Americans are probably terrified that the Russians have the recordings of the MH17's mayday and they are probably trying to negotiate a deal with Russia. If not, they need to carefully prepare the public opinion by, for example, organizing careful leaks through the Dutch and Malaysian press to say that nothing was recorded in order to denounce any recording presented by Russia as a "fake". All of this is, again, pure speculation on my part.

Ok, now please feel free to tear this hypothesis into shreds. These are just the musings of an amateur and most definitely not an expert opinion. I submit it only as a basis for discussion.

Kind regards,

The Saker

[Paul Rigby]

Evidence Conclusive: Ukraine Military Shot Down MH17 In False Flag Operation
Posted on August 3, 2014

http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/08/03...operation/

US And Ukraine Fabricated Evidence To Blame Russia And The Rebels

StateoftheNation2012.com

There is now a growing body of irrefutable evidence which points directly to the MH17 shoot down being a classic false flag operation. Each piece of evidence definitively places at least three nations at the scene of both the crime and the cover-up.

Whereas the Ukraine government and military executed this cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians, most likely under the direct supervision of the CIA, the US and UK governments have been implementing the non-stop coverup and false flag operation.

What follows is a step-by-step refutation of the fake evidence advanced by the US, as well as a presentation of the true facts of this heinous crime. The chronology of events is particularly telling in how it chisels out the circumstantial, yet solid case, against the US/UK and Ukraine as co-conspirators.

Rather than deconstruct each element of this fastidiously planned and coordinated conspiracy to shoot down a commercial airliner, the following headlines are presented in a manner that tell the real story. First, a short summary of the key evidences:

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Summary of Evidence

Malaysian Flight MH17, a Boeing 777 carrying a diverse group of civilian nationals, departed from Amsterdam en route to the Indonesian city of Jogjakarta. At some point upon entering Ukraine airspace it's flight path was deliberately changed. As the airliner neared the area of the Eastern Ukraine, where rebels were known to be fighting the government forces, it was strafed or shelled by a military jet which has since been caught flying in quite close proximity to it.

The entire region has been very closely monitored by the US, NATO, and Russia by satellite and radar throughout the entire conflict. Therefore, it is implausible that there was a missile fired at MH17. Clearly, the satellite imagery/data and radar signatures would corroborate such a missile attack. The US, NATO and Ukraine have all failed thus far to produce this authentic evidence because it does not exist.

Immediately after the shoot down, the US, UK and Ukraine then went into overdrive introducing false and fabricated evidence at every turn. Everything from fake satellite images to fraudulent radar reports, from forged social network posts to fallacious stories about Russia's involvement, from false accusations lodged by US statesmen' to fictitious conspiracies attributed to the rebels, were seeded throughout the internet to build a case against innocent parties.

What has distinguished this classic CIA-coordinated false flag operation from their other recent international crimes against humanity is the barrage of fake evidence generated so hastily in the wake of the mass murder of civilians. Because this was not technically a war crime, it carried the additional weight of being falsely attributed to Russia and rebels, so odious was the premeditation and calculated effects on the world community.

First And Foremost This False Flag Was Perpetrated By The US To Smear Russia

Through the following series of headlines, there is a patently false narrative which emerges with greater relief with each subsequent story. With each exposé, the revelations demonstrate that there was a plot woven in Washington, London and Kiev to implicate Russia in a nonexistent missile attack. Which is exactly why the US and NATO has refused to release any real evidence. Their scheme from the start was to let loose an avalanche of fabricated evidence pointing to Russia so that the real facts on the ground would be quickly lost, or misinterpreted, or ignored … and then not even considered in the frenzy to attribute blame.

For the uninitiated this is precisely how false flags always evolve. No hard or factual evidence is ever presented which can be objectively evaluated. A literal barrage of false evidence is disseminated, using every organ of the global mainstream media (MSM), to impugn those nations or parties that have been targeted.

The execution of this Shock & Awe strategy is always initiated in the English-speaking capitals of the world, which is why they have a pact not to spy on each other. In this particular case all of the major newspapers of record throughout the US and UK have orchestrated a propaganda assault on Russia. Each of the MSM news platforms in New York City and Washington, London and Sydney have been operating in collusive journalistic overdrive to accuse Russia of crimes and conspiracy of which they themselves are in fact guilty of.

