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This is a must read. This is taken from here : http://rt.com/op-edge/173788-
Beginning
his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony
Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative
radio journalist.
Published time: July 18, 2014 10:06
Put
yourself in the position of a certain passenger boarding the Malaysian
Airlines flight at Amsterdam for the twelve hour trip to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday morning.
Given
a previous Malaysian flight's mysterious disappearance it's likely he
was not the only boarding passenger who was a little nervous when he
joked on social media, "If we disappear, this is what the plane looks like."
Settling down on the flight then watching the moving map display on the seat in front, you might perhaps see the word 'Ukraine' edge
its way across from the right of the screen. Would you not be a little
uneasy in the knowledge that quite a lot of planes have been blown out
of the skies there recently? That there's a war on?
Check out David Cenciotti's 'Aviationist' blog and you’ll see that 10 aircraft have been shot down in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks.
Five MI-24 Hind and two MI-8 Hip helicopters, as well as military transport planes, one AN-2 and an AN-30. On July 8, the latest transporter, an Il-76 was shot down at Lugansk when the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine closed their airspace indefinitely to civilian aircraft.
But why did the air traffic control regulators keep directing planes over eastern Ukrainian territory at higher altitudes?
Five MI-24 Hind and two MI-8 Hip helicopters, as well as military transport planes, one AN-2 and an AN-30. On July 8, the latest transporter, an Il-76 was shot down at Lugansk when the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine closed their airspace indefinitely to civilian aircraft.
But why did the air traffic control regulators keep directing planes over eastern Ukrainian territory at higher altitudes?
Hindsight
is a wonderful thing, but on any of hundreds of flights over Ukraine in
the past month I might even have been tempted to tug the sleeve of one
of the cabin staff. Asking them brusquely to get reassurance from the
captain straight away that we would not be passing through the very
airspace where so many planes had so recently been brought down.
So what was the plane doing there?
Malaysian Airlines was quick to point out that the Ukraine war zone had been declared 'safe' for them to fly over by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Was this the same authority that was party to closing Europe and the North Atlantic for almost a week for Eyjafjallajökull's ‘volcanic ash cloud’ drifting out of Iceland? Canceling the flights of around 10 million passengers? Yet they fail to close a war zone where they know ground-to-air missiles are flying around?
Was this the same authority that was party to closing Europe and the North Atlantic for almost a week for Eyjafjallajökull's ‘volcanic ash cloud’ drifting out of Iceland? Canceling the flights of around 10 million passengers? Yet they fail to close a war zone where they know ground-to-air missiles are flying around?
I
do hope ICAO regional director Luis Fonseca de Almeida will apologize
in person to all the victims’ families before he resigns and hands
himself in for questioning. Of course, this is not the only arm of the
UN and other parts of global governance to be failing, crippled, and
where the people appointed to run it seem to be pliable stooges rather
than independent-minded enough to be up to the job?
Let's hope too that the Malaysian authorities will heed the voices in their professions warning against relying too much on help from international bodies which may be used against them.
Let's hope too that the Malaysian authorities will heed the voices in their professions warning against relying too much on help from international bodies which may be used against them.
As for who's responsible, it’s unlikely the shooting down was a random ‘pot shot’ by Ukrainian separatists who would have nothing to gain and only further isolate themselves by such an act.
There are also doubts as to whether they have access to this sort of weapon system, more advanced than any that appears to have been used so far. Which is presumably why ICAO and Malaysian Airlines thought 30,000-foot high airliners were safe from shoulder-launched missiles.
There are also doubts as to whether they have access to this sort of weapon system, more advanced than any that appears to have been used so far. Which is presumably why ICAO and Malaysian Airlines thought 30,000-foot high airliners were safe from shoulder-launched missiles.
Appearing
on BBC TV’s Newsnight, weapon systems expert Doug Richardson said the
relatively high altitude airliners fly at offers “no protection” from what he believes was probably a former Soviet ‘Buk’ missile, developed in the 1970s, that did the dirty deed.
Shot across bows of Russian presidential jet?
Then
there is the proximity of the MH17 shoot-down to Russian President
Vladimir Putin himself, who happened to be flying home, west to east,
from Brazil. Russia's equivalent to Air Force One, the Ilyushin-96 'Board One' was
roughly half-an-hour's flying time, about 200 miles (320km), behind the
Malaysian plane as it passed near Warsaw just before the doomed jet
entered Ukrainian airspace, which the presidential jet avoided.
As
the Western powers' anti-Russian sanctions are failing to bite and the
Kiev government they back is losing on the ground, this may indicate a
NATO motive for the attack. If so this sort of audacious act may also be
an early test of loyalties by the West's power elite of Britain’s new
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defense Secretary Michael Fallon.
The message being, “Watch that you don't get any troublesome ideas of making your own minds up on the matter.”
The
timing of the attack is intriguing too, being the day after a historic
agreement Putin signed, along with Chinese president Xi Jinping, in the
Brazilian city of Fortaleza to create a BRICS World Development Bank.
Quite possibly the greatest challenge since Bretton Woods in 1944, to
the dubious monopoly of the World Bank, was indeed signed on Wednesday by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
For
those that muse on the obsessive nature of those that spend their lives
pursuing ever more money until the day they die, there is a shocking
recent history of nations and their leaders coming to a sticky end that
dare to oppose the global monopoly of the petrodollar, and that of the
enforcers at the World Bank and IMF.
Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein didn't know what fate lay ahead when he
announced in November 2000 that he was taking the first steps toward
setting up a bourse, or oil exchange, which traded in euro rather than
dollars. Two-and-a-half years later, weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist had been 'found' in
his country and the bombs were raining down, Saddam and his fellow
countrymen was illegally invaded under orders from Messrs. Bush and
Blair and the nation plunged into the sort of chaotic hell which is now
spreading like a plague around the Middle East and from which one
wonders if it will ever emerge.
Similarly when debt-free Libya's Colonel Gaddafi and his shuttle diplomacy had secured agreement from enough African leaders to announce the creation of an African reserve currency, the African gold dinar, he found his country up in front of the United Nations Security Council on a fabricated charge of'bombing his own people'. On
May 1, 2011, the weekend of William & Kate's royal wedding in
London, one of Gaddafi's sons and three of his grandsons were blown to
pieces in an airstrike and NATO began to bomb the country - blessed with
the lowest infant mortality rate on the African continent - back to the
Stone Age.
Although no ground troops were allowed by the UN, mercenaries were sent in, and on October 21, Gaddafi was finally executed with a bayonet up his backside.
National governments in the West these days really do seem to have
become an irrelevant side show when the power of the military dances to
the tune of the unrestrained mega-resourced muscle of the IMF and its
friends.
Why Malaysian Airlines?
'To lose one plane may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.' Though it might seem trite to borrow from Oscar Wilde’s 'Importance of Being Earnest', is it really pure coincidence that both this and the March ‘disappearance’ of MH370 have been with unfortunate Malaysian jets? Neither appears to have been an ‘accident’, so could both be acts of aggression, acts of war against Malaysia? If so why, and by whom?
Malaysia
is a genuinely independent nation torn between East and West. Like
Ukraine and so many other medium-sized independent countries, Malaysia
is finding it very difficult to stay independent. As the world inches
towards what many believe may become an enormous world war, brought on
by the collapse of capitalism, it is becoming increasingly impossible
for small and medium-sized nations to remain independent. So yes, there
is likely to be pressure on the Malaysian leadership to make alliances
and this, perhaps, could simply be an attempt to intimidate, to force
their hand.
It’s
comforting to repeat that nobody wants an economic collapse and nobody
wants a world war, but it wouldn't be the first time that ruling elites
have deployed these two chestnuts as a 'double whammy'. Making a fortune out of a crash is easy when you can see it coming and, as well as being an archaic'human sacrifice' to
the old gods, war is the best way to distract everybody who might be
thinking of locking you up. For anyone who dares to look, the evidence
is there that the US decided to step up the projection of their already
ruinous military power at the time of the 9/11 attacks, probably as a
reaction to the waning power of the dollar.
As
Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey, part of Iraq Veterans Against the War and
of the US chapter of Veterans For Peace, said when interviewed for
Venezuelan State Television, “There are no rules, this is World War III. The rule book went out the window on September 11th.[2001].”
As
a regular attendee at US Marine Corps intelligence briefings Jimmy was
in a position to know rather more than the West’s public, media or
politicians do about how far down the mission line covert policies of
the White House and Pentagon have crept.
And
here's the rub. Malaysia are one of the world's feircest opponents of
the phoney 'war on terror', former Malaysian Federal Court judge Abdul
Kadir Sulaiman even convening a tribunal in 2011 to try Bush and Blair
for war crimes. Endorsed by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad
the tribunal found: “Unlawful use of force threatens the world to return
to a state of lawlessness. The acts of the accused were unlawful.”
Malaysia has done what the UN and The Hague's International Criminal
Court dare not.
European
and North American countries have realized too late in the day that
only by keeping stiff exchange controls can they stay sovereign nations.
Without them international finance capital will move in with infinite
resources to destroy everything that stands in its way, from media to
parliaments, nothing can withstand them. Even the courts now are finally
about to be co-opted into the service of the tax evading transnational
corporations should the secretly-negotiated Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership (TTIP) be signed later this year.
The
courts will then be theirs to overturn any parliamentary decision the
corporations don’t like, and they have been saving up lots and lots of
cash to pay the very best lawyers in the world, to make sure they win.
No shortage of people who’ll shoot down an airliner for you
With the privatization of war in the West, points out UK charity War On Want, “repeated human rights abuses” are being “perpetrated
by mercenaries, including the indiscriminate killing of civilians and
torture. Unaccountable and unregulated, these companies are complicit in
human rights abuses across the world, putting profit before people and
fanning the flames of war.”
So
if you want somebody to fight a nuclear war, conduct a massacre, or
shoot down an airliner for you nowadays you can buy those services on
the free market. The proliferation of private military companies since
9/11 suits the military industrial complex very nicely, thank you.
But how has the world come to the point where such companies have state protection and business is, quite literally, booming?
The
problem again, is the global banking giants who have been shown in
court, time and time again, to be hand in glove with the intelligence
services and international drug cartels. Whether it’s Iran Contra with
drugs flying one way and guns the other, or HSBC’s piffling $2 billion
fine in 2012 for money laundering, they are not just criminals who are
above the law, they are now shaping it in their own private interest.
It
is not just the Asian, Pacific and South American power blocs they seek
to control who will be watching them, but their own people, those they
depend on to survive. With every evil act they think they’ve got away
with, they are painting themselves into a corner as the Trans-Atlantic
edifice they are trying to control crumbles beneath them.
