Contrary to the Obama administration’s public claims blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, some U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appears Ukrainian government forces were to blame, according to a source briefed on these findings.Consortium News
Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts
Robert Parry
He is aware, that the rebels have shot down several jets before and after MH-17, some at high altitudes?
ReplyDeleteStill thinking it's the Western front at fault?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Israel? They launched their ground invasion 12hours after 17 went down.
Probably Chinese too with Japanese help
Ryan, we know the rebels have manpads and have shot low-flying aircraft with those.
ReplyDeleteI believe they shot one plane at a higher altitude that would have been very difficult, but not impossible with a manpad. If the rebels shot that one high altitude Ukie plane with a BUK, then the BUK would have been observed by US intelligence -- so show me the satellite data of this rebel BUK ?
The bottom line is that US intelligence knows what happened to MH17 -- but they haven't made any evidence public. What are they hiding?
Since we can always trust the government, it's always the best policy to insure that the are not "revenue constrained".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.anderweltonline.com/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/Cockpit-MH017.pdf
http://www.globalresearch.ca/german-pilot-speaks-out-shocking-analysis-of-the-shooting-down-of-malaysian-mh17/5394111
as we seen in practically every single war, states are not 'revenue constrained' by gold standards or other such self-imposed arrangements. Any such self-imposed constraints are just thrown out of the window when the country faces a real threat.
ReplyDeleteRight, y. The effect of gold standards has probably been to promote wars since the days when mercenary armies wanted gold. If the only time that countries stop strangling themselves is wartime, that is going to create a rational self-interested preference for war by many people.
ReplyDeleteAs Keynes noted, the effect of using wholly inappropriate "sound business principles" to measure government spending has been that societies have preferred wholly destructive "Keynesian" spending to beneficial and constructive spending. The constructive spending "pays for itself" much better than the destructive spending, but not quite - it usually involves some deficit spending. So "sound business principles" are thoughtlessy and inappropriately applied to the constructive case only & prevent constructive, but not destructive "Keynesian" spending.