JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleague: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast
 
Hour One
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block A:  Bill Whalen: @Hooverwhalen, @HooverInst,Area 45 blog, in re: California hesitates about Newsom  https://www.hoover.org/research/pod-we-trust-california-holiday-no-other
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Whalen: @Hooverwhalen, @HooverInst,Area 45 blog, in re: Planes, Trains and Trump’s Stage (and Staged) Exit, by Bill Whalen quoting Victor Davis Hanson, via Forbes; in re:  Assuming President Trump is true to his word and concedes the election once the Electoral College awards his job to Joe Biden, we can begin to ponder several questions.
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block C: Charles Burton: @cburton001, blogs at RealityChek; and senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  A struggling gold mine in Canada’s high Arctic is at the centre of  debate on whether China should be allowed to buy it.
       The Chinese state-owned giant Shandong Gold Mining had submitted a purchase offer in May for the TMAC Resources mine at Hope Bay, a site along the strategic Northwest Passage.
Quoted in the paper, [the general] said China has a stated goal of becoming a “near-Arctic power” and acquiring the mine and the port would give them access to the strategic passage and the Arctic.  He added, “If you look at what they’ve done in the South China Sea to extend their area of influence—what’s to stop them once they get squatter’s rights and get into this port, of doing the same thing up there?” 
      There have been concerns expressed about how a flotilla of Chinese ships could challenge Canada’s claim to the NW passage as being Canadian sovereign waters, a claim the U.S continues quietly to dispute. Other suggestions have expressed concerns about how such ships could also be mapping the Arctic seabed and thermal layers for potential use by submarines. A 2019 essay in for the China Brief of the U.S Jamestown Foundation said China had clear plans to send submarines into the far north.  https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/11/30/decision-on-chinese-purchase-of-arctic-mine-delayed-former-general-against-it/
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block D: David Maxwell: @DavidMaxwell161, @FDD; senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,in re: North Korea prints US dollars, and smuggles drugs, fake pharmaceuticals, weapons, humans — anything that’ll turn a profit. The US offers a large reward for information on DPRK transporting sanctioned goods..
 
Hour Two
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 2, Block A:  Salena Zito:@SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re:  The try try again surprise victor from Iowa 2nd Congressional District.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/interview-the-republican-who-won-her-seat-in-congress-by-six-votes
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 2, Block B: Salena Zito:@SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re:The try-try-again surprise victor from Iowa 2nd Congressional District https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/interview-the-republican-who-won-her-seat-in-congress-by-six-votes
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 2, Block C:  Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re:  Special prosecutor, under the aegis of the president. Criminal investigation compared to counterintelligence investigation.  Mr Durham.  
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 2, Block D: Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re: AG Barr speaks about electoral fraud:  “Not on a scale that would affect the outcome of the election.” The standard of proof is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, which is demanding. 
 
Hour Three
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 3, Block A: John Catsimatidis, @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable, @JohnCats, Red Apple Media & Cats Roundtable radio, in re:  State of the City, the State, the Union: The good news that the vaccine arrives in London and soon New York. The good news that Broadway may reopen in a year or less. 
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 3, Block B:  Chester E Finn, @HooverInst,  president emeritus, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; in re:  Remote learning isn't much learning; & what is to be done? 
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 3, Block C:   Cleo Paskal, @CleoPaskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,  and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:   China Refuses to Apologize to Australia over Official's Tweet of Doctored Image. China is deepening its spat with Australia, refusing to apologize after a government official posted an altered image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to a young Afghan boy's throat. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had asked for an apology; instead, a Chinese government representative excoriated Australia for its troops' alleged brutality in Afghanistan.  https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940155014/china-refuses-to-apologize-to-australia-over-officials-tweet-of-doctored-image
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 3, Block D:  Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  Nike, Coca-Cola, others reportedly lobbying against Uighur Chinese labor bill.  The bill, called the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, would forbid the import of a variety of materials from the Xinjiang region of China, in an effort to crack down on human rights abuses, the New York Times reported on Sunday. https://nypost.com/2020/11/30/nike-coca-cola-others-reportedly-lobbying-against-chinese-labor-bill/
 
Hour Four
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 4, Block A:  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New 
Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic,in re:
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 4, Block B:  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New 
Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic,in re:
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 4, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com; in re:  Orion delays delays delays
Wednesday 2 December 2020 / Hour 4, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com; in re: Arecibo falls down.  RIP.
 
 
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