Now You See Them, Now You Don't

Great essay by Pepe Escobar about the fate of Flights MH370 and MH17:

First, passenger airliner vanished from Planet Earth. Then MH370 vanished from the news cycle. First, MH17 was shot down by “Putin’s missile” — as Planet Earth was told. Then MH17 vanished from the news cycle. Where’s Baudrillard when we need him? Had he been alive, the dervish of simulacra would have already deconstructed these two Malaysian planes as mirror images; from absolute vanishing to maximum exposure, then vanished again. They might as well have been abducted — and shot — by aliens. Now you see them, now you don’t.

http://www.greanvillepost.com/2014/08/17/vanishing-point/

It's not often that someone mentions Baudrillard. We truly are living in a continually changing simulacrum.