JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleagues: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, and David Livingston, The Space Show
 
Hour One
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block A: John Catsimatidis, @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable, Red Apple Media & Cats Roundtable radio, in re: Upper West Side of Manhattan, 13,000 signatures of local liberals asking to have 300 deeply-troubled drug addicts, demented people and overt criminals moved out of the Lucerne Hotel on 79 St.  [Considering the financial and political pull of the neighborhood,] the mayor recanted.  AG Barr sent in Federal agents in Operation Legend, including DEA, for multiple drug lord arrests in Chicago; crime rate was down 50% in one week. Sergeant Mullins of the Sergeants’ Benevolent Assn.  New York City restaurants are suing the state for $2 billion because of the irrational shutdown. Judy Abrams, theater.  https://abc7ny.com/lucerne-hotel-homeless-shelter-covid/6414819/
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block B: Russell Berman, Hoover; in re; Byelorus.  If Byelorus goes democratic, then Russia is next; presaging a loss of power for Putin and his crew.  The Russian Novochuk poison administered to Navalny, who seems to be recovering in Germany now.  Major discussion in Germany on whether or not to stop the Nordstream pipeline from Russia to Germany.  A lot of Western Europe has gone to sleep on the topic of Russian despotism.  Our adversaries are trying to push the US away from Europe and East Asia.  NATO is a key piece of our security apparatus, but needs to rethink its [functions and range].  https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/belarus-uprising-repeat-ukraine-168375?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=3508ea0689-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_08_06_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-3508ea0689-72527561
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block C: Michael Yon, Michael_Yon, East Asia reporter; and Gordon Chang,  , in re: In Hong Kong, local police brutalize a 12-year-old girl on a video. People are enraged. This may be a [game-changer].  The protests are still going on; street protests are a bit smaller, but the support base is still enormous.  This is an insurgency; it will not just go away. Hong Kong financial community are smiling at the upcoming IPO.  . . .  Many refuse to be under the Mainland boot: not only fundamental political differences, but a major cultural clash. “These fish just don't mix well in the same aquarium.”  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/asia/hong-kong-girl-police-video.html
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block D:  Nury Turkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, in re: Mulan—   China wanted the world to know that a major US corporation, Disney, has sent a thank-you note to them for help in filming. Uyghur community has been blindsided by Hollywood; and dumfounded and distressed. They're so quick to criticize the president for injustice or foreign policy, but now it says nothing.  Hollywood and corporate America have become apologists for [Mainland brutality].   . . .  When you deal with a brutal and closed regime like Beijing, “due diligence” in unworkable.  Note: 80% of cotton products made in China are sourced in the Uyghur region [where slave labor is used].  Disney has spent years working this way into the good graces of Beijing.  “When you lie down with wolves, you get up with _____.”
  https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/disney-mulan-backlash-chinas-xinjiang-province-human-rights
 
Hour Two
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  Salena Zito,  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics, CNN, New York Post, Washington Examiner; in re: From Delaware to Pittsburgh.   The parts of Pennsylvania where Mr Biden visited.
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  Salena Zito,  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics, #MiddleofSomewhere CNN, New York Post, Washington Examiner; in re: The Women's Rodeo Association abides in the time of the virus.  The Girls’ Rodeo Assn, become the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association.  Includes children as young as eight, and someone 48.  A lot of dedication into this sport and art.  . . .   Homemade lawn signs: Trump supporters never have just one.  I even saw a grave with a Trump sign!
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:   The minimum of a minimum sunspots for two hundred years.  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sunspot-update-more-evidence-of-an-upcoming-maximum/
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:   India chooses Roscosmos to create a spacesuit for manned missions. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-wins-spacesuit-contract-for-indias-gaganyaan-manned-mission/
 
Hour Three
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block A:  Richard Epstein: @RichardAEpstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re: 
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block B:  Richard Epstein: @RichardAEpstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re:
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block C:  Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner, in re: Huawei was on the march worldwide two years ago, intended to [take over]; now, it’s on the back foot, trying workaround.  It was the No. 1 supplier of telecom chips and smartphones,  Recently has taken over from Samsung; US regs could crimp its expansion.  1. Huawei has been stealing IP for thirty years.  2. Huawei is an arm of the CCP surveillance state.  Ergo, channels all data to the Peoples Liberation Army. 
Europe viewed all this with dubiety until several months ago; now, post-Covid and a great deal of legwork that this administration has done, they're paying attention. 
https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/08/huawei-to-stop-making-kirin-chipsets-on-september-15/
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  Cleo Paskal, @CleoPaskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re: Palau has invited the US to build a base there. Has a compact of free association with the US. Recognizes Taiwan. Chinese organized crime has invaded; Palau asks the FBI to help.  Population fewer than 20,000 people; China sent many tourists and helped the economy, then withdrew them in order to pressure Palau to quit recognizing Taiwan.  China in India: India took back positions that China had taken from them; heights overlooking a strategic zone. A brand-new dynamic. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-is-offered-new-bases-in-the-pacific-11599557401
 
Hour Four
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block A:   5 of 8 - The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore 
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block B:  6 of 8 - The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore 
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block C:  7 of 8 - The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore 
Wednesday 9 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  8 of 8 - The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore