Posted by Muarmali > 2014-03-17 09:29 | Report Abuse

Someone is spending millions ringgit to support the price. Don't waste money. Just let the market force drive the price.

Posted by tptan45 > 2014-03-17 09:36 | Report Abuse

If we don't use bomoh what else can we do?
1. we can't sue them in their country, no legal basis.
2. we can't debate them (never join debating club and always chicken out when ask to debate)
3. we can't stop them from asking questions (press freedom you know).
Bomoh is the way to go.

Posted by BEAMAN > 2014-03-17 09:38 | Report Abuse

I just hope MALAYSIAN WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE...if can.

Posted by BEAMAN > 2014-03-17 09:41 | Report Abuse

if someone think he can be helpful in their heart let it be..

Posted by Muarmali > 2014-03-17 09:41 | Report Abuse

With the existing law also they can't touch the bomoh don't talk about other type of law. It's the enforcement.

Posted by tptan45 > 2014-03-17 09:42 | Report Abuse

After this incident I hope the word 'bomoh' will become a verb like 'google'.
You know, I bomoh you, you bomoh him, we bomoh each other etc.
That will be the our pride.

Posted by Muarmali > 2014-03-17 09:44 | Report Abuse

Bomoh can slap a minister like a buaya = Lawlessness

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 09:58 | Report Abuse

Now all crocodiles are hiding as panda

Posted by pasarborong > 2014-03-17 10:04 | Report Abuse

Please think outside the box. The Boeing company boleh trace mana2 plane manufactured by them 24H7D a week especially boeing 777 which is most sophisticated. They can even remote from their controller. So sebenarnya Malaysia sudah jadi kambing hitam.

Furthermore, it's a treat to China from whoever done it...the motif of hijacking not clear. No ransom money requested. Therefore, it mush be a silent treat from a country that is not happy with China interferes the world matters...in my mind the only country that I can think of is USA.

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 10:07 | Report Abuse

Pasar borong, I got a miniature Boeing 777 that came from Boeing......sometime it flies by itself too........I thought was ghost. Now I know......remote control from US

Posted by LATO' SELI > 2014-03-17 10:07 | Report Abuse

Still await "kak Semah" to do something to resolve this as she did in the past

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 10:08 | Report Abuse

She also from Boeing??

Posted by BEAMAN > 2014-03-17 10:09 | Report Abuse

may be some want to take over MAS make this move when MAS share is press down they come and buy..

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 10:12 | Report Abuse

I think virgin airlines lah.......they like AA and now MAS......

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 10:12 | Report Abuse

So much work to buy cheap shares?? When the company is alredi on harakiri......

Posted by saltedfish > 2014-03-17 10:52 | Report Abuse

The newspaper reported that some US lawmakers have complained of a lack of information from the Malaysian investigators and a resistance to involving international law enforcement.

“It’s frustrating because of the lack of knowledge and because we’re dealing with the Malaysian government and we’re not getting a lot of info,” it quoted House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) as saying.

The paper said Malaysia’s leaders and officials are being questioned robustly with the most stinging criticism over the search for Flight 370 coming from China.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged Malaysia to step up search efforts and improve the coordination, it added.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/scrutiny-on-malaysia-intensifies-as-search-enters-2nd-week#sthash.9ET8hj5p.dpuf

Posted by saltedfish > 2014-03-17 10:53 | Report Abuse

“It’s frustrating because of the lack of knowledge and because we’re dealing with the Malaysian government and we’re not getting a lot of info,” it quoted House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) as saying.

Malaysia kena tixx

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 10:55 | Report Abuse

The Malaysia Airlines Pilot’s Politics

Zaharie Ahmad Shah supported Anwar Ibrahim. That’s common sense, not zealotry.

There is an axiom in Malaysian politics: Eventually everything comes back to Anwar Ibrahim. So, the longer that the fumbling and inept investigation into the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has gone on, the more certain it became that it would somehow boomerang to the leader of the country’s democratic opposition.
William J. Dobson William J. Dobson



On Saturday, Prime Minister Najib Razak went before the cameras to declare that officials believe the plane was deliberately diverted and flown in an unknown direction somewhere along a wide arc from Kazakhstan to deep into the Indian Ocean. Now that the search for the Boeing 777 has turned into a criminal investigation, the authorities are taking a close look at the flight’s chief pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and its first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid.

