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Australia has already suffered false flag terrorism
Dear Tony Cartalucci,
Firstly, thank you, as well as for all of your sharp, humorous and highly reasoned articles about global geopolitics and other issues of recent years. As you are probably aware, I have taken the liberty of republishing at least one of your articles, Terronoia Theater Presents: Staged ISIS Attacks (18/9/14) on our web-site candobetter.net.
That article warns that Australian authorities may be about to stage a version of Operation Northwoods in order to stifle public opposition to its plans to wage war against Iraq and Syria, and possibly even worse (an outcome similar to what happened in Germany in 1933 as a result of the Reichstag Fire?).
Just hopefully, as a result of your whistleblowing, the principled stands taken by some Federal politicians and the still free Internet, the would-be terrorists will judge that they won't be able to fool the Australian public this time and call off their plans.
This letter is to advise you that (besides the Bali massacre of 2002) Australia has already suffered a false flag attack: The Port Arthur Massacre of 28 April 1996 in which 35 Australians were murdered. Martin Bryant, who had the IQ of an 11 year boy old boy, was fraudulently accused of having committed the murders. He was sent to prison for the rest of his life without even having a trial. His life today is misery and he could well die soon.
The consequences were:
1. Prime Minister John Howard, who, in 2003, took this country into an illegal war of aggression against Iraq, professed to abhor violence and passed legislation which drastically reduced the right of ordinary people to own fire-arms.
2. The public approval of John Howard, which was then plummeting as a result of his broken election promise not to slash and burn public services, lifted enough to enable him to scrape back into office in the 1998 Federal elections.
In April 2008, I wrote the article about the Port Arthur Massacre. (In truth, it was largely based on what I had already read in Nexus magazine.)
As a result of the publication of my article, Keith Allan Noble, an expatriate Australian living in Austria, wrote a large book on the Port Arthur Massacre with the hope that it would make it possible for Martin Bryant's wrongful conviction to be overturned and for the person who committed the murders and for those who framed Martin Bryant to be brought to justice. The book can be downloaded for free and is here. It is 698 A4 pages long and the size of its pdf file is 13 Megabytes
Could I please ask you to:
1. Take the time to read my article and decide whether or not the evidence and logic presented backs up the claims made in the article (I think you will find my article fairly readable - evidently Keith Noble did); and, if you are as convinced as I am:
2. Please promote my article by linking to it and/or republishing it (I can give you the HTML file).
3. Promote Keith Noble's book. Download it and read it, when you can find the time.
Thank you,
Abbott government must not ignore climate change
Ruling elites as concerned by "Islamic extremism" as was Hitler
nimby wrote:
"... defeating Islamic extremism through the use of simple brute force and counter-terrorism will not deal with the problems blighting the Middle East."
"The problems blighting the Middle East," from the point of view of the rulers of the U.S. and Australia, are that Syria and Iran are not ruled by their puppets. It seems highly likely that the whole insurgency by supposedly radical anti-Western Islamists in Iraq and Syria has also been staged (1) to provide a pretext for an invasion of Syria and (2) as resumption of the so-far failed proxy terrorist war against the Syrian people. Up until now, Syria has successfully resisted the terrorists, but at a terrible cost – one estimated death toll being 170,000 1 – the terrorist proxy war which began in March 2011.
It is a myth that the Shock Doctrine, New World Order rulers are seriously threatened by the "controlled chaos" caused by alleged Islamist extremists, including terrorists, any more than the German ruling elites were threatened by the antics of the hapless Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe who pleaded guilty to destroying the German Reichstag by arson on 27 February 1933 – surely an impossible feat for someone acting alone as was later made clear by Herman Goering's admission to General Franz Halder.
In 2014, "Islamist Extremists" no more threaten the world's elites than they did during the Second World War when Hitler recruited Islamists to fight against Jews, Russians and eastern Europeans. See also: Washington Menaces America With Its ISIS Creation (11/9/14) by Tony Cartalucci.
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1. ↑ I believe I read the figure of 170,000 Syrian fatalities about one week ago. A problem with otherwise authoritative journalism and documentation about the Syrian conflict, is that the authors often omit basic facts about that conflict. In my own experience, lack of easy access to basics facts about the Syrian conflict, including numbers, dates, names of places and names of persons makes it harder to educate others and to counter mainstream lies about Syria.
I intend to create "about" pages for the most important topics on candobetter so tha the most important information, as well as the most recent information, will be easily available to our readers. Examples include (all case-insensitive): http://candobetter/about/Ukraine, http://candobetter/about/Syria, http://candobetter/about/immigration, http://candobetter/about/PoliticalCorrectness, http://candobetter/about/terrorism, http://candobetter/about/VladimirPutin, ...
Lion populations crash in Africa
Saudi funded spread of Islam, planned the covert war on Syria
The U.S., while knowing this full well, has for many years doled out nothing but praise for the Saudis when it comes to fighting Islamist terrorism.
Since 1962 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's charities have been estimated to spend between $1.5 and $2 trillion to build many thousand of mosques, madrassas and Islamic centers equipped with Saudi books and Imams, preaching the Wahhabi doctrine. A 2009 General Accounting Office (GAO) report on Saudi efforts to stop terror financing noted that Saudi donors are the major funders of radical Muslim organizations.
According to a major investigation by a Washington Post reporter 2004, the Saudi government's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Call and Guidance pays the salaries of 3,884 Wahhabi missionaries and preachers, who are six times as numerous as the 650 diplomats in Saudi Arabia's 77 embassies.
Over more than two decades, Saudi Arabia has lavished around $100 billion or more on the worldwide promotion of the violent, intolerant and crudely puritanical Wahhabist sect of Islam that the ruling royal family espouses.
Jonathan Manthorpe: Saudi Arabia funding fuels jihadist terror (28/5/14) on The Vancouver Sun
There are several NGOs that are directly or indirectly linked to Saudi Arabia and, even though they might have not been involved in subversive activities, they are still responsible – willingly or not – of spreading an ideology and a religious approach that has fueled fanaticism in various parts of the globe that then turned into extremism and finally into terrorism. The Saudis provide the money; Pakistan provides training and safe havens. Together, they maintain Salafist fundamentalist Sunni jihad.
Evidence indicates that U.S., U.K., Israel, Turkey, France and Saudi Arabia meticulously planned the genocidal covert war on Syria for years before actually launching it in 2011, according to Turkish researcher Cem Ertür. The U.S., NATO, Turkey and the Gulf Emirates not only support this proxy war but also covertly fund and train ISIS.
NATO and Turkey’s Genocidal War on Syria (8/4/14) by Cem Ertür on Global Research
A former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, said the war in Syria was funded and supported by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, with U.S. military trained terrorists “likely to be an incubator for a new generation of terrorists.”
In Greek mythology the Lernaen Hydra was a serpent which possessed many heads. Heracles engaged with the Hydra and crushed the heads with his club only to be exasperated as with each Hydra head he destroyed, another two would replace it. Similarly, defeating Islamic extremism through the use of simple brute force and counter-terrorism will not deal with the problems blighting the Middle East.
War-weary Syria less able to defend itself from ISIS
The following was posted to a discussion about the renewed Iraq conflict on Professor John Quiggin's forum discussion web-site:
The reason that the supposedly anti-Western ISIS has been able to grab so much of Syria is that over 170,000 Syrians have died since March 2011 at the hands of foreign terrorists armed and paid for by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey and their allies. In spite of the terrible toll and the destruction The Syrian Army is still winning because they have the support of the Syrian people. This is confirmed by a press conference (includes 52 minute video) of 20 June 2014. In that press conference four observers verified that the Syrian Presidential elections of 7 June in which Bashar al-Assad won overwhelming support of Syrian people, both at home and abroad, were conducted fairly.
One reason Syrians are fighting so hard is they have witnessed, since 1990, the scale of the crimes committed against neighbouring Iraq as a result of (1) two illegal invasions in which Australia participated and (2) illegal sanctions in which Australia also participated. The sanctions deprived sick Iraqi children of medicine and starving Iraqi children of food. The death toll was at least many hundreds of thousands. One estimate puts it as high as 3.3 million. One of may who has testified to the criminality of these wars and sanctions is former United States Attorney-general Ramsey Clark.
Some species' communities already considered dead and buried
Was Scottish Independence referendum rigged?
Update, 05:34 0 Sep 14: See also Vote Fraud in Scottish Referendum? (19/9/14) on Global Research.
‘YES’ Supporters Claim Videos Show Scottish Referendum Was Rigged
Footage shows 'yes' votes being added to 'no' pile
Despite a ten per cent margin of victory for the ‘No’ campaign in the Scottish referendum, some supporters of the ‘Yes’ camp are pointing to videos which they claim show evidence of vote rigging.
Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom after voters rejected independence by a margin of 55% to 45%. The pro-independence campaign claimed 1,617,989 votes but was defeated by the ‘Better Together’ campaign which obtained 2,001,926 votes. The turnout was 84.5%.
However, almost as soon as the vote count began last night, some were pointing to alleged examples of tampering.
In the first example, bundles of referendum papers are seen on top of a table designated for ‘No’ votes and yet when zoomed in, the top paper on two of the bundles clearly shows an X marked in the box for ‘Yes’.
The second clip shows a man at a desk in a polling station writing on a piece of paper. Some claim this proves he is filling in referendum cards, although he could just as easily be tallying up votes.
The third example is a little harder to explain. It shows a woman at a polling station counting votes. She takes one paper from the ‘No’ pile and places it in the ‘Yes’ pile before taking at least two cards from the ‘Yes’ pile and placing them in the ‘No’ pile.
Update, 05:34 0 Sep 14: Above video of length 1:44 replaces earlier video of length 0:42.
Police in Glasgow are also investigating at least ten cases of vote fraud where people turned up to vote only to find that their names had already been crossed off the list, suggesting other people were voting multiple times.
“Last night police officers were present at the count to remove the ballot papers and keep them as evidence,”reports the Daily Mail. “The papers were from 10 different boxes across Glasgow, and not concentrated in one area.”
While these videos by no means offer concrete evidence of vote fraud, they do feed into the sentiment that the British establishment was so panicked by the prospect of a ‘Yes’ vote, a likelihood which grew which after polls narrowed earlier this month, that it would go to any lengths to prevent Scotland from gaining independence.
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See also from Global Research: History: ‘Yes’ to Scotland Independence and Britain’s Waning Imperialism
Can't find where Hishammuddin Tun Hussein blamed Russia for MH17
I could not find where the Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein claimed anywhere in any recent article that 'an expert' claimed that the Russians had shot down MH17. I could not find it in the most recent article I could find. That article is MH17: Three more Malaysians yet to be accounted for - Hishammuddin of 18 Sep 2014 at 22:04 MYT. All the other articles about Hishammuddin Tun Hussein and MH17 seemed to indicate that he blamed Ukraine for the crime and was trying to hold the Ukraine government to account for the destruction of MH17.
That is not to say for certain that he has not made that false allegation against Russia. If he did, that is cause for concern.
Could you try to locate the article and provide a link?
Climate march 11am on 21 September in Melbourne
When: Sunday, 21 September
Meet at 10:30am for an 11am start
Where: Meeting outside Mr. Tulk Cafe, Latrobe St at the side of the State Library to march to the Treasury Gardens
What to wear: Blue T-shirt
This Sunday, as the world’s leaders meet in New York City for the United Nations climate summit, people around the world will rally to call on our elected leaders to take our climate crisis seriously. A rally has been organised to let the Australian delegation, and the world, know that we want rapid, concrete action to address global warming and restore a safe climate.
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Where is the talk of peace?
Didn't people age in the past?
It may be better for Scotlands independence, for "NO" to win
and ...
Excellent analysis.
World population to hit 11bn in 2100
No Buk anti missile was used againts MH17
California burning from drought and fires
Invite to Mega Mural against East West Link 20 Sept 2014
Australian Public condemns 4Corners bias on MH17
Malcolm Fraser writes in today's Age about Iraq, ISIS, Syria
To succeed in Iraq, there must be boots on the ground by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, is published in today's Melbourne Age. (The Age has otherwise misreported the recent conflicts in Libya, Syria and Ukraine.) In recent months Malcolm Fraser has spoken up against plans by the United States and its allies to wage war against Syria and Russia (see Oksana Boyko interviews former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (21/3/14) and (7/8/14)).
Malcolm Fraser is rightly wary of the United States' intentions towards Syria:
"It is only a few weeks since Obama said there was no overall strategy for Syria. Now, he claims to have an overall strategy. The US is going to provide support, advisers and equipment for the 'good' rebels, to enable them to overcome, not only Islamic State forces in Syria, but presumably the government of Bashar al-Assad. The 'good' rebels in Syria have hitherto been out-gunned and out-manoeuvred by the more extreme elements represented first by Al Qaeda, which has now translated into Islamic State. The job being asked of them now is significant. Is there any evidence that American US, Western military equipment and military advisers will achieve a transformation among those 'good' rebels."
However, Malcolm Fraser unfortunately does not challenge the facade that ISIS is a threat to the interests of the United States and its allies. (Again, see Washington Menaces America with its ISIS Creation (11/9/14) by Tony Cartalucci and ISIL operating with help of foreign military power (17/9/14) by Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today.) Calling for United States and Australian boots on the ground in Iraq, given the appalling death toll of those countries' wars of aggression and illegal sanctions against Iraq since 1990, poses terrible risks for Iraq, Iran and Syria in 2014. Unfortunately, Malcolm Fraser is not the only dissident journalist who has made this mistake.
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Double standards by Abbott government
Iran not going to take this lying down
On having an open mind..
I agree that my statement that ‘no other conclusion is possible from the physical evidence’ is a little over the top, and provocative to those who are unconvinced of the separatists’ innocence of this criminal act. As this includes practically everyone who follows Western media sources, and these are the people I was addressing, it was unwise language.
However, and it is a big however, the case being made for the separatists’ guilt, and use of a BUK missile to shoot down MH17 dominates much analysis on the web, which in a circular fashion quotes and references the same range of sources. Even amongst people who do not believe this story at face value, and accept the dubious nature of the Kiev regime, there are people still arguing that this damage is from missile shrapnel. I have been involved in several discussions on blogs on this, and been accused of ‘knowing nothing about missiles’ already, so have gathered my case together a little.
The essence of the ‘Western case’ is this – if MH17 was brought down by a missile then it was obviously fired by separatists with Russian help – because that is what ‘everybody says’ – including all Western leaders, media and NGOs. In fact they started saying it very soon after the crash before having any information. The argument that it was downed with a missile is not that it could have been a Ukrainian army missile, despite the fact that it has BUK missile launchers, and had them in the region, and has the necessary radar equipment and intelligence to coordinate such a strike. However the OSCE does not say it was brought down by a missile – ‘there was no evidence to suggest it’, and the Dutch report doesn’t say so either. All they said was that MH17 was hit by a ‘large number of high energy objects’.
The case for the separatists, backed or not by Russia, bringing down MH17 is very thin. They had every reason not to do such a provocative thing, and lacked the necessary coordination and intelligence. Even had they been responsible, it would clearly have been a tragic accident. But the thinness of the case against them is only matched by the thinness of the ‘evidence’ used by the West in accusing them of the crime; none of it has stood up to scrutiny. Not only is this the case, but had the accusation actually been true the US in particular could and surely would have provided the unarguable evidence from its satellite - over the region conveniently – that Russia has demanded but the US has failed to provide. In addition, as Eric Zuesse points out, a BUK leaves an obvious vapour trail visible for miles around; it is impossible that no witnesses or even photos of this were found. The important thing to note then is that those people claiming a missile was responsible have a
So much for the Western ‘case’. My argument, based on the consequent assumption that Ukraine was 99% likely responsible ( and personal belief that it WAS responsible) is that it doesn’t then make a lot of difference whether a BUK missile was responsible or machine gun fire from a fighter jet was – the culprit is what we need to focus on. It could be argued that claiming it was a missile is in any case no argument – it was more likely a surface to air missile fired by Ukraine, or an air to air missile fired by a Ukrainian jet, than one fired by the separatists.
With all this in mind, I don’t have any
And of course I don’t have any credentials, other than a scientific background and general knowledge of what metal looks like and behaves like. I do have the support of many people who DO have such credentials though.
So looking at what I can see in the photos which are preserved for the moment here:
http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/List_of_MH17_airframe_parts
I can see many perfectly round holes, of about 30 mm diameter, all around the cockpit area. These are mostly in the inner skin, with the outer skin apparently torn and pushed away. Some of the holes appear to be in fairly evenly spaced rows, beyond what could be expected from a random shrapnel pattern. While Zuess talks about two fighter jets – and so did Carlos at the ATC in Kiev – Peter Haisenko suggested that the alternate exploding rounds in the SU25 cannons could have caused this strange damage. No doubt there are many many real experts who could tell you exactly why this is....I hope this will satisfy your objections to my statements, as well as perhaps push you a little further towards considering what criminal act may have been committed by the Ukrainian government and it supporters, for which Russia must now pay the consequences.
