SEE: rebelmouse.com/johnbatchelorshow Photo, above: "The Timisoara branch of the European Law Students Association (ELSA) invited me to give a space law lecture at the West University Law School. I was delighted to oblige! I spoke to the students about jurisdiction and about space property...
Photo, above: Malian music, among the best in the world, often is played on the djembe (drum) and kora (stringed instrument). JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 10 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Johnson, NoQuarter; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal,...
Photo, above: Tibetan monk self -immolates. The unelected tyrants of Beijing are thrown into confusion by the massive domestic and international opposition to Chinese Communist Party oppression of a people who deeply wish to be free and independent. See:Hour One, Block B, below: Lobsang Nyandak,...
Photo, above: Members of the Islamist terrorist organization Ansar al-Dine ("Defenders of the Faith") in Mali, where their brutality against Muslim Malians is stunning the world. See: Ten Hour, Blocks A and B.Summer 2012 article on Tuaregs: http://www.theird.org/issues/religious-liberty/13-07-...
Photo, above: At an after-action report (a "hotwash") on the bin Ladin mission, restricted to fewer than 70 people and beyond top secret, Leon Panetta, the US Secretary of Defense, walked in with a big smile and Kathryn Bigelow, director of Zero-Dark-Thirty, on his arm. SEALs present had quickly...
Above: a European artist's fantasy design proposal for a unit of global currency. More pertinent, see Hour Two below, UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos by Gregory R. Copley: an analysis of global politics in context of the Twenty-first Century - a stunning explanation of ...
Photo, above: US invades Mexico, 1846. See: A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg in Hour Two.JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour OneSaturday 12 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus...
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...