The John Batchelor Show

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The John Batchelor Show Sunday July 20th, 2008

Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City

10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles

If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast

 WABC-AM New York /WMAL-AM Washington /KSFO San Francisco Sunday 20 July.

“Murphy’s Law is often misinterpreted,” Nick Spark, the author of A History of Murphy’s Law, told me. “The point is to look ahead and predict what could go wrong, and then work to prevent these outcomes.”

705P ET: John Bolton, AEI, frmr U.S. Ambassador United Nations, re Iran, Israel and the bomb, re the surprise decision by the Bush Administration to send an envoy to Tehran for direct talks re Iraq and nuclear weapons.

720P: Keith Cavelle, filmmaker, re his project, “Stand Tall for the Children of Sichuan,” re working with the high school survivors of Bichuan High School, where 700 of 2000 died on May the May 12, 2008 earthquake in eastern China.

735P: Professional roundtable with Jim McTague, Barron’s, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, and Bill Whalen, Hoover, re campaign week: Obama $52 million on pace for non public funding; McCain boosts Detroit and campaigns for Michigan; re Obama goes to Europe and Iraq; what is the flap about the Brandenburg Gate?   McCain camp argues; re Bush sues for peace with Iran; re Afghanistan sinking.  Re is Phil Gramm a burden with the UBS investigation?

750P: Continued re the dreadful state of the banks and Fan and Fred vs Barney; re Al Gore's address on carbon tax, re the politics of drilling and taxes.   “We should tax what we burn, not what we earn,” Al Gore told the crowd at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington on Friday 18 July.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC Kudlow and Company, re Fed Watch, will Berbank raise rates to stem inflation?  Re the banks.  Re Fan/Fred rescue necessary?  Re EU slowdown.  Re Congress and drilling.

 

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Olmert troubles worse, re unequal exchange of corpses, re Assad and Sarkozy, re Bush surrender to Tehran?

 

835P:  Katrina van den Heuvel, Nation, re FISA and Obama, re Obama goes to Europe; re credit crisis and Fan/Fred bailout; Fed and Treasury stalling and whistling.  Re Coutrywide, IndyMac and more banks to fail.

850P:  Daveed Garstein-Ross, Foundation for Defense of Demcracies, re the hydrogen engine technology negatives vs hybrid and electric engines as alternatives to gasoline.

905P:  Aaron Klein, Wnd.com, re the exchange of terrorists for murdered IDF soldiers, re the Iran threat, re the rearming of Gaza.  Watch for late surprise guest.

920P: Siobhan Gorman, WSJ, re soldiers of fortune and black ops private security services, re MVM, Blackwater and others, re shortages of personnel for the demand.

 

935P: Ann Marlowe, WSJ, and Daoud Sultanzoy(enroute), MP Afghanistan, re deterioration of region, massacre at Kunar, Obama and McCain remarks.  Sitrep in Kunar is all in dispute, including where the village of Want, where the FOB that was attacked, is located -- Kunar or Nuristan province, and if the local Nuristanis assisted attackers, and how the attackers launched a surprise attack.  This incident is a grave emergency for Afghanistan policy.  And what is the policy?

955P:  Exeunt re the first ever Triple Neo, re water on the moon.

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KFI-AM 640 LA Sunday 20 July

“Murphy’s Law is often misinterpreted,” Nick Spark, the author of A History of Murphy’s Law, told me. “The point is to look ahead and predict what could go wrong, and then work to prevent these outcomes.”

705P PT: John Authers, Financial Times, "The Short View," re the bear market, re the extreme risk to banks, re the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac bailout, re worldwide inflation in food and energy create worldwide instability.  With Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, co-host.

720P: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re Fannie and Freddie and Chris and Barney, the slowdown with objections by Republicans; re Pelosi and drilling, re another stimulus package?

735P: Professional Roundtable with Laura Meckler, WSJ, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and Craig Under, Vanity Fair.  Re Obama refines Iraq and Afghanistan.  Re McCain and can he spell the word stagflation?   McCain: "We have succeeded in Iraq."

750P  Continuing re Obama goes to Europe with all media, McCain stays home boosts Detroit.   McCain with Phil Gramm, and is Gramm under a cloud because of UBS?  Is there a worse combo than lobbyist banker? 

805P:  Professional Roundtable John Fund, WSJ, and Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, with Craig Under.  Re Al Gore and the carbon tax, the politics of want, worldwide energy panic.  Re Al Gore: “I don’t remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously.  We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.”

820P: Re the entire remaining and still paid TV News biz goes to Europe with Obama along with blogging tyros.  Re Chauncey Gardner goes to Europe.  “Life is a state of mind.”

835P: Steve Cohen, NYU, re Russia rising and the new cold war, re Medvedev at the G-8, re Russia warnings on NATO ad the missile shield.  "What must be done, however, is clear enough. Because the new cold war began in Washington, steps toward ending it also have to begin in Washington. Two are especially urgent, for reasons also explained in the article:  A US recognition that post-Soviet Russia is not a defeated supplicant or American client state, as seems to have been the prevailing view since 1991, but, a fully sovereign nation at home with legitimate national interests abroad equal to our own.  An immediate end to the reckless expansion of NATO around Russia’s borders."

850P: continued with Cohen, re Russia vs. Georgia, re Russia vs. Britain and the Litvinenko Affair.

905P:  Robert Zimmerman, author, re ancient oceans on Mars, re water on the moon, re Mars Pheonix Lander scratches the Mars pole, re the triple NEO.

920P:  Andrew Batson, WSJ, re inflation in China unchecked by the Beijing leadership, re the increasing patches to force banks not to make loans; re threat of price instability.

935P: Joe Alexander, authors, “Through the Wheat,” The Marines in World War One.”

955P: Exeunt Lou-Ann Hammond Carlist.com re Japanese alternative engine development, re GM failure.

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[Perdogg]

On 7pm to 9pm on WMAL AM 630 Washington DC

[A. Morgan]

Tanks for the ping.

[seoul62]

Thank you for the reminder./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping Perdogg.

[A. Morgan]

[SoCalPol]

Thanks for the ping!

[A. Morgan]

[SoCalPol]

and there are loads on FR who will be sure Obama gets the votes voting for their third party or write in folks.

[A. Morgan]

They’re NUTS and might just get us ALL KILLED!

Obama is a COMMUNIST!

[A. Morgan]

[A. Morgan]

[A. Morgan]

[SoCalPol]

Phil Graham may have been ok at one time but the GOP needs to move on from the folks who do not have a real world
background. Just being a pol , professor and Country Club member doesn’t cut it.

[A. Morgan]

BINGO!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

That Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote:

“Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right”

[Perdogg]

She works for The Nation. Rush calls her Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I just Googled Katrina:

In 2003, Katrina received the 'New York Civil Liberties Union's Callaway Prize' for the Defense of the Right of Privacy.

She is also the recipient of The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award.

[firefox08]

Is the JOhn Batchelor Show on KFI a different show than the one on WABC?
Is there an area on his site that explains this? Thanks

[firefox08]

Does this sound right. I live on the west coast so I'm not familiar with the WABC show - - - Following the early show on WABC/WMAL (New York/DC), John continues his show on KFI/KSFO in Los Angeles/San Francisco for another 3 hours from 10PM-1AM Eastern.