Photo, above: Logo of the Syrian Electronic Army: Assad's cyber warriors. The recent phishing attack is the latest by pro-Assad hackers operating out of Dubai, who target sites with views opposed to their own. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Guest-host: Francis Rose, host of "In Depth with Francis Rose" on...
Photo, above: Rebecca West, H G Wells, and his feminine retinue JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One (left) BAIKAL vodka with the real Lake Baikal as backdrop Saturday 7 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough (1 of 4) Saturday 7...
Photo, above: Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe to Save Civilization for Democracy, 1919. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Amos Guiora, law professor; co-dir, Center for Global Justice, University of Utah, in re: Humanitarian Crisis, Geo-politics and the Dilemma...
Photo, above: Tonto and the Lone Ranger. Tonto was played by a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor born on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, near Brantford, Ontario, Canada, one of eleven children of a Canadian Mohawk tribal chief and military officer, Major George Smith. He took...
Photo, above: Gordon Chang entertains the prospect of buying a new car, thinks of Volvo – now owned by Chinese Communist Party officials – and elects to buy a Chevy Cruze. " I've just bought a Chevy and am really happy with it." (Hour 2, Block A) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Gordon Chang,...
Photo, above: The Great Peterhof Palace - Peter the Great's Summer Palace (also called Petrodvorets) - which is situated 18 miles west of St Petersburg, is a series of palaces and gardens. The Great Cascade is composed of three waterfalls, 64 fountains, and 37 garden fountains; all are entirely...
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 2 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson (Kindle Edition - Oct 18, 2011) - Frances Wilson was educated at Oxford University and lectured on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature for...
Photo, above: Ford Model T Runabout (photo courtesy of Ford) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 1 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports by Kevin Cook (1 of 2) Sunday 1 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:...
Photo, above: NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun. A team of researchers, including Carnegie's Alan Boss, has discovered what could be a large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 22 degrees Celsius (72...
Photo, above: September 4, 1804 - Bomb ketch USS Intrepid, fitted out as a fireship to destroy a flotilla of Barbary corsairs, blew up in Tripoli harbor before reaching her target. Ten men, all volunteers and including her commander Lieutenant Richard Somers, were lost. Commodore Edward Preble...