They quickly learned—as no doubt all of Shah’s friends knew—that the pilot was a strong supporter of Anwar Ibrahim’s People’s Justice Party. Indeed, Shah is believed to have attended Anwar’s court hearing on March 7 that overturned his 2012 acquittal on sodomy charges, a politically motivated case that the Malaysian government typically dusts off around election time. On Sunday, the U.K. and Malaysian press treated the revelation with the shock you might reserve for damning evidence. Shah was described—by an unnamed source—as a “fanatical supporter of the country’s opposition leader.” Elsewhere, he is described (apparently by unnamed police sources) as “fervent” and “strident” in his political convictions. More than a week after the Boeing 777 disappeared, we lack a motive, a clear suspect, or even a crime scene, but we have our “Anwar Ibrahim connection.” That is Malaysian politics.

A fanatical supporter of Anwar Ibrahim does sound scary—as long as you know nothing about him.

Anwar is the 66-year old opposition leader who is the principal thorn in the side of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) that has ruled Malaysia for 56 years. Anwar heads a coalition of parties, which includes his own multiethnic party, that has made the greatest inroads against the country’s corrupt masters. In 2008, the opposition won more than a third of the seats in parliament—the first time that UMNO lost its supermajority that allowed it to change the constitution at the prime minister’s whim. Anwar, who had been a political prisoner for six years, most of it in solitary confinement, won his seat in a landslide, and the opposition won five of the country’s 13 state governments. Last year, his opposition party claimed to have won the election against the ruling party, a contest that many say was marred by widespread fraud. Anwar supported the massive protests that followed the ruling party’s supposed victory, but he never called for a toppling of the government.

Anwar is trying to defeat Malaysia’s authoritarian regime through elections—not terrorism, let alone revolution. So, to be clear, what we know is that the pilot of MH370 is a fanatical supporter of a nonviolent man who supports a pluralistic and democratic Malaysia.

Of course, we don’t know Shah’s precise state of mind, and it is true that hours before the flight, his political hero had just been dealt bad news with the court’s decision to overturn his previous acquittal. But this is not news that Anwar or his close supporters would have found shocking. On several occasions I have interviewed Anwar, most recently at his home in 2011, he was always forced to operate under the threat of these politically trumped-up charges that he viewed as nothing more than a weak effort to discredit him. Indeed, few Malaysians view the government’s accusations as anything other than evidence of crooked politics, and Anwar has only become more popular and UMNO’s rule more brittle.

But, if we are engaging in wild theories—and why not, this is Malaysian politics—then why would unnamed police sources be playing up the pilot’s political beliefs a week after we are no closer to knowing the truth about MH370? Because the Malaysian authorities’ performance during this investigation is a pretty reasonable approximation of what passes for governance in a corrupt, nepotistic regime that long ago lost any purpose besides accumulating wealth and extending its own power. Malaysia has fallen behind its Southeast Asian competitors economically in large part because of its stunted political culture. Acting transportation minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s defensive press conferences and updates, which range from opaque to contradictory, are what you’d expect from government ministers who are seldom expected to answer questions.

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 10:55 | Report Abuse

So, is it possible that Shah hijacked the Malaysia Airlines flight in some twisted form of protest against the government? Of course—even if it seems a less likely explanation than the half dozen other theories that are being floated. Because, whatever happened on board Flight 370, Shah’s support of Anwar Ibrahim is the one piece of evidence that suggests he had a firm grip on reality, not that he was trying to escape it.

Read the rest of Slate’s coverage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html

Posted by BEAMAN > 2014-03-17 11:01 | Report Abuse

foreirener in now keep buying MAS share.. something fishy.

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 11:11 | Report Abuse

Posted by BEAMAN > Mar 17, 2014 11:01 AM | Report Abuse

foreirener in now keep buying MAS share.. something fishy.


BEAMAN, any statistics or proof or data to show?

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 11:19 | Report Abuse

i think he also got bamboo binoculars ability

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 12:42 | Report Abuse

Aiyo more govt attacks by China

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 12:42 | Report Abuse

http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/mobile/article.php?id=280628

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 12:55 | Report Abuse

Chinese slam Malaysia for ‘contradictory’ information
March 17, 2014

china MASBEIJING: Malaysia drew a fresh round of scathing criticism from China Monday over conflicting information on missing jet MH370, with state media and social media users voicing increasing scepticism as the search enters its 10th day.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday announced that the Malaysia Airlines flight’s disappearance may have been “deliberate” and that the aeroplane flew for several hours after leaving its intended flight path.

In an editorial, the China Daily newspaper questioned why the announcement from Kuala Lumpur came more than a week after the flight vanished and wondered whether Malaysia was sharing all of the information it had gathered.

