Saturday, July 19, 2014

Robert Parry — Airline Horror Spurs New Rush to Judgment


The propaganda is thick. And the political class is really obsessing over this. Different interests are desperately trying to shape the narrative.

Consortium News
Airline Horror Spurs New Rush to Judgment
Robert Parry

Meanwhile, Merkel, Putin agree on international probe into MH17 crash
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed for an international investigation into the downing of a Malaysian plane over Ukraine, and for rapid access to the crash site, Berlin said on Saturday.  
A Kremlin statement on the same phone call said that "both sides stressed the importance of a thorough and objective investigation of all circumstances relating to what has happened."
The two leaders, who spoke on the telephone, "agreed that an international, independent commission under the direction of ICAO (UN's International Civil Aviation Organization) should quickly have access to the site of the accident... to shed light on the circumstances of the crash and move the victims," said a German government statement.
Rushing to get out front with no evidence:
Following the shooting down of Malaysian flight MH17, Hillary Clinton has hit out at Russia saying "Putin has gone too far."
This woman is dangerous.

9 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Putin f-ed up big time Tom sorry, this might be his fatal mistake...

rsp,

Matt Franko said...

The toilets in Socchi where you couldnt flush the toilet paper may have led to a double case of pink eye for Bob Costas, but this f up resulted in 300 dead...

He is going to have a very hard time with this one.

rsp,

Tom Hickey said...

I wouldn't rush to judgment, Matt. Putin is very cagey. The problem here is that we are dealing with the scum of the earth all around. Nothing is past any of them. They are all ruthless thugs, which is how they all came to power. And that goes for the US, too.

Matt Franko said...

agree that from a PR perspective this may have been his best move Tom... ie "cooperation" while they try to sanitize the site...

Still going to be hard to overcome... you dont give these psychos a BUK...

I could see some small arms, some armor, but that thing could operate against targets at 40k' .... he REALLY f-ed up here...

From what I understand mainstream Europe is pretty pissed...

rsp

Matt Franko said...

Tom this would be like us giving the Mexicans a THAAD for drug interdiction....

Putin is a moron... and they are not ready for prime time... rsp,

Tom Hickey said...

Matt, the Ukraine is known to have had BUK and now to use them. It seems doubtful that the rebels would have known know to use the technology even if they possessed it.

That leaves two possibilities. One, that the Russians did it, which at this point is unsupported by either evidence or motive. And two, a false flag operation by either Ukraine or US black ops, for which there is no evidence but there is motive.

The way it is looking now, however, is that the rebels mistook the aircraft for a Ukrainian military aircraft flying in a restricted airspace apparently with hostile intent.

Tom Hickey said...

Putin is a moron... and they are not ready for prime time... rsp,

But just happens to control the Eurasian land mass, has large energy and natural resource reserves, and a military that is capable of inflicting serious damage on Europe and CONUS. And Putin has overwhelming support in Russia and US support is approaching zero.

What the Ukraine affair has done is prove what the Russian military has been saying for along time — that the US and NATO are not partners but hostiles bent on reducing Russia to a vassal state.

This effectively ends détente with the West. Count on a serious Russian military ramp up.

Thinking that Russia can be brushed off with a back of the hand is a fool's errand. And a major land war in Asia is worse.

googleheim said...
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googleheim said...

Still think that provocateurs at are play here ?

Why did Israel wait to invade Gaza the moment the airplane was shot down ?

1 out of 3 Israelis are Russian,
and the Russian stern cold take all and bum-rush the show object model pervades.

The old school Israel "everyone is a Jew who wants to be" especially those whose mom's are not jewish is gone from the hey days of the 60's, 70's and 80's
where things were more inclusive.

The Russian hoarding oligarchy is much more at issue here.

Washing their money in Swiss and Goa based resorts, shopping in Germany, and digging up carbon.