{"id":170598,"date":"2015-08-04T22:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=170598"},"modified":"2015-08-06T01:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T01:05:21","slug":"the-mh17-pilots-corpse-more-on-the-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-mh17-pilots-corpse-more-on-the-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The MH17 Pilot’s Corpse: More on the Cover-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even His Family Was Blocked from It. Here\u2019s Why.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was shot down, but the pilot\u2019s corpse has been hidden even from the people who have the most right to see it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The corpse of the pilot of the MH17 Malaysian airliner might contain in it bullets, or bullet-residues, that can prove a Ukrainian military jet intentionally fired into the pilot; or else it might contain only missile-shrapnel, which would be consistent only with the plane\u2019s having been erroneously shot down by a ground-based missile such as the Ukrainian government says it was; but the Malaysian government has prohibited anyone to see it \u2013 not even his relatives, who are still trying to find out how and who murdered their loved-one and the 297 other people who were aboard that tragic plane on July 17th of 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until recently, the Malaysian government itself had had no access to the coroner\u2019s report on the corpse: it was done by a Dutch coroner, in Holland.<\/span><\/p>\n

The corpse has been hidden from everyone, and the Malaysian government isn\u2019t even being permitted, by the other four nations on the official investigatory commission, to say anything to anyone outside the commission \u2013 not even to the pilot\u2019s family. The coroner\u2019s report on the pilot\u2019s body exists<\/span><\/a>, but has been seen by no one outside of the now 5-nation investigatory commission. (The commission was originally just Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and Ukraine, but Malaysia was recently added. The Dutch government heads the commission. The Dutch government had helped to install the current Ukrainian government, whose Air Force is a suspect in having possibly shot down the MH17 airliner.\u00a0Netherlands, along with the U.S., and also along with George Soros\u2019s International Renaissance Foundation, had funded Hromadske TV,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which propagandized heavily for forcing the democratically elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, to leave his Presidency before the next election would be held, and which then propagandized Ukrainians heavily for the ethnic cleansing operation<\/span><\/a> to get rid of<\/span><\/a> the residents in Ukraine\u2019s Donbass,\u00a0the only area of Ukraine that had voted 90%+ for Yanukovych.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0So: the Dutch government had actually helped to install the current Ukrainian government \u2013 which might have shot down the MH17, and yet which is a member of the official \u2018investigation.\u2019)<\/span><\/p>\n

This cover-up of what might be the decisive evidence in the MH17 case was revealed when Russian Television sent reporters last month to interview the pilot\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n

See the brief Russian documentary interviewing the pilot\u2019s wife here:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D_7dlG7qPio<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The pilot\u2019s wife says, at 5:42 on the video, \u201cWe were not allowed to open\u201d the coffin. Q: \u201cNot allowed by who?\u201d A: \u201cNot allowed by the [Malaysian] government.\u201d The existing four-nation team had required the Malaysian government to sign onto their secret 8 August 2014 agreement, in order for Malaysia to be allowed to join. This agreement says that Ukraine will have a veto-power over any report that the commission produces<\/span><\/a> \u2013 and this veto-power is the reason why the \u2018investigation\u2019 continues dragging on. The now-five nation commission can\u2019t yet produce a report that the Ukrainian government will sign onto.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, the interviewer in the documentary says that she had taken her camera-crew to the crash site two months after the plane\u2019s downing, and says that they saw there, still in the field of grass, the pilot\u2019s chair. This video at 6:21 shows it \u2013 its bare frame, because the padding had blown off. Here is the pilot\u2019s chair:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

Those 30 mm round holes through it are bullet holes; they\u2019re definitely not shrapnel holes, which are larger and very irregular (not at all round). Furthermore, the bullet-holes through the side-panel of the chair\u2019s backrest are fairly head-on instead of at any steep angle; and, so, might have been from stray bullets among the gunner\u2019s fusillade into the left cockpit-side that was focused around the pilot\u2019s belly-area<\/span><\/a>. This chair backrest is thus yet further evidence suggesting that the pilot\u2019s corpse had bullets, or bullet-residues, in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more background on the pilot’s corpse\u2019s evidentiary importance to solving this crucial mass-murder case, see\u00a0this.<\/span><\/a> For my reconstruction of the evidence, and of where it points to regarding guilt and motive, see this<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

