Photo, above:  Nuclear Saudi Arabia - buying bombs from Pakistan? See Hour 3, Block C, Barry Pavel, Atlantic Council, on Saudi Arabia wanting to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Guest-host:  Francis Rose, Federal News Radio

Hour One

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Karen Evans, National Director, US Cyber Challenge; former Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget (now entitled United States Chief Information Officer), in re: Healthcare.gov problems and how to fix them

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Eggers, Research Director for Public Sector Industry at Deloitte; co-author of The Solution Revolution, in re:  Government can’t solve big problems alone any more.  Bill Eggers spoke about public-private partnerships at the UN this week, got interesting feedback.

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Kim Elliott, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, in re: cutting a good deal on nuclear weapons with Iran

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block D: Ron Marks, former senior CIA official and Capitol Hill staffer;  cybersecurity issues and Homeland Security intell; Intelligence Enterprises, consulting firm; in re: the EU's CIA.

Hour Two

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 2, Block A: David Hawkings, Roll Call, in re: lack of reality on budgets in Congress, both parties, both houses

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 2, Block B: Gordon Lubold, national security reporter at Foreign Policy and host of FP’s Situation Report; in re: Drones staying in CIA portfolio, not moving to DoD any time soon

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 2, Block C: Jim McTague, Washington Editor, Barron’s, in re: midterm election season now open, what it means for investors.

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 2, Block D: Claudia Rosett, FDD, in re: U.S. loses its UNESCO voting right

Hour Three

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 3, Block A: Jeff Bliss, Bliss Index, in re: healthcare.gov developments

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 3, Block B: Charles Clark, Senior Correspondent, Government Executive Media Group, in re: What happened to the IRS investigation in Congress?

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 3, Block C: Barry Pavel, vice president and director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council, in re: Saudi Arabia wants to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan.  Why?

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 3, Block D:   Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: Terrorism inside China - prelude to chaos?

 

Hour Four

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 4, Block A: Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder (1 of 4)   Entrepreneurship is alive and well in the Middle East . . . but it looks different there from other parts of the world.

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 4, Block B: Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder (2 of 4)

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 4, Block C: Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder (3 of 4)

Friday  8 November  2013 / Hour 4, Block D: Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder (4 of 4)

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Music

Hour 1:  Frost Nixon. Robin Hood.

Hour 2:  Inception. Snow White and the Huntsman.

Hour 3:  Salt. Brake.

Hour 4:  Game of Thrones. Wolfman.