The John Batchelor Show

Friday 2 May 2014

Air Date: 
May 02, 2014

 

Photo, above: Chncellor Angela Merkel, President Barrack Obama, comment about Ukraine crisis in the Rose Garden Press Conference, Friday May 2, 2014.  See Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, Hour 1.

 

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College;

http://www.theglobalist.com/thank-you-mr-putin/

 

Ukraine crisis: deadly clashes in Odessa

Deadly clashes took place in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa triggered by Ukraine's offensive to recapture the eastern city of Slavyansk from pro-Russia forces

Friday  31  January 2014 / Hour 1, Block B:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College;

Obama: U.S., Berlin United on Ukraine

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel set a new marker in the West's confrontation with Russia by threatening tougher sanctions if Moscow disrupts Ukraine's presidential elections

 

"TARAS BEREZOVETS (Ukrainian political analyst): We have evidence this is from Ukrainian intelligence SZRU, who says that several Russian intelligence officers have been already captured in eastern regions of Ukraine and in Kiev itself and according to the plans, interrogations which have been made with Russian military agents, Russia has a plan to split Ukraine in three parts. Basically the plan is about they're not going to go any further in western parts of Ukraine, so called the Halychyna, it's 70 Ukrainian regions, they're planning to occupy southern and eastern regions which probably they're going to organise some sort of referendum which was held in Crimea three weeks ago in order to create some sort of independent Donetsk state in this regions. 

 

As for the central Ukraine, including Kiev, Russia has a plan to organise some sort of independent Ukraine, planning to bring former president Viktor Yanukovych again.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s3986396.htm

 

 

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Andrew Mayeda, Bloomberg.

KEYSTONE. How Obama Shocked Harper as Keystone Frustrator-in-Chief The November 2011 decision to put the Keystone XL pipeline project on hold convinced Harper that Obama was treating a long-presumed “special relationship” between Canada and the U.S., enshrined in the 1989 Free Trade Agreement, as a political football. Harper, according to many of his advisers, thinks of Obama as a kind of frustrator-in-chief. So instead of toning it down, Harper chose to make Keystone a “bilateral irritant” that Obama couldn’t ignore.  http://bloom.bg/1gWQFyP

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Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Andrew Mayeda, continued.

 

Hour Two

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block A:  Jim McTague, Barron’s.

US gains 288k jobs, most in 2 years; rate 6.3 pct.

Yahoo News ‎- 11 hours ago

From Yahoo News: WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a robust 288000 jobs in April, the most in two years, the strongest evidence ...

 

 

Jobs Growth Jumps as Economy Gains Steam

U.S. employers in April added jobs at one of the fastest paces of the recovery, rekindling hopes for an upturn strong enough to alleviate the economy's longstanding ills. 7:12 PM

            5 Takeaways on Jobs Report

            Hilsenrath: Data Won't Alter Fed Policy Settings

            Heard on the Street: Fed Tries to Pick Up Jobs-Report Slack

                        Why Jobless Rate Plunged

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Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block B:  Marshall Erwin, Hoover.

Snowden Disclosures Hurt Intelligence Agencies' Recruitmentby Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Atkins and Marshall Erwin

San Francisco Chronicle

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Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block C:  Michael Ledeen, FDD.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/170184/italys-jewish-revival

 

 

Amid Rising Anti-Semitism in Western Europe, Italian Jews Are Staging a Surprising Revival

A strong communal response to a terrorist attack in the 1980s seeded a new generation of dynamic leaders

 

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Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Alan Stern, Uwingu.com.

 

http://www.uwingu.com

 

http://www.uwingu.com/mars/

 

Name Martian Craters–and Make an Impact of Your Own!

 

Hour Three

 

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Ed Lazear, WSJ, Hoover.

 

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579498061209212566?mg=reno64-wsj

 

April always brings complaints about the pain of paying taxes—and the complaints are justified. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, over 30% of U.S. gross domestic product is taxed away to fund federal, state and local governments. Tax compliance costs are also large, estimated to be around 1% of GDP.

The hidden cost of the tax system is the biggest of all—namely, the slower economic growth that results from taxing investment, which impedes the formation of capital and hinders productivity and wage growth. An easy way to remove the impediment to growth is to move toward a consumption tax by allowing the full and immediate deductibility of capital investment.

The argument rests on two points. First, consumption taxes are better for economic growth than are income taxes. Second, allowing full expensing (immediate deductibility) of investment turns the current tax system into a consumption tax

 

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block B:  Michael Daly, Daily Beast.

  Chicago’s Teen Girl Ganglordby Michael Daly April 29, 2014 05:45 AM EDTShe was just 17, a charter school graduate. But little Gakirah Barnes was also purported to have killed two in tit-for-tat gang violence now being celebrated by the recording industry.

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Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block C:  Julie Creswell, NYT.

One Therapist, $4 Million in 2012 Medicare Billing

By JULIE CRESWELL and ROBERT GEBELOFF

Physical therapy is a big recipient of national Medicare dollars — and physical therapists in Brooklyn are among the biggest billers of all, government data indicates.

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Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 3, Block D:  Kurt Soller, Bloomberg Businessweek.

DEENA VARSHAVSKAYA'S WANELO: WITH ENOUGH CUSTOMERS, YOU DON'T NEED A PRODUCT by Kurt Soller

Wanelo—the name is shorthand for “want, need, love”—has insinuated itself into the lives of intense shoppers. Bloomberg Businessweek's Kurt Soller profiles Deena Varshavskaya, who’s site connects young shoppers to mainstream stores, small boutiques, and most important, each other.

 

 

Hour Four

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Eben Novy-Williams,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-29/will-that-golfer-choke-new-field-of-mental-analytics-may-answer.html

 

First there was sabermetrics, using deep statistical analysis to predict athletic success. Now, get ready for mental analytics.

“That’s the next frontier,” San Francisco 49ers President Paraag Marathe said in an interview. “The spread in physical talent is so narrow. The spread in psychological, mental capacity, aptitude, all that, that’s so wide.”

The question is how to figure out who will lead and who will choke; whose mental composition is best suited for Sunday’s back nine of the Masters. Marathe and several startups are trying to figure that out.

 

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Harry Siegel, New York Daily News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sterling-slain-race-remains-article-1.1773457

 

"I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have — Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?” — L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, on his black players.

 

How generous of this modern-day plantation owner, who, according to NBA great and longtime team executive Elgin Baylor, would bring women into the locker room to see players showering, saying things like “look at these beautiful black bodies.”

 

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Jed Babbin, author,

The Sunni Vanguard: Can Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia Survive the New Middle East? (The London Center Series... by Babbin, Jed, Goldman, David and London, Herbert

 

Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 4, Block D:  Jed Babbin, author,

The Sunni Vanguard: Can Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia Survive the New Middle East? (The London Center Series... by Babbin, Jed, Goldman, David and London, Herbert

 

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