At around 4:25 am on the morning of Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, investigative journalist, Michael Hastings met an untimely end in a fiery one car crash just south of Hollywood. On the face of it, the crash would be another automobile tragedy by some drunken reporter high on meth.
Because of the types of stories and very important people Mr. Hastings researched, wrote about and were threatened by, the inevitable conspiracy “theories” sprang forth in the world of cyberspace after his death. Then the Mainstream Media (MSM) could easily pat themselves on the back and chortle at the poor folks whose headgear consisted of tin foil. Meanwhile, the conspiracy forums would explode with in-fighting about which agency did what to who for how much money and why. The facts that emerged, however, had enough red flags to show a concerted disinformation campaign was in effect to help cover-up the murder of Mr. Hastings.
The day after the crash, a video from a Loudlabs stringer’s dash cam was released and voraciously eaten up by both the MSM and alternative press. Why? Because the video purported to show Mr. Hastings’ silver colored Mercedes blowing a red light at the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and Highland Avenue. Furthermore, that car supposedly crashed into a palm tree and “blew up” just south of Melrose Avenue on Highland Avenue, and inside that car, was the body of journalist Michael Hastings.
According to an MSM article by Dylan Stableford, a witness to the car running the red light, Michael Carter, posted what he saw to his Facebook page. He described a “pearl white Mercedes” that went by his car so fast that, “it shook my car like a freight truck going by.” He then goes on to describe that, “No telling how fast the driver was going. A taxi driver was in the far right lane and we looked at each other, both saying, “What the hell was that?”… By the time the light changed, I could only see the tail lights of the white Mercedes — it was probably past Willoughby by then which was the next red light that I got stopped at. The Mercedes was flying down Highland. The same cab driver pulled up to the light at Willoughby and I looked over at him again in disbelief. Right as I did, the cab driver said something to the effect of, “He didn’t make it.” The [car] was all the way south of Melrose at this point. I looked down Highland and saw a giant fireball at the base of one of the palms that line the medians on Highland. It was surreal.” It was also a perfect story for the official narrative.
The video from Loudlabs does indeed show a white or light colored car blowing the red light at a high rate of speed. About 90 seconds later the Loudlabs stringer’s car pulls away from the parking lot but does not go directly down Highland Avenue and instead travels down Santa Monica Blvd. because there hasn’t yet been a police scanner report of the crash/explosion. A car going in excess of 100 mph, which is the preferred MSM estimate, would take approximately 19 seconds¹ to travel from Santa Monica Blvd. to the crash site just south of Melrose Avenue, a distance of nearly 2,900 feet. An anonymous witness said her husband was running down the stairs while calling 911 about 30 seconds after the explosion/crash. He can be seen in the video attempting to douse the car fire with a garden hose. Two and-a-half minutes after the car ran the red light, the first call comes over the scanner about the explosion/crash at Highland and Melrose. There’s a lot of extra time laying around there. The car that ran the red light, if it was Mr. Hastings’ Mercedes, slowed down considerably by the time it approached Melrose Avenue.
Disinformation helps killers by allowing such inconvenient facts, for example, that Mr. Hastings was afraid to drive his Mercedes and wanted to borrow his neighbor’s car, emerge as mere coincidences. Disinformation wants folks to ignore that this article, about how terrorists [and, of course the military/industrial complex] can easily hack into a car’s computer control, came out the day before the explosion/crash. Yep. Take over the steering, control the speed, set off a couple of explosions. Just another pesky coincidence. Even a study by the University of Washington warned of the dangers of the ever-computerized automobile. Meanwhile, several witnesses to the explosion/crash described the car going off “like a bomb”. A witness told Loudlabs the car was on fire before it hit the palm tree. People in their homes heard the loud explosion which shook their houses and rattled their windows.
Then a restaurant camera video was released which showed a silver Mercedes driving down Highland Avenue and it is clearly not going in excess of 100 mph. The distance between the restaurant camera and the point of the car exploding is approximately 180 feet. The time between the car next to the camera and the point of the car exploding is 3 seconds. This results in a speed of about 41 mph², less than half the speed of the car running the red light up on Santa Monica. The posted speed on Highland is 35 mph.
The video shows two small explosions before the car comes to a stop in a huge fiery blast. 9–11 callers used words like “explosion” and an anonymous witness claimed that she was awoke by a loud explosion that rattled her windows and her entire bedroom was bathed in light even though her drapes were closed. As we can see in the video, the third explosion is huge and very bright.
Photos from the explosion site and published evidence show that something blew off the front of the entire left side of the car. The passenger compartment is hardly damaged due to the collision (something we’d expect to see in a collision of over 100 mph) and the engine and transmission were found intact about 250 feet down the street from the point at where the car stopped. What forces could propel the engine and transmission that far? The most obvious answer comes from what is seen on the video and what is described by various witnesses — an explosion.
Two months after the car explosion, the autopsy report was released. The coroner made his conclusions based on the false premise, aka the official narrative, that the decedent was involved in a high speed crash with a “fixed object” (the palm tree). In the report, the toxicology screen revealed that Mr. Hastings had trace amounts of marijuana and an amphetamine in his system which were both ingested several hours before the crash and were not contributing factors to the so-called accident. Predictably, the Mainstream Media (MSM) pounced on these trace amounts in their headlines essentially making Mr. Hastings a meth head in the eyes of the public and accommodatingly tamped down the many inconsistencies in the official narrative. Indeed, the release of the autopsy report, coupled with previously released witnesses accounts and videos, makes these many inconsistencies even more glaring and the obvious “blame the victim” meme even more disturbing. Unusually, the autopsy report even mentions the discovery of two empty alcoholic bottles “near” the crash site not once, but twice, even though the report states there was no alcohol in his blood.
Mr. Hastings also suffered a fatal wound that some might believe to be caused by an explosion, as opposed to a high speed crash, that of, “a displaced fracture of the skull extending from the right brow down to the left inferior occipital area.” However, the coroner makes no mention of any foreign (i.e., shrapnel) material or explosive residue in any of the open wounds. Yet, there is also described, “obvious open fractures were also observed to the right arm and both lower extremities.”
Mr. Hastings obviously suffered wounds compatible with a high speed crash, but the video shows the car to be going about 41 mph. The fire that engulfed the car after the final large explosion is entirely compatible with his postmortem injuries. Given the lower than official narrative speed of his car, his fatal antemortem injuries must have occurred before he was put into the car. This narrow conclusion, that Mr. Hastings was fatally injured before he was place into the car, is the only one that can reconcile all of the contradictory accounts of this so-called fatal car crash. Mr. Hastings’ car was hacked to deliberately “crash” into a palm tree while explosions went off. He was already dead when the “accident” happened. The hacking in this case would be a remote control operation of getting his car, with his body inside, to a point where the explosives could go off and then the disinformation official narrative could then be ascribed to another drug addled youngster driving too fast too late at night.
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[1] time = distance/speed, of course the faster the car is speeding the less time elapses
[2] speed = distance/time, some have argued that the restaurant video frames per second (fps) may be slower than the standard 30 fps, which would mean the car is traveling much slower than 41mph