The John Batchelor Show

Friday 5 October 2012

Air Date: 
October 05, 2012

 

(Photo: The feminist punk group Pussy Riot performs during a flash-mob-style protest at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow: February 2012.)

905P: Jim McTague, Barrons, re job number and statistics and BLS unlikely economist conspirators in short sleeve white shirts, re GDP non growth and manufacturing.

Unemployment fell to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent, crossing what had become a symbolic threshold in the campaign. Mr. Romney was deprived of a favorite line of attack, mocking the president for “43 straight months with unemployment above 8 percent.”

920P:  Sarah Maslin Nir, NYT, re reports of JFK plane inspectors being hurried through their planes because of airline lateness or worries about gate times, not adequate job, no response from TSA re these non unionized jobs.

935P: Tunku Varadarajan, Tunku Varadarajan, Newsweek International, re around the world with leaders behaving badly or non ironically.

950P: John Bolton, in praise of Amano at IAEA, what is happening on Turkey Syria border that looks like conflict?

1005P: Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re report from what the debate at Denver appeared inside the auditorium in comparison to the TV screen, the BLS report and is it positive, will OFA now speak of jobs?.

1020P: Karen Vogel, NYT, re the New York painter who uses a computer print to create art that is now a new school, Jet Printer Art now popular..

1035P: Richard Epstein, Hoover, the debate in the Republican Party between Conservatives of the Russell Kirk/Edmund Burke influence on governance (cooperation and accommodation) as recommended by David Brooks fo the NYT;  and Libertarians who emphasize market solutions to influence  governance: what are the limitations of governing with tradition and custom? How does Romney combine these influences?

1050P: Richard Epstein, Hoover, continued, the debate in the Republican Party between Conversatives of the Russell Kirk/Edmund Burke influence on governance (cooperation and accommodation) as recommended by David Brooks fo the NYT;  and Libertarians who emphasize market solutions to influence  governance: what are the limitations of governing with tradition and custom? How does Romney combine these influences?

1105P: Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek Internationale, re the ongoing Pussy Riot brouhaha in Moscow, how it has ignited the art scene, the continued pursuit of the unmasked perps by Putin police.

Pussy Riot’s communally conceived fashion attack is clearly visible in the YouTube video of the group’s performance on the pulpit of the church. All the elements are there: gaudy, ripped-to-fit minis and shifts in contrasting solid colors with bright tights, boots and those haunting balaclavas. “Different colors explode when the action is performed,” said Bullet, a member of the collective who helps the girls make sure they look ready for the stage … or barricades. Indeed, the video proves you can always spot a Pussy Rioter in a crowd — kneeling in prayer or being dragged off by police, she’s a flash of moving color, never an individual girl.

1120P: Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek Internationale, continued, re the ongoing Pussy Riot brouhaha in Moscow, how it has ignited the art scene, the continued pursuit of the unmasked perps by Putin police.

1135P: Ken Croswell, author, Lives of Stars, re the mystery and unexplained theories of galaxies and stars, including a new theory that our sun may be the result of a merger of two stars; also re "halo stars" that are the oldest stars in our galaxy. 

1150P: Tommy Sears, DefendOurDemocracy.org, re the release of the speculative video “October Surprise.”

1205A: Mike Hale, NYT, re the introduction of online thriller release Cybergeddon and its success and what it means for TV and video and future advertising to mobile audiences.

1220A: Mike Hale, NYT, continued, re the introduction of online thriller release Cybergeddon and its success and what it means for TV and video and future advertising to mobile audiences.

"CSI" TO "CYBERGEDDON" CBS series creator Anthony Zuiker has turned his attention to the online series "Cybergeddon," in which Missy Peregrym investigates a series of worldwide cybercrimes. Watch at cybergeddon.yahoo.com.

1235A: Tunku Varadarajan, Newsweek Internationale, re around the world with leaders behaving badly or non ironically.

1250A: Simon Constable, WSJ, re the BLS reports and the paradox of the statistics, reporting to the WSJ audience, also the Jack Welch conspiracy theory, goodnight.

The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features.[8] The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disksbrown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.