Moscow is going to be all in the news now that the British establishment is trying to pin the murder of Alexander Litvinenko on Putin. Well, we might never get to the real truth, but thinking about Russia, look at how magnificent Moscow is? A stunningly beautiful city.
If you have a widescreen monitor this is superb. Tomorrow I might project it out to my flat screen TV. Once you have clicked on the play button click on the 'Fullscreen On' button in the top left hand of the image, and then use your mouse to zoom around. You can take control by holding the left button of your mouse down and manually zooming around by dragging. And you can pan in and out with the scroll wheel. When you see helicopters in the sky click on them to get a different view. You can turn the music off too, but I forget how to do that right now.
Bird's Eye View of the Moscow Kremlin
http://www.airpano.com/360Degree-VirtualTour.php?3D=Moscow-Over-the-Kremlin
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Tomorrow I might project it out to my flat screen TV.
Chromecast ;)
Very naive to judge a country by its capital city. I suggest judging it by the suburbs of some relatively minor city.
For all the many grave failings of the British criminal justice system, the evidence that the Russian state had Litvinenko assassinated is pretty damning. It's as good as it gets in cases like these. Putin probably had him killed.
This isn't the "sexed up" bullshit dossier that the UK paraded as evidence for a criminal attack on Iraq. In the Litvinenko case, the evidence is very strong and one person died. In the Iraq case, the evidence was fabricated and led to the deaths of probably a million innocent people, destroyed the country, created the conditions for the rise of ISIS and their deranged rampage. The Litvinenko case is clearly more grave and those responsible should be brought to justice. As we say here in the UK, something must be done. We demand a pathetic token gesture! Putin has clearly forfeited his right to Savile Row suits and marmite.
Highly unlikely that the Russian clandestine service would have assassinated Litvinenko with a substance that is easily traceable to governments since they are the only producers of it. In fact it would be highly unprofessional. The suspicion should therefore be that it was a ruse to cover up the parties who actually did it.
As always, cui bono?
For example, The weird world of Boris Berezovsky: Alexander Litvinenko's inquest has provided an intriguing insight into the dead tycoon
I assume that this investigation will be another one like the one into MH17. The competitive elites never let an opportunity to attack each other go to waste.
Tom,
Up until the assassination, the substance was in fact impossible to trace. The technology to detect the nuclear material had just been invented. Something the Kremlin was unaware of and had not counted on. Then we have the unbelievably suspicious movements of the two men who met Litvinenko. The nuclear material could be traced to their movements!
If this wasn't done by the Kremlin, this is the work of a master criminal. Moriarty has nothing on him or her!
Dont forget about the Ukraine guy who they tried to poison and he didnt die just became disfigured...
The west loaned that guy like $140B ....
The other thing is that the people that have the resources and expertise to investigate this sort of thing are the clandestine services rather than the domestic security force. What the clandestine service know is never made public even in courts. And they also know how to frame a case publicly.
So I have zero confidence in "public" investigations when governments have some interest in the outcome and are not necessarily acting in the interest of the public at large.
Norman Dombey is an emiritus Professor of Theoretical Physics and a respected nuclear expert. He's written some devastatingly brilliant pieces for the LRB. In the lead up to the Iraq war, he made it pretty clear that the UK government was lying through its teeth. Similarly on Iran. So, he's an honest expert, not in the pay of anyone. He's demonstrated as conclusively as you can get that the nuclear material that killed Litvinenko came from Russia.
Perhaps someone in the Kremlin was behind the assassination in order to undermine Putin and the current leadership. But that seems extremely unlikely.
The Boris Berezovsky-Alexander Litvinenko connection reveals that Russian oligarchs were also involved, complicating the cui bono question.
I am not saying that the plot didn't originate in the Kremlin. I am just saying that I have never seen a government investigation anywhere that did not contradict the government's position.
BTW, the UK was and is asking for this by offering itself as a global center of high-level criminal activity, maybe the global center.
Kevin-
Thats a pretty neat website there. Kind of like Google streetview from the sky. Thanks for sharing.
"I am just saying that I have never seen a government investigation anywhere that did not contradict the government's position."
Absolutely. Governments do sometimes accidentally tell the truth, or find the truth to be more convenient and useful than the mindboggling lies they usually tell.
Tom: "BTW, the UK was and is asking for this by offering itself as a global center of high-level criminal activity, maybe the global center."
Unfortunately that is true. UK governments of all persuasions have decided to make London the capital city of financial fraud and the home of dangerous but super rich criminals. If a billionaire Egyptian arms dealer gets decapitated by a rival in his swish home in Mayfair, who's to blame? Or a Russian mafiosi oligarch? Or a known sadistic Saudi Prince? Or the CEO of a fraudulent bank? Or some "retired" dictator who finds London very agreeable?
