The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 25 April 2019

Air Date: 
April 25, 2019

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Sebastian Gorka, Fox & Salem.
 
Hour One
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block A:  Andrew C McCarthy, Fox News, in re: Puzzling statements by Adam Schiff; Mueller report; counterintell or criminal investigation?  Makes a big difference.
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block B:  Andrew C McCarthy, Fox News, in re:
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block C:  Chris Riegel, Scala.com, in re:  Unicorns; tech; economics. 
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 1, Block D:  Duane Nelson, EnviroLeach Technologies CEO; enviroleach.com; in re: . . . The company has developed a unique, cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to cyanide for the hydro metallurgical extraction of precious metals for the mining and electronic waste sectors.   We electroplate the gold out of that (instead of cyanide); when we’re done, we have an almost-zero environmental formula.  Remaining tailings: we repurpose into building materials.”
 
Hour Two
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block A:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Defining Ideas; in re:  16USC section 1612 (?): Mueller report; why did they find obstruction with these fact ?  ’Twas a bad report because  . . .  Pretty hard to obstruct justice in public . . 
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block B:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Defining Ideas; in re:  Inconsistencies anent the Mueller report.  Collusion? Not.  Magnitsky laws. 
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block C:  Mary Anastasia O‘Grady, WSJ editorial board & The Americas column, in re:  The current tragedy of Venezuela. In the Twentieth Century, decades of inculcation of “socialism is good,” which much contributed to the current disaster.
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 2, Block D: Mary Anastasia O‘Grady, WSJ editorial board & The Americas column, in re:  In Brazil, avoiding the pitfalls of Venezuela:  heavy pushback from unions, who see that their iron rice bowl is sliding away. Getting the fiscal house in order.  Pensions are too fat for the country’s ability to pay.
 
Hour Three
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block A:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: Space . . .  Long March 5 (China), launched in July 2017, failed perhaps because engines underperformed (major design failure), nontransparent.    Falcon heavy. Orbital ATK fraud with Taurus rocket. A subcontractor  had been faking data for a component. It’ll forfeit $34 mil to NASA; it destroyed Orbital ATK!
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block B:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: . .  . Hayabusa; et al. 
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block C:  Adam Schuster, Director of Budget and Tax Research, Illinois Policy Institute, in re: Illinois’s five major retirement systems, plus 663 pension systems.  Hopelessly in arrears.  Lack of recognition or action in Springfield. Has $134 billion in unfunded pension obligations. Dire.
Generated esp by Gov Jim Edgar.   Also 3% annually compounded COLA addition – guaranteed retirement rate. Now, over 25% of revenue sent to state goes to pensions.  . . .  Solution will require a state constitutional amendment.  
There but for  . . .  https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-absent-reform-retirement-benefits-...
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 3, Block D:  Cliff May, president of FDD, in re: Afghanistan. US leaving?  Qatar negotiations: Taliban refused to sit down with Khalilzad (“Special representative for Afgh reconciliation”!)  on the grounds that there was someone from the Afgh govt in  the room. We're fighting not a war in Afgh but a battle against a specific [enemy].  Gen McMaster: We’ve been waging 17 one-year campaigns; fundamentally flawed assumptions about the nature of the conflict which US generals were managing, not trying to win.  . . . The [jihad] began not in 1979 with Ayatollah Khomeini, nor recently with Khamenei or al Qaeda or ISIS; it began in the Seventh Century when Islam swept out of the Arabian Peninsula and covered Central Asia, the Arab world, and unto Europe. Only in the 1920s, when the Ottoman empire collapsed, was it substantially diminished. 
 
Hour Four
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block A:  Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre. In drafting spies, in London, MI5 set up the Twenty Committee -- XX, as in double-cross!
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block B: Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block C:  Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre
Thursday 25 April 2019/ Hour 4, Block D:  Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre
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