a world beyond the ordinary ...

mind boggling for the ordinary ... our thoughts aside ... 

let's just browse through okay ...

http://greatgameindia.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/mh370-mystery-suspicious-cargo-destroyed-in-a-massive-explosion-near-1945-nuclear-bomb-test-site/

and ...

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/3172014-large-explosion-at-new-mexico-base-sends-plume-towards-amarillo-tx/

frozen grief of an ambiguous loss ...

in a limbo of reconstruction ...
between the andamans and the antartic ... the mind starts theorizing the what ifs ... for the grieving families ...

not knowing maintains hope ... for a while ... but longer ... the lack of closure freezes grief ...

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more from Pauline Boss ...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/flight-mh370-families-grief-ambiguity

here ...

Ambiguous Loss

and here ...

http://www.ambiguousloss.com/

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and the ambiguity goes on to continents and oceans ...

it was simple in the old school ... 6 continents ... Africa, America, Antartica, Asia, Australia, Europe ... 4 oceans ... Artic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific ...

but now ... we are one with europe ... and MH370 is now hypothesised in the Southern Ocean ...

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European Division of Continents

In Europe and other parts of the world, many students are taught of six continents, where North and South America are combined to form a single continent of America. Thus, these six continents are Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and Europe. I am informed that in France, it is not taught that Antarctica is a continent and thus there are five continents for French students.
Many scientists now refer to six continents, where Europe and Asia are combined (since they're one solid geologic landmass) as Eurasia. Thus, these six continents are Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Eurasia, North America, and South America.
Geographers divide the planet into regions, and generally not continents, for ease of study. Various geographers have various definitions of these world regions. This Official Listing of Countries by Region divides the world into eight regions: Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Australia and Oceania.

Source: http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/qt/qzcontinents.htm

The New Fifth Ocean

Some consider the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific to be the world's four oceans. Now, those that side with the number five can add the fifth new ocean and call it the Southern Ocean or the Antarctic Ocean, thanks to the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). The IHO has attempted to settle that debate through a year 2000 publication by declaring, naming, and demarcating the Southern Ocean.

Source: http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/a/fifthocean.htm

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and most amazing are the crateful mangoes ... and mangosteen ... flying the skies ... of different continents ...

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

the problem with some of us who don't know is we don't know how not to keep on searching ...

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and the hierarchy of scrubbed data flow ...

The Australian government has also given priority to keeping China informed. In the Australian hierarchy, "Malaysia has the primary claim on this because it's their plane," said an official, "then China because of the number of Chinese passengers, then the US because it's a Boeing."

more here ...
http://www.smh.com.au/national/missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-us-satellite-the-unspoken-source-that-sparked-search-for-mh370-20140320-355zt.html#ixzz2wZZOp1V6

a small matter ...

 a vacuum of information ... but planefuls of history to keep us alert ...

a collaboration on how to steal a nation ... 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCqqn_uOiY

... 35:10 ... (among the many things they have done) ... this is a small matter ...

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http://greatgameindia.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/mh370-mystery-suspicious-cargo-death-of-2-ex-navy-seals-aboard-mv-maersk-alabama/

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words and phrases to add to our concepts bank for hypothesising and theorising ...

STEALING A NATION ( John Pilger, 2004)

"floating population”

"quiet disregard"

"maintaining the fiction"

 "18^th century 6 generations not considered indigenous population"

 "amnesia at best"

"a small matter 36:15"

 "far less relevant" after 30 years

"ping pong game"

"capture the law" 

"capturing the legal power of the state"

"royal decree"

"royal decree 5 11 1965"

"royal decree 2004

"feasibility study"

"intellectually dishonest"

"morally … "

"Can you get up?"

"40 years after the event ... no I am not ashamed"

"small nations are either useful or expendable"

lost in blue ... diego garcia ...

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little people are expendable too ... for "extraordinary renditions" ... (another new concept to add to the bank ...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar

with kept emotion ... we get better

i am observing the sun gently shining this morning, after a heavy downpour yesterday and early in the night ... cool, collected and calm ... the plants are clearly happy ... AlhamduLillah

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calm also prevails for the continuing search for MH370 ... latest ... NASA is chipping in ...

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and

here's whole chunk from ... the Minister in charge ...

 http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/16/Missing-MH370-full-hisham-cctv-transcript/

Published: Sunday March 16, 2014 MYT 10:06:00 PM
Updated: Sunday March 16, 2014 MYT 10:17:44 PM

Full transcript: CCTV America interview with Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein

THE Malaysian Government's handling of the investigation questioned, and CCTV America’s James Chau sat down with Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein to find out more.
Chau: In the press conference where the Prime Minister confirmed that somebody had deliberately taken control of that plane and then took it off course, he refrained from using the word ‘hijacking’. What is the difference and why didn’t he use that word?
Hishammuddin: The difference is that we have moved on to another phase, where clearly from corroborated facts, somebody actually turned off some of the equipment. That is new and that is something that we have always been consistent about - being transparent, coming out with things which already been corroborated - and basically now we need to establish what actually happened. And there are many possibilities. Whether it is a hijacking, whether it is intentional, whether it’s under duress, whether it is some psychological reasons, who did it.
Chau: But that is still open.
Hishammuddin: That’s still open to us, yes.
Chau: I think the other question that people were saying was who, and not just why. Who would have that skill to understand how to turn off a transponder, how to effectively make this aircraft mute to the outside world, and then be able to escape detection across different countries, to not be detectable by radar.
Hishammuddin: Exactly.
Chau: Who is this person?
Hishammuddin: I would like to know too. And basically we won’t know until we get all the facts, and it would be irresponsible for us to name any names.
There has to be a lot of speculation out there, and I think if to be fair to the investigation, anything revealed now which has not been corroborated, will affect the investigation and needs to be fair to the families or the passengers.
Chau: But I think it’s those families who do want to know.
Hishammuddin: Of course, but they do not want to know facts which may later on be found out to be untrue.
Chau: You’re going to go right back to the passenger manifest. Let’s talk about the crew manifest, because if it would require such extensive knowledge of aviations and also the skill to pilot a plane, of course it’s no surprise that the two most obvious candidates are your captain and the first officer.
Hishammuddin: But it doesn’t mean that anybody else could not be a candidate too. And like I said from the beginning, the whole manifest on all the passengers on that list, those who we are screening from day one.
But the Prime Minister indicated today that because of circumstances and corroborated facts, we are now intensifying our investigation on the personalities involved and that is clearly been indicated to our police especially. And I think we should allow some space for them to do the necessary fact-finding.
Chau: I want to quickly lead you back to the crew. MAS had gone through their profiles, and insisted 24 hours ago that nothing stood out in those profiles nor from their years of records there. You say that you don’t want to speculate, but at the same time, as we speak, the police are now searching the home of the pilot. What’s changed?
Hishammuddin: Doesn’t mean that we have not also investigated the others.
Chau: In terms of that passenger manifest, and we have to go back to that again, in light of the new developments, is there anybody who potentially stands out?
Hishammuddin: Well I think it’s not for me to say right now. And I’ve always been consistent from the beginning, to be fair to everybody. Notwithstanding all the speculation that has been out there that we’ve only come out and verified things that have been corroborated. Even today’s statement by the Prime Minister it’s been corroborated by international agencies. And when we are quite clear on that position, then we come out with it.
Speculation at the beginning, seven days ago, the fact that the plane landed in Nanning.
I’m just reminding everybody the sort of things that were thrown out there. And we investigated, to be fair to the families out there, and this is where I’m reaching out to the passengers. Who I wanted to meet actually, I wanted to go to Beijing yesterday.
But with this opportunity I actually have the chance to actually convey how sincere we are in wanting to get to the bottom of this. But also be responsible in our approach so that we don’t give them false hope, we don’t lead into another investigation that comes out with a negative response. Worst still, false information.
Chau: You’ve opened that door, because a lot of people in that hotel where they’re staying at right now, who’ve been so angry. There have been calls that they want to meet the senior leadership in Malaysia. As a senior leader yourself, do you think that’s something that you’ll consider doing?
Hishammuddin: I don’t blame them. I have children. I have a wife. I have brothers and sisters. And putting myself in that position, I can imagine how difficult it is for them. But I also have to be responsible. I am the minister responsible to investigate this, and I know the world is watching.
And I think that it is very important for me, to state at the beginning, which I did, and be consistent in my stand, notwithstanding the pressures and speculation that goes out there. So that the credibility of information that comes out from the Malaysian government is something that they can believe. With time, I think the emotions will heal somewhat. But until and unless we find the plane and get to the black box, the rest still remains speculation. Unless we find out more evidence to give to the families.
And that I think must come out and must be consistent, being a responsible government. Now, even more so now, because there are so many other governments involved in this massive, unprecedented operation.
And I think this is something that people don’t want to recognise, especially some of the media out there who just would like to have the headlines for the day and then move on the next. Because all the leads that were brought up to us earlier, we have followed it up and in all cases have been negative.
But yet, we will not, and I want to assure the families especially, we will not give up. We will continue to look for that plane. That is our sole, main focus at the moment. Because notwithstanding whether it is terrorism, whether it’s hijacking, whether it’s psychological, whatever the issues are out there, my main focus as the minister in charge is to find the plane. To get to the black box. To get to the facts of the matter. And that I think we should not be distracted by other issues.

