The NATO countriesâ answer to economic disaster, just like in the run-up to World Wars I and II, is aggression and war. As we saw with the leaked phone call in Turkey last week they are even prepared to stage events to justify an attack on an innocent neighbor. The fact that we are now in the nuclear age seems to have passed them by, but one imagines they believe, as US Strategic Air Command General Curtis LeMay said after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that, "...at any point the Soviet Union could have been obliterated without more than expectable losses on our side." Both China and Malaysia have been set against each other to a certain extent in a blame game and severely humiliated over the loss of MH370. Some may see this as âpayback timeâ for making bad decisions at the UNSC, suiting the all-powerful IMF as well as their affiliated, if twisted, and increasingly belligerent NATO military alliance very well.
Psychological warfare â news management First on Thursday, March 13, came Rolls Royceâs surprise announcement that the Boeing 777âs two Trent engines had been running for five or so hours after the plane was âlostâ. Then on Tuesday, March 18, came reports from a small Maldives newspaper Haveeru that half a dozen islanders had first heard and then seen a âjumbo jetâ flying very low. To quote the paper: âThey said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it â which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like, and it was heading in a southerly direction.â Both these stories were greeted in the international press by an avalanche of denials from government, military and other âexpertâ sources, none of whom could possibly have known whether or not the Rolls Royce or the Maldives Islanders were correct or not. This massive and instantaneous reaction is the clear signature of an Information Operations campaign to stop publication and broadcasting of those stories to the worldâs public and it largely worked. In the case of Rolls Royce, a retraction was even extracted from the engine manufacturers which the next day was forgotten, because the evidence Rolls Royce had was so robust and watertight. Far fewer individuals are killed, so the military argue, by the use of lies to win over a population than with guns, bombs and tanks. Quite right they are too. But what happens when journalists who are better at telling the truth than they are at lying are surreptitiously assassinated, as is widely believed to be the case with Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings? He had told the truth about US Afghan General Stanley McChrystal and got him sacked from the top post. Hastings was about to expose the new head of the CIA director John Brennan who is an advocate for using US Army Information Operations (I-Ops) Psychological Warfare cells against domestic US journalists and politicians. Itâs widely believed, including by former White House cyber-security adviser Richard Clarke said that Michaelâs Mercedes was âconsistent with a car cyber attackâ, or hacked. Accelerated to breakneck speed then steered into a tree where it exploded and he died. With MH370 we have two clear examples of hard evidence where military style news management or information warfare appears to be the only explanation for cascades of malicious news stories spreading at the speed of light around the worlds news-wires designed to kill what may well be the truth stone dead.
Similarities to the 9/11 attacks and Britains role The bizarre zigzag routes followed by MH370 are exactly the sort of flight path demonstrated during the September 11 attacks. On 9/11 we saw the same mysterious switching off, whether remotely or by the pilots, of transponders which should have been reporting the planesâ speed, altitude and position to air traffic control. If anything, the 777 is even more liable to cyber hijacking than the 767s involved in the 9/11 attacks. It was the first production aircraft to have no controls by which the pilot has direct influence over any part of the aircraft. Its all via the flight management system. Britainâs role too has not been entirely as an honest broker. Private military connected firm Inmarsat have given impressive looking maps instructing rescuers where to search, but consistently failed to reveal the raw data which, they say, led to those conclusions. The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch too has given expert advice without fleshing out the full reasons for its conclusions. On the other hand, Rolls Royce is the star of the piece, exposing an enormous flaw in the initial âlost planeâ theory: that MH370 flew on for over five hours. Airliners in trouble simply do not fly on for five hours and then plunge into the sea. In the land where, as of last week, friends and family are prohibited from sending Bibles to their loved ones in prison, nothing in the way of barbarism from our real leaders across the Atlantic, now entirely contemptuous of the world and citizenry they are supposed to serve, would surprise me.