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Americans Aren't Sure If Flight 370 Vanished Thanks to Aliens, Terrorists, or Hide-and-Seek By Philip Bump, The Wire
Fully one-quarter of Americans think that Malaysia Air Flight 370 was either destroyed by terrorists, landed somewhere and is being kept hidden, or got stolen by aliens. I'm just going to repeat that sentence: Fully one-quarter of Americans think that Malaysia Air Flight 370 was either destroyed by terrorists, landed somewhere and is being kept hidden, or got stolen by aliens.
An exhaustive new survey from Reason.com addresses, among other important issues, the extent to which Americans are baffled by the disappearance of the Malaysia Air flight. Which is entirely understandable. Last month, The Wire walked through the tumultuous, weird, dumb series of assumptions and theories that have plagued the plane's disappearance. It was flying northeast and spotted from an oil rig but then it wasn't and it was headed to Kazakhstan and then it wasn't and it crashed into the ocean. A plane took off, flew normally for a bit, and then flew in silence for hours in the wrong direction. That is odd!
But, America, this is not acceptable:
"Crashed due to mechanical problems" is the accepted excuse at this point. What the problems were, and how they prevented communication are unknown. One-third of Americans say, OK, I can live with that uncertainty. And those nine percent that say they don't know? The most honest of the bunch. What happened to it! Where is the plane?
Then we start walking a bit further into the wilderness. "Crashed by pilots" and "destroyed by terrorists" are things that have happened to planes. Egypt Air Flight 990 was deliberately crashed; terrorism needs no example. But there's zero evidence those happened here — including a complete lack of any terror organization claiming responsibility.
OK. So. Fourteen percent of Americans — 44 million people! — think that one of these three things happened.
The plane was stolen and is being hidden somewhere to be sold or used for terrorism. Its occupants are dead or hostages, though, if they're hostages, no one seems to be asking for anything in return. Nine percent of Americans think that.
Three percent of Americans think it was shot down. By whom? Who knows. One of of every 20 Americans thinks that aliens or something otherwise supernatural made the plane vanish.
I'm not a spiritual person and am not inclined to think that Men in Black was based on actual events. So what does this mean? Is it like a catch-all for "something weird happened"? Or do two or three of the people in this large room in which I am currently working actually have theories about how an alien spacecraft/ghost appeared over Malaysia last month to take an airplane from the sky? If so, and they are reading this, come say hi! I want to hear about your ideas.
And, I wonder, does this group of people overlap with the one percent of respondents who told Reason that Flight 370 made them "more likely" to want to fly? I mean, when else do you get to meet an alien?
GHL Systems: Expects business volume to double after acquisition of e-pay The acquisition by GHL Systems of the Australia-listed electronic payment service provider e-pay Asia Ltd will create a group that is at least double in size in terms of revenue and earnings, said GHL Systems CEO and executive director Kanagaraj (Raj) Lorenz. “We can bring e-pay into markets like Thailand and the Philippines and certainly into our own terminal base in Malaysia. Obviously, both the companies have synergies in terms of online operations, tactical engineering, software development and so forth. This helps us fast track our growth,” he said, also adding that the potential of cross-selling between the entities is huge. (Financial Daily)
Sephroth, just cleared-off my Heava-wa. Thanks for advice. Today am in mood to clear-off many underperformers to start anew. Getting rid of all the bad karma.
Asiapac can achieve an annual PAT of RM40mil in FY15, even without full year contribution from its shopping mall income. This translates into an EPS of 41sen and a fair value of 33sen (PE 8x) for its FY15 that ends in Mac15. However, when it starts to enjoy full year rental income from Imago Mall, its fair value should be higher by then.
Hmmm! Whole morning, chaired the mtg n asiapac not bad, knm looks fine n how come ock keep moving upwards? Wrong analysis? I ve been waiting it to dip but it keeps moving upwards.
Destini Bhd's 27 million shares were traded off-market at 35 sen each on Tuesday. This was 22.5 sen or 39.1% below the closing price of 57.5 sen at midday....hmmm
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