Schedules
Saturday 2 March 2013
Photo, above: Soviet POWS in an improvised camp, 1941. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One USSR, An SS Obersturmfuehrer. Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs; 1 of 4 Harvard classics...
Friday 1 March 2013
Photo, above: Five NGOs have filed a complaint against Glencore International and First Quantum Zambian subsidiary Mopani for massive tax evasion and fiscal fraud. See Friday 1 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block A: Louis Chambronneau, Reuters: Glencore bartered with firm linked to Iran nuclear program...
Thursday 28 February 2013
Photo, above: Temple at Karnak: major fire? The country is broke – has three months' worth of hard currency left, then the abyss – and the police, security forces and townspeople are robbing graves and irreplaceable historic sites to bring in money. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Edward Hayes,...
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Photo, above: See Below: Gardiner Harris, NYT in New Delhi, in re: Children Toil in India’s Mines, Despite Legal Ban Poverty, corruption and decrepit schools drive pervasive work by children in India, a problem illustrated by “rathole” mines in the east. I lived in Louisville, Kentucky, visited...
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Photo, above: Saul Alinsky excoriated by the Right. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 26 Feb 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: real tax burden as a share of the economy?? Wilbur Ross on Kudlow Report...
Monday 25 February 2013
Photo, above: Fast New Test Could Find Leprosy Before Damage Is Lasting - A simple, cheap screening offers the hope of diagnosing and curing leprosy, even in the poorest places, before victims are permanently disabled or disfigured. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 25 February 2013 / Hour 1...
Sunday 24 February 2013
Photo, above: Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo L. Black William O. Douglas John M. Harlan William J. Brennan, Jr. Potter Stewart Byron R. White Abe Fortas Thurgood Marshall. Reason Formed : Thurgood Marshall Joined Date Formed: Monday, October 2, 1967 Date Disbanded: Wednesday...
Saturday 23 February 2013
Above: artist's depiction of a raging ocean (Jeremiah Morelli) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 23 February 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Athenia Torpedoed: The U-boat Attack That Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic by Francis M. Carroll; 1 of 4 Just hours after World War II was declared, Germany...