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SBS's "The Sixties" attempts to cover up JFK assassination facts
Below is a copy of a message I will be posting to James di Eugenio, author of Reclaiming Parkland (2013) and administrator of the web-site Citizens for the Truth in the Kennedy Assassination (http://ctka.net)
The first episode of "The Sixties", "The assassination of President Kennedy" screened tonight in Melbourne Australia at 8:30PM UTC +10:00. It is yet another cover-up. You might want to watch it yourself at:
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/323839555513/The-Sixties
On the surface, The Sixties – The assassination of President Kennedy could appear to be objective and giving both sides of the story. For example, witnesses, who saw mysterious figures on the grassy knoll, around the time of the murder are interviewed, but all too briefly, in my view. Even critics of the Warren Commission, including Mark Day and the late Jim Garrison featured. At one point, one of the legendary 1960s rock musicians, whose name escapes me now—it was either David Crosby or someone like him—was interviewed and said that there was a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy.
However, apart from Mark Lane, now aged 87, not one of the other current authorities against the JFK murder conspiracy cover-up featured on the program. A quick look at, for example, ctka.net, managed by James DiEugenio would have given the producers a large number of critics of the Warren Commission, including James DiEugenio himself, who could have been approached to appear on the program, but evidently none were.
Much of the time was given to Vincent Bugliosi, author of the discredited Reclaiming History (2007) – see here and here for reviews on ctka.net. Bugliosi was permitted to ramble on at length purportedly refuting arguments put by others. Bugliosis's word was treated final as no-one, neither the credible anti-cover-up authorities omitted from the program, nor even Mark Lane, was given the chance to respond to Bugliosi. At the end the name of Jim Garrison, who, as shown in Oliver Stone's movie of 1991 JFK tried to bring the assassins to justice, was dragged through the mud using all the familiar smears.
The program concluded with its own pronouncement as to why some people won't accept the official cover-up of JFK's murder. That explanation is that such people are psychologically unable to cope with such terrible tragedy occurring only as a result of bad luck. Belief that the tragedy was the result of a conspiracy is somehow more comforting.
To the contrary, I think it is highly unlikely that anyone who has discovered the truth about JFK's murder would not prefer, instead, to be able to believe that it was just bad luck. If JFK's murder was only the result of bad luck that allowed Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone nut gunman, to murder the President of the United States, then, surely, it would have taken quite some time before another such tragedy occured? Yet in only five more years after 22 November 1962, three other outstanding American political leaders, each of whom stood for the people against corrupt vested interests, were also murdered: Malcolm X, JFK's brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. In the case of Martin Luther King, a jury found in a trial in 1999 that he had been murdered as a result of a conspiracy by the Army and the police force.
Aid worker beheaded by IS
The Islamic State jihadist group claimed it executed British aid worker David Haines, in retaliation for British leader David Cameron entering a coalition with the United States against the militants. At the end of the video, another hostage was shown and the masked man said he would be killed if Cameron continues to support the fight against Islamic State.
David Haines, 44, is shown in the latest video reciting an Islamic State script.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "This is a despicable and appalling murder of an innocent aid worker. It is an act of pure evil. Obama is now calling for a coalition of Western and Middle Eastern countries to fight Islamic State and has said the U.S. intends to bomb Islamic State positions in Syria.
In 2003, ostensibly but misguidedly as part of his global war on terror, the younger Mr Bush invaded Iraq, rid the country of Saddam but then got bloodily stuck. Now Barack Obama, having extricated American forces in 2011, has announced a new campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the jihadists who burst out of Syria and reached the gates of Baghdad.
The US and supporting aligned countries have opened up a pandora's box of evil, greed and violence - the result of greed and deception in the first place!
Editorial comment: If we recall the staged terrorist attacks of 7/7 (see article by Tony Gosling1), 9/11, the 2002 Bali bombings, the 1967 USS Liberty incident, the staged attack on Basra by British SAS troops dressed as Arabs, etc, etc, it should be clear that much of what goes on in the world today is not what appears to be happening. A good article about the current conflict in Iraq and Syria, is Washington menaces America with its ISIS Creation (11/9/14) by Tony Cartalucci (aka Land Destroyer). This article explains as well as any other article I can recall the seemingly perplexing conflict which straddles the borders of Syria and Iraq. Please see also OPCW, Julie Bishop set up Syrian government for invasion by the United States? (14/9/14) by James Sinnamon. - Ed
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1. ↑ Another article by Tony Gosling UK Labour's surrender monkeys dare not criticize Britain's conscript economy (16/8/13), first published on RT, has been republished on candobetter.
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Doreen population outstripping essential internet provision
No need to hang on; it's well-known but unreported by ABC
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your comment. Since I know that David is really busy this week, I will have a go at explaining by saying that I think he is referring to well-known evidence that Russia has presented, but which NATO has ignored, based on an initial analysis by Peter Haisenko of a piece of wreckage at the East Ukraine crash site which was initially public on you-tube until removed shortly after (but screen shots were saved by several people). I don't see how he is going out of his depth in that. We can all refer to it and the Australian Government should too. The point of the letter is that our government (and NATO and its allies) is showing complete irresponsibility in blaming Russia; it has no evidence at all. The NATO-siding news sources have gone to ridiculous lengths to demonize the East Ukrainians, even pretending that they looted the site, which they almost certainly did not. (Note that articles already on this site mention this evidence as well.)
Below is an article with links to relevant info, plus pictures. If it doesn't display correctly here, you can find it here: "Evidence Is Now Conclusive: Two Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Shot Down Malaysian Airlines MH17. It was Not a ‘Buk’ Surface to Air Missile" (by Eric Zuesse.)
Evidence Is Now Conclusive: Two Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Shot Down Malaysian Airlines MH17. It was Not a ‘Buk’ Surface to Air Missile
We’ll go considerably farther than has yet been revealed by the professional intelligence community, to provide the actual evidence that conclusively shows that (and how) the Ukrainian Government shot down the Malaysian airliner, MH-17, on July 17th.
The latest report from the intelligence community was headlined on August 3rd by Robert Parry, “Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts,” and he revealed there that,
“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. This judgment — at odds with what President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have expressed publicly — is based largely on the absence of U.S. government evidence that Russia supplied the rebels with a Buk anti-aircraft missile system that would be needed to hit a civilian jetliner flying at 33,000 feet, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.”
It’s actually based on lots more than that; it’s based not on an absence of evidence, but on positive proof that the Ukrainian Government shot the plane down, and even proving how it was done. You will see this proof, right here, laid out in detail, for the first time.
The reader-comments to my July 31st article, “First Examination of Malaysian MH-17 Cockpit Photo Shows Ukraine Government Shot that Plane Down,” provided links and leads to independent additional confirmatory evidence backing up that account, of retired Lufthansa pilot Peter Haisenko’s reconstruction of this event, to such an extent that, after exploring the matter further, I now feel confident enough to say that the evidence on this matter is, indeed, “conclusive,” that Haisenko is right.
Here is all of that evidence, which collectively convinces me that Haisenko’s conclusion there, is, indeed, the only one that can even possibly explain this wreckage:
“There have been two or three pieces of fuselage that have been really pockmarked with what almost looks like machine-gun fire, very very strong machine-gun fire.”
This remarkable statement comes not from Haisenko, but from one of the first OSCE investigators who arrived at the scene of the disaster.
Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ze9BNGDyk4 and you will see it.
That youtube snippet in an interview with Michael Bociurkiw, comes from a man who is
“a Ukrainian-Canadian monitor with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), [who] has seen up close … the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Bociurkiw and one other colleague were the first international monitors to reach the wreckage after the jet was shot down over a rebel-held region of eastern Ukraine July 17.”
That description of him is from the lead-in to the full interview with him, at the 29 July 2014 CBC news article, “Malaysia Airlines MH17: Michael Bociurkiw talks about being first at the crash site.” The far briefer youtube clip shows only what’s presented on 6:10-6:24 of this CBC interview with Bociurkiw. The CBC reporter in the video precedes the interview by announcing, “The wreckage was still smoldering when a small team from the OSCE got there.” So: he had to have been there really fast. “No other officials arrived for days,” she said.
So: one of the two first international monitors on-site saw conclusive evidence that the Malaysian plane had been hit by “very very strong machine-gun fire,” not by ground-based missile-fire.
