Schedules
Tuesday 28 May 2013
Illustration, above: Structural problems with the Bay Bridge, San Francisco. See: Hour 3, Block B: Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 28 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: DOJ...
Monday 27 May 2013
Photo, above: a vector for ebola, in Congo Brazzaville JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 27 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (1 of 4) Monday 27 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the...
Sunday 26 May 2013
Photo, above: our boys in finance. From left: Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, J.P. Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, and Merrill Lynch's John Thain leaving the Treasury in October 2008 after being offered a $125 billion bailout package. . . . I took a deep breath and walked into the...
Saturday 25 May 2013
Photo, above: Midway Island, 1941. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 25 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Phillipines John Gordon; 1 of 4 Saturday 25 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and...
Friday 24 May 2013
Photo, above: The photographer Edward Curtis started off his career at the tail end of the Nineteenth Century, making portraits of Seattle's richest citizens. A preoccupation with Native Americans and a chance encounter on a mountaintop triggered an idea: Curtis decided to chronicle the experience...
Thursday 23 May 2013
Photo, above: Gaggle of aggressive fools - the eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits. ALI AKBAR VELAYATI: Top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on international affairs....
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Photo, above: Karakorum highway; see: Hour 2, Block B, Nitin Gokhale, anchor at New Delhi Television, on Chinese and Pakistani friendship – "higher than the Himalaya and deeper than the ocean" – that is, linkages to rail and road networks in Pakistan so China can connect to energy supplies in...
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Photo, above: Diplomat says US special forces team stopped from going to Benghazi after embassy attack. A team of U.S. special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended was told to stand down, according to a former top diplomat. Gregory...