July 22, 2014
On this day:
- July 22, 2014 Israel Transportation Minister: Cancellation of Flights to Israel Gives a ‘Prize to Terror US Hands Hamas Victory In Banning Flights To Israel
- July 22, 2014 UNRWA Admits Finding More Rockets Hidden in Gaza School; Second Time in a Week
- July 22, 2014 South Korean police advise that they have positively identified a body found on June 12 as Yoo Byung-eun wanted for his alleged role in the sinking of the MV Sewol.
- July 22, 2014 Taliban insurgency A Taliban suicide bomber blows himself up outside Kabul International Airport killing three foreign advisers and an Afghan interpreter. (Reuters)
- July 22, 2014 Ukraine says Russian officer pushed the button to shoot down MH17
- July 22, 2014 Drano Bomb' Explodes On Durham City Bus Injuring One
- 2 killed 1 officer wounded in commando-style shooting July 22, 2014 Body of Moreno Valley Gunman Found After 3 shootings 2 Killed, Officer Wounded
- July 22, 2014 Did Terrorists Take Down Brooklyn Bridge American Flags?
- July 22, 2014 Four foreigners killed in suicide attack inside Kabul security compound
- 1 killed in DUI suspended licence rear-end crash by man on probation who made terroristic threats and joked about damage July 22, 2014 Michael J. Vanwagner DUI Rear End Smmiley Face Killing Brooklyn Center Teen
- July 22, 2014 Israel Transportation Minister: Cancellation of Flights to Israel Gives a ‘Prize to Terror US Hands Hamas Victory In Banning Flights To Israel FAA issues a notice banning flights to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv after a rocket strike which landed approximately one mile from the airport on that morning. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri declared “The success of Hamas in closing Israeli airspace is a great victory for the resistance, and is the crown of Israel’s failure”
- July 22, 2014 UNRWA Admits Finding More Rockets Hidden in Gaza School; Second Time in a Week In the second case in a week, the UN Agency responsible for Palestinians admitted that...More
- July 22, 2014 South Korean police advise that they have positively identified a body found on June 12 as Yoo Byung-eun wanted for his alleged role in the sinking of the MV Sewol. (New York Times) Yoo Byung-eun, had been the target of the country’s largest manhunt ever for embezzlement, breach of trust and tax evasion. Authorities determined that Mr. Yoo and members of his family took large sums from the ferry operation which left little for the safety training for the ferry’s crew.
- July 22, 2014 Taliban insurgency A Taliban suicide bomber blows himself up outside Kabul International Airport killing three foreign advisers and an Afghan interpreter. (Reuters)
- July 22, 2014 Ukraine says Russian officer pushed the button to shoot down MH17 CNNVitaly Nayda, Ukraine's director of informational security, told CNN the person who shot down the flight was "absolutely" a Russian. "A Russian-trained, well-equipped, well-educated officer ... pushed that button deliberately," he said."We taped conversations" between a Russian officer and his office in Moscow, Nayda said. "We know for sure that several minutes before the missile was launched, there was a report" to a Russian officer that the plane was coming, he said. "They knew the plane was coming with constant speed, in constant direction," and should have known it was not a fighter jet but "a big civilian plane," he said.
- July 22, 2014 Russian Army Lt. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov suggested a Ukrainian jet fighter may have shot the plane down. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko rejected that in an exclusive interview with CNN, saying that all Ukrainian aircraft were on the ground at the time.
- July 22, 2014 Drano Bomb' Explodes On Durham City Bus Injuring One DURHAM, N.C.-- Durham police are investigating an apparent chemical explosion on a city bus at 9:35 p.m. A man got on the bus with a jug and when the man got off the bus later, the jug exploded.
- 2 killed 1 officer wounded in commando-style shooting July 22, 2014 Body of Gunman Found After 2 Killed, Officer Wounded A man suspected of killing two people at separate Moreno Valley crime scenes and shooting at a responding police officer was found dead alongside an assault rifle. First officers responded to a shooting at a gas where an SUV was found with gunshot holes in it and a 74 year old woman’s body inside. The African american suspect fled, and opened fire with an assault rifle on an officer, wounding him. Another man was found killed 5 miles away. All 3 shootings were connected to the same suspect, and dog led police to his body next to the rifle used.