Peter Haisenko’s reconstruction of the downing of that airliner, was here being essentially confirmed on-site by one of the two first OSCE international monitors to arrive on-site, while the wreckage was still smoldering. That’s as close to virgin, untouched evidence and testimony as we’ll ever get. Unlike a black-box interpretation-analysis long afterward by the Russian Government, or by the British Government, or by the Ukrainian Government, each of which governments has a horse in this race, this testimony from Bociurkiw is raw, independent, and comes from one of the two earliest witnesses to the physical evidence. That’s powerfully authoritative testimony, and it happens to confirm pilot Peter Haisenko’s theory of what happened. Bociurkiw arrived there fast because he negotiated with the locals for the rest of the OSCE team, who were organizing to come later: Bociurkiw speaks the local languages there — Ukrainian and Russian.
Furthermore, this is hardly testimony from someone who is supportive of the anti-Government rebels. Earlier, there had been this, http://pressimus.com/Interpreter_Mag/press/3492, which transcribed the BBC’s interview with Bociurkiw on July 22nd. He said then: “We’re observing that major pieces, and I’m looking at the tail fin as I said, and then there’s also the rear cone section of the aircraft, they do look different than when we first saw them, … two days ago.” So, he had arrived on-scene July 20th at the latest. (Neither the BBC nor the CBC, both of which interviewed him, were sufficiently professional to have reported the specific date at which Bociurkiw had actually arrived on-scene, but, from this, it couldn’t have been after July 20th. The downing had occurred July 17th. If some of the debris was still “smoldering” as the CBC journalist said, then maybe he had arrived there even earlier.)
The youtube snippet of Bociurkiw came to me via a reader-comment to my article, from Bill Johnson, after which I web-searched the youtube clip for its source and arrived then at the 29 July 2014 CBC news article and its accompanying video.
Further, there’s this crucial 21 July photo-reconstruction of that cockpit-fragment positioned into place on the aircraft as it had originally been in that intact-airliner: https://twitter.com/EzraBraam. (Sometimes that doesn’t work, so here’s another screen of it from someone who copied it.) Looking at that photo-reconstruction, one can easily tell that the SU-25 or other fighter-jet that was firing into the cockpit from the pilot’s left side didn’t just riddle the area surrounding the pilot with bullets, but that it then targeted-in specifically onto the pilot himself, producing at his location a huge gaping hole in the side of the plane precisely at the place where the pilot was seated. Furthermore, this gaping hole was produced by shooting into the plane, precisely at the pilot, from below and to the pilot’s left, which is where that fighter-jet was located — not from above the airliner, and not from beside it, and also not from below it.
In other words: this was precise and closely-targeted firing against the pilot himself, not a blast directed broadly against, and aiming to hit, the plane anywhere, to bring it down.
Haisenko explained how this penetration of the plane, though it was targeted specifically at the pilot, caused immediately a breaking-apart of the entire aircraft.
Other readers have responded to my news-report about Haisenko’s article, by saying that shrapnel from a Buk missile could similarly have caused those holes into the side of the cockpit. However, that objection ignores another key feature of Haisenko’s analysis. Haisenko said there: “You can see the entry and exit holes. The edge of a portion of the holes is bent inwards. These are the smaller holes, round and clean, showing the entry points most likeley that of a 30 millimeter caliber projectile. The edge of the other, the larger and slightly frayed exit holes showing shreds of metal pointing produced by the same caliber projectiles. Moreover, it is evident that … these exit holes of the outer layer of the double aluminum reinforced structure are shredded or bent — outwardly!”
What this means is that in order to have some of those holes frayed inwardly and the other holes frayed outwardly, there had to have been a second fighter-jet firing into the cockpit from the airliner’s right-hand side.
That’s critically important, because no ground-based missile (or shrapnel therefrom) hitting the airliner could possibly have produced firing into the cockpit from both sides of the plane. It had to have been a hail of bullets from both sides, that brought the plane down, in that circumstance. This is Haisenko’s main discovery, by his pointing that out. You can’t have projectiles going in both directions — into the left-hand-side fuselage panel from both its left and right sides — unless they are coming at the panel from different directions. Nobody before Haisenko had noticed that the projectiles had ripped through that panel from both its left side and its right side. This is what rules out any ground-fired missile.
Peter Haisenko posted an extremely high-resolution image from that photo which he used, and it shows unequivocally that some of the bullet-holes were inbound while others of them were outbound: Here it is, viewed very close-up.
Although the fighter jets that were said to have been escorting the Malaysian plane into the war-zone were alleged to be SU-25 planes, a different type might have been used. SU-25s are designed to be flown up to 23,000 feet without an oxygen-mask, but can go much higher if the pilot does wear that mask, which was probably the case here. Of course, an airliner itself is fully pressurized. That pressurization inside the airliner is, moreover, a key part of Haisenko’s reconstruction of this airliner’s downing. Basically, Haisenko reconstructs the airliner’s breaking apart as soon as that hail of bullets opened and released the plane’s pressurization.
The specific photo of that cockpit-fragment, which Haisenko had downloaded immediately after the disaster, was removed from the Internet, but other photos of this fragment were posted elsewhere, such as at the British publication (which, like the rest of the Western “news” media is slanted pro-Obama, anti-Putin), on July 21st, headlining their anti-Putin missile-theory bias, “MH17 crash: FT photo shows signs of damage from missile strike.” Their “reporters” opened with their blatant anti-Russian prejudice:
“The first apparent hard evidence that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile is emerging from the crash site in eastern Ukraine, after experts confirmed on Monday there were signs of shrapnel damage to the aircraft.”
Although they didn’t say in their opener that the “surface-to-air missile” was from the rebels, they made clear their pro-Ukrainian-Government anti-Russian bias by saying, “Over the weekend, western intelligence agencies pointed to mounting evidence that backs Ukraine’s claim that the aircraft with 298 people on board was shot down by mistake by pro-Russian separatists and Russian military personnel with an SA-11 missile launched from a Buk-M1 SAM battery.” Their stenographers (or as they would say “reporters”) stenographed (“reported”) that, “Douglas Barrie of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the photographic evidence ‘was consistent with the kind of damage you would expect to see from the detonation of a high explosive fragmentation warhead of the type commonly used in a SAM system’.” No analyst from the pro-Putin camp was interviewed by their “reporters.” For example, Russia’s Interfax News Service headlined on July 29th, the same day as the FT’s article, “Boeing’s downing by Buk missile system unlikely — military expert,” and they stenographed their “expert,” as follows:
Chief of the Russian Land Forces’ tactical air defense troops Maj. Gen. Mikhail Krush said he doubts that the Malaysian passenger liner was brought down by a Buk surface-to-air missile system. “No one observed a Buk engaging targets in that region on that day, which provides 95 percent proof that Buk systems were not used in this concrete case,” the general said in an interview with the Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kuryer military weekly to be published on Wednesday [July 30th]. ”This is no more than a theory for now. However, a guided missile launched by a Buk missile system leaves behind a specific smoke trail as it flies, like a comet. In daylight this trail can be clearly seen within a radius of 20-25 kilometers from the missile system. It cannot remain unnoticed. There are no eyewitnesses to confirm there was any. No one reported a launch. This is one thing,” he said. “Second. The holes left by the strike elements on the Boeing’s outer skin indicate that the warhead blew up from below and sideways. A Buk missile strikes the target from above,” he said. “The damage done to the plane suggests that a different missile was used. Our guidance method is a zoom, when the missile strikes the target from above covering it with a thick cloud of fragments” the general said. “I cannot state categorically, guided by this data, but I can suggest, using my experience, that it was not a Buk missile that hit the Boeing,” the expert said.
General Krush’s statement can fit with Haisenko’s and with Bociurkiw’s, but not with FT’s or the rest of the “reporters” (just consider them as rank propagandists) in the West.
U.S. President Barack Obama has been saying all along that Russia – against which he is actually systematically building toward war – and not Ukraine (which he’s using as his chief vehicle to do that), is to blame for this airliner-downing. Previously, he had said that the snipers who in February had killed many people at the Maidan demonstrations against the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych came from Yanukovych’s State Security Service and not from the far-right political parties that were trying to bring Yanukovych down and that Obama’s agent Victoria Nuland selected to run the new Ukrainian government. But that too was an Obama lie. He lies a lot, and it’s just about the only type of statement he ever makes about Russia, and about Ukraine: lies.
If someone wants to verify how rabidly the U.S. Government lies, and has lied since at least the time of George W. Bush’s Presidency, just look at this video, by starting at 16:00 on it and going to 42:00 on it, and you will be shocked. (It pertains to lies by Bush that are still being covered up by Obama.) And when you further consider the many obvious questions it points out, which U.S. “news” media refused to ask and still refuse to ask about the matter, you’ll recognize that we are being lied to systematically and with utter contempt of the public, and with no respect for the public’s right to know the truth, even regarding massive history like that. It’s really brutal.
