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Saturday and Sunday, 24 and 25 October

By John Batchelor on October 24, 2009 12:26 AM | No Comments
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Combined Simulcasts:    
Saturday 24 October (Sunday 25 October see below)    
Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Christopher McDougall, author, "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen."  Re the phenomenon of barefoot running sweeps North America.
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Meena Thiruvengadam, WSJ, re Ken Feinberg Pay Czar.
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Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   AfPakia and the Obama administration debate about strategy and policy for Afghanistan.  With Rufus Phillips, author, Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy Blog, re the newly scheduled elections, re the Taliban assaults Pakistan .
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Continued. 
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Nathan Hughes, Stratfor, re Earth orbital space as the highest ground and a weapons platform. 
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard Origins of Life program, re 32 new exoplanets, re Corot 7-b, re Kepler update.  
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Mike Vlahos, author, "Fighting Identity:" re the superstition of democracy forces anther election; re the election in Iran, Afghanistan and soon in Palestine are all mockeries .  
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Mike Vlahos.  
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  James G. Workman, author, "Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushman Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought."
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Workman continued. 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): John Geiger, author, "The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible." 
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Marc Morano, Climate Change, re the Pew Poll on Climate Change, re the Obama administration bypasses Copenhagen.
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re China violates sanctions against North Korea. 
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Kelly Evans, WSJ, re swine flu and the church pew. 
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Christopher Andersen, author, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage."  
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond re GMAC/GM and salary caps.
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 Sunday October 25   
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Jennifer Corbett Dooren, WSJ, re swine flu hits the young in waves, re shortage of vaccine, re no panic yet.  Yet.
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: James R.Hagerty, WSJ, re McMansions declining.
Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable, Jodi Schneider, , Mona Charen, NRO, re Baucus Hearts Snowe, re Pelosi presses the public option, Reid pushes the option option, where is Snowe?
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued re the Virginia and New Jersey governorships, re the 23rd NY special race. 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Charlie Gasparino, author, "Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Golabl Financial System."
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Henry Miller, "The Cadfael Report," re why swine flu does not strike the elderly as hard as the young, the shortage of vaccine for H1N1.   
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Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Simon Constable, DowJones, Jim McTague, Barron's, re BOE Chief: Break Up Big Banks
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): continued re Ken Feinberg, Barrel of Laughs?  
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): John Fund, WSJ, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Diana West, NationalExaminer.com, re public option option option, re NJ, re White House abandons Va, re 23rd NY.
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re Ken Feinberg theatrics, re POTUS skips Copenhagen Climate pow-wow. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, at Jerusalem, re the Goldstone Watch, re Abbas announces Palestinian elections January 24, 2010, re Nuke Iran Snookers Sgt.  Schulz US. 
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, re Charles Bolden dream and spin, re Ares 1 on or off? re NASA study moon's atmosphere, re sunspotwatch.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): John Gapper, Financial Times, re Why Goldman?
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Ting-I Tsai, WSJ, at Teipei, China Military Buildup Worries Taiwan
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Tim Page, author, "Parallel Play, Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's."
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt Joseph Sternberg, Asia WSJ, re China's recovery claims.
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Saturday and Sunday, 17 and 18 October

By John Batchelor on October 16, 2009 1:28 PM | No Comments
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Combined Simulcasts:    
Saturday 17 October (Sunday 18 October see below)    

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Jonah Keri, WSJ, re the robot end of umpiring, who needs eyeballs?
Saturday 920P Eastern Time:Charlie Gasparino, MSNBC, DailyBeast.com, re the banks are rolling in cash bonuses. 
Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   AfPakia and the Obama administration debate about strategy and policy for Afghanistan.  With Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy Blog, re the Punjabi Taliban and the Pashtun Taliban attack Peshawar.
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Brian Carney, author, "Freedom, Inc.: Free Your EMployees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth. 
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Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Lewis Sorley, author "A Better War," re lessons from the military in Vietnam that apply to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. 
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Claudia Rosett, Foundation Defense Democracies, re a Nobel Peace Prize every year for POTUS. 
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Mike Vlahos, author, "Fighting Identity:" re fighting an Iron Age warrior cult is futile.  
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Mike Vlahos.  The Punjabi Taliban join the Pashtun Taliban. 
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  Ilaria Dagnini Brey, author, "The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II." 
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Brey continued. 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman, "The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation." 
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Reed continued.
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re China violates sanctions against North Korea. 
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time):Betsy McKay, WSJ, re the onset of swine flu and the risks are not all the same so far.     
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time):Stephen Kotkin, author, "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment." 
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt. 

