Michael Hasting's Crash

Above is the James Corbett Report.


 
Above is a recent San Diego news station reporter, Kimberly Dvorak, updating the investigation on Hasting's crash and death.  She explains that the evidence shows that the engine blew up before the crash and that the engine was BEHIND the vehicle when investigators arrived.  She also discusses the intensity and heat of the fire.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013: UPDATE #1
Michael Hastings' body was sent home to his family in an urn.  That was not requested by the family.  So whatever proof the family needed to prove that Michael did not die from alcohol or drugs and crashed the car from operator error, there is not evidence from which to check.  There is no follow-up.  What a horrifying thing that the family can't even grieve the death of their young son.  Apparently, this reporter, San Dego 6 news reporter, Kimberly Dvorak, herself has received death threats in her investigation.  Pray for the family.  Michael Hastings died on June 18, 2013. RIP Michael Hastings. 

Of the few news reports that I've read regarding Michael Hastings' coverage on military brass, I would say that this very public interview on the Piers Morgan show where he retraces David Petraesus' record and offers other reasons, real reasons as to why Petreaus should have resigned, to me, was the most damaging. For he belittled the reason that the mainstream media conjured up that he had an affair with Paula Broadwell. That may or may not have happened. But apparently he and the Pentagon needed a a story to cover up his war crimes that were dovetailing, perhaps, with officials involved in the Benghazi debacle. I don't know, of course. But it seems to me that in this interview Michael Hastings embarrasses the military brass very publicly. Some are trying to connect Michael's death with Gen. Stanley McCrytal's resignation. I doubt it. Could be but I doubt it. I think that Michael brought attention to how so many criminals in the Pentagon are profiteering from war while the embedded media, the media bought off and held under threat and intimidation is painting all of the military brass in very glowing colors. And here Hastings comes along and says wait folks, you're not going to believe this . . . .

Here is Michael Hastings' Rolling Stones article on General Stanley McCrystal.

What doesn't make sense to me in these speculations that somehow General Stanley McChrystal, or his close allies or anyone else, had a hand in Michael's death or killing is the fact that here in this interview he states openly that the Obama Administration has declared war on the press and then he in turn declares war on the government.  So here it comes directly from the horse's mouth, yet all the speculation is pointing to McChrystal. I have to read more and follow up more but my point is that if in fact Michael was killed that is doesn't necessarily have to come from McChrystal out of revenge for writing a Rolling Stones article on the military brass's contempt for the civilian branch of government. That just doesn't wash with what we know.

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013: UPDATE #2
I guess it was inevitable that other stories surrounding his death would circulate, but now it is reported that Michael Hastings was working on a story that involved computer software with sophisticated hacking capabilities.

The level of departmental control over all of the evidence in the crash, though not surprising, is complete.   "Despite the LAPD's categorization of the Hasting fatal accident as a 'no [evidence of] foul play,' LAPD continues to ignore FOIA [CPRA in Calif.] requests made by San Diego 6 News for the police report, 9/11 call, autopsy, bomb squad and toxicology reports, or make the Mercedes available for inspection which only fuels conjecture," added Dvorak."

The LAPD, as any police department around the country, the world decides that the political benefit far outweighs the costs in lawsuits from the family or interested parties.  That seems to be the case here the LA Coroner deciding unilaterally to burn Michael's body against the expressed wishes of his family and then to dramatize that insult with an implied threat by sending his body home in an urn.

SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013: UPDATE #3

I set the video to the 12:20 mark because it is at that point where the interviewer asks about Michael's body being removed from the car.  The witness's testimony is startling.  She says that Michael's body was charred from the shoulders up and covered his head, but that the rest of his body from the shoulders down was NOT burnt . . . and this after his car was consumed in a fiery ball!!  Evidently, there was an incendiary device above his chest that was set to go off.  Where?  The LAPD says that nothing is afoul here.  The coroner ordered Michael's body burned and so any subsequent investigations of his body are impossible.  All that his family and friends can do now is speculate from the video evidence, from eye-witness testimony, and from rumors circulating on the periphery online and in and around investigative reports.  This is a terrible loss for the family.  Terrible.  It may be an even greater loss for this country's culture.  Michael Hastings, what an energy!!
 

Speculation abounds. One writer over at DailyPaul suggests that the holes in the driver's side rear quarter panel are bullet holes.  The holes appear to me to be too uniform. If they are bullet holes, what would be their intended target? Hastings himself or some incendiary device rigged to his seat from the driver's side rear quarter panel?  The fact that the Coroner's Officer cremated Hastings' body after any autopsy, it may have been because he had bullet holes in him.  If that is the case, then those who shot him or those who ordered his killing also gave the directive to burn his body to destroy evidence of Michael having been shot. 

                         

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Update #4: DARPA tests remote control of vehicle.  If anyone is in doubt whether a car's controls can be hijacked remotely and steered in any particular way that those in remote control want, then this should be fairly convincing evidence what is possible.

 
Jim Stone seems to have the best analysis of what happened.  One, there was a bomb in the car.  The crash into the palm tree did not cause the debris field; on the contrary, it was a bomb that caused that.  Stone suggests that there were two bombs, one located somewhere in the engine well, which would be the only plausible explanation for the engine landing 130 feet south of the car's impact on the median.  The second bomb was placed near the fuel tank, so that upon the vehicle resting in its crash position an intense fire could be ignited to damage the evidence scene.  Quite an analysis.  Quite a story. 

He does offer some tips on how to unplug a remote control of one's vehicle, if in fact that ever happens to you.  It's here:
 

The safest car will have no antilock brakes, a manual transmission, and an old fashioned solid metal key. If you have such a car, even if it is manufactured after 2004, they probably won’t attempt a suicide run with it because all they can do is push the gas.

Solutions to the problem if your car is not one of the safe ones – A dashboard fuel pump switch, and a dashboard switch that can cut the power to the Antilock brake system. Once the antilock brake system is not functioning, the car is designed to default to mechanical brakes. Introducing a failure into the ABS system by disabling the sensors won’t work, because once hacked a totally new environment in which the sensors are irrelevant is created and the fact that the sensors are disabled won’t make any difference. If you want, add a third switch for the ignition system.

If I ever end up being able to buy a car again, I will take the ultimate option – put super strong tape on both sides of the plastic part of the fuse bodies, ALL OF THEM, and connect all of that strong tape from all of the fuses together to make a loop, which a rope is tied to and attached to a lawn mower pull start handle, and have that mounted to the underside of the steering column. The moment I notice the car getting wanky, just pull the handle and rip every single fuse out at the same time. That way you won’t void the warranty with any safety modifications.

It’s a sad world we live in when the government can pretty much murder anyone they wish. There is no doubt Hastings was murdered, but I think that with a few precautions your modern car can be made safe against a government hack. Remember, for now it is just the most important people getting murdered, but if it ever comes down to a hot fight against the people you can bet your shorts that the government will use murder via car crash as the ultimate option for getting rid of the resistance. They will no doubt do it en masse. The capability is there, via an always on cellular internet connection. Do you really think they won’t use it?