Ignorant “reporters” sometimes slip-up and include, in their stenography, facts that actually support the opposite side’s narrative of events and that discredit their own story-line. Such has been the case, for example, in the Financial Times piece, which included the statement that, “Anti-aircraft missiles are not designed to score a direct hit as they are targeted to destroy fast, agile fighter jets. Instead, they are designed to explode within about 20m of their target, sending out a cloud of red hot metal to increase the chances of inflicting as much damage as possible.”
But rather than merely “a cloud of red hot metal,” what actually brought down this plane was what Haisenko has said brought it down: magazines-full of carefully targeted rapid-fire machine-gun bullets pouring forth from below the plane, at both its left and right.
This was a Ukrainian Government job. It was close-in. (No missile fired from the distance more than 30,000 feet down to the ground could have been that precise to target the pilot rather than the far larger target of the plane’s entire body.) It came from the Government that Obama installed there in February and that’s now carrying out an ethnic-cleansing campaign against the residents in Ukraine’s southeast, the places where Yanukovych’s voters live (to the extent that they still can and do live).Compare that picture with the following one, which I take from a propaganda-site for the U.S. regime, and so which is intended instead to support the Administration’s line on this, certainly not Haisenko’s explanation of how the airliner was downed, though it actually supports Haisenko’s case:
As you can see there, a plane that’s hit by a ground-fired missile, instead of by bullets fired from an attack-plane only a few yards away, has the damage spread rather widely over its body, not concentrated into a tiny area, such as to where the plane’s pilot is seated. Certainly, the contrast between that photo and this one is enormous.
Furthermore, note also that the shrapnel damage to that plane comes from above it, which is where missiles usually hit a plane from, releasing their shrapnel from above, down onto the plane. By contrast, the hail of bullets to the Malaysian plane’s pilot came from below the plane, aiming upward at the cockpit, from both sides of the cockpit.
As regards whether there were actually two fighter jets firing into the Malaysian airliner or only one, a proponent of the single-jet hypothesis, Bill Johnson, posted as a reader-comment to my article on August 4th, a series of extreme close-ups of the side-panel, in which he inferred that the explanation of the apparent left-side (pilot-side) bullets was probably the shape of the bullets. I then asked him why he declined to accept the possible existence of two jets. He said,
“from what I could find Russian military radar detected only one Ukrainian fighter jet, not two. I have looked and looked for any type of radar confirmation of a second fighter jet and can not find it.”
However, the most virginal, earliest, online evidence concerning the matter was on July 17th, within moments of the downing, headlined in the subsequent English translation, “Spanish Air Controller @ Kiev Borispol Airport: Ukraine Military Shot Down Boeing #MH17,” and it included, “@spainbuca’s TWITTER FEED,” which included his observation, only minutes after the downing, “2 jet fighters flew very close” to the plane. Furthermore, immediately before that, he had tweeted, “The B777 plane flew escorted by Ukraine jet fighter until 2 minutes before disappearing from the radar.” So, perhaps the second jet appeared distinct to him only immediately prior to the downing.
The accompanying news-report, also on July 17th, said:
“This Kiev air traffic controller is a citizen of Spain and was working in the Ukraine. He was taken off duty as a civil air-traffic controller along with other foreigners immediately after a Malaysia Airlines passenger aircraft was shot down over the Eastern Ukraine killing 295 passengers and crew on board. The air traffic controller suggested in a private evaluation and basing it on military sources in Kiev, that the Ukrainian military was behind this shoot down. Radar records were immediately confiscated after it became clear a passenger jet was shot down.” If this is true, then the radar-records upon the basis of which those tweets had been sent were “confiscated.”
The best evidence is consistent that those bullet-holes came from two directions not from one. What is virtually certain, however, is that at least one jet fighter was close up and shot down the Malaysian plane. The rest of the tweets from @spainbucca, there, described the immediate hostility of the Kiev authorities toward him on the occasion, and his speculations as to who was behind it all.
And the European Union has been playing along with this hoax. (If you still have any further doubts that it’s a hoax, just click onto that link and look.) And the mass of suckers in the West believe that hoax: it’s succeeding to stir a fever for war, instead of a fever to get rid of our own leaders who are lying us into a war that will benefit only the West’s aristocrats, while it inflicts massive physical and economic harms against everyone else – as if it were the invasion of Iraq except multiplied in this case a thousand-fold, especially with nuclear weapons possibly at the end of it.
If we had a free press, the news media would be ceaselessly asking President Obama why he doesn’t demand accountability against the Ukrainian Government for their massacre perpetrated on May 2nd inside the Trade Unions Building in Odessa, where that newly Obama-installed regime’s peaceful opponents were systematically trapped and then burned alive, which the Obama-installed Ukrainian Government has refused to investigate (much less to prosecute). Basically: Obama had sponsored the massacre. So, our “news” media ignore it, even though it started this civil war on Russia’s doorstep, and thereby re-started the Cold War, as Obama had intended that massacre (his massacre, and his subsequent ethnic cleansing) to do. (Similarly, the “news” media, though all of them receive my articles by email, virtually all refuse to publish them, because I won’t let them control what I find and report.)
And while Obama leads this Republican policy, and Vice President Dick Cheney’s top foreign-policy advisor Victoria Nuland actually runs it for Obama, congressional Democrats are just silent about it, and do not introduce impeachment of this fake “Democratic” hyper-George W. Bush neo-conservative President, who’s a “Democrat” in rhetoric only – and though Obama’s policy in this key matter threatens the entire world.
A reader-comment to an earlier version of this news report and analysis objected to my identifying Obama as a Republican-in-”Democratic”-sheep’s clothing, and said:
“They may be rethug policies in origin but they are decidedly BI-PARTISAN to anyone who wants to admit FACTS. The democratic party you all think still exists is DEAD and only exists in your brain (the part that doesn’t accept reality).”
However, U.S. Senate bill 2277, which invites Obama to provide direct U.S. military support to the Obama-installed Ukrainian regime, has 26 sponsors, and all of them are Republican U.S. Senators. Democratic Senators, by contrast, are just silent on Obama’s turn toward nazism (or racist — in this case anti-ethnic-Russian racist – fascism); the Senate’s Democrats aren’t seeking for it to be stepped up.
This is a Republican policy, which congressional Democrats are simply afraid to oppose. Any realistic person knows that however far right Obama turns, the overt Republican Party will turn even farther to the right, because they have to be to his right in order for them to be able to win Republican primaries and retain their own Party’s nomination. Just because Obama’s game of moving the American political center as far to the right as he can move it is succeeding, doesn’t mean that the Democratic Party itself should end. It instead means that progressives need to take the Democratic Party over, just like conservatives took the Republican Party over with Reagan. There is no other hope.
If a Democrat in the U.S. House will simply introduce an impeachment resolution against Barack Obama, then the right-wing takeover of the Democratic Party might finally end, and the world might yet be saved, because the Democratic Party itself could then reject Obama as being a fake “Democrat,” a Democrat-in-rhetoric-only. It could transform American politics — and American politics needs such a transformation, which would move the Democratic Party back to progressivism, more like the FDR Democratic Party was, so that Republican politicians would no longer need to be so fascist as they now have become (and as they now need to be in order to be able to win their own Party’s nomination). If Democrats fail to renounce the conservatism of Obama and of the Clintons, then the Party will end, and needs to be replaced, just like the Republican Party replaced the Whig Party immediately before the Civil War. Nazism has become today’s slavery-type issue – it’s beyond the pale, and Obama’s installation and endorsement of it in Ukraine is like James Buchanan’s endorsement of slavery was during the 1850s: either the Democratic Party will become the progressive party, or else the Democratic Party is over.
But that’s just my own theory of how Obama’s frauds might yet be able to be overcome and defeated, if they still can be; it’s not part of my presentation of the explanation of what brought down the Malaysian airliner, which has been an open case since July 17th, and which is now a closed case. This is past history, not future.
The present news story is being circulated free of charge or copyright to all “news” media in the English-speaking world, in the perhaps vain hope that the cover-ups of our leaders’ constant lies will cease soon enough to avoid a World War III, even though communism is long since gone from Russia and so the ideological excuse wouldn’t make any sense here.
This insanity is actually all about aristocratic conquest, like World War I was. It’s not for the benefit of the public anywhere. Silence about it (by “Democrats,” and the “news” media) is a scandal, which needs to stop. The real Democratic Party (the Party of FDR, who loathed and despised nazis — and even mere fascists — yet today Obama installs nazis into Power in Ukraine) must be restored, and a real news media needs to become established in America. Even Republicans need it, because the very idea of “victory” in a nuclear war is a vicious fantasy. It is a dangerous lie, though there are some people who find it a very profitable one. And time might be short — let’s hope not already too short.
