720P:  Nathan Koppel, WSJ, with Simon Constable, DowJones, re Marc Dreier fraud and the missing $300 million from the plundering law firm, re federal proseuctors charge Kosta Kovachev with conspiracy to commit wire fraud  with Marc Dreier. Ex-Broker Charged in Dreier Case.  

735P: Professional Roundtable with Jodi Schneider, CQ, and John Fund, Wall Street Journal; re the Greg Craig audit of the contacts between the Obama team and Blagojevich officer November-December re the Senate seat; re Rahm Emanuel ambition on the Mr. Speaker track, re Jesse Jackson Junior ambition for the Senate seat.

750P:  Continued re the Franken/ Coleman recount, re the stimulus package for the 11th Congress, re Joe Biden declares no earmarks.

805P: Simona Covel, Wall Street Journal, re the credit crisis and recession threatens small business especially.  Slump Batters Small Business.

820P: Charles Gasparino, CNBC, DailyBeast.com, re Bernie Madoff and his witting accomplices, re the Fairfield Greenwich Group hedge fund, re who is Walter Noel?

835: Financial Professionals, with John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable, Dow Jones, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the Madoff scandal grows to feeder funds and go-betweens, re Rich Rein in Lavish Habits as Net Worth Takes Big Hit - Los Angeles Times, re Mort Zuckerman on Bernie Madoff.

850P: Continued, re Obama's Stimulus Is Down Payment - Lawrence Summers, Washington Post.  There's No Painless Cure for Recession - Peter Schiff, Wall Street Journal.  Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks 

905P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations, re the IDF air strikes on Gaza (above), re the casualty claims, re the Hamas threats, re Hamas arms with Iran weapons, re Shimon Peres declares that the IDF will not re-enter Gaza.   Israel launches air strikes on Gaza

920P:  Shlok Vaidya, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, re Pakistan moves first rate troops to Line of Control opposite the Punjab, re India moves first rate troops into Winter exercises in the Punjab; re the Pakistan provocation and refusal to close the terror camps.

935P: Harold Holzer, author, "Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861."  Mr. 

Lincoln's transition was four months long (six weeks longer than Mr. Obama's), and still holds the record for pontificating, bribe-seeking, influence-peddling, chest-thunping and double-crossing.  The Blago affair is a tawdry miniature of the gleeful corruption tales of Keystone boss Simon Cameron (right) and the Pennsylvania mob.  Eventually Mr. Lincoln was obliged to hand the giant prize of the War Department to Mr. Cameron, who so misbehaved that he was shipped to the Russian ambassadorship in less than a year.

955P: Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the TARP bailout of GMAC.  Wall Street Journal: GMAC Mum on Bailout Deadline GMAC wouldn't say on Saturday if it had met a midnight deadline to clear a final hurdle in its bid to become a bank holding company.

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705P PT: Bob Zimmerman, author, re NASA vs. Obama transition team, re: Is Mike Griffin to be fired?, re the outsourcing of NASA, re the $100,000 bag of tools in orbit, re will the Obama Administration close NASA manned space?  NASA's spending is under scrutiny.

720P: Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re the worldwide crisis and panic, financial, strategic, is it caused by the internet and the destruction of truth?  The Internet Is Bad For The Truth.

735P:  Professional Roundtable with Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re the Greg Craig Audit of the Blagojevich allegations, re the Fitzgerald interviews with Obama, Emanuel, Jarrett, re the Illinois House impeachment proceedings, re Is Caroline Kennedy a Royal?

750P: Continued re the Joe Biden predicted crisis candidates, Pakistan moving first-rate troops to the border, re the IDF massive strike on Hamas in Gaza, re the condusion of American leadership in transition.

805P: Professional roundtable with John Avlon, RealClearPolitics.com, Diana West, author, Craig Unger, re the Bush pardons and the withdrawal of the pardon of an RNC donor, re the Blago scandal grows, re the Caroline Kennedy brouhaha in New York and her NY1 interview. 

820P:  Continued re the mysterious ambitions of Rahm Emanuel, re is the Blago scandal a product of Rahm Emanuel's overreach?

835P:   Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal, re the twin crises of Gaza and the Pakistan-India Line of Control (above) add to the ongoing crisis of CENTCOM plans for Afghanistan, re the Pakistan troop movements to the LOC and the India counters, re the Pakistan military presence on the Afghan border, re the vulnerability of the NATO convoys, re the Taliban's strength and promise to fight alongside the Pakistan Army vs India.  As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold.