“The contradictory and piecemeal information Malaysia Airlines and its government have provided has made search efforts difficult and the entire incident even more mysterious,” the newspaper wrote.

“What else is known that has not been shared with the world?” it asked.

Two-thirds of the passengers on board the flight were Chinese, and Beijing has been critical of Malaysia’s sharing of information — a concern reiterated Monday as fears mounted that the plane might have been hijacked.

“It is of the utmost importance that any loopholes that might have been exploited by hijackers or terrorists be identified as soon as possible because we need counter-measures to plug them,” the China Daily wrote.

Yao Shujie, the head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, wrote in an op-ed in China’s state-run Global Times newspaper that Malaysia “has lost authority and credibility” due to its chaotic response.

“The lack of national strength and experience in dealing with incidents has left the Malaysian government helpless and exhausted by denying all kinds of rumours,” Yao wrote.

He added: “If the search continues to be fruitless even following the new information, Malaysia would be better off handing over its command in the international rescue operation.”

The plane’s disappearance remained the most hotly debated topic on China’s popular social networks, with many users of Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, echoing concerns over the Malaysian government’s release of information.

“Why is it only now that they’ve confirmed it may have been hijacked?” one Sina Weibo user wrote Monday morning in response to the latest revelations by Kuala Lumpur. “Malaysia, what else are you hiding?”

Another posted: “I’m really getting more and more disappointed in Malaysia and their unreliable government. I’m not planning on travelling there anytime in the future.”

Last week, one of the most widely forwarded messages was a posting that read: “Vietnam keeps discovering. Malaysia Airlines keeps denying. China keeps sending rescue teams.”

On Monday, the meme had taken a new twist.

“Malaysia has been telling a week’s worth of lies. Vietnam has fished out a week’s worth of trash. China has forwarded a week’s worth of news,” read the latest viral message.

-AFP

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/17/chinese-slam-malaysia-for-contradictory-jet-information/

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:06 | Report Abuse

The Baseless Rush to Blame the Pilots of Flight 370
Malaysian leaders have turned the airmen into scapegoats without a single persuasive fact. Meanwhile, the government’s culpability in the loss of 239 people grows.

Commercial aviation has never faced a crisis as grave as the one presented by Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370. At a time when flying has never been safer airplanes just don’t go missing without trace. And yet one has, taking 239 people with it. Vanished.

Public confidence in the governance of international air travel is shaken. The reputation of two world-esteemed companies, Boeing and Rolls Royce, is at stake. Not only that, but the whole technical hubris of the age of super-connectivity has been rendered hollow by the discovery that, in fact, we are not being watched all of the time wherever we are on the planet. There are, it turns out, vast voids as little watched over as the moon.

This sad drama has been compounded by an engulfing fog of speculation, frequently reaching a tone of hysteria. People are spooked. They want information that nobody is able to provide. We have come to expect quick enlightenment. That isn’t possible. We demand transparency and coherence. They’re not happening.

What little evidence there is has been contaminated by the performance of the Malaysian authorities. They resemble a bunch of dumb cops blundering over a crime scene, arguing over what it reveals and what it does not and competing for attention. In a sadly familiar ploy of the pursued, the prime minister himself was put up to float a theory so far lacking in any persuasive facts: the pilots did it. Dead men have no defense.

So, after nine days, what can really be understood about the forensics of this tragedy?

There are two apparently solid facts that condition everything else:

After their last routine exchange with controllers the pilots never sent any Mayday or distress message. The captain’s last reported words were calm and normal: “All right, good night.”

The transponders – the airplane’s continual link with the outside world, receiving and sending information about its position, were turned off.

Essentially, these two triggers ensured that the Boeing 777 would disappear. That could be either by design, by deliberate human intervention, or as a result of a technical failure.

There were two other ways for the airplane to automatically report its progress. All modern jets have computers constantly monitoring their systems and, in a limited way, able to send status reports to flight control centers on the ground. The 777 was equipped with Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). In the case of Flight 370, no messages sent to Boeing and engine-maker Rolls Royce indicated a problem.

After a whole week went by, it emerged that the 777 was also linked to a satellite system operated from London by Inmarsat. For some hours after all other communications stopped, the airplane was sending a “ping” recording its presence to a satellite. (The Financial Times reported that Malaysian Airlines had not paid for the service, and the pinging was “an empty signal” – the minimum remaining after a deactivated automatic data link.)

What is interesting about this ability of the airplane to monitor and report its health, or otherwise, is that if Flight 370 had been an Airbus, and not a Boeing, the volume and quality of the information would have been different.