I want to explain why I am so cynical about governments. I bought in to the government rah-rah about Vietnam until I discovered that everyone involved was spewing bullshit and lots of people on both sides were dying because of it. And they knew at the time it was bullshit.
After that, I wised up and started looking deeper. What I found that not only was spewing bullshit standard operating procedure but seeing things up and framing it with bullshit was too.
Some of the people involved "mean well," and others are just opportunists that will stop at nothing. Nuclear war? Meh.
But it is not just Russia, or ….. All countries on earth are either ruled by sociopathic elites, or sociopathic elites that were turned out of power and scheming to return to power by any means.
The West is angling for regime change in Russia to return the former oligarchs to power that were raping the country under Yeltsin, with whom they had an agreement to let rape the country as long as the bulk of the gains went to the West and the Russian military was degraded to the point of not being a threat to the West.
Putin booted them out when the country was falling apart, which was actually the Western plan. Since then the West has dreamed of returning to that state of affairs.
The reality is that the Russian military acquiesced then but won't now. If there would be a serious attempt to effect regime change in Russia that seemed to be going successfully, the Russian military would step in, backed by the Russian Orthodox Church and the conservatives who form the largest political cohort. Then the situation becomes worse than before on a global scale.
The problem is not "government" as an institution, but rather since the advent of surplus societies governments have been captured by sociopathic elites competing with each other for status, power and wealth.
Thus far it has been impossible to correct this selection process, which is reducible biologically to alpha baboons struggling among themselves for dominance.
Without a shift in the level of collective consciousness this will continue into the foreseeable future.
The institution of government is fairly irrelevant. As long as there are alphas and the rest permit them to do what alphas do, then regardless of the system, they will play king of the mountain with each other on everyone else's backs.
Good luck with that. A good example is the US, where the GOP "populist" candidates are a billionaire and a US senator whose wife works for Goldman and Goldman financed the senator with loans that he "forgot" to report.
The Vietnamese have a saying, Dungheap same, only flies change.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2016/01/litvinenko-what-really-happened.html
Litvinenko -- a former KGB agent with a big mouth living in London. The man was asking to get whacked.
The US spin
http://russialist.org/video-what-the-litvinenko-assassination-accusation-means-for-the-kremlin/
Russian response.
http://russialist.org/interfax-moscow-dismisses-findings-of-uk-public-inquiry-into-litvinenko-death-source/
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Tom, in the fortruss article, a botched smuggling operation of Polonium by a former Russian oligarch? For whom? The suggestion is made of a dirty bomb. I don't understand -- why would a Russian oligarch, a billionaire a few times over, and his gang smuggle Polonium and sell it to terrorists in London? If the terrorists blow up London, then the Russian oligarch in London gets vapourized as well -- including all the Premier League football players. Just sayin' since all former Russian oligarchs own football teams ;)
You need to read up more on what went down in Russia in the '90's. Oligarchs are and always have been super-alphas.
I don't know why and no one else does either, that's talking anyway. The principals involved are now deceased. Boris Berezovsky for unknown reasons "reportedly" committed suicide.
Navama, an Israeli former special forces soldier who lived alongside Berezovsky for six years [as his bodyguard], said his employer spoke continually of taking his own life after losing the court case. "He talked with me about it all the time, and not only with me but with a lot of people." Former Israeli special services? Hmm.
But think about it. Nations crave a nuclear capability. You think criminals don't? Very unlikely the use of this was intended for London if the Fort Russ speculation is true. But it gives plausible reasons why the official story is likely fabricated.
This case has clandestine services written all over over it.
BTW, with governments my basic assumption is that nothing is as it seems. Again, I got clued in to this by my Vietnam experience. It's deception through and through.
Just awesome isn't it?
I found an article on the web by a policeman who worked in the City of London Metropolitan Police crime department. Be said that the City of London was the biggest financial crime centre in the world.
Well, the UK Guardian had an article on the City of London about the ultra high wages but in the readers comment section underneath loads of people were defending these wages. So I copied and pasted parts of that policeman's report and put it out on The Guardian and it absolutely smashed all the Right wing arguments that the they were putting out. But guess what? the Guardian removed my post.
The Guardian was always removing my posts because I kept hitting bull's eyes. You see, the Guardian pretends to be a liberal leftist paper, but it is toothless, and even me just writing in their comments section had to be silenced. Then I found out later they were doing the same thing to some of their own journalists.
That was a good post, Tom. It's exactly how I feel.
http://russia-insider.com/en/dont-get-stuck-details-its-not-complicated/ri12383
http://russia-insider.com/en/litvinenko-plot-revealed-last/ri12379
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/cameron-nixes-justice-litvinenko-case/ri12360
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/discredited-litvinenko-judge-sends-parliament-untrustworthy-verdict/ri12340
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/01/david-hakkuk-on-sir-robert-owens-inquiry.html
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