The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 14 January 2020

Air Date: 
January 14, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 1, Block A:  Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:   The Pink Paper—the Financial Times—by the Smart Set, strong anti-Trumpers, now says that the Jobs Act of 2017 plus major diminution in regulations have created the booming US economy. 
Bank earnings at J P Morgan and Citi have blossomed because the yield curve has tilted up as growth strengthened.  Also, the consumer is in great shape: The Consumer Comfort Index of Bloomberg says: very good. A virtuous cycle, where each segment benefits from the excellent condition of the others.  Including housing.   Signing the phase-one trade deal is another good sign.  The US is out of workers: half a million jobs offered with no workers trained to step in. We need to applaud the deregulation.
Germans are now interested in start-ups. The 2019 Q4 was 1.9% .  OECD.
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 1, Block B:  Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re: 
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 1, Block C:   Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:  From the surface of the planet Earth: In Murchison, Victoria, Australia, in 1969 a meteorite crashed in; it looks to be older than the Solar System. Stupendous date: “pre-solar grains” suspected to be older than the Sun. Amt of exposure to solar rays measures age: these are 4.6 to 4.9 billion years old; Earth is 4.5  Even found some grains that might be 7 billion years old.  The oldest material is fragile and tends to burn up. To study pre-Milky Way materials: obtain them from space.
Mars surface: Curiosity. Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. Two Super-Earths: two stars abt 100 LY away with three planets orbiting; both planets potentially habitable.  Also, a rocky planet seven times the size of Earth.
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 1, Block D:   Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:  Space engineering, Dreamchaser: not a launch vehicle but a mini-shuttle for carrying cargo up and down from ISS.
Space Force: we want merch—patches and leather jackets— and a theme song; “don’t hold your breath.” The point was to re-organize all the space-related bureaucracy in the military; bringing in officers from all parts of the military under one administrator.  . . .  NOAA.
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block A:  Michael Pregent,  FDD, @MPPregent,  in re: Iran and Iraq.  Mohandas and Soleimani kept everyone in line; with them gone, chaotic power claims. General ___zadeh: “We will take revenge on America for this disaster” – Iranian shoot-down of the civilian aircraft, which the regime denied for thee days; then had to admit to it, which completely enraged Iranians.  Rouhani demands a trial of “those responsible”  A show trial that doesn't at all fool the Iranian citizenry, and equally not Europe or the US.  Nobody buys this.  This is about mismanagement of the economy, live rounds against Iranians, and all the other abuses.
Iraq: The League of the Righteous. Muqtada al Sadr should be designated as a terrorist, but “he’s not very bright” say most of his associates.  Later, Keis Kanzali will kill Mookie and take over his position
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block B:  Henry Miller, Hoover, in re:  Wuhan flu (Wuhan pneumonia): a coronavirus
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block C:  Gregory Copley, International Strategic Studies Association, and author, Sovereignty in the 21st Century; in re:  Oman, Sultan Qaboos, and the elegant intermediary roles that Oman long has maintained.
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block D:  Gregory Copley, International Strategic Studies Association, and author, Sovereignty in the 21st Century; in re:  Iran.  The surprisingly awful political and military judgment of Khamenei. 
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: War with Russia?; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:   
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: War with Russia?; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: 
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block C:  Bill Whalen, Hoover, in re:  Democrats’s analysis
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 3, Block D:  Bruce Thornton, Horowitz Center, & Hoover, in re:  The anti-Benghazi. Months of rocket attacks by Soleimani against the US. Democrats for Iran.
Benghazi radioed for help, Sept 11-13, 2013: the only help that arrived was some soldiers who disobeyed orders in order to be able to aid.  Washington blamed an obscure video, but Obama and Clinton knew that it was a planned attack.  When the coffins came home, she was present and lied to the parents.   . . .  IDF says that Iran is close to having enough uranium to create a bomb—by Shi’a Twelvers who eagerly anticipate the end of the world, and who aim to help in accomplishing that.
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 4, Block A:  Björn Sjölund (@bjornsjolund), Stratacache, in re:  Walk Base
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 4, Block B:  Darren Cremins, Strategic Customer Engagement Manager, Scala.com; Stratacache; with Alastair Fraser;  in re:  Digital retail business in the UK and Ireland.
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 4, Block C:  Michael Dylan, University of Berkeley, in re:  A fresh translation of Sun-tzu
Tuesday 14 January 2020 /  Hour 4, Block D:  Michael Dylan, University of Berkeley, in re:  A fresh translation of Sun-tzu
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