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Sunday 18 October   
Sunday 905P Eastern Time:Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, re Contractors Few Stimulus Jobs 
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Siobhan Gorman, WSJ, re rethink of NIE 2007 that found Iran not pursuing nukes.
Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable, Jodi Schneider, John Fund, WSJ, Mona Charen, NRO, re Baucus Hearts Snowe, re Pelosi presses the public option, re Is Rangel  a problem?
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued re the Virginia and New Jersey governorships, re the 23rd NY special race. 
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Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Anna Matthews, WSJ, Health Costs Jump for Employees.
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Ed HAyes, Lawman, re Letterman case heads to court, re Enron Skillings heads to Supreme Court, re GITMO unsolved. 
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Simon Constable, DowJones, Jim McTague, Barron's, re gold climbs and the dollar sinks, re Ken Lewis fired, robbed, scapegoated; re the banks roll in cash bonuses. 
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): continued re where are the IPOs?  
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.com, Craig Unger, re Baucus Hearts Snowe, re Pelosi presses the public option, re is Rangel  a problem? 
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re Jerry Brown, Mrs. Schwarzenegger's mobile phone. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, at Jerusalem, re the Goldstone Report, re the West Bank pressure, re the rethink of the NIE 2007. 
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, re IBEX and the mysterious ribbon at the edge of the solar system, re ISS, spaceweather, Ares 1.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Judy Shelton, WSJ, US debt will exceed 100% of GDP by 2012.
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Henry Miller, "The Cadfael Report," re the prep for H1N1 and the first results.  
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Christina Asquith, author "Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq."  
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.

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Saturday and Sunday, 10 and 11 October

By John Batchelor on October 9, 2009 12:52 AM | 1 Comment

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Combined Simulcasts:    

Saturday 10 October (Sunday 11 October see below)    

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: John Bussey, WSJ, re the debate between two books at the White House, Gordon Goldstein's "Lesson's in Disaster," and Lewis Sorley's "A Better War," both about Vietnam.  
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: October 5 Coalition October 5 Anti-War Coalition.    
Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   AfPakia and the Obama administration debate about strategy and policy for Afghanistan.  With Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy Blog, Kerry Patton.  
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Continued re the bombing in Kabul against Indian Embassy, re the TTF Taliban assault on Rawalpindi.
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time):  Rufus Phillips, author, "Why Vietnam Matters," re the presidential debate on Afghanistan and the comparisons to Vietnam.  
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Kamran Bokhari, Stratfor.com, re significant changes of IRGC lesdership in Iran. 
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Mike Vlahos, author, "Fighting Identity:"   
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Mike Vlahos. 
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Kenneth R. Werrell, "Death From the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing."
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with Kenneth R. Werrell. 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Mike Vaccaro, author, "The First Fall Classic,: The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912." 
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued with Mike Vaccaro. 
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Emily Maltby, WSJ,  Used-Car Dealers Feel 'Clunkers' Pinch
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Dana Mattioli, WSJ, Law-Firm Hires Seek Interim Jobs  
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Lesley Hazelton, "The Inheritors: The Epic Shia-Sunni Split."
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Banafshe Zand-Bonazi, re the Mayor of Tehran is a sinister rival to Ahmadi-Nejad. 

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Sunday 11 October   
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Claudia Rosett, Foundation Defense Democracies, re Barack Obama wins the Norwegian chosen Nobel PEace Prize for his ambitions in world disarmament. 
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, at Jerusalem, re the contijued provocations by Fatah on Temple Mount, responses of regiuon to Nobel Peace Prize, financial reward to Syria without breaking from Iran.
Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable, Jodi Schneider, John Fund, WSJ, Mona Charen, NRO,re the Nobel Peace Prize to POTUS, re Baucus bill passes the CBO test, re Afghanistan re-think and McChrystal.
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued re the Virginia and New Jersey governorships, re the 23rd NY special race. 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Gordon Goldstein, author, "Lessons in Disaster," the book about McGeorge Bundy and Vietnam that POTUS is reading re Afghanistan.
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Nasrine Gross, women's rights activist Afghanistan, Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com, re the Karzai fraud, re the savagery fo the Taliban.
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Simon Constable, DowJones, Jim McTague, Barron's, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re Tim Geithner and Goldman Sachs, re the Nobel Peace Prize. 
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): continued re Pakistan is rogue. 
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.con, John Avlon, re the Nobel Peace Prize to POTUS, re the Baucus bill advances, re the Afghanistan rethink. 
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re Jerry Brown takes command California. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman asserts peace prospects minimal. 
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, re LCROSS strikes the moon, re ISS mission, re Messenger fly-by of Mercury.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Bruce Ratfill, Hoover, re Honduras vs Zelaya, week 3, and the mysteries of the OAS, re Zelaya the anti-semite?
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): B. Raman, Institute for Topical Studies, re the Pakistani nuke security and the Taliban. 
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Linda Gordon, author, "Dorothea Lange: A Life."
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Lou-Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re VW returns to America with a hybrird, re GM sells Hummer to China?

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Saturday and Sunday, 3 and 4 October

By John Batchelor on October 2, 2009 11:06 PM | No Comments
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Combined Simulcasts:    

Saturday 3 October (Sunday 4 October see below)    

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Ed Hayes, attorney, re the Zazi arrests for terror, re the Obama administration's inability to close GITMO, re the Letterman blackmail case.  
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Rob Walker, NYT, re the new high-ened auction sites for elitist fashion that are showing signs of life for bargain hunting in $7800 dresses.      
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Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   AfPakia and the McChrystal report on the potential of defeat in Afghanistan.  With Bill Roggio, Long War Journal.   
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Kurt Westergaard, Danish Morning Post, re the Mohammed cartoons of September 30, 2005.  
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time):  Steve Cohen, NYU, author, re mission to Moscow, what does Moscow make of the Obama administration?  
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Continued with Cohen re the Georgia-Russian war, re the German election. 
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Melvin I. Urofsky, author, "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life."   
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Melvin I. Urofsky. 
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): William F. Althoff, author, "Forgotten Weapon: U.S. Navy Airships and the U-Boat War." 
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with William Althoff. 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-192.0  
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. 
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, Hugo Restell, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the PRC celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Maoist coup, without a live audience, re the cult of personality and Hu.
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Jesse Pesta, WSJ, re the fate of the once mighty S.S. United States, the Big U, once upon a time, headed for the scrap heap of history. 
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Matt Latimer, author, "Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Surivivor."
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re Saturn fades, and France goes electric stations.
 
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Sunday 4 October   
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: David Mildenberg, Bloomberg, re Ken Lewis abandons Bank of America, re the hunt for a successor to lead a zombie bank. 
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, at Jerusalem, re the Gilad Shalit tape, re the Israeli Cabinet trades with Hamas, re the Goldstone report from the UN.
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Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable, Jodi Schneider, John Fund, WSJ, Mona Charen, NRO, re ACORN, healthcare Baucus bill nixes public option, loads up on taxes, re Afghanistan rethink, re POTUS vs Lula, and Chicago loses, Rio wins. 
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued re "Flying Down to Rio!" 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Sho Chandra, Bloomberg, re the 9.8% jobless number and the truly gloom jobs picture, re the markets respond, re the Christmas prospects.
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Nicholas Thompson, re the revelation of the Soviet built "Doomsday Machine," codenamed Perimeter, in the Ural Mountains. 
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets, Simon Constable, Dow Jones, g, Jim McTague, Barron's re the cliff-diving jobs and Larry Summers speaks of stimulus "extensions," re the Fed Hawks hesitate, re the Bank of America loses Captain America.
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): continued re Goodbye Christmas?
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.con, John Avlon, re the Baucus vote on public option, re Independents and Afghanistan conflict, re  Meg Whitman and Barbara Boxer. 
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re Rio gets Olympics, and why do we care? 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re Gilad Shalit tape, re the bi-lateral US-Iran in Washington, re the Geneva confab with EU, UN and Iran on nukes, re the Israeli opinion of Iran nukes.
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, re the sunspots continue missing, re the first space clown rides to the ISS, re El Nino cometh.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Bruce Ratfill, Hoover, re Honduras vs Zelaya, week 2, and the mysteries of the OAS.
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Evan Ramstad, WSJ, at Seoul, re the US fawns over North Korea, and how it bi-lateralism going with the dying Kim?  
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, re the surprise revelations of Ardi, the 4.4 million year old hominid from the forest of Africa.
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Nick Grace, Long War Journal, re Indonesia Sumatra quake.

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