Photo, above: Coolidge homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. See Hour 3, Block B, Abigail Millard, Coolidge Foundation prizewinner JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 27 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation based in Hong Kong...
Photo, above: 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan: seat of the criminal empire built by the Alavi Foundation, the Supreme Leader's money-laundering op in the US from which funds flowed into the Iranian nuclear program. The U.S. government is set to seize a Manhattan skyscraper that prosecutors say is...
Iran declares victory. Photo above: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech to members of the paramilitary Basij force in Tehran, Iran. Office of the Supreme Leader/AP "This interim agreement is badly skewed from America’s perspective. Iran retains its full capacity to...
Photo, above: Chevrolet 1957 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 24 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian (1 of 2) Sunday 24 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian (2 of 2) Sunday 24 November 2013 / Hour...
Photos, above: The uniqueness of the ecosystem is the most interesting ecological aspect of the páramos in Ecuador. An estimated 60% of all flora is endemic to the biome (not to be found anywhere else in the world). Tall tussock grasslands in between which grow spectacular plant formations like...
Photo, above: ATV off track – gamer's image; see Hour 2, Block B, Sarah Maslin Nir, NYT, on For New York City’s Dirt Bikers, There's No Place to Ride JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 22 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Ben Protess, NYT, in re: U.S. Investigates Currency Trades by Major Banks...
Photo, above: Lake Baikal in Winter. See Hour 4, Block C, Nicholas Wade, on a 24,000-year-old skull with some mitochondrial DNA found also in today's Native Americans; suggests people with brown hair, brown eyes and freckles. Baikal is considered sufficiently frozen by locals when the ice is...
Photo, above: . . . But this week, after weeks of inquiries by The Times about photos it received, the State Department released a trove of photographs showing buildings and vehicles ablaze during the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack that . . . [more] Judicial Watch was incredulous over the...
Photo, above: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether...
Photo, above: Typhoon survivors in Philippines in the hold of a C-130 cargo plane as they try ot leave Tacloban. The USS George Washington battle group is stationed in Philippines to provide aid to typhoon survivors. The nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived...