| John Batchelor Show

China Before the Crash

Hour 1, Block A: Anne Stevenson-Yang, co-founder of J Capital Research, in re: her analysis of China's property market. While statistics released are not reliable, govt can delay the bursting of the bubble. Every city has huge hulks of empty bldgs; 10% of inventory is moving, the rest is waiting...
May 8, 2013 0

Immigrant Nation

Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio, in re: The Heritage Foundation, a wonderful institution, has miscalculated. We want to be a country where people come for education and opportunity; so does Mexico. I puzzle at those who just want to block...
May 7, 2013 0

Jihad Rising

Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Benghazi: early on the day of 11 Sept 2012, Ayman al Zawahiri's brother Mohammed led the assault vs the US embassy in Cairo, led to the US flag being torn down, the black flag of...
May 6, 2013 0

Trouble Brews in East China Sea

Thursday 2 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block D: Jillian Kay Melchior, NRO, in re: Turtle Island, visible from Taiwan (shaped like a turtle); at age 15, men start fishing; has been an island of fishermen for 200 years. Japanese clam that they own the islands and sometimes expel Taiwanese with water...
May 5, 2013 0

Arab Winter

Hour 2, Block A: David Schenker, Aufzien fellow and director of the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute, in re: Jordan, and King Abdullah’s visit to Washington; and Egypt. Secy Hagel's failure in Cairo is an across-the board failure: Muslim Brotherhood can’t govern. Hagel fails...
May 3, 2013 0

Miranda Terror

Hour 1, Block A: Edward Hayes, criminal defense attorney par excellence, in re: Reading Miranda rights to Dzhoshkhar Tsarnaev after sixteen hours of highly productive discussions with the FBI. I'm not a fan of denying these rights to a US citizen; this guy was wounded and groggy, s I don't mind...
May 2, 2013 0

Gunboat China

Hour 1, Block A: Toshi Yoshihara, John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Naval War College and co-author of Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy, in re: the latest on the Senkakus. Guest also has just returned from Goa, where he...
May 1, 2013 0

Boston Revisited

Hour 2, Block A: . Michael Graham, American talk radio host, writer, & conservative political commentator; in re: the day after the day after the Tsarnaev hunt. Police had air, land, sea huts; Watertown has large houses and lawns – why couldn’t they find him? They locked down the T – there'...
April 30, 2013 0

Jihadist Ratline to Iran

Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Taliban promise suicide assaults, 'insider attacks' in this year's spring offensive The "Khalid bin Waleed spring operation" will include the use "special military tactics," "...
April 29, 2013 0

Mideast States in Collapse around Israel

Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Egyot is vital – largest Arab country; Ikhwan victory as very important, However, people are beginning to starve – decades'-long subsidies being removed, Egyptian pound down hugely. No gas (petrol). Sinai: clash between Bedouin...
April 26, 2013 0