Nonsense vs Common Sense - MH370

Michael Teh II Nonsense vs Common Sense Here's another interesting conspiracy theory. But, please read it with a pinch of salt, though. The American is withdrawing from the Afghanistan, one of their command and control system (used for controlling the pilotless drones) was hijacked by the Talebans when the American transport convoy was moving down from one of the hill top bases. The Talebans ambushed the convoy and killed 2 American Seal personnel, seized the equipment/weapons, including the command and control system which weighed about 20 tons and packed into 6 crates. This happened about a month ago in Feb 2014. What the Talebans want is money. They want to sell the system to the Russian or the Chinese. The Russian is too busy in Ukraine. The Chinese are hungry for the system's technology. Just imagine if the Chinese master the technology behind the command and control system, all the American drones will become useless. So the Chinese sent 8 top defense scientists to check the system and agreed to pay millions for it. Sometime in early Mar 2014, the 8 scientists and the 6 crates made their way to Malaysia, thinking that it was the best covert way to avoid detection. The cargo was then kept in the Embassy under diplomatic protection. Meanwhile the American has engaged the assistance of Israeli intelligence, and together they are determined to intercept and recapture the cargo. The Chinese calculated that it will be safe to transport it via civilian aircraft so as to avoid suspicion. After all the direct flight from KL to Beijing takes only 4 and half hours, and the American will not hijack or harm the civilian. So MH370 is the perfect carrier. There are 5 American and Israeli agents onboard who are familiar with Boeing operation. The 2 "Iranians" with stolen passports could be among them. When MH370 is about to leave the Malaysian air space and reporting to Vietnamese air control, one American AWAC jammed their signal, disabled the pilot control system and switched over to remote control mode. That was when the plane suddenly lost altitude momentarily. How the AWAC can do it ? Remember 911 incident ? After the 911 incident, all Boeing aircraft (and possibly all Airbus) are installed with remote control system to counter terrorist hijacking. Since then all the Boeing could be remote controlled by ground control tower. The same remote control system used to control the pilotless spy aircraft and drones. The 5 American/Israeli agents soon took over the plane, switched off the transponder and other communication system, changed course and flew westwards. They dare not fly east to Philippines or Guam because the whole South China Sea air space was covered by Chinese surveillance radar and satellite. The Malaysian, Thai and Indian military radars actually detected the unidentified aircraft but did not react professionally. The plane flew over North Sumatra, Anambas, South India and then landed at Maldives (some villagers saw the aircraft landing), refuelled and continued its flight to Garcia Deigo, the American Air Base in the middle of Indian Ocean. The cargo and the black box were removed. The passengers were silenced via natural means, lack of oxygen. They believe only dead person will not talk. The MH370 with dead passengers were air borne again via remote control and crashed into South Indian Ocean, make it to believe that the plane eventually ran out of fuel and crashed, and blame the defiant captain and copilot. The American has put up a good show. First diverting all the attention and search effort in the South China Sea while the plane made their way to Indian Ocean. Then they came out with some conflicting statement and evidence to confuse the world. The Australian is the co-actor. The amount of effort put up by China, in terms of the number of search aircraft, ships and satellites, searching first the South China Sea, then the Malacca Straits and the Indian Ocean is unprecedented. This showed that the China is very concerned, not so much because of the many Chinese civilian passengers, but mainly the high value cargo and its 8 top defense scientists. Don't believe the story? I don't expect you to but let's wait and see how the episode unveils itself. Or perhaps it will never be known until the next Snowden emerges."  — with Jay El, Sylvester J. Disimon, Kathleen Meredith, Edwin Liew, Felix Chong, Nik-Othman Wingo Abdullah, Peter Chia, Hashima Hasbullah, James Koo, Albert Chin Kion Teo, Mazlyn Mustapha, Richard Gui, Hussaini Abdul Karim, Poon Poi Ming, Tham Thamsarak, Tuan Golimbi, Sen Nathan, Ronnie Charles Klassen, Chris Chew, Joe Fernandez, Selvaraja Somiah, Sean Oon, Adrian Banie Lasimbang, Jerry Rich, Johari Ismail, Herman Scholz, John Nair Rajan,Jimmy Omar, Aven Lim, Roland Gomes, Dixon Chok, Soon-fen Chung,Ahjames Liew and Alice Lee.

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PENDEDAHAN MENGEJUT MH370

Analisis Muktahir MH370 : Segalanya Sudah Diketahui?

