Friday 905P Eastern Time:   Adam Nossiter, NYT, in re: Niger refugees from Libya and destitution

Friday 920P Eastern Time:   Rick Fisher, Intl Strategy and Assesment Center, in re: Chinese spying on Taiwan, Chinese aggression in the South China Sea

Friday 935P Eastern Time:  Peter Wonacott, WSJ, in re: start-up factories in Africa

Friday 950P Eastern Time:  Bruce Thornton, Hoover Institution, in re: We do not need the UN

Friday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Dan Henninger, WSJ, in re: What about Herman Cain?

Friday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  .Bret Stevens, WSJ, in re: the return of the strongman Putin

Friday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  .Eileen Aimmerman, NYT, in re: four generations in the workplace, and how to manage that

Friday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  . Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, in re: Humanta of Peru: statist or free-marketeer?

Friday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): Reza Kahlili, A Time to Betray, in re: the fall of Ahmadinejad, the rise of the IRGC navy threat to the US

Friday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): Jeff Gerth, Pro Publica, in re: 

Friday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): .Ray Jawardhana, author, and University of Toronto, in re: new exoplanets

Friday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  .Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: the return of Putin; what Bukharin would say

Friday/Sat 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  .Adam Nossiter, NYT, in re: Niger refugees from Libya and destitution

Friday/Sat  1220A (920 Pacific Time): .Rick Fisher, Intl Strategy and Assesment Center, in re: Chinese spying on Taiwan, Chinese aggression in the South China Sea

Friday/Sat  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  .Michael Novak and William Simon, Jr, Living the Call

Friday/Sat  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt

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 Co-host:  Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board

Thursday 905P Eastern Time: Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, in re:  Solyndra.  FBI, Treasury, DOJ, all looking in to possible accounting fraud; Steven J Spinner*, a major Obama campaign bundler, seems to be at the center of a vortex. Department of Energy, where Mr Chu is till handing out money for "green projects" with abandon, is refusing to answer calls from the Wall Street Journal.  Mrs Pelosi's brother-in-law is about to get a substantial chunk of cash from the feds.  Is there an adult at the White House doing discovery?  

*Steven J. Spinner, Department of Energy  Loan Programs Advisor, Recovery Act Team Chief Strategic Operations Officer, Loan Programs.  See:  http://www.muckety.com/Steven-J-Spinner/97184.muckety

Thursday 920P Eastern Time:  Matt Siegel, NYT, in re: Australia will allow women to serve on front lines in combat; the move will make Australia the fourth country in the world to allow women to serve alongside men in some of the most dangerous roles in modern warfare. Conviction of journalist in Australia for questioning multiculturalism: Andrew Bolt, News Corp, was conviced of discrimination in Melbourne.

Thursday 935P Eastern Time:  Salena Zito,  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re:   Sen Manchin stumps (by ad; not in person) for Tomblin in West Virginia gubernatorial race, with West Virginia's special election for governor less than a week away.  Ad wars heat up as the battle comes to a close‎.  Huge anti-Washington sentiment.  

Thursday 950P Eastern Time:   Mary Kissel, in re: The blessings of government: if the state stuck to public goods like roads, police and education, we might feel better about paying our taxes. Elizabeth Warren. 

Thursday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  John Avon, CNN and Newsweek International, in re:  JB: Gov Romney is . . not much of a Republican; Mr Giuliani may be too much of a Republican.  JA: The center-right of the Republican field is crowded. Rudy Giuliani "dispatched a key emissary to New Hampshire on Wednesday to gauge their interest in his possible presidential bid . . . [He's] visited the first-in-the-nation primary state four times already this year and advisers have maintained regular contact with potential staffers in the event he decides to seek the presidency. During his last trip in July, Giuliani said he wasn't convinced any of the candidates were strong enough to defeat President Barack Obama. Until he is, he said he wouldn't rule out a run of his own."  There's good news for Jon Huntsman in the latest Fox News poll: He's got 4% support nationally, which is more than the minimum threshold to qualify for the next Republican presidential debate on October 18.   

Thursday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):   Bob Zimmerman, behind the black.com in re: Elon Musk's comments today at the National Press Club:  he announced SpaceX's intention to make its rockets reusable, in a different sort of way.  China launched its first space station module today. WISE has found 90 percent of all NEOS. 

Thursday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  Aaron Klein, WABC radio, in re: Syrian troubles

Thursday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  Steven Greenhouse, NYT, in re: AFL-CIOO embraces Citizens United

Thursday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  John Bolton, AEI, in re: Law of the Sea

Thursday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):  David Weidner, in re: Wall Street protests - not the protesters but the banksters are the ones who should have been arrested on Wall Street. See:  http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/09/27/david-weidner-cops-shouldnt-have-arrested-wall-street-protesters/?mod=google_news_blog

Thursday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):  Richard Epstein, NYU Law School, in re: Obama jobs bill

Thursday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  James Taranto, WSJ, in re: democracy and presidency

Thursday/Fri 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, in re:  Solyndra.  FBI, Treasury, DOJ, all looking in to possible accounting fraud; Steven J Spinner*, a major Obama campaign bundler, seems to be at the center of a vortex. Department of Energy, where Mr Chu is till handing out money for "green projects" with abandon, is refusing to answer calls from the Wall Street Journal.  Mrs Pelosi's brother-in-law is about to get a substantial chunk of cash from the feds.  Is there an adult at the White House doing discovery?  

*Steven J. Spinner, Department of Energy  Loan Programs Advisor, Recovery Act Team Chief Strategic Operations Officer, Loan Programs.  See:  http://www.muckety.com/Steven-J-Spinner/97184.muckety

Thursday/Fri  1220A (920 Pacific Time):  Matt Siegel, NYT, in re: Australia will allow women to serve on front lines in combat; the move will make Australia the fourth country in the world to allow women to serve alongside men in some of the most dangerous roles in modern warfare. Conviction of journalist in Australia for questioning multiculturalism: Andrew Bolt, News Corp, was conviced of discrimination in Melbourne.

Thursday/Fri  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  Salena Zito,  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re:   Sen Manchin stumps (by ad; not in person) for Tomblin in West Virginia gubernatorial race, with West Virginia's special election for governor less than a week away.  Ad wars heat up as the battle comes to a close‎.  Huge anti-Washington sentiment.  

Thursday/Fri  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.  Bill McGurn, WSJ, in re: Michigan and Jennifer Grantholm great failure

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Music

Hour 1

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC and Kudlow Radio, WABC radio

Tuesday 905P Eastern Time: Evan Newmark, WSJ, in re:  European officials are debating ways to boost the firepower of their financial-bailout fund after the world's finance ministers, worried about the potential for a market meltdown, ratcheted up pressure on euro-zone officials to act.  Also: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley shares clawed back some of this week's rout despite analysts' increasingly dim view on third-quarter earnings.

Tuesday 920P Eastern Time:  Joseph Brusuelas, Bloomberg senior economist, in re:  The problem isn't Greece; it's Spain and Italy.

According to calculations based on SEC filings, the net exposure of the five largest banks operating in the U.S -- JPMorgan, Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and HSBC -- to Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain as a whole is about $52.4 billion. This level of risk may be dangerous, because the U.S. is less likely to contribute government support to bank bailouts than is Europe. European Union policy-makers are already planning to use a portion of the planned $600 billion European Financial Stability Facility, still awaiting individual government approval, to bail out banks. 

The U.S., in contrast, is weary of bailouts and, given recent acrimony over the debt ceiling, there probably isn't support for more TARP -like programs. One reason for Moody's recent downgrade of Bank of America's credit rating was an assumption that public funds to recapitalize the bank in case of financial turmoil would not be forthcoming. That leaves any U.S. bank that may require more capital reliant on private support. With a lack of clarity about how much of this may be forthcoming, it is no wonder that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has begun to push European policy-makers to reach a definitive resolution to the crisis in Greece. 

. . . Now departed from the Obama administration, Mr Summers had licence to speak freely, but his sentiments are shared by US officials. "It is the central irony of the financial crisis - caused by too much confidence, borrowing and lending and spending - that it cannot be resolved without more confidence, more borrowing and lending and more spending." This fundamental disagreement infects the discussion over specific elements of the crisis, such as what to do about the periphery of the eurozone. There is again much agreement that the goal will be a monetary and fiscal union, something that Geroge Osborne, UK chancellor, believes is underpinned by "remorseless logic". 

Tuesday 935P Eastern Time:  Lee  Ohanian, UCLA economics professor & senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, in re:  Stimulus and the Depression--the untold story.  Both FDR and Pres Obama hold that the key to increasing prosperity is to increase spending. "These are Band-Aids" - similar to what FDR did with the Natl Recovery Administration in his early years; temporary stop-gap measures are counterproductive because people don't know what's coming at them.  What got us out of the Depression was increasing productivity. Hoover had said: keep wages fixed ("Hoover was the first New Dealer"). NRA and Wagner Act both designed to increase wages.

In 1938, FDR made a speech that changed policy, and the economy began to recover. During WWII, unions asked FDR if they could still collectively bargain, and if s thy would not strike. Bethlehem Steel obtained a large increase; NLRB ruled it couldn't go through, but only up to cost of living.  By end of the war, wages corresponded with production costs.  About 70% of jobs are created by businesses that are growing at 30% P.A.  Broaden the tax base: almost all Federal income taxes are paid by the top 40% of earners. Disastrous recipe for growing a healthy economy. Corp tax rate here is 35%; should eliminate double taxation and go to 10 or 15%.

Tuesday 950P Eastern Time:  Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg, in re:  JPMorgan's Kasman sees Greek depression coming that will damage all Europe.  Foreclosures coming through the pipeline now that should've come through over a year ago. Depresses house prices.  Fannie & Freddie loans: used to have a little leeway - not 20% down but could be 10% down with good credit - but now are demanding according to the most stringent guideline. Analyst believes this will be the worst decade for growth since 19302. Operation Twist lowers long-term rates for consumers; causing damage to banks. 

