The John Batchelor Show

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Thursday 10 April 2014

Photo, above: Photo: Typhoon Ita approach Australia. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday  27 March  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: You have to have a scape goat. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning. Immigration reform. Thursday  27 March  2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Ed Hayes. de Blasio’s strange...

Wednesday 9 April 2014

Photo, above: After a Bangladesh storm and flood, this old man in despair sits on a fallen tree in front of his house that got damaged from another tree collapse during the storm at Mohammadpur. Hour 2, Block D, Gardiner Harris, NYT, concerning: When a powerful storm destroyed her riverside home in...

Tuesday 8 April 2014.

.  Photo, above: The French president, Francois Hollande, has named Manuel Valls as France's new Prime Minister.  Sacré bleu – un socialiste du droit?  "du côté de l'offre"?  . . . In other words, the choice of Manuel Valls as new Prime Minister could be seen as a sign of Hollande's renewed...

Monday 7 April 2014

Photo, above: Singer Ruslana Lyzhychko of Ukraine holds a Ukrainian national flag during an interview with Agence France-Presse at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 4. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)   Note URL correction:  http://www.ruslana.ua JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus...

Sunday 6 April 2014

Photo, above: The Energy Policy Act of 1992 opened development of renewable energy projects on American Indian reservations. Since then wind and solar projects have provided power to pump water and electrify homes of Native Americans both on and off the grid. While not perfect, solar provides jobs...

Saturday 5 April 2014

Photo, above: The Burning of Smyrna as seen from HMS King George V The Burning of Smyrna, taken from the forebridge of HMS King George V: HMS Iron Duke stands in the foreground against "an unbroken wall of fire, two miles long". This photograph was published as the centrefold (pp. 504–505) in The...

Friday 4 April 2014

Photo, above: Sheldon G. Adelson together with his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, at the construction site of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in 2007 in Singapore. The election's most generous donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, were Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. They spent at...

Thursday 3 April

Photo, above: Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, heir-apparent to the Saudi throne, carries an unidentified child Emir during the traditional Saudi dance known as ''Arda'' at the Janadriya culture festival at Der'iya in Riyadh, February 18, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street...

Wednesday 2 April 2014

Photo, above:  Warlordism returns to China as generals swear an oath of fealty -  not to the Chinese people, or the Chinese state, or Confucian morality, or the profundity of the Tao family, or even to Sun-tze's  strategic philosophy; rather, to the imperious, shaky, deeply worried leader of a...

Tuesday 1 April 2014

Photo, above: KGB of Transdniestria informed about Ukrainian espionage   On 25 March an R pilotless flying object which was launched from the territory of the Ukraine was hit in Transdniestria. The press service of the committee of state security of the unacknowledged republic informed about that...

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