Photo: Surveillance cameras recording your every breath. Instanty uploaded into the cloud, saved for your lifetime, aggregated by private and pubic institutions and sometimes sold to . . .  who knows whom?
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, the Great Voice of the Great Lakes
 
Hour One
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Syria and other places.
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  Boko Haram, et al.
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block C: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re:  Xi Jinping as eternal despot; the Chinese economy in light of domestic political manoeuverings.
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block D:  Bruce Bechtol, San Angelo State, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re:  North Korea’s supply of weaponry to Syria and elsewhere.  
 
Hour Two
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block A:  John Fund, NRO, and David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re: Pres Trump’s hard-sounding positions on steel and aluminum (esp vis-à-vis Canada) constitute a bargaining position for other goods. 
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block B:  David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re:  Chastising Dianne Feinstein for being insufficiently progressive: is this a oner or a trend in the Democratic Party?  Brazil in California: the rich are doing fabulously, the poor are subsidized and cordoned off, and the middle class is fleeing.  . . . The Party is veering toward becoming a monochromatic group that’ll have trouble getting enough candidates elected. 
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Malcolm in DC with Pres Trump and PM Netanyahu today.  Discussions on Iran, and its efforts to build bases in Syria close to the Israeli border in order to attack both Israel and Jordan.  Iranian missiles w 1,200 km range and stronger guidance systems. . . .  At least ten countries are planning to move or considering moving their embassy to Jerusalem.  North Korea’s supply of weaponry to Syria and elsewhere. Increasing evidence of North Korea’s involvement. DPRK’s embassy selling arms to Mahgreb and across Africa. Sinai: ISIS, Hamas, gun-running.  Egyptian armed forces: 43,000 in Sinai w 800 vehicles. Juniper Cobra: biennial troop “interoperationality” exercises, with 2,500 European troops training with Israeli troops.
Monday   5 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block D: Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  a 2,500-year-old seal of the governor of Jerusalem.
 
Hour Three
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block A:  David Shedd, Heritage; former director, DIA; in re:
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block B: Harry Siegel, New York Daily News and The Daily Beast, in re: Surveillance cameras in cities.
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block C:  Josh Rogin, WaPo, in re: State Dept.
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block D:  Wen Fa, Pacific Legal Foundation, in re: Supreme Court on wearing political or campaign-favoring garb. Minnesota’s draconian law thereon: “a First Amendment-free zone” at the polls.  Other states where this occurs, incl students’ wearing MIT T-shirts (construed as favoring Mitt Romney).
 
Hour Four
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block A: In Full Flight, John Heminway.   Anent Dr Ann Spoerry, in Africa and formerly in Europe.
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block B: In Full Flight, John Heminway.   Anent Dr Ann Spoerry, in Africa and formerly in Europe.
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block C: The Marquis, Laura Auricchio.    The Marquis de Lafayette.
Monday 5 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block D: The Marquis, Laura Auricchio.    The Marquis de Lafayette.
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