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making sense ...

http://www.indiana.edu/~socpsy/papers/EmotionIdentification.htm

so ... keep calm ... we have more chances of discovering in calm weather and water ... insyaAllah

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map updates still here ...

http://xeroninemsia.blogspot.com/2014/03/images.html

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latest chunk from ...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/mh370-contact-missing-plane-communications-disabled

... a short dispatch from the Guardian’s China correspondent Tania Branigan, regarding those earlier reports of the plane flying at 5,000 feet to avoid radar detection.

"I’ve just spoken to Sidney Dekker, a professor at the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University and expert on aviation safety.
He dismissed the idea that flying at 5,000 feet would put extensive strain on the airframe, as some have suggested: “The only really relevant effect is a dramatic increase in fuel use - its range would be very much shortened by that; probably halved, at a very rough guess.
“Other than that, it would be perfectly capable of flying - if you go into Heathrow you are circling at 5,000 feet before they let you land,” he said.
He added that it is difficult to overstress a fly-by-wire (rather than mechanical) plane such as the 777, though he did add one caveat: if a plane was in an extremely fast dive and abruptly pulled out of the dive at its bottom, that could cause problems.
But perhaps more pertinently, he pointed out that altitude readings taken from radar recordings should be treated with extreme caution: “Particularly over oceanic areas, radar coverage is extremely unreliable and partial,” he warned.
Finally, he added one note of caution regarding the focus on the airline crew, based on his years of examining aviation disasters.
“In the absence of knowledge, it is so easy to blame it on the little guy - particularly if he isn’t there to answer back. It is so easy to say ‘the crew must have done something wacky,’” he said."

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i could see that aviation and the related field will be the new age career ... MH370 has opened up the many meanings of ... aviate ... navigate ... communicate ... to the public ... young and old ...

 

May Allah SWT ease the SAR of MH370.

 

 

yang nyata ... dan yang tersembunyi

alhamduLillah syukur ... hujan lama pagi ni ... selepas a brief lintas lalu semalam ...

AlhamduLillah sabar berpanasan dalam lebihkurang 2 bulan ini ... syukur banyak AlhamduLillah Ya Allah kami tidak keluh kesah menunggu belasMu ...

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kami juga sabar menunggu belas ketentuan Mu Ya Allah ... tentang mereka-mereka yang masih hilang ... walau pelbagai andaian telah dilontarkan ... kami masih mengharap keselamatan dalam ketidaktentuan ...

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foreign news have expanded their coverage ...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysian-airlines-fears-over-3247649#ixzz2w5lJDg4m

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Kapten ... pelbagai hipotesis tentang kamu ... sahabat-sahabat mu celebrated your goodness and kindness ... yang lain mencari-cari outliers di dalam kehidupan mu ... siapakah yang boleh membantumu kecuali Yang Ghaffar ... Yang Maha Mema'afkan dan Yang Menutup Keaiban ...

