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...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 15 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's, in re: Stocks and Oil Sink Amid Another Global Selloff U.S. stocks slid and the 10-year Treasury yield dipped below 2% as steep declines in oil prices and a bear market in China...
Photo, left: Monumen nasional jakarta JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; Cumulus Media Networks. Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video. Hour One Thursday 14 January...
Photo, left: JANUARY 7, 2016: Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's Great Observatories. This multiwavelength image shows this galaxy cluster, called IDCS J1426.5+3508 (IDCS 1426 for short), in X-rays recorded by the...
Photo, left: 10 U.S. Riverine Sailors Released from Iranian Custody - USNI News Riverine Command Boats (RCB) 802 and 805 participate in a bilateral exercise JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Captain Jerry Hendrix, USN (ret.) and Center for New American Security. Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor;...