Day: July 20, 2014

When big news happens, big audiences tune to FOX

Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity Hit New Ratings Highs With Crisis Coverage »

Coverage of both the Malaysia Airlines downed over Ukraine and unrest in the Gaza region helped two Fox News Channel programs reach new total-audience highs, according to data from Nielsen

Kelly is easy on the eyes. Hannity is not. Depending on your political beliefs, their voices are either that of angels or fingernails dragging on chalk boards. Regardless of it all: They won big.

I think one guy and my neighbor watched MSNBC’s coverage.

July 20, 2014
Russian separatists ensure conspiracy theories abound on Flight 17 shootdown

MH17 flew corpses as passengers, pro-Russia rebels claim »

This certainly muddies up the waters.. Conspiracy theories certainly abound.

The obvious conclusion some have made based off of the Russian claims of bloodless and long dead corpses is that this is flight 370—the missing plane..

Though at this point I don’t know what happened to the 300 that boarded flight 17, maybe they would be put on the next Malaysian flight that goes missing, and a horrible cycle begins..

BUT..

Before a conspiracy theory about flight 17 takes flight, consider this:

A fall from 33,000 altitude can cause cadavers (bodies) to almost instantly freeze, add this to high force of ground impact, it will make bodies (cadavers) appear to be decomposed. ..

This certainly could explain with logic why the Russian separatists are claiming that the bodies are long dead ..

If you believe the Russians to begin with..

July 20, 2014
As the flight was shot down…

Bodies rained down on Ukraine village after plane disaster »

Reuters reports some gory details from the flight 17 shoot down.. A snippet from their extended article:

One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova’s house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 exploded high over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces. “There was a howling noise and everything started to rattle. Then objects started falling out of the sky,” the 65-year-old pensioner said in front of her grey-brick home. “And then I heard a roar and she landed in the kitchen, the roof was broken,” she said, showing the gaping hole made by the body when it came through the ceiling of the kitchen in an extension to the house. The dead woman’s naked body was still lying inside the house, next to a bed.

The rest of the story gets worse.. Reuters reports many women and children being aboard this doomed flight. But even more disturbing is the lack of something .. CNN is reporting that the crash site is largely neglected..instead of forensics analysts on site to recover bodies, it’s a grab bag of personal possessions up for the taking by guiltless looters .. CNN reports:

Emergency workers tell CNN it’s not their job to collect the bodies. And a local pro-Russian rebel leader has said that officials from the Netherlands and Malaysia asked that the bodies not be moved. But rescue crews and inspectors from those countries are not on site. And to get there, they would have to drive about 90 minutes from the city of Donetsk down pot-hole pocked roads. But these lead through a war zone, past checkpoints set up by varying local militias. There is no central command, virtually no rule of law.

Disturbing at the least.. Sickening as well. Bodies just rot in the sunflower fields forever ..

July 20, 2014