After a few weeks of this staggering Shock & Awe media stratagem, the world has been so overwhelmed with the false narrative it is vulnerable to being led down the same road to a "trial by media". Since those who control the MSM ensure that the true facts are never revealed, the only conclusion that the community of nations can officially' come to is what has been fancifully been printed by the press. Of course, all of the fabricated print fiction is then translated into even more damning' video coverage further incriminating innocent Russia.

As for the real inside story as to both motivation and implementation, the two stories below speak volumes:

FIRST: George W. Bush, Tony Blair found guilty of war crimes … in Malaysia; THEN: Malaysia Airliner Missile Strike(s): Was it MH-17 or MH-370?

FIRST: Nine EU countries to block economic sanctions against Russia & THEN: White House Blames Russia For MH17 Crash, Saying There's No Believable Alternative

Here are some other headlines each of which acts as a dot on the radar screen of truth. When these dots of fact are properly connected there is only one possible conclusion. The US, UK and Ukraine conspired to frame Russia for a crime against humanity in order to further marginalize Russia and demonize Vladimir Putin. As one weeds through the morass of calculated propaganda and prevarication spewing from London and Washington, the intention to cast Russia as a pariah state is clear. At the end of the day, it is only through shocking state-sponsored terrorism events by the West that such a process of demonization can be effectuated so quickly and convincingly.

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Back to the evidence, both false and genuine, these articles paint a picture which cannot be denied. While this false flag operation has been successful thus far at vilifying Russia, this very dynamic and evolving story is far from over.

Downing Of Flight MH 17: False Flag Operation To Blame Russia?

Was Putin Really Being Targeted?

Was Vladimir Putin's plane targeted?

Who shot down the Malaysian jet over Ukraine?

Why are commercial airliners flying over war zones?

MH17 Was Barely Above Restricted Airspace When It Was Shot Down

Kiev Behind Malaysian Flight Shoot Down?

Malaysian Plane Crash: Lies and Sinister Political Agenda by the West

Russia Has Photos Of Ukraine Deployment Of BUK Missile System In East

Key Piece of Video "Evidence" for Russian Responsibility for Malaysian Plane Shootdown Debunked

Western leadership shot down in Ukraine

Is the U.S. Withholding Evidence that Ukrainian Troops Shot Down MH17? What Did US Spy Satellites See in Ukraine?

Kiev will have to answer many questions' as UN urges intl MH17 crash probe Moscow

Malaysian Airlines MH17 Was Ordered to Fly over the East Ukraine War Zone

FLIGHT MH17 Kiev Flash Mob's Final False Flag?

China Blasts "One-Sided Western Rush To Judge Russia" Over MH17

Ron Paul says Not so fast!' Re: MH17 Accusations

Onslaught Of Western Powers MH17 Propaganda Reaches Shock & Awe' Proportions

Putin And Merkel Agree On International MH17 Probe, Bypass US

The West's Reckless Rush Towards War With Russia

The following stories really get to the hard evidence that points to US-UK-Ukraine complicity in regard to both the international crime and cover-up.

Radar Signatures And Satellite Imagery Of MH17 Shoot Down Reveals Critical Information

Ukrainian Su-25 fighter detected in close approach to MH17 before crash Moscow

US Claims of Flight MH17 Downing by Militia Remain Unfounded Russia's Defense Ministry

MH17 HOAX: Crash Scene Evidence Reveals No Boeing-777 Engine

Black Box Proves Missile Didn't Do It

MH17 Shrapnel and Machine Gun-Like Holes Indicate Military Aircraft Shoot Down

Wrong time, altered images': Moscow slams Kiev's MH17 satellite data

Photos of MH17 Cockpit Prove No Missile, But Shelling Brought Down Airliner

Was MH17 brought down by a hidden bomb on the plane?

