Photo, above: Battle of Galicia 1915

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio

Hour One

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: John B. Taylor, Hoover Institution, & via Economics One, in re: New Legislation Requires Fed to Adopt Policy Rule (1 of 2)

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: John B. Taylor, Hoover Institution, & via Economics One, in re: New Legislation Requires Fed to Adopt Policy Rule (2 of 2)

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Scholar, in re: Veronique de Rugy Testifies on Negative Economic Implications of the Export-Import Bank.   In a hearing before the House Committee on Financial Services, she lays out the negative economic implications of the Export-Import Bank, and debunks key justifications for continuing to fund the Bank.

These justifications include:  1. Its critical role in promoting US exports   2. Its role in US job creation   3. Its benefits to taxpayers

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Stephen H. Haber, Stanford University and a senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution; in re: The Myth Of the Wicked Patent Troll (WSJ)

Hour Two

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton prof Emeritus;  author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin (1 of4); in re: Moscow consents to Tefft’s appointment as new US ambassador to Russia. Poroshenko m akes trip to Slavyansk. Talks on Ukraine-EU association deal to kick off in Moscow July 11.

It's said that that Obama has ordered Pososhenko to press the offensive and ignore Berlin and Moscow.   "...a German VIP said that Obama is only interested in "instant gratification proof of his manhood" even if the entire Eurasia goes up in flames for a long time to come as a result of this..."

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 2, Block B: Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton prof Emeritus (2 of 4); in re: Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, have called for convening the Contact Group for Ukraine as soon as possible. During a telephone talk on Friday, the ministers continued discussions on the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. Lavrov and Steinmeier agreed that the Contact Group for Ukraine should meet as soon as possible in order to start talks on the settlement of the conflict.

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton prof Emeritus (3 of 4); in re:  Resistance is consolidating. Kramatorsk is under continual shelling. The refugee columns are everywhere, and so is the news from Moscow of relief supplies, relief evacuations by air from Crimea, of hospitals filling with Ukranians...

A large number of pro-Russian separatists fled their stronghold of Slovyansk on July 5, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said, Al Jazeera reported. According to a statement on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's website, the head of the armed forces general staff said the separatists came under mortar fire as they fled. A rebel commander told AP that the separatists had relocated to Kramatorsk.   Self defence forces of Ukraine’s Slavyansk left the city last night, Novosti Donbassa (News of Donbass) reports on Saturday.

“A big fighting was in the city at night,” the newspaper writes. Now the self defence forces “have gone by vehicles towards Kramatorsk and Artemovsk.” At the checkpoints around the city remain some defenders, who come from Slavyansk.  ". . .  fighting was in the city at night,” the newspaper writes. Now the self defence forces “have gone by vehicles towards Kramatorsk and Artemovsk.” At the checkpoints around the city remain some defenders, who come from Slavyansk.

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 2, Block D:

Hour Three

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 3, Block A:   Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review & Pirates fan, in re: Department store magnate John Sattler opened the doors of the majestic Sattler Theater as the world entered the “war to end war” that began 100 years ago in July, one month after the June 28 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.  The store's façade at 516 Broadway St. could stop passersby in their tracks with its beauty: an ornate Beaux-Arts architecture with friezes and whimsical brackets beneath eaves. . . .

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Current enormous rocejt barrage by Hamas, forcing Israel into the uncomfortable position of having to respond in basic self-protection. Dread of having to launch a ground attack.

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 3, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: After sitting in Gorky Park since 1995, the prototype of Russia’s space shuttle, Buran, was moved this past weekend to Moscow’s official outdoor exhibition center.Back in 2003, when I was in Moscow interviewing people for Leaving Earth, my apartment was within walking distance of Gorky Park. I went over there to take a look. You could get to within a few feet of the prototype, which was sitting with no display signs or security other than a simple fence. It looked quite dilapidated (I would post the photographs I took but this was the last time I used my film camera, and they are all slides.)The article above has some nice details describing the history of Buran, and why it only flew once. Definitely worth reading.JULY 8, 2014 AT 9:09 AM As part of a major upgrade of its Soyuz rocket family, Russia is also ending its partnership with Ukraine in building those rockets.The older Soyuz rockets rely on a Ukrainian control system — a relic of the rocket family’s Soviet heritage that in the aftermath of Russia seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March looks like a threat to Russia’s space program. The rockets are based on the same core design that launched Sputnik and Yury Gagarin into space at the dawn of the space age. “The Soyuz-U and Soyuz-FG control systems are analog [systems] made in Ukraine,” Alexander Kirilin, CEO of the Progress Rocket and Space Center in the Volga city of Samara told Interfax on Monday.However, the Soyuz 2 rockets use a Russian-made digital control system. Aside from further moving Russia’s space industry away from its reliance on Ukrainian components, the digital control system allows the rockets to handle a wider variety of payloads — making the tried-and-tested Russian rocket more versatile than ever before. It is Russia’s plan to complete the transition to the new, wholly Russian . . .

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Chuck Blahous, Hoover, in re: economics of ACA.

Hour Four

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 4, Block A: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro (5 of 8)

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro (6 of 8)

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro (7 of 8)

Tuesday  8 July 2014 / Hour 4, Block D: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro (8 of 8)