Thursday 17 December 2020 | John Batchelor Show

Air Date:

December 17, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleagues: Sebastian Gorka, America First radio and Fox; and Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents

Hour One
Thursday 17 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block A: Aykan Erdemir, @aykan_erdemir, an Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: in re: S-400 sanctions, Eastern Med, Turkey-Israel rapprochement? There are many historical links brween Turkey and Azerbaijan, but Erdogan’s presence at the victory parade has to do with his help in the recent war.
In 2018, Turkey was the first nation to be hit with Magnitsky sanctions; drift from the Atlantic alliance; but also credit Putin, who could exacerbate conflict within NATO. Turkey’s defense procurement agency being targeted is actually effective. Turkey is a politicized and divided society; opini0n polls: every time Erdogan scores a victory abroad, his popularity goes up 2% but doesn’t stay. The economy is how voters evaluate him. Erdogan has been critical of the Abraham Accords, but knows that his position is precarious, so he’s reached out to Israel, perhaps half-heartedly; send a political appintee as ambassador, someone known for his peculiar view of Jews.
Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior director of FDD’s Turkey program, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet.

Thursday 17 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block B: Joel Finkelstein, @ncri_io; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Online anti-Semitism. Conversation with a Knesset member on this. This is a profound intl concern , basically about the integrity of democracy everywhere, Anti-Semitism is what historically been used to spike the punch; now it's highly internationalized using [digital]. See 250 million posts. At Princeton in 2018 we studied the brain and [hatred]; the attack in Pittsburgh occurred. Left and right are identical in this. It arrives like seismic activity at critical moments in democracy.
State Dept was anti-Semitic all through WWII. Also, many just tolerate it. Instead of saying “Jews are evil,” we can just say, “Israel is evil.” Similarly, attacks on Soros. Main media platforms: we have to curtail these behaviors. We had institutions created over time to do that; need something comparable today.
Joel Finkelstein is the co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute. A visiting Fellowat the James Madison Program at Princeton University, Joel also holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton, where his award-winning doctoral work focused on the psychology and neuroscience of addiction and social behavior. Joel is an active strategic resource to media outlets, policy makers, advocacy groups, and investigators to help turn tools for social science into tools for social justice. His work on hatred and deceit in social media has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR and other media outlets.

Thursday 17 December 2020 / Hour 1, Block C: Admiral Mark Montgomery, @MarkCMontgomery, and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Russian hacking. We’ve identified a number of IP attacks and nation-state attacks over the years, this one is a watershed event, a significant failure of our govt to protect itself or warn large corporations. We spend tens of billions a year to protect ourselves, 0.2% of the federal budget annually on cyber security—and that’s not enough, and people be need to be held accountable. The last six years since the OPM attack: a lack of focus. Yes, all the indications are this has the fingerprints of an advanced state actor (Russia or China) ; leaks say it's Russia. Need a public-private collaboration to protect our private sector, the crown jewels of our society. Need both offensive an defensive capabilities. Offensive: 6,000 on-Net operators; Congress needs to direct the DoD to assess this; by 2020, we need more men and women on cybermission forces. For a resilient defense: detect anomalous behaviors in our systems. Breeched our Maginot line. It’s expensive.
Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, where he leads FDD’s efforts to advance U.S. prosperity and security through technology innovation while countering cyber threats that seek to diminish them. Prior to joining CCTI, Mark served as the Executive Director of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he remains a Senior Advisor.

Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 1, Block D: Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re:   the Soviet Jewry movement.   Pres Rouhani to Biden: “The heroic govt of Iran will compel the US to bow” to us.   US sanctions are seriously damaging the Iranian economy.  Many words from Iran presenting themselves as in the driver’s seat. The UK suddenly recognizes that the IRGC is a terrorist organization.   Germany sees the Iranian missile program as dangerous to Europe; some countries are beginning to face the reality.  Charlie Hebdo, the Cacher supermarket.  French govt opposes “Islamism” and online hatred.
      Turkey—“Linear thinking is not the hallmark of the Middle East.”

Hour Two
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 2, Block A: Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:  LA District Attorney, George Gaston: ten million people.  Critical legal theory. “Our laws are just, yours aren’t” and there’s no adult in the room to say, No you aren't going to reformulate the law. The American people are slowly having enough of this; it may explode in 2022. Recall the Democratic wipe-out of the 1980s.  More and ore Americans are intermarrying, creating children with wonderfully mixed ancestries; deciding that class is more important than race.  Jack Dorsey thinks he’s outside the sovereignty of the US; he and colleagues are exempt. Same with Zuckerberg, who gave $500 mil directly to state election activities, totally illegally. Fortune 400 are dominated by leftists. Machiavellian: business ethos of Rockefeller and use money the way the Koch brothers used to.
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:   Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:  . . . Susan Rice lied five ties in one day.  Her crazy email to self: “by the book.” She has one ounce of the talent of Harry Hopkins; nowhere has served with distinction.
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack, publisher, littérateur, biographer, commentator; the National Post; in re: Up to 10% of Biden voters would have switched vote had hey known of legal investigations into Hunter Biden’s and Joe Biden’s finances and international alliances. His proposed Cabinet appointees are shopworn and [incompetent].  Bill Barr thought it was his authority to suppress essential information before the election.   What he was withholding was highly relevant.  Supreme Court refusal to hear a request by 18 states is a terrible abdication.  Disgraceful. Russiagate: Three years of persecution of the president with a falsehood. Will recur until its corrected.  Durham—by taking this long, he risks having the next administration’s just pushing the whole investigation under the rug.  Biden’s even raising the Logan Act . . .
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 2, Block D: Sebastian Gorka, @SebGorka, America First radio, in re: Can we put up with this level of tyrannical abuse in fraudulent elections?  Tens of thousands of illegal voters—lived out of state, or voted twice or more, or were dead.   Trump breathed life into the tea Party; GOP didn't know what to do with it, Trump rode the wave of discontent. What happens to Donald Trump after January 20? Recall Churchill, who returned.
       Last five years, the GOP hasn't change a whit.  It can’t see that it's not left and right but populism and globalism. We’ll wait and watch the Biden Administration crumble.  Trump will stay the course and hold the line.