Russia Accuses US Of Fabricating MH17 Evidence As US Reveals More "Evidence" Of Russian Military Involvement

Each Article Contains Critical Info That Fits Into The US-UK-Ukraine Conspiracy Plot

Such a conspiracy could only have been cooked up in the bowels of CIA headquarters at Langley. After all, John Brennan CIA Director has admitted to making a secret visit to Kiev just before the military hostilities broke out between Eastern and Western Ukraine.

White House Admits CIA Director Brennan Was "Secretly" In Kiev

Conclusion:

The real evidence is now stacking up which proves Western (as in Western powers and Western Ukraine) culpability for the shooting down of Malaysian Flight MH17. There is no other conclusion which can be drawn from both the hard and circumstantial evidence except that the Ukraine military committed this atrocity. Why they perpetrated such a war crime' can only be understood by their relationship to the Anglo-American Axis of power and control.

This axis of global power exerts extraordinary influence over worldwide media. In so doing they are able to saturate the MSM with any narrative they choose. In the case of MH17, their selected target was Russia … for many obvious reasons. Their MO is quite familiar in that the Anglo-American media outlets simply inundate their respective audiences with propaganda and prevarication so that their is no space (both literally and figuratively) on either print or video platforms for any dissenting coverage. After these now predictable Shock & Awe initiatives have been seen through, the public perceptions have then been sufficiently molded so that the same Western Powers can hold their preplanned kangaroo courts … … … by the press and within the various global media forums.

What every country in the world ought to be asking themselves is how such a heinous crime could be committed by governments which continually present themselves as taking the moral high ground. These very same Western governments have been circumstantially implicated in many other major state-sponsored terrorist events by virtue of the fact that only they could have possibly executed such technically difficult, prohibitively expensive and highly labor and material intensive false flag operations.

It's about time the community of nations stood together against these rogue governments. Each of them must be held accountable for the killing of so many innocents in the interest of furthering their intentions to wage war for economic gain. Their multi-decade, international crime spree must be brought to a halt before they lay waste to even larger swaths of the planetary terrain.

Michael Thomas
August 3, 2014
StateoftheNation2012.com

[Paul Rigby]

Something Sinister Going On? The Unanswered Questions of MH17

By Mike Whitney

Monday, August 4, 2014

http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/08/somethin...s-of-mh17/

"Recent history has repeatedly proven that nothing said by Washington and its officials should be accepted at face value. No other government in the world has been implicated in so many egregious lies as the United States." Bill Van Auken, "US lies and hypocrisy on Gaza and Ukraine", World Socialist Web Site

"Mendaci neque quum vera dicit, creditor." Cicero ("A liar is not to be believed even when he speaks the truth.")

Without a shred of public evidence to support their claim that Moscow was involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the United States and Europe have levied a new round of sanctions on Russia.

The sanctions, which are designed to restrict Russia's access to both capital and technology, will be imposed as soon as August 1, despite the fact that Moscow has repeatedly denied either involvement in the incident or of providing material support for the militants fighting in east Ukraine. Not surprisingly, Russia will not be given a chance to defend itself in court or present its case before an independent tribunal.

Due process and the presumption of innocence are breezily jettisoned whenever US interests are involved. Instead, Washington will act as judge, jury and lord high executioner arbitrarily imposing penalties on the country that has provided hard evidence of what actually transpired prior to the crash using data it compiled from radar and satellite imagery.

In contrast, the US hasn't lifted a finger to help the investigation even though it has the most advanced, state-of-the-art surveillance systems in the world and even though it had a satellite capable of reading a license plate from outer space hovering directly overhead at the time the aircraft blew up. And here's something else to consider from blogger Moon of Alabama:

"Pentagon officials told CNN (on Tuesday) that the Ukrainian government fired three ballistic missiles towards the federalists during the last 48 hours." (Moon of Alabama)

If the Pentagon picked up the ballistic missile launches on their radar, they certainly saw the surface-to-air missiles that brought down MH17.

Case closed.

So why hasn't Washington been more forthcoming with the information they have? Why are they basing their judgment on the nonsense they've gleaned from social media and Twitter feeds instead of spy-in-the-sky photos and satellite imagery? Why are they dragging their feet and obstructing the investigation? And why, for God sakes, why has Europe agreed to go along with this charade when they know there's not a scintilla of evidence linking Russia to the downed plane?

