Investigators Tie Russian Military To Missile That Downed A Commercial Airliner, Killing Nearly 300 People
The missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 was fired from a launcher belonging to the Russian military, an investigative team revealed for the first time Thursday.
While flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, the Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 298 people was shot out of the sky by a Buk missile fired from a farm near Pervomaisk, Ukraine. The missile was fired from a Buk TELAR (transporter erector launcher and radar) that belonged to Russia’s 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade, the Joint Investigation Team looking into the incident revealed at a press conference in the Netherlands, according to CNN.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/24/russian-military-tied-to-missile-commerical-airliner/
California needs help asap
As the June 5 primary for governor approaches, the debates have gotten so bitter because the stakes, for Republicans anyway, are so small.
When Donald Trump last week endorsed San Diego area businessman John Cox for California’s gubernatorial election, some of the Trumpiest grassroots Republicans were outraged. They blasted Cox, a fairly traditional conservative with a professional demeanor, and swore their fealty to Assemblyman Travis Allen, a populist Orange County bomb thrower whose campaign is built around cheerleading for the president.
It’s not worth getting too deeply into the relative merits of each candidate, given that either man will be inaugurated as governor around the time I’m tapped to be secretary general of the United Nations or named Pope Francis’ successor. Yet emotions run high. It reminds me of the old saying about academic politics: they are so vicious because the stakes are so small. Aren’t there better things to do than getting worked up over a pointless election?
It’s not that the election doesn’t really matter. The front-runner, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, is a San Francisco progressive who wants to create a single-payer healthcare system, something that could destroy our state’s medical care and economy. He’s also a zealous gun controller. Jerry Brown set spending records, raised taxes, embraced a burdensome cap-and-trade scheme, and pushed a bullet-train boondoggle — but he said no to most of the really crazy stuff. As he exits, California enters a new era where progressives will be in complete control.
It’s fascinating that Republicans and their grassroots activists continue to organize, fund campaigns, and keep their emotions high given that they have a ballpark-zero chance of succeeding. Indeed, it’s still a longshot that any Republican will win any of the statewide constitutional races, ranging from lieutenant governor to controller. It’s iffy if any Republicans even make it into the number two spot for the general election. Increasingly, I hear Republicans talk about getting onto that second spot as something of a victory, but it’s hard to see how doing so and then getting creamed in the election is worth the effort. There are no prizes for runner-up.
https://spectator.org/californias-gubernatorial-yawner/