Photo, above - Gu Kailai witch trial: Chinese people traditionally observe Hungry Ghost Day during the seventh lunar month, when the gates of Hell open and spirits are free to roam the Earth.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Friday 905P Eastern Time: . Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: Romney picks his VP - how?

Friday 920P Eastern Time:  . Ann Marlowe, World Affairs, in re:  IED violence in American movies - why and what does it mean?

Friday 935P Eastern Time: . Stephanie Sterling, Shell Oil Alberta, in re:  the oil sands of Alberta, the jobs and the growth

Friday 950P Eastern Time:  . Adam Nossiter, NYT, in re:  the rising militias to resist the Islamists of Timbuktu in Mali; the gathering of camps at Mopti,

Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942, American retributive justice in action.

Friday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  . Michael Vlahos, The Globalist, in re:  American retribuitive justice - what does it man for Aurora, for the war on terror? American exceptionalism of the last two centuries as portrayed in presidential campaigns.

Friday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  . continued, in re:  Pearl Harbor; Coral Sea; the Bin Laden disappointment; the numbness of the American population,

Friday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):   I Sleep in Hitler's Room: An American Jew Visits Germany by Tuvia Tenenbom, Nicholas Frankovich and Isi Tenenbom; 1 of 2

Friday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):   I Sleep in Hitler's Room: An American Jew Visits Germany by Tuvia Tenenbom, Nicholas Frankovich and Isi Tenenbom; 2 of 2

 

Friday 1105P (805P Pacific Time):  Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky; 1 of 4

Friday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky; 2 of 4

Friday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky; 3 of 4

Friday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky; 4 of 4

Friday/Sat 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  . Gordon Chang, Forbes, in re:  Chinese economic collapse - export-import numbers for July; also, the witch trial of Gu Kailai,

Friday/Sat  1220A (920 Pacific Time):  Francesco Guerrera, Money & Investing Editor, WSJ,  in re: flash crash of Knight Capital, and what is to be done?

Friday/Sat  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  Stephanie Sterling, Shell Oil, Alberta, in re:  the oil sands of Alberta, the jobs and the growth,

Friday/Sat  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt. Kirk Johnson, NYT, in re:  Barrow, Alaska, gets ready for an oil boom.

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​Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General, TARP, TALF, HEMP.

Music (using East Coast broadcast times)

9-hour:  I Am Legend.  10-hour:  The Pacific.  11-hour:  Rome.   midnight hour:  Atonement.