Thursday 26 September 2019
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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
Hour One
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 1, Block A: Andrew C McCarthy, NRO, & former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Thaddeus McCotter, WJR and recovering Congressman; in re: Chairman Schiff purported to summarize the conversation between Pres Trump and Pres Zelensky – an otherworldly revision that he was later obliged to call a parody. Biden essentially [blackmailed] Ukrainians into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Biden family deeds.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/double-standards-on-ukraine/
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 1, Block B: Andrew C McCarthy, NRO, & former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Thaddeus McCotter, WJR and recovering Congressman; in re: Allegation, hearsay, gossip, by an unnamed member of the CIA about a conversation that we’ve now read of between Pres Trump and Pres Zelensky of Ukraine. In any court of law, evidence – facts, actual transcript – would be what mattered, not paraphrasing. The dossier 2.0. When you don't have the evidence, you pound the law; when you don't have the law, you pound the table. The whistleblower imputes most of what he said to the president’s staff, not intell members. Caveat the White House staff. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/double-standards-on-ukraine/
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 1, Block C: Bill Whalen, Hoover & Area 45 blog; in re: Impeachment Blues. California poll for Warren. Warren’s Challenge. Watch Bernie, Buttigieg, Harris. Now That She’s Ahead in Iowa: Staying Off the Dean’s List The one thing that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, now the frontrunner in Iowa, doesn’t want to be remembered as: the Howard Dean of 2019 – the Democrat who came on strong in the third and fourth quarters of the year leading up to the election, only to tank when voters actually went to the polls. / Forbes (Sun, Sept 22, 2019) https://www.forbes.com/search/?q=whalen#67d8899b279f
Why Not a Presidential Debate in California? Real Clear Politics (Fri, Sept 20, 2019)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/09/22/warrens-challenge-now...
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 1, Block D: Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re: The building despair of Californians in face of mass homelessness. How to conduct life? Boulders – large rocks – being used in the Bay Area: homeowners resorting to placing boulders on sidewalks to prevent homeless encampments from being built. In Oakland, 22 service camps for the homeless (which has increased enormously in the last few years); “the homeless-industrial complex.” Full-scale homeless camps, including outhouses, lean-to’s, vermin, right behind the backyards of houses where the homeowner is paying large taxes. Like something out of a sci-fi or Mad Max movie. Insurance cancelled because of tent fires – five to seven a day in LA County.
SF residents buy boulders, place them on sidewalk to thwart homeless tents https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/SF-residents-buy-boulders-place-the...
The latest twist in LA's homeless crisis: "Your Insurance Is Canceled Because of Homeless Tent Fires" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/LA-Homeless-Encampment-Fire...
Sacramento McDonald's takes unusual measure to to reduce loitering - https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/sacramento-mcdonalds-loitering L.A. City, Venice petition U.S. Supreme Court to overturn homeless lawsuit decision -- The city of Los Angeles and a Venice community group filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in support of an appeal of a ruling that prevents local governments from enforcing laws against camping on sidewalks or in other public places unless sufficient alternative shelter space is available. Los Angeles Daily News
Trump EPA challenges California for "failure" to address human health hill.cm/QYZu2Zg pic.twitter.com/kfvN29rWMR
A Los Angeles City Council meeting was punctuated by shouting and hissing as lawmakers weighed a proposal that would restrict where homeless people can sleep. Homeless activists say it amounts to criminalizing poverty. Neighborhoods groups say enforcement is needed to control filth and blight. "We must take an honest look at this catastrophe," one council member said. In the end, no formal action was taken. Curbed Los Angeles | L.A. Daily News
Oakland is learning to live with its homeless camps. With homeless numbers up 47 percent since 2017, the city now sanctions and services 22 camps — and more are on the way. S.F. Chronicle
This is really a homeless-related item...not campers/boaters/recreation seekers - Officials blamed the problem on an influx of drunken partiers from the Bay Area who have been too lazy to make the walk from the beach to the facilities. "What our deputies have seen is that when people become overly intoxicated the first thing to go is judgment," a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said. Press Democrat
Hour Two
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 2, Block A: Ilan Berman, in re: MH: I had the privilege of meeting the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister yesterday at the UN, along with Amb Elin Suleymanov. It was the sidelines, esp Rouhani with the Europeans; Iran was certainly the central issue. Proceedings of the GA meetings and what participants had to say were really telling: Iranian attacks on Saudi should have led to a more concrete coalition; instead, Euro leaders called for more discussion and embracing Rouhani. Being Iranian means never having to say you're sorry. There might have been a robust military response, but the longer we waited, the more the Euros were prepared to [jaw-jaw]. GA meetings tend to be more atmospherics; Rouhani’s speech was confrontational aggressive: proposed a regional security arrangement excluding the US with Iran at the center – “Washington is not your only option.”
Trump Adm maximum pressure program is not maximum. If Iran has to deal with Trump in the second term, it wants to have has many bargaining chips as possible.
● http://www.ilanberman.com/23283/what-changed-in-israel-and-what-hasnt
● http://www.ilanberman.com/23276/the-long-game-for-iranian-democracy
● http://www.ilanberman.com/23255/saudi-strikes-are-a-critical-test-for-trump
● http://www.ilanberman.com/23241/iran-struggling-space-program-could-be-a...
● https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/saudi-arabia-iran-france-g...
Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. He has been called one of America's "leading experts on the Middle East and Iran" by CNN.
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 2, Block B: Aykan Erdemir, in re: Lawsuit against Kuveyt Turk Bank by the four children of a man, Mr Henkin, because he was murdered because of Turkey’s financing of terrorism – financial services to Hamas. Turkey's role in rewriting Syria’s constitution; UNGA; state of Turkey’s economy.
