The “information” we’ve gotten so far is spotty, contradictory, and of suspicious and uncertain provenance to say the least. The sources are not to be trusted, and can’t seem to get their stories straight, and different governments and agencies have only added to the confusion, I suspect primarily for an excuse to get some ships and planes in the area. The press has responded with speculation and speculations on the speculations, and endless elaborations by so-called experts who seem more determined to explore possible scenarios than they do to spell out exactly how little we know and how untrustworthy our sources are.

It would be interesting to sit down and parse everything we’ve been fed so far and try to determine its authenticity and accuracy, but nobody seems to be able or willing to do that. So far, the only thing we seem to know for certain is that the plane disappeared shortly after takeoff )and I’m not even sure who knows that, how, and why they told us. What happened after, all those debris sightings, earthquakes, satellite pings, data squawks, Malacca Strait radar echoes, maneuvers, alleged turns, are not only unverified, I’m not even sure who said all those things. Even the alleged timeline of events, what happened and when, in which order, and who said it, has never been examined critically and verified to a specific source. How do we now the satellite data reporting transmitter was turned off before the captain supposedly bid his controller farewell? This whole story has been dominated by “facts” which cannot be traced back to a name or an agency or some source which can be looked up and verified. This is why journalists have been grasping at straws, like that bogus Chinese earthquake.

I get the impression no one in the Malaysian air authorities has a clue what is happening, and they’re terrified someone might find that out. Nothing sinister here, just incompetence and disorganization; they’re a small-town provincial bureaucracy suddenly thrown into the world spotlight, and they are way out of their depth. And the press seems incapable of just looking at the camera and saying, “Sorry, folks. We just have nothing to tell you yet.” No, I don’t see any conspiracies here, just confusion. For all I know, the plane was hijacked by UFO aliens. We don’t know what happened, and we may never know. There may never even be enough useful evidence to come up with a plausible theory as to what happened, much less a solution to the mystery.

However, since we have reached the point where nothing can be ruled out, we might as well add a few speculations of our own.

1) The Russians masterminded the whole affair to cover up their activities in the Ukraine.

2) Obama did this to distract us from the Issa Benghazi and IRS Senate investigations.

3) Its all a CIA plot designed to divert us from the Brennan-Pelosi torture scandal kerfuffle.

Actually, I like the UFO alien hijack scenario best of all. Its only a matter of time before it turns up on the internet.

One final thing. That aircraft flies at approximately 500 miles an hour. Have you ever driven 500 miles on the Interstate? It takes all day at the speed limit. Now think of 500 miles of featureless ocean, deep and hidden from our eyes, all the way to the horizon. Think about that. It’s like the Grand Canyon Experience. No matter how much you’ve studied it or thought about it, or pictures and movies of it you may have seen, until you’ve actually seen it, until you’ve actually been there, until you cross a major piece of the world ocean at a speed you can relate to in your own personal experience, like on a ship (the speed of a running man), you have absolutely no idea how vast and empty it is out there. The world is really big, and the sea is very deep.

We may never learn what happened to that plane and the souls aboard her.