The John Batchelor Show

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Saturday 3 August 2013

Photo, above: Tinian. This is where US forces staged saturation bombing of Japan, and assembled and launched the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It's also where napalm was first used in warfare. It's lush and totally peaceful; has beautiful landscapes, rocky cliffs and coves, and close-in...

Friday 2 August 2013

  Photo, above:  Oranges.  See: Hour 2, Block B, Amy Harmon, NYT, on the race to save the orange by altering its DNA.  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday  2 August  2013 / Hour 1, Block A:   Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: Low Pay Clouds Job Growth  The U.S. labor market's long, slow...

Thursday 1 August 2013

Photo, above: Russian faces on building-high posers all around Egypt.   CAIRO, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - In the days of political confrontation between the Islamists and supporters of the army in Egypt Russian President Vladimir Putin is gaining popularity quickly among Egyptian citizens, just falling...

Wednesday 31 July 2013

Photo, above:  Faster than light/FTL. See: Hour 1, Block C, Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show; Richard Obousy, President of Icarus Intergalactic; & at Baylor University.  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One  Wednesday  31 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist...

Tuesday 30 July 2013

  Photo, above: The Idaho Department of Lands approved two permits to Alta Mesa Services to drill for oil and gas in Payette County. The permits, issued June 11 and June 27, were for two separate sites. . . . The new sites are north of New Plymouth. The state will allow Alta Mesa to drill to 5,800...

Monday 29 July 2013

Photo, above: The globe of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, is seen illuminated outside Geneva, Switzerland.  See: Hour 4, Block D, Danny Hakim, NYT, in re: Faster Than the Speed of Light? JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 29 July  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn,...

Sunday 28 July 2013

Photo, above: Rafik and Lina Hariri. See: Hour 1, Block A, Michele Dunne, vice president and director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council; the distinguished and much-beloved Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005, when explosives equivalent to around 1800 kg...

Saturday 27 July 2013

Photo, above: University of California, Berkeley Free Speech Movement – 1964-1965. See: Hour 3, Block A, The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James T. Patterson In the 1964–1965 academic year, students at the University of California, Berkeley spent months protesting against the...

Friday 26 July 2013

Photo, above: Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi.  See: Hour 3, Block A, Michael Ledeen, FDD. Some followers of the dissident Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi say his health has further deteriorated in prison. Boroujerdi, who supports the separation of religion from the...

Thursday 25 July 2013

Photo, above: Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, who's been imprisoned in Evin Prison since 2006, has spoken in favor of tolerance; of separation of religion and state; of fraternity with Jews, "God's children," and against the regime, says it’s using religion as bullies as did bin Laden.  (...

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