Image: Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the about 550 million years ago until about 320 million years ago. It was formed by the accretion of several cratons. This is how the world looked long ago. Note  Hour 1, Block D,  Archie Koimtsidis, Founder and CEO (Managing Director) of Cardinal Resources Ltd, for a remarkable tale.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council under US Pres Donald Trump.
 
Hour One
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 1, Block A:  Elizabeth Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News, in re:   . . . Rosy scenario of US economy, with inflation still modest . . . Anti-bz bias in the Obama White House helped lead to Larry Summers’s swearing that the nation was in secular stagnation and would not recover from a 1.5%  . . .
Hundreds of billions of dollar in trade deficit:  if the EU is so great, why are their auto tariffs so much higher than ours?  . . .
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 1, Block B: Elizabeth Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News, in re: economics & politics
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 1, Block C: Bill McGurn, WSJ, in re;  Report is the result of Dem complaints;  a lot of lawyers, FBI agts, et al., either retired or been shifted around; the investigations has naught to do with the Russia investigation.  Peter Strzock signs up, counter intell; off to London in late July 2016, at the opening of Russiagate activities? . .  The basic unanswered question is what was the beginning of the investigation? To get a FISA warrant on a US citizen is not easy; looks as though it was all done casually. Head of House Intell says the whole thing cd be wrapped up by Friday if the FBI simply handed over the requested documents.  Why is Christopher Wray acting obstreperously? Obstruction? The FBI is accountable to us the American people via our representatives; these guys sometimes act as though they’re a law unto themselves.
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 1, Block D:  Archie Koimtsidis, Founder and CEO (Managing Director) of Cardinal Resources Ltd, in re: Just south of the Burkina Faso border in northern Ghana is a new gold mine, Namdini.  The West African craton* [the nucleus of a stable block of a continent; there are four in Africa: West Africa, Congo, Kalahari, Tanzania] from Niger down into Cote d’Ivoire – the gold was here while South American and Africa were still one; then the Atlantic opened up and the other part of this gold is in Brazil. The Bole-Bolgatanga Fault. Namdini is a splay off the original structure. The broad dimensions a re 1100 meters long and 350 meters wide; down to abt 600 meters in vertical depth. To make in an open-cast mine: 400 m.  Also, north of there is another finding, a similar geological setting; but not 350 m wide but narrower – with the gold much more concentrated in a 60-m-wide zone; a much higher metal content.  I’ve been exploring this West African setting for decades with Paul Abbott, a geologist; everyone else thought there was no gold up in the north. They thought it didn't daylight south of Burkina Faso. 
You need now to set up the pit, grind rocks, bring in water; we expect 7 million ounces “in the vault” – we’re derisking by means of analysis, and tightening up the criteria to make sure it’s a profitable enterprise.
Ghana is a great country – a new govt kicked in 18 mos ago; all govts are pro-mining as it generates revenue and jobs, but we’re getting a special push as we’re the first min in the northern sector. Fly into Accra, fly north for an hour to Tamali, then drive two hours to Bolgatanga. It's an intl road that deeds north into Burkina – all the mining and other eqpt that comes in from our port  drives N to Burkina and thence into Mali.  If I had the money today, in three years we’d be pouring gold. We’re listed in Australia and on the Toronto exchange.
* A craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, where the lithosphere consists of the Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle. SEE (amazing): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Cratons_West_Gondwan...
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  The new cold war
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: The new cold war
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: The new cold war
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: The new cold war
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 3, Block A:  Aaron Klein,  Middle East bureau chief, Breitbart; in re:  Russiagate.  Sen McCain; David Krame. Rinat Akhmetshin., Russian-born Washington lobbyist. was at the Trump Tower June 9, 2016, mtg w Donald Trump Jr.   Akhmetshin appears w Veslitskaya in the mtg that lasted for 20 min and unaccountably was focussed on the Magnitsky Act.  The mtg had been pr0mised by Russkis as “dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
Rinat Akhmetshin later testified to the House that he long had had a personal relationship with Hillary dating back to the 1990s; and said that knew people who “worked on” Clinton’s campaign.
The late Evelyn Lieberman had worked for Bill Clinton and it was she who’d transferred Lewinsky to the Pentagon to avoid further embarrassment. Her husband, Ed Lieberman, was a friend of Akhmetcshin.
Back to the 9 June meeting: Rinat first said he’d taken the train from DC to NY for the June 9 mtg – he “may have been” with a Clinton associate: Ed Lieberman. As he left the mtg he immed met with a “close Clinton associate” for dinner and a play. He tells Congress that he never discussed the meeting with the close Clinton associate.
So: he may have taken a train to NY with a Clinton associate, then met that person again after the mtg; and claims he never discussed the mtg with the associate.
Did he ever discuss the mtg w Lieberman? No? He also attended the Halifax Intl Forum the same year; he can't recall details of his meeting Sen McCain there David Kramer.  He also testifies to a long relationship with Fusion GPS and its head, Glenn Simpson.
Nov 2016, to Halifax to a security conference; Rifat. who can't recall train events, now is at a conference where McCain was first approached by ___ about the Steele dossier.  . . .
Kramer then goes to London, is briefed on the dossier; then returns to DC and gives the dossier to McCain. Rifat happens to have been at he Halifax conference. “Did you speak with J McCain?” “I may have said hi; I know him personally.”
Fusion GPS is tied to Akhmetshin; Hillary is tied to Akhmetshin; and Akhmetshin can’t recall if he greeted and spoke with Sen McCain at the security conference.
See also:  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/29/russian-lobbyist-at-trump-jr-meeting-admits-personal-relationship-with-hillary-clinton-dem-campaign-staffers/
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 3, Block B:  Aaron Klein,  Middle East bureau chief, Breitbart; in re: Rinat Akhmetshin— bagman for Glenn Simpson? for McCain? (All the data here comes straight from his testimony at the House ___ Committee.)
Rinat Akhmetshin and Natalia Veslnitskaya just happened to meet together at teat odd, unproductive meeting that later was leaked to great effect.  Also, Rinat claimed that he’d met Natalia Veselnitskaya on the train, the Acela, that morning and was invited by Veselnitskaya to attend the Trump mtg on the same day. [Beyond any belief.] All these events relate to the dossier, which was paid for by Mrs Clinton.
Was the 9 June 2016 mtg in Trump Tower a dirty trick?
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 3, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBack.com, in re:   How to keep the ISS aloft?  NASA gets involved. 
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 3, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBack.com, in re:   Roscomos; Stratolaunch* [“The Scaled Composites Stratolaunch is an aircraft being built for Stratolaunch Systems by Scaled Composites to carry air launch to orbit rockets.“]–amazingly, glues together six Boeing 747 engines. SpaceX.
*Stratolaunch is the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan and is the largest all-composite plane ever built. Utilizing six Boeing 747 engines for a payload capacity of over 500,000 lbs. and an operational range of approximately 2,000 nautical miles, Stratolaunch is capable of delivering payloads to multiple orbits and inclinations in a single mission.
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 4, Block A:  Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc-the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe, by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 4, Block B: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc-the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe, by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 4, Block C:  First to Jump: How the Band of Brothers was Aided by the Brave Paratroopers of Pathfinders Company, Jerome Preisler
Tuesday 5 June 2018/ Hour 4, Block D:  First to Jump: How the Band of Brothers was Aided by the Brave Paratroopers of Pathfinders Company, Jerome Preisler