The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 20 March 2019

Air Date: 
March 20, 2019

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, and David Livingston, The Space Show
 
Hour One
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block A: Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, in re: Japan has island chains that go 2,00 miles; only when you get to Hainan can you sail out to the high seas, so China wants to claim a large number of islands from Japan. Japan as been deploying extremely sophisticated systems:  called frigates, but absent helos can be aircraft carriers, much more advanced than anything China has; and also has good subs. In the event of fighting, Japan could sink the Chinese craft in an afternoon.
    Note that Taiwan is continuous with Japanese territory.   There are accommodationists in Japan who want to kowtow to China. They may win an upcoming election.
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block B:  Brandon Weichert, of the Weichert Report and a national security policy analyst specializing in emerging technology, in re: Xi Jinping mandated civilian-military fusion  Big tech, biotech, cloning, aviation companies Western pharma leaders are on Chinese boards– all are being vacuumed in by China.  Google cancelled its work with the US Department of Defense, and took its marbles to China. The US president, 100 Senators, 435 Congressmen: all do zero to protect American people – and will never do anything, because they literally don't understand what’s going on.   Corporate tech people come from crazy campuses, fundamentally don’t like the US.  We stand a chance only if intell and DoD leaders go to Congress weekly to hammer in the information that China is not like other countries. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/google-denies-working-chinese-military-after-trump-criticism-n984116
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block C: Nuri Turkel, Uyghur; in re:  Chinese explain their “re-education camps” as counterterror; although they demolish  and flatten neighborhoods to obliterate Uyghur culture. Are heading to fenced territories where everyone need to enter or leave by iris scan. Forcing women to cut their dresses because it looks conservative.  Chinese govt narrative changes often; goal is to obliterate Uyghur culture, ethnic identity and religion.  All of Eastern Turkestan is become one big concentration camp.  The world hasn't seen this level of mass detention since the 1930s.  The difference is that the killing today is slow-motion. This is currently the world’s greatest crime against humanity. The intl community is mildly “expressing concern.” 
            The few escapees say that they were forced to take unknown pills; some are subjected to sexual violence. Many forced to change religion.  So far, the Chinese govt has not felt any cost. Unless the intl community, incl corporate America, stands up, this will continue. Congress has two pending bipartisan bills.
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 1, Block D: Bill Harwood, CBS, in re: The asteroid Bennu, thought to be a rubble-pile, and the Osiris Rex spacecraft orbiting it since last fall. NASA sees small particles streaming away in at least eleven separate events – from the size of M&Ms to laptop-size – and while some race out into the [aether], others fall back to Bennu.  All wholly unexpected by Earthbound scientists.  . . .
 
Hour Two
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block A:  Bruce Bechtol, professor at Angelo State University and author of North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability, in re: https://www.gardner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/gardner-markey-send-letter-urging-robust-enforcement-of-current-sanctions-on-north-korea
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block B:  Rick Fisher, senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, in re:
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3002420/angela-merkel-resists-us-pressure-ban-huawei-germany-launches-5g
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-administration-approves-sale-of-f-16s-to-taiwan/
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block C:  Mariana Yarovskaya, author, Women of the Gulag; in re: Women of the Gulag is a 2018 US short documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. and based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory. Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee, 2018 Academy Award. 
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 2, Block D:  Mariana Yarovskaya, author, Women of the Gulag; in re: Women of the Gulag is a 2018 US short documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. and based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory. Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee, 2018 Academy Award.
 
Hour Three
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block A:  Salena Zito, New York Post (inter al.), in re: Beto O’Rourke.
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block B:  Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, in re: The Brazilian tragedy where 30 workers were killed —crushed to a pulp—by a failed support gantry at the Al Cantera Spaceport. The new govt now signals that it's open for business.
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block C:  John Yoo, Hoover Institution; University of California, Berkeley; and previously served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration; in re:  The Fourth Amendment and digital information. The tech is changing rapidly and the law struggles to keep up.  Historically, if we handed over data to a corporation , we lost our right to it. However, the smartphone is considered by the Supreme Court as so important, like a personal diary, that the govt needs a warrant even to track the phone, let alone to read inside.  . . .  1967 Katz case.  . . . Rehnquist Court.
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 3, Block D:  John Yoo, Hoover Institution; University of California, Berkeley; and previously served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration; in re:  Heat-seeking device – first of the new-technologies cases.
 
Hour Four
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block A: Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith (1 of 4)
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block B: Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith (2 of 4)
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block C: Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith (3 of 4)
Wednesday 20 March 2019 / Hour 4, Block D:  Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith (4 of 4)
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