After all, Obama’s hoax of having won from Europe the stepped-up economic sanctions against Russia after the government that Obama had installed in Ukraine downed the Malaysian plane and successfully blamed it on “Russian aggression,” is very encouraging to him. And European leaders know that Obama’s entire operation is a very bloody fraud (read the phone-transcript there — it’s a stunner). So, they certainly won’t save the world from it. It’s up to us.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
Hang on a minute.............
animal welfare standards to be abandoned for Saudi Arabia
"In a dangerous corner over MH17" (Border Mail)
Sept. 12, 2014
IT seems we have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.
No longer can we claim Russia bears responsibility for the downing of flight MH17, regardless of any evidence from investigators.
On Tuesday, the Dutch government released its preliminary findings, which were that MH17 was struck by a “large number of high energy objects”.
With pre-knowledge of the findings, our government was emphatic in stating the report drew no conclusions on who was responsible, while simultaneously restating Australia’s allegations that a surface to air missile fired by “Russian-backed separatists” caused the crash.
This goes against commonsense — and what real evidence we have from Russian intelligence that those “high energy objects” were likely bullets fired by a Ukrainian fighter plane directly at MH17’s cockpit.
So what are we to make of this framing of Russia, and our government’s enthusiasm to join in NATO’s campaign against it?
Why do they desire to provoke Russia into a dangerous war by threatening its legitimate interests?
And how else can we explain this fabrication of a narrative that Russia is the threat?
— DAVID MACILWAIN,
Sandy Creek
Government terminology
The real estate Ponzi means going to extremes
Agree - land prices not house prices are the real problem
It is vital to concentrate on land, and not 'housing'.
"Former" CIA agent talks of the possibility of killing Putin.
Prosper Australia weighs in re housing unaffordability
Animal cruelty rising in Victoria
"Limits to growth"—groundbreaking book plus 40 years
Australian researchers have shown that a book written – and written off – four decades ago accurately predicted where the world would be in terms of resource allocation and the environment. And that does not bode well for the future of humanity.
Researchers from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) at the University of Melbourne used data from the last 40 years to compare to predictions made by the authors of the 1972 book “Limits to Growth.” They focused on what the original authors termed the “business-as-usual” (BAU) or “standard run” scenario, collating it to what has actually happened since the publication.
Limits to growth"—groundbreaking book plus 40 years
I have linked to an article on the Real Economics blog, which covers this article. For those who are interested in economics, in particular, a non neo-liberal view, I do recommend this blog.
Dennis, the corrected linked page above, is:
<strong><a href="http://real-economics.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/limits-to-growthgroundbreaking-book.html">Limits to growth"—groundbreaking book plus 40 years</a></strong>
- Ed
Left wing, right wing, chicken wing..........
Putting Australia First
Cold War most likely
Sustainability not possible in a world ruled by warmongers
If human population continues to increase exponentially, our global life support system will collapse.
However, humanity faces an even more immediate treat to its survival: Plans by the Obama regime and its European and Australasian puppets to wage all out -war, in alliance with Ukrainian Nazis and Islamist Jihadists against the people of East Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
Already this has cost many hundreds of thousands of lives in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. If they were to procede with their plans to invade Russia, Syria and Iran with the help of their Nazi and jihadist puppets, we could easily see at least tens of millions of deaths, if not the end of humanity.
If and when we can put behind us that threat, it could well be appropriate to focus on human population stability to the exclusion of such "Left vs. Right" issues, but not before then.
Assumption that we need immigration for humanitarian purposes
Threatened Species Day 7th Sept
Universities are elitist
Is Tony Abbot mad, bad or stupid? And Poroshenko...
Victorians to be rorted by skyrocketing gas prices
Asset inflation =/= Production
Neo-liberal economic thinking can no longer distinguish between wealth creation and asset price inflation. When a block of land increases in price due to immigration, low interest rates, easy credit, what have you, this does NOT reflect any increase in the utility or productivity of that property.
This is a major failing in our economic thinking IMO. The inability to treat value and price as two separate concepts, and idea that does go back to classical civilisation. Our modern view conflates the two, so that asset price inflation is taken to be creation of wealth. But it is really transfer, not generation of wealth. Think of rising property prices as a giant vacuum. If the price goes up $200K, then that acts as a giant $200K vacuum that has to hoover up that productivity and wealth to sustain itself. That may come from future living, from todays' economic malaise, and it is hoovered with interest. It has to do this, because there is no real wealth creation to back it up.
In the end, the dollars matter none. What matters is aggregate production of goods and services, and design. We've forgotten this, and think if the numbers are high, it's good. We are forgetting how to maintain a civilisation.
The real estate Ponzi scheme
Forced Population Growth destroying democracy - VCAT
This is like the way the old defamation laws used to stop people from publishing information about corruption. VCAT costs will stop citizens from restraining corporate bullies from destroying peoples' homes, environments and livlihoods.
http://www.maribyrnong.starweekly.com.au/story/1803754/hobsons-bay-costs-alarm-over-vcat-changes/
Hobsons Bay costs alarm over VCAT changes
"One of the biggest developers in Hobsons Bay has welcomed legislative changes that could make the council and residents pay fees of several thousand dollars a day if they lose an appeal in the state’s planning tribunal.
Evolve Development says it has racked up more than $165,000 in fees for successful appeals to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) relating to a single Williamstown development site.
Hobsons Bay council last week expressed concerns about the new VCAT Amendment Act (2014), under which the tribunal can order one party to pay the fees of another, including application and hearing fees. This is separate to the tribunal’s power to award costs, which is rarely used."
The annual dolphin hunt at the cove in Taiji,
Overseas migration to Australia set to increase by 4.5%
GetUp comes from a standing tradition of ineffective activism
Get-up and Environment Victoria being intellectually dishonest
Former NSW architect says growth will ruin suburban life
Greenhouse gas emissions related to population growth
Australia First Party Media Release
Oz press ignores remarkable media conf on Ukraine war
Note that, in this video, those commanding the Donetsk defense forces invite NATO to stop the war. They say they do not want war, but that they will fight to the death as long as a western-backed Kiev makes war on them.
I have watched the video in this article and it is truly remarkable. Then I looked at the date and realise that the Australian and probably the US and most European press and governments have simply pulled the carpet over this one.
Our governments want war. It is up to citizens everywhere to make sure that as many people as possible see this video and know the truth about how NATO is trying to draw Russia into a war, whilst pretending that Russia is trying to start one.
As Alexander Zakharchenko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Donetsk National Republic and the soldier beside him, Vladimir Petrovich, here say, if Russia were helping them with its military forces there would be no battles like this one, defending East Ukraine; Russia could just march in if it wanted, or fly in, and take Kiev in a day.
But the point is, Russia is not supplying military assistance.
This is also a video of black humour. For instance, the soldiers who are reporting describe how the Kiev (Government) forces are lying about their soldiers' deaths, claiming that thousands are 'missing'. Zakharchencko and Petrovich say that they are not missing; they are dead, and the government knows it, and came and got some of their bodies. Then Vladimir Petrovich describes how Kiev helicopters disposed of the bodies of many of those soldiers in a lake, with weights tied to their feet.
Yet Australian TV and newspapers are not reporting this at all, it seems.
Gerald Celente on ABC radio commenting on flight MH17
The world is facing one of the worst refugee crisis
August 30, 2014: The world is facing one of the worst refugee crises in history - as conflict forces millions of people from their homelands. Most migrants are from Africa, risking their lives trying to get into Britain, and are causing major problems in many countries, including France.
Refugee crisis grips France as migrants flee wars and conflict
Somehow, the West is meant to voluntarily absorb the human overflow, from overpopulation and all the conflicts it causes?
According to UNHCR, there are 250,000 South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, making them the largest refugee population in the country, followed by Somalis and Eritreans. Over the last seven months, nearly 15,000 Eritreans and more than 3,000 Somalis have also arrived in Ethiopia.
According to the Tunisian foreign ministry, Ras Jedir post receives between 5,000 and 6,000 refugees a day. "We just can't take in hundreds of thousands of refugees to be added to more than 2 million Libyans now living in Tunisia. Our economy can't bear more than that, and if our national interests require us to close the Libya border, we will close it," he said.
"We just can't take in hundreds of thousands of refugees to be added to more than 2 million Libyans now living in Tunisia. Our economy can't bear more than that, and if our national interests require us to close the Libya border, we will close it," he said.
An unprecedented three million people have fled the war in Syria, in what the UN is calling "the greatest humanitarian emergency of our era".
