The Russian People's Crimes.

"We:" Somebody has to start killing the Russian people--Ukrainians, Europeans, Americans, Muslims, frigging Congos, Somalis, "terrorists," "freedom-fighters," psychopaths, mercenaries, mafia--somebody. 

The Russian People's Crimes.

These guys on this audio, Igor Besler, "Bes," and Vasili Geranin, can't they at least be killed? They are identified by name and face. How hard would that be? We have to start killing Russian people.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-plane-ukraine.html?from=homepage&_r=0

"Cover-up: Ukraine rebels destroying all links to MH17 air atrocity."-The Guardian.

"Pro-Russia separatist groups in eastern Ukraine are hastily covering up all links to the Buk missile battery suspected to have been used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane, according to western-based defence and intelligence specialists.
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...concern that a cover-up was under way was fuelled by a standoff at part of the crash site between observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and rebel gunmen, which ended with a warning shot being fired.

Postings on rebel websites immediately after the crash boasted of having shot down what they claimed was an Antonov Ukrainian military transport plane, but these have since been deleted.

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 The rebels are suspected of having used a Russian-built, vehicle-mounted Buk missile system to bring down MH17, killing all 298 passengers and crew. 
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The OSCE was trying to gain access to one part of the large crash site but the commander of a rebel unit, known as Commander Glum, blocked them. After the warning shot, the OSCE convoy departed.

There is also confusion over the black boxes and other devices apparently salvaged from the plane. A rebel military commander initially said he was considering what to do with them, while another rebel leader, Aleksandr Borodai, contradicting his colleague, said the rebels had no black boxes or any other devices.
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Other material on rebel social media sites was being deleted, including pictures showing the alleged capture of Buk missile vehicles by rebels from a Ukrainian air base last month.

Rebels said the boast on the social media site on Thursday that a plane had been shot down was not put up by them but by a sympathiser who mistakenly assumed it was a Ukrainian military plane that had been shot down. But in a separate posting a rebel leader also claimed that a plane had been brought down. "We warned you – do not fly in our sky," he said. That too was removed."

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''I saw two rows of windows and knew that this was a Boeing,'' he said. ''I knew this was a civilian plane. But for me this meant nothing. It is easy to turn a civilian type of plane into one for military use.''

-Lt. Col., later Major Gennadi Osipovich the Soviet fighter pilot who shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007 on September 1, 1983, killing 269, in an interview with the New York Times in 1996.http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/09/world/ex-soviet-pilot-still-insists-kal-007-was-spying.html

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"The Soviet Union initially denied knowledge of the incident, but later admitted the shootdown, claiming that the aircraft was on a spy mission. The Politburo said it was a deliberate provocation by the United States to test the Soviet Union's military preparedness, or even to provoke a war. The White House accused the Soviet Union of obstructing search and rescue operations.  The Soviet military suppressed evidence sought by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) investigation, notably the flight data recorders, which were eventually released eight years later after the collapse of the Soviet Union." (emphasis added)

-Wikipedia, KAL007.

The Russian People's Crimes.

INVESTIGATION HAMPERED

As U.S. investigators prepared to head to Ukraine to assist in the investigation, staff from Europe's OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] security body visited the site but complained that they did not have the full access they wanted.

"We encountered armed personnel who acted in a very impolite and unprofessional manner. Some of them even looked slightly intoxicated," an OSCE spokesman said.

-Reuters

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The Gallup survey, which was conducted from April 22-June 9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points, found that 83 percent of Russians say they approve of the job Putin is doing, marking an increase of 29 percentage points since 2013.

                                                           -Washington Examiner.

President Obama Statement on MH17, Transcript.

Now, here is what we know so far. Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine.

We also know that this is not the first time a plane has been shot down in eastern Ukraine. Over the last several weeks Russian- backed separatists have shot down a Ukrainian transport plane and a Ukrainian helicopter, and they claimed responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet.

Moreover, we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from Russia.

This includes arms and training. It includes heavy weapons. And it includes anti-aircraft weapons.

