The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 8 September 2020

Air Date: 
September 08, 2020

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block A: Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek,  TheHill and Fox News; in re: France has recovered 95% of its pre-virus economy. Germany also is doing well. Market: tremendous influence of a handful of stocks; mkt got top-heavy. People were ready to take money off the table; profit-taking.  Tesla and Apple spiked upward from stock splits.   This is not like the 2000 tech bubble, which was pumped up with hot air; this is ore like cotton candy. Good labor report-hours increased; income up 2% in August over July and a gain for the third quarter.  It does look like a V.  All this without the stimulus measure, which is still being haggled over.  . .  . Banks that never took the write-offs they should have. Green regulations in Europe.  Global recovery is led by China and the US.  . . . Not true that everyone under fifty was dead-set on living in the middle of a city.  Most people don’t want to get in a long elevator ride with a bunch of other people. Manhattan: no theater, no museum no restaurants; no reason to come to Manhattan. About 10% of the u GDP is from New York. I’m so offended that this mayor hasn't figured out how to open restaurants here when all the rest of the country has; and that’s many thousands of jobs gone, and restaurants closed forever. 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block B: Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek, TheHill and Fox News; in re: From Delaware Co in Pennsylvania, one of the richest counties in the nation, in the collar counties, a Democratic lawn sign: Wendy for state Representative; PROUDLY SUPPORTING OUR POLICE. This is why Mr Biden is suddenly on the campaign tail Democrats were silent on violence for so long.  Because of the breakdown of law and order, suburban voters are in play.  Biden still isn't taking tough questions; he reads answers off a teleprompter.  In swing states, a 3% margin, which is the margin of error.  He still won’t name Antifa. Young Black men don't like Joe Biden and if they stay at home—or, Heaven forbid, vote for Trump—that’s [a world of trouble for Biden]. 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block C: Bill Whalen, @Hooverwhalen, Hoover Area 45 blog; in re: Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco blow-dry. Christoff, tonsorial expert to the stars.  Gavin Newsom has a handsome head of hair, for which he probably needn’t do much; but he’s in trouble everywhere else—wildfires, rolling blackouts, Covid, Long-winded answers, interminable press conferences; these don't inspire confidence.  Rolling black-outs because years ago Cali decided to rely on renewable resources—wind, water, solar—and not enough is supplied, esp on gray days or at night. 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 1, Block D: Paul Gregory, @PaulR_Gregory, Hoover; in re:  Alexei Novalny, an anti-corruption blogger who exposed all kinds of abuse by oligarchs in Putin’s inner circle, incl Medvedev. Spent a lot of time in the Russian Far East, where there are demonstrations against Putin; Novalny was trying to organize it so that the Parliament becomes a real parliament. He was poisoned by Novachuk (available only from the Russian military), which was used against two Russians in England; and Novalny finally was transported to a German hospital. He’s just come out of a medically-induced coma and is said to be recovering  Now, there are demands in Germany and Europe to cancel Nordsteam2, which is a major threat to Russia.  Russians claim that Novalny merely ate something bad; that the CIA invented charges.  Many problems on Putin’s hands, including the mess in Byelorus.   
 
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, WSJ editorial board, in re: Brexit brinksmanship.  The trade agreement between the UK and the EU ends on 31 Dec.  With the pandemic, Brexit’s critical importance has slightly receded.  Dust-up within the government: Dustin Jones’s resignation.  The Irish border; free trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.  . . .  No lockdown is an island. https://www.ft.com/content/9bae0a3a-e1d9-4205-88f1-bf7d91d62cd4  ;  https://www.ft.com/content/9bae0a3a-e1d9-4205-88f1-bf7d91d62cd4
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, WSJ editorial board, in re:  Millennials at Home  https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/millennials-to-buy-the-most-houses-this-...
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs;  The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:  The Return of the Otttoman Empire: 1 of 2: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
Can Erdoğan’s “Conflict in All Directions” Strategy Work? Turkey seems to be at war on all fronts, particularly with its nominal allies. How can that work?
Analysis. By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff. Using direct conflict to achieve objectives should be a last resort, or used selectively when overwhelming advantage can be seized. Always to favor confrontation as a first resort must have different motives.
Turkish Pres. Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan, 66, began his governance as Prime Minister in 2003 under the slogan of “zero problems with all neighbors”. However, he has entered into direct or indirect war with almost all major foreign governments except that of Qatar, his financial guardian and fellow proponent of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) political philosophy. He has done so during a time of increasing economic degradation within Turkey. He has repeatedly found himself forced to accommodate pressures from larger external powers, and yet continues to antagonize all except Qatar.
Erdoğan’s decision to convert Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia museum — which began life in 537 CE as the biggest Christian cathedral in the world — back into a mosque in 2020 was a sign that Turkey’s flirtation with Western secularism since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s accession in 1923 was now over, and Turkey would again assert itself as the center of Islam.
What are Erdoğan’s motivations in pushing Turkey into an irretrievable economic and strategic position? His stated objectives are the restoration of a broad, Ottoman pan-Turkism, and a vague global pan-Islamism, with Turkey at its center. His attainment of those goals is undermined by his creation of unnecessary opponents.
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Turkey has removed itself from being a reliable member of NATO, but there’s no mechanism for removing it. Turkey stays in to use it as a lever against Russia.  Now it’s interfering with energy development in the Eastern Med. He threatens physical attacks against [anyone who crosses him]; Turkey’s intell svc has been helpful to the US against PRC.  Hagia Sophia. Neo-Ottomanism, and will “liberate the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.”  Libya: an actual war there using very advanced weapons. Turkey is on a worldwide jihad to install Muslim Brotherhood governments. 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 2, Block D:  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re: Geography is destiny, and Turkey has been an epicenter for at least two millennia.  . . .  Erdogan believes that he has a divinely-appointed destiny; much admires Hitler.  Has been sending weapons to Chad, Niger, Sudan, all along central and eastern Africa. 
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block A:  Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re: Biden didn't menti0n Antifa or violence. When the Obama-Biden administration was in power, they pushed policy that was a perfect encapsulation of what we see now; supported UN 1618.  The movements Biden doesn't want to mention are using intimidation to suppress political dissent. 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block B:  Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re:
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block C:  Joe Pappalardo, @PappalardoJoe, Popular Mechanics, in re: Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Nail-biter; 1 of 2
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  Joe Pappalardo, @PappalardoJoe, Popular Mechanics, in re: Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Nail-biter; 2 of 2
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block A: The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block B:  The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block C:  The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore 
Tuesday 8 September 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal, by Stephen L. Moore