The cockpits of Boeing and Airbus airliners reflect a fundamental difference in the philosophy of how an airplane is commanded. Boeing, in designing the 777, held to its traditional idea that a pilot should always have the ultimate authority over the machine. Airbus, on the other hand, believes that more authority should be placed in the computerized flight management system because it is less likely to make mistakes than a human. There is nothing in the safety record of either company to claim that one is better than the other.

However, when Air France Flight 447 disappeared over the South Atlantic in 2009, investigators had telling clues to its condition within hours. This was because the Airbus A330 had sent 24 so-called fault messages via satellite to a maintenance base in Paris. These were as a result of its Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitoring system (ECAM), which itself reflects the precedence given by Airbus to automated flight controls.

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:09 | Report Abuse

It turned out that these messages described an incremental shutdown of the airplane’s flight control computers, requiring the pilots to take over. The computers were being fed anomalous data because of a failed air speed gauge. The pilots, poorly trained, bungled the hand over, and lost control.

Had the Malaysian 777 been able to transmit such a detailed record of its behavior before disappearing, we would have been more able to discount or pursue possible and imminent mechanical failure – like, for example, any gradual loss of cabin pressure because of a leak in the fuselage structure or a problem in the cargo hold.

What was happening in the cockpit of Flight 370? Turning off the transponders was a simple step for the crew, just a matter of a few twists to the left of a dial placed between the two pilots—not accessing some circuit breaker above. That would be a very strange thing for them to do. It would, however, be the first thing a hijacker who got access to the cockpit would want to do.

Yet why would any hijacker direct an airplane out into the great void beyond surveillance and without making demands for the safe release of the passengers?

A suicide pact by the crew has been raised, but in the two most recent suicidal crashes the pilots pushed down the nose and dived to the water instantly. This was the case with an Egypt Air Boeing 767 soon after leaving JFK airport in 1999 and a Silk Air Boeing 737 flying from Jakarta to Singapore in 1997. A suicidal pilot does not prolong the agony.

When it comes the psychological behavior of pilots, the Malaysians are doing the reverse of what the Egyptian and Indonesian authorities did in those two crashes. In each case the idea of suicide was anathema to the national cultures. The authorities contested the verdicts of the crash investigators and, instead, asserted (without credibility) that the crashes were caused by mechanical failure.

The Malaysian authorities are doing the opposite: impugning the aircrew without any tangible evidence. First with the prime minister’s assertions of deliberate actions, and then by staging police raids on the captain’s home.

One TV so-called analyst extrapolated from the fact that the captain had a self-built flight simulator in his home that he might have been practicing left turns. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was one of the airline’s longest serving pilots, logging 18,000 hours in the cockpit. He didn’t need to rehearse any turns; he had made many thousands of them. The simulator was probably used to keep him current with software updates to the 777’s systems. Pilots often use simulators to keep their airmanship sharp – in these days of automated flight decks there is a danger of losing some of the old “seat of the pants” reflexes that can be crucial in an emergency.


Some sources have reported with a straight face that the Boeing 777 soared to a height of 45,000 feet as whoever was in control deliberately sought to disable passengers. First, at that height the airplane would be way beyond its operational ceiling and uncontrollable. Second, at this early stage in its flight it was loaded with fuel that would have made it a struggle to reach even 38,000 feet.

How safe is the 777? There was a brief flurry of alarm when it emerged that the Federal Aviation Administration had issued an Airworthiness Directive after inspectors found corrosion in one model of the 777 that could have led to a structural failure and loss of cabin pressure. It turned out that the Malaysian 777 was of a model not affected. In any case, Airworthiness Directives are issued all the time – they are the direct result of experience with the daily operations of airplanes, and they are the front line that ensures that prospective problems are detected early.

The 777’s safety record is exceptional. One way of illustrating this is to compare it to the much smaller 737. Since it first entered airline service in 1968 more than 4,200 people have been killed in 737 crashes. Until last summer the 777, which entered service in 1995, had not killed a single passenger. (Last year’s crash in San Francisco was caused by pilot error.)

For fairness and clarity, this comparison must be qualified. The 737 is a world-wide daily workhorse on domestic routes, sometimes making as many as seven flights a day. Ten thousand 737s have been either delivered or ordered, and the accident statistics are influenced by the fact that many older 737s fly in regions like Africa with lax safety oversight and where crashes are too frequent.

More than 1,170 777s have been delivered and they fly long routes with far fewer flights being made per day, a less punishing regime. Nonetheless, the 777 is of a far later generation in its technology than the 737 and consequently benefits from advances made in its structure.