Now, here's what's happened now. This was a global tragedy. An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies, filled with citizens from many countries. So there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. The U.N. Security Council has endorsed this investigation, and we will hold all its members, including Russia, to their word.

In order to facilitate that investigation, Russia, pro-Russian separatists and Ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. Evidence must not be tampered with. Investigators need to access the crash site.

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Now, the United States stands ready to provide any assistance that is necessary. We've already offered the support of the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board, which has experience in working with international partners on these types of investigations. They are on their way, personnel from the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board. In the coming hours and days, I'll continue to be in close contact with leaders from around the world as we respond to this catastrophe.

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[The President then spoke of the need for peace in Ukraine.]

Moreover, time and again, Russia has refused to take the concrete steps necessary to de-escalate the situation. I spoke to President Putin yesterday in the wake of additional sanctions that we had imposed. He said he wasn't happy with them, and I told him that we have been very clear from the outset that we want Russia to take the path that would result in peace in Ukraine, but so far, at least, Russia has failed to take that path. Instead, it has continued to violate Ukrainian sovereignty and to support violent separatists. It has also failed to use its influence to press the separatists to abide by a cease-fire. That's why, together with our allies, we've imposed growing costs on Russia.

The Russian People's Crimes.*

The plane was shot down in Ukrainian airspace and crashed on Ukrainian land yet the rump "Donetsk People's Republic" has seized the plane's black boxes and have already sent them to Moscow. The Russian separatists prevented Ukrainian officials from getting to the crash site.  At this point the scales are tipped overwhelmingly against American military action. This fact though, of imprecise heft, weighs something, and properly gets added to the side of the scale favoring some attack by someone--America, NATO, some "coalition"--on some Russian people somewhere.

*Plural, 1:45 pm.

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No. No U.S. air or bomb attack on Russians in Ukraine or Russia. International crime, international response: U.N., usual suspects.

*Changed from "MH17," ~8:00 am, July 18.
**Plural, 1:45 pm.

The Russian People's Crimes.**

What the heck does the world U.S. do? Russia shoots down a Malaysian passenger plane over Ukraine. Three hundred innocent civilians from many countries among the victims. That's an international crime. Just yesterday Obama imposed the heaviest sanctions yet specifically because Russia continues to make trouble on the border. The day before yesterday the Russians shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet. Should the U.S. bomb Russian enclaves in Ukraine? How about across the border in Russia, should the U.S. (with NATO?) bomb the Russian troops in Russia that are on the border?

*Changed from "MH17," ~8:00, July 18.
**Plural, 1:47 pm.

MH17.

Malaysian Airlines flight 17, a Boeing 777, has crashed in Ukraine with all aboard, about 300, killed. Most reports have it that the Russians, either separatists in Ukraine or in Russia, shot the plane down. The New York Times has not.

-"likely shot down." 11:01 pm.
-"was shot down....by a surface-to-air missile." The U.S. has not pinpointed where the SAM was fired though, and thus cannot say for sure who fired it. Well...No, it was Russians, either separatists in Ukraine or across the border in Mother Rus. 11:14 pm.

That wasn't hard at all, "Inspire magazine al Qaeda." Isn't that amazing?  N.S.A., why do you suck so bad? Go back to listening in on Merkel's cell phone, you are worth-less, WORTHLESS.

Inspire N.S.A.

After Islam's bombing of the Boston Marathon we-here came acrost an internet publication that taught would-be 47-virgin meeters and greeters how to build the pressure cooker bombs the Brothers Tsarnaev used in the Hub. This particular pub drew notice from dicks and pencils because of its glossy high-quality. And because it was published by al Qaeda. Got our attention. We profiled Inspire and reprinted some of their glossy gloss. We also wondered WHY THE FUCK! N.S.A. didn't shut them down, prohibit Google and Yahoo and Bing from listing them in their search results. We don't know how it is with search engine queries now but it can't be too hard since the New York Daily News has a report today that the latest issue of Inspire seeks to inspire the would-be's to target the U.S. Open...There are two of those, one in tennis the other in golf and we're not too precise on which sport's Open it is now open season on but it's one of them! The Daily News quotes from the Inspire article, "Car Bombs in America:"

The important thing is that you target people and not buildings.

