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On April 10, 2010 at 10:41 a.m. Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed several hundred meters short of the Smolensk runway in dense fog. Within hours the Russian government issued a statement citing the incident on pilot error. Russia's final report on the incident blamed the late President Kaczyński and his "inebriated" air force commander-in-chief for using "psychological pressure" to force the Polish pilots to land in a low-visibility environment.
The plane's black boxes, laptops, sensitive documents, mobile phones, address books, telephone numbers, correspondence, and the top-secret military, NATO and diplomatic codes on board were salvaged from crash site immediately by the Kremlin's operatives in what was a "coup for Russia's intelligence service" according to retired CIA analyst Gene Poteat. What Nowaczyk calls "years worth of work for security services" was completed in a single day by Russia's OMON Special Purpose Police, which were immediately deployed to the site.
"From our point of view this report was full of mistakes," Nowaczyk explains, citing various inconsistencies and contradictions in the official narrative. A key issue raised by Nowaczyk's committee and the many online forums dedicated to the crash is that the amount of debris found at the site—an estimated 60,000 aircraft fragments—would be impossible in the case of a simple plane crash. He cites the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the 1996 TWA 800 flight out of New York, both of which exploded in the air but had only 11,000 aircraft fragments and 3,168 fragments respectively. Both planes were reconstructed to 95 percent completion. Nowaczyk believes that an explosion caused the fragmentation of the Polish president's plane. In the official report the plane's black boxes indicate that the aircraft's electricity was cut two to three seconds before the crash, which Nowaczyk believes also was caused by that explosion.
Any nation needs to address its energy needs realistically. Ukraine hasn't ... and it's beholden to a bully.
The eastern part of the country will go the way Crimea has gone and Putin will have won. Any country which has its energy supplies in Putin's hands would do well to take note.
Michael it isnt new I expect things will move quickly on this now Nabucco pipeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , I was involved in Audits 4 years agoAny nation needs to address its energy needs realistically. Ukraine hasn't ... and it's beholden to a bully.
The eastern part of the country will go the way Crimea has gone and Putin will have won. Any country which has its energy supplies in Putin's hands would do well to take note.
Who's up on the International Space station right now ....?
France has 75% of its energy supplied by Nuclear power plants. The world should be mass producing quantities of new Gen-4 breeder nuc-plants without pressure vessel containment and characterized by minimal, short-duration radioactive waste. JMHO. But of course, the world, haunted by overblown press reports of the disasters at the old and outdated plants at Chernobyl and Daiichi doesn't want to hear about new nuclear development.