The John Batchelor Show

Schedules

Friday 22 May 2015

Photo, left: Monoprix above a Medieval cemetery (see Hour 4. Block D).  Paris: Past the racks of hair accessories on the ground floor of the Monoprix supermarket on the corner of the Rue Réaumur and the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the Second Arrondissement, there is a door marked "staff only".  Slip...

Thursday 21 May 2015

Photo, left - out of the aether: a US surveillance plane flying not too far from one of the false, just-glued-together islands that China is constructing in order to lay claim to huge swaths of ocean, received a broadcast: "This is the Chinese navy. This is the Chinese navy. Please go away to avoid...

Wednesday 20 May 2015

Photo, left: SNP MPs take House of Commons oath 'Scottish style' (and John Nicolson does so in Gaelic)  Scotland's new SNP MPs have sworn allegiance to the Queen during the traditional oath-taking ceremony at the House of Commons. There are 50 new nationalist members at Westminster, joining six SNP...

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Painting, left: Les Articles de capitulation de Montréal, négociés entre le Gouverneur-Général de la Nouvelle-France, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, et le Major-General Jeffrey Amherst au nom des couronnes française et britannique, consacrent la reddition de la ville de Montréal au cour de la...

Monday 18 May 2015

Photo, left:  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen. Hour One Monday  18 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, & Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re:  ISIS takes over...

Sunday 17 May 2015

Photo, left, anent irrational numbers: The symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake or dragon devouring its own tail, is the alchemical symbol par excellence of eternal recurrence. The alchemist-physicians of the Renaissance and Reformation were aware of the idea of eternal recurrence; the physician-...

Saturday 16 May 2015

Photo, left: Captain Joseph John Rochefort was a major figure in the U.S. Navy's cryptologic and intelligence developments from 1925 to 1947. He headed the Navy's fledgling cryptanalytic organization in the 1920s and provided singularly superb cryptologic support to the U.S. fleet during World War...

Friday 15 May 2015

Photo, left: Under McKinley, gold bullion replaces gold specie as the standard. A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold. Three types can be distinguished: specie, exchange, and bullion. •       In the gold specie...

Thursday 14 May 2015

Photo, left: King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain, at the track with Elizabeth Regina. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday  14 May 2015  / Hour 1, Block A...

Wednesday 13 May 2015

JBS sked     Date: 2015-05-13W   5/13/15 Hr 1 JBS:  Gordon Chang, Forbes.com.  Henry Sokolski, e Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.   Willy Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong & author, Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?   Dr. David M....

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