INITIAL THOUGHTS ON THE DAS ERSTE MH17 THING

New 45 German documentary on MH17, more evidence a Buk shot it down http://t.co/mEkxzKFpXm

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 27, 2015

How does Das Erste report events in Syria? I need to look into that. But as the acknowledged government's broadcaster Das Erste will be controlled, much as RT and the BBC are.

But regarding this MH17 'documentary':

1. It was aimed at a German audience with an anti-Russia agenda. Whenever the 'documentary' showed stuff from Moscow, what music did they play in the background? Music from The Bourne Supremacy in which the plot in the film is that a dodgy Russian has people shot in Berlin and a Russian assassin is trying to hunt Bourne down. And when the 'journalists' approach a separatist checkpoint the music becomes very sinister;
2. Two men somewhere in an unnamed village with their faces covered seem to talk about a missile. Contrast that with the 8, repeat 8, people who have clearly stated on camera, faces open for all to be recognised and identified, that they say saw a fighter jet close to MH17, and Pyotr Fedotov who Reuters claimed had told them that he saw a missile launched from separatist territory but who then told RT on camera that he had not and the Reuters had made it up. Did Das Erste bother to hunt down these witnesses?;
3. Higgins seems to be the main source of information. And yes, that's the same Higgins who is in cahoots with The Atlantic Council, USAID and George Soros. And yes, that's the same Atlantic Council which has the dude running Reuters as a board member;
4. The 'documentary' showed Voloshin but we need a good translation of what he was asked and what he replied with;
5. Where was the field the documentary believed the missile was shot from? Not very clear at all where that was. Before the film of that field the locations of the sightings of a BUK were clearly shown, but for whatever reason the location of that field was not. Why was that?
6. The 'documentary' showed the SU25 reaching well over its supposed maximum operating altitude, so there should be no doubt that a SU25 can fly well over its ADVISED maximum operating altitude;
7. Good questions were being raised about why the skies over East Ukraine were still open to civilian air traffic on 17th July 2014;
8. The film of the BUK with a missing missile was shown several times, but this was supplied by the untrustworthy Ukraine Security Service who said to the whole world that intercepted recordings proved 100% beyond doubt that Cossacks at Chernukino shot down MH17 while the 'documentary' was suggesting that some unidentified field near Shnizhne was the launch point (the 'documentary' didn't point this contradiction out);
9. Ray McGovern was shown briefly raising the crucial point that the 'official' American assessment was from the US State Department not from the US intelligence community.

MH17 was shot down while there was a massive NATO electronic warfare exercise going on. During this exercise civilian air traffic control was affected to a dangerous level. That NATO exercise proved that radar can be spoofed into seeing things that aren't there and not seeing things that are, i.e. a military plane can be seen on radar as a civilian plane, but more crucially on radar a civilian plane can be made to look like a military plane but a military plane must be somewhere near that civilian plane.

Shrapnel from the pilots corpses would tell us a lot, but for whatever reason their autopsy reports are being withheld from the public.