Tuesday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Terry Anderson, Hoover, & exec dir, Bozeman envtl group, in re:  How about a Green Tea Party? A clean environment doesn't require big government.  In energy: let mkt prices reflect true cost; also: public lands are in awful shape; need to provide incentives to private landowners to protect endangered species. [Thereby paying funds to private landowners to take steps that they, themselves will monitor; and ensure that renters and most urban residents will never get a dime from this program.  --ed.]

Tuesday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  Larry Kudlow, in re: remains of the day.

Tuesday 1035P (735P Pacific Time): Rachel Donadio, NYT, in re: the troubles in Athens

Tuesday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  Ann Marlowe, Hudson Institute, in re: the war-fighters and well-educated

Tuesday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  Amir Aczel,  , neutrinos faster than light

Tuesday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):  continued

Tuesday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):  David Kirkpatrick, NYT, in re: Libya governance puzzle

Tuesday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  Sid Perkins, Science magazine, in re: dinofuzz, and the killer volcano of 1783-84

Tuesday/Wed 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  Robert Zimmerman, behind the black.com, in re: sunspot 1302 and climatology. Also: another satellite falling.

Tuesday/Wed  1220A (920 Pacific Time):  Jonathan Salant, Bloomberg, in re: Romney and Perry and Obama on Wall Street.

Tuesday/Wed  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  Lee  Ohanian, UCLA economics professor & senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, in re:  Stimulus and the Depression--the untold story.  Both FDR and Pres Obama hold that the key to increasing prosperity is to increase spending. "These are Band-aids" - similar to what FDR did with the Natl Recovery Administration in his early years; temporary stop-gap measures are counterproductive because people don't know what's coming at them.  What got us out of the Depression was increasing productivity. Hoover had said: keep wages fixed ("Hoover was the first New Dealer"). NRA and Wagner Act both designed to increase wages.

In 1938, FDR made a speech that changed policy, and the economy began to recover. During WWII, unions asked FDR if they could still collectively bargain, and if s thy would not strike. Bethlehem Steel obtained a large increase; NLLRB ruled it couldn't go through, but only up to cost of living.  By end of the war, wages corresponded with production costs.  About 70% of jobs are created by businesses that are growing at 30% P.A.  Broaden the tax base: almost all Federal income taxes are paid by the top 40% of earners. Disastrous recipe for growing a healthy economy. Corp tax rate here is 35%; should eliminate double taxation and go to 10 or 15%.

Tuesday/Wed  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.

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Music

Hour 1

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Monday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time):   Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, in re: U.S. Route 6 winds through 11 northern Pennsylvania counties, past densely forested state parks, small towns dominated by courthouses and farms adorned with red barns. This is the heart of Pennsylvania's most politically conservative region, a solid rock of Republicanism in a swing state. "In our August statewide poll, 58 percent of voters in counties within the Route 6 corridor consider themselves conservative when thinking about their social, political and economic views," said James Lee of Susquehanna Polling and Research, a Harrisburg-based polling company. "That is the highest of any region in the state."

Monday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time):   .Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  Netanyahu's deft performance on Meet The Press.

Monday 935P Eastern Time (635P Pacific Time):    in re: Market rout claims new Victim: The selling that has washed over financial markets in recent weeks swamped precious metals, sending gold and silver plummeting and raising the stakes for weekend meetings of global finance officials.                                   Dow Sinks 6.4% for Week ;  Video: Is Gold's Future All That Glitters?

Monday 950P Eastern Time (650P Pacific Time):    .Jay Root, Texas Tribune, in re:  Gov. Rick Perry suffered a big blow Saturday when Herman Cain came out on top in the Florida Straw Poll, a contest Perry had made a big priority.  

Monday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):   .Taegan Goddard, PoliticalWire.com, in re:  Tea Party gives Romney a second look:  the national Tea Party group FreedomWorks has begun to soften its earlier opposition to Mitt Romney as Rick Perry has faltered in recent debates.

"Confidence Men" offers support for some of today's standard progressive gripes about the President, and for a few of the conservative ones. Obama was green, and not just environmentally. He had no managerial experience, while his only Washington experience was two active years in the Senate--and it showed, at least inside the West Wing. He made Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff instead of Tom Daschle, who, besides engineering quicker passage for a better health-care bill, might have tamed the policymaking chaos of raging staff egos and presidential reticence.

Monday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):   . Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Political blog, in re: Insurgents attack compound in Kabul used by contractors and CIA.  At least one attacker is reported to have been killed in an assault on a complex that houses Western security contractors and supposedly a CIA office.  

Monday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):   .Stephen Cohen, New York University professor of Russian Studies; Princeton University; author of expanded paperback, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives, which examines the "reset" (i.e., Obama, Putin, and Medvedev) in context of history of relations between post-Soviet Russia and the U.S.; in re:  The current president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, will take Vladimir V. Putin's place as prime minister after elections in March, which Mr. Putin is assured of winning.  The Russian Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin, said he would decline a post in Russia's next government just hours after Vladimir Putin announced he would stand for president in 2012 elections.

Monday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):   .continued.  Appearing to battle to suppress emotion, Mr Medvedev proposed Mr Putin's candidacy for president to the party membership: "Taking into account my agreement to lead the party's election list, I consider it correct to support the candidacy of Mr Putin for the post of president of the country." He suggested the arrangement had been made as early as 2007, when Mr Putin had all but appointed Mr Medvedev as his temporary successor.  Mr Putin's return is likely to complicate Russia's thawing relations with the West, particularly the US-Russia "reset" begun in 2009. The reset was driven largely by a good personal relationship between Mr Medvedev and US President Barack Obama, and produced a new arms control treaty and US-Russia diplomatic co-operation in troubled areas of the Middle East. "If Putin returns then I guess we will need another reset" joked a former high ranking Kremlin official earlier this month. The White House said on Saturday that it would keep making progress in the reset regardless of who the next Russian president was. 

Monday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):   .Christine Harper, Bloomberg, in re: IMF panic and the trouble with Europe.  

Monday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):   .Eric Trager, in re: Moslem Brothers write to Pres Obama  

Monday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):   .Melik Kaylan, Newsweek Intl, in re:  Cyprus squabble between Turkey and Greece. 

Monday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):   . Ryan Tracy, DowJones, in re: Marcellus shale methane leak

Monday/Tues 1205A (905 Pacific Time):   .Jed Babbin, in re: UN failure with moral equivalency between Israel and Palestine

Monday/Tues  1220A (920 Pacific Time):   .Mark Schoeder, Stratfor, in re: conflict beween Sudan and Southern Sudan

Monday/Tues  1235A (935P Pacific Time):   .Gregory Zuckerman, in re:   

Monday/Tues  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.   Sid Perkins, in re: bacteria equal hydrogen. 

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Music

Hour 1

Appaloosa by Jeff Beal

Sin City by Robert Rodriguez, Graeme Revell, and John Debney

True Grit by Carter Burwell

Hour 2

Deadwood: Season 1 by various artists

Bourne Ultimatum by John Powell

Red Dawn by Basil Poledouris

Hour 3

Inside Man by Terence Blanchard

Mummy Returns by Alan Silvestri

Avatar by James Horner

Hour 4

Tears of the Sun by Hans Zimmer

True Grit by Carter Burwell

Antarctica by Vangelis

Saturday 24 September 2011 

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link: here.

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom (Kindle Edition - Nov 2, 2010) - Kindle eBook.       

Saturday 920P Eastern Time:  A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom (Kindle Edition - Nov 2, 2010) - Kindle eBook.     

Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds (Hardcover - Jun 13, 2011)      

Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds (Hardcover - Jun 13, 2011)         

Saturday 1005P (705P Pacific):  The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts (Hardcover - May 17, 2011)       

Saturday 1020P (720P Pacific): The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts (Hardcover - May 17, 2011)        

Saturday 1035P (735P Pacific):  The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts (Hardcover - May 17, 2011)       

Saturday 1050P (750P Pacific): The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts (Hardcover - May 17, 2011)        

Saturday 1105P (805P Pacific):  Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan by David Sears (Kindle Edition- May 31, 2011) - Kindle eBook.       

Saturday 1120P (820P Pacific): Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan by David Sears (Kindle Edition- May 31, 2011) - Kindle eBook.        

Saturday 1135P (835P Pacific):  The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father by Sally H. Jacobs (Hardcover - Jul 12, 2011)       

Saturday 1150P (850P Pacific):   The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father by Sally H. Jacobs (Hardcover - Jul 12, 2011)      

Saturday/Sun 1205A (905 Pacific):  The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World by Joseph Braude (Kindle Edition - Jun 14, 2011) - Kindle eBook.       

Saturday/Sun 1220A (920 Pacific): The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World by Joseph Braude (Kindle Edition - Jun 14, 2011) - Kindle eBook.       

Saturday/Sun 1235A (935P Pacific):   Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Don Van Natta (Kindle Edition - Jun 2, 2011) - Kindle eBook.     

Saturday/Sun 1250A  (950P Pacific): Exeunt.

 Meet the Beechers.

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 Sunday 25 September 2011

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link: here.

Sunday  905PM Eastern (605P Pacific):Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II byJim Lacey (Hardcover - Apr 15, 2011)

Sunday 920PM Eastern (620P Pacific): Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II byJim Lacey (Hardcover - Apr 15, 2011)

Sunday 935PM Eastern (635P Pacific): A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution by Emma Christopher (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2011)

Sunday 950PM Eastern (650P Pacific): A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution by Emma Christopher (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2011)

Sunday 1005PM EDT (705P Pacific): The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor (Hardcover - Jun 8, 2010)

Sunday 1020PM EDT (720P Pacific): The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor (Hardcover - Jun 8, 2010)

Sunday 1035PM EDT (735P Pacific): The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn L. Carle (Kindle Edition - Jun 13, 2011) - Kindle eBook.

Sunday 1050PM EDT (750P Pacific):The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn L. Carle (Kindle Edition - Jun 13, 2011) - Kindle eBook.