To the point.

It's the tennis Open the Daily News says...If you simply must bomb buildings choose one:

visited by thousands of people, and high-profile people, especially the U.S. Open.

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America is our first target, followed by United Kingdom, France and other crusader countries. 

N.S.A., you're already down love-15. We repeat our querie, WTF?

U.S. Sanctions Russia Again; Europe Balks.

Announced by President Obama today, the new measures target the huge energy and defense sectors of the Russian economy and limit access by relevant Russian concerns to U.S. capital. The Russians denounced them but acknowledge they are going to hurt. Europe wouldn't go along because their economic ties to Russia are much greater and because they're about as pissed at Obama for N.S.A. spying as they are at Russia for invading Ukraine. They're down with the sentiment but won't join in.

Moving away.

These came from the west, slithering across the southwest corner of the plateau, from which they did not have to cross the Allegheny Front, from the big city where they made money, big money, and they came to Cambria County not to work but to play. They secretly bought the reservoir that was constructed for the water needs of the people of Johnstown who had come the hard way across the Front from the east to work and who were working and they secretly bought the land. They turned the South Fork Dam area into the most private club in America and called it the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and threatened to shoot trespassers from Johnstown and they renamed the water Lake Conemaugh. They made the dam more suitable for their play and made the dam more dangerous for the people of Johnstown and they sailed their boats on Lake Conemaugh and in the valley beneath the people of Johnstown could see the amazing sight of sails on the mountain that they could get no closer to without being shot.

In the Spring of that year the rain came and it came on and came on and in the valley the streets of Johnstown became flooded and still the rain came. Up the mountain at Lake Conemaugh the water began to run over the dam face which had been lowered by those from the west for their play and at 3:10 in the afternoon the dam "simply moved away" and 20,000,000 tons of water moved into the valley and the people of Johnstown who had seen sailboats on the mountain now saw a "death mist" come before them and then the water and 2,200 of them died.

These came from the west, from Pittsburgh. They were Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world and Andrew Mellon, third richest in America and Henry Clay Fricke and Philander Knox and their families and friends. They never went back to Johnstown and left a slimy trail behind them. Their club and their lake gone they abandoned their multi-room, three-story "cottages" and simply moved away.

These came from the west.

There were sailboats on the mountain.

Moving on.

In 1850 there were 18,000 people, 1,300 in the largest settlement in the southwest corner. In the county population peaked at 213,000 in 1940 and has declined every decade since. 1940. Its largest settlement became a city of 67,000 and has lost people every decade since 1920. Since 1920.

They came from the east. They came from adjacent counties and from those further away in the Ridge and Valley Region, and from those more distant in the Delaware Valley; they came from the east and they came up against the Allegheny Front, all of them. They came in twos and threes and peered in from footpaths and Indian trails and then moved on. They followed the canal and then the railroad. They came from the east looking for work and they found work or they didn't find work and they worked or they didn't work but they all moved on, west mostly, nearly all of them. They came from all over Europe, from England, Germany, Poland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, Hungary, Russia, Scotland, but they all came from the east and moved on west over the mountains.

They were Joseph Schantz from Switzerland via Philadelphia, George Shyrock King, Westmoreland County, Thomas Barnes from Clearfield County Pennsylvania and Lancashire County England, and Russian Prince Demetrius Augustin Gallitzin a converted Roman Catholic become priest now up for sainthood via The Hague and Maryland. A Russian Prince...

