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...
Photo, above: Nuclear Saudi Arabia - buying bombs from Pakistan? See Hour 3, Block C, Barry Pavel, Atlantic Council, on Saudi Arabia wanting to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Guest-host: Francis Rose, Federal News Radio Hour One Friday 8 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A...