The John Batchelor Show

Monday 21 September 2020

Air Date: 
September 21, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleague: Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness
 
Hour One
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  Al Qaeda is not on the road to defeat.  @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  Al Qaeda is not on the road to defeat.  @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 1, Block C: Michael Yon,  East Asia correspondent, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: PRC arrests and detains without habeas corpus. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 1, Block D:  Rick Fisher, Intl Assessment and Strategy Center, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Shenzhen Zhenhua Data Technology, a so-called private corporation in China, gathers data, incl in the US: esp military targets.  Hoovers up vast amounts of data, share it with Chinese govt and military. Providing data to Ministry of State Security or PLA, or the like.   Aerospace, automotive, energy: all industries in which to gather data and target enemies. 
PRC "hoovers up" the data of all leadership worldwide; & What is to be done? Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast   (https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-tech-company-collects-data-of-prominent-americans-and-military-social-media-posts) and the TikTok deal.
Hour Two
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re: The passing of Justice Ginzburg and the politics swirling around it.
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  John Fund, NRO, in re:  Two names stand out as nominees for the Court; Amy Conan Barrett, who has an impeccable and stellar history.  Barbara Legoa, Florida Supreme Court: very distinguished record.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/trump-supreme-court-list-potenti...
Monday 21 September  2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re:  Bidding adieu to Justice Ginzburg. Recitation of  her extraordinary professional and personal career. “A real exemplar.  An open mind.” Pioneered partisan rhetoric from the bench. . . .  Structural feminists asked, Do you really want to have a nuclear family? whereas her marriage was [splendid].  Her form of feminism resonated with very many people.  Character and determination; her amazing ability to fight past illness to pursue her work.
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 2, Block D:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re:  The ceremony of saying farewell.  Court-packing and FDR’s travails therearound.  To change the size of the Court in a fit of pique is [extremely inadvisable]. 
 
Hour Three
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 3, Block A:  Andrew McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness; in re: Court-packing and its history.
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 3, Block B: Andrew McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness; in re:
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 3, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  The Abraham Accord.   The PA lives in old times; holds that Israel can’t be accepted by Arabs until Palestinians are entirely satisfied with their lives and situation.  In the event, have issued a requirement that every Friday sermon say that nothing worse can happen than Arab nations’s accepting Israel despite Palestinians’s demands.
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 3, Block D: Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:   . . .  Paleo-Hebrew script.  Letters went left to right and right to left in the same sentence; after returning from Babylon, mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic . . . An inkwell in perfect shape, found in a bldg from Second Temple. 
 
 
Hour Four
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 4, Block A:  The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 4, Block B:  The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 4, Block C: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro
Monday 21 September  2020   / Hour 4, Block D:  The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro
 
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