The John Batchelor Show

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Thursday 21 November 2013

Photo, above:  Lake Baikal in Winter.  See Hour 4, Block C,  Nicholas Wade, on a 24,000-year-old skull with some mitochondrial DNA found also in today's Native Americans; suggests people with brown hair, brown eyes and freckles.   Baikal is considered sufficiently frozen by locals when the ice is...

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Photo, above:  . . . But this week, after weeks of inquiries by The Times about photos it received, the State Department released a trove of photographs showing buildings and vehicles ablaze during the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack that . . . [more]   Judicial Watch was incredulous over the...

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Photo, above: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 
November 19, 1863 
 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether...

Monday 18 November 2013

Photo, above:  Typhoon survivors in Philippines in the hold of a C-130 cargo plane as they try ot leave Tacloban. The USS George Washington battle group is stationed in Philippines to provide aid to typhoon survivors. The nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived...

Sunday 17 November 2013

Photo, above: The dusty village where Barack Obama’s father was raised, Kisumu is a sleepy provincial city that sprawls along the eastern shore of Lake Victoria. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 17 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Sid Perkins, Supervolcanoes; the Yellowstone caldera: 500 years...

Saturday 16 November 2013

Photo, above:  globalization: transfers and commingling.   Potatoes and tomatoes are from the New World; when they became important crops elsewhere, local economies and populations shifted dependencies. From 1845 to 1852 in Ireland there occurred the Great Famine, a period of mass starvation,...

Friday 15 November 2013

Photo, above:  China in the world ocean: "Near seas" vs.  "far seas"    See Hour 2, Blocks C & D, Gregory Copley, on Chinese incursions into airspace and territorial waters; China taking over the use of Lamu island. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday  15 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A:  ...

Thursday 14 November 2013

    Photo, above: PLA Navy Coast Guard, off Senkaku Islands, East China Sea. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW   Hour One Thursday 14 November   2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr Congressional correspondent, in re:  Today's New York Times editorial, Andrew Rosenthal: Mr. Obama has...

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Photo, above:  Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricket star of stars. See Hour 1, Block D, Tunku Varadarajan, Daily Beast, on cricket.   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday  13 November  2013/ Hour 1, Block A: Toshi Yoshihara, John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and an affiliate member of...

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Portrait, above: Grace Coolidge   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday  12 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A:  Larry Kudlow, in re: Coolidge. Tuesday  12 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:  Philip Izzo, WSJ, in re:  Vital Signs:...

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