RUSSIA\u2019S GAME ON THIS:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

On July 29th, Russia vetoed at the United Nations an attempt by the U.S. and its allies to transfer the MH17 investigation to a rigged UN commission that would be set up in order to enable the guilt for the cover-up to be transferred away from Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and Ukraine, the four nations that set up the existing official corrupt \u2018investigation,\u2019 whose \u2018findings,\u2019 at this late stage, would be believed only by outright suckers in the West \u2013 and that number of people might not be enough now to protect the actual guilty parties in the case. Russia wants the guilty parties to bear the blame not merely for the mass-murder itself, but for the subsequent and ongoing cover-ups. If the official \u2018investigation\u2019 finds Russia and\/or the people of Donbass to have perpetrated it, then Russia will presumably make public, evidence, which it has thus far withheld just in case America and its allies turn out to be that brazen. So, Russia might even be eager for that to happen. The official \u2018investigation\u2019 has already announced that its conclusions will be made public in October. Until then, the commission is doing everything they can to forestall, if not prevent, a scandal-squared, from resulting. (For example: if anything, Richard Nixon\u2019s Watergate cover-up doomed him even more than the Watergate-crime itself did.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of the typical ways the Western press have reported on Russia\u2019s veto:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRussia threatens UN veto on Julie Bishop’s MH17 tribunal<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Russia Vetoed the MH17 Tribunal<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRussia says no to MH17 justice<\/span><\/a>“<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlternative solution needed for investigating loss of MH17: Russia\u2019s Security Council veto means other means may be used to find those responsible<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For some unexplained (though accepted-without-question by the Western press) reason, the Western powers aren\u2019t satisfied for the official \u2018investigating\u2019 commission (though itself entirely Western until the recent addition of Malaysia to the commission) <\/span>to be blamed for producing the official \u2018findings.\u2019 Western leaders had wanted the UN to be blamed instead. Russia voted no on the Western proposal (which was fronted by Malaysia, on behalf of the West); China abstained<\/span><\/a> (perhaps in the hope that the West won\u2019t go after them, too).<\/span><\/p>\n

The result is heightened fear within the official \u2018investigating\u2019 commission. On 3 August 2015, Russian Television headlined \u201cDutch Safety Board asks for RT\u2019s assistance in MH17 probe after documentary,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dutch agency heading the international probe into Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine has contacted RT over the footage used in our recent documentary on the tragedy. RT\u2019s documentary discovered fragments of the plane still in Donetsk.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The RT Documentary film, titled \u201cMH17: A year without truth,\u201d showed fragments of the crashed Boeing and pieces of luggage still scattered in the area at the time of filming. The RTD crew collected the parts of the plane\u2019s exterior they spotted, bringing them to the administration of the nearby town of Petropavlovsk.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

“With great interest we watched your documentary, \u2018MH17: A year without truth,\u2019\u201d Dutch Safety Board spokesperson Sara Vernooij wrote to RT. \u201cIn this film, RT shows parts of the cockpit roof which were found near Petropavlivka. We would like to gather those pieces and bring them over to the Netherlands so the Dutch Safety Board can use them for the investigation and the reconstruction.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

On 17 July 2015, Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Australian Courier-Mail<\/i> published behind a paywall, and his The Australian<\/i> republished open on their website, the complete transcript, plus video excerpts, of 17 minutes of video footage that had been taken by the independence fighters in Donbass at the wreckage site while the fires were still aflame on the fateful day, 17 July 2014; and this remarkable footage, never before made public, and published by a lifelong anti-Russian, shows the rebels\u2019 \u201cCommander,\u201d trying to understand what he was seeing, and saying that there are two planes destroyed in the area, one a Malaysian airliner, and the other a Sukhoi fighter-jet, the latter from which had parachuted out five (or else two) people. Someone off-camera in the background is saying, \u201cThey decided to do it this way, to look like we have brought down the plane.\u201d In other words: these people speculated immediately that the presence of the downed fighter-jet indicated that the Ukrainian authorities were trying to pin onto the rebels the blame for shooting down the airliner. Here is that link, and the relevant passages in the transcript itself:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/full-transcript-russian-backed-rebels-ransack-the-wreckage-of-mh17-in-shocking-17-minute-video\/story-e6frfkp9-1227444629703<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“Full transcript: Russian-backed rebels ransack the wreckage\u00a0of MH17 in shocking 17-minute video”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

– JULY 17, 2015\u00a012:01AM<\/span><\/p>\n

– Video [just an excerpt, but the transcript is complete, only excerpts from which are reproduced here:]<\/span><\/p>\n

Cmdr:\u00a0Yes, there\u2019s 2 planes taken down. We need the second.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Background:\u00a0The second one is a civilian too?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Background:\u00a0The fighter jet brought down this one, and our people brought down the fighter.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Background:\u00a0They decided to do it this way, to look like we have brought down the plane. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Cmdr:\u00a0Let the firefighters extinguish the flames.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