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:09 | Report Abuse

In the case of the Malaysian 777, was there a problem in the cargo hold? Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board discovered that there was an unusually large consignment of lithium-ion batteries on the cargo manifest. This technology is more recently known as the cause of fires that led to the grounding of the Boeing 787 fleet, but lithium-ion batteries for personal electronic devices have been a frequent cause of emergencies in cargo holds and baggage handling.

They are prone to overheating and combustion. The FAA’s Office of Security and Hazardous Materials Safety records many of these incidents in the U.S., including a fire caused by a battery on a self-propelled surf board on a FedEx airplane.

If there had been a battery-induced fire in the cargo hold of Flight 370, automatic smoke warnings would have alerted the pilots and they surely would have had time to report an emergency.

There is, however, a relevant example of a large airplane being lost over the Indian Ocean after a cargo fire. In 1987, a South African Airways 747 with a 159 people aboard suffered an uncontrollable cargo fire that began with computers packed in polystyrene. The airplane fell into a deep part of the ocean east of Mauritius.

Although the searchers had what they regard as the single most important aid to an undersea mission—a starting point based off the airplane’s last known position—it took two years to recover the flight recorder from depths as great as 15,000 feet.

To be sure, the technology of submersibles and of deep water searches, driven largely by trophy and treasure hunters, has improved immensely since the 1980s, as the successful locating and recovery of the wreck of Flight 447, also after two years, shows. The search now being conducted for Flight 370 includes the far reaches of the Indian Ocean where the depth can reach 20,000 feet. In that case the challenge of finding it will be unprecedented.

It will probably take years before the investigation reaches an outcome. Right now it requires a skillful combination of dedicated people working with many different disciplines, scientific, forensic, managerial, informational, humanitarian, military, legal, and political. It will involve different languages and cultures. Commercial interests have to be reconciled with the public need for clarity and integrity.

So far the way this task has been handled is not encouraging. The Malaysians have asked for the help of 25 countries in the expanded search. Now nations are being asked to check their radar records, which is strange since if anything as large as a 777 had been flying rogue through busy international air corridors and over militarily sensitive sites would have triggered alarms instantly.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/16/the-baseless-rush-to-blame-the-pilots-of-flight-370.html

Posted by Bobby31 > 2014-03-17 13:12 | Report Abuse

Well we just discover a lot of people can read the future and a lof of assumption
Now focus on the pilot

Hello Just think One man how to Hijack the plane ??? Unless it's a suicide mission fly untill nomore fuel and crash it
If acted a lone when he landed the passenger can killed him and call for help?

This is a mystery with a lof of inteligence country assisting but all cannot get an accurate assumption?
SOmethig so big ?Where to hide ? Nobody seen it ??? Impossible right
If crashed why is the signal in Black box cannot signal out ?
If crash where is the Debris ?

This is a Test of the world inteligence ? Nobody got answer ??
If hijack the people is the best insurance ??/Why no demand made ? It is expensive to feeed 239 people for more than 8 days ???
nobody knows the answer

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:16 | Report Abuse

A Plane Disappears, Malaysia's Flaws Emerge

Confusion doesn't normally make for a great economic indicator. But the chaos that's marred the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is revealing quite a bit about Malaysia's potential -- or lack thereof.The Southeast Asian nation has long been hobbled by a political culture that places the ruling party's needs over those of the Malaysian people. For six decades, Prime Minister Najib Razak's United Malays National Organisation has appeared to have only one goal: to maintain its hold on power. It's thus promoted -- and recently reinforced -- Malay-first racial policies that benefit its political base.



The side effects, including stagnant living standards, waning competitiveness, and the humiliation of Malaysia's sizable Chinese and Indian minority populations, are all overlooked in the service of this larger goal.The bungled search for Flight 370 has simply made manifest the consequences of this cynical bargain. How does someone like Hishammuddin Hussein become defense minister and acting transport minister in Southeast Asia's third-biggest economy? Even with his nearly 20-year stint as a legislator and more than a decade in ministerial posts, it can't hurt that he's also the scion of a powerful political family. The lamentable manner in which he has fielded questions about the search underscores how unaccustomed Malaysia's leaders are to being questioned by anyone.



This mind-set also explains why Malaysia is ensnared in the middle-income trap that South Korea and Thailand escaped years ago. Rather than free the economy from race-based quotas and business preferences, the party has expanded them. Never mind that these policies make Malaysia even less attractive to multinational companies and encourage so many of the nation's best and brightest to move to Singapore and Hong Kong. Or that the Philippines and Indonesia are surging ahead as Malaysia looks backward.The country is proving to be all hardware and no software.



