A LITTLE FLIGHT MH 17 ROUNDUP
I had
fully expected to begin this week’s blogs with a review of some of the geopolitical stories of the past month, but after my
News and Views from the Nefarium and
yesterday’s blog, I’ve been virtually flooded with news and articles
about the subject of the shootdown of Malaysia Air flight 17,
none
of which I have had any time to check out. So why am I trying to
summarize some of the recent finds here? Well, for one thing, as a kind
of cultural mirror of what we’ve become: we’ve become a world that no
longer buys easy official stories about
anything, and in a way, that’s a good thing. But it’s also a
bad
thing, because it demonstrates how low the standing of western
institutions has fallen. And they have only themselves to blame.The
second reason I’m sharing all these stories is to show how quickly
people now begin
to gather data and analyze, and how each such event
does
seem to have a multi-leveled nature, as if several motivations or
objectives were being accomplished all at once. Here’s what some of that
snooping and sniffing has already found out, along with my usual high
octane speculation commentary:
Mama Merkel is (Pretending to be?) Out of Her Chancellorial Mind
Yea, you guessed it: the West’s organs of mass disinformation and
hypnotism are already pointing the finger of suspicion at Russia, and
Mama Merkel wants to be part of the fun:
World Leaders Match Anger With Calls for Inquiry Into Ukraine Plane Crash
OK, so maybe Mama Merkel
wasn’t pointing the finger of
suspicion as loudly at Russia as everyone else seems to be (after all,
she knows that Russia has nothing to gain, and Russia knows she knows,
and she knows that Russia knows that she knows, and they both know that
the NSA knows that she knows that Russia knows that she knows). But she
does
seem to be cheerily goosestepping along with Washington’s line that
Russia is to blame for the whole Ukrainian fiasco, which most people
also know is nonsense, and Mama Merkel knows this, knows that Russia
knows it, and knows that Russia knows that she knows that Russia knows
&c. And she knows Germany gets a lot of its energy from Russia.
We’ll get back to Germany in tomorrow’s blog, by way of a stopover in
France. The bottom line here to remember is that it’s an old
chancellorial tradition, since Bismarck, for German chancellors to say
one thing to keep London and Washington happy (notice I left out Paris,
which is currently very
unhappy), while quietly setting out to
do very different things, like absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia, or
expel CIA station chiefs.
Blame Russia, for it is the Home of Moustache Twirling Evil:
As if on cue, the current sock puppet-in-chief has weighed in to
denounce Russia with a string of somersaulting non sequiturs truly
breathtaking in its scope and intensity:
Monitors find confusion, hostility at Malaysia Airlines crash site
The “logic” here is truly a wonder to behold: (1) Russian missiles
did it (2) the rebels had Russian missiles, (3) Russians had to train
them (4) Russia is guilty, (5) we need more sanctions against Russia
(hidden text here: “Will you guys over at the CIA
pleeaase find
those poison cigars that you were going to use on Castro and send some
to Putin?”) Now, what’s missing in this whole analysis is the very
annoying problem of why Russia, or for that matter, Ukrainian rebels,
would want to scuttle their prospects in world opinion by shooting down a
civilian airliner, either by accident or by intention. It makes no
geopolitical sense. Then there’s the little teensy weensy problem of
point number 3 above. Russian missiles don’t necessarily have to come
directly from Russia, and even if they did, they don’t necessarily have
to have Russians train the rebels. Pretty much anyone who’s kept up
their subscription to
Jane’s Defence Weekly would probably have
some idea how to do it (we assume, of course, for the sake of argument
here, that Msrs. Poroshenkorruption, Soros and Brzznsk are regular
readers).
Was the Flight Deliberately Diverted over the Donetsk Region?
This one pretty much speaks for itself:
Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?
Except for another teensy problem: if it
was diverted, who
did the diverting? Given the West’s rather low standing in the aftermath
of the Ukraine fiasco not even the West has anything to gain by
staging such an event(yes I know I know, you’re supposed to say
“Ukraine” now without the definite article, but I’m sorry, I refuse to
butcher the English language just for the sake of being “PC”, it’s still
the United Kingdom, and in my obsolete grammar book, it’s still
the Ukraine, Ketchup Kerry’s droning pronouncements notwithstanding). Of course, if it
didn’t,
then who did? (And no, for the
Israel-is-behind-everything-bad-that-happens crowd, I don’t think they
did either. Just because they
exploited the crisis in Gaza
doesn’t mean they’re behind the shootdown.) I’m still waiting for
someone to blame _____ (Fill in the blank with your favorite “evil
nation”, Iran, China, Syria, Mon(ster)santo, &c).
Then there was that Italian Airliner Thing…
Now, this one is one of those “memory recall” moments, sent to me in
an email, so I don’t have an article to share, but Mr. S.D., a regular
reader here, sent me an email reminding me about the NATO/French
attempts to shoot down Qadaffi’s airplane with French fighters, until,
according to some reports,
Italy, with ties to Libya dating from before World War Two, quietly
informed Qadaffi of the effort. Then, you’ll recall, an Italian airliner
was shot down…. accidentally of course.
And then finally, there are the Passengers…
This one comes courtesy of
The Huffington Post, whose headline says it all:
Malaysia Airlines MH17 Flight Carried Up To 100 AIDS Researchers – ‘The Cure For AIDS Could Have Been On That Plane’
True enough, like flight 370, this flight seems more than
suspiciously loaded with people with “unusual interests and expertise”
that, in the typical
modus operandi of the sorts of evil people
that do such evil things, could have been a corollary objective, for
it’s a favorite technique of mounting such operations that several
operational goals or objectives are combined. So again, the question of
cui bono is relevant.
But it seems clear who does
not benefit from such an operation:
none
of the countries or major powers mentioned really has anything to gain
by planning and executing such an operation (in my opinion), neither
the
Ukraine, nor Russia, nor Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, and
yes, not even Iran or Israel or China or Mon(ster)santo or any of the
usual “bad guys”. To be sure, it is the rule of geopolitics that if an
event occurs that you haven’t orchestrated or engineered, then if it is
possible to do so, you exploit it for your own purposes.
Which leaves an interesting question, doesn’t it? For if all that is the case, then who
did do it? From the threadbare bits of data thus far gathered, it certainly appears that this was
someone’s deliberate act. The real question is, whose?
See you on the…
Oh yea, one more thing: there are also some saying that the bodies
were already dead, and some, of course, are already saying that the
bodies of MH 17 are in reality the bodies of MH 370… Just had to mention
it for the sake of completeness:
Bizarre Account of Malaysian ‘Plane Crash’
Rebel Leader Gives Bizarre Account of Plane Crash
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