Photo: member of an Iranian navy special forces group known as Takavaran wearing a uniform similar to that worn by the US military and holding an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun stands guard at the Iranian Corvette Admiral Naghdi as it docks in the Red Sea Sudanese town of Port Sudan. The visit of...
Photo, above: On Aug. 9, the Japanese Ministry of Defense held a naming ceremony for the Izumo, the latest ship to join the Maritime Self-Defense Forces. Officially a “helicopter carrier-type escort/destroyer,” Izumo was built at the Japan Marine United shipyards at Yokohama. Although publicly...
Picture, above: ET3, or Evacuated Tube Transport Technology. Last year at an event in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed he'd come up with the idea for an entirely new form of transportation. He called it the Hyperloop, and here's how he described it: . . . How would you like something...
Photo, above: Annual Perseid meteor shower in aurora. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 12 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: the al Qaeda conference call, as reported on the Daily Beast. We...
Photo, above: His Holines the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at a teaching. Background: tankas, sacred scrolls in the Tibetan/Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Photo below: a parliament of owls. Sunday 11 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Natalie Angier, in re: owls. (1 of 2) ...
Photo, above: in Yemen, Sanaa houses at dusk (artist's view) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 10 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Legitimate Target: A Criteria-Based Approach to Targeted Killing (Terrorism and Global Justice) by Amos Guiora (1 of 4) Photo, below: traditional houses in Sanaa,...
Photo, above: On forty-foot tall posters across Egypt: "Bye-bye, America!” "وداعا وداعا وأمريكا!" JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 9 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Michael Auslin, AEI, in re:In a few days, the U.S. State Department undoubtedly will reopen all of the 22 U.S. embassies and...
Photo, above: Embassy-Closing Terror Plot Uncovered on Al Qaeda Conference Call. For the first time in history, a group of managers were able to sit down and prepare for a major project on a conference call. It's just that all the managers were al Qaeda managers, and the major project was a...
Photo, above: Incidents show police bias towards pro-establishment groups. Law and order appear to have taken a serious bashing in Hong Kong as a blind eye is often turned to thuggish activities. [See: Hour 1, Block B: Hung Ho-fung, associate professor at Johns Hopkins, on how Hong Kong is...
Photo, above: Curiosity rover a year later. This is a self-portrait mosaic made from brand new images taken by the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager), the high-resolution camera located on the turret at the end of MSL’s robotic arm. The arm was moved for each of the 55 images in this mosaic, so the arm...