Thursday 15 October 2015

Information Wars: Distorting news of MH-17

This article focuses on the Australian media

Media lies and distortion

ATTENTION ALL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, PLEASE READ THIS VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!


Today, for the first time in a month, I watched the ABC television channel and read the Daily Telegraph newspaper here in Australia. I did so because today the first official report on the MH17 findings was released. In view of a number of very serious unsubstantiated claims and highly Russophobic nature demonstrated in the coverage of this report in the aforementioned media outlets, we would like to urge The President of Russia and the Russian Embassy here in Australia to provide an evidence-based response for the benefit of our Australian colleagues and partners.

This kind of ‘journalism’ seeks to attribute the blame to Russia and its President, thereby fomenting unjustified and undeserved hatred towards Russia and its people. After all, Russia and Australia were allies in two World Wars and our predecessors bravely sacrificed their lives to extinguish the inhumane, barbaric, xenophobic and racist flame of fascism that is being passionately reignited by the junta in Kiev that our Western colleagues and partners shamefully call the ‘Ukrainian government’.

The official report claims that the BUK missile system that allegedly shot down the MH17 was manufactured in Russia, but it is not yet known who used it and that there is an ongoing criminal investigation into this matter. However, the fact is that Russia stopped producing this kind of BUK missile system since 1986 and stopped selling it since 2011. During that time, the Ukrainian government purchased this BUK missile system from Russia, which points the finger back towards the Fascist junta in Kiev that our Western colleagues and partners shamefully call the ‘Ukrainian government’.

Furthermore, the fact is that this tragedy took place on Ukrainian territory after Ukrainian air traffic control directed a civilian airliner directly in the path of a war zone. Hence, a number of very important questions remain to be answered by the investigating international aviation authorities.

Firstly, ‘why was airspace over the warzone not closed for civilian flights, especially since the area was not entirely covered by radar navigation systems?’

Secondly, ‘why did Ukraine’s Security Service start working with the recordings of communications between Ukrainian air traffic controllers and the Boeing crew and with the data storage systems from Ukrainian radars without waiting for international investigators?’

In view of these unanswered questions it is highly irresponsible and inappropriate for the Australian media to be making statements such as ‘but of course we already know who did it…’, ‘Russia and Putin should be held accounted, and must pay to the family victims the compensations’.

Our heartfelt and sincerest prayers go out to all our dear fellow Australians that lost their lives in the MH17 tragedy, and indeed to all those who lost their lives in this tragedy. May God give all their family and friends the comfort and peace that they seek and may the Souls of their Loved Ones Rest In Peace. Like the Russian Government and Russian Embassy here in Australia we too sincerely hope that a truly ‘impartial mechanism’ can be established ‘to fairly prosecute all those responsible’.

Out of respect for the Dearly Departed we ask you, the people of the world, please do not jump to false conclusions about Russia based on the abhorrent propaganda and lies being peddled in the Australian mass media and by the American corporate Fascist state. Please do not allow the Australian and Western media to fool you! Shame on you Australia and Western media, this is not journalism, this is a sickening attempt to make profit from the pain and suffering of innocent people and their loved ones!

The fact is that ‘Despite making many claims about the cause of the crash, the U.S. has refused to share the hardest evidence of all: the satellite imagery immediately prior, immediately after and, if available, at the moment of the attack and the downing of MH17’. In view of this, we urge the Australian government and media to use their leverage with their American friends to influence them to hand over the hard data that is required to solve this crime.

The so called ‘Pro Russians Separatists’ did the right thing and handed over the two black box flight recorders to investigators, and we say it is high time that the Americans followed suit.

Let us not forget that in 2001, when a Russian Tu-154 crashed into the Black Sea the Ukrainian authorities denied any involvement on the part of Ukraine’s Armed Forces until irrefutable evidence proved Kiev to be guilty.

In view of this, we find it astonishing that the Australian government and media wilfully support the Nazi Fascist junta in Kiev that uses heavy weapons and artillery against civilians, and which our Western colleagues and partners shamefully call the ‘Ukrainian government’.

The root cause of the war in Eastern Ukraine is that the majority of the population refuse to recognize the illegitimate regime in Kiev that was thrust upon them by the regime’s state and corporate sponsors in the West. Please do not let these traitors fool you, for they are the very reason that 298 innocent people (including 38 of our fellow Australians) lost their lives on board that fateful flight.

People of the world, we call on you to wake up and stand against the dirty tricks and propaganda being peddled by journalists in the Australian media. It is time for Western and Australian media outlets to publicly apologize and be held to account for the hatred that they are stirring up between the Nations of Russia and Australia that fought together as allies in two World Wars.

PLEASE SHARE THIS TO LET THE WORLD KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

Written by Natalia Semenov
Edited by Maxim Zorin


The Guardian does it again!

Guardian makes “error” reading MH17 report, accuses rebels of cover up


14 October, 2015


In an article compiled by Luke Harding, Shaun Walker and Julian Borger, entitled MH17 report suggests efforts were made to cover up causes of disaster”, and published October 13, the Guardian claimed the Dutch report on the downing of MH17 alleged there was evidence of a “bungled autopsy” and attempt to “remove foreign objects” from the body of the first officer. The implication was that this had been done in order to conceal the cause of the crash, and the further implication was of course that Russia and the rebels had been involved.

The report by the Dutch safety board said that more than 120 objects, “mostly metal fragments”, were found in the body of the first officer, who had sustained “multiple fractures”.. When Dutch experts identified the captain’s body they found it had already “undergone an external and internal examination to remove foreign objects”.

Despite apparent attempts to remove shrapnel, “hundreds of metal objects were found”, the report said, as well as bone fractures and other injuries.

After this appeared a rebuttal was posted BTL, by the CiFer known as Pigswiggle, who showed conclusively the report made no such claim, or anything remotely like such a claim.

This is a really bizarre inference
[…]

The report is merely explaining that the Captain from Team A was not chosen by the public prosecutor as one of the bodies for further “detailed examination.” The Dutch authorities “found” that the Captain’s body “had already ‘undergone an external and internal examination to remove foreign objects,'” because it was part of the investigation procedure that all the bodies were subjected to (as described in the preceding paragraphs of the report). The Guardian is attempting to accuse Russia of a “cover up” based on the investigative actions of the Netherlands Forensic Institute. Indeed, according to the report, the persons responsible for having removed foreign objects from the Captain was a team of “120 forensic specialists from the National Forensic Investigations Team (LTFO) from the Netherlands and 80 forensic specialists from Australia, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia, and New Zealand.”

The Guardian needs to correct this story. It is highly embarrassing to it and its journalists.

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Following this, and other complaints, October 14 the Guardian issued what amounted to a retraction:
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and reworded the offending part of the article to read:

The report by the Dutch safety board said that more than 120 objects, “mostly metal fragments”, were found in the body of the first officer, who had sustained “multiple fractures”. Dutch experts performed an “external and internal examination on the the captain’s body” and removed “hundreds of metal fragments”. They also observed bone fractures and other injuries.

Shaun Walker even tweeted the retraction:

Some cynical commenters have pointed out this “error” has had the result of spreading a false and baseless rumour of Russian evidence-tampering around the web. A rumour that the foot-noted retraction will do little to quell – especially since they did not see fit to also change their grossly misleading headline, which as of 20:00 BST October 14 still reads thus:


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Which means to all intents and purposes the lie is left to stand, “retraction” or no.

Is this ethical journalism?

Anyone who wants to register their opinion on this and/or ask for further correction can write to the Guardian here:


MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane?

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