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News Briefs 08-09-2015

Information for you. I leave it to you to find meaning…

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  1. news
    Meteor: Would shit myself if I saw that coming home from work, or that meteor from Russia a few years ago.

    Lama: China is such a dick. They think they have the right to decide something out of their earthly control just to gain more political power in the region. Meanwhile there is a smog cloud of pollution sitting on top of the country that can be seen from space. Nice job.

    Area 51: While I respect why the family wants to keep the land, they are heavily outnumbered. Not to mention with all the nucleur testing and bombs, the ground must be horribly unstable. They can’t mine anymore. It’s horrible that the government moved in and took their land to begin with, and now you see why people don’t trust the government. The idea that they can just come in and take your home is scary. However, the reason they may want their land is to stop people from looking into the base from a particular vantage point where with a good set of binoculars, a telephoto lens, or drone could see the base in detail.

    MH370: I strongly believe that if the Malaysian government didn’t drag their feet when it first went down we would have an answer and we wouldn’t have to hear all these “because aliens” theories. I think that’s a little insensitive. Meanwhile that other plane a few months later got shot out of the sky by Russia and no one seems to give a damn!

    1. There is absolutely no
      There is absolutely no evidence that Russia shot down the Malaysian flight over Ukraine. The US has satellite imagery that would settle it for once and for all, yet they will not release it.

      http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/02/us-ukraine-crisis-mh17-russia-idUSKBN0OI1S620150602

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/10/ron-paul-mh17-plane-crash_n_5665996.html

      “The U.S. government has grown strangely quite on the accusation that it was Russia or her allies that brought down the Malaysian airliner with a buck anti-aircraft missile [sic],” the former GOP presidential candidate wrote. “The little that we have heard from U.S. intelligence is that it has no evidence that Russia was involved. Yet the war propaganda were successful in convincing the American public that it was all Russia’s fault.”

      “It’s hard to believe that the U.S., with all of its spy satellites available for monitoring everything in Ukraine that precise proof of who did what and when is not available,” he added.

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      “A report on Malaysian Airlines MH17 air disaster in Ukraine last year by a group of old-hand aviation security experts maintains that the Boeing might have been downed by an Israeli Python air-to-air missile.”

      http://www.sott.net/article/299103-Russian-aviation-experts-Israeli-made-Python-air-to-air-missile-fired-from-Israeli-upgraded-Su-25-Scorpion-may-have-downed-MH17

        1. Russia Redux
          Yeah, you might as well give a call to Finland and Baltic countries as well.

          The prevailing tinfoil hat theory about the 777 being shot down is that a SU-25, which is a ground attack fighter with the operational ceiling of 16000 ft armed (23000 ft clean), with top speed less than the cruise speed of the 777 (clean), managed somehow to fire a R-60 (a close range A2A missile) or a Python (mid-range A2A missile) to the NOSE of a 777 flying 33000 ft at cruise speed. Either the Ukrainian fighter pilots have mad skillz, or then it is just BS. Tough choice. Then again, why would a slow ground attack fighter have R-60’s or Pythons as payload is beyond me. The plane is useless in a dog fight.

          The so-called “military experts” who have proposed the SU-25 scenario are *surprise* Russian.

          1. You do realize that the US
            You do realize that the US has satellite data which would completely delineate all movement of aircraft and missiles in the arena in question? Why has that data not been brought to bear on this controversy?

            Given the absolute lockdown on real evidence either way it is instructive to also read the Russian take on things as of today. If you are going to be impressed with NBC – that paragon of news reality – then you had better look at all the other sources as well:

            http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/predictable-bs-mh-17-report-no-evidence-against-russia/ri10494

          2. Propaganda
            You are actually right stating that Russia, or its armed forces, did not fire that BUK. They did provide the pro-Russian separatist the weapon system. Then there is the video of BUK M1-2 system leaving from Ukraine to Russia with missiles missing and the intercepted phone calls of the separatists leaders after they realised they had shot down civilian aircraft.

            Russia Insider? Jesus-Christ-on-a-stick, they seem to support the kleptocratic dictatorship that is Russia. That is not a “news source”. That is channeled information straight from Kreml. It has been a while since I read that amount of disinfo and lies on one webpage. Well, not counting Infowars, that is.

