Monday 16 June 2014
Photo, above: The fall of Saigon, April, 1975.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: David Drucker, Washington Examiner. Francis Rose, Federal News Radio. Thaddeus McCotter, WJR.
Darrell Issa subpoenas IRS commissioner over lost Lois Lerner emails
“People had a fear of retaliation if they said there is not enough staffing” to deal with long waiting lines, said J.David Cox Sr., a former VA nurse and president of the American Federation of Government Employees. AFGE represents about two-thirds of VA’s staff.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/va-punished-critics-on-staff-doctors-assert.html?hpw&rref=us
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejects Redskins tickets, calls name 'a racial slur'
BY SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/16/14 07:07 PMSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Washington Redskins President Bruce Allen he is “promoting a racial slur,” by retaining the team name. Reid sent a letter to Allen to reject his invitation to attend a...
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Thomas Joscelyn and Bill Roggio, FDD
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/their-911-role_794957.html
Analysis: ISIS, allies reviving 'Baghdad belts' battle plan
June 14, 2014
By BILL ROGGIO
The Islamic State of Iraq appears to be using the same plan it implemented in 2006, when it seized Baghdad's surround "belts" and launched attacks into the capital.
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Thomas Joscelyn and Bill Roggio, FDD
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: David Druck, Washington Examiner. Gordon Chang, Forbes.com.
The U.S. has little economic interest in the current fighting in Iraq. In all probability, America will come out even stronger if the insurgents win. See this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/06/15/if-anyone-bombs-iraq-shouldnt-it-be-china/
Hour Two
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block A: David Drucker, Washington Examiner. John Fund, NRO. Thaddeus McCotter, WJR.
Who knew that the Obama administration had a penchant for black humor? Earlier this year, in February, President Obama told Bill O’Reilly during an interview on Fox News that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the IRS scandal involving the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups. In July 2103, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew foreshadowed his boss’s nonchalance by insisting that there was “no evidence” that any political appointee had been involved in the scandal.
Now we may know why. After months of delay in responding to congressional inquiries, the IRS now claims that, for the period of January 2009 to April 2011, all e-mails between Lois Lerner — the IRS official at the center of the scandal — and anyone outside the IRS were wiped out by a “computer crash.” As House Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp wrote in a statement, this loss means that “we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone.” After all, there isn’t a “smidgen” of e-mail evidence to suggest otherwise.
John Fund - The Dog Ate My E-Mails, for Two Years
Darrell Issa subpoenas IRS commissioner over lost Lois Lerner emails
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block B: continued
John Kerry says U.S. open to working with Iran to assist Iraq
BY SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/16/14 09:52 AM The Obama administration signaled that talks with Iran on countering insurgents in Iraq may begin this week amid renew
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block C: SEB GORKA, Breitbart.com
How US Policy Enabled the Rise of Al Qaeda 2.0 and the Collapse of Iraq. Print article Send a Tip. by Dr. Sebastian Gorka 15 Jun 2014 post a comment ...
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Reza Khalili, Daily Caller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarra
Iran Supreme Leader: The Shiite Islamic Messiah Is Coming To Free The World
Hour Three
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Orgnizations
PA official: Unity pact is void if Hamas carried out kidnapping
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Netanyahu: Returning kidnapped teens ‘will take time’
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block B: continued
Senior US official: Iran wants to meet July 20 deadline
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Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Charles Graeber, Bloomberg Businessweek.
M-PESA: AFRICA ON NOTHING BUT A PHONE by Charles Graeber
Intrepid reporter Charles Graeber was charged with a mission: Survive in Nairobi, Kenya, for ten days with nothing but a mobile phone, paying for everything with M-Pesa, the mobile based microfinance service. He was there to find out why has Kenya alone has succeeded so wildly in popularizing a system for turning a cell phone into a wallet -- 93% of Kenyans use M-Pesa; Twice as many Kenyans use their phones for financial transactions as have bank accounts. Read the full story here: http://buswk.co/mpesa
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
GOP Iraq Hypocrisy Hits Overdrive by Michael Tomasky June 16, 2014 05:45 AM EDT Obama is ‘taking a nap’ as ISIS takes over? It was Boehner’s party that gave us this war, and it was Bush who negotiated the ‘peace.' Is there anything they won't play politics with?
Hour Four
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith
Monday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith
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