These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered a full two weeks after MH17 was downed by what appears to have been a surface-to-air missile launched from a BUK platform somewhere in east Ukraine. (Although even that fact is now in dispute given that MH17 was being allegedly being shadowed by two Ukrainian warplanes. Some analysts believe the aircraft was actually destroyed by air-to-air missiles fired from one of the two Su25 interceptors.)

One thing that's clear, is that the lack of public evidence hasn't stopped the Obama administration from smearing Russian president Vladimir Putin in the media or blaming Moscow for the tragedy that killed 298 passengers. The campaign to hold Moscow responsible started just hours after MH17 crashed and has only intensified over the last two weeks.

This is amazing considering that, most of what we know about the incident has been provided by Russia. For example, it was Russia that provided the information about the two Su25 interceptors and the US satellite. It was also Russia that came up with the photographic evidence that showed Kiev had deployed anti-air missile systems (BUK) around the area where flight MH17 was downed.

The Kiev government has repeatedly denied claims that it had BUK systems in the area, but on Friday, Russian military analysts released satellite images that made mincemeat of those denials. Here's the story from RT:

"Satellite images Kiev published as proof' it didn't deploy anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site carry altered time-stamps and are from days after the MH17 tragedy, the Russian Defense Ministry has revealed.

The images, which Kiev claims were taken by its satellites at the same time as those taken by Russian satellites, are neither Ukrainian nor authentic, according to a Moscow statement.

The Defense Ministry said the images were apparently made by an American KeyHole reconnaissance satellite, because the two Ukrainian satellites currently in orbit, Sich-1 and Sich-2, were not positioned over the part of Ukraine's Donetsk Region shown in the pictures….

At least one of the images published by Ukraine shows signs of being altered by an image editor, the statement added." ("Wrong time, altered images' Moscow slams Kiev's MH17 satellite data", RT)

Ask yourself this, dear reader: Why would you provide "altered" photos that were taken on a different day to prove your innocence if you weren't guilty as hell? And why would the US go along with this farce unless they were involved too?

Like we said earlier, there's photographic evidence that Kiev had BUK systems operating in the area at the time of the crash. These "new" fake photos only increase the probability that it was a Ukrainian missile that brought down MH17. That's why the administration hasn't released any of its radar data or satellite imagery. It's because they know the truth.

Consider this: The Obama administration has never inquired about the communications recordings between Air Traffic Control (ATC) and the aircrew of MH17.

Why? Don't they want to know what happened?

Nor have they asked for:

"The information on the specific instructions from the Ukraine Aviation Administration to the air traffic control units of Ukraine with relation to the imposed restrictions on the airspace utilization in the area of Donetsk and Lugansk." (RT)

Nor are they interested in why MH17 was rerouted over a warzone, 200 kilometers north of all previous flights for the last two weeks. Or whether MH17 was in fact being followed by Ukrainian warplanes. Or whether Ukrainian SAM units were active in the area before the incident took place.

How does one explain the Obama administration's total lack of interest in any area of the current investigation? Doesn't that suggest that they already know what happened? And doesn't that also suggest that they're trying to prevent the facts from leaking out?

Readers should take a quick look at the 28 questions that Russia's Air Transport Agency would like the Ukrainian government to answer in order to clarify what happened to MH17. (See questions here.)

This is the approach the Obama administration would take if they were genuinely interested in finding out what happened. The reason the administration hasn't taken this approach, is because they're not really interested in what happened. Why is that?

Most of the lies about MH17 have been coming from the State Department, where just last Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on all five Sunday morning talk shows claiming that Moscow had sent "a convoy of about 150 vehicles with armored personnel carriers, multiple rocket launchers, tanks, artillery, all of which crossed over from Russia into the eastern part of Ukraine and was turned over to the separatists."

Imagine making a bold statement like that on five different news programs without even one of the hosts demanding evidence to support the claim. Such is the state of the media in the US today.

So far, neither Kerry nor any of the US Intel agencies have produced proof that Russia is providing material support for rebels in east Ukraine. Zilch. It's all uncorroborated speculation and unsubstantiated rumor.

Do you remember Kerry said he had proof that the Syrian government was responsible for the Aug. 21 Sarin gas attack outside Damascus, an incident that he hoped would lead the US to launch a war against Syria?

It was a lie. Here's a clip from Robert Parry:

"A new report by two American weapons specialists, entitled "Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack," makes clear that the case presented by Kerry and the Obama administration was scientifically impossible because the range of the key rocket carrying Sarin was less than a third of what the U.S. government was claiming." ("The Mistaken Guns of Last August", Robert Parry, Consortium News)

And what about Kerry's grandstanding repudiation of the fake leaflets in Donetsk that said "Jews had to identify themselves as Jews … or suffer the consequences."

Right. That was another whopper Kerry used to promote his attack on Russia.

And what about this from CNN: "Kerry: Drunken separatists' interfering at MH17 crash site". Or this from Vice News "MH17 Crash Site Reportedly Looted by Rebels".

It's all just more outlandish speculation intended to smear Russia. There's a great article in the Wall Street Journal by journalist Paul Sonne titled "After Flight 17 Crash, Agony, Debris and Heartbreak in Ukraine Villages" that dispels a lot of the lies that have popped up in the media in the last couple weeks.

First of all, the rebels have not prevented inspectors from accessing the site (as Kerry claims) Here's Sonne in an interview on NPR's "All Things Considered" on Wednesday:

"The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has actually gotten very good access to the site with the exception of the first day they showed up, which was the day after the crash where their time there was limited to 75 minutes, and they said that they weren't given access to every piece of the crash site that they had wanted to see. So after the sort of first day standoff that they experienced with some of the rebel militants, it did seem like they were getting pretty full access to the crash site. The problem was that the investigation team, which is now being led by the Netherlands, wasn't ready and didn't, in fact, really arrive in Donetsk until a few days ago. And after they finally assembled in Donetsk, it took, you know, about a week or more. Then, fighting had already started to encompass the crash site. And the reason that they're not getting access to the crash site now is not because the rebels are not allowing them to go to the crash site. It's because the crash site has turned into an active, violent fighting zone."

So the inspectors have had access to the site the whole time except just recently when US-backed goons from the Ukrainian army resumed hostilities in violation of their promise to honor a temporary ceasefire. It sounds like Kiev might have something they want to hide at the crash site, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, according to the Independent, "John Kerry accused the separatists of displaying "an appalling disrespect for human decency" in carrying on fighting close to the area."

Is Kerry lying again or is he just confused about the facts?

As far as the looting and drunken disrespect for the corpses of the victims; that's all BS too. Sonne paints an entirely different picture of what took place on the ground. Just check out some of his description and see if it squares with Kerry's breakdown:

"The plane's cockpit and dozens of bodies plummeted into Rozsypne, about 2 miles from Petropavlivka. One body fell through a woman's roof. A pilot strapped to a seat wound up next to a flight attendant in a nearby field. …Charred remains of an engine, landing gear and wings fell in a fireball next to Hrabove, with a tumbling storm cloud of at least 70 bodies, some of them largely intact…

No villagers on the ground died, but they are scared of what they might find next…

"We thought it was the end of the world," the Orthodox priest says. He stayed on the ground in prayer, preparing to meet God, and then ran up the hill as burning pieces of the plane's undercarriage and landing gear pelted a field like bombs. Then came a hail of bodies: arms, heads and fingers.

Farmers dashed to the village, afraid it would be engulfed by an inferno. Hrabove Mayor Vladimir Berezhnoi screamed at drivers and motorcyclists to get off the road as fire rolled across a field. When he saw bodies, Mr. Berezhnoi yelled at adults to take their children home.

A few miles away, Oleg Miroshnichenko, a retired miner who became the mayor of Rozsypne about 13 years ago, felt panic as he heard two loud blasts and watched the remains of about 40 passengers rain down on yards and homes. His phone started ringing off the hook.

"There's a body here, a body there, another body," he says…

"In mines, you don't remove a body until they investigate it," he says.