            This is a direct quote from Russia Insider: “I continue not to understand why does the downed aircraft show cladding damage characteristic with pin and shrapnel warheads (air-to-air systems), much more characteristic of R-27 TOPOR or R-73 missiles used on the Ukraine military MIG-29 and SU-27 aircraft?”

            So, now it’s MIG-29s and SU-27s? Eye witnesses of Ukrainian fighters tailing the 777? There is no mention of Python-series missiles though. The missile that brought down the 777 exploded above the cockpit on an intercept course, like a BUK would. R-27’s and R-73’s missiles fired from a fighter tailing the aircraft don’t do that. R-73’s take out the engines because they are infrared homing. R-27’s (radar prox either/or impact fuse) would have taken out tail end of the 777 clean off, leaving the cockpit area pretty much intact and with little to no shrapnel damage. (Military service is compulsory here. We tend to know our shit when it comes to weapons systems.)

            I don’t watch “American TV” except for entertainment purposes (HBO, Showtime). So, I really cannot comment the quality of the news on the other side of the Big Pond. I cancelled my subscription of Hysteria Channel via satellite after they started airing nothing but garbage.

          3. “Russia Insider?
            “Russia Insider? Jesus-Christ-on-a-stick, they seem to support the kleptocratic dictatorship that is Russia. That is not a “news source”. That is channeled information straight from Kreml.”

            It is our propaganda mill versus Russia’s, and neither you nor I can have any confidence in what actually happened.

            Meanwhile, back at the ranch, why isn’t the US releasing the satellite data? One might reasonably surmise that such data would run counter to their project of vilification. The US is a typical overextended empire, technically bankrupt, terrified of losing dollar hegemony – and looking for bogeymen to blame and use as a distraction from their enormous self inflicted injuries and disabilities.

          4. Satellite
            Could you, please, name the US official who has said that there actually is satellite data? This claim (US Sat Data) was made by Russian Army Lt.-Gen. Andrei Kartopolov and Air Force Lt.-Gen. Igor Makushev July 22nd 2014.

            Riki Ellison, among others, made a SPECULATION about how US gathered the intel on July 17th 2014. He said: “The Pentagon would have detected the launch because of its heat signature.” This is where the claim of “satellite data” comes from.

            What the US officials said July 17th 2014 was “one radar system saw a surface-to-air missile system turn on and track an aircraft right before the plane went down. A second system saw a heat signature at the time the airliner was hit”. The first system mentioned, “radar”, is ground-based MASINT. The second system mentioned may, or may not, be exclusively ground-based. It can be a satellite application as well. The US officials have never said a word about satellites.

            The findings of the Dutch Safety Board are pretty conclusive. (Unless one considers the Dutch investigation being some New World Order/Unified Conspiracy Theory evil scheme to “suppress the truth”, or whatever insanity.) There is the exhaust cone, and other parts, of the AA missile from the BUK system, for god’s sake. Explosive and paint residue findings, and the cockpit multi-track voice recordings that actually caught the explosion on “tape”. Russia, by the way, vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected shooting down the 777.

            You can find videos of these press conferences and interviews online, y’know? The truth is out there and one can actually find it.

  2. The Big Picture
    Let’s consider the bigger picture – the entire Ukraine fiasco is rife with confusion, utter recklessness, boggled alliances that shift daily as conditions deteriorate. Start from the beginning. What is the underpinning?

    http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/08/19/insouciance-rules-west-paul-craig-roberts/

    “Consider the insanity of the Obama regime’s policy toward the Soviet Union. Kissinger and Brzezinski, two of the left-wing’s most hated bogymen, are astonished at the total unawareness of Washington and the EU of the consequences of their aggression and false accusations toward Russia. Kissinger says that America’s foreign policy is in the hands of “ahistorical people,” who do not comprehend that “we should not engage in international conflicts if, at the beginning, we cannot describe an end.” Kissinger criticizes Washington and the EU for their misconception that the West could act in Ukraine in ways inconsistent with Russian interests and receive a pass from the Russian government.

