An amateur pilot in the U.S. helping in the search for Flight MH370 by poring over satellite images has spotted what he thinks may be a Boeing 777 resting in shallow water in the Gulf of Thailand, near where MH370 turned off course. This site also may be within visual range of an oil platform [&he[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Disasters’
April 11th, 2014 - 8:55 am § in Religion
BUCHENWALD 34: Anniversary of the liberation
Today, April 11, three days before Passover 5774, is the seventieth anniversary of the American Third Army officially liberating Buchenwald. The evening of March 28th, 1945 was the beginning of the last Passover celebrated by the inmates of Buchenwald. I do not know if any one recorded the l[...]
April 9th, 2014 - 8:59 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: More pings off of Australia
Two new “ping” signals have been detected, confirming two earlier signals locating Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may be within the 1,300 square kilometer search area> it is, however, not certain these all cme from the same source. “I’d say they are separate [...]
April 8th, 2014 - 8:20 am § in Science
$9,000,000,000 Finding Against Lilly and Takeda
Jury finds that diabetes drug, Actos, causes bladder cancer. Assuming that the data are correct, Actos increased the risk of bladder cancer by three fold. The other issue here, as in all such cases, is the question of why we use the vastly expensive and over burdened court system, with lawyers gone[...]
April 7th, 2014 - 1:56 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: What A Credible Lead Sounds Like
An Australian navy ship towing high-tech ping detection gear borrowed from the U.S. Navy heard a ping that lasted for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Then, doubling back, it picked up two distinct pings for 13 minutes. A commercial jetliner has two black boxes, each with a pinger, so if plane wreckage i[...]
April 5th, 2014 - 11:38 am § in Misc.
Clue To Lost Jet? Or Chinese BS?
Update: Yeah, “noise” is the right description Frankly, to a non-expert like me, the Chinese equipment doesn’t look like much more than a tin can on a string. And they had a spare pinger in their inflatable boat, which would start pinging if it got wet, and what doesn&[...]
March 29th, 2014 - 12:57 am § in Misc.
Oso! Incompetence! Scandal!
Anne K. Block, an attorney who lives and practices in Gold Bar, has posted a comment on David Goldstein’s blog, Horsesass.org, comparing Snohomish County’s director of emergency services to President George W. Bush’s disastrous appointment to FEMA of the incompetent “Brownie&[...]
August 26th, 2012 - 4:24 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Wrong Asteroid blamed for extinction of dinosaurs
NASA reported last Monday: “As a result of the WISE science team’s investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files,” Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object (NEO) Observation Program at NASA. From NASA: According to that theory, [...]
Yom Hashoah: Muslim Apologists
Today is the day we mourn for the victims of the holocaust, the “Shoah.” As Jews we are taught to mourn as if this happened not to our predecessors, or even to us, but to all people. As a Jew with deep roots in el Andalus, the golden era of Jewish and Christian culture under […][...]
Was Flight MH370’s Disappearance A Black Op?
Making a Boeing 777 with 239 crew and passengers vanish without a trace isn’t easy. Maybe a rogue pilot or a hijacker could pull it off. Or, it may be so difficult only a government — specifically, an intelligence agency– could do it. What little we actually know about Mala[...]