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Saturday 8 November 2014

Photo, above: Micro air vehicle (can be mosquito-size) with attached surveillance camera. "MAVs should be thought of as aerial robots, as six-degree-of-freedom machines whose mobility can deploy a useful micro payload to a remote or otherwise hazardous location where it may perform any of a variety...

Friday 7 November 2014

Photo, above: A dark matter halo is a hypothetical component of a galaxy that envelops the galactic disk and extends well beyond the edge of the visible galaxy. The halo's mass dominates the total mass. Since they consist of dark matter, halos cannot be observed directly, but their existence is...

Thursday 6 November 2014

Photo, above:  Iran brags that it controls four capitals: Teheran, Damascus, Baghdad, Sanaa.  See Hour 3, Block B: IDF Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael [Mickey] Segall. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com and Malcolm Hoenlein,...

Wednesday 5 November 2014

Photo, above: Revellers celebrate Guy Fawkes Day. On 5 November 1605, Fawkes unsuccessfully tried to commit the infamous act of terror of blowing up King James I and the Houses of Parliament. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show Hour...

Tuesday 4 November 2014

Photo:  Joni Ernst, who tonight became the first woman to represent Iowa in the Senate; above: in a TV ad JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor & Cumulus Media radio; Francis Rose, Federal News Radio. Hour One Tuesday  4 November  2014 / Hour 1, Block A:  Larry Kudlow...

Monday 3 November 2014

Photo, above:  The black flag of ISIS flies also in Sinai, photo courtesy of and with gratitude to the Jerusalem Post.  See Hour 3, Blocks A & B, Malcolm Hoenlein's reports on the matter.   ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  .. See also the ancient St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, which has been...

Sunday 2 November 2014

Photo, above: North Korean prison camp. Geneva (AFP) – Ahn Myong-Chol witnessed many horrors as a North Korean prison camp guard, but few haunt him like the image of guard dogs attacking school children and tearing them to pieces. Ahn, who worked as a prison camp guard for eight years until he fled...

Saturday 1 November 2014

Photo, above: Vl Vl Putin's dacha (see more pictures here – boudoir, jacuzzi, et al.) The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal...

Friday 31 October 2014

Photo, above: ISIS terrorists kill 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority   Takfiri Terrorists of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)  have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq’s human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. ...

Thursday 30 October

Photo, above: Yazidi girl rests after fleeing ISIS. A Yazidi population of 10,000 is stranded atop a mountain in Iraq, under siege by ISIS. Worse:  Thousands of women and girls are being held in nearby villages as sex slaves to ISIS; the youngest child is nine years old or less. One woman with a...

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