Photo, left: Ancient capital flight (smile: the Flight to Egypt, on an ornate capital of a marble column). For contemporary capital flight, see Hour 1, Block C, Gordon Chang of Forbes.com and The Daily Beast, on the trillion dollars flowing annually out of China as the Communist Party megathieves...
Water-color, left: Board of admiralty about 1810. The Admiralty - Her Majesty's Naval Service - of the British Armed Forces was the organisation responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in the Kingdom of England, and later in Great Britain, and until 1964 in the United Kingdom. Originally...
Painting, left: Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery by Alonzo Chappel (1828–1887) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 23 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger (1 of 4) Saturday 23 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: John Quincy Adams,...
Photo, left: Magnificent work of ethnic minorities in Iran: interior of Vank Cathedral, New Julfa, Isfahan JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 21 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, in re: Mrs Clinton's...
Photo, left: Percival Lowell of the Lowell Observatory's first mission: Mars. After that, search for Planet X. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 23 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, in re: Slouching toward Des Moines http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/...
Photo, left: Photo, left: Peng Ming-min (center) with colleagues at National Taiwan University in 1954. Peng Ming-min (彭明敏; b. 15 August 1923) is a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy...
Photo, left: Vladislav Surkov is [according to wikipedia], after Putin, the most important figure in the creation of Russia’s own brand of authoritarian capitalism. The Kremlin’s in-house ideologue, he came up with a term for it – sovereign democracy. Dubbed the “Grey Cardinal”, Surkov was one of...
Photo, left: Just a week before Christmas, security forces arrested Reverend Kowa Shamaal and Reverend Hassan Abdelraheem from the Sudan Church of Christ denomination at their homes in Khartoum North and Omdurman, respectively. No reason for the arrest has been given for the two church leaders who...
Photo, left: This was Theodore Roosevelt's first cabin in the Dakota Territory. It was used by Roosevelt from 1883-1884, before he became president. After his wife and mother died in 1884, only hours apart, Roosevelt became depressed. He then left the cabin and went further north up the Little...
Photo, left: Stalin and Ribbentrop. "The . . . dangers of state destruction." JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 16 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris.; by Alex Kershaw (1...