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Airplane crashes over Eastern Ukraine
« on: July 18, 2014, 05:27:16 am »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-plane-disappears-over-ukraine-feared-shot-down-by-missile/2014/07/17/0fffe1e6-0dcb-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html?hpid=z1

Short version: an airliner crashed over the Eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board. There is strong speculation that it was downed by an air defense missile, likely from the separatists. Of course, the fighting parties are all insisting they had nothing to do with this and have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Meanwhile, regardless of cause or blame, almost 300 people are dead. One thousand of bread, one thousand of beer and one thousand of every good thing for each of the victims of the crash of MH17. May they ascend. May their loved ones be comforted.

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Re: Airplane crashes over Eastern Ukraine
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2014, 05:31:01 am »
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-plane-disappears-over-ukraine-feared-shot-down-by-missile/2014/07/17/0fffe1e6-0dcb-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html?hpid=z1

Short version: an airliner crashed over the Eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board. There is strong speculation that it was downed by an air defense missile, likely from the separatists. Of course, the fighting parties are all insisting they had nothing to do with this and have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Meanwhile, regardless of cause or blame, almost 300 people are dead. One thousand of bread, one thousand of beer and one thousand of every good thing for each of the victims of the crash of MH17. May they ascend. May their loved ones be comforted.

--Chabas

 
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Re: Airplane crashes over Eastern Ukraine
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2014, 06:05:45 am »
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Meanwhile, regardless of cause or blame, almost 300 people are dead. One thousand of bread, one thousand of beer and one thousand of every good thing for each of the victims of the crash of MH17. May they ascend. May their loved ones be comforted.

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Re: Airplane crashes over Eastern Ukraine
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2014, 12:38:37 pm »
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May their journey into the islands of the west be peaceful.
And may those loved ones left behind on earth find peace.

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Re: Airplane crashes over Eastern Ukraine
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2014, 01:07:11 pm »
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A thousand of every good thing. May they ascend and be welcome among the blessed dead. May those they left behind be comforted.
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Re: Airplane crashes over Eastern Ukraine
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2014, 02:28:21 pm »
Quote from: Chabas;153224
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-plane-disappears-over-ukraine-feared-shot-down-by-missile/2014/07/17/0fffe1e6-0dcb-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html?hpid=z1

Short version: an airliner crashed over the Eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.


Compounding the horror, many on the plane (I've heard the total may be as high as just over 100, but I'm hoping it's fewer) were top AIDS researchers heading to a conference in Australia. So this tribal idiocy, reaching out to destroy the lives of uninvolved innocents passing overhead, may well have set back the fight against AIDS by several years, perhaps decades.
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