The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 3 September 2020

Air Date: 
September 03, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleagues: Sebastian Gorka, America First radio and Fox; and Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
 
Hour One
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 1, Block A:  Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson @HooverInst , Hoover, in re:  Joe Biden breaks old patterns.  Is Joe Biden an avatar? https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/joe-biden-campaign-competing-political-imperatives/
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 1, Block B:  Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson @HooverInst, Hoover, in re:  The decline of the NBA outside of China.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/joe-biden-campaign-competing-political-imperatives/
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 1, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:  . . .   Wallops Island.   SpaceX Starship hops again.  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-successful-starship-prototype-hop/
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 1, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re: Surface of Mars: lava tubes.  The lava tubes of Mars are future Martian cities.  Black holes in orbit around each other; spiral in to each other according to Einstein’s physics.    However, 85 solar masses is considered too large for the physics, should not exist; but one has been found.   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-longest-lava-tube-in-the-solar-system/
 
Hour Two
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  David Albright, in re: Iran.  German State Intell reports that Iran is advancing its WMD program, esp nuclear, on German soil. Secret missile programs.  German is a rich target because it has so much technology.  Iran as a criminal state; no respect for the laws of another country. After repeatedly refusing to let IAEA in at all, Iran has let nuclear inspectors in to two sites: IAEA decided there were two that had evidence of secret nuclear sites, and itself is under great pressure to [produce].  Compress the core; how well do the high explosives fire at Maravan?  (Maravan is Abadei.)  At this important site, buildings were razed after Iran found that Maravan had been discovered. 
David Albright, physicist, founder and president of the nonprofit Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D.C. He directs the project work of the Institute and chairs its board of directors. He has written numerous assessments on secret nuclear weapons programs throughout the world.
●        https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-28/nuclear-inspectors-show-pressure-on-iran-works?srnd=opinion&sref=TP1pJeIF
●        https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/macron-talks-nuclear-energy-and-ways-to-control-militias-during-iraq-visit-1.1071729
●        https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/09/niger-un-security-council-president-sanctions-us-iran.html
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  Sarkis Naoum, in re: Beirut blast; Lebanon New Government and Foreign Intervention; ICC/Hezbollah Tribunal. Hezbollah’s big mistake.  Everyone knows that in Lebanon we have no independence.  Conviction in absentia  of former PM Hariri on Valentine’s Day in 2005. I think we’ve reached the end of our misery:  even sects that oppose each other, they're partners in corruption. Disco very of almost twice as much ammonium nitrate, unexploded, in the same area. 

Sarkis Naoum is senior columnist and analyst for Lebanon's An Nahar newspaper.
●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/is-turkey-moving-into-northern-lebanon-640226
●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/macron-to-hezbollah-mp-are-you-lebanese-prove-it-report-640799
●        https://www.arabnews.com/node/1728711/middle-east
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Charles Thépaut, in re: Maritime tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean; Libya.

Charles Thépaut is a French diplomat and resident Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute. An expert in Middle Eastern and North African affairs, he has worked for several European institutions in France, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Belgium, and Germany. Most recently, he served as the political advisor for foreign policy at the French Embassy in Berlin, Germany. He has also been involved with the Global Coalition Against ISIS. Charles is speaking in personal capacity.
●        https://www.ft.com/content/9ce8847f-6fe8-4208-8a1d-2d6b3425ad42
●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-macron-turkey/frances-macron-says-he-set-red-lines-with-turkey-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN25O2OO
●        https://cy.usembassy.gov/pompeo-temporarily-wa
●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/us-report-accuses-turkey-of-sending-extremists-looters-to-libya-640921
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 2, Block D:  Blaise Misztal, in re:  Arms embargo on Libya. France wanted to search a ship that a Turkish vessel was escorting; almost came to blows.   Moscow.  NATO has a grave problem of internal inconsistencies.  Italy seems to have stepped back; but as Turkey confronts the Greek-Egyptian-Israeli-Cypriot [etc.] alliance, it’s reached out to Italy, which still is afraid of massive, overwhelming immigration from sub-Saharan Africa—which Turkey has utilized to intimidate Western Europe. 
Blaise Misztal, a Fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Most recently, Misztal served as the executive director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally-mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he was director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program.
·         https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/08/1071342
·         https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-02/greece-turkey-and-oil-raise-fears-of-war-in-the-mediterranean
·         https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/lifting-the-arms-ban-on-the-republic-of-cyprus-is-good-policy-despite-the-timing/
·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/is-turkey-moving-into-northern-lebanon-640226
 
Hour Three
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 3, Block A:  Sebastian Gorka, host of a Salem Radio show, America First, and national security strategist at Fox News; in re:  Andy Cuomo’s violent threat to President Trump is a  perfect complement to Nancy Pelosi’s adventure in the salon. Cuomo is specifically and directly responsible for literally thousands of deaths of elders in nursing homes, as he demanded/mandated that nursing homes accept all elders who needed housing if they had the Wuhan flu. Her mask always matches the scarf she’s wearing  Height of cynicism at the hair salon with no mask, et al.  DeBlasio took 283 addicted men and put them in two Upper West Side of Manhattan hotels. Need police escort to walk down the street.  The trouble with Blue cities is that no one is held accountable.  / White protestor screaming obscenities at Black officers at White House.   Mayor of Seattle: “I have to leave my apartment because the protestors are too [vile], but I won’t be helping the rest of the population.”
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 3, Block B:
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 3, Block B: Sebastian Gorka, host of a Salem Radio show, America First, and national security strategist at Fox News; in re:  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—to speak on energy.  He repeatedly has said that he’d ban fracking; now, he insists that he won’t, “no matter how many times the president lies about me.”  For his whole political life of 47 years he’s been happily dependent on union contributions.  Had to go to PA to rescue votes from an energy-producing state whose employment is heavily in fracking.  Eighty million people will receive unrequested mail-in ballots.  The peaceful transition of power may [not obtain] in 2020. Why Mrs Clinton said: “Do NOT concede the electi0n” – as the Democrats will fight it out in the courts. 
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 3, Block C:  Conrad Black, publisher political analyst, litterateur, in re: Joe Biden, who says the virus will be solved when he’s president.  His basement campaign opened up to solve the Pennsylvania problem.  Dems thought complacently till recently that they could keep him under wraps; but to move him as far as Wisconsin shows they’re starting to sweat. 1.  Trump hate, Orange Man bad.  2. The pestilence alliance: to terrorize the country with the virus.   In fact, the American performance has been good; red states have done better than the blue in this.   3. Violence blamed on Trump—he’s responsible for everything bad in America.  
Russia? Impeachment?  Zero evidence that Trump did what he was accused of—and none of it was illegal.   They trivialized the impeachment process. Nadler actually said that, “Violence in this country is a myth”! Recall Biden’s crashing acccusati0n of Trump as xenophobic for closing down planes from China. 
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  John Cochran, Hoover, Grumpy Economist blog; in re;  California wildfires.  Imagine if Zuckerberg had a huge estate that he’d mismanaged as badly as Sacramento has mismanaged public lands.  Imagine the howls.  We’re covered with thick smoke for a month every year. They claim it's global warming—in fact, forest management is wrong-headed, where underbrush is not cleared until massive fires occur  
 
Hour Four
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 4, Block A:  The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, by Tara Zahra 
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 4, Block B: The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, by Tara Zahra 
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 4, Block C: The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, by Tara Zahra 
Thursday 3 September 2020 / 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, by Tara Zahra 
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