For years, UMNO acted as though top-quality roads, state-of-the-art ports and bridges, iconic skyscrapers and a swanky new capital in Putrajaya would inevitably pave the way to prosperity. But economic software is even more important. And on that front, Malaysia has never bothered to cut red tape, level the playing field for non-Malays, or introduce the competitive forces necessary to stimulate entrepreneurship.



Why bother when all the party needs to do to stay in power is redraw voting districts, bribe the masses with fat handouts, invoke religion when necessary, and muzzle any pesky publications that dare to write about corruption and privilege? All this explains why per-capita income in a resource-rich nation with an enviable geographic position in Asia has stalled at near the $10,000 mark. Malaysia is stuck in the middle-income trap because its leaders are stuck in time.The families of the victims of Flight 370 deserve better. But then, so do the Malaysians whom Najib claims to serve.



- Bloomberg

http://rakyattimes.com/index.php/news/262-a-plane-disappears-malaysia-s-flaws-emerge

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:23 | Report Abuse

The media’s shameful Malaysia Airlines coverage: Gawking at a foreign disaster

Putting My Foot Down


I doubt this issue is as 'complicated' as the author tries to suggest. It is true, for example, that any half-competent Air Force would have noticed (and acted upon) a plane veering so far off course. It is also true that Malaysian Airlines isn't a very well-run airline, something its extremely high annual losses might suggest. It is also true that many of the statements by Malaysian officials thus far have been confusing, contradictory, and misleading, and that a lot of this mismanagement has something to do with the fact that the Malaysian government (and government linked companies like Malaysian Airlines) are largely run by corrupt incompetents, reflective of a system that gives out rewards based on race, cronyism, and political loyalty over merit. These aren't so much opinions as facts. Seems to me like the foreign media agencies (or some of them anyway) have formed a reasonably accurate impression.

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/16/the_medias_shameful_malaysia_airlines_coverage_gawking_at_a_foreign_disaster/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:29 | Report Abuse

MH370 pilot’s support for Anwar shows ‘he had firm grip on reality’, says US journalist

A senior American journalist has slammed any attempts to link the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to its political opponents, following reports that the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pic), is an opposition supporter.

British tabloid Daily Mail had described Zaharie as a fanatical supporter of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and quoted Malaysian officials as saying that the investigation was also looking into the experienced pilot's political affiliation.

But writing on the US current affairs magazine Slate.com, its foreign affairs editor William J Dobson said the fact that Zaharie was an Anwar supporter should put a stop to suggestions that he had a role in the plane's disappearance.

"Because, whatever happened on board flight 370, Zaharie’s support of Anwar Ibrahim is the one piece of evidence that suggests he had a firm grip on reality, not that he was trying to escape it," said Dobson.

The Daily Mail had described Zaharie, who is a PKR member, as a "fanatical supporter" of Anwar.

"A fanatical supporter of Anwar Ibrahim does sound scary – as long as you know nothing about him," said Dobson, briefly describing the events which led to the Court of Appeal overturning Anwar's acquittal on a charge of sodomising his former aide.

On March 7, Zaharie was said to have been present at the court as a show of support for Anwar.

Dobson, who has interviewed Anwar several times, said few Malaysians took the sodomy allegation seriously, adding that Anwar's quest to overthrow the government was through peaceful means.

"Anwar is trying to defeat Malaysia’s authoritarian regime through elections – not terrorism, let alone revolution. So, to be clear, what we know is that the pilot of MH370 is a fanatical supporter of a non-violent man who supports a pluralistic and democratic Malaysia," he said.

Dobson also scathingly described the Malaysian authorities handling of the investigation as reflecting its "corrupt, nepotistic regime that long ago lost any purpose besides accumulating wealth and extending its own power".

"There is an axiom in Malaysian politics: eventually everything comes back to Anwar Ibrahim. So, the longer that the fumbling and inept investigation into the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has gone on, the more certain it became that it would somehow boomerang to the leader of the country’s democratic opposition," Dobson said. – March 17, 2014.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/mh370-pilot-support-anwar-shows-had-firm-grip-044903965.html

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 13:34 | Report Abuse

Bobby31, base on your excerpt below, we will have the answer in another 8 days.....we work on multiple 8 days, don't complain. Just look at Klia 2, postpone 3 times day and we will open on May 2nd says Hishamuddion. You either follow or get out of the country. OK!!
Alamak but they cannot ask the foreign press to get out an they.....for that as tptan suggest we use bomoh......send u to alam ghaib.