- July 22, 2014 Did Terrorists Take Down Brooklyn Bridge American Flags? Counterterrorist resources are investigating serious security breach at a top possible terror target the Brookyn Bridges. The skydiver from freedom tower is similar stunt. It looks like some random teens with a skateboard, but the extent of planning looks more like a big terrorist operation and a possible inside job, they knew the exact size of cans needed to cover light. Police were searching for a skateboard-toting youth and four friends seen crossing the bridge 20 minutes before the flags were changed. Twitter theories speculate the white flags suggest surrender. One law enforcement source warned "We're lucky they just put a flag up there — and not a bomb"
- July 22, 2014 Four foreigners killed in suicide attack inside Kabul security compound Washington Post A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle packed with explosives struck inside a security compound in the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing four foreigners and injuring six
- 1 killed in DUI suspended licence rear-end crash by man on probation who made terroristic threats and joked about damage July 22, 2014 Michael J. Vanwagner DUI Rear End Killing Brooklyn Center Teen The car of Jason F. McCarthy, of Brooklyn Center was struck by Michael J. Vanwagner, 24, of Coon Rapids and later died in the hospital.Vanwagner was driving on a revoked license because of careless driving, twice driving after having his license suspended and driving without insurance. Vanwagner is on probation for a felony conviction in April for terroristic threats, and must abstain from alcohol and drugs
News:
- July 21, 2014 Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, was asked Monday about different intercepted recordings, purportedly of pro-Russian rebels talking about shooting down a plane. Churkin suggested that if they did, it was an accident. "According to them, the people from the east were saying that they shot down a military jet," he said. "If they think they shot down a military jet, it was confusion. If it was confusion, it was not an act of terrorism."
- Pro-Russian rebels have repeatedly denied responsibility for the attack.
- 1 killed, 1 injured in terrorist style breakup murder July 20, 2014 Man Shoots Ex-Girlfriend and Her Teen Niece After Breakup Robert Harmon, 48, of Milton, Ky., shot and injured ex-girlfriend, 33-year-old Niki Davis in the face, and killed fatally shot her 16-year-old neice before killing himself as police responded at 2 a.m..Police say Davis and Harmon broke up in the last week, after several years of dating. Authorities believe the two got into an altercation early Sunday morning, which led to the shooting.
- AIM: Michael Savage blamed Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in part for the shoot-down, saying McCain had encouraged the overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, leading to the Russian invasion.
- AIM: RT accusation was that Ukraine downed MH17, thinking Putin was on it. Hence, it was an assassination attempt. the Moscow-funded English-language propaganda network known to critics as KGB-TV.
- AIM: Ukraine trying to shoot down Putin disinformation was linked to by the popular Drudge Report, used by many conservatives as their homepage, and then picked up by the Alex Jones’ Infowars.com site, a reliable outlet for pro-Russian propaganda.
- AIM: Sara Firth, a London-based correspondent with RT, resigned in protest at the channel’s “total disregard to the facts” about the shooting down of the Malaysian plane. “I couldn’t do it anymore,” she told BuzzFeed. “Every single day we’re lying and finding sexier ways to do it.”
- AIM: a site linked to Iran, calling itself “Veterans Today,” blamed Israel and called the shoot-down “cover” for Israel’s invasion of Gaza. The point was to get people thinking that some other nation or entity, other than Russia, was actually behind the murder of nearly 300 people.
- July 10, 2014 Man sues casino bomb threat after he finds bomb threat in his room was only drill
- July 8, 2014 Kentucky man portrayed as aggressor killed in apparent road rage shooting and crash
- July 20, 2014 Newsmax Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said an "enormous amount of evidence" points to Russia providing antiaircraft missiles and training to pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Kerry also said U.S. intelligence agencies "saw the launch" of a missile from rebel-held territory just as the passenger plane vanished from radar.
- July 19, 2014 Veterans Today propaganda: MH17 Working Group Established Gordon Duff Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Vitaly Yarema told Ukrainian Pravda newspaper on Friday, "Militias in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics do not have Ukrainian air defense missile systems Buk and S-300 at their disposal"..."After the passenger airliner was downed, the military reported to the president that terrorists do not have our air defense missile systems Buk and S-300,” the general prosecutor said. “These weapons were not seized.” "The Russians did it" story has crashed and burned. The the media overkill..."killed it", all of them playing off the same talking points notes, no one even bothering to ask the most basic investigative journalist questions like "Show me the evidence you have." Videos by rense. The Putin assassination story that RT ran seems “off.” We can do nothing with it so we won’t deal with it now. who would destroy two fully packed airliners of a country they were angry with, to make an example
- December 5, 2003 Nancy Dunning Sheriff Wife 2003 Killing Real estate agent Nancy Dunning and the wife of now deceased Sheriff Jim Dunning was killed inside her Del Ray home. First of 3 similar killings for which Charles Severance is being investigated, with piano teacher Ruthanne Lodato and transportation official Ronald Kirby. Charles S. Severance was arrested in Wheeling, W.Va. and is being investigated as to whether he is connected to these high-profile murders in Alexandria.
