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© RIA Novosti / Alexey NikolskyRussia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Lavrov said the only way to have an impartial investigation is to have it under the aegis of the United Nations.
"Only honest, open participation of all who possesses information on the catastrophe can be considered normal," he told journalists at a briefing in Moscow.
"We'll regard everything else as attempts to influence investigators, question the presumption of innocence and - I don't want to accuse anyone - but we hope no one will try to cover tracks."
Moscow would like to see a UN Security Council resolution on the investigation adopted.
"We are concerned by the fact that some of our partners are trying to organize the investigation by means of holding separate bilateral talks with the Ukrainian authorities," Lavrov said.
Lavrov believes only the UN Security Council will be able to ensure the Malaysian Boeing crash site is safe for investigators. He has accused the Ukrainian government of not delivering on its promise of a ceasefire in the area.
Comment: Once again, Russia, in its words AND actions, shows it has nothing to hide. If only the world took notice. Instead, they are being bombarded with lies and innuendo from the very people hindering the investigation of MH17.
© US State Dept.This is what happens when you give lying half-wits Photoshop.
It reads:
State Department Press Corps:There is a 1.1MB file attached with pictures and a few words saying that the pictures indicate Russian firing into Ukraine territory.
Sharing with you the attached document with DNI images - evidence of Russia firing into Ukraine.
Regards,
State Department Press Office
As one with news and government experience, I am confident that information as important as this purports to be would not be released in this way. For several days reporters have been asking State Department press office spokeswoman Marie Harf for evidence to back her claims that Russian military is attacking Ukrainian forces. Harf has told the reporters that she cannot provide evidence. In other words, Harf's evidence is like John Kerry's evidence that he could never provide that Assad had used chemical weapons.
Suddenly the evidence appears in an email and is spread via social media. This is not credible. Such evidence if it actually exists would be released in a Washington press conference by top government officials with experts present to explain the meaning of the photos to the journalists and to answer questions. No real journalists, if any are left, are going to believe that such hot information would be released in an email. Moreover, the photos are meaningless to the uninitiated, and there is no way to judge their authenticity.
Additionally, it is not credible that such important information would be released at a news dead time - 8:45 AM EDT on a Sunday morning when the West Coast is still asleep.
© US State Dept.
The imagery was released via email, along with a four-page document titled 'Evidence of Russian Shelling into Ukraine.' Four satellite images were included, all dating between July 21 and July 25/26.
They were all posted on Twitter by the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, on Sunday.
The US "lies about obvious things," said Franz Klintsevich, deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
He stated that the satellite images are not enough to point fingers at Russia and accuse it of shelling Ukraine. In order to confirm such claims, the data must be backed by other sources as well.
"The American dialogue today is simply unsubstantiated," Klintsevich said, adding that he is not aware of Russia firing from its own territory into Ukraine.
© RIA Novosti / Andrey SteninThe aftermath of an artillery shelling of Slavyansk by the Ukrainian military
The report also states that these are the minimum casualty toll estimates by the UN monitoring mission and WHO.
The report says that the cause of the rising death toll is intensified artillery shelling of the civilian residential areas and the so-called "collateral damage" of the armed actions in the heavily-populated areas.
Also, 100,000 people were forcibly displaced in eastern Ukraine.
The Kiev authorities are using heavy weaponry and artillery in strikes on residential areas, while the armed rebels are firing back, the report states.
"Both sides must take great care to prevent more civilians from being killed or injured," she added. "Already increasing numbers of people are being killed, with serious damage to civilian infrastructure, which - depending on circumstances - could amount to violations of international humanitarian law. The fighting must stop," the report stated.
© www.presstv.irBrigadier General Hossein Salami, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)
"You [people of Israel] are trees without any roots which were planted in the Islamic lands by the British," Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami said at this week's Friday prayer sermon in Tehran, Fars News Agency reported. That statement referred to the Balfour Declaration, which led to the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire after World War I and the eventual creation of the state Israel in 1948.
"We will chase you house to house and will take revenge for every drop of blood of our martyrs in Palestine," Salami said. "and this is the beginning point of Islamic nations awakening for your defeat."
