left: Walter Hunt's Elements of Mind.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: m Slowing Job Growth Tests Economy U.S. employers sharply slowed hiring in March to the weakest pace in more than a year, the latest sign the economy stumbled in early 2015. Unemployment was flat at 5.5%. 5:55 PM / Wage Growth Stays in Check / Heard: What Now for Fed?
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 1, Block B:  Liz Peek, The Fiscal Times & Fox, in re: A Naïve Deal with Iran Tops Obama’s Bungled Mideast Policy Bush had his War on Terror. Obama has a War on Reality. Which will prove more costly? Obama has doggedly pursued negotiations aimed at restricting Iran’s access to a nuclear weapon even though the mullahs in Tehran have done nothing to prove their peaceful intentions. They have continued and even expanded their proxy wars throughout the Middle East, while also refusing to answer questions about their presumed development of advanced weapons. In the talks, they have conceded almost nothing. 
Notwithstanding Iran’s intransigence, the United States, which is orchestrating the talks, has apparently backtracked on demands that Iran shut down most of its centrifuges, ship its stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country, close or permanently disable its once-secret underground facility at Fordo and answer questions raised by the IAEA about its research on possible delivery systems.   Related: Americans Want a Deal but Don’t Trust Iran
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: Jessica Benko, NYT magazine, in re: The Radical Humaneness of Norway's Halden Prison. (1 of 2)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 1, Block D: Jessica Benko, NYT magazine, in re: The Radical Humaneness of Norway's Halden Prison. (2 of 2)
Hour Two
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: The Islamic State negotiations:  In an article entitled “Paradigm Shift,” in the eighth and latest issue of the magazine, Cantlie notes in the mocking style his captors presumably have ordered him to adopt that Western leaders appear to have accepted now that the Islamic State is like no previous terrorist organization, and that it is a country with all the attributes of a bona fide state—from a police force and schools to a functioning court system and supposed currency. “At some stage, you’re going to have to face the Islamic State as a country, and even consider a truce,” he argues. Acknowledging that it is “going to take some swallowing of pride,” he asks rhetorically, “What’s the alternative, launch airstrikes in half-a-dozen countries at once?” He adds, “They’ll have to destroy half the region if that’s the case."   http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/31/isis-wants-a-truce.html   (1 of 2)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: “Paradigm Shift,” in the eighth and latest issue of the magazine, Cantlie notes in the mocking style his captors presumably have ordered him to adopt that Western leaders appear to have accepted now that the Islamic State is like no previous terrorist organization, and that it is a country with all the attributes of a bona fide state—from a police force and schools to a functioning court system and supposed currency. “At some stage, you’re going to have to face the Islamic State as a country, and even consider a truce,” he argues. Acknowledging that it is “going to take some swallowing of pride,” he asks rhetorically, “What’s the alternative, launch airstrikes in half-a-dozen countries at once?” He adds, “They’ll have to destroy half the region if that’s the case."   http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/31/isis-wants-a-truce.html   (2 of 2) 
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 2, Block C:  Michael Balter, Science Magazine, in re: Archaeology: 
Indo-European languages tied to herders / Archaeology:
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 2, Block D:  James Gilmore, Washington Times, in re: Reveal what’s in the deal with Iran  Americans have a right to know the terms given in their names.  President Obama has agreed to a basic framework of a deal with Iran that is supposed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. What details it may contain we don't yet know, and the president is apparently determined to see that neither we nor Congress will. That is unacceptable to the American people because the agreement will have a significant effect on America's national security and that of our Middle Eastern allies.
Mr. Obama has made it clear that the agreement will not be submitted to the Senate for ratification as Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution requires. There are only three instances in which a president can execute an international agreement that does not need senate ratification. According to the Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, an executive agreement doesn't need ratification when it is made pursuant to an earlier treaty, pursuant to an act of Congress or when it is within the president's inherent powers. None of those three conditions pertains to the nascent Iran nuclear weapons agreement. [more]
Hour Three
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 3, Block A: Elements of Mind, by Walter Hunt (1 of 2)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: Elements of Mind, by Walter Hunt (2 of 2)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 3, Block C: William Alexander, NYT,  in re:  Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart (1 of 2)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 3, Block D: William Alexander, NYT,  in re:  Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart 2( of 2)
Hour Four
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 4, Block A: The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, by David Quammen (1 of 4)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 4, Block B: The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, by David Quammen (2 of 4)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, by David Quammen (3 of 4)
Friday  3 April 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, by David Quammen (4 of 4)