MH370 Didn’t Just Disappear, It Was Caught in a Swamp of Corruption

Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 10 months ago to Government
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Boy, this reads a lot like what the US can descend into with just a little shove from the left. Rich patrons, a controlled media and an incompetent government. Maybe a poster child for the left wing "greatness".....
SOURCE URL: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mh370-didnt-just-disappear-it-was-caught-in-a-swamp-of-corruption?yptr=yahoo


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  • Posted by Lucky 5 years, 10 months ago
    A bad article.
    Malaysia under under Najib, now deposed by the recent election result, was
    indeed very corrupt. But one of the most corrupt? Many nations are ahead in
    that unsavory race, nations where there is no semblance of national accounting.
    Malaysia has at least some level of accounting where the scale of the scandals
    can be estimated.

    MH370 loss due to corruption? No. The pilot deviated from the approved flight plan.
    Crucial tracking systems were turned off during the flight. The pilot chose a route
    he knew could be ignored by military radars of neighboring countries. Evidence of the
    deviations is on the flight simulator at the pilot's home.

    It is correct to say that the handling of the disaster by Malaysian government agencies
    has been inadequate. All the evidence is that the pilot had planned the diversion, the
    route and the direction so as to hit the ocean where the chance of finding wreckage
    would be low.

    Malaysian politics are a good source of entertainment for those of cynical dispositions.
    There is the usual combination of old fashioned corruption, racial and religious prejudice,
    and incompetence. The newer red/green/black dogmas are insignificant.
    New PM Mahathir, age 92, made some weird ideological statements before he retired
    in 2003, he has done a fine job in building the alliance to get rid of Hajib.

    The linking of corruption with the MH370 disappearance makes a controversial
    headline but that is all.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      Lucky, I would say that a lot of the link to coruption and the flight is that the country did NOT want a boatload of investigators digging into all the background material, and exposing the graft, cronyism and outright incompetence of the cronies. The article did focus on the fact the corruption was so bad they could not credibly investigate, then they obfuscated to hide all the stuff they did not want discovered. I was also pointing out the fact that even today, with all the media that is available, such corruption goes unreported and unnoticed, so then, why is the same not done here in the US? Look at how the left has monopolized the media, the same thing they did in Malaysia, Control the media and you can control the spin and propaganda, and you can get away with almost anything. Hat is why we had the IRS, the DOJ, the scandals, the corruption and all the criminal activity of the Obama gang, and now we will get more of the same, but of a different flavor, form Trumps gang.
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