Akhirnya, segala analisis dan pengalaman Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan Nik Hussain membawa kita kepada kunci jawapan terhadap misteri kehilangan MH370 yang sudah menghampiri sebulan lamanya. Sama ada kita suka atau tidak - beliau telah bercakap benar dan jujur, sekali gus melenyapkan seluruh teori berkenaan dakwaan bahawa pesawat MH370 mengalami masalah teknikal atau kerosakan.

Pada peringkat awal kehilangan MH370 - dengan segala data dan bukti yang ada dalam tempoh seminggu sejak peristiwa kehilangan pesawat ini berlaku, Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan telah membuat beberapa kesimpulan yang lain daripada pakar-pakar penerbangan paparkan. Beliau seolah-olah lebih cederung mengaitkan kehilangan MH370 dengan perbuatan "yang tidak bertanggungjawab" yang dilakukan secara sangat rapi dan terancang. Antara kesimpulan awal Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan adalah seperti berikut :

Mustahil sebenarnya untuk sebuah kapal terbang seperti MH370 terputus isyarat atau komunikasi kerana setiap pesawat ada 3 peringkat komunikasi dan ketiga-tiga ini memang berkualiti.

Selaian daripada itu, agak mustahil juga untuk kita semua mengatakan pesawat MH370 mengalami total ‘electrical shutdown’ dan sekiranya berlaku sekalipun, pesawat ada masa yang sangat cukup untuk buat pendaratan kecemasan. Bukan sahaja itu, setiap pesawat mempunyai banyak bateri dan bateri ini mampu menjana tenaga untuk pesawat.

MAS adalah syarikat penerbangan terbaik dari segi ‘maintainance’ kerana menurut kapten, Amerika Syarikat juga meminta MAS bantu dari segi ini.

4) Kualiti juruterbang MAS juga adalah yang terbaik, bahkan menurutnya, juruterbang MAS sering “diculik” oleh syarikat penerbangan lain.

5) Seorang juruterbang itu akan buat SEHABIS BAIK selagi ada harapan,untuk selamatkan pesawatnya,walaupun gunung ada di depan.Bukan semudah itu untuk mereka putus asa.

Setiap pesawat boleh terkena petir,itu biasa. Namun aliran arus elektrik itu akan mengalir mengikut bentuk pesawat dan keluar ke belakang.

Kapten Nik Ahmad Huzlan sempat menemplak laporan berita luar negara yang membuat berita yang cukup “nonsense & dongeng” apabila mengatakan pesawat MH370 MAS Malaysia Airlines telah pergi ke Rusia sedangkan untuk ke sana MH370 perlu melepasi Banjaran Himalaya termasuk pancaran radar dari Turki, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan

Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan juga mendakwa bahawa, radar-radar di negara Thailand, India, Myanmar (mungkin ) dan negara-negara ‘tan’ di belakang, amat serius dan akan mengambil tindakan jika berlaku sebarang aircraft yang tidak dikenali di dalam airspace mereka. Negara seperti ini, sangat berbahaya jikalau dapat mengesan pesawat yang menceroboh kedaulatan negara mereka. Kecanggihan peralatan ketenteraan mengawasi ruang udara negara mereka tidak boleh dipermainkan. Begitu juga radar negara India “sangat-sangat berbahaya”.

Negara seperti Singapura memiliki radar sangat hebat serta mampu mengesan sebarang pesawat sehingga ke Kota Kinabalu.

Hanya pilot sahaja yang boleh mematikan transponder atau mmsg dalam mode tertentu.

Dan hanya orang yang berpengalaman mengenai koordinat dan tahu susur alur setiap jalan di udara.

Cara plane MH370 buat turning back seperti profesional kerana masa tepat dan kelajuan pesawat adalah stabil, tidak laju, tidak perlahan dan tidak terhuyung-hayang.


Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan Nik Ahmad Hussain mengatakan andaikata MH370 dirampas, ia tidak mungkin dilakukan seorang. Pasti ada yang membantu yang mana bergerak dalam kumpulan. Siapakah dia?

MH370 boleh dirampas dengan syarat kumpulan tersebut arif dengan kokpit, besar kemungkinan “authorised person” yang mana dilakukan dalam bentuk terancang yang ‘mungkin’ digerakkan ala-ala komando

Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan mengatakan kapal terbang MH370 berpatah balik, mungkin diterbangkan oleh seseorang yang mahir dengan laluan dan sangat berkemahiran tinggi untuk mengelakkan daripada dikesan radar.

Andaikata MH370 dirampas, ia tidak akan dilakukan oleh penumpang. Sangat tipis kerana pintu masuk kokpit ada kod rahsia. Hanya kabin krew yang tahu kod rahsia itu. Apatah lagi, di dalam kokpit mempunyai CCTV untuk pilot/co-pilot melihat disebalik pintu tersebut.

