The John Batchelor Show

Sunday 16 November, 2008 NY, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on November 14, 2008 2:00 PM | No Comments

Motown Special: Is This The End of GM?

705P ET: Thaddeus McCotter, 11th MI (R), Wayne County, Western Detroit, re the Big Three bailout negotiation, re Nancy Pelosi and the pending Barney Frank hearings, re Chris Dodd predicting no votes in the Senate in the lam duck 110th for a bailout: re What's Wrong in Motor City? Is This the End of GM (right, the GM building in Detroit at dusk)?

720P: Mark Ames, Nation, re The Summers Conundrum, re what's wrong with Larry Summers for Treasury Secretary, re the hype, the hope and the facts form the Progressive Left on the ex-Harvard president, re Jon Corzine Treasury Sec?

735P: Professional roundtable, re What's Wrong in Motown? and What's Washington To Do? with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, John Avlon, RealClearPolitics, re the Republican governors in Florida and the sky is not falling, re the long recession of '09, re Jon Corzine Treasury Sec?

750P: Continued re the Al Franken/Norm Coleman recount in Minnesota, re the Saxby Chambliss run-off in Georgia, re the Ted Stevens puzzle in Alaska, re Barack Obama wins 1 Electoral vote in Nebraska, firs Democrat since LBJ to take a Nebraska vote.

805P: John Stoll, Wall Street Journal, re the viability of the auto-makers, re Rick Waggoner's job depends upon the bailout either way, re the skeptics rule Detroit

820P Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the French Bernard Kouchner blesses the presumed Obama administration policy of negotiating wth Iran re Iraq and Afghanistan, re the secular victory in the Jerusalem mayoralty, re the suspect radioactivity at the Syrian strike site and the IAEA demands.

835P: Financial roundtable re the Hank Paulson Tarp 2.0, re the extreme recession of '09, re Germany leads the world into negative GDP, re the consumer stops, re the radical deflation of commodities, with Simon Constable, DowJones, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Jim McTague, Barron's, re Jon Corzine Treasury Sec?:

850P: Continued re the plunge in the Gulf, re the G20 emergency Keynesianism, re the end of GM or the beginning of Chery/GM?:

905P: Anna Fifield, Financial Times, re Kurdistan and the mbitons of the state within four states, re oil rich and autonomous and unresolved:

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the continued mystery of the irregular contact between the Obama campaign and Hamas over spring and summer, re the Syrian plans with Obama admininsration, re Hamas fires a barrage:

935P: Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller, authors, "Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II," re the deeply accidental and tragic origin of the song and the Nazi sadism toward the singer Lale Andersen, re the twentieth century history of Germany in a sad, simple, innocent song of longing:

955P: Bob Zimmerman, author "Universe in a Mirror," re the cryogenic fate of Mars Phoenix, re the first direct visual of an Exo, re the Endeavour launch to ISS:

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705P PT: Sharona Coutts, ProPublica, re the Goldman Sachs conspiracy theory of world domination from its global headquarters at 30 Hudson Street, re how Goldman sold California bonds and then advised "shorting" the same bonds using an exotic Goldman pushed invention called credit default swap market for municipal bonds, re how Goldman can play both sides of a market and not get caught.

720P: Andrew Gelman, author, "Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State," re the 2008 election and the surprises in the exit polls, re did the Obama win bring out additonal new voters? re Barack Obama wins 1 Electoral vote in Nebraska, first Democrat since LBJ to take a Nebraska vote, and significance?