Sunday 1105PM EDT (805P Pacific): Govert Schilling, Science, in re exoplanets.

Sunday 1120PM EDT (820P Pacific): Govert Schilling, in re the end of planet Earth.

Sunday 1135PM EDT (835P Pacific):Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey (May 10, 2011)

Sunday 1150PM EDT (850P Pacific):Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey (May 10, 2011)

Sunday/Mon 1205AM EDT (905 Pacific): Bob Zimmerman, in re climate change.

Sunday/Mon 1220AM EDT (920 Pacific): Amir Aczel, in re sub-atomic physics Standard Model.

Sunday/Mon 1235AM EDT (935P Pacific): Suzanne Fowler, IHT, in re beehive-like settlements in ancient Asia Minor.

Sunday/Mon 1250AM EDT (950P Pacific): Exeunt, with Henry Miller, Hoover, in re FDA over regulation.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Friday 905P Eastern Time: .Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between by Jeff Sharlet (Aug 15, 2011)

Friday 920P Eastern Time:  .Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between by Jeff Sharlet (Aug 15, 2011)

Friday 935P Eastern Time: .Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey (May 10, 2011)

Friday 950P Eastern Time:  .Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey (May 10, 2011)

Friday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  .The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 by Robert Weintraub (Apr 4, 2011)

Friday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  .The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 by Robert Weintraub (Apr 4, 2011)

Friday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  .The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 by Robert Weintraub (Apr 4, 2011)

Friday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  .The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 by Robert Weintraub (Apr 4, 2011)

Friday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): .Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (May 8, 2011)

Friday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): .Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (May 8, 2011)

Friday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): .Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (May 8, 2011)

Friday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  .Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (May 8, 2011)

Friday/Sat 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  .

Friday/Sat  1220A (920 Pacific Time): .

Friday/Sat  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  .The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer (May 24, 2011)

Friday/Sat  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-host:

Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents

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Thursday 905P Eastern Time:  Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Public Affairs and the Diaspora, Israel, in re: 

Thursday 920P Eastern Time:  David Patterson, Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, and author, A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad, in re:  Current anti-Jewish expressions mostly from not antique sources but from Sayyid Quttb, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood - "the demonic Jews," "the world Jewish conspiracy" - and the Hamas charter refers to Israel as a "Zionist space for world domination."  Cannot negotiate with Jews any more than they could negotiate with Satan. "The greatest obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians is virulent, jihadist hatred of Jews. Hamas and Fatah have developed a theological and ideological justification that precludes any negotiations that would lead to a lasting peace with a Jewish state. At best, one can expect an application of the PLO's phased strategy, which gives the illusion of peace without renouncing its goal of Jewish extermination. Neither Hamas nor Fatah can agree in good faith to any peace with the Jews since in their eyes to do so would amount to treason or apostasy or both."

Thursday 935P Eastern Time: Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and author, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, in re:  Abbas and Palestinian leaders didn't build a scenario in advance of heir attempt to create a UDI (unilateral declaration of independence). The European Union is torn and not pleased. Pres Obama has spent enormous political capital on a peace process and asked Abbas to pull back on the process, which he declined to do.  Palestinian campaign has antagonized and alienated many of the world's leaders.  In Ramallah and West Bank, 80,000 people got the day of but not many showed up for the demonstration.  This campaign is not only for Palestinian independence but to remove Israel's rights to secure boundaries. Defensible borders are a major aspect of negotiations; Min Edelstein quotes Abba Eban: "The 1967 borders are the Auschwitz lines."  Abbas refuses to speak of two states for two peoples; will speak only of Palestinian rights, never of Jewish rights.

Thursday 950P Eastern Time:  Mortimer B. Zuckerman, chairman & editor-in-chief, U.S. News & World Report; publisher, New York Daily News; co-founder & chairman, Boston Properties, in re: UDI. Pres Obama made clear that he thought there should be no other option but a negotiated settlement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel; was clear on why security is central to the discussion. Stark difference to the past: he may have been annoyed at treatment that Israel gets at the UN, and is highly displeased with the conduct of Abbas.  Further, he's rebuffed the many attempts to establish a private channel for discussions.  Question of whether or not under Netanyahu's administration there's been serious interest in negotiated solution; this is an unfair analysis because Bibi has continued to make very strong efforts.  Bibi's efforts to be amiable and make amicable concessions have been ignored, generating a somewhat cooler tone in response.  PA still refuses to speak of two states for two peopes. Note that the 1967 borders were not recognized, not defensible, not workable.  Pres Obama does speak of a Jewish state, meaning in essence that Israel will not accept a million Palestinian refugees.

Thursday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the US, and author, in re:  We're working with many nations to [cease] the UDI, which, we're convinced, will not lead to peace. Pres Clinton's remarks contrast with Pres Obama's: that Israel has not done enough to contribute to the peace process. Unjustified and empirically not accurate. Netanyahu has removed hundreds of checkpoints, much increased transport in and out of Gaza, stopped all bldg in settlements.  In response to these and many other important moves to accommodate Palestinians, Abbas has allowed a total of six hours of talks over these two years and refuses to speak of the right of the Jewish people to establish a state in their ancestral homeland and will not absorb a million or more overseas Palestinians or allow a culmination resulting in Israel's dissolution. Russians balking at a joint formula. Palestinians have refused negotiations for quite a while. Abbas wrote on 16 May in the New York Times, "Internationalizing the conflict; suing Israel in the International Criminal Court" - all toward aggravating the conflict. We aspire to having Palestinians and Israelis live side by side in harmony.  JB: Thousands of rockets in Gaza, ready to use them.  MO: Abbas has made a reconciliation act with Hamas, an avowedly genocidal organization.  Can hit every city in Israel with ever-bigger and more accurate rockets.  How can you make peace with people who specifically want to murder you?

Thursday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  Dr Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Finance; formerly active in Peace Now, in re: Israel's economy, Palestinian aid. Spoke to Bloomberg calling Israel's economy "vibrant" - 4.8% GDP [shockingly better than US  --ed].  Our success is beyond pre-crisis level, based, inter al., on high tech dvpt.  We had to take painful steps [to clear out old problems], and they worked. One thing we did differently from most other Western countries to protect us from the global crisis: we decided that the future is more relevant to the present than is the present, itself. Focussed on longer-term reforms. We shifted the country to bi-annual [two-yr] budgets. First country in world history that shifted to a 24-mo budgeting cycle, which contributed immensely to our ability to handle the crisis and regain stability and growth.   I see UDI as a betrayal of the peace process: no need to acknowledge Israel - to which we need to react: Fine you're acting unilaterally, collect your own VAT, we won't collect it for you.  Level of foreign investment in Israel is greater than pre-crisis; we also give tax incentives for exporting films - 12%; in Galilee and Negev, 6%.

Thursday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister & Member of the Knesset, in re: JB: "Ahmadinejad, a clown in clown's costume."  DA: Erdogan's speech - it was very disappointing to hear a major leader speak in a way that's not responsible or conducive to furthering the well-being of peoples throughout the Middle East. His support of Hamas is not becoming of a NATO country.  Where does Turkey want to go: NATO and Western world, or the way of Iran.  I decided hat it was time to spell out the objective facts in response to the blatant lies of Palestinians, calling Israel an occupier and denier of human rights. When student spoke of "free Palestine," I thought it was important to point out that there's never been a Palestinian state in history. If there is one, the irony will be that it will have been the Jews who created it.  Since the Balfour Declaration, Israel has been ready to make concessions, while it has always been the Palestinians who refused.  Syria: Syrian people burning flags - not of Israel and the US, but of Iran and Hizballah. Today, Syria is Iran's best ally, the only Arab country that sided with Iran and so created a gateway to the Mediterranean for Teheran, thence to Gaza, Egypt, Sinai, Libya.  I believe that he people of Iran are readier than any other in the region to claim freedom, and a fall of Assad would be a favorable signal.  Historic forces acting again to see a clash between an Ottoman resurgence and the Persians.  Note that all Arab countries today are artificial states - Syria, Lebanon, Iraq - only Egypt has a long tradition.  May return to tribes, mullahs, religious and sub-religion groups. The danger is that the Islamists will take over, and Iran is moving to highjack all liberation movements. 

Thursday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  Golnaz Esfandiari, Senior Correspondent, RFE/RL's Central Newsroom; editor, Persian Letters blog, in re:  Ahmadinejad's speech; Iran's internal situation.  He claims that the West is using the Holocaust just to support Israel - important to know that he loves media attention and will say anything to get it. NBC aired "the first-ever behind-the-scenes portrait" - he prays at 5AM, goes jogging, works and works, is a caring fellow who travels to faraway provinces to help poor people. Emphatically not a true picture. As he was speaking, there was a protest outside against him, simultaneous with an online Iranian protest insisting that "he's not my president."  Escalating power struggle between Pres Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Khamenei. When Ahmadinejad tried to fire his Intelligene Minister, Khamenei prevented it.  Ahmadinejad responded by refusing to go to work for eleven days, but then had to. he's now a weakened president struggling for survival inside the country. Syria is a gateway to the region for Iran; may be a change on tone of Iranian officials toward Assad, suggesting discussions between the regime and the populace - not because Iran cares, but because political winds are shifting. Arab Spring in Iran? In 2009, millions of Iranians took to the streets, faced a brutal crackdown that continues till today, The demand for change is still there, against a deeply repressive government, so the opposition movement has had to go underground.

Thursday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: JB travelled to the Golan Heights, not to the "finger of Israel" - orchards, volcanic rock, a great deal of military eqpt moving in volume. I looked over the borders toward Damascus. This are was once Syria, the local Druse consider themselves still Syrian, and make extremely threatening remarks about "occupied Syria " in north of Israel. Tens of thousands of rockets ready to go to Israel.  MH: One op on the flotilla boat also anticipated in the attack in the Black Sea on a Russian ship.  JB: Turkey is constrained by Cyprus, having badly misbehaved there; also very threatened by PKK, the Kurds. Both Iranians and __ have access to the Kurds, can turn them on and off.  Also, both Israel, and Russia and Ukraine, have dropped visa requirements for citizens - sending many thousands of Russians and Ukrainians to visit Israel, esp on pilgrimage.