Tetapi Kapten Nik Huzlan ada mengatakan sekiranya salah seorang penumpang adalah orang yang sangat arif tentang kapal terbang, dan memang ada agenda konspirasi tersendiri, jadi tidak mustahil berlaku insiden MH370 dirampas.

Sekiranya berlaku rampasan MH370 sekalipun, mereka masih ada masa untuk bersedia menghantar isyarat kecemasan.

Datuk Kapten Nik Ahmad Huzlan tidak menolak kemungkinan sekiranya MH370 dirampas oleh kabin krew (pilot/co-pilot/pramugara/pramugari), cuma tidak dipastikan apakah motif mereka

Datuk Kapten Nik Ahmad Huzlan mendedahkan jikalau MH370 pergi arah Kazakhstan, memang boleh mendarat di sana, tetapi radar masih boleh kesan sebab untuk pergi ke sana perlu melalui banyak negara

Jikalau MH370 pergi Lautan Hindi (Indian Ocean), memang tiada kapal terbang yang pernah lalu di sana

Datuk Kapten Nik Ahmad Huzlan juga ada mengatakan bahawa terdapat banyak radar yang bolehmengesan MH370, sekiranya pesawat tersebut melakukan "turn over" ke arah Barat menuju ke Andaman Sea (Laut Andaman) Jika MH370 turun ke bawah menuju ke Diego Grasia ke arah apa yang dipanggil ‘lonely sea‘ iaitu Lautan Hindi, maka barulah kata kapal terbang MH370 hilang, kerana tiada radar yang berdekatan sana yang mampu menangkap dan mengesan pesawat MH370 ini.

Jelas, pada awal analisis Datuk Kapten Nik Huzlan - beliau secara sangat berhati-hati menganalisis cara MH370 dikendalikan. Melalui cara itu, maka hipotesis boleh dibuat dengan lebih kemas. Jika MH370 dipandu dengan cara cekap dan profesional semasa ia hilang daripada kawalan rada - maka MH370 sebenarnya tidak mengalami sebarang kerosakan teknikal atau mekanikal - sebaliknya ada sesuatu yang berlaku di luar jangkaan kita semua.

Terkini, setelah hampir sebulan MH370 tidak ditemui, dan dengan pendedahan data terbaharu berkenaan gambar yang dirakam pada sesi penerangan yang datangnya daripada pihak berkuasa kerajaan Malaysia termasuk Malaysia Airlines kepada keluarga mangsa penumpang di China - telah membawa kita kepada satu tahap kesimpulan yang lebih menyakinkan. Dan sekali lagi hipotesis Kapten Nik Huzlan menjadi sandara. Sebenarnya secara tidak langsung, Kapten Datuk Nik Huzlan telah pun memadamkan segala teori dan hipotesis sebelum Ini! Sudah lebih 3 minggu berlalu, dan dunia termasuk pakar-pakar yang terlibat terus memerah buah fikiran bagi mencari jawapan disebalik tragedi MH370 yang mengandungi pelbagai persoalan yang terus dibiarkan “tergantung” sehingga ke hari ini. Dan melihat kepada bukti terbaru ini, maka sekali lagi Kapten Datuk Nik Huzlan mengukuhkan hujahnya seperti berikut :

1) Nampak terang di sini pesawat MH370 kelihatan berpusing disebelah kanan pada kedudukan 270 darjah

2) Kapten Nik Huzlan menilai pusingan pesawat MH370 adalah “pusingan yang sempurna dan tiada cacat celanya” dan terus merentas semula laluan yang pernah dilakukannya sebelum itu dan pusing semula di sebelah kiri dan seterusnya menuju ke arah Pulau Pinang

3) Dan ini bermakna pesawat MH370 tidak mengalami sebarang kerosakan seperti yang dipercayai oleh seorang juruterbang berpengalaman.

4) Kapten Nik Huzlan sendiri terkejut dengan maklumat terbaharu ini dan sekaligus bercanggah dengan informasi dan maklumat yang mengatakan selama ini pesawat MH370 hanya melakukan pusingan kiri sahaja.

5) Buat pertama kalinya, pesawat MH370 dikatakan telah melakukan pusingan kanan.

6) Kapten Nik Huzlan mengatakan pesawat MH370 melakukan pusingan kanan sebaik sahaja co-pilot Farid mengucapkan perkataaan “Alright, Good Night” dan terus merentasi ke arah Teluk Siam dan terus pergi ke Pulau Pinang.

7) Jikalau pesawat MH370 mahu pulang semula ke Malaysia, MH370 hanya perlu pusing kiri terus ke Malaysia.