(Phone ringing)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes Kalyian. I understood you, but we\u2019re already at the crash site. A passenger plane was brought down. They brought down the passenger plane and we brought\u00a0down the fighter. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Cmdr:\u00a0The parachute jumpers are there.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Background:\u00a0But there are two planes, from my understanding.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Background:\u00a0And what\u2019s the other one? A Sukhoi?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Cmdr:\u00a0A Sukhoi.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The Sukhoi brought down the plane and we brought down the Sukhoi. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I mean \u2026 the two pilots landed on parachutes.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

(Phone ringing)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Cmdr:\u00a0Yes, speak. I\u2019m here, I\u2019m in Grabovo. Right at the place. I\u2019m not at the bird site, I\u2019m in the field. I didn\u2019t get there yet.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Cmdr:\u00a0Five parachutes jumped off this plane. Five people jumped off this plane. …\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, at that chaotic moment, everything was new, and so the assertions by those people (for example, as regards whether there were five parachutists, or only two) were uncertain. One early reader of this article, who looked at that video, made the following insightful observation: “Ironically, the Dutch wanted the piece of cockpit roof of the plane. That piece showed no bullet or shrapnel impacts \u2014 which in essence excludes a Buk missile. Buk missiles engage the target from above.” That’s entirely correct. So: Might the Dutch Safety Board actually have been trying to nail down a case so strong against Ukraine, as to now be negotiating with Ukraine Ukraine’s capitulation \u2014 the degree of guilt that Ukraine must sign onto in the final report? (Sort of like in a plea-bargain.) How could Obama (whose power stands above all of the nations on the commission) deal with such a situation?<\/p>\n

CONCLUSION:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the way the West handled the 2008 economic crash: extend-and-pretend. While Western leaders transferred their aristocracy\u2019s investment losses onto future taxpayers and pretended that the enormous governmental debts that resulted from these \u2018bailouts\u2019 to the aristocracy won\u2019t destroy the economic future for the public, no one can yet say with certainty that they were lying about that. As ridiculous as extend-and-pretend seems to be, no appropriate historical precedent exists to show with any near certainty that no way will be found for it to \u2018succeed.\u2019 Russia has apparently placed its bet that it won\u2019t succeed, in regards to the MH17 case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s game seems to be: In the short term, we\u2019ll suffer contempt from the West\u2019s suckers while Western leaders keep on doing this; but, the longer the West\u2019s leaders do that, the worse the outcome will be for those leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: will that game on Russia\u2019s part work? The precedents don\u2019t look favorable:<\/span><\/p>\n

After George W. Bush kept lying about \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD,\u201d and became exposed simply by none being found, did his extend-and-pretend on the truth there hurt his Republican Party? They extended the lie so far that even today most Republicans still think that WMD did exist there in 2002 and 2003, and they even think that WMD were subsequently found there \u2013 though none of that was at all true. Even in 2015, 51% of Republicans agree with the statement, \u201cAmerican Forces Found an Active Weapons of Mass Destruction Program In Iraq.”<\/span><\/a> (32% of Democrats do. 46% of Independents do.) (40% of Republicans said it was \u201cDefinitely not true\u201d or \u201cProbably not true,\u201d but yet even they continued<\/i> <\/span>to label themselves as \u201cRepublican,\u201d even after their own Party had deceived them for so long on such a crucial matter, which had produced America\u2019s invasion of Iraq.) Despite such brazen lying, the Republican Party still has as many suckers as before. (And, in the Democratic Party, Barack Obama is still overwhelmingly supported, despite being now exposed<\/span><\/a>, to all open-minded people<\/span><\/a>, to be the best asset<\/span><\/a> the Republican Party<\/span><\/a> has had within recent decades<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Extend-and-pretend can work for a very long time, indeed. Russia\u2019s game could fail. But it might nonetheless be their best chance to win.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the West\u2019s game succeeds, then the entire world will fail as a result. If some power-group \u2013 here, the West\u2019s aristocrats \u2013 can get away with lying, no matter how long they persist in it, they might as well own the entire world: the public are then just their slaves. The public might as well have no minds at all. Anyone who accepts a politician who has lied is either an aristocrat or an idiot. There are only a few thousand aristocrats in the world, but there are, it is clear, plenty of idiots \u2013 perhaps the majority of people \u2013 so that everyone else, the decent people, suffer constantly the many idiots who believe the few aristocrats. That combination is toxic to democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The MH17 case started before the event itself, as Barack Obama\u2019s desperate attempt to get the EU to agree to hiking the economic sanctions against Russia. It succeeded. Now the world is waiting to see what Obama\u2019s long game is, and whether Putin\u2019s long game (which is the only game he\u2019s got) will beat it. Whatever the outcome, it\u2019ll be interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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