Thursday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):  Mary Kissel, WSJ editorial board, in re: housing

Thursday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):  Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance Daily Ticker, in re:  market collapse

Thursday 1150P (850P Pacific Time): Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11), in re: heart of the problem is the failure of banks to lend to the credit market. Wall Street bailout by Bernanke continues; the taxpayers in shift of generational wealth, see their money heading up to the rich.   When there was an effort a few years ago to break up Citibank, Tim Geithner protected the bank. Current problem is Bank of America.  TARP failed; Congressional colleagues express concern about the economy without looking atthe root of the problem.  Need to end big-govt subsidization of the big banks that are otherwise in failure. Leverage limits need to be such that they're never too big to fail.  Banks "too big to jail"; caught red-handed, banks promise to ameliorate then never do anything, but Treasury is too understaffed to follow up.  UN as global Tammany Hall. US needs to move to a Liberty Alliance

Thursday/Fri 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  Eli Shukrun, chef archaeologist, City of David, in re: excavation of an ancient drainage tunnel beneath Jerusalem, which has yielded a sword, oil lamps, pots and coins abandoned during a war there 2,000 years ago.  The finds were seen to be debris from a pivotal episode in the city's history when rebels hid from Roman soldiers crushing a Jewish revolt.  The tunnel was intended to drain rainwater, but is also thought to have been used as a hiding place for the rebels during the time of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. That temple was razed, along with much of the city, by Roman legionnaires putting down the Jewish uprising in 70 C.E.  Found a  lint that goes back to 12,000 BCE.

Thursday/Fri  1220A (920 Pacific Time): Robert Zimmerman, in re: climate change; photo of the little bot Opportunity on Mars

Thursday/Fri  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and author, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, in re:  Abbas and Palestinian leaders didn't build a scenario in advance of heir attempt to create a UDI (unilateral declaration of independence). The European Union is torn and not pleased. Pres Obama has spent enormous political capital on a peace process and asked Abbas to pull back on the process, which he declined to do.  Palestinian campaign has antagonized and alienated many of the world's leaders.  In Ramallah and West Bank, 80,000 people got the day of but not many showed up for the demonstration.  This campaign is not only for Palestinian independence but to remove Israel's rights to secure boundaries. Defensible borders are a major aspect of negotiations; Min Edelstein quotes Abba Eban: "The 1967 borders are the Auschwitz lines."  Abbas refuses to speak of two states for two peoples; will speak only of Palestinian rights, never of Jewish rights.

Thursday/Fri  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.   UARS satellite soon to disintegrate and fall to earth.  Church of the Holy Sepulchre now half-filled with Russian and Ukrainian pilgrims arrived under new regime whereby Israel and Russia (and Ukraine) no longer oblige each other's citizens to obtain a visa.  Knelt on the Anointing Stone, placed infants and crucifixes on it.  Church built in Fourth Century, rebuilt by Constantine.

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Music

Hour 1

Sherlock Holmes by Hans Zimmer

Assassin's Creed by Jesper Kyd

Hour 2

Metal Gear Solid 4 by Nobuko Toda

Prince of Persia by Harry Gregson-Williams

Hour 3

Mummy Returns by Alan Silvestri

Frost/Nixon by Hans Zimmer

The Ghost Writer by Alexandre Desplat

Hour 4

The Ghost Writer by Alexandre Desplat

Star Trek by Michael Giacchino

Assassin's Creed by Jesper Kyd

Thirteen Days by Trevor Jones

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-host: Gordon Chang, TheDaily and Forbes.com

INTERIM SCHEDULE; CORRECTIONS ANON 

Wednesday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time):  Yifei Zhang,  ,  in re: his project to archive cultural heritage in Xinjiang before Beijing destroys every last bit.

Wednesday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time):   Lhakpa Tsering, Tibetan activist, in re: his around-the-world bike trip to raise awareness of Tibet.  

http://freetibetworldtour.com/

http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/16/the-free-tibet-world-tour/

Wednesday 935P Eastern Time (635P Pacific Time):  Hotel California. Devin Nunes (CA-19), and Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, in re:  California's ongoing recession. Green jobs and the billions to high-speed rail: so far, to no avail.  Tax code.  President's poll numbers tanking in California and Florida.  Solyndra's executives take the Fifth Amendment (cf., the film, Casablanca: "I'm shocked.").  Taking the Fifth before the Congressional Oversight Committee (on video & TV camera, repeatedly): Harrison and Stober, who had the people's money; this arrogance is devastating to the White House. Solyndra got more stimulus money than 35 states for their infrastructure - $535 million. Solyndra spent over half a mil a year in Washington lobbying - with public money - and paid lawyers over $500/hr. Note that the Bush Administration rejected Solyndra's requests for funding.  California's unemployment uptick to 12.1%.  Even with record rainfall and a cheap dollar, so the ag economy is improving. House, FBI, Treasury, all investigating. Also: The bankrupt solar maker Solyndra isn't the only Bay Area company that got half a billion dollars in loans from the feds. Tesla Motors, the all-electric car manufacturer headquartered in Palo Alto, received $465 million in low-interest loans in 2009 from the Department of Energy to jump-start production of electric cars.

Wednesday 950P Eastern Time (650P Pacific Time):  David Livingston, TheSpaceShow.com, in re:  NASA'S Mars Science Lab launch 

Wednesday 1005P Eastern  (705P Pacific Time):  Naomi Rovnick, South China Morning Post, in re: Chinese provincial debt. Liaoning, a rust-belt province in the Northeast with a state-dominated economy, is the latest in a series of provinces starting to default on debt.  Nationally, useless infrastructure projects - roads to nowhere, unused airports, and the like; a really poor province that was obliged on orders from Beijing to borrow lots of money, and now can't pay. Yunnan, a prosperous province in the south, near Burma, a highway development investments firm can't pay 100 bil, can pay only interest. Similar, Shanghai Rainbow said: overdue a few hundred mil in yuan.  Analogy: a poor woman maxes out credit cards to buy fancy duds, looks rich - until the cards payment come due.  Certainly not enough cash in China to bail out Europe. Will need $700 bil (US) for  .  In Dalian, in the north, defaults defaults coming simply because of diminution in growth. The central govt is thought to be rich; it has lots of foreign exchange reserves. If it had to have a fire sale of US Treasurys, who'd buy them?

Wednesday 1020P Eastern (720P Pacific Time):   John Tkacik former State, and Heritage Foundation, in re: long-time China/Taiwan-watcher speaks of US politics and arms sales to Taiwan.  DPP presidential candidate "not in good odor with Washington" - that is, State likes her well, but somebody in the WH ("a senior administration official") called the FT and trashed her mercilessly.

US interferes in presidential election of an ally: "If she's elected, there could  be trouble in the Straight," said some greenhorn at the White House.

Dr Tsai Ing-wen, having an LSE doctorate, was Vice-Premier of Taiwan, is very poised, moderate and mature. She's leading in the polls. This is amateur hour at he White House; worrisome about capabilities of he Natl Security Council.  Weekend polls showed her moving ahead f the incumbent, Ma Ying-jeou (very, very pro-China; left over from Chiang Kai-shek) by another percentage point. The race is neck-and-neck, with Dr Tsai slightly ahead.

Clearly, China yelled about US selling $6bil worth of weapons to Taiwan; two guys in the WH decided to do something - a craven act that horrified State.  Dumb and dumber at the NSC, which seems to be very pro-China.

Wednesday 1035P Eastern  (735P Pacific Time):  Rick Fisher, , in re: United States is close to deploying an advanced unmanned spy plane which could provide a more detailed view of North Korea's military activities.   When the Peoples Liberation Army starts putting people on bases (2049?) on the Moon, that'll be dual-use mlitary. Space architecture is an essential PLA goal. When the PLA can kill our satellites, we're in trouble. The Pentagon is alert to all this; the policy shops, filled with political appointees, rely on diplomacy, "resilience," lots of nice theories, but no thought of deterrence. Coming soon: Chinese global hawks snooping around Hawaii and San Diego.

Wednesday 1050P Eastern (750P Pacific Time):   Joseph Sternberg, AWSJ, re China nears limit of export economy based upon cheap manufacturing and cheaper credit to factories.  Outsourcing moves to new nations.

Wednesday 1105P  Eastern (805P Pacific Time):  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference, Aaron Klein, WABC, re POTUS UN speech re PLO gambit, re Egypt. 

Wednesday 1120P Eastern (820P Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, re visit to Golan Heights, re Turkey-Syria war narrative.  

Wednesday 1135P Eastern  (835P Pacific Time):  Aaron Klein, continued.  War of the cities, siege of Ben Gurion Airport.

Wednesday 1150P Eastern  (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, Behindtheblack.com, re UARS sat falls to Earth, re manned space fail, re dino killer asteroid in question. 

Wednesday/Thurs 1205A  Eastern (905 Pacific Time):  Bill Roggio, FDD, re assassination Afghan chiefs by turban bombs.   Re ISAF losing by Taliban recap.

Wednesday/Thurs  1220A Eastern (920 Pacific Time): Arif Rafiq, PakistanPolicyBlog, re US warns Pakistan and issues threats of more to Islamabad and Rawalpindi re Pakistan collusion with Haqqani network.  

Wednesday/Thurs  1235A  Eastern (935P Pacific Time):  Hotel California, with Devin Nunes and Jeff Bliss, re troubled Califrnia economy, re Solyndra investigation, Fifth Amendment privileges for execs. 

Wednesday/Thurs  1250A  Eastern (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt. With David Livingstone, DrDpace.com, re SLS heavy lift and Curiosity Mars bot launch 11/25/11.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-host: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents

Tuesday 905P Eastern Time:  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:      . (Palace coup five minutes ago: with John Batchelor in Jerusalem and Malcolm Hoenlein occupying the New York studio, this is now the Malcolm Hoenlein Show, with John Batchelor as co-host.)