850P: David Grinspoon, Denver Museum Nature and Science, re planetary geology review, Mars, Venus, Titan, Enceladus, Io, re the exoplanets and direct imaging, re the CO2 Jupiter class gas giant exoplanet at 63 light years.

905P:  Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, from Baghdad, re the final Bush visit to Baghdad, re the shoe-thrower and the Iraqi response, re the Status of Forces agreement and the new rules that the Coalition must ask permission, re the security in Baghdad and Anbar.  Iraq Lawmakers Delay Security Vote The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday postponed a crucial vote on a security pact between the U.S. and Iraq as political leaders continued to hammer out a deal to meet demands by Sunni lawmakers.  Shoving Halts Iraq Security-Pact Debate  A tussle in the Iraqi parliament delayed the start of debate on a security pact with the U.S., while smaller political parties continued to voice concern.  Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 25, wound 64

920P: Gene Meyers, Space Island Group,re the radical proposal to solve energy demands by launching into orbit solar satellites, which are mile-wide solar cells, that can convert sunlight into electricity and then transmit the power using microwave beams to gigantic ground antennas.   View Nasa Video Clip

935P: Robert Mrazek, author "The Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight," re the Battle of Midway, June 4-5, 1942, the confrontation that is regarded as the turning point in the war in the Pacific when the Imperial Japanese Navy lost four of its six major aircraft carriers and was never able to recover the offensive, re the torpedo squadron of Torpedo 8 off USS Hornet that launched on June 4 and flew west with the air group under orders until its commander disobeyed orders and broke off his 15 planes to fly south to find the Japanese carriers, including the Agaki (below) that led the attack on Pearl Harbor, and to attack the overwhelming and impenetrable Japanese air and ship defenses to the squadron's doom; re the case, sixty-seven years later, that the Hornet admiral, Marc "Pete" Mitscher, ordered his air group in the wrong direction and that this contributed to Torpedo Eight's defeat and the loss of all the air group's planes into the sea.  Below find the list of Torpedo Eight's pilots, all lost except for Ensign George Gay, (above left) who crashed into the sea in the middle of the Japanese carriers, witnessed the American dive-bomber attack that sank the carriers, was picked up by American rescue team, and lived until 1994.  Squadron Commander John Waldron, (below in his aircraft morning of June 4, about to take off from Hornet) who made the decision to break formation and fly south, and then to attack without much hope, is circled in the group photo.  All the American torpedo planes form three American carriers failed to get a strike that day, and only 5 of 41 attacking planes (below Torpedo 6 on Enterprise) survived.

Lt. Commander John C. Waldron, commanding officer, KIA 
Lt. Raymond A. Moore KIA 
Lt. James C. Owens KIA 
Lt.(jg) George M. Campbell KIA 
Lt.(jg) John P. Gray KIA 
Lt.(jg) Jeff D. Woodson KIA 
Ens. William W. Abercrombie KIA 
Ens. William W. Creamer KIA 
Ens. Harold J. Ellison KIA 
Ens. William R. Evans KIA 
Ens. George H. Gay WIA 
Ens. Henry R. Kenyon KIA 
Ens. Ulvert M. Moore KIA 
Ens. Grant W. Teats KIA 
Robert B. Miles, Aviation Pilot 1c KIA 
Horace F. Dobbs, Chief Radioman KIA 
Amelio Maffei, Radioman 1 KIA 
Tom H. Pettry, Radioman 1 KIA 
Otway D. Creasy, Jr. Radioman 2 KIA 
Ross H. Bibb, Jr., Radioman 2 KIA 
Darwin L. Clark, Radioman 2 KIA 
Ronald J. Fisher, Radioman 2 KIA 
Hollis Martin, Radioman 2 KIA 
Bernerd P. Phelps Radioman 2 KIA 
Aswell L. Picou, Seaman 2 KIA 
Francis S. Polston, Seaman 2 KIA 
Max A. Calkins, Radioman 3 KIA 
George A. Field, Radioman 3 KIA 
Robert K. Huntington, Radioman 3 KIA 
William F. Sawhill, Radioman 3 KIA

950P: Exeunt re the strange coincidence of major ancient cities and the volvano and earthquake zones between plates in Europe and Asia.  Did Rumbling Give Rise to Rome?