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There was Schantzstadt and when Schantz became Johns there was Johnstown and when neither one became the seat of Cambria ("Wales," Latin) County Joseph Johns nee Schantz moved on and so many moved on that Johnstown was deemed the most unsuitable place for newcomers in America in 2003; there was Barnesboro and Thomas Barnes' coal mines were named "Lancashire" and Barnesboro moved on when the coal ran out and merged with Spangler and is now named Northern Cambria; there is Nanty Glo ("Ravine of coal," Welsh); there is Gallitzin, and there was George Shyrock King's Cambria Iron Company, the Union's forge during the Civil War, now a shuttered National Historic Landmark.

And there were sailboats on the mountain.

Deutschland Uber Alles.

The ancient mountains contained coal and the people came.

A final, angry, broad brush stroke, the range, its ridges and valleys sweep diagonally across the land transecting it, guarding the west and isolating it. These ancient mountains, stooped with age, were a formidable barrier to the peopling of the plateau. The Indians traversed them along the Kittanning Trail. The Europeans tunneled through them, portgaged over them, and curved their rail tracks and their roadways around them. Not many people did this, not Indian or European.

The land was well-wooded and there was game and the game was hunted. The land was well-watered by rivers and streams and rainfall and the soil was fertile and it was farmed. The waterways were fished. The forests were lumbered. But the mountains were not extensive and were stooped with age and their forests did not provide cover for abundant game. The rivers and streams were shallow and not well-stocked with fish. The Indian people starved or moved on. The well-watered land, even on the plateau, was corrugated with hills and valleys and could not be well-farmed by the Europeans and the lumber cleared from the forests for settlement could not be well-transported downstream on the shallow rivers and streams and the land was not well-peopled, neither then nor now, not by Indian or European. The mountains protected all but themselves.

1. "I sometimes feel like I’m their son. Their passion can be overwhelming...I want to give them hope...I want to inspire them when I can. My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now (beginning of essay)...I feel my calling here goes above basketball. I have a responsibility to lead, in more ways than one...I want kids in Northeast Ohio...to realize that there’s no better place to grow up. Maybe some of them will come home after college and start a family or open a business...I'm coming home." (end of essay). (emphasis added)

2. "Miami, for me, has been almost like college for other kids. These past four years helped raise me into who I am. I became a better player and a better man. I learned from a franchise that had been where I wanted to go...Without the experiences I had there, I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing today....(second paragraph) I’m not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We’re not ready right now. No way...(next to last paragraph) In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have." (last paragraph) (emphasis added)

3. "I went to Miami because of D-Wade and CB....I believed we could do something magical if we came together. And that’s exactly what we did! The hardest thing to leave is what I built with those guys....When I left Cleveland, I was on a mission. I was seeking championships, and we won two."(third paragraph) (emphasis added)

4. "This is what makes me happy...(middle of essay) That would make me smile." (near end of essay)

5. "To make the move I needed the support of my wife and my mom, who can be very tough. The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed...What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I’ve met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We’ve talked it out...Who am I to hold a grudge?"

If we apply common rules of construction to LeBron James' essay, by both the primacy effect and the recency effect, it is the intense devotion to "home" that drove James' decision. His desire to win is a distant second. Note how James expresses this: Cleveland will not win his first year, "No way," "nothing is given" in Cleveland, "everything is earned. You work." As compared to Miami: "Miami, for me, has been almost like college;" "magical." When I reread the essay, this is what stuck out most. I have never read that thought being attributed to James previously. James mentions college both in his second paragraph and in his last full paragraph. Those are negative ways of expressing the importance to him of the desire to win: Cleveland will not win immediately, he says, and in Miami things were maybe too easy, not entirely real, "magical.".LeBron James did not go to college, he went straight from high school to the NBA. College is fun! College is the best time of many people's lives, a "magical" time and LeBron James wanted to experience that. College is also to learn and "I learned," it's preparation for the real world and "Without the experiences I had there, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing today." James stayed in Miami for four years, the length of college in America.