© the10mostknown.comAyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Salami, recalling previous wars Israel fought against Hezbollah in Lebanon, said: "The end of the Zionist regime [Israel] has arrived. Islamic movements are armed, missiles are positioned, and today we witness how the arms of the resistance in a corner of the Islamic world are controlling the events in the face of the tragic and barbaric attack by the Zionist regime against the oppressed and defenseless Palestinians in Gaza."
Comment: Hefty rhetoric with dire implications, in many ways well deserved considering the ongoing horrific slaughter of Palestinians from infants on up. It is recognized by millions, given the recent protests around the world, that the Palestinians need champions. By stepping up, Iran risks making itself a target in this cause and thereby playing into the Israeli "martyr/victim" trap that ensures unending U.S. and British support...footsteps to the precipice. Can we see the edge?
Let's be clear: I'm no fan of Hamas, a brutal and anti-Semitic group which has been accused by Amnesty International and other NGOs of human rights abuses against the people of Gaza and of war crimes against the people of Israel. Firing rockets into civilian areas isn't justified under international law, even if it is framed as part of a (legitimate) struggle against foreign military occupation.
Having said that, however, in recent days I've been debating supporters of Israel's latest assault on Gaza on radio and on Twitter and I've been astonished not just by the sheer number of fact-free claims made by those supporters, but also by their confidence, slickness and sheer message discipline. According to the pro-Israel, pro-IDF crowd, Hamas is to blame for everything.
This, of course, is utter nonsense. To quote the late US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
© Courtesy of US State Department
The authenticity of the images is impossible to prove, the ministry added.
The Defense Ministry stated that the images posted by the US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt on his Twitter account, allegedly proving the shelling of Ukraine from Russian territory, are "fake," ITAR-TASS reports.
"These materials were posted to Twitter not by accident, as their authenticity is impossible to prove - due to the absence of the attribution to the exact area, and an extremely low resolution. Let alone using them as 'photographic evidence'," Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the ministry, stated.
Comment: By planting fake pictures and 'evidence' on social networks, the U.S. and Kiev regimes are able to get all the perks of propaganda without having to prove their veracity.
© Image from gorlovka-eparhia.com.ua
Ukrainian Orthodox Church facilities in Gorlovka, in the Donetsk region have come under artillery fire from Kiev forces. The attack caused casualties in nearby streets and damaged some church buildings, according to the Gorlovka diocesan administration.
The Ukrainian army launched an artillery attack on Gorlovka city center at around 10 am local time on Monday. One of the shells hit the city's Orthodox Church premises, reports its press service.
"None of the employees were injured: the shelling occurred during the service when everyone was in the cathedral," it said in a statement. "The watch - who was in a utility room at a time survived by a miracle."
However, the attack resulted in casualties in the neighboring area.
© RIA Novosti / Mikhail VoskresenskiyFlight recorders of B-777 airliner that has crashed in Ukraine being transferred to Malaysian experts
The Ukrainian Security Council on Monday said that passenger flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine due to "massive explosive decompression."
The spokesman for the Council, Andrey Lysenko, told a news conference in Kiev the information came from experts analyzing the recorders from the plane that came down in territory held by anti-government forces in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 passengers on board.
However, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), which is heading the investigation into the crash, was puzzled by statements coming from Kiev. According to DSB spokeswoman Sara Vernooij, the "premature" release of details of MH17 black boxes is "not in the best interest of the investigation."
Comment: This is what psychopaths think of humanity. Both Western and Arab regimes support this because they are vicariously paying homage to the truest form of psychopathic destruction, what Orwell called 'a boot stamping on a human face - forever'.
You reading this are unlikely to ever experience what is happening in Gaza, so you are physically safe.
But having seen what is happening, you are simultaneously being given a choice: to turn away, or to look at it and express what you feel about it.
Tweet about it, rant about it, protest about it, JUST SHOUT INTO THE ETHER ABOUT IT, but whatever you do, realize that staying silent may cost you very dearly.
This is a battle for the survival of human conscience. Gazans are dying in the streets, while billions of others are 'dying inside', cored out to make way for that vacuous, pathetic entity creature called 'post-modern man'.
Your fate is bound with Gazans' fate. Each silent voice is one more subverted soul.