8) Jikalau pesawat MH370 dalam keadaan kecemasan mengapa perlu MH370 melakukan satu pusingan disebelah kanan secara perlahan-lahan dan kemudian merentas laluan yang dilakukan sebelumnya? Mengapa?

9) Kapten Nik Ahmad Huzlan merasakan perbuatan dan cara pengendalian MH370 seperti dirancang dengan cukup-cukup teliti.

10) Dan, jikalau ada kecemasan sekalipun, mengapa juruterbang atau pembantunya tidak berhubung dengan mana-mana pusat kawalan trafik udara? Mengapa?

11) Bahkan Kapten Nik Huzlan mengatakan dari IGREX, cara pesawat MH370 terbang pun sangat-sangat meragukan kerana dilihat mahu mengelak Laut Sumawi dan Pulau Nicobar dan memotong jalan merentasi terus ke selatan Lautan Hindi yang mana laluan tersebut adalah merupakan laluan yang tiada satu pun berada di bawah kawalan radar.

12) Cuma Kapten Nik Huzlan mula merasa pelik dan merasakan tidak logik untuk pesawat MH370 sampai ke IGREX pada 2:15 pagi (8 Mac 2014). Pesawat MH370 buat pusingan kanan pada pukul 1:31 pagi. Pergi ke Pulau Pinang dan seterusnya ke VAMPI dan signal point yang terakhir ke IGREX pada pukul 2:15 pagi. Apa jawapan Kapten Nik Huzlan? Pesawat MH370 tidak akan dapat sampai pada IGREX dalam tempoh hanya sekitar 40 minit sahaja melihatkan tahap kelajuan yang boleh dicapai pesawat MH370 dan juga pusingan kanan dan kiri yang telah dilakukan oleh pesawat MH370 ini. Berdasarkan kajian Kapten Nik Huzlan, kelihatan teori Human Interferance (perbuatan yang disengajakan) amatlah kuat melihatkan pesawat MH370 sebenarnya “under full control” kerana ia mampu membuat corak pusingan kanan dengan baik ditambah pula mampu merentas semula laluan yang perlu dilakukan sebelum itu.
Kapten Nik Huzlan mengatakan dengan pendedahan bukti terbaru ini bakal menghapuskan teori dan hipotesis yang dicanang selama ini kononnya pesawat MH370 mengalami kerosakan tidak benar.

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Don’t misjudge reasons behind rejection of BR1M cash aid, Dr Mahathir warns Putrajaya The Malaysian Insider

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) has again warned the Barisan Nasional (BN) today about its 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) cash handout programme, after 17,000 Malaysians rejected the government's latest handout.

The country’s longest serving prime minister advised BN against mistaking the message from those who had rejected BR1M and realise that not everybody was willing to accept the handout and be swayed to vote for BN.

“Failure to understand public sentiments would be disastrous for politicians. Self-delusion is even worse,” Dr Mahathir said in his latest entry on his Chedet blog.

Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah had last week said that the 17,000 rejections were a sign of growing “maturity” among Malaysians.

Dr Mahathir has repeatedly criticised the BRIM programme and had in the past said it would not help arrest the decline in popularity with voters.

In July last year Dr Mahathir had told Umno mouthpiece Utusan Malaysia that BR1M had failed to reel in the votes for the BN in the 13th general election.

"Actually, what was given was not effective. For those who receive the aid, they were not thankful, especially opposition supporters who thought it was their own money anyway. That is tax money and not government money or BN's," he told Mingguan Malaysia, the Utusan’s weekend edition.

Dr Mahathir contrasted the cash aid to his administration between 1981 and 2003.

"Previously, the government ensured an environment that facilitated society to find work, conduct business, investment and others that the people enjoyed. That wasn't government money but we created space and a suitable environment for people to make their livelihood.

"Now we see many including graduates who don't have a job yet. Maybe people feel that once they get the cash aid they will be satisfied but actually the money is not enough, it will just last a few days," the still-influential politician said.

BN has given two direct cash aid under the Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) plan and promised in their Election 2013 manifesto to give RM1,200 to families who earn less than RM3,000 a month.

Dr Mahathir said BRIM is costly for a Government facing deficits and shouldering huge debts. At RM500 per person for seven million people it would cost the Government RM3.5 billion. Increase that to RM1,200 the cost would be RM8.4 billion.

“That is a lot of money. Yet there are still a lot of very poor people in the country. Do we really need BRIM? Even without BRIM there was good support by the people.

