Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company

splonglo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Look on the bright side here. What we have is a case of parts with some forged documentation. It’s not like planes had bandannas instead of spark plugs. We had a supplier forge some of the very rigorous documentation we require for plane parts. And they got caught. Later than we might have liked, but they weren’t found out because some plane crashed.

  Honestly, if you accept that there will always be some bad actors out there, this looks a lot like a system that’s working.

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The UK? What else is corrupt there? Not very knowledgeable about it.

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  • 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The UK Government has stopped court cases investigating corruption, as was the case with a Saudi arms deal. There’s the never ending corruption around members of the royal family selling influence to foreign elements, particularly from the Arabian Gulf but also former Soviet states. There’s the fact London has been the money laundering capital of the world for much of my life, this money has been used to influence politicians to turn a blind eye or even advocate for blatantly corrupt and abusive regimes - Tony Blair, a former head of government, is the best of example of such. He has spent at least a decade “advising” criminal regimes elsewhere on how to massage their images.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s the fact London has been the money laundering capital of the world for much of my life

      Had absolutely no idea about this. This is fascinating.

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      • 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Suggested reading:

        Butler to the World: The Book the Oligarchs Don’t Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away With Anything AND Money Land - Oliver Bullough

        The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones

        Kleptopia AND The Looting Machine - Tom Burgis

        Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens - Nicholas Saxson

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  • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Petty corruption is pretty decently under control (you can’t bribe a police officer if they pull you over), but institutional corruption, politicians amd their buddies, that had a field day with COVID measures and is very much alive and kicking.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wild man. I had no idea. As an outside person with casual interest, I don’t come across this kind of info much. I appreciate it.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fairly sure it’s just a top.

  No one else has the money to be corrupt. Although if any of you want to sponsor me, I’m up for it.

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  • KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes the thought occurs to me that the only thing standing between me and being absurdly rich by way of saying reprehensible shit on a YouTube channel, is my inconvenient conscience

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• TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thank Trump and Republicans

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  • NaughtyKatsuragi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the 1990s was a pinnacle of purity from America…

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