A further 6.5 million are internally displaced, which means over half of all Syrians have been forced out of their homes due to the conflict, according to the latest figures from the UN Refugee Agency.
Syrian refugee crisis: over three million forced to flee
The Italian navy is running to save asylum seekers from drowning on the dangerous voyage in open boats from North Africa to Italy. The Italian navy is actually increasing Italy’s problem as the first port of call for over half the undocumented immigrants entering the European Union. The migrants don't really want to stay in Italy, which is going through a prolonged economic crisis and has very high unemployment. They would rather move on to more prosperous EU countries further north.
More evidence that business is really about power
Retired serving members of police force given the bullet
Still not enough skilled workers?
Good news on planning from Tootgarook
Dear Supporters,
Things might've seemed quiet down in the swamp lately but things are moving a pace.
Just this week the Shire has unanimously agreed to a planning scheme review this begins the process of rezoning of sections of Tootgarook Swamp and the implemention of stronger planning policies and overlays to provide the much needed protection which the Tootgarook Swamp has long waited for.
This decision represents the beginning of completion of one of our key objectives, namely to have the Tootgarook Swamp rezoned to something more suitable for protecting an environment as fragile and at risk as this wetland is.
We thank all our supporters out there for helping us get to this point, the community have played a huge role in convincing the higher authorities that this is worth preserving now and into the future, through mointoring, gathering information and advocacy.
Their is much work ahead for the Shire, as they work on drawing up, consulting and finally implementing their planning changes, and ourselves also as we work alongside the Shire in the planning review process, offering suggestions and supplying data and information to help guide their decisions.
We look forward to sharing the progress of the planning process over the coming months.
Though there are still many challenges ahead for the Tootgarook Swamp things are really starting to come together and we are confident that Tootgarook Swamp, with the help of supporters like yourself and the relevant government bodies, can meet any of these challenges head on and come out on top.
Thanks for following our progress and keep watching because great things are happening thanks to you.
Kindly,
Jessica
"bystanding" is part of this
Conclusive evidence that Ukrainian regime shot down MH17
Whilst it is not usually possible to quickly find out where the truth lies where facts about tragic disasters are disputed, in the case of MH17 we can now be as certain as we can be about much in recorded history, that flight MH17 was shot down by Ukrainian fighter planes and not by anti-Kiev rebels with a surface-to-air missile supplied by Russia as has been claimed by the United States regime, its European puppets, NATO and the presstitute media.
Within some of the the articles listed below can be found articles which prove that the Ukrainian regime and not Vladimir Putin are guilty of the murder of 298 passengers and crew of Flight MH17 on 17 August 2014. See also artcles on candobetter about Ukraine and MH17 particularly Malaysian Mainstream Media: MH17 was downed by a Military Aircraft, "Cannon Fire from Fighter Jet" (9/8/14) and the articles linked to from there.
US Appeals to "Law of the Jungle" in MH17 Case (July 14) by Tony Cartalucci, US Intelligence: No Evidence Russia Did It (23/7/14) by Paul Craig Roberts, Capitalizing on MH17 (July 2014) by Tony Cartalucci, Kiev sabotaging probe into downed Malaysian plane – self-defense leader, Moscow blasts Kiev's false accusations and lack of cooperation with air crash investigators, Perverted truth: How rebel mourning MH17 victims was turned into looter with trophy, Putin: Taskforce at Malaysia MH17 crash site not enough, full-scale international team needed () by ,MH17 Verdict: Real Evidence Points to US-Kiev Cover-up of Failed False Flag (25/7/14) by 21st Century Wire, etc.
Excellent article on MH17
Doom! Carnaby's black cockatoo population in freefall
So bloody sad. So shameful, deplorable, avoidable. The willful population growth imposed on West Australia is causing misery to the locals and is dooming these georgeous, gentle, funny and exquisit long-lived creatures. How Philistine our species; how cruel, stupid and self-involved.
Daniel Mercer
The West Australian
August 26, 2014
The population of a black cockatoo species native to WA's South West is in freefall, according to a stocktake that found it could be all but extinct within 20 years.
Birdlife Australia yesterday released the results of its annual great cocky count and claimed there had been a 15 per cent drop in sightings of Carnaby's black cockatoos in the past year.
According to the conservation group, the decline was consistent with the previous four years and suggested the population of the species could halve again in five years.
Longer term, it said, prospects for the bird were grim as encroaching urban development and a drying climate pushed the species out of its habitat.
"By 2029 . . . the population will have collapsed to the brink of extinction," Birdlife spokeswoman Jessica Lee said. "The cockatoo is already recognised as being at high risk of extinction."
Community group Friends of Underwood Avenue, which is fighting to preserve bushland in Floreat used as a "roosting" site by the birds, said the results of the count were unequivocal.
"Unless there are major changes to protect and increase the habitat of Carnaby's cockatoos, these iconic birds of Perth will be extinct within our lifetime," spokeswoman Margaret Owen said.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/24810868/future-grim-for-carnabys-cockatoo/
How to Save koala habitat in Maryborough, Qld. Australia.
Save koala habitat in Maryborough, Qld., Australia
author: Audrey Robb
target: Fraser Coast Council and State Government
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we've got 10,141 signatures, help us get to 11,000
Update #1 August 26, 2014full update ?
Save koala habitat in Maryborough, Qld. Australia.
Update. Thanks to massive support worldwide, a $200,000 fund-raising campaign had been launched to purchase koala habitat as an environmental reserve in the Henderson Park Estate.
Council has agreed to maintain and manage the site. Donations can be made through the Queensland Trust for Nature : http://www.chuffed.org/project/save-koala-habitat-in-tinana-qld.
About this Petition
A greedy multi-millionaire developer owns a tract of land in Tinana, Maryborough, which has always been a koala habitat. Now he has started to bulldoze the land and its trees because he wants to develop it, i.e. to build houses on it. The developer has halted the bulldozing temporarily because of public protests. Its worth is $400,000, but no one seems able to afford it or want it as a koala habitat. The Council should buy the land, and would have plenty of money but too often wastes it on other things which are not needed.
Tell the Fraser Coast Council and State Government to preserve the koala habitat in Tinana, Maryborough!
Multiculturalism is an attempt at anti racism
Voiceless holds first animal law moot October
This October, Voiceless will be holding Australia’s first animal law moot.
https://www.voiceless.org.au/voiceless-intervarsity-moot-animal-law-2014
The Australian-New Zealand Intervarsity Moot on Animal Law (ANIMAL) is open to all Australian and New Zealand law students and will be hosted at Bond University over the weekend of 18-19 October 2014.
An important part of Voiceless’s work to build animal law in Australia, the moot will provide law students from across the country with the opportunity to develop their knowledge of animal law while honing their written and oral advocacy skills.
As part of the program, there will also be a range of optional Q&A forums with senior animal law academics from around Australia and panel discussions from legal experts in the field. View the full program.
Law students are welcome to register as individuals or as a full team here.
If you’re not a law student, you can still go along and watch the action at Bond University.
Dutch moves to abolish multiculturalism
"The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people".In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society. The letter continues:
"A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens."It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands .. The new integration policy will place more demands on immigrants. For example, immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language, and the government will take a tougher approach to immigrants who ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law. The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner;
"It is not the government's job to integrate immigrants."(How bloody true). The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress. More specifically, the government imposed a ban on face-covering, Islamic burqas as of January 1, 2014. Holland has done that whole liberal thing, and realized - maybe too late - that creating a nation of tribes, will kill the nation itself. The future of Australia , the UK , USA , Canada and New Zealand may well be read here.. Countries like Holland , Canada , USA , UK , Australia and New Zealand have an established way of life that actually works, so why embrace the unworkable? This gives a whole new meaning to the term, 'Dutch Courage' ...... Unfortunately Australian, UK , USA , Canadian, and New Zealand politicians don't have the ..... guts to do the same. There's a whole lot of truth here!!!! ELECTIONS are COMING!!!!! A Nation of Sheep, Breeds a Government of Wolves! Let's Take a Stand!!!
Ports - letter to Jon Faine
"The Age" article linking anarchism with ISIL ludicrous
Napthine's comment down the memory hole?
Victoria's economy based too long on the housing Ponzi
ABC drops story that population growth adds to unemployment?
Napthine complains that population growth outstrips job growth
I just heard on the 10:00AM news on ABC NewsRadio (621 on the AM frequency band in Melbourne) – can anyone tell me where podcasts or transcripts are kept? – Victorian Premier Denis Napthine talk of large numbers of jobs that the Victorian Government has created. The figures he cited were in the order of at least tens of thousands. He then complained that population growth was was outstripping his efforts to create jobs.
