Photo, above: The Almohad reforms were a series of changes to the existing religious climate in Islamic Spain over the course of seventy years. The preceding Almoravid, while more repressive than some governments in Al-Andalus, was not violently repressive. The religious fundamentalism of the Almohad Caliphate dynasty (1224-1269) caused a massive emigration of Jews and Christians from southern Iberia to the Christian north and North Africa, specifically Egypt.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, in re:  As global wealth pours in, New Yorkers get priced out.  column    "We’re building the world’s most expensive bank safety deposit boxes,” says Jonathan Miller, head of the real-estate-appraisal firm Miller Samuel. He’s talking about the billionaire’s row of very tall, impossibly expensive buildings rising on 57th St. to cast new shadows over Central Park. “You put your valuables in it and then rarely visit.”   Getting the acrobats off of NYC's trains makes obvious sense — so why are people fighting to keep them there? 

A funny thing happened on the way to New York City becoming some sort of police state: Democracy worked.

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 1, Block B:  David Davenport, Hoover, in re:   Boehner vs Obama: sue?  Not sue?

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Melik Kaylan, WSJ, in re:  saving ancient monuments worldwide: a proposal on how to accomplish this.

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 1, Block D:  Coral Davenport, NYT, in re: Taking Oil Industry Cue, Environmentalists Drew Emissions Blueprint  To influence carbon policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council followed a strategy used by the oil industry during the Bush administration.

Hour Two

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 2, Block A:   Michael Vlahos, Naval War College (1 of 2), in re: Modernity according to the Islamic State, Boko Haram, the ...    Islamic state claims Baghdad bombs; parliament to meet on ...   
More news for islamic state
   The myth of the caliphate and the Islamic State - Al Jazeera
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's declaration of an Islamic State and caliphate is potentially good news for patriotic Iraqis, the international community, ...


1,000-strong Syrian rebel brigade defects to Islamic State ...


Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 2, Block B:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College (2 of 2), in re: 1,000-strong Syrian rebel brigade defects to Islamic State

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 2, Block C: Elisabeth Rosenthal, NYT, in re:  The Price of Prevention: Vaccine Costs Are Soaring   There is little that Dr. Lindsay Irvin has not done for the children’s vaccines in her office refrigerator: She remortgaged her home to afford their rising prices. She packed them in ice chests and moved them when her office flooded this year. She pays a company to monitor the fridge in case the temperature rises.

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Nina Glinski, Bloomberg, in re:  TINY HOUSES: Big with U.S. Owners Seeking Economic Freedom—Defined as 500 or fewer square feet, tiny houses range from primitive 96-square-foot huts to award-winning displays of sustainable architecture with elegant streamlined design. While many are built on wheels to avoid regulations, mobility isn’t the main draw….Americans choosing mini houses remain wary of tethering themselves to a mortgage. 

Hour Three

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Seb Gorka  Seb Gorka, Breitbart & Natl Defense University, in re:  WHY ISIS IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN AL QAEDA AND WHAT AMERICA MUST DO ABOUT IT

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 3, Block B: Matthew Kaminski: The Town Where the Russian Dilemma Lives

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Kamran Bokhari, Vice President of Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs at Stratfor, & author of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization, in re: a real caliphate? Not. More like a series of noncontinguous emirates. History of caliphates.

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 3, Block D:   Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: Another environmental claim turns out to be vastly exaggerated: The scientist who claimed that islands of plastic bags were filling the oceans has found that his claim was bogus.

The scientist whose findings environmentalists used to shame us into bringing our own reusable bags to the grocery store now says that his estimate of one million tons of plastic floating in the ocean may have been off by a factor of perhaps 143. His latest estimate ranges from 7,000 to 35,000 tons, and even most of that has biodegraded into granules. …

Also doubtful: The environmentalist claim that 1.5 million marine animals choke to death each year on plastic bags that ran away from home for a life at sea. They’ve revised their estimates downward to 6.6 percent of that, but even the new figure has no empirical support.

But remember, Barack Obama says the science is settled, and that anyone who questions him or expresses any doubt is the equivalent of a Holocaust denier.

Hour Four

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil S. Hylton (1 of 4)

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil S. Hylton (2 of 4)

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 4, Block C:  Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil S. Hylton (3 of 4)

Friday  11 July   2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil S. Hylton (4 of 4)

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