Thursday 30 January 2014
Photo, above: St-Takla.org Image: Modern Coptic icon of Jesus Christ, by the nuns of St. Demiana Monastery, El Barary, Egypt
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents.
Hour One
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Francis Rose, Federal News Radio, in re: What Obama didn't say on the Affordable Care Act In his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama offered a robust defense of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — he just left ... Most Americans don't want Obamacare repealed Comparing Obamacare to Its Alternative
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Edward W Hayes, criminal defense attorney par excellence, in re: The unusual New York Rep. Michael Grimm [who] threatens reporter after being asked about fundraising allegations. Threat by Staten Island Lawmaker Adds to a Reputation as Hot-Tempered Politicians and journalists who have tangled with Representative Michael G. Grimm of Staten Island have maintained for years that he is short-tempered.
A Signal That New York May Settle Suit Over Stop-and-Frisk A legal filing by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Law Department on Thursday suggested a path to a resolution had been agreed upon by the city and plaintiffs who argued that the police violated minorities’ rights.
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: Our Founding Fathers Must Have Been Paranoid Too, Like Tom Perkins
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Governing by Pen and Phone
Hour Two
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block A: Andrew J. Tabler, Washington Institute, in re: Syria. Geneva II.
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block B: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Egypt. Iran. SodaStream.
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Palestinians.
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, former national security advisor, Israel, in re: Threat matrix to Israel; Iran's nuclear development; complexities and subtleties.
Hour Three
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, and Ephraim Stein, high school student, in re: Iran. President Obama's commitment to solving Middle East problems. SodaStream: Israeli-owned manufacturing company in the West Bank, where Palestinian employees claim that their wages are about three times what they'd earn in a Palestinian-owned form; that there's no distinction by management between Palestinian and Israeli workers. Oxfam is on a tear to discredit SodaStream because of it's founder's "principles." Odd.
"Back in his office, Birnbaum denied that SodaStream’s West Bank location brings his company economic benefits that it could not just as easily get in industrial areas available to it within sovereign Israel. A number of these industrial areas, including the Negev site where SodaStream’s new plant will be completed soon, receive the same tax breaks as the Mishor Adumim industrial park. And while the company’s 2012 annual report suggested that reducing operations at Mishor Adumim could have a negative impact on the company, Birnbaum said that SodaStream 'could move without any economic hardship.' ”
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block B: Ephraim Asculai, former senior officer, Israel Atomic Energy Commission, in re: Implementation of the interim deal, enrichment, nuclear energy.
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: Jade Rabbit freezing on the Moon? Multiple U.S. science agencies have been accused of fudging data to fake the existence of global warming. The “adjustment” schemes in the official U.S. dataset are so drastic, according to Goddard’s analysis, that they managed to “turn a 90 year cooling trend into a warming trend,” he said, suggesting that there may be a “software bug” at work. “Bottom line is that the [NOAA National Climatic Data Center] U.S. temperature record is completely broken, and meaningless,” Goddard concluded. “Adjustments that used to go flat after 1990 now go up exponentially. Adjustments which are documented as positive are implemented as negative.”
The respected climatologist and NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer actually showed evidence of what Goddard described as early as April of 2012, saying that “virtually all of the USHCN warming since 1973 appears to be the result of adjustments NOAA has made to the data.” Commenting on the latest findings, Dr. Spencer said that his own examination of the data and corrections to account for urban heat island (UHI) effects “support Steve’s contention that there’s something funny going on in the USHCN data.” He also called the NOAA methodology for adjusting the data “opaque” and said he believes it is prone to serious errors.
Many of these data coming from NASA and NOAA have been seriously compromised, with past temperatures adjusted downward without any clear justification in order to make it appear as if the climate has warmed in recent decades.
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Michael Ledeen, FDD, in re: There are none so blind as those who will not see, and hardly anyone wants to see Iran for what it is: an evil regime bound and determined to dominate and destroy us, our friends and our allies. The evidence is luminously clear, but most all of our attention has focused, as usual, on the nuclear issue. Did the Iranians promise to stop enriching uranium or “dismantle” some of the components of their nuclear program? How many Western sanctions are being eased or lifted in exchange? And on and on . . .
Hour Four
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism...) by Samuel Tadros Who burned the great library at Alexandria? That deed helped form the present identity of Egyptians. Enormous swaths of history. (1 of 4)
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism...) by Samuel Tadros (2 of 4)
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism...) by Samuel Tadros (3 of 4)
Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism...) by Samuel Tadros (4 of 4)
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Music
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Music
Hour 1: Battle LA. Batman: Arkham City.
Hour 2: Babylon AD.
Hour 3: iRobot. Michael Clayton.
Hour 4: Rome.