The John Batchelor Show

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Wednesday 16 January 2013

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,...

Tuesday 15 January 2013

   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-...

Monday 14 January 2013

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...

Sunday 13 January 2013

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  ...

Saturday 12 January 2013

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...

Friday 11 January 2013

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/...

Thursday 10 January 2013

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...

Wednesday 9 January 2013

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...

Tuesday 8 January 2013

 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...

Monday 7 January 2013

   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...

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