Well, it's kicking off over at Elliot Higgins' twitter!!
Sputnik ran a report on an article in The Guardian which looked at Higgins' latest report issued through Belling Cat which Belling Cat says proves that Russia fired from Russian territory into Ukraine.
The Sputnik report asks this perfectly valid question:
Asked about the central claims made in the study that his group of unpaid "citizen journalists" had found evidence of direct Russian military attacks on the Ukrainian army when NATO and the Western powers had been unable to produce a single piece of credible evidence to support that, Higgins replied, "Maybe they have, and weren't sharing it, but I couldn't really speak on behalf of the intelligence services in that regard."
[source : Guardian Corrects Anti-Russian Story Based on 'Research' of Own Reporter, Sputnik, http://sputniknews.com/military/20150219/1018504330.html, 19th February 2015]
Hmm. Yes, it is very curious that NATO would withhold such evidence...if they had it!!
And the same argument and question applies to MH17. In the case of MH17 NATO, i.e. USA, says it has the data to prove that separatists shot down MH17 from Shnizhne but has curiously kept that data secret and instead released a very childish image of an arc and straight line intercepting over Donetsk which they say is based on that data. I mocked that image yesterday as devastatingly persuasive. And it must be remembered that that image contradicts the initial claims of the Ukraine Security Service, who say MH17 was shot down by Cossacks from Chernukino, and that regarding Shnizhne as the launch site, Belling Cat believe that a field 5 Km south of Shnizhne was the launch site while Der Spiegel and Correctiv (in collaboration with Belling Cat!!) produced flashy reports suggesting that based on eyewitnesses a field 3 Km north of Shnizhne was in fact the launch site.
It is all such a farce and would be comical if 298 people had not been killed.
But do Belling Cat not find it the least bit curious that NATO, repeat NATO, i.e. the USA, UK, Germany, Canada etc., with all their spying and analysis power cannot do what Belling Cat do based purely on social media, which is produce anti-Russia 'information'? NATO has satellites with cameras that from space can take photographs of a parasite on an ant, spies on everything we do. Yet based on a photo of a crater, which can be accessed by NATO intelligence (assuming NATO has access to the internet), only Belling Cat can state that it was caused by Russia. Not one military intelligence unit in the NATO sphere can say this. Only Belling Cat can. And this claim is then repeated by politicians and the NATO media.
NATO, and in particular British Military Intelligence, must be so incompetent and/or so embarrassed!!
I also find it curious that Belling Cat spend so much time tracing the alleged movements of Russian military personnel and hardware in Ukraine when for 4 years Syria has been invaded by international cutthroat cannibal Jihadis who have now morphed into Islamic State and been financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, armed and trained by the USA, supported by the UK and France and Turkey (where Higgins' wife comes from), trained in Jordan, and medically and militarily assisted by Israel, and Belling Cat have not produced one report, not even a tiny one, against this illegal invasion and use of a bloodthirsty proxy force as per a plan that was implemented after 9/11 (as revealed by General Wesley Clark) and amended in 2007 (as revealed by Seymour Hersh). That illegal invasion/war has led to an estimated over 200,000 deaths and millions of refugees. But what does Higgins focus on? The use of barrel bombs in Aleppo, i.e. one tiny part of a global war, and Ghouta, which I sort of predicted and blamed on Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia.
And regarding Ukraine:
1. NATO destabilised Ukraine after Yanukovich decided to sign a huge deal with Russia instead of with the IMF;
2. NATO ran the Nazis who ousted Yanukovich in a violent coup, and those Nazis burned many alive in Odessa;
3. NATO wants Ukraine as a member and vice versa with the current junta;
4. NATO wants first strike missiles in Ukraine aimed at Moscow;
5. NATO is not happy with Putin for foiling their plans to bomb the shit out of Syria after Bandar's false flag at Ghouta failed to provoke the demand for war it was supposed and assumed would do.
A week or two ago Higgins was embroiled in a twitter argument with the holder of the twitter account Non_Disclosure regarding funding. Higgins was dodging the question by replying that Non_Disclosure should suggest a source of finance and Higgins would confirm or deny if he or Belling Cat had received finance from that source.
.@EliotHiggins Phew, that was close, at least they didn't find the incriminating pics. pic.twitter.com/J0IwFH90pT
— Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (@vpkivimaki) February 19, 2015It would be useful for Higgins and the whole Belling Cat team to be open and transparent about their finances instead of trying to hide them and mock questions about them. I was open and transparent last week when I declared that in the last 16 years all my finances have only come from teaching and researching mathematics, and before that from warehouse work.
Open and transparent, like the investigation in to MH17 should be by looking into activities of Ukraine's air force and BUKs on 17th July 2014.
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