Semoga Allah SWT Yang Maha Ghaffar membantumu ...

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AlhamduLillah for rahmat hujan ...

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continuous update here ...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-live-3245935

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and here are more reasons, twists and turns ... for which everyone will be hypothesising and exploring ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfT8umjsLAc

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updates ...

more updates and more hypotheses here ... grouped together for mapping purposes

 http://xeroninemsia.blogspot.com/2014/03/images.html

yes ... no ... and Turkmenistan

like raindrops that are making the round in Seremban now ... yes raindrops AlhamduLillah ... to remind us that there is hope ... i was elated to read latest update on MH370 ... because hope against hope that those onboard are still safe somewhere ... hijack or no hijack ...

but the raindrops have gone ... the hope for a big downpour pending ... insyaAllah for another day ...  

and the news update keep giving me yes ... and no  ...

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Timeline of MH370 ... yes ... no

noon ...

According to reports, the official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to brief the media.

The official said that hijacking was no longer a theory: “It is conclusive.”

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/15/Missing-MH370-Investigators-conclude-plane-was-hijacked-AP-reports/

mid-noon ...

DCA chief ... "It is not conclusive. I'm heading the investigation and nobody is saying that. It's not true."

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/15/Missing-plane-no-hijack

and late noon

The PM ... Despite foreign media speculation that the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 may have been hijacked, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the possibility was, as yet, unconfirmed."

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/15/Najib-No-confirmation-missing-MH370-hijacked

The PM's Full Statement

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i have no problem with this ... it's just further data ... corroborated data ... uncorroborated data ... they contribute to our understanding ... concluding? not yet ...

so the raindrops ... they are gone ... but not hope ... InsyaAllah

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and ...
 what's the difference between ... Turkmenistan and Turkestan ...

here's one from ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan


The term Turkestan is of Persian (ترکستان) origin and was believed to have never been in use to denote a single nation although it was at one time ruled by an Emperor.^[1] It was first used by Persian geographers to describe the place of Turkish peoples.^[2] After Persia had been considerably weakened by its defeat in 1857, Imperial Russia stepped up its campaign to wrest full control over the Central Asian region from Persian dominance and on their way southward, the Russians took the city of Turkestan (in present day Kazakhstan) in 1864. Mistaking its name for that of the entire region, they adopted the appellation of "Turkestan" for their new territory.^[2][3] Today the term is used to describe a region which is inhabited mainly by Turkic peoples in Central Asia. It includes present-day Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang.^[4][5] Many would also include Turkic regions of Russia (Tatarstan & parts of Siberia) as well.

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and East Turkestan?

Images ... transpondering? ... limits

among the images that stuck in my mind ... 

of this tragic and perplexing event is ...the image of former Celcom's CEO whose wife, two daughters and sister-in-law were onboard the MH370 ...

but most all I am touched by his words ... "Allah SWT put them there" ...

the pain of a true hamba ... May Allah SWT bless us all ...

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and as at noon today ...

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/14/Missing-MH370-Transponder-may-have-been-shut-down-deliberately/

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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/14/USS-Kidd-being-moved-into-position-in-the-Indian-Ocean/

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they were all over, frolicking in the South China Sea on, and prior to March 8 ... i suppose this is what among other things this report is saying ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMwfMIoia4

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we know ... but ... we don't want that others should know what we know ...

unfortunately we is everyone else but us ...

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transponder is the word of the day ... or the year probably ...

here are chunks from ... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/mh370-malaysia-airlines-plane-search-continues-amid-signals-mystery ...

