We’re now 32-days in the continuing odyssey of the misusing Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 souls onboard. Last Friday, 4 April, while searching the Indian Ocean about 900 nautical miles west of Perth, the Chinese patrol ship, Haixum 01, reportedlyheard electronic pings that resemble those that might be transmitted by the aircraft’s “black box.” The […]
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Malaysia Flight 370: Have they found it?
Review: Malaysian Flight 370 departed Kala Lumpur at 41 minutes after midnight on 8 March 2014 bound for Beijing. The aircraft was a Boeing model 777-200 ER (Extended Range). Approximately 60 minutes later, electronic transmission from Flight 370 ceased. Several hours later Malaysian Airlines declared Flight 370 missing. Over this past month, aircraft and ships […]
Malaysian Flight 370, Number Two
Twenty-three days ago, Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared. At first, aircraft and ships from several neighborhood countries and the United States searched for the Boeing 777 in the area northeast of Malaysia in the South China Sea—the proposed track for this flight—to no avail. Based on technical date, the searchers changed directions to the west and […]
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance: What Happened to Flight 370?
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance S. Martin Shelton Today’s date 23 March 2014 Let’s review the hard facts about the mysterious disappearance of Flight # 370. Malaysia Flight # 370 originated at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and its destination was Beijing, People’s Republic of China—about 2,700 miles to the northeast. On board were 228 passenger and […]
Putin, Chamberlain, and Hitler
On 2 March 2014, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian motorized infantry to invade the Ukraine’s CrimeanPeninsula. Such a military incursion violates international treaties and specifically the Soviet Union’s/Ukraine’s treaty of 1954. The Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, deeded the Crimea to the Ukraine as a gesture […]
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer Book Review
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics Book Review S. Martin Shelton Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum, New York, 2013, 388 pp. Table of Contents. Acknowledgements, and an Index. Krauthammer includes ninety plus columns, quips, and screeds on topics that matter to him and ought to matter to us. His comments were previously […]
Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Book Review
Killing Jesus is a history book that details Roman and Israel history of the time—around 44 BC to 30 AD. It is not a religious book. Of particular interest is the insight into the Roman revolution where Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon with his army, overthrows the republican Senate, and assume dictatorial power. After Caesar […]
Amelia, 2009 Film Review
Fox Sunlight Pictures. Mira Nair, director. Hilary Swank and Richard Gere lead actors. Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan screen-play writers. 111 minutes. 2009. So I’m tardy with this review. Not so. I published it in In Sync magazine in its January 2010 issue—shortly after I viewed this film. Now that my new social media […]
International Brigades in Spain 1936-39 by Ken Bradley: A Book Review
The clue to the authors political bent is in his Dedication: “To the volunteers of the international brigades who gave all they had to oppose international fascism and to preserve a free Spain.” (My emphasis on “free.”) Republican Spain (again another euphemism) was anything but free or a republic. In 1936, when the Spanish Revolution […]
The Last Prophecy, Jon Land Book Review
I’ve seen this book many times past. Not exactly this one book but other books, films, and tales with the same basic plot: intrepid adventurers discover an ancient and secret writing or glyph well hidden in some exotic/dangerous/gruesome local. Only some obscure university professor/retired cryptographer/computer geek can decode this mysterious writing. Meantime, eeevil (keep “eeevil”) […]