Investigative journalist Robert Parry continues to report the use by the US vanguard of the MH-17 tragedy as a propaganda tool against Russia. The US claims to be outraged by the shoot-down, but its purported indignation was easily debunked at the time of the event, when commentators reminded Washington (leaving out many other acts) that it shot down an obviously civilian plane on a commercial route, Iranian Air flight 655, killing the almost 300 civilians on board. “The commander of a nearby U.S. vessel, David Carlson, wrote in the U.S. Naval Proceedings that he ‘wondered aloud in disbelief’ as ‘The Vincennes [the US ship] announced her intentions’ to attack what was clearly a civilian aircraft.” The commander of the ship that targeted the civilian vessel, rather than being punished, was given the Legion of Merit, and George Bush Sr. said of the event: “I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are…” In fact, (and mysteriously unlike the US reaction to MH-17), virtually no one in the US seemed to care about a civilian plane being shot down when Washington was the culprit. There was “no outrage, no desperate search for victims, no passionate denunciations of those responsible, no eloquent laments by the US Ambassador to the UN about the ‘immense and heart-wrenching loss'”. Similarly, the US vanguard has been “incensed” by the ISIS destruction of ancient artifacts. Leaving aside that the US was destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq before an entity called Al Qaeda in Iraq (which became ISIS) ever came into existence thanks to the US invasion, the US has a long record, dating to its origins, of decimating ancient artifacts around the world. For example:
The Plain of Jars is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. Scattered in the landscape of the Xieng Khouang plateau, Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR, are thousands of megalithic jars. Initial research of the Plain of Jars in the early 1930s claimed that the stone jars are associated with prehistoric burial practices. Excavation by Lao and Japanese archaeologists in the intervening years has supported this interpretation with the discovery of human remains, burial goods and ceramics around the stone jars. The Plain of Jars is dated to the Iron Age (500 BC to AD 500) and is one of the most important sites for studying Southeast Asian prehistory. The Plain of Jars has the potential to shed light on the relationship between increasingly complex societies and megalithic structures and provide insight into social organisation of Iron Age Southeast Asia’s communities. In the late 1960s and early 70s, Washington carried out a genocide campaign against Laos (and all of Indochina), planting and detonating more explosives there – mostly in the Plain of Jars – than the allies dropped in all of WW2 – millions of tons. As an expert on the subject, Fred Branfman, reported (ch. 18), “the entire aboveground society [was] leveled.” Bombs planted by the US explosive teams included 262 million cluster bombs, an estimated 80 million of which did not explode on impact, and continue to kill Laotians today. Post-bombing deaths number in the tens of thousands. The Laos example thus illustrates both points: Washington’s high regard for ancient artifacts as well as civilians. It would cost $16 billion to clean up the remaining bombs in Laos, which continue to kill, maim, and/or blind three year olds, etc. While the US spent 18 million per day in its 9+ year Laotian genocide campaign, it has to date only devoted 85 million, or .005%, of the $16 billion required to dispose of the remaining bombs, which mostly effect kids, since they look like toys. Meanwhile, the US gives almost 4 billion a year in aid to an extremely rich country, Israel, spends trillions on further war-making, and recently allocated 1 to 1.5 trillion to illegally advancing its nuclear arsenal, of which MIT Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and National Security Policy, Theodore Postol, said, “It is hard to understand what the Obama White House thinks it is accomplishing by pushing such a counterproductive program”.
I turned on Chris Matthews on computer but there was too much stuff just about Hillary. Now they are getting on Hillary’s case for releasing material that was subsequently classified by the Obama administration. The question arises - - how is Hillary supposed to be psychic so as to know which items would subsequently be classified? Chris suggested that she shouldn’t have been using a private server in the first place. Maybe they are going to make a political issue out of that. I didn’t like Chris Matthews’ attitude in saying that Republicans like Ted Cruz were trying to bolster the candidicy of Bernie Sanders by agreeing on him with him on certain issues such as not funding the import – export bank. I’ve switched my position on this from just yesterday. Now I’m against this “bank” if all they do is guarantee loans that nobody else will guarantee on the taxpayer dime. I also played the whole Ted Cruz speech and it’s possible what he was saying was actually correct. It’s just that there seems to be some senate rule that even if somebody is dead wrong- - and even lies- - it’s good protocol not to call them out on it in public. Ted Cruise also railed against “corporate welfare” and he’s going to earn a lot of points by doing that and appealing to the factory worker barely keeping his head above water. But I don’t like Chris Matthews’ whole attitude about how the democratic party can’t stand a primary contest. This is right out admitting that Hillary is week. She’s afraid of people asking her questions individually or in the public forum. If she can’t deal with Bernie Sanders convincingly, how is she ever going to deal with a Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or a Scott Walker? It’s like the NBA semi-finals must be won before you get to play in the NBA finals.
Some things if we (meaning I) understood better than I do such as hyperbolic trigonometry - - then I would understand many more of the scientific and electronic applications of this area. The simplest way to explain it is "a circle turned inside out", which sounds silly. There is a phenominon of faster than light travel where you actually "see the other sides of objects" much like looking in a mirror. They are reversed- - but it's also a convex mirror with your "field of view" in the shape of a hyperbola. We said that speed boat "wakes" or waves generated- - were in the shape of a hyperbola. But obviously the shape of this wake changes and becomes narrower and narrower the faster you travel. I wanted quickly to address one question that has arisen about Romulan cloaking devices. Can you for instance be heard or generate a noise while cloaked that can be heard by others not cloaked? We have previously said that "gas molicules are common". You can't have cloaked gas and uncloaked gas. But I've been informed that though the gas molicules are common- - - that kenitic energy is another of those "things" such as gravity and EM radiation, which can be subject to the cloaking. Hence any energy generated in a cloaked environment- - will remain "particular" or specific to the particular cloaking alterithm you're using. At first there would seem to be certain logical problems with these explanation- - but I'm told that that's the way things are with cloaking. Therefore that Star Trek thing wasn't wrong when it claimed that Jordi and Ensign Roe- - indeed would not be able to make any kind of noise, which could be heard by the uncloak people and hence be rescued.
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