Villagers and emergency workers decided to start bagging bodies that were rotting in the sun. Local miners joined the effort. Heartbroken residents had been pleading in tears for the bodies' removal." ("After Flight 17 Crash, Agony, Debris and Heartbreak in Ukraine Villages", Wall Street Journal)

See? These people were deeply traumatized by the experience, they weren't throwing bodies around and disrespecting the dead. That's pure bunkum, just like the claims that Russia has been firing rounds into Ukraine is bunkum. Just like the leaflets ordering "Jews to register or face deportation" were bunkum. It's all bunkum. For whatever reason, the State Department doesn't give a rip about its credibility anymore. They'll say just about anything as long as they can skewer Moscow.

On Friday, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf was challenged by Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee, who demanded that Harf back up her claims that Russia has been firing rounds into Ukraine with something more substantial than the rubbish she'd read on Twitter. Here's what the AP journalist said:

"I think that it would be best for all concerned here if when you make an allegation like that you're able to make it up with something more than just because I said so. You guys get up at the UN security council making these allegations , the secretary [of the State Dept., John Kerry] gets on the Sunday shows and makes these allegations, and then when you present your evidence to back up those allegations, it has appeared to, at least for some, fall short of definitive proof."

The clearly-flummoxed Harf started backpeddling like crazy, unable to provide any hard evidence that her claims of Russian complicity were anything more than a complete fabrication.

As it happens, the so called "satellite imagery data" and "electronic intelligence" that was used to incriminate Moscow was originally posted on coup-backer Geoffrey Pyatt's Twitter account, which further underlines the fact that the real objective was to shape public opinion with propaganda not to reveal the truth. Here's a bit more from Antiwar.com:

"During the past several days, there has not been a single report out of Ukraine of an artillery strike against any of their military bases, anywhere in the country. …And this is Ukraine we're talking about, which comes up with its own dubious stories of Russian attacks on a near daily basis.

If Russia was carried out concerted shelling against Ukrainian military targets, Ukraine would be harping on about it constantly. They aren't even alleging anything close to that is happening. ("US Invents Reports of Russia Attacking Ukraine Bases", antiwar.com)

A Twitter account, for god sakes! The US State Department is basing its theory on the crap they picked up on Twitter. It's ridiculous.

Then there's the State Department's claim that Russia is massing troops along the border, another fairy tale that's turned out to be complete baloney. In fact, an International team of inspectors were sent to Russia to check things out and here's what the found:

"No instances of violations by Russia along the Ukrainian border had been registered by the inspectors," the ministry said. "The last four months have witnessed 18 separate inspections along the Ukrainian border with the Russian Federation, all in line with the Vienna Open Skies Treaty and the Vienna agreement of 2011." (RT)

If you're starting to think that everything you've read about the MH17 crash is bullshit, you're probably right. There's not much truth to most of it.

But why would the administration lie about things that are so easy to disprove? What's the point? Are they just getting sloppy and apathetic or is something else going on here?

To get a handle on what's really going on, we have to understand that Ukraine is not just another bloody afterthought like Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria, none of which would dramatically impact the US's role as the world's only superpower. Ukraine is different. Ukraine is an essential part of Washington's plan to pivot to Asia.

If Washington is unable to achieve its objectives in Ukraine create a chokepoint for vital resources flowing from Russia to the EU, establish NATO bases in the heart of Eurasia, and drive a wedge between Moscow and Brussels then the plan to maintain US global hegemony for the next century will fail.

And if the plan fails, then China will gradually become the world's biggest and most powerful economy, economic ties between Moscow and Europe grow stronger, and the US will slide into irreversible decline. Get the picture?

This is the scenario that Washington wants to avoid at all cost. That's why the anti-Russia hysteria in the media has been so ferocious and unrelenting. That's why the State Department assisted in the coup d'état that toppled the Ukrainian government and triggered the crisis.

And that's why ruling elites of all stripes have thrown their support behind a policy that recklessly pits one nuclear-armed adversary against another. It's because the bigshot money-guys who run this country are bound and determined to be the Kingfish for the next hundred years even if it means plunging the world into the abyss of a third world war. That's just a chance they're willing to take.

Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com

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