This is a Test of the world inteligence ? Nobody got answer ??
If hijack the people is the best insurance ??/Why no demand made ? It is expensive to feeed 239 people for more than 8 days ???
nobody knows the answer

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 13:38 | Report Abuse

Did all the feng sui master make a mistake on aviation being in their pick?

Posted by bomoh1 > 2014-03-17 13:47 | Report Abuse

Just by todays headlines on Sun UK I sold all my mas for a very small loss better F off now., Bloody useless stock run by bunch of coconuts!!!

Posted by bomoh1 > 2014-03-17 13:49 | Report Abuse

God forbid but if the pilot was involved the Chinese will come back with a vengeance. Try entering their country next time, especially you know who!!!!.

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 13:53 | Report Abuse

Soon a lot of countries also cannot enter and carrying coconut even worse......

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:53 | Report Abuse

Pesawat MH370 ‘disorok’ Amerika di Diego Garcia?

SHAH ALAM 17 MAC: Pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 yang hilang masuk hari kesepuluh hari ini didakwa ‘disembunyikan’ di Diego Garcia, pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) di Lautan Hindi.

Menurut portal Cabal Times, sekiranya spekulasi pesawat itu terbang ke pangkalan tentera AS di Diego Gracia adalah benar, radar Indonesia sudah pasti mengesan kedudukan pesawat tersebut.

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http://bm.selangorku.com/47051/pesawat-mh370-disorok-amerika-di-diego-garcia/

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 13:56 | Report Abuse

Why didn’t Malaysian military react to MH370 blip on radar screens, ask investigators

Investigators are puzzled over Malaysian military's inaction in responding to an unidentified blip on their radar screens that was later said to be the missing flight MH370, the New York Times reported today.

It reported that the plane flew past three military radars and over Penang but nothing was done to identify it, which would have helped prevent its disappearance.

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http://my.news.yahoo.com/why-didn-t-malaysian-military-react-mh370-blip-062053948.html

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 13:56 | Report Abuse

Assuming if whizz kid posting is true, how will this end?
why would US want to do that?
They want Anwar to win? or
They want to show their might? or
The want to crash the plane and blame Malaysia? or
They want to sell the plane to pay their debt? or
The want spare part? or
The want to show how vulnerable the world is at their mercy?

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 13:58 | Report Abuse

The blip question already answered lar....

Posted by bomoh1 > 2014-03-17 13:58 | Report Abuse

Coconuts are now banned in Australia!

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 14:02 | Report Abuse

The Star in its report “Doomed airliner pilot was political fanatic …” links MH370’s flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Would the paper give the same coverage if the report had said the pilot was a fanatical BN supporter?

Even if the points raised are proven credible and factual, is Anwar to blame for the lunacy of a pilot overwhelmed by a court case?


..then read this..

Quickly arrest Anwar and save Malaysia and the world!


It seems now is the opportunity and time to blame Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for the missing MAS Boeing 777.

Better still, arrest Anwar immediately, since Malaysia’s so-called No 1 English newspaper and BN-MCA’s mouth piece The Star has found a report of the UK’s The Mail on Sunday credible for publication.

One wonders if The Star would give the same coverage if the report had said the pilot was a fanatical BN supporter.

The report titled “Doomed airliner pilot was political fanatic …” links MH370’s flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah to Anwar.

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http://www.theantdaily.com/news/2014/03/17/quickly-arrest-anwar-and-save-malaysia-and-world

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 14:03 | Report Abuse

Wow PAS has raise the bar.....Now BN got to up the ante. How? I think BN will say they will pay $$$

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/257329

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 14:05 | Report Abuse

or maybe not for BN since if PR offer themselves as exchange, they may be able to solve the parliament problem of all the noise fr PR?

Posted by Saturn101 > 2014-03-17 14:20 | Report Abuse

if one party says malaysia reluctant to share information, can 3 or 4 parties be lying??

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=245082:what-else-was-missing-about-malaysia-flight-mh370&Itemid=2#axzz2wCLkaAKM

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 14:25 | Report Abuse

The heat getting hotter...after going at the pilots, it's now flight engineers...what's next? Bomoh?

MH370: Cops probe flight engineer
March 17, 2014

The Malaysian police are also investigating a flight engineer who was onboard the ill-fated MH370.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/17/mh370-cops-probe-flight-engineer/

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 14:31 | Report Abuse

有报导说（包括Cabal Times, Selangor Kini等）：失联飞机MH370可能“隐身”在迪戈加西亚的美国海军基地！!??