If so, perhaps Denis Napthine could explain why his government, against the wishes of at least 70% of Victorians continues to promote that very population growth. The Victorian Government site Live in Victoria at http://www.liveinvictoria.vic.gov.au actually encourages people from other countries to migrate to Victoria with its high unemployment crowded living, traffic congestion, diminishing public spaces and natural reserves and massive consequent social problems.
Protest-Public Housing sell-off- Woolahara 6pm, 26 August 14
Please attend - Protest tomorrow Tuesday 26fh August Against Millers Point Public Housing sell-off by Baird Government
at 118 Queen Street, Woolahara
6pm
Di Jones Real Estate Agents.
As you may be aware the 2nd of our homes (29 Lower Fort Street Millers Point) is to be auctioned off by Di Jones Real Estate Agents. Like the invitational viewings the auction will be held in secret behind closed doors!
We will be “PROTESTING & HOLDING A VIDULE" outside of the
"Di Jones Real Estate Agents" at 6pm Tuesday 26th August 2014 @ 118-122 Queen Street Woollahra NSW 2025.
So if you can join us in this demonstration of "SOLIDARITY" against these Pariah's (Lib. State Gov. & Di Jones Real Estate Agents) that seek to profit from the MISERY of our most vulnerable Tenants in Millers Point, Dawes Point & The Rocks.
PLEASE come along bring your banners and your voice and support the residents!!!
PLEASE SHARE
#savemillerspoint #wheresgabby #savepublichousing
We can all import food
Protecting foreign assetts
I think my original reply may have been lost, and I don't remember exactly what I wrote.
Regarding China, I don't think it matters too much whether Chinese here consider themselves as Chinese or Australian. My argument wasn't so much that Chinese Australian citizens would ask for help, but that China would insist in protecting its assets here. China considers Chinese people elsewhere as "Chinese living abroad". Remember that the Russian seperatists are technically Ukranian too, and whether they consider themselves as such or not. Putin has made a decision. The fact they are not Russian citizens matters not. They are ethnically Russians and thats what counts to Putin, and thats what counts around most of the world. What may happen, is that China offers 'security forces', which may be initially in some 'joint venture' with our police, and from there, who knows. Big things start small.
The power elites are separate from the nation. Cosmopolitan and a class of their own. If anything, national bonds and national sovreignty are mere barriers to be overcome (and the left provide the intellectual basis for overcoming traditional social structures by declaring them obselete and retrograde).
I think our modern world view equips us very poorly to deal with the future (in fact, I think thats why its pushed). Interchangeable populations, communities based on no commonality or shared enterprise, constant dispersal of people, these all disempower people. As does arbitrary group membership and these fake new "communities", such as online communities, mutual interest communities which are replacing more traditional social structures as peoples main form of identification. These all offer little empowerment.
Probably off topic now, and I never intended to specifically support one side over the other regarding the Ukraine. I don't consider Putin 'in the wrong', he's just doing what he needs to do.
There is a good article on Putin and his motives, which may be of interest to some.
http://20committee.com/2014/04/07/putinism-and-the-anti-weird-coalition/
DennisK, In my opinion that bloated and outdated (posted 7 April 2014) article about Ukraine that you linked to above is substandard. Could I suggest that, instead of only reading such articles and articles from the lying mainstream media, which gave us 'incubator babies'. 'WMDs', the 'Gulf of Tonkin incident', etc, etc, that you, you also read the articles on candobetter about Ukraine. Also, read the independent media such as Global Research, Voltaire Net, Russia Today, RIA Novosti, PressTV and Land Destroyer. When you do, you will quickly be able to see the 'reporting' in the msm for the lies that they are. - Ed
News Corporation's losses need closer scrutiny
News Corporation's losses (The Age 21/8)1 are a drop in the bucket when compared to the 882 million dollar windfall News Corporation received from the long suffering Australian taxpayer in 2013. Using a little bit of creative accounting, Mr Murdoch was able to legally engineer a tax refund in Australia while making hundreds of millions of dollars profit from his extensive global empire.
The extraordinary aspect of what can only be described as legalised theft, is that the Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, refused to comment on News Corporation's windfall, the Australian Tax Office didn't bother to appeal this extraordinary decision by a single Federal Court judge, Mr. Abbott the man who promised to give up his last breath (during the super profits mining tax debate) to ensure some of the richest corporations on the planet did not pay one extra cent in tax, was missing in action and Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition was nowhere to be seen. What occurred last year has left an indelible stain on Australia's political, judicial and business community. Poor fellow, my country (apologies toXavier Herbert).
Dr. Joseph Toscano / Convenor Resist Murdoch's Minions Legislative Onslaught
Footnote[s]
1. ↑ Age story dated 21 August not found. Here's what seems to be the same story in the other Fairfax Daily newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald: News Corp Australia chief Julian Clarke plays down poor results (21/8/14) - Ed
Economic growth is not economic!
Elephants in crisis - fast tracked toward extintion in the world
There needs to be better human management on Fraser Island
Please leave our AUSSIE KANGAROOS alone
Why settle Syrians and Iraqis?
US journalist James Wright Foley goes unflinching to his death
Julian Cribb: grim future for food security
Continuing population growth will make Australia a food importer
The Population Ponzi- for little result
Almost 10 million migrants over the next 50 years will swell Australia's population to more than 40 million by 2060 and more than 50 million by 2100. This is to stimulate our economy, and keep our population "young" instead of ageing. However, is the 40 million a point in time for continuing growth, or a target reach and then stabilize! Two such scenarios are completely different, and their graphs would reveal this. With no plan for our population, it's likely that the 40 million by 2050 is just part of a continuum, of ongoing growth!
With such full throttle rates of growth, the "tap" can't just be turned off! It's like slowing down a full-speed train, and it takes time. However, this momentum isn't being considered, and nobody is questioning what happens after 2050. There simply isn't a plan!
Between now and 2050 the number of:
- older people (65 to 84 years) is expected to more than double;
- very old people (85 and over) is expected to more than quadruple, from 0.4 million people today to 1.8 million in 2050.
In 2010, there will be an estimated 5 people of traditional working age for every person aged 65 and over. By 2050 only 2.7 people of traditional working age are projected for every person aged 65 and over.
Australia's population is projected to double to 46 million by 2075, according to the latest population projections released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) - "but under our high and low scenarios it could be as early as 2058, or after 2101."
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/lookup/3222.0Media%20Release12012%20%28base%29%20to%202101
The number of people 65 and over is projected to double, from 3.2 million people, (14 percent of the population) in 2012 to 6.8 million (20 percent) by 2040. So the quadrupling of our population, the percentage of older people will decrease by only by a mere 6%!
It's seems to assume that income tax is the main resource for funding older people! And, for all the population growth, there'll be only 2.7 people of traditional working age for every person over 65 (instead of 5 now)! The cost of population growth is massive, yet will achieve little to dilute the ageing! Government revenue should be more than from income taxes, and be from productivity, industry, knowledge-based learning, and innovation - what we're losing in Australia do to globalisation!
It's not hard to recognise a Ponzi scheme - and this one is. Economists and governments only see and consider raw statistics, and are in a frenzy to keep our economy growing, against natural demographic trends, a planet of finite resources, and use whatever means to keep our populations at an traditional working age! It's absurd and unrealistic. There are many multiple factors and variables to consider with regards to demographics, and the social, environmental, quality of life issues, and economies of growth are being ignored. The traditional owners of this land are being swallowed and overlooked, and we're being inundated by foreigners to create a country of strangers - "diversity" of integrity and nation-hood!
Twenty-five per cent of Japanese are over 65. But not only do they live longer, they work longer, stay healthier, care for their elderly better – and have found ways to pay for it. By around 2017, the number – though not the proportion – of over-65s will actually stabilise, meaning the costs associated with ageing will tend to level off.
Protecting foreign assets with force - reply to Dennis K
” in my conversations with my foreign colleagues I did not hide the fact that our goal was to ensure proper conditions for the people of Crimea to be able to freely express their will. And so we had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn’t want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons. Of course, the Russian servicemen did back the Crimean self-defence forces. They acted in a civil but a decisive and professional manner, as I’ve already said."Putin continues:
"It was impossible to hold an open, honest, and dignified referendum and help people express their opinion in any other way. Still, bear in mind that there were more than 20,000 well-armed soldiers stationed in Crimea. In addition, there were 38 S-300 missile launchers, weapons depots and rounds of ammunition. It was imperative to prevent even the possibility of someone using these weapons against civilians. [I.e. there was a safety issue.]"(Source: http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/7034)
Solution confusion and open source