- July 19, 2014 Pro-Russian Michael Shrimpton Veterans Today MH17 was shot down by an air defense battery of the Ukrainian army, from Ukrainian territory, using an SA-17 Buk missile. I respectfully associate myself with the statements of the Russian federal government on the issue. The motive was to discredit Russia, and that nice man President Putin in particular. The preparations may have included fake entries on social media websites to the effect that the rebels had acquired an SA-17 launcher.
- (Pro-russian) What Happened to the Malaysian Airliner? -- Paul Craig Roberts Veterans Today The flaw in Putin's diplomacy is that Putin's diplomacy relies on good will and on truth prevailing. However, the West has no good will, and Washington is not interested in truth prevailing but in Washington prevailing. What Putin confronts is not reasonable "partners," but a propaganda ministry aimed at him
- Donbass war: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), guardian of the Geneva Convention, makes a confidential legal assessment that Ukraine is officially in a war, Western diplomats and officials say, opening the door to possible war crimes prosecutions, including over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (Reuters)
The Washington Post apologized to readers on Monday for sending a pro-Hamas journalist One reporter sent to cover the protest, Britain Eakin, is an intern who has written opinion pieces elsewhere that sharply criticize Israel in the conflict. The Post should not have sent her to cover the protest and, had it known of her writings, would not have done so.”Eakin had published two anti-Israel opinion articles in the past week, one at Al Jazeera America, ‘Israel’s War of Disproportionate Force on Gaza,’ and the other at Counter Punch, ‘What’s Needed for Real Peace in Gaza.’On Monday, Newsbusters questioned The Post‘s journalistic ethics, and the statement was appended to the online article a few hours later....More
Russian disinformation for a conservative audience
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the accusation was that Ukraine downed the plane, thinking Putin was on it. Hence, it was an assassination attempt.
This bizarre piece of disinformation surfaced on RT (Russia Today), the Moscow-funded English-language propaganda network known to critics as KGB-TV. It was linked to by the popular Drudge Report, used by many conservatives as their homepage, and then picked up by the Alex Jones’ Infowars.com site, a reliable outlet for pro-Russian propaganda.
Drudge posted the item, “RT: Putin’s plane might have been target,” apparently to suggest that there was honest confusion over whether the Russians had shot down the plane.
In the U.S., RT is carried by such giant media companies as Comcast, Time Warner, DISH and Verizon. Jones claims to be on the list of the “Top 100 Most Important Talk Show Hosts in America,” and boasts that his work has led to “Matt Drudge giving Infowars.com a much coveted spot on the permanent links section of his hugely influential and highly trafficked website, DrudgeReport.com.”
The purpose of this RT story is to confuse people about Moscow’s intentions, and suggest a nefarious U.S. behind-the-scenes role in the tragedy.
But some people immediately recognized the item as Russian propaganda, with one commentator expressing disgust with Drudge by saying that it “Took Drudge only 5 minutes to regurgitate” Russian propaganda after the RT item was posted.
Drudge doesn’t grant interviews to explain his peculiar choice of news items, but his relationship with Jones has been criticized by such diverse sources as RedStateon the right and Media Matters on the left.
Paul Joseph Watson, a writer for Alex Jones, apparently considered the RT report to have some validity. “Putin’s presidential plane was original target of shoot down,” he posted.
We noted back in 2010 that RT has been eager to publicize Alex Jones and his various anti-American conspiracies because “they divert attention from the increasingly totalitarian nature of the Russian regime and the military threat that Russia still poses to American interests.” Jones was a regular guest on the RT propaganda channel, and defended Moscow’s invasion of its former Soviet republic of Georgia in 2008.
The eager acceptance of the Russian disinformation has once again focused attention on how some conservatives, such as talk-show host Michael Savage, are following the Kremlin line. Once an advocate of a strong U.S. foreign policy, Savage has featured Jones and his writers on his “Savage Nation” radio show, carried on more than 200 radio stations, including WMAL in Washington, D.C. On his Friday show, Savage blamed Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in part for the shoot-down, saying McCain had encouraged the overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, leading to the Russian invasion.
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