Picture, above: Floating Cities (8 Ways Magnetic Levitation Could Shape the Future - How Maglev Technology Works) See: Hour 2, Block B, Charles Pellegrino, author and explorer, in re: maglev and hyperloop. Our planet can be a crowded, polluted, crazy place. But a new design concept proposes that...
Photo, above: "Arab intellectuals facing the challenge of change" - Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. See: Hour 3, Block C, Eric Trager, Washington Institute and Wall Street Journal...
Photo, above: Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 21 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman... by Leigh Eric Schmidt (1 of 2) Ida C. Craddock was a 19th-...
Photo, above: The famous typewriter of Alger Hiss. See: Hour 4, Block A, Ron Radosh, Hoover, on the Hiss case and Whittaker Chambers JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 20 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith (1 of 4) Saturday 20 July...
Picture, above: American taxpayers currently hand out about $23 billion annually to farmers, and not the fellow trying to make ends meet with six chickens and an acre of corn. Mostly, those monies go to well-financed, prosperous farm households. Vincent Smith, in a report for the Mercatus Center,...
Photo, above: British Spitfires delivered to Iran Air Force, 1941-45. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 18 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr...
Photo, above: (See: Hour 2, Block C, Gordon Chang) From a YouTube video of a 12-year-old kid talking politics on the streets of Cairo. Young Ali Ahmed became a global Internet star this week, as footage went viral of him standing by a political demonstration and articulately denouncing...
Photo, above: Iranian tankers illegally reflagged, many flying a false flag of Tanzania or Zanzibar, then carrying weapons systems across the world ocean to rogue regimes, including North Sudan, al Qaeda in West Africa, supplies to and from North Korea, perhaps nuclear material to South America....
Photo, above: Alberto Nisman, Argentine hero. See Hour 2, Block C: Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica. Argentina under Kirchner is moving toward close alliance with the Iranian mullahs, and so is covering up specific evidence of Hassan Rohani's work in the 1994 mass-murder in Buenos Aires. As a sign...
Picture, above: Prise de la Bastille, by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel (Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789) Congratualtions: today is Bastille Day. The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the...