Photo, above: Typhoon survivors in Philippines in the hold of a C-130 cargo plane as they try ot leave Tacloban. The USS George Washington battle group is stationed in Philippines to provide aid to typhoon survivors. The nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived...
Photo, above: The dusty village where Barack Obama’s father was raised, Kisumu is a sleepy provincial city that sprawls along the eastern shore of Lake Victoria. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 17 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Sid Perkins, Supervolcanoes; the Yellowstone caldera: 500 years...
Photo, above: globalization: transfers and commingling. Potatoes and tomatoes are from the New World; when they became important crops elsewhere, local economies and populations shifted dependencies. From 1845 to 1852 in Ireland there occurred the Great Famine, a period of mass starvation,...
Photo, above: China in the world ocean: "Near seas" vs. "far seas" See Hour 2, Blocks C & D, Gregory Copley, on Chinese incursions into airspace and territorial waters; China taking over the use of Lamu island. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 15 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: ...
Photo, above: PLA Navy Coast Guard, off Senkaku Islands, East China Sea. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 14 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr Congressional correspondent, in re: Today's New York Times editorial, Andrew Rosenthal: Mr. Obama has...
Photo, above: Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricket star of stars. See Hour 1, Block D, Tunku Varadarajan, Daily Beast, on cricket. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 13 November 2013/ Hour 1, Block A: Toshi Yoshihara, John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and an affiliate member of...
Portrait, above: Grace Coolidge JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 12 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: Coolidge. Tuesday 12 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Philip Izzo, WSJ, in re: Vital Signs:...
Photo, above: New York Times front page, 11 November 1918 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 11 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: the senior member of Haqqani Network, Nasiruddin Haqqani, killed...
Photo, above: A crowd gathers to watch Adm. William E. Gortney relieve Adm. John C. Harvey Jr. as commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command in a ceremony aboard the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier at Norfolk Naval Station. (Amanda Lucier | The Virginian-Pilot). New Fleet Forces commander will...
Photo, above: The Art of War by Sun Tzu, compiled over 2,000 years ago by the warrior-philosopher, is still one of the most widely studied and influential books on strategy throughout the world today. This work stresses the unpredictability of battle, the importance of deception and surprise, the...