Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

&gt; &quot;I was openly accused of damaging my country&#x27;s reputation by talking about corruption,&quot;<p>I have seen this at a smaller scale in several companies. Human resources will negate any wrong doing of abusive upper management to avoid &quot;damaging the company&quot;. As, many good employees leave the company, lack motivation or passive-aggressively sabotage projects the company suffers massive damage, losses opportunities and money.<p>The people protecting corruption or abuse are not all evil, none of them is in moral high-ground, thou. But, it is the way companies are designed to reward personal loyalty to upper-management what makes the so prone to corruption and inefficiencies.<p>Design a company, or a country, that rewards loyalty to the company - not to the managers or rulers - and it will be extremely successful.<p>Meanwhile we are stuck in a situation that even assassination takes a long time to untangle and have an effect. It could be worse, at least we know what happened and we are free to talk about it. Improvement takes one step at at time.

Quite coincidentally I am currently living in Malta, and have for about nine months now. The place is... quixotic. The whole economy depends on tourism, internet gambling, offshore companies, and real estate (driven by the first directly and the second two indirectly).<p>This journalist’s death occurred well before I arrived but one does not need to look hard to the marks she left: there’s graffiti and stickers mentioning ‘Daphne’ all over the place. The prime minister Joseph Muscat was eventually forced to resign in January of this year over her death.<p>And yet, there’s a general sense that this case will never be satisfactorily closed, that the full story will never come to the surface, that the truth will never be known.

Daphne Caruana Galizia is among my personal heroes -- an extraordinary professional who worked tirelessly to publish the truth about power, corruption, and lies. Her work on the Panama Papers directly affected one of my consulting projects, and inspired my whole team to work better together.

One of the things I&#x27;ve started to consider recently. Ironically (or not) because of the tactics employed by our favorite President #45.<p>I think it&#x27;s a much cleaner tactic for powerful people to simply spend plenty of air time vilifying their enemies and let mentally ill people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder do their dirty work.<p>This way no important people ever come into contact with the terrorist(s), so they&#x27;ll always have plausible deniability.

Flashback: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Don_Bolles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Don_Bolles</a>

How do people find confidence to risk their life (and their kids&#x27; happiness) for a cause, when most people around don&#x27;t care about that cause and seem to be happy with the status quo?

There&#x27;s a great Podcast by Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of Daphne &amp; Tortoise Media.<p>4 Episodes a ~30min:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;share.transistor.fm&#x2F;s&#x2F;81b87c83" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;share.transistor.fm&#x2F;s&#x2F;81b87c83</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;my-mothers-murder-episode-1&#x2F;id1487320403?i=1000465109736" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;my-mothers-murder-epis...</a>

The most promising way to prevent politicians and criminals from trying to censor through killing journalists is to retaliate the killings by investigating the initiator and their allies until every crime they have committed has surfaced. As soon as it is clear that a flood of investigations are consequence of violence against people who speak the truth the risk of speaking should diminish greatly.

(2018)