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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen
Hour One
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn Long War Journal, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal ; in re:  ISIS snuff film is so violent, LongWarJournal won't use it. Mass murder of 4 Iraqis – related to IRGC or al Quds force? Hogtied them, hung them upside down from a scaffold while burning them alive.  Men were members of Popular Mobilization Forces, working for Iran.  Retribution for an ISIS man killed the same way by PMF.  Shia man cuts into Sunni's flesh with a sword "as though it was shawarma."   Dualling videos – each side trying to intimidate the other with extreme grotsequerie.   / Taliban massing in northern Afgh in Kunduz (where four of five sections are Taliban) to swear allegiance to the new emir.  Men amass with motorbikes, Humvees, F1450pick-ups. Incl Islamic Movement of Uzb (also sworn allegiance to ISIS?)  Gathered in the open in a town with dozens of Taliban flags flying; zero fear of US or Afgh forces.  A half-hour vid as they swear allegiance to Mullah Omar (was in prison, then released by Pakistan).  Horses, flags, like Lawrence of Arabia as hundreds of extras gather in preparation to march on ht Ottomans.  Gaining land in provinces: North, East (Haqqani network), South.   See: LongWarJourhal.com. ISAF and US forces bugged out. Now comes the whirlwind.
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn Long War Journal, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal ; in re: Two top generals in Anbar province killed by suicide bombers – VBIEDs – says that the Iraqi army is dug in.  A – or the – Command Center for Anbar Province, where ISIS controls cities and towns up and down the river valley.  ISIS can deploy in Iraqi govt's rear areas.    Formerly US vehicles loaded up, with concrete in front, just run into bldgs. Antitank missiles could end this but the Iraqi army doesn't.   A huge failure; expect more of  this – decap with a few vehicles; Iraqis must be terrified.  Guy coming at you is willing to blow himself up.  . . .  It benefits Iran in the long run to have even Sunni extremists and jihadists creating chaos.
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: on 3 Sept an enormous military parade in Beijing to celebrate an event that never happened: the Communist Party's victory over Japan in WWII.  It didn't, of course; the KuoMinTang sort of did, then fled with everything valuable not welded down to Taiwan, which it took over and where it massacred 10,000 Taiwanese.  As for 3 Sept, even people who live along the parade route aren't allowed to look out the window and watch.  Unremitting anti-Japanese TV.   Despite WSJ calling this the "first dent in Xi" – he's been in trouble for a while. Even the recent currency devaluation was effectively Xi stabbing himself in the belly – hara kiri.   He'll get a state visit in Washington despite his exceptional misdeeds.
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 1, Block D:  Sarah Westwood, Washington Inquirer, in re: Mrs Clinton's most recent 7,000-email document dump of nine o'clock this evening (forty-five minutes ago). Excuse for previous delay: Intell community IG caused reps of each of the agencies to sit in a room and all go through every email line by line.    hrod17 sent to Cheryl Mills: Subject: Haiti [following the catastrophic 2010 earthquake]  "Let's work [on this] with Clinton Fdn since they have unencumbered dollars."  Haiti was known to be a massive pay-for-play sandbox. Not a good story.  Lots of proposed work promised by Clinton Fdn, nothing happened. Major projects now collecting cobwebs; seem to have been built for the cameras.  Private email not as subject to FOIA.   Five days after Mrs C got a new iPad, she tested it out while on a flight.  This establishes that she used at least two devices, BlackBerry & iPad.  Having two is hugely important: "I did it out of convenience so I could carry one device" – not accurate; so  why did you set this up?
Hour Two
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 2, Block A:  David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re: Mrs Clinton's most recent 7,000-email document dump: nothing immediately visible that looks scandalous or traitorous.  However, it's all that anyone's talking about when they speak of Mrs Clinton.  Her honesty numbers are weak, while her presentations seem to be those of a guilty party: she's destroyed half according to what she said was personal. What did she choose to exclude from public visibility. Dems say she'll throw any aide under the bus and plough ahead.  Dems in Minneapolis said that basically Biden isn't serious.  If Clinton loses, Dems may panic; then a last-minute entry – could be _____.  She can string out the email scandal long enough to lock up the nomination, barring a surprise, However, a lot of Dems are nervous and will wait to see how Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina, voters respond.  Tools to stop Clinton aren't in the party; no one ready to stand up to her, or have the money or the wherewithal.  There's not really enough time to get anyone else in there. When you have her money and grit, she ends up grinding it out and getting it done, but as Romney showed even that can be dangerous. 
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re: Latest nos from Iowa: 23% for Trump, 23% for Ben Carson; 10% for Carly Fiorina.  That's 56% for nonpoliticians.  Says. We're not impressed with your professional pols. Were I Carson or Fiorina, I'd immed challenge Trump to a one-on-one debate.  We'll test the mettle.  I'm excited that the race is as wide-open as it is. Pro pols wil have to reinvent a strategy.   . . . Not only anti-Washington but anti-politicians as a whole.  So far, no ads, no contrast. Scott Walker tweet:  Scott Walker (@ScottWalker)  8/31/15, 6:55 PM / This is not an email scandal. It's a national security scandal. @HillaryClinton put her own interests ahead of America's.
This is a genuine hit by Walker of Clinton. Mrs Clinton remains the one unifying figure all GOP can agree on – she's poison to them.  John Kasich is doing well as a moderate alternative; flooding NH with ads; will bide his time and watch a bit. 
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 2, Block C: Aaron Klein, Investigative Radio, in re: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/will-irans-post-sanctions-windfall-benefit-hamas-maybe-not/2015/08/30/08d0c62c-481e-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html ;  Report: Iranian Proxy Hezbollah Actively Recruiting Palestinian Operatives in West Bank  Hezbollah sleeper cells are now active in the West Bank and are recruiting Palestinians to ...
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 2, Block D: Aaron Klein, Investigative Radio, in re: major rocket shipments into Bekaa for Hezbollah. Iran has tens of thousands there already.  Israel working with Saudis lest there be a conflagration there.   Weeks after the official deal with Iran, Iran is so brazen that not only does it renew full financing for Islamic Jihad, but fires rockets from Syria into the Israei Golan – even to upper Galilee region.  Said Azidi gets his instrux from ayatollah, goes to Syria from which to fire the rockets. Watch for Houthis in Yemen to fire into Saudi (have already killed a senior Saudi military member); this is Iran flexing its muscles, signaling to Saudis and Israelis.  Barghouti, and Mahmoud Dahlan:  Abbas is not even legally the PA president at present (not from 2009 till now); if he resigns, what next?  Need a strong man to control the West Bacnk; Abbas wants Barghouti, who's currently in jail for murder, for being the architect of the Intifada, et al.   Saudis strongly support Dahlan.  Truce between Hamas and Jerusalem??
Hour Three
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 3, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in re:  Domestic politics; upcoming elections. (1 of 2)
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 3, Block B: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in re: Domestic politics; upcoming elections.  (2 of 2)
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 3, Block C: Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, in re: The Truth About Campaign Finance Reform   (1 of 2)
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 3, Block D: Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, in re: The Truth About Campaign Finance Reform  (2 of 2)
Hour Four
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 4, Block A: Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, by A. Brad Schwartz (1 of 4)
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 4, Block B: Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, by A. Brad Schwartz (2 of 4)
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 4, Block C: Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, by A. Brad Schwartz (3 of 4)
Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 4, Block D: Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, by A. Brad Schwartz (4 of 4)