HALF-FULL REPORT 07/18/14
"Murder In The Air" was the cover of Newsweek when the Kremlin shot down Korean Air 007 on Sept. 1, 1983. To this day, the Kremlin has never apologized for what Reagan termed "the savagery of their crime against humanity."
Sound familiar? This morning we learned that there are recordings of pro-Russian separatists talking with a Russian GRU (military intel) colonel about their shooting down the Malaysian airliner yesterday (7/17), and that they have recovered the airliner's black box and sent it to Moscow. Putin Huilo promptly blamed Ukraine for the atrocity - while refusing to deny his mercenaries in Ukraine did it. Indeed, he denies any of his total sponsorship of the "rebellion" in eastern Ukraine.
The fallout of the MH17 shootdown is that Russia economically and Putin Huilo politically are both seriously screwed...
... But when, we ask, will Zero be screwed? On Monday, the liberal paper of Capitol Hill, The Hill, helpfully answered in a story headlined: Obama The Pariah. Yet to realize just how much a pariah Zero has become, there's the feel-good story of the week, that of Peggy Joseph...
... The HFR gives three cheers for three countries this week. First is, believe it or not, for France!
... The puzzle of the week: How can such a teeny-tiny fraction of folks in the US be so fascistically powerful? ...And here's the best news of the week:

