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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes
 
Hour One
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD,  and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD, in re:  Taliban claim they overran district center in Kandahar   http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/11/taliban-claims-it-overran-district-center-in-kandahar.php
Islamic State suicide bomber kills dozens at Kabul mosque   http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/11/islamic-state-suicide-bomber-kills-dozens-at-kabul-mosque.php
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD,  and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD (2 of 2) 
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast & Forbes.com, in re:  China's currency is choking its manufacturing sector--and the situation is going to get even worse
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2016/11/20/china-wont-dominate-global-trade-even-if-trump-kills-tpp/#2fa3d58bde41
Xi trying to get out front:  China Flips Roles with U.S. in Trump Era with Rebukes on Policy
China is moving swiftly after Donald Trump's U.S. election win to claim the mantle of the ...
China manoeuvres to fill US free-trade role ; China's Xi calls for 'smooth transition' in relationship with U.S.
Japan PM Abe: way to peace treaty with Russia coming into sight
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a meeting of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Business Advisory Council in Lima, ...
With Trump coming to power, Japan could pivot away from U.S. ... (1 of 2)
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast & Forbes.com, and Bob Collins, 37-year veteran adviser to the Department of Defense and author of the just-released Pyongyang Republic: North Korea's Capital of Human Rights Denial, in re: South Korea:  Prosecutors link South Korean president to corruption scandal
TOKYO — South Korean President Park Geun-hye suffered a heavy blow Sunday, when prosecutors indicted a friend of hers on charges ...
South Korean President Aided Extortion Scheme: Prosecutors
South Korea's Park 'involved' in scandal: prosecutors
South Korea: President Park to be investigated as three others indicted
Is South Korean President considering martial law?
Park Geun-hye Was Accomplice in Extortion, South Korean ...
What will President Trump do about North Korea?
It is unusual, but the North Korean media seems lost for words. The mouthpieces of the Supreme Leader have so far had little to say about the ... ; Donald Trump Doesn't Seem to Have a North Korea Plan. That's ...  ; North Korea says could renew ties with US under Trump if troops go . . . ; North Korea slams South's deal with 'sworn enemy' Japan  ;  North Korea makes first mention of US election result    (2 of 2)
 
Hour Two
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:   David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent; John Fund, NRO, in re: Trump’s meeting with thirty TV and media executives at Trump Tower, where his first statement was, “OK, who voted for me?”  (Evidently, the suits didn't laugh.)
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent; John Fund, NRO, in re: DeBlasio & Cuomo running for president in 2020.
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 2, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Iran. Palestine. Syria. Hezbollah.  Indian troops witht eh Mesopotamian Front to liberate Haifa in 1018; Pres Rivlin visited a monument to them when he recently was in India.  (1 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 3, Block A: Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re:  Heirs of Unconditional-Surrender Grant Look to Take Command @JedBabbin, @AmSpec There is reason to believe — not just hope — that the new Trump administration will be able to deal with these crises when they happen.
One principal reason is Vice President-elect Mike Pence. I knew him well when he was in the House and I was editor of Human Events. Pence is a calm, competent conservative who has a great deal of experience in foreign affairs as a result of his decade-long experience on the House Foreign Relations Committee. Unlike Joe Biden who, in spending three decades on the Senate Foreign Affairs committee, managed to be wrong on virtually everything, Pence has learned much and takes a common sense approach to these matters.
Another reason to believe that such crises can be dealt with effectively is Trump’s choice of Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as his National Security Advisor. I don’t know Flynn, but I’ve read his book, The Field of Fight, co-authored by Michael Ledeen.
Flynn is a real warrior and an old intelligence hand, having led the Defense Intelligence Agency. Remember, please, that the DIA has proven a more reliable intelligence source than the CIA. Just as importantly, Flynn has a realistic view of the Islamic terrorist threat. In chapter 4 of The Field of Fight, Flynn lists the top two ways to win the war. First, to destroy the jihadi armies while killing or capturing their leaders. Second, “Discrediting their ideology, which will be greatly helped by our military victories, but which requires a serious program all its own (emphasis added).   . . .  https://spectator.org/back-to-reality/
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 3, Block B: Paul R Gregory, Hoover, in re:  Russia Is a Criminal or Bystander? @PaulR_Gregory, @HooverInst.
Russia’s hasty withdrawal from the ICC is explained by the fact that Russia’s carefully constructed Ukrainian narrative would not survive the ICC’s promised “detailed factual and legal analysis” that was to follow its preliminary findings.