"My Guardian colleague Warren Murray has filed the following explainer on transponders. A lot of the focus today is on various tracking technology on board the aircraft after reports in the last 24 hours that the plane was sending data for hours after it lost contact, and more recently that two communication systems shut down 14 minutes apart - suggesting possible deliberate action.
This from Warren:

There seem to be some potentially flawed assumptions being made about the plane’s transponder, and the idea that if it was operating normally, it should have been bleeping out the 777’s location right until the moment it crashed, unless the pilot had switched it off.
In fact that’s not the case - it seems very likely the transponder would have been set up so that it would only send out a signal if prompted by a receiving station on the ground.
Planes are tracked by two kinds of radar - primary and secondary. The primary kind is what most of us understand: a beam of radio waves being sent out from a ground station, bouncing off anything in its path, with that reflection picked up by the ground station and used to work out the location of the plane or other target. It is a passive system that doesn’t require the plane to do anything to be “seen”.
But transponders work on secondary radar, which involves the ground station not just spraying out radio waves but instead sending out a sort of query or “interrogation” asking for a reply from transponders.
If the Malaysia Airlines 777 was not being interrogated by a secondary radar system – for example, it was out of range – the transponder would just sit there, doing nothing. It wouldn’t have to be switched off to stop transmitting – in fact it is designed generally only to transmit when it receives an “are you there” from a secondary radar system. It is not a simple beacon that transmits all the time regardless of whether anyone is listening.
Also, a plane may need to be assigned a “squawk” code by air traffic controllers, which the pilot is given over the radio and has to dial into the transponder, so that the local secondary radar system knows what “address”, if you like, to use when identifying the plane and its transponder."

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hmm ... transpondering ...
a new concept for those of us yang perlu diketuk baru jalan ...

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Update Saturday 15 ...

the plus outlook is under best mile scenario, fuel will limit the area to search ...

from the Guardian ... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-media-claims

the minus outlook on the other hand ... it could have landed anywhere on land or in the ocean, safely or otherwise ...

why my eyes are drawn towards the andaman curve ... and on towards the north ... i've no idea ...

where ever they are ...
 i pray for the opportunity for their loved ones to be able to hug them again ...

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Update Sunday 16 ...

From the Mirror ... 634 runaways within the radius ...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysian-airlines-fears-over-3247649#ixzz2w5lJDg4m

and ...
a central line of thought ...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/15/flight_370_disappearance_why_i_think_the_missing_airliner_could_be_in_central.html

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Update Monday 17 ...

finally ... NASA chipping in ...

NASA is helping in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, along with thousands of volunteers around the world.
According to space.com, NASA is using satellite data gathered earlier as well as images from the remote-controlled ISERV camera system on the International Space Station.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-live-3245935#ixzz2wAvYee6b

and more thoughts ... and map

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370-3251083

i am glad that our focus remains ... to find the plane ... not the blame ... not till the time the evidence stares us in the face ... and starts talking ...

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truth bit from the MAS chief ...

THE co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was the one who said “All right. Good night”, initial investigations showed, Malaysian officials said.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya tonight revealed this at the latest media conference.
 more here ... http://www.news.com.au/world/search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-enters-its-10th-day-with-no-sign-of-plane/story-fndir2ev-1226856425445

emp ...

theorizing in a situation where data is sparse is the starting point towards a better understanding of a phenomenon ...

there will be many moves and turn-backs (to borrow a now very familiar phrase) ... but research tells us that ... as data saturates ... a clearer picture emerges ...

so let the data flows in ...

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our missing MH370 has now given us new awareness of a truly incredible event and context ...

and latest on ... emp - electromagnetic pulse weapons

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-jet.html?_r=1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10303988/Golden-Eye-style-energy-beam-is-developed-by-Nato-scientists.html#disqus_thread

http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/u-s-evaluates-chinas-emp-threat/

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140209000048&cid=1101

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10687223/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-plane-crash-live.html

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Source

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMwfMIoia4

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and buat kerja walau nampak kecil perkaranya ... kita buat elok-elok sesempurna yang mungkin ... jangan sampai kecincaian kita menjadi sendaan ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/03/12/malaysia-airlines-and-the-case-of-the-missing-legs/

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May Allah SWT show us the truth soon ... ameen.

the status quo ... tangga

the status quo ladder ... the immovable ladder ...

more details here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immovable_Ladder

where there is no kesatuan ... tangga pun menjadi korban pertelingkahan berzaman ... berhujan, bersalji, berpanas ... sabar saja ...

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but ...

people ... they are not ... tangga ...