{"id":13368,"date":"2015-10-14T06:28:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2015-10-14T06:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T11:28:48","slug":"the-mh-17-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13368","title":{"rendered":"The MH-17 \u2018Report\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MH-17 \u2018Report\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

When I read that the report on the downing of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine was being
\nput in the hands of the Dutch, I knew that there would be no investigation and no attention to the facts.<\/p>\n

And there wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I did not intend to write about the report, because Washington\u2019s propaganda has already succeeded, at least in the Western world, in its purpose of laying the blame on Russia. However, the misrepresentation of the Dutch report by Western media, such as NPR, is so outrageous as to make the media the story and not the report.<\/p>\n

For example, I just heard NPR\u2019s Moscow correspondent, Corey Flintoff, say that the missile that hit the airliner was fired by Ukrainian separatists who lack the technical ability to operate the system. Therefore, the missile had to have been fired by a Russian.<\/p>\n

There is nothing in the Dutch report whatsoever that leads to this conclusion. Flintoff either is
\nincompetent or lying or he is expressing his view and not the report\u2019s conclusion.<\/p>\n

The only conclusion that the report reaches is one that we already knew: if a Buk missile brought down the airliner, it was a Russian-made missile. The Dutch report does not say who fired it.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the report places no blame on Russia, but it does place blame on Ukraine for not closing the airspace over the war area. Attorneys have stated in response to the report that families of those killed and the Malaysian airline itself are likely to file lawsuits against Ukraine for negligence.<\/p>\n

Of course, there was nothing of this in Flintoff\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

As I wrote at the time of the airliner\u2019s destruction, the Western media already had \u201cthe-Russians-did-it\u201d story ready the moment the airliner was reported to be shot down. This story was very useful to Washington in hardening its European vassal states into sanctions against Russia, as there was some dissent.<\/p>\n

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The MH-17 \u2018Report\u2019 When I read that the report on the downing of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine was being put in the hands of the Dutch, I knew that there would be no investigation and no attention to the facts. And there wasn\u2019t. I did not intend to write about the report, because Washington\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9850,1321,9851,694,821,865,5027],"class_list":["post-13368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-dutch","tag-mh-17","tag-mh-17-investigation","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-washington","tag-western-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13369,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}