Photo, above: Mesopotamian city state. See below: fourth hour, blocks C and D, UnCivilization by Gregory Copely.JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour OneFriday 11 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Henry Miller, Hoover, in re: Politics and the Poor Man's Plate, coauthored with Drew Kershen, http://www.hoover.org/...
Photo, above: Jerusalem in a rare snowstorm.JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of PresidentsHour OneThursday 10 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Eli Lake, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, in re: nomination of Chuck Hagel to be...
Photo, above: Artist's imagination of Apophis, an asteroid that'll come back close to Earth in 2029. The B612 Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that aims to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission – a space telescope to be placed in orbit around the...
Photo, above: Zong Qinghou says his daughter, Kelly Zong, will take over Wahaha when he retires. Photographer: Imaginechina/APZong Tops China Billionaires as Communist-to-Capitalist, by Bloomberg News on October 31, 2012 Twenty-five years ago, when Zong Qinghou was 42, he made his living...
Photo, above: Chuck Hagel (left), then a Republican senator from Nebraska, visited troops in Iraq during the summer of 2008. (Image: By Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour OneMonday 7 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall...
Photo, above: The Lions of Carentan at St Martin de Varreville. Wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, 6th Fallschirmjaeger, from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. Known as Lions of Carentan after ferocious battles in...
Photo, above: Allied leaders, WWII, on HMS Prince of Wales for the Atlantic Charter conference, 1941. See: Hour Two, The Generals, by Thomas E. Ricks. HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship built Birkenhead, England, was completed in March 1941. In late May, while...
Image: NASA heralds hundreds of billions of planets. Perception can require microlensing, explanation above.JOHN BATCHELOR SHOWHour OneFriday 4 Jan 2012 / Hour 1, Block A: JimMcTague, Barron’s, in re: Jobs report: U.S. Continues to Add Jobs at Slow Pace, Report Shows Employers added 155,000...
Photo, above: A Bedouin guard stands outside a pumping station near Arish in northern Sinai.Smuggled Libyan weapons flood into Egypt By Leila Fadel. EL ARISH, Egypt — Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s...
Photo, above: Open-pit mining at Gyama, Medrogunkar, near Lhasa in Tibet. Copper, gold, molybdenum and zinc are mined at Gyama. Chinese use dangerous low technologies, contaminate vast subregions, and take all the money away - $570 million recently taken from a Tibetan gold mine - to Beijing (and...