Miami is a beautiful city, a wonderful city, a nickname is "The Magic City" and for decades people came to Miami just briefly, to vacation, to have fun in the sun as Winston Churchill did. And then leave. Or, people came to to escape, as Churchill also did, as hundreds of thousands of Cubans did, to retire in an easy life, as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers did. None of those came to Miami intending to stay, to work and start families and establish roots, none came to Miami to live, they lived in their hearts and minds elsewhere. There is a sense in which these immigrants came to Miami to die. The northern snowbirds have died, the original Cuban immigrants have died, but their children have established roots here and, since the mid-1980's it seems to me, hundreds of thousands of other people have come to Miami to live, to work, to stay. All of these folks, the vacationers, the snowbirds, the retirees, war returnees, Cuban refugees, Haitian refugees, refugees from Central America, those who made Miami a destination, all of these folks have made Miami into an exciting, polyglot, international capital city. LeBron James did, too. Miami is not the stunningly beautiful woman of easy virtue, bedded by many, wed by none. She has been wed, more than once, doesn't need to be wed, will wed if and when she wants and to whom she wants and has the virtues of beauty and independence and vitality. There are now over 2,600,000 of them in Miami-Dade County.

In James' seventh full paragraph, out of nine, (not that important) James mentions Dan Gilbert's 2010 letter. It was hard on "them," James' loved ones, not so much on James. In fact, James took one message of the letter very much to heart. These passages from James' essay and Gilbert's letter are nearly identical. First, Gilbert:

"This shocking act of disloyalty from our home grown "chosen one" sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And "who" we would want them to grow-up to become."

James:

"What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react?"

LeBron James: "I'm coming home."

It is now official. James announced it on Sports Illustrated's website. LeBron James is a good, good man. He sounded happy in what he wrote on SI. He deserves this. Very happy for him and for the people of the Cleveland area.

The Cannibal of Ajax has been sold. Liverpool F.C. have confirmed Luis Suarez will be taking his dentures to Barcelona for $108 million or $36 million per chomp. So far. Chew tobacco, not people.

In the summer light they can appear blue as water and from a fast-moving car seem to come east like a slow-moving tsunami. Ancient, their jagged tops worn down, and modest with age they shroud the plateau beyond, the places with ancient names, Kittanning, Conemaugh, Allegheny, Susquehanna, and the people who live among them. 

Boy oh boy oh BOY. Got an email today from a person who had read a couple of the China posts, wanted clarification on something that I had not made clear and ended by writing:

"I'm amazed at all the work you've done on this. I really appreciate your following this issue so closely." 

Work: It is work for me and I appreciated the characterization and recognition. Especially coming from this person, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for China reporting. Really, REALLY appreciated it.

Boy oh boy. A Rooski today clicked on a post here, it is the oldest post clicked on that I can remember, January 20, 2003:

nelson goodman: god is the collective conscience of mankind. 

john steinbeck, the grapes of wrath: reverend jim casey: "i figgered about the holy sperit and the jesus road. i figgered, 'why do we got to hang it on god or jesus? maybe,' i figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the holy sperit--the human sperit--the whole shebang. maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.' "

That's about it, that's about what I think. Had completely forgotten about the Steinbeck passage. That's totally consistent with Goodman. Appreciate it, Rooski, really appreciate it.

But no, this is the headline of the day:

"Donald Sterling Vows He'll Never Sell Team, Calls His Wife A Pig."-CBS.

"Germany Demands Top U.S. Intelligence Officer Be Expelled."-New York Times.

The Germans have found a second mole.

"The representative of the U.S. intelligence services at the United States Embassy has been asked to leave Germany."-Steffen Seibert, spokesman for German government.


On June 30 the first mole was arrested. Merkel knew. The CIA knew. The next day Obama called Merkel. Obama didn't know. Merkel didn't tell him.

Gone in a Puff.

Today, for the first time, a sports pencil says he knows--not a prediction--where LeBron James is going. Chris Sheridan says a league source has told him that James has already decided, "100%, to go back to Cleveland, Ohio to play basketball for Dan Gilbert and the Cleveland "Cavaliers."
http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2014/07/09/sheridans-top-25-free-agents-july-9-edition/#qIpdutRI11Q2pwHk.99