The John Batchelor Show

Friday 9 October 2015

Air Date: 
October 09, 2015

Photo, left: See below, James Gorman,  NYT, in re: Why Is That Dog Looking at Me? The reasoning behind why dogs look at humans — and wolves don’t — is not easily explained.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View, in re: White House Is Weighing a Syria Retreat
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block B:  Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: THE EX-GOLDMAN SACHS BANKER DETERMINED TO TAKE DOWN HILLARY AND JEB
Steve Bannon is using hedge fund money and 'Seinfeld' royalties to stop the Clintons from retaking the White House--and the Bushes, too. Meet the wild freak who's the most dangerous political operative in America
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block C:  Patrick Tucker, Defense One, in re:  Army: 3D printing, talking helmets, robots.
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block D:  Jack Healy, NYT, in re: Family Pond Boils at Center of a ‘Regulatory War’ in Wyoming   Andy Johnson’s watering hole has become an emblem for conservatives and local governments fighting the reach of the federal government.
Hour Two
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block A:  Jim McTague, Barron's, in re: Fed's Evans: Hike rates, just keep them under 1%  Charles Evans, president of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Most voting members of the ... ;  Fed's Evans says rate hike path, not liftoff timing, is key ; Fed Minutes Show Lone Hawk Battling Doves Over Interest Rates
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block B:  Francis Rose, Federal News  Radio talk show host, in re: http://federalnewsradio.com/management/2015/10/va-changing-customer-service-frame-reference-new-framework/ ; http://federalnewsradio.com/agency-oversight/2015/10/vha-anatomy-no-physiology-study-says/  ;  http://www.stripes.com/news/house-weighs-overhaul-of-veterans-affairs-1.372115
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block C: Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs in re: All Change in the Middle East? Syria, Egypt Trend Positively; Saudi, Iran Transform   Most international intelligence assessments of the greater Middle East are pessimistic, but while the short-term indicators show disruption, there is significant cause to believe that new areas of long-stability are emerging. The balance of power between the Maghreb and the Indian Ocean is likely to change significantly over the coming decade.   As this analyst has previously noted, the Arab-Israeli War is, for now, over.1 Not so Iran’s, or Qatar’s, or Palestine’s, or Turkey’s war against Israel: just the Arab-Israel War. That, along with the new economic and political alignments of the region, opens up many prospects. The withdrawal of the US from the region opened the gates to the so-called “Arab Spring”. Now the region is developing in new ways.  (1 of 2)
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block D: Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs in re: All Change in the Middle East? Syria, Egypt Trend Positively; Saudi, Iran Transform (2 of 2)
Hour Three
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block A: The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz (1 of 4)
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block B: The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz (2 of 4)
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block C: The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz (3 of 4)
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block D: The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz (4 of 4) 
Hour Four
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 4, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Mainland military experts said the People's Liberation Army Navy would issue warnings and there would not be collisions if foreign military vessels went within the limits. But the PLA was capable of expelling any intruders, they said. "The navy would issue verbal warnings, demanding the U.S. vessels leave," Shanghai-based naval expert Ni Le-xiong said.
Li Jie, a Beijing-based naval expert, said the navy would send warships to intercept the U.S. vessels if they ignored the warnings. Another source close to the PLA said Beijing had several more "cost-effective" solutions to such a confrontation. "We could scramble drones to expel the vessels, or simply order the Second Artillery Corps to fire from distance," he said. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1865414/beijing-alert-us-navy-incursion-near-artificial-islands (1 of 2)
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 4, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Mainland military experts said the People's Liberation Army Navy would issue warnings and there would not be collisions if foreign military vessels went within the limits. But the PLA was capable of expelling any intruders, they said. "The navy would issue verbal warnings, demanding the U.S. vessels leave," Shanghai-based naval expert Ni Le-xiong said. . . . http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/10/07-avoidin... ; http://time.com/vault/issue/1936-08-24/page/32/ (2 of 2)
Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 4, Block C: Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler and PERC Montana, in re: How Free Market Environmentalism Is Transforming Parks
Free market ideas can continue to make "America's best idea" even better.
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Friday 9 October 2015 / Hour 4, Block D:   James Gorman,  NYT, in re: Why Is That Dog Looking at Me? The reasoning behind why dogs look at humans — and wolves don’t — is not easily explained.