"If they do not support it must be because they are not happy with something, maybe even with BRIM. Find out what they are not happy with and you will know what you should do,” he wrote. – March 2, 2014.

One divorce in Malaysia every 10 minutes The Malay Mail Online

KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 ― Civil servant Jamilah Baharuddin (not her real name) and her husband divorced in 2012 after 12 long years of conflict with his family who did not approve of their marriage.

The 35-year-old woman, who earns about RM6,500 a month, says they likely would not have split up if she wasn’t working because she would have been forced to rely on her husband to support her and their three children financially.

“That’s one of the reasons why a lot of Malay women in rural areas are scared to step forward and get a divorce when they are abused ― they can’t survive without their husband’s assistance,” Jamilah told The Malay Mail Online recently.

The number of divorces in Malaysia has more than doubled in just eight years from 2004. In 2012, a whopping 56,760 divorces were recorded, which is equivalent to a marriage breaking down every 10 minutes.

According to statistics provided by the Syariah Judiciary Department Malaysia (JKSM), the number of Muslim couples getting divorced rose by 2.3 times from 20,916 in 2004 to 47,740 in 2012, and to 49,311 last year.

The number of non-Muslim marriages, however, broke down at a slightly higher rate from 3,291 divorces in 2004, increasing by 2.7 times to 9,020 cases in 2012, the most recent year where statistics are available from the Statistics Department.

While couples are increasingly splitting up, the number of marriages, however, are also going up.

A total of 112,262 Muslim couples tied the knot in 2004, a number that has risen steadily in general over the years to 148,806 marriages in 2012, according to the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim).

But the pattern for non-Muslim marriages is more erratic.

A total of 57,530 non-Muslim couples got married in 2004, a number that declined the following year, after which the figure rose and fell until 65,993 marriages were registered in 2012.

The Statistics Department, however, does not have the marriage or divorce rate per population.

In the United States, the divorce rate more than doubled from 1940 to 1981, before plunging by a third in 2009 when the 18-month recession ended June that year, according to a report byBloomberg last month.

As the economy improved, however, the number of divorces in America increased for the third year in a row to about 2.4 million in 2012, said the business newswire.

In Singapore, the crude divorce rate dipped slightly to 1.9 divorces per 1,000 residents in 2012 from 2.0 in 2011, according to a report by Today Online last July.

Most of the four syarie and family lawyers The Malay Mail Online interviewed recently said that the rising divorce rate is due to women becoming more financially independent.

“With the rat race, better education, economic independence, influence of multimedia and the women having access to legal advice, and better understanding of the laws, they know their rights and they are not as tolerant as the last generation was,” said syarie lawyer Rafie Mohd Shafie.

He said that based on his observation, marriages generally last between five and 10 years before breaking down.

Family lawyer Honey Tan similarly said women are now more aware of their rights, but pointed out that the law still discriminates against women as they generally end up with a lesser share, especially homemakers, when matrimonial assets are divided during a civil divorce.

“In the past when women were uneducated or poorly educated, getting married was just about the only option open to them to survive,” said Tan.

Tan added that although the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 takes into account the non-monetary contributions of women who quit their jobs to look after their children, their husband will always receive a greater share of matrimonial assets in a divorce.

“The ability of men to earn income is still valued more than the ability of women to look after the home and the family, especially the children,” said the lawyer.

Datuk Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, an anthropologist from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), said that the stress of modern life in the city is one of the factors behind the rising divorce rate.

“Financial instability will cause a lot of problems,” he said.

Another university lecturer trained in anthropology, Dr Julian Hopkins, observed that a rising divorce rate in general is linked to industrialisation, pointing to women’s increased financial independence and greater social acceptance of divorce.

“Over the second half of the 20th century, there is a correlation between more women being in the labour force and more divorces,” Hopkins told The Malay Mail Online.

Sisters in Islam (SIS) programme manager Suri Kempe noted that there is increasing pressure for Muslim youth to marry young in order to legalise sex.

“Many get married because they are in love with the partner and pressure from parents and relatives, but without fully understanding the implication of marriage,” the Muslim women’s rights activist toldThe Malay Mail Online.

Suri also pointed out that Muslim women often face difficulties when they initiate divorce, while Muslim men can easily divorce their wives outside the court.

“This is substantiated by a 2005 study by Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia which reveals that states that apply low fines to divorces outside of court have a high frequency of ‘pengesahan cerai’ (validation of divorce when pronounced without the court’s permission),” said Suri.

“The existing Islamic Family Law must be amended, with a return to the original 1984 provision that mandated divorce take place only in court,” added the programme manager with the Muslim women’s rights group that handles 50 divorce cases every month through its legal clinic.