The Russian narrative depicts Russia as a “bystander” to the events in Ukraine, looking askance as neo-Nazi extremists take over Kiev and threaten frightened Crimeans and East Ukrainians with genocide. The Russian narrative praises the pro-Russian people of Crimea for organizing their own annexation and the endangered East Ukrainians as the people’s republics organized armed volunteers to fight off the extremist rapists and crucifiers sent by the illegal Kiev junta. Russia, of course, could not prevent patriotic Russian fighters from volunteering for duty on the Ukrainian field of battle, some during their vacation leaves. Russian soldiers killed or captured in Ukraine had, after all, signed papers separating themselves from the Russian army. As an innocent bystander, Russia has earned a place as a peacemaker in the Minsk negotiations, but claims it has limited influence over the separatist forces. The Russian narrative claims that innocent-bystander Russia wants a prosperous and peaceful Ukraine on its borders but with the peoples’ republics having a veto over Ukraine’s foreign policy. The narrative does not state that such an arrangement would spell the end of an independent Ukraine. http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2016/11/20/international...
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:    Josh Rogin, Washington Post, in re: Trump DoD: Civilians or Uniforms? @JoshRogin, WashingtonPost.com
“…This weekend saw a flurry of speculation that retired Marine Gen. James Mattis has emerged as President-elect Donald Trump’s leading pick for secretary of defense. But inside the Trump transition, there’s still a big push for former senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.).
Talent, who met with Trump last week, is favored by those inside the Trump camp who believe a civilian should lead the Pentagon, not a former military officer. Talent’s supporters include incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, who also has supported consideration of former national security adviser Stephen Hadley, two sources involved in the transition process said. Although Hadley’s chances are deemed slim, Talent is considered to be the top contender among candidates for defense secretary who are not former generals.
Talent may also find support from an unlikely source: incoming national security adviser Mike Flynn, a retired three star general who last headed the Defense Intelligence Agency. Sources said Flynn, who is heavily involved in the national security personnel transition discussions, doesn’t want any military officer who outranked him to be part of the Trump Cabinet….” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/11/21/talent-still-in-the-mix-for-defense-secretary/?utm_term=.14d231674b52 ; https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/11/18/will-trump-really-purge-obamas-generals/?utm_term=.4e585f63bd0a
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:   Harry Siegel, Daily Beast and New York Daily News, in re:  DeBlasio Running for President 2020. @HarrySiegel, @NYDailyNews, @TheDailyBeast.
Mayor de Blasio finally has the role on the national stage he’s been chasing ever since he was elected. Having failed to place himself atop the progressive wave he hoped would keep rising, now he’s poised to lead the resistance to the right-wing tide that rose instead.
As bad as Trump could be for New York City, he’s a gift for a mayor pivoting to his own reelection campaign next year. Instead of a conversation about de Blasio’s New York, where the mayor’s approval rating has been south of 50% since his first months in office, he can lead one about Trump’s New York — which New Yorkers overwhelmingly rejected on Nov. 8.
Which is why de Blasio’s campaign sent out an email about his meeting with Trump at Trump Tower last week — the first time this President-elect met with a Democratic elected official. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-live-trump-n-y-article-1...
Hour Four
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:   You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett   (1 of 4)  The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters.  Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet is one of the most beloved books of the twentieth century. It has sold millions of copies and inspired generations with its galvanizing wisdom on how to lead an artistic life. In You Must Change Your Life, debut author Rachel Corbett tells the remarkable, long-buried story of where Rilke’s ideas originated.
In 1902, Rilke, broke and suffering from writer’s block, accepted a commission to go to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rodin in his sixties, notoriously carnal, revered; Rilke in his twenties, delicate, unknown. Nonetheless, they fell into an instantaneous friendship and would work closely together as master and disciple for the next few years, as Rodin showed Rilke how to become the writer he wished to be.
With verve and great insight, Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. She captures the dawn of modernism with appearances by such charismatic figures as Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Isadora Duncan, George Bernard Shaw, and Jean Cocteau, as well as the rise of the concept of “empathy” amid the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Georg Simmel. Corbett also introduces the women in these men’s lives, many of them esteemed writers and artists in their own right: Rodin’s muse Camille Claudel, Rilke’s wife and fellow artist Clara Westhoff, and the remarkable Lou Andreas-Salome, who was Nietzsche’s lover and Rilke’s lifelong friend.
You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin’s singular friendship, heartbreaking rift, and moving reconciliation, and it is a testament to the ways their work continues to reverberate to this day.  16 illustrations   https://www.amazon.com/You-Must-Change-Your-Life/dp/0393245055
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett   (2 of 4) 
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 4, Block C:  You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett   (3 of 4) 
Monday 21 November 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:   You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett   (4 of 4)