735P: Professional roundtable Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re the continuing Russian barbarism toward the Caucasus, and the EU plan to build a nat gas pipeline through Georgia and around Russia to Europe; Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the rumors of StateSec to John Kerry, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton; Margaret Hoover, FNC, re the Obama administration leaning toward Detroit bailout to save the UAW :

750P: Continued re the Detroit bailout and the imminent GM failure, re John McCain in Chicago to make peace with Barack Obama:

805P Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group, re Hillary Clinton StateSec and Glampur Magazine Woman of the Year (right November 10 in NY)? with Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, and Devin Nunes, 21st California, re the Detroit bailout, the Barack Obama $50 billion offer with a Ministry of Auto, re the imminent Barney Frank hearings on the bailout, re the debate Debbie Stabenow, Michigan, vs Jeb Hensarling of Texas re the bailout for the UAW vs the bailout for the banks, re Barack Obama wins 1 Electoral vote in Nebraska, firs Democrat since LBJ to take a Nebraska vote:

820P: Continued re Cabinet rumors of Jon Corzine of New Jersey to Treasury, or Hillary Clinton of New York, or Bill Richardson of New Mexico or John Kerry of Massachusetts to State:

835P: Fiona Harvey, Financial Times, re the drop in oil prices makes alternative energy resources look expensive and impractica; re only 60 of 270 refineries under construction will continue to completion, re the end of Canada Saudia oil sands:

Oil price fall checks enthusiasm for alternatives

850P: Claudia Rosett, Foundation Defense Democracies, re the Obama administration and the rogue states of Libya and Syria, re "Free Fathi Eljahmi," re Syria and the IAEA again, re Muamar Gaddafi on Libya TV debating with his ministers why he wants to eliminate all ministries and give money direct to the people.

905P: John Tamny, RealClearMarkets, re the Detroit bailout proposal by Congress, re the Bush response to use the $25 billion allocated for new technology, re GM must be allowed to fail to make Michigan viable again, re the futility of bailing out a $3 stock, re why not Chery/GM?

920P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, the the China stimulus package, re the recession in China, re the FDA bans all milk products from China, re Hu Jintao to Cuba, Medvedev to Cuba and Venezuela.

935P: Gordon M. Goldstein, author, "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam," re six lessons from the Vietnam catastrophe that apply to Iraq and Afghanistan now and the adventures in the future, e.g."Politics is the enemy of strategy." Starring the legendary political actors of the 196os in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

955P: Exeunt Lou Ann Hammond of carlist.com, re who will buy GM? Re the first ever direct picture of an Exoplanet (right) Fomalhaut b.

Sunday 9 November, 2008 NY, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on November 7, 2008 5:46 PM | No Comments

705P ET: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re the 2008 election results and the 111th Congress convening in January 2009, re the GOP House leadership contest and the strange non-fate of John Bohner (no change) and Roy Blunt (change); re Mitch McConnell survives, re so does the amazing ever running battery of Ted Stevens; re the recount in Minnesota (count every joke) and the fate of Al Franken if defeated by a kid from Brooklyn and a handful of unfound ACORN votes, Norm Coleman.

720P: Jeff Madrick, author, "The Case for Big Government," re the myth of laissez-faire and the purpose of goverment, re the Obama administration inheriting the biggest government ever of the Bush administration.

735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, and Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) re the election results in the Electoral College, re the failure of the McCain campaign to connect to the GOP; re the success of the Obama campaign to connect to the Blue states, re Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel to COS.

Emanuel to be Obama's White House Chief of Staff

750P: Continued re the election in the House, the losses, the leadership race on November 19.

805P: Financial roundtabe with Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, Dow Jones Newswire, Malik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re the election and the worldwide recession, re the aggression of the central banks and the absence of confidence of the markets, re the dollar and the rate cuts, re the Change.com post of the weekend:

President-Elect Obama Meets with Economic Advisers, Calls for "Swift Action" on the Economy

820P: Continued re the Obama administration and the Treasury, the Fed, the global troubles overseas such as the Gulf, Russia and the Caspian Sea and Georgia, East Asia.

835P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the election and the expectations of Iran and Syria, re the staggered Iran economy, the staggered Hugo Chavez Venezuela economy.

850P: Dmitar Sasselov, Harvard, re the spookily nearby solar system of Epsilon Eridani, a much younger twin of our solar system only 10