The John Batchelor Show

Monday 13 April 2020

Air Date: 
April 13, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleague: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, the Great Voice of the Great Lakes
 
Hour One
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 1, Block A:  Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Terrorism in Iraq. $10 mil bounty on an Iraqi Shi’a guru.
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/04/u-s-offers-10-million-reward-for-hezbollahs-commander-in-iraq.php    The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program has offered a $10 million bounty for information on Muhammad Kawtharani, one of Hezbollah’s senior operations commanders inside Iraq. Hezbollah operates in Iraq closely alongside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to prop up and support Shia militias hostile to the U.S. and the West.
In its reward announcement, State asked for “information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms” of Hezbollah
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Al Qaeda public relations boasts that Taliban is a great victory for al Qaeda.
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 1, Block C: Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re:  American attitudes toward China after the virus.
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 1, Block D: Josh Phillip, Epoch Times, special investigator, in re: We got no answers out of China about the virus. Nothing they tell us is any good—maybe because they’re lying, and maybe because they don’t know.
 
Hour Two
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & John Fund, NRO, in re: Joe Biden’s VP pick.
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  John Fund, NRO, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re: Reopening America.
Monday 13 April 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  Israeli elections, and Iran lying about virus death.
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 2, Block D: Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  A 22-line imperial Greek edict against the desecration of graves—which many thought to be the oldest [ ] of graves.  The collection devolved to a fellow in Paris, thought to be from Nazareth, but in fact is from the Greek island of Kos.  Herodotus said Kos was the center of [plots] against the king.   The 30 BC ruler of Kos knew Cleopatra, Mark Anthony, and the luminaries of the moment. 
       Tel Asour (Ein Esur), 2000 BC in Israel: fortifications, walls, homes, on top of a 7,000-year old Chalcolithic civilization, from the time of Abraham.  From 3300 to 2000 BC, Early Bronze Age. Laid out on a grid system, similar to Europe 4,000 years later.  They didn’t have sophisticated tools; inhabitants were mostly farmer who traded with people at long distances. A few miles from Caesaria. Archaeologists call it “the New York City of the Bronze Age.”
 
Hour Three
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 3, Block A:  Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re:  Arbitrariness of the lockdown
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 3, Block B:  Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re: Russiagate revelations pointing to criminal conduct.
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 3, Block C:  Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov, Uzbekistan, in re:  Uzbekistan and the virus.
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 3, Block D:  Lorenzo Fiori,  director-general, Leonardo Aerospace in Palazzo Grazilli; Civiltà delle Macchine magazine; in re:  Milan and Lombardy, esp Brescia and Bergamo, and the virus.
 
Hour Four
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 4, Block A:  John Tamny, RealClearPolitics, in re: The stimulus package is absurd.
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 4, Block B:  John Tamny, RealClearPolitics, in re:  The stimulus package is absurd.
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 4, Block C:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover; in re:  
Monday 13 April 2020   / Hour 4, Block D:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover; in re:
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