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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Dan Henninger (@DanHenninger) (@WSJopinion), WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist; in re: Judge Kavanaugh. Opposition to him has a whiff of anticlericalism.  Relentless references to Kavanaugh’s having attended Georgetown Prep, in Maryland, as a breeding-ground for misbehavior; in fact, it was founded in 1789 by Jesuits and teaches and ends to maintain high moral standards. Impression that the opposition holds that Catholicism renders one unfit for public life.   . . .
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 1, Block B: Jim McTague (@Mctaguej), Barron’s Washington,  and author, Murder and Mayhem on Capitol Hill; in re: Today’s 3.7% unemployment report – best since 1969. Fab news for Main Street; not so for Wall Street.  Job gains in many sectors; losses in retail, although it’s added 25,000 jobs in a few years and there are plenty of open positions (at slave wages).   Public busses in Alexandria, Va,, desperately need bus drivers – related to stricter border controls; we need more workers.  Fast-food firms are offering free college tuition and all sorts of perks.  It's an employees’s market right now.  The Fed thinks this economy will continue, that there’s no recession in sight.  Wall St investors are happy, but the market ain’t good.   Money going into CDs and bonds.  As cash goes into CDs, that increases our savings, and that’ll be great for the banks.
 
US growing at 4%-plus, Europeans not, and China flatlined.  China has been waging an underhanded war against the US (spy chips into US tech, e.g.,) so US mfrg going into Cambodia, inter al.  China is also shipping illegal opioids into the country. A long-term war. 
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 1, Block C:  Adam White (@adamjwhitedc) (@georgemasonlaw), Scalia Law School, and Hoover, and  Weekly Standard; in re: The Kavanaugh matter: job interview?  . . .  flurry of interruptions in the beginning; I testified at the last panel, by which time the process was already degraded.  . . . Caveat the next such hearings! . . . De Toqueville. 
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 1, Block D: Mike Mutchler (@amarillogold), Amarillo Gold Corporation,  in re: Greenstone belt, mesozoic; plate boundary created a fractured zone through which fluids could flow, depositing minute amounts of gold. Schist 30 meters thick, with tons of gold therein.  . . . Ten-km-wide rock: three different hydrothermal events. . . . ACG on Toronto Exchange, and on NYSE. Trading at a low multiple today.
 
Hour Two
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos (@JHUWorldCrisis), Johns Hopkins, in re: In 1856:  Horace Greely wrote of Sen Sumner’s being caned and beaten up by an antagonist colleague, Butler, a ruffian who struck with many blows – “Southern cowardice.” As the South has taken the oligarchic ground that slavery should exist, [we may as well get used to their beating us up for as long as we take it.] Northern poltroons?
Not just a brutal attack, but an attack by an elite aristocracy that dominated America and controlled the nation’s wealth. That aristocracy today is blue – media, Hollywood elites, publishing, social media. Blue today owns almost everything; in the 1850s, the institution of slavery had more money than every other element – railroads, mfrg, finance, bank, housing, real estate – the money that existed in human flesh was greater than the sum of all the other wealth that existed.  The South cannot be understood in its dominance without understanding its deep, intertwined relations with New York City – New York City was Confederate!
 
The poltroons, the hardscrabble workers, the deplorables.  . . . Elites go hammer and tongs at each other. Read: The Origins of the Republican Party to see how much the elite that drove the Civil War was not one that had any comparable aspect to the Southern aristocracy [?].  . .  Today’s elite lives in a bubble.
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 2, Block B:  Michael E Vlahos (@JHUWorldCrisis), Johns Hopkins, in re: . . . The domestic conflict is consuming the entirety of the energy of the civil war.  American global leadership is a nostalgic reality that you can kiss good-bye.  Trump may be rich, but he’s a poltroon, culturally part of the people he represents. The dominant aristocratic elite can't understand that we live in a world where the people truly matter.
 
Debut of sponsorship by the Republic of Azerbaijan of the Small Business report:
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 2, Block C:  Gene Marks (@genemarks), The Guardian Small Business Columnist &  Forbes, & Entrepreneur, Inc, in re:
 
Debut of sponsorship by the Republic of Azerbaijan of the Small Business report:
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 2, Block D:  Gene Marks (@genemarks), The Guardian Small business columnist, in re:
 
Hour Three
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 3, Block A: Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel), in re:   B52s and quick-strike mines dropped from 50,000 feet.  Could deny access to PLAN around its bogus islands in the South China Sea.  Anchored craft couldn’t leave till China de-mined the area.  B52 can lift enormous weight, has five hypersonic weapons systems now being designed for it – the  . . .  truck. . .  . B2s are at four main bases: Hawaii, Wake Island, . . .   B1 being used against ISIS.  Also a new strike bomber in 2025.  Part 1 of 2
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 3, Block B: Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel)  Part 2 of 2
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 3, Block C: Patrick Tucker (@DefTechPat), technology editor for Defense One, in re: Aircraft
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 3, Block D: Patrick Tucker (@DefTechPat), technology editor for Defense One, in re: Aircraft
 
Hour Four
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 4, Block A:  Ken Croswell, astronomer, Scientific American & Science Magazine; in re: Stars
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 4, Block B:  Ken Croswell, astronomer, Scientific American & Science Magazine; in re: Stars
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 4, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com & award-winning space historian, in re: Space
Friday 5 October  2018 / Hour 4, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com & award-winning space historian, in re: Space. Earthrise Day.
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