Photo, above: Temple at Karnak: major fire? The country is broke – has three months' worth of hard currency left, then the abyss – and the police, security forces and townspeople are robbing graves and irreplaceable historic sites to bring in money. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Edward Hayes,...
Photo, above: See Below: Gardiner Harris, NYT in New Delhi, in re: Children Toil in India’s Mines, Despite Legal Ban Poverty, corruption and decrepit schools drive pervasive work by children in India, a problem illustrated by “rathole” mines in the east. I lived in Louisville, Kentucky, visited...
Photo, above: Saul Alinsky excoriated by the Right. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 26 Feb 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: real tax burden as a share of the economy?? Wilbur Ross on Kudlow Report...
Photo, above: Fast New Test Could Find Leprosy Before Damage Is Lasting - A simple, cheap screening offers the hope of diagnosing and curing leprosy, even in the poorest places, before victims are permanently disabled or disfigured. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 25 February 2013 / Hour 1...
Photo, above: Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo L. Black William O. Douglas John M. Harlan William J. Brennan, Jr. Potter Stewart Byron R. White Abe Fortas Thurgood Marshall. Reason Formed : Thurgood Marshall Joined Date Formed: Monday, October 2, 1967 Date Disbanded: Wednesday...
Above: artist's depiction of a raging ocean (Jeremiah Morelli) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 23 February 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Athenia Torpedoed: The U-boat Attack That Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic by Francis M. Carroll; 1 of 4 Just hours after World War II was declared, Germany...
Photo, above: No escape - women and children work at a gulag in 1932. Prison nurseries did exist, but malnutrition, restrictive breast-feeding schedules and astonishing cruelty often resulted in the child's suffering an early death Chilling testimony from the Gulags' forgotten victims. The word...
Photo, above: Golan Druse start to turn against Syria's Assad; view from Golan Heights into Syria JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Edward Hayes, Esq; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Hour One Thursday 21 Feb 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary...
Photo, above: Dukha people of South Siberia (see: Hour 3, Block D, Michael Balter, Science Now, How to Survive a Siberian Winter.) Deep in the larch ["leest'venitsa"] forests of Northern Mongolia lives a tiny Turkic tribe known as the Dukha (or, "Tsaatan" in Mongolian). They have survived as...
Photo, above: Russia deployed warships off the coast of Syria to deter any military intervention by the Western states in the Arab country, a report says. Citing a Russian diplomat, The Sunday Times said that Russia has sent five landing ships, carrying military vehicles and hundreds of marines,...