The John Batchelor Show

Friday 20 July 2012

Air Date: 
July 20, 2012

Ulan Bator, Mongolia, under strengthening democratic institutions, growing and prospering, the glass half full: Juluan Dierkes.  

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Friday 905P Eastern Time: .Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, in re: San Diego James Holmes, shooter in Colorado; from well-to-do family, was graduated from high school in San Diego, attended Salk Institute boot camp and UC Riverside.

Friday 920P Eastern Time:  .Matthew Phillips, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: Is the economy slipping?  Is this a recession? Mixed to negative signals; fiscal cliff.

Friday 935P Eastern Time: .Julian Dierkes, WSJ, in re: Mongolian elections, democracy advances, the promise of Mongolian freedom

Friday 950P Eastern Time:  .Ken Croswell, Science magazine, in re: Pluto get a fifth moon; mystery of planetary disc disappears; the oldest spiral galaxy at 10 billion years.

Friday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  .Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: Are we in a recession? Why are the rich buying gold bars for Swiss vaults? What's to be done about the fiscal cliff?

Friday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  .Jeff Greene, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re:  Romney isn’t hurt by the Bain attacks. Why not?

Friday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  .Mark Mazzetti, NYT, in re; drone academy at Holloman AFB. The rise of the drone pilots, calling themselves "remote-piloted aircraft."

Friday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  .Henry Miller, Hoover, in re: the trouble of major hospital drug shortages – why, and what's to be done now?

Friday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): .Justin Elliott, ProPublica, in re: the facts checked on New York City's claims of fourteen terrorist events having been stopped since 9/11; 1 of 2

Friday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): . Justin Elliott, ProPublica, in re: the facts checked on New York City's claims of fourteen terrorist events having been stopped since 9/11; 2 of 2

Waterways are highways in the depths of the Congo rain forest.

Friday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): . The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet by Eugene Linden; 1 of 2

Friday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  . The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet by Eugene Linden; 2 of 2

 

Friday/Sat 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  .Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Hoover Institution, in re: Obama, Clinton, and the Congo since 2009: what is to be done. 1 of 2

Friday/Sat  1220A (920 Pacific Time): . Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Hoover Institution, in re: Obama, Clinton, and the Congo since 2009: what is to be done. 2 of 2

Friday/Sat  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  .Richard Epstein, Hoover, in re: Citizens United and freedom of speech for public union members

Friday/Sat  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.  Alex Nunez, in re: consumersearch.com, in re: Tesla Model S; Zoom; test drive.

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Music​ (using Eastern Daylight Time broadcast)

9-hour: Inception

10-hour: Spartacus

11-hour: Sherlock

midnight hour: Game of Thrones.. 

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