基于以下作出的推测：
1、该岛距离大马3700多公里，按777客机的巡航速度为900KM/H，那么飞到DIEGO GARCIA差不多4-5个小时，这就解释了为何马航2点发现客机失联，7点才报；解释了为何发动机上报数据显示，总共运行了5小时。

2、该岛地处印度洋深处，可以避开沿途各国的对空雷达。

3、此岛美军用于起降B52重型轰炸机，备有大型机库，隐藏民航客机轻而易举。

4、此岛周边没有国家，在美军完全的掌控下。

5、以目前美军的科技实力，用电子战飞机干扰或迷惑地面雷达，使客机“隐身”完全没问题。

MH370上到底有什么？？？？

http://www.mzsky.cc/article-27354-1.html
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<Pesawat MH370 ‘disorok’ Amerika di Diego Garcia?>

SHAH ALAM 17 MAC: Pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 yang hilang masuk hari kesepuluh hari ini didakwa ‘disembunyikan’ di Diego Garcia, pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) di Lautan Hindi.

Menurut portal Cabal Times, sekiranya spekulasi pesawat itu terbang ke pangkalan tentera AS di Diego Gracia adalah benar, radar Indonesia sudah pasti mengesan kedudukan pesawat tersebut.
Menurut portal itu, sekiranya pesawat mengalami masalah teknikal, juruterbang seboleh-bolehnya akan cubamendarat dengan selamat di laut dan tidak akan berpatah balik ke Malaysia.

Cabal Times dalam laporannya mendakwa AS melakukan ‘rampasan pesawat’ itu adalah kerana MH370 membawa sejumlah besar rakyat China dan AS mahu mengeruhkan hubungan Kuala Lumpur dan Beijing.

Diego Garcia adalah pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat yang mempunyai landasan kapal terbang yang membolehkan pesawat besar mendarat dan mempunyai kemudahan untuk ‘menyorokkan’ daripada pandangan satelit.

Semalam, Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein menyangkal dakwaan sesetengah pihak bahawa pesawat Malaysia Airlines(MAS) MH370 mendarat di pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat Diego Garcia di Lautan Hindi.
Beliau berkata setakat ini tidak ada mana-mana pihak menuntut wang tebusan.

“Tidak ada. Ini amat menyukarkan kami untuk mengesahkan sama ada ia dirampas atau tindakan pengganas. Kami melihat segala kemungkinan. Kami tidak mengambil mudah sebarang kemungkinan,” katanya.

http://bm.selangorku.com/47051/pesawat-mh370-disorok-amerika-di-diego-garcia/

http://www.cabaltimes.com/2014/03/12/ma370-redirected-to-diego-garcia/

Posted by whizzkid125 > 2014-03-17 15:07 | Report Abuse

NASI SUDAH JADI BUBUR.

This Malay saying refers to a situation that cannot be reversed. And that is exactly what we are facing with Malaysia's handling of the MH370 crisis. Every misstep simply cannot be corrected because we are working against time. It's hardly surprising that Malaysia has earned nothing but condemnation from other governments, the media, the public and the families of the unfortunate people on board the plane.

It's easy to whack the current Umno Baru-led BN government as well as the various agencies for this really shameful state of affairs. But always remember, the decline of Malaysia began decades ago. This decline will continue as long as Umno Baru/BN stays in power because Malaysia will find it very difficult to bridge the credibility gap that continues to yawn.

Series of errors by Malaysia mounts in search for MH370
The radar blip that was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did a wide U-turn over the Gulf of Thailand and then began moving inexorably past at least three military radar arrays as it traversed northern Malaysia, even flying high over one of the country's biggest cities before heading out over the Strait of Malacca.

Yet inside a Malaysian Air Force control room on the country's west coast, where American-made F-18s and F-5 fighters stood at a high level of readiness for emergencies exactly like the one unfolding in the early morning of March 8, a four-person air defense radar crew did nothing about the unauthorized flight. "The watch team never noticed the blip," said a person with detailed knowledge of the investigation into Flight 370. "It was as though the airspace was his."

It was not the first and certainly not the last in a long series of errors by the Malaysian government that has made the geographically vast and technologically complex task of finding the $50 million Malaysia Airlines jet far more difficult.

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101497499

Posted by bomohsaham > 2014-03-17 15:45 | Report Abuse

jual kelapa 10 biji pun susah nak naik nih .. kikiki