● https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/leve...
● https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a10d1683-f5a1-40ea-8ac3-c9449b472229
● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/09/23/turkey-is-now-a-haven-for-terror...
● https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/09/turkey-executive-pres...
● https://warontherocks.com/2018/10/turkeys-walking-dead-zombie-companies-...
● http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/imf-meeting-with-turkeys-opposition-sti...
● https://www.ft.com/content/343eaf56-d850-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17
● https://apnews.com/359b711434034ac29bf8cbe18698b5cb
Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior Fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in the Middle East, Aykan has been at the forefront of the struggle against religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech in Turkey.
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 2, Block C: Col. Eran Lerman, in re: Emerging strategic partnerships and threats to Israel. Has proposed an American initiative to break the logjam of the Israeli-Palestinian situation – in context of the regional situation. Old paradigms no longer work. At the same time, aware that current Palestinianlead4rship may not measure up to the challenge – political legitimacy in question (Abbas in the thirteenth year of a four-year term), as well as corruption, opacity, et al. We need effective, compassionate conflict management. Our sponsor for this visit is a Moroccan; we’re all coming together. Morocco broke relations w Iran. Egyptians. Jordanian, Saudis. Iranian economy is in a nosedive; I think the sanctions are [the best bet to] bring the Iranian leadership to its senses. If China supported Iran here, that would be a mistake: 1. They aren't really dependent on Iranian oil; 2. If they lock Iranians into a violent course of actin, that would have very negative consequences for he Chinese economy.
· https://warontherocks.com/2019/09/the-strategic-implications-of-israels-...
· https://jiss.org.il/en/main-recommendations/
· https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa/us-slaps-new-sanctio...
· https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Arab-response-to-Jordan-Valley-move-sh...
· https://www.jns.org/think-tank-urges-national-unity-in-the-face-of-iran-...
Dr. Lerman is the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. Dr. Lerman was deputy director for foreign policy and international affairs at the National Security Council in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. He held senior posts in IDF Military Intelligence for over 20 years. He also served for eight years as director of the Israel and Middle East office of the American Jewish Committee. He teaches in the Middle East studies program at Shalem College in Jerusalem, and in post-graduate programs at Tel Aviv University and the National Defense College.
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 2, Block D: Ambassador Dennis Ross, in re: Israeli elections; Iran; new book.
· https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/16/trump-must-react-atta...
· https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/iran-entrenches-its-axis-o...
· https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Political-Affairs-A-sweet-new-ele...
· https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-election-r...
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hour Three
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Columbia University, under the direction of Pres Lee Bollinger, has invited Mahathir Mohammed, who delivered a speech saying that freedom of speech allows him to be anti-Jewish. Reminiscent of the genius Bollinger’s invitation to Ahmadinejad; then, under much national pressure, received Ahmadinejad and was extremely rude to him in the introduction. Laughingstock. Assad. Iranian troops not being paid; Brits are thinking of paying 400 mil pounds sterling. Boris Johnson says that Pres Trump should come up with a new JCPOA. IAEA. Rouhani’s suggestion for a “peace plan” for the Straits of Hormuz.
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 3, Block B: Dore Gold, in re: Israeli security update, UN week. Iran’s attack on Saudi. ISIS in Sinai. Reluctant to recommend a mutual defense treaty. The War of the North.
· https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-angrily-rejects-holocaust-gaza-comp...
· https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-un-trump-calls-on-mideast-nations-to-fu...
· https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-floats-idea-of-mutual-defe...
· https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/09/03/get-ready-for-isis-to-make-a-comeb...
· https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1047702
Ambassador Dore Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. In June 2015, Dore Gold left the Jerusalem Center, which he had led since 2000, to serve as Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During his tenure at the Foreign Ministry, until October 2016, Ambassador Gold advanced policies that strengthened Israel on a global level – from Africa and Asia to the Mideast and the Western world.
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 3, Block C: 1/2 Rohit Talwar, Impact investing fastfuture.com An intentional approach to investing designed to be of benefit of certain people or goals.
Rohit Talwar is an award-winning global futurist, entrepreneur and specialist advisor on business transformation, disruptive strategies and radical innovation. He was nominated as one of the top ten global future thinkers by the UK's Independent newspaper and regularly comments on the future and innovation for major international news networks.
Rohit focuses on helping audiences make sense of and respond to a constantly changing reality and a hyper-connected world; provides critical insights into how to respond to the forces and ideas shaping the future, deliver transformational change and create imaginative new strategies and possibilities; shows us how to identify the key factors shaping the future, assess their impact and deliver real change both in our own lives and in the organisations we lead or work for.
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 3, Block D: 2/2 Rohit Talwar on Impact investing; fastfuture.com An intentional approach to investing designed to be of benefit of certain people or goals.
Rohit Talwar is an award-winning global futurist, entrepreneur and specialist advisor on business transformation, disruptive strategies and radical innovation. He was nominated as one of the top ten global future thinkers by the UK's Independent newspaper and regularly comments on the future and innovation for major international news networks.
Rohit focuses on helping audiences make sense of and respond to a constantly changing reality and a hyper-connected world; provides critical insights into how to respond to the forces and ideas shaping the future, deliver transformational change and create imaginative new strategies and possibilities; shows us how to identify the key factors shaping the future, assess their impact and deliver real change both in our own lives and in the organisations we lead or work for.
Hour Four
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 4, Block A: The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 4, Block B: The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 4, Block C: The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks
Thursday 26 September 2019/ Hour 4, Block D: The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks
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