The John Batchelor Show

Friday 24 September 2015

Air Date: 
September 25, 2015

Photo, left: Syrian Kurds from Kobane in the refugee camps of Suruc, Turkey.  US B1B bombers hovered over Kobani, protected the impressively aggressive Kurdish fighters by bombing everything ISIS that moved, including motorcycles, leading to a clear victory in that battle.  The children above in a huge refugee camp are among the beneficiaries of that win.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Dan Henninger, WSJ Wonder Land, in re: A Politicized Pope
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block B:  Robert Costa, Washington Post, in re: John Boehner left the Capitol and spent ten minutes with Robt Costa retelling his meeting with Pope Francis.  Now he'll leave his office of Speaker of the House at the end of October in order to manoeuver a way to prevent a government shutdown.  Possible replacements: McCarthy, . . . ; but the fight will be for Whip.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-boehner-in-twilight/2015/09/25/124fc54a-6399-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, in re: Year One: Inside the Air War Against ISIS The U.S. has won battles, destroyed targets, and saved towns from ISIS—and it may be no closer to winning the overall war. [Read more...]
B1B bomber leaves Qatar on their way to Afghanistan; took a nap, then awoke in a war in Iraq against ISIS. Given new orders and off they flew to a completely new method and place. B1B bomber is a 4-engine supersonic strategic bomber, built to drop atomic weapons on the USSR; is fast, has a huge bomb bay.  Used as close air support platform.  (1 of 2)
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block D: Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, in re: Year One: Inside the Air War Against ISIS  The U.S. has won battles, destroyed targets, and saved towns from ISIS—and it may be no closer to winning the overall war. [Read more...] (2 of 2)
 
Hour Two
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: “Is there an enduring Muslim Way of War? Do Muslims fight in certain ways, or more precisely, are there characteristic Islamic patterns to thought and behavior in war? This seminar explores strategic and operational continuities within the world of Sunni Arab Islam, from the time of origins, through the Ottoman Sultanate, to today. Moreover, it approaches this question as an analytic proposition: Not to be proven, but rather to be explored. As a short course, its purpose is to introduce both the potential and the challenge of usefully employing cultural analysis in strategic and operational assessment.” --MICHAEL VLAHOS
Year One: Inside the Air War Against ISIS The U.S. has won battles, destroyed targets, and saved towns from ISIS—and it may be no closer to winning the overall war. [Read more...] (1 of 2)
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: “Is there an enduring Muslim Way of War? Do Muslims fight in certain ways, or more precisely, are there characteristic Islamic patterns to thought and behavior in war? This seminar explores strategic and operational continuities within the world of Sunni Arab Islam, from the time of origins, through the Ottoman Sultanate, to today. Moreover, it approaches this question as an analytic proposition: Not to be proven, but rather to be explored. As a short course, its purpose is to introduce both the potential and the challenge of usefully employing cultural analysis in strategic and operational assessment.” --MICHAEL VLAHOS
Year One: Inside the Air War Against ISIS The U.S. has won battles, destroyed targets, and saved towns from ISIS—and it may be no closer to winning the overall war. [Read more...] http://www.amazon.com/First-Over-There-Cantigny-Americas/dp/1250056446 (2 of 2)
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block C:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: This is the best time to borrow money in all of history ; Why You Should Contribute More to Your 401(k) in 2015 ; Starting business in Ohio now is cheaper, faster   : Starting a business in Ohio is now cheaper, faster and easier to initiate online, as the state has instituted new filing fees and launched a partnership with Google. Previously, it cost a new business $125 to register with the state, and approval typically took as long as four days. An expedited one-day filing cost $225. Effective Thursday, the filing fee dropped to $99, and registration is completed the same day.
“Ohio is now the cheapest state in the Midwest to start a new business,” Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said. “The first one (to register) was at 12:09 (a.m. Thursday),” Husted said. “Forty businesses filed before we got to work this morning. That shows the importance of having an online presence.” In January, Husted asked state lawmakers to pass legislation to authorize the filing-fee cuts, which he said were made possible by shrinking his office staff.
In addition to cutting the business filing fee, the office has entered into a partnership with Google that links new businesses to the Internet service company’s “Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map” program. The Google program offers new businesses free websites, free domain names and a free listing of their office locations with Google’s map and search features, plus advice from industry experts. The free service is an attempt to overcome the perception that it is difficult and costly for small, mom-and-pop businesses to have an online presence, said Rob Biederman, Google’s head of government and public affairs for the Midwest. . . .
Chattanooga is lowest cost city for business startups     ; Obama administration says uninsured are getting harder to sign up for health overhaul ; Why your health bills are getting higher, in one chart ; Target to Add 1,000 New Employees ; With Focus on Improving Sam’s Club Customer Relationships, WalmartLabs Snaps Up Silicon Valley-Based PunchTab
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block D: Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: Pope Francis Delays iPhone 6s in ZIP Codes He Touches ; No love for Twitter among teens ; Facebook restrictions having effects in academia, business, and politics ; How Open Source and Crowdfunding Are Creating a New Business Niche  ; Amazon Chops $32 Off Amazon Prime Membership Price in One-Day Sale for New Subscribers ; Fitbit Is Worth $8.6 Billion ; More than half of the world's population is still offline
 
Hour Three
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block A:  Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: More than half of the world's population is still offline.
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block B:  Henry I Miller, Hoover, in re: "What Politicians Should Learn about Vaccination"
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block C:  Sebastian Gorka, The Gorka Briefing, in re: High Anxiety in the Baltics That's because Vladimir Putin has been working tirelessly to bring Russia back to its nationalistic, narcissistic glory, and the tiny Baltic states . . .  ; 5 Russian Weapons of War ISIS Should Fear  While the Soviet Union may be no more, Moscow's forces could give the ... The Frogfoot, once considered the Warsaw Pact equivalent of the ... ; Putin seeks to assuage Israel's fears of Syrian aggression (Stars and Stripes-Sep 21, 2015)
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block D:   Chris Carberry, ExporeMars.org, in re: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/252683-mars-national-infrastructure-and-dispelling-myths ; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-carberry/enabling-the-martian_b_7941398.html ; http://www.exploremars.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HumansToMarsReport_i.pdf
 
Hour Four
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block A: Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power, by Ilan Berman (1 of 2)
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block B: Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power, by Ilan Berman (2 of 2)
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block C:  Terry Anderson, PERC (Montana); Hoover; Wall Street Journal; in re: Accepting that the earth is warming, what are the appropriate tools for dealing with it? Let’s start with what not to do. The main thrust of the Obama administration’s answer to climate change is a regulatory initiative aimed directly at reducing carbon “pollution” as the EPA calls it. Unless these types of regulations are applied worldwide, U.S. reduction will have no significant effect on global warming because the biggest carbon emitters are developing countries such as China. Even the EPA says that “if we stabilized concentrations and the composition of today’s atmosphere remained steady (which would require a dramatic reduction in current greenhouse gas emissions), surface air temperatures would continue to warm.”  http://www.hoover.org/research/climate-change-and-human-ingenuity
Friday 25 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block D:   John Schwarz, NYT, in re: As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West A natural cycle of fire and forest renewal has been broken in the West, some scientists believe. Millions of trees may never return.