Hour Three
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 3, Block A:  Aykan Erdemir, @aykan_erdemir, an Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re:  in re:  S-400 sanctions, Eastern Med, Turkey-Israel rapprochement?  There are many historical links brween Turkey and Azerbaijan, but Erdogan’s presence at the victory parade has to do with his help in the recent war.
In 2018, Turkey was the first nation to be hit with Magnitsky sanctions; drift from the Atlantic alliance; but also credit Putin, who could exacerbate conflict within NATO.   Turkey’s defense procurement agency being targeted is actually effective. Turkey is a politicized and divided society; opini0n polls: every time Erdogan scores a victory abroad, his popularity goes up 2% but doesn’t stay. The economy is how voters evaluate him.  Erdogan has been critical of the Abraham Accords, but knows that his position is precarious, so he’s reached out to Israel, perhaps  half-heartedly; send a political appintee as ambassador, someone known for his peculiar view of Jews.
Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior director of FDD’s Turkey program, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet.

Thursday 17 December 2020 / Hour 3, Block B: Joel Finkelstein, @ncri_io; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Online anti-Semitism. Conversation with a Knesset member on this. This is a profound intl concern , basically about the integrity of democracy everywhere, Anti-Semitism is what historically been used to spike the punch; now it's highly internationalized using [digital]. See 250 million posts. At Princeton in 2018 we studied the brain and [hatred]; the attack in Pittsburgh occurred. Left and right are identical in this. It arrives like seismic activity at critical moments in democracy.
State Dept was anti-Semitic all through WWII. Also, many just tolerate it. Instead of saying “Jews are evil,” we can just say, “Israel is evil.” Similarly, attacks on Soros. Main social media platforms: we have to curtail these behaviors. We had institutions created over time to do that; need something comparable today.
Joel Finkelstein is the co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute. A visiting Fellowat the James Madison Program at Princeton University, Joel also holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton, where his award-winning doctoral work focused on the psychology and neuroscience of addiction and social behavior. Joel is an active strategic resource to media outlets, policy makers, advocacy groups, and investigators to help turn tools for social science into tools for social justice. His work on hatred and deceit in social media has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR and other media outlets.

Thursday 17 December 2020 / Hour 3, Block C: Admiral Mark Montgomery, @MarkCMontgomery, and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Russian hacking. We’ve identified a number of IP attacks and nation-state attacks over the years, this one is a watershed event, a significant failure of our govt to protect itself or warn large corporations. We spend tens of billions a year to protect ourselves, 0.2% of the federal budget annually on cyber security—and that’s not enough, and people be need to be held accountable. The last six years since the OPM attack: a lack of focus. Yes, all the indications are this has the fingerprints of an advanced state actor (Russia or China) ; leaks say it's Russia. Need a public-private collaboration to protect our private sector, the crown jewels of our society. Need both offensive an defensive capabilities. Offensive: 6,000 on-Net operators; Congress needs to direct the DoD to assess this; by 2020, we need more men and women on cybermission forces. For a resilient defense: detect anomalous behaviors in our systems. Breeched our Maginot line. It’s expensive.
Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, where he leads FDD’s efforts to advance U.S. prosperity and security through technology innovation while countering cyber threats that seek to diminish them. Prior to joining CCTI, Mark served as the Executive Director of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he remains a Senior Advisor.

Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re:   the Soviet Jewry movement.   Pres Rouhani to Biden: “The heroic govt of Iran will compel the US to bow” to us.  US sanctions are seriously damaging the Iranian economy.  Many words from Iran presenting themselves as in the driver’s seat.  The UK suddenly recognizes that the IRGC is a terrorist organization.   Germany sees the Iranian missile program as dangerous to Europe; some countries are beginning to face the reality.  Charlie Hebdo, the Cacher supermarket.  French govt opposes “Islamism” and online hatred.
      Turkey—“Linear thinking is not the hallmark of the Middle East.”

Hour Four
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 4, Block A:  A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier,by David Welky
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 4, Block B:  A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier,by David Welky
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 4, Block C:  A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier,by David Welky
Thursday 17 December 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:   A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier,by David Welky
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