    Brzezinski has joined Kissinger in stating unequivocally that “Russia must be reassured that Ukraine will never become a NATO member.”

    Or, a more recent example of globalist foolishness and its swift antidote:

    http://gizadeathstar.com/2015/10/russia-launches-cruise-missiles-from-caspian-usa-claims-some-land-in-iran-let-the-propaganda-wars-begin/

    1. More Propaganda
      “Consider the insanity of the Obama regime’s policy towards Soviet Union.” I didn’t know Soviet Union existed anymore, but then again Roberts is making a new career as Putin’s lapdog at Sputnik News, which is owned, controlled, and operated by Kreml directly.

      http://sputniknews.com/authors/paul_craig_roberts/

      “False accusations against Russia”. C’mon, Russia denied systematically for months their military presence in Ukraine. What “alliance shift”? The key players in Ukraine are Russia, US, and EU, and have been since day one. There is no “confusion” about what is at stake and who plays the game, and moreover, why they play it. The timeline in Ukraine, the actual events, are pretty clear since 1991. I am more interested in actual facts, the events, and the causality and correlation between these events. Various independent sources, such as E-International Relations, have made decent and relatively un-biased reporting and analysis on what has taken place.

      What is the underpinning? That will not be found on propaganda sites. Putin wants to restore the borders of the aforementioned Soviet Union (he calls the fall of Soviet Union the greatest geo-political disaster in recent history) and/or Czarist Russia. Moreover, Ukraine now owns through Ukroboronprom (a state conglomerate of 130 defence and engineering organisations) much of what was Soviet Union’s military-industrial complex. Antonovs, Mi-8 Hip, Mi-24, Saturn AL-31, BTR-series ACPs (just to name a handful) are/were designed and manufactured in Ukraine. Ukraine sold weapons worth 664 million dollars in 2014. The EU’s plan to open up the Ukrainian economy brought it into conflict with Putin’s efforts to create a deeper economic union in the post-Soviet space. This was a priority for Putin, who was determined to forestall the expansion of EU influence and the presumed democratisation that would accompany it. Eu completely misread Ukraine’s importance to Putin. As Andrew Wilson put it, the EU ‘took a baguette to a knife fight’ (Wilson, 2014).

      In certain nationalistic Slavic mythos Kiev, or Kyiv, as it is correctly spelled, is considered to be “the birthplace of Russia”. It is true that Kieven Rus laid the foundation of Russian culture much in the same way Roman empire is a key part of Italy’s heritage. From the Russian point of view, this is important. Zbigniew Brzezinski famously argued that ‘without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire’ (Brzezinski, 1997, p. 46).

      When Estonia became a Nato member, it meant US troops less than 200 miles from St. Petersburg. The distance from Moscow to Ukraine border is something like 300 miles. If Ukraine becomes a Nato member, it conveniently places yet another array of (US) weapon systems way too close to Moscow. The situation is similar when it comes to Finnish Nato membership (Finland joined Nato’s Partnership for Peace 1994). If Finland becomes a full member, it means that in case of a (Russia-Nato) conflict, the Gulf of Finland is off limits to the Russian Baltic Sea naval forces. One look at the regional map will tell you why this is problem to Russians.

      The reasons for this unnecessary and stupid conflict are well known and documented.

      1. This is about hydrocarbons
        This is about hydrocarbons more than anything else with the US trying to place a wedge between the EU and Russia’s vast oil and gas wealth by hoking up all sorts of nasty situations that then are supposed to justify sanctions against Russia. That is not working as we have seen Germany inking yet another big pipeline deal with Russia intended to also supply northern Europe with a second big energy conduit. The insane idea that US fracking infrastructure set up in the Ukraine could supply the EU instead with its energy needs makes no economic sense, and the other fantasy of making Ukraine a paradise for Monsanto GMO wheat and monopolistic American agribusiness in general is just plain nightmarish.

        The US does not have the financial wherewithal to “run the world” anymore, and it is breaking the bank domestically trying to maintain the illusion. It is the typical tragedy of late stage, paranoid empires who refuse to countenance the rise of other empires.

        http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/10/13/the-mh-17-report-paul-craig-roberts/

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