Tuesday 920P Eastern Time:    Irwin Cotler, Member of the Canadian Parliament; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; former member of the Canadian delegation to the Durban Conference, in re:  Durban Conference and 9/11, ten years later.  UDI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Abu Mazan and PA) at UN.  See: Jerusalem Post of September 15, 2011.

Tuesday 935P Eastern Time: Ido Ahroni, Consul General of Israel in New York, in re:  opening General Assembly, UDI.  Ben Rose, of US White House, says in WSJ today that the US president will press Israel to accept 1967 borders. Israeli position stays constant: glad to negotiate face to face and without preconditions. PA demands preconditions (never recognizing Israel's right to exist, et al.).  West Bank popular response so far is very mild. People know that, in the event of a Third Intifada, they have a lot to lose: the newly-established good infrastructure and a much-improved economy.

Tuesday 950P Eastern Time:    Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: 

Tuesday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Mahmoud Abbas, the former president of the Palestinian Authority, currently unelected and standing in place, is at the UN to make specifically, verifiably, false statements.  In the appropriate company of Erdogan, Ahmadinejad, and a passel of bullies and tyrants. Delegitimization of Israel campaign. Erdogan accuses Israel of releasing tapes about the PKK, the Kurdish insurgency that's been demanding Kurdish independence for decades.  (Until recently, Kurds were forbidden to speak Kurdish in Turkish schools.) Burgeoning Turkish economy: Erdogan looks to be no longer the sheep he's been pretending to be but has donned wolf's clothing, long trained in Wahhabism, to gain credibility among Arabs as he strives to build a neo-Ottoman Empire and become regional hegemon.  Turkish banks have been handing out loans with abandon to all comers, financed by incoming overseas loans.   Threaten to freeze relations with the UN if it ha dealings with Greek Cyprus.  Took Syrian refugee and handed him back tot he bloody Syrian forces.  Erdogan asked to speak in Egypt, was forbidden by the SCAF, the Egyptian army. Oops.  Vying between the two for pre-eminence.

Tuesday 1020P (720P Pacific Time): Marc Ginsburg, president, Layalina Arab TV Productions, and former US ambassador to Morocco, in re:  UN. Slow-motion disaster of the collapse of Egyptian civilization. Egypt is the pillar of American presence in the Middle East since it relinquished Soviet.  No one is willing to ay that peace with the US is in Egyptian interest; the armed forces do so at  last moment.  We need to acknowledge the gravity of the situation, and be clear with Egypt about the consequences of their actions. The US president needs to convey this. Amb William Taylor, a respected US dip, was just appointed by Sec Clinton to coordinate what the US can do with aid in transitional Arab states - Libya, Tunisia, Egypt. He's a troubleshooter with a good reputation. Morocco: the king has had a good sense of the pulse of the Moroccan people, has initiated a new constitution that partly devolves authority away from the king and toward the parliament; king said that if he were a voter, he'd vote for this in a referendum - which citizens did.  New elections in November. Sinai, a chunk of Egypt, is 60,000 sq km of no-man's-land.  Egyptian military cannot control - Egypt is now exporting insecurity. "In all of the Arab world, only Egypt is a nation-state; all the rest are tribes."

Tuesday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  Robert Satloff, executive director,  Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in re: UN, Egypt, Morocco. Machiavellian arrangement of constructed information  and fireworks.  Abbas probably hoping that the sense of isolation he thinks he can engender in Israel will cause Israelis to question their PM's policies.  Thinks he can bring in UN allies. Says he won't run again, but so far has a useless and unproductive legacy that he may want to spiff up.  If he can get observer status for the PA, he can go to the Intl Criminal Court and file any charges against Israel. Saudis are furious with US for threatening to remove funding to the PA if it commits malfeasance; Saudis may have to cough up some of the funds it's repeatedly promised to Palestinians and not bothered to pay.  RS: As much as I criticize this Administration, but there's no doubt that the Obama Administration has been most supportive f the military alliance with Israel.  Morocco: ominous signs are jihadist parties ascending across the Mahgreb and Egypt.  Hostility to the US and "benign" neglect of Israel's well-being at all levels.

Tuesday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:  President believes he pays no domestic political price for his incoherence in the Middle East, begun in 2009 with speeches in Turkey and Cairo, as though the world is waiting only for his words.  Rick Perry arrives in new York with a yarmulka under his cowboy hat, embraces Republican Jews and collects big checks; goes to the Bronx (el Bron') and speaks Spanish to Puerto Rican taxi drivers.    

JB visited Masada today; it was built by Herod, the paranoic and overweening builder. Look down to stone remains of Roman camps, built as they dug in to destroy the Jews living atop the enormous mesa.  However, today no Romans; rather, Masada is at he center of the Jewish state.  Met the acute and perspicacious chairman of the council of economic advisors, Prof Eugene Kandel: Israel's economy has survived the great recession because Bibi, when finance minister, took down the ossified bureaucratic structure and allowed a flourishing of economic growth.  Five hundred new IT jobs have just arrive (in a pop of 7 million) from overseas banks. (Host and producer in Jerusalem ask local staff to challenge MH unilateral declaration of suzerainty at studio; are rebuffed by news of offers of perks and raises.) 

Tuesday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  David Drucker, Roll Call, in re: Democratic-led Senate's indifference to president's reduction/tax hike

Tuesday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): Ann Marlowe, Hudson Institute, in re: Libya.

Tuesday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):  Ahron Horovitz, archaeologist, and author, City of David: The Story of Ancient Jerusalem, in re: Tyropean Valley, western side of the City of David, found a governor's palace. City was destroyed by Titus in 70 D; as rebuilt by Hadrian as Capitolina.  Governor's house covers over 1000 sq meters; central garden with pillars, two storeys, red tiles, bore the insignia of the Tenth Legion.  Found a beautiful golden earring, gold with emerald and large pearl. Also mosaic floors and fresca, which were destroyed n an earthquake, rebuilt by Byzantines, then destroyed again by war with Persian Sassanids.  A young English volunteer was lightly brushing a wall to find artifacts, gold coins began to fall out: freshly minted, never used.  Probably had been sent to pay for defense, but the recipients were killed before that was possible.   Also, just-opened path along a recently-discoverd drainage canal that snakes deep under the road above, main street of ancient Jerusalem.  Things that fell from there rolled down into the drainage canal, where we now can find some. The small, round golden bell appears to have fallen off the robe of an important person; the archaeologist was surprised to hear the sound emitted, the tiny ring of a small bell. Perhaps it was fastened to the robe of a high priest of the Second Temple, which was destroyed in the year 70.  Jews fought for a month thereafter, had finally to escape. Hid in the drainage canals under the city.  There, we've found their eating utensils, pots and pans, and coins minted during the great revolt against Romans; coins display rebel slogans from Years One to Five of the revolt.   Romans eventually discovered the rebels - we've found the actual break in the pavement where the Romans  sledge-hanmmered their way in - and killed the Jews. There, found a complete Roman sword.  

Tuesday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  Dr Uzi Landau, Minister of National Infrastructure, Israel, in re: UDI and Oslo.  JB: Rockets landed in Be'er Sheva which we saw; shocking.  UL: The 1967 lines are called by Abba Eban the Auschwitz Lines, as they leave the state entirely unable to defend itself. Airports, transportation, and 80% of the national population will all be under immediate threat.  Among the neighboring states, women are stoned to death, homosexuals are hanged, and democracy is impugned in spray-painted graffiti. UDI is a huge scheme to destroy the State of Israel, which we cannot accept, sir.

Resolution 242, 1967 UN Security Council: requires safe boundaries for Israel. Palestinians are rejecting 242, refuse a compromise. Flagrant violation of Oslo Agreements.   The signators of Oslo have a moral obligation to maintain the principles [which they are not currently doing.  --ed].  Abbas pays no price for his deeds. Palestinians are teaching their children in Arabic that Jews are pigs and monkeys and must be killed; while in English, dressed in splendid, bespoke English suits, they proclaim generic peace and humanitarian goals.

Tuesday/Wed 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  Pinchas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; correspondent for Israel Radio and Al Hamishmar newspaper, in re:  Palestinian Authority.

Tuesday/Wed  1220A (920 Pacific Time): Ishay Avital, international relations director of the city of Be'er Sheva, in re:  recent rocket and mortar attacks on Be'er Sheva.

Tuesday/Wed  1235A (935P Pacific Time):   Ido Ahroni, Consul General of Israel in New York, in re:  opening General Assembly, UDI.  Ben Rose, of US White House, says in WSJ today that the US president will press Israel to accept 1967 borders. Israeli position stays constant: glad to negotiate face to face and without preconditions. PA demands preconditions (never recognizing Israel's right to exist, et al.).  West Bank popular response so far is very mild. People know that, in the event of a Third Intifada, they have a lot to lose: the newly-established good infrastructure and a much-improved economy.

Tuesday/Wed  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt. UARS, a satellite as big as a small bus, will crash in the Northern Hemisphere. We know not where.

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-hosts:

Aaron Klein, Investigative Radio, WABC 770

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Monday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time):   Malcolm Hoenlein,

Monday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time):  Thaddeus McCotter, (MI-11), in re:

Monday 935P Eastern Time (635P Pacific Time):   .Taegan Goddard, Political Wire, in re:

Monday 950P Eastern Time (650P Pacific Time):   .Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-reiew, in re: Another wave is coming in Washington - and "the 'ins' may be thrown out, and the 'outs' may be thrown in," according to Michael Genovese, Loyola University political-science professor.   Genovese thinks the economic and political turbulence of the past 12 years is "eerily similar" to the Panic of 1893 and the unsettling election cycles of 1884 to 1896.     

Monday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):   .Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: UDI and the UN  

Monday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):   .Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy blog; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, in re:  

Monday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):   .Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, in re:  Chief Inspector Bliss on the Solyndra case

Monday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):   .Aaron Klein, The Manchurian Candidate, and Aaron Klein Investigative Radio on WABC 770, in re:  UDI; Syria, Lebanon, Iran.  After UDI, Palestinians will be able to sue individuals in the International Criminal Court.; cf, Samantha Power.  Be'er Sheva; Golani Brigade at Gaza.

Monday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):   .Greg Zuckerman, author, The Greatest Trade Ever, in re:   

Monday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):   .David Drucker, Roll Call, in re: 

Monday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):   .Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, in re:   UDI and Palestinian Authority. Why is Mahmoud Abbas gong to New York to represent Palestinians when he can't even get in to Gaza to visit his vacation home?  With his colleagues in the General Assembly organizing week.

Monday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):   .Aaron Klein, in re: the PA in New York; unsurvivable if funding is reduced. Cynical manipulation of the GA.

Monday 1205P (905P Pacific Time):   .Eitan Gilboa, Bar-Ilan University (in Ramat-Gan, Israel). and visiting professor at USC Center on Public Diplomacy in Los Angeles, in re: US-Israeli relations. Erdogan: not a force for moderation, but transforming Turkey into an Islamic country. Very weak Egypt. AK: Obama's relations with Bibi: similar to Clinton's interfering to help collapse Bibi's administration in the Nineties.

Monday 1220P (920P Pacific Time):   .Eytan Buchman, IDF, in re: Gaza security; Golani Brigade. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas's military win) shot at the school bus, killing one child, from 2km across Gaza border.   Arms shipments: boats carrying hundreds of tons of rockets and missiles (hidden behind sacks of foodstuffs), and land deliveries.  Hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel.  Young soldiers sweep the border at 4 every morning, and then throughout the day.  AK: White House enabling these kilings. Pentagon, however, understands what's going on.

Monday 1235P (935P Pacific Time):   .Zvi Mazal, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former ambassador to Egypt, in re: 

Monday 1255P (955P Pacific Time):   .Exeunt.  

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Music 

Hour 1  Babylon AD, by Atli Orvarsson ; Deadwood Season 1, by various artists  

Hour 2  Bourne Ultimatum, by John Powell ; X-Files, by Marc Snow ; Flight of the Phoenix, by Marco Beltrami  

Hour 3  Game of Thrones, by Ramin Djawadi ; Assassin's Creed, by Jesper Kyd  

Hour 4  Prince of Persia, by Harry Gregson-Williams ; Babylon AD, by Atli Orvarsson ; Thirteen Days, by Trevor Jones

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-hosts:

Gordon Chang, TheDaily and Forbes.com

Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index

Wednesday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, in re: Ed Luttwak's review of Kissinger's China: K as a servant to his Chinese masters.  In 529 pages, Kissinger presents a view of China that's wholly off the mark . Recounting his conversations with Mao and Chou are exciting, but the book is an apologia for the current leaders and the China of the future. "Designed to curry favor with Chinese authorities and nothing else. . . . His book ends with a paean to Chinese-US friendship."--Ed Luttwak.   GC: What we really should be doing is working with our regional allies, India, Japan, Korea,Taiwan, et al.  Zero-sum game: K says both the US and China should be able to win. Nice general proposition; Beijing, however sees this as a zero-sum game, which obviates a win-win plan.  China is a brute: threatens Taiwan with extinction, projects power into the South China Sea, shoots Uyghurs and Tibetans. Only two sentences of Kissinger's book hint at China's recent violence, and he prevaricates in those.  Korea want to produce a new Kia with a special battery, cannot do so in China because the technology will be stolen. Massive intellectual property theft in China: IP theft, cyberattacks - all these are absent from Kissinger's book.  

Wednesday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time):  Bruce Bechtol, Jr, Angelo State, in re: A US military reconnaissance plane came under electronic attack from North Korea and had to make an emergency landing during a major military exercise in March.  The plane suffered disturbance to its GPS system due to jamming signals from the North's southwestern cities of Haeju and Kaesong as it was taking part in the annual US-South Korea drill.  --Report from Seoul's defense ministry to parliament.  North Korea has frequently jammed South Korean craft; also cyberattacks vs ROK military and high-level business sites. At the least, they're showing off  their abilities, as well as showcasing the eqpt capacity when selling to rogue regimes, such as Iran, Burma, and the like.  North Korea and Russia have agreed to do joint military exercises, first time since the end of the Cold War. Pipeline through North Korea stands to bring in billions to Moscow.  China probably doesn't much care for this.

Wednesday 935P Eastern Time (635P Pacific Time):  Hotel Mars. Paul D. Spudis Lunar and Planetary Institute, and David M. Livingston, The Space Show, in re: HEO + highly-elliptical orbits; tend to hover over large parts of the Earth for extremely long times; esp relevant for high latitudes, so used a good deal by Russia. If you bld a transportation system that can access all needed points, Moon provides an excellent [resting] point. L1, L2, L3, L4,L5 - all points need to be established . . .  Cannot stake claims to any celestial body or outer space (no ownership or title), but can use places for commercial gain.  Numerous small craters at the Moon's North Pole that appear to be filled with water ice. Can use it multiple ways, incl as rocket fuel. However, we need to explore on the surface.  Most people argue means rather than ends; I try to think, Where do we want to go and what do we want to accomplish?

Wednesday 950P Eastern Time (650P Pacific Time):  Hotel California. Devin Nunes (CA-21), Jeff Bliss, and Gordon Chang, in re: A congressional investigative committee on Wednesday grilled officials from two agencies that backed a $535-million loan package to failed Northern California solar panel manufacturer Solyndra.  Hailed by President Obama in 2010 as an innovative company that would use stimulus money to create jobs and lead the economic recovery, Solyndra laid off most of its 1,100 workers Aug. 31 and announced it would cease operations. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept. 6.  Two days later, agents with the FBI and Energy Department's inspector general served a search warrant at Solyndra's Fremont headquarters. The company's failure and the criminal investigation have raised questions about the administration's decision to pour billions of dollars into clean-energy programs.  Today, Solyndra did not have time to accept a Congressional invitation. Ever more federales are involved, now including Treasury. Are Chinese surreptitiously trying to buy Solyndra?  China is doing for solar panels what it did for rare earth elements: lower the world prices so much that no one can afford to manufacture the product - except China; that is, corner the market.  China controls more than 90% of rare earths -  essential to build every battery in every car; the largest rare-earth nine in the US, in California, was closed by extreme EPA regulations. Trying to re-open within a year.

Wednesday 1005P Eastern  (705P Pacific Time):  Terri Giles, Formosa Foundation, in re: Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwanese opposition [DPP] presidential candidate.  Beijing's rhetoric on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Twenty-three million people just want to have a peaceful life; unfortunately, they have a nearby neighbor that wants to devour them.  Peoples Daily in English attacks a new Congressional bill as "a tumor":  at 5PM today, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen introduced House 2918, to clarify relations between the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan.    The sale of F-16s was snuffed as Obama cowered in front of Beijing, as did the Bush Administration.  Cornyn-Menendez bill was to authorize F-16 sale.  Beijing sounds very threatened, not adult but like a child with a tantrum.  To quote China, it'd be a good idea for China to stay out of our sovereign activities. "China must strike bitter blows" - egad; this is grave and violent.  

Wednesday 1020P Eastern (720P Pacific Time):  Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvnia, in re: Confucius Insitutes in American colleges and universities.  These institutes, funded by Beijing, are trying to influence political discourse in American society.  In the US, 329 Confucius classrooms. In theory, Confucius Institutes teach Chinese language and culture, paid for (a few hundred K per year) and staffed by the government of China. These are not like Goethe Institutes because the anture of hte govt providing them is different A totalitarian govt sets up centers to promote its ideas, and actually interferes with freedom of inquiry, At a lot of US universities are afraid to talk about Uyghur, Tibet, taiwan, because they're afraid of losing money from Beijing.  Note that Beijing has been devoted to stamping out traditional knowledge, incl Confucius, since the 1920s.  These should be named "Mao Institutes."  They're part of a general Chinese effort to get inside American decision loops, how we make policy respecting their counttry. Beijing has a long history of surveillance of overseas Chinese people. This Confucius Institute fifth column is propagandizing a false history to take power overseas and insert themselves into our educational, and decision-making process to guide the toward goals  they want. Kissinger wrote that there's another way to see Tien An Men, that the students brought the killing on themselves.  

Wednesday 1035P Eastern  (735P Pacific Time):  Sadanand Dhume, AEI, in re: The plight of Pakistan's Shia, the country's largest religious minority. Twitter: dhume01

Wednesday 1050P Eastern (750P Pacific Time):  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ Asia in Hong Kong, in re: Western regulators are grappling with a growing list of frauds at Chinese companies listed overseas. So far they have focused on cleaning up individual cases. But these scandals should prompt a much deeper rethink about Chinese listings in Western markets. The basic problem is that existing rules aimed at ensuring the suitability of companies for listing are inadequate and aren't protecting investors from the huge risks that exist even at Chinese companies that are entirely legitimate. A recent example illustrates the pitfalls: Jiayuan.com is by all accounts an entirely above-board Chinese company. It's purportedly China's largest online dating platform, and it raised $78 million in a Nasdaq listing (ticker symbol: DATE) in May. It boasts a famous brand name, a smart founder and a plausible business model. Yet even for this company, where there is not a whiff of any misdeed, the prospectus still included some red flags.

Chinese hackers rally against cybertheft: some of China's most prominent hackers plan to issue a call for their peers to steer clear of commercial cybercrime, a move aimed at cutting down on Chinese cyberattacks that experts say often target foreign individuals and companies. 

Wednesday 1105P  Eastern (805P Pacific Time): Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re: Kabul firefight

Wednesday 1120P Eastern (820P Pacific Time):  Owen Matthews, Newsweek, in re: Turkey, Erdogan

Wednesday 1135P Eastern  (835P Pacific Time):  Rich Wade, NYT, in re: missing link discovery

Wednesday 1150P Eastern  (850P Pacific Time):  Mike Giglio, Newsweek in London, in re: August riots

Wednesday/Thurs 1205A  Eastern (905 Pacific Time):  Bill McGurn, WSJ, in re: 9/11 consensus

Wednesday/Thurs  1220A Eastern (920 Pacific Time):  Eric Trager, The New Republic, in re: attack on Israeli embassy in Cairo

Wednesday/Thurs  1235A  Eastern (935P Pacific Time):  Hotel Mars. Paul D. Spudis Lunar and Planetary Institute, and David M. Livingston, The Space Show, in re: HEO + highly-elliptical orbits; tend to hover over large parts of the Earth for extremely long times; esp relevant for high latitudes, so used a good deal by Russia. If you bld a transportation system that can access all needed points, Moon provides an excellent [resting] point. L1, L2, L3, L4,L5 - all points need to be established . . .  Cannot stake claims to any celestial body or outer space (no ownership or title), but can use places for commercial gain.  Numerous small craters at the Moon's North Pole that appear to be filled with water ice. Can use it multiple ways, incl as rocket fuel. However, we need to explore on the surface.  Most people argue means rather than ends; I try to think, Where do we want to go and what do we want to accomplish?

Wednesday/Thurs  1250A  Eastern (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.  Ken Croswell, Science Magazine: new discovery in space.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Co-host: Larry Kudlow, Kudlow Reports on CNBC; and WABC Radio

Tuesday 905P Eastern Time:   Joseph Brusuelas, Bloomberg senior economist, in re: Signs of interbank lending crisis; Mohamed El-Erian spooking investors; crisis may erupt next week when LIBOR spikes on Monday or Tuesday.  LK: We're not even 300 bps from where we were in 2008, at 5 percentage points.  Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy will be on a conference call with Papanadreou on Wednesday; the sooner Greece defaults, the better off we'll all be.  It'd be so bullish if they read the riot act, then went to the troika meeting in Poland on Friday. I'm rooting for a default. Jos B: No longer abt Greece; now Italy and France. Will have to guarantee sovereign debt for southern European countries; the political will to form a fiscal union is't there yet. LK: We're getting closer. Dunno abt Spain; and Berlusconi is so mercurial.  This is not like Lehman, which was private; it wasn't just Lehmans, it was AIG going down, dotoo. Merkel said, "An orderly default."  Jos B: Citi and Morgan heavily exposed. LK: "Bankruptcy" is a term of art; this is in fact a very doable restructuring.  Jos B: Soc Gen, Credit Agricole, in trouble to the tune of 200% of France's GDP.  LK: Jamie Dimon says he has not much exposure to Greece.   John B: Athens and Berlin - translations from Greek to German.

Tuesday 920P Eastern Time:  Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, in re:  Fed meets on 20 and 21 Sept for two days; "an empty quiver of arrows shot into the air."  JH: Bernanke's playbook was written by FDR.  Operation Twist: divest short-term securities, buy long-term.  Fed pays banks 1/4 of a percentage point of a trillion dollars the banks keep money at the Fed; the Fed could remove that small incentive to encourage them to go out and find something else to put the money in.  LK: Op Twist in the Sixties; but here, the Fed wants to keep short rates low and bring down long rates a bit - 2% on a 10-year Treasury - what else can they do?  JH:  Term Premium. Bernanke's attitude is to do whatever he can. None of this stuff is a panacea. At Jackson Hole he made clear that they see nothing as a magic weapon.  None of the three dissenters there will stay his hand. They've already fred their bullets by dissenting. LK:  I do not not think the Fed can create a job.  the president's so -called jobs stimulus plan will be paid by $400 bil tax hikes. Fiscal incentives are missing - the whole pinball machine on permanent tilt in Washington is the problem.

Tuesday 935P Eastern Time:  Michael Boskin, former chair, Council of Economic Advisors, Pres G H W Bush, and Hoover, in re:  the Democratic Party pressured Pres Obama to do the first stimulus. Was not aimed at the impending deep recession; other agendas were in play.  LK: Obamacare, and the negative impact on jobs. MB: Massive uncertainty abt costs in the future. Pres shd have had pilot programs, put hte big stuff on hold - it's a big drag not just in future, but today. Small bz don't have legal staffs to pore through all this stuff. Repatriation at 5% makes sense; [it'll come back very adequately].  Effective rate now is 26-28% statutory, plus state and local taxes. Pres Obama had a Simpson-Bowles Commission recommending lower taxes and broader base, but he chose to ignore it.

Tuesday 950P Eastern Time: David M. Drucker, Roll Call, in re: McCain coaches Rob Portman, junior senator from Ohio, encourages freshman to step up. LK: Supercommittee, charged above all to avoid the trigger, forbids tax increases.  DD: Dems haven't been very vocal; don't know where they stand on Obama's jobs proposal.  

Tuesday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Steve Moore, WSJ chief financial editor, in re:  In last night's speech, Mr. Obama insisted that the jobs bill is paid for with future entitlement cuts and tax hikes. Republicans are right to be skeptical that any of this will work.  I favor closing the loopholes and lowering taxes; this president wants to close loopholes and raise taxes.  JB: Yesterday's ISM number  was negative. SM: This whole plan is cockamamie. The one industry that's creating growth is oil and gas - and he wants to tax that specially.  JB: The whole administration is exhausted and repeating itself.  LK: Downside risk is that bz investment and production will go down. After that, there's nothing left. Inventories are not being stockpiled.  Growth come from where?  SM: Only gov't spending. LK: Transfer payments don't count - they don't produce goods and services.  

Tuesday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  John Fund, WSJ, in re: Nevada's 2d and New York's 9th congressional districts. What to watch in NV-2: "Few expect Marshall to prevail in Nevada, but a weak showing in Washoe County, the district's most populous, could be a devastating precursor for Democrats. Obama is counting on Nevada as part of his path to reelection, and Washoe County, which includes Reno, is key to that strategy. Marshall's margin of defeat will go a long way in revealing just how much of a drag Obama will be on Democrats in conservative districts, especially since she's worked to distance herself from the national party." In New York:  all the satellite trucks are at the Republican office and party; most of the district's Orthodox Jews say that Israel is a critical factor (Ed Koch: "Obama has thrown Israel under the bus"); everyone agrees that jobs are essential; gay marriage is a third factor.

Tuesday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  David Kirkpatrick, NYT,  in re: Erdogan of Turkey in Cairo denouncing Israel: "Israel is the West's spoiled child in this region."  Till recently, Turkey was a stalwart ally of Israel; not after it sponsored a killer flotilla.

Tuesday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy blog, in re:   Just after 1:00 P.M. Kabul time on Sept. 13 a group of militants opened fire on the U.S. Embassy using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and light arms.   AR: Probably Haqqani Network. US ambassador has just said, "The biggest problem in Kabul is the traffic."  Bill Roggio: I disagree - I think there are pooled resources in Kabul for high-profile attacks; that identifying one group is wishful thinking on our part so we can have someone with whom to negotiate. 

"This attack was intended really to send a message, to be more symbolic in nature than a real, substantial attack against the U.S. Embassy. For the Taliban, this is kind of a sensitive time. They're trying to show basically that they're a force to be reckoned with and that, if the U.S. wants to find any sort of settlement or negotiated peace in Afghanistan, the Taliban has to be brought into those negotiations and they have to be dealt with."

Tuesday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): LouAnn Hammond, Driving the Nation.com, in Frankfurt, in re: GM in Europe, Kia in China, GM in China.

Tuesday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):  Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, in re:  oils sands of Alberta and US jobs.

Tuesday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Robert Zimmerman, Behind the Black.com, in re: exoplanets; ATK deal with NASA; Russians back into space for ISS.

Tuesday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  John Bolton, AEI and TheDaily.com, in re: Are we safer today than we were on9/11?

Tuesday/Wed 1205A (905 Pacific Time):   John Fund, WSJ, in re: denouement of New York's 9th Congressional District election.  At midnight, Republican candidate, Bob Turner, heavily leading. The Democratic candidate was nicknamed, "the Inspector Clouseau of Queens."  Al Gore carried this district with two-thirds of the vote. It's a heavily Democratic district, has been since Warren Harding.  Most of the district's Orthodox Jews (37%) say that Israel is a critical factor, and that Pres Obama has abandoned Israel; everyone agrees that jobs are essential; gay marriage is a third factor.  Economy is dreadful and people are fearful. Turnout in Jewish neighborhoods in this district was enormous. Politico: "Never seen so many yarmulkas in an election."  Bob Turner was Rush Limbaugh's producer; worked with Roger Ailes. This is a political earthquake. If the president's polls keep sinking, unemployment increases or holds at about 9%, and other negative indices, then a delegation of Democrats will have to approach the president and ask him not to run. He probably won't accept, but it's the only option.

 (Referring to the benighted Weiner's misdeeds, a wag has tweeted [revised spelling]: "Elections have consequences.")

Tuesday/Wed  1220A (920 Pacific Time):  James Taranto, WSJ, in re: president's jobs program is a purposeful failure

Tuesday/Wed  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  Michael Boskin, former chair, Council of Economic Advisors, Pres G H W Bush, and Hoover, in re:  the Democratic Party pressured Pres Obama to do the first stimulus. Was not aimed at the impending deep recession; other agendas were in play.  LK: Obamacare, and the negative impact on jobs. MB: Massive uncertainty abt costs in the future. Pres shd have had pilot programs, put hte big stuff on hold - it's a big drag not just in future, but today. Small bz don't have legal staffs to pore through all this stuff. Repatriation at 5% makes sense; [it'll come back very adequately].  Effective rate now is 26-28% statutory, plus state and local taxes. Pres Obama had a Simpson-Bowles Commission recommending lower taxes and broader base, but he chose to ignore it.

Tuesday/Wed  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.  Mark Schroeder, Stratfor.com, in re: Kenya, Burkina Faso, Niger, Libya.

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Music

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW podcast link:

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33447

Monday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time):   Richard Lucas , Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany  I

Monday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time):   Richard Lucas , Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany  II  

Monday 935P Eastern Time (635P Pacific Time):   Deborah Lutz, Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism  I

Monday 950P Eastern Time (650P Pacific Time):   Deborah Lutz, Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism  II    

Monday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):   .Richard Cohen, Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life I  

Monday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):   .ichard Cohen, Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life II  

Monday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):   .Donald Stokes and Lillian Stokes, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America  I (Stokes Field Guides)  

Monday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):   .Donald Stokes and Lillian Stokes, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America  II (Stokes Field Guides)  

Monday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan  I

Monday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):   Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan  II 

Monday 1135P (835P Pacific Time):   Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan  III  

Monday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):   Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan  IV  

Monday/Tues 1205A (905 Pacific Time):   Alex Madrigal, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology I

Monday/Tues  1220A (920 Pacific Time):   Alex Madrigal, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology II  

Monday/Tues  1235A (935P Pacific Time):   Hotel Mars  

Monday/Tues  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.  

Co hosts:

Mary Kissel, WSJ editorial board

Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents

Thursday 905P Eastern Time:  Chris Frates, National Journal lobbying reporter, in re:  Gov Perry's miraculous $500K gift from AT&T, and his wholly-unrelated letter to the FCC to support AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile. 

Thursday 920P Eastern Time:  Mary Kissel, in re: Deutsche Telekom is eager to get rid of its North American experiment.  Tata Motors - want a phone company?  The Department of Justice forbad AT&T to buy T-Mobile, which in effect obliges T-Mobile to sell itself to Sprint (56mil customers). Is this a DOJ plan?

Thursday 935P Eastern Time:  Christine Kenneally,  NYT in Australia, in re:  the legend of Edward ("Ned" ) Kelly.  Disinterred (not for the first time); represents a rebellious fight against bigotry, or "Tall poppy" syndrome": taking down anyone too big for his britches?  Corrupt Anglo-Irish constabulary in Australia, and Irish were treated very badly. Ned Kelly executed at he Melbourne jail after a run-in with a drunken policeman who harassed Kelly's mother and sister. Eventually, a shoot-out because of this, and Ned Kelley dead in 1880.  Inadvertantly preserved in lime, found in 1929; reinterred at another prison, but a crowd watching the event stole his skull, which wound up travelling around the country (for a while in clear plastic container in a tree stump on a farm), and it was returned to authorities in 2009. Except it turns out that it's not Ned Kelly's head.  Major superhero story in Australia.  

Thursday 950P Eastern Time:  Mary Kissel in re:  When Fannie Mae decided to lower its standards - "Make more mortgages available to more Americans" - it seemed OK for the first years, then went out of control with Countrywide, et al.  DOJ has started a new unit to go to small banks, "We'll sue you if you haven't historically lent enough to African-Americans."  So the small banks, alarmed for cause, offer cash propitiations; those funds are then distributed by DOJ to Latinos, African-Americans. (?)  

A new Japanese government? New Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda ("Another nameless, faceless guy"). 

Thursday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Tel Aviv stolen-taxi attack: tensions break out spontaneously in the region; yelling "Allahu akhbar" and tried to stab many people.  Mahmoud Abbas and coterie conduct things chaotically. Attack is part of incitement. Huge stipends monthly to terrorists in prisons.  Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Palestinians:  Jordanian govt has condemned the UDI.  Letter has been submitted to Security Council to oblige the US to veto. Will also go to General Assembly to get a favorab le vote, then get additional resolutions to sanction Israel using South Africa as a model. Would force US to abrogate all agreements with the PA, because the contracts are with the Palestinian Authority, not a soi-disant state of Palestine.  Turkey: taking advantage of the region's chaos to bomb innocent civilians as they aim at he OKK in Iraq. Impunity. Want to eradicate ht PKK, expanding the strikes with scores of plane.  Erdogan will not back off his extreme stance; regrettably, some in the US govt think this is fine. Erdogan's intention is to establish and extremist Islamic state, and he's clear about that.   Syria: security points, helicopter patrols, killings; Iran is the only real ally Assad has left. Iran was counting on Gaddhafi to last longer and keep world attention on him; not happening that way. Arab world not content with Iran.

Thursday 1020P (720P Pacific Time): Elliott Abrams, senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, in re:  Palestinian unilateralism. UN vote.  Two-and a half years of this administration's mishandling; it has no influence or credit with Abbas.  When the UN GA declares a Palestinian state, that's the end of the one-state solution.   Syria; Iran may think Assad may not be salvageable. Huge loss for Teheran; now it doesn't know what to do. Their theory of massacring demonstrators isn't working. Possible that the Alawites will decide to sacrifice Bashar, blame him for everything and send him away. If so, the Alawites will all be on their way out.  Egyptian army has lost control of Sinai to Bedouin gangs, Hamas, others. Very dangerous. Very good communication between Egyptian and Israeli armies; shared concern about al Qaeda-type terrorist groups and Hamas.  Sinai is huge. Nightmare.  Sinai is filling up with weapons, some from Libya. Israel probably will have to build a massive, huge border fence.

Thursday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):   Steven Emerson, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, exec dir, in re: report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) entitled, "Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America."  (The report lists Emerson as one of five men who are "Islamophobia misinformation experts.")  Report was written by Muslim activists and a handful of American leftists; said to have been funded primarily by George Soros. [Can it be that half of everything on Earth is funded by George Soros?]  It's a fact that 95% of terrorist deeds in the world are committed by radical Muslims; doctrinaire observers prefer to cover over that datum, and they're not happy to shed light on the terrorists's anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, thoroughly anti-Western ideology.  They tend to  hold that the West has been oppressing the Arab world since the Eleventh Century, that the jihadists are victims. The disseminate the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; this includes CAIR and a dozen other sewer organizations. The Muslim Brotherhood is the main controller of the public face of Sunni Islam in the Middle East and the US.   There are some extremely brave Muslims - one thinks of Zuhdi Jasser - who are outspoken and then attacked as traitors, as Uncle Toms.

Thursday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Grad missiles now shot from Gaza into the Negev began their professional life in Libya - in Cyrenaica.  Also, Egypt intercepted a massive arms shipment, much to the irritation of some Libyans who stood to make a lot of money in a sale. Israel closed he Gaza borders at he request of Palestinians, in honor of Ramadan/Eid.   Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) recruits in a way similar to the Communist Party of a century ago.  Lots of the credo is based on hating Israel, Jews, Americans, the West.  Not a rounded or profound ideology. Ikhwan, called "secular" because it's not explicitly Salafist, projected to get 20% of the vote, which is controlling. To what extent have they infiltrated the military? 

The whole of the ummah is descend and France because they have no natural internal cohesion. Beware events in Jordan and Lebanon.

Thursday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  Ilan Berman, VP,  American Foreign Policy Council, in re: Iran.  UN SC has issued sanctions against Iran and claims they're effective. Dubious.  Most biting sanctions? not yet clear: IMF has just painted a bullish picture of the Iranian economy - "humming along" - although it's nit true, but it certainly suggests that the sanctions are failing.  Compact of population with the ayatollahs: Iranian people have no voice in politics but get huge subsidies of essential goods.  Question: interrupt massive energy flow of oil to China?  Yes - Iran needs import of refined petroleum. This week, Gazprom was knocked out of a competition for the Pars(?) oil fields.  When it looked as though we were serious about sanctions, Gazprom swiftly pulled out, then saw we were faking and returned. Iran do;t trust Russians: Bushehr mess, and withdrawal of defense contract. Iran's sponsorship of terrorists abroad, esp Hizbollah, is creating much annoyance domestically - Why are they getting all this money that we need?  IMF study: does reflect the Euro consensus that defusing conflict lies in dialogue, but it can't do independent investigation but must rely on statistics given it by the govt under study.  Recall Kofi Annan anent Saddam: "We can work with this man."

Thursday 1120P (820P Pacific Time):  David Buskila, mayor of S'derot in the Negev in Israel, in re: ongoing barrage of rockets bombarding his small town in southern Israel and all the area around.  From UN division plan in 1948; since 2001, under missile attack from Gaza, escalated in 2008, now continues with fewer missiles but still deaths.  In 2008 Malcolm was in S'derot, found himself lifted up and carried rapidly into a police station - and a mortar hit exactly where he'd been standing seconds before. Terrifying environment, with much physical as well as psychological damage.  All bldgs and bus stations are concrete and iron, only. Children not allowed to play outside as they need to be within fifteen seconds of a shelter. All schools are simply bomb shelters. Children have unnatural childhoods.   Malcolm: When we went to S'derot, every one of them asked how they (impoverished) could help the Israelis under attack in the north. it was quite touching.  

Thursday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Toshi Yoshihara, Red Star over the Pacific, in re:  East China Sea conflict warning by China to Japanese new PM Yoshihiko Noda. Also, US fleet deployment in South China Sea, Stennis group. 

Thursday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  Chris Gadomski, Bloomberg New Energy, in re: US earthquake and hurricane, and NRC looks at US nuclear reactors. 

Thursday/Fri 1205A (905 Pacific Time):   Fouad Ajami, WSJ & Hoover, in re: comparing Baghdad to Tripoli: the fall of graven images.

Thursday/Fri  1220A (920 Pacific Time):  Bill McGurn, WSJ, in re: Mayor Bloomberg bans faith leaders fro 9/11 commemoration. Why?

Thursday/Fri  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  William B Cohan, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: SEC destroys documents, backscratching SEC, close the SEC.

Thursday/Fri  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.

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Music

Hour 1
There Will Be Blood by Johnny Greenwood
Proposition by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Battlestar Galactica by Bear McCreary

Hour 2
Game of Thrones by Ramin Djawadi
Season of the Witch by Atli Orvarsson
Passion of the Christ by John Debney

Hour 3
Assassin's Creed by Jesper Kyd
Tomorrow Never Dies by David Arnold
The Road by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Hour 4
The Hurt Locker by Marco Beltrami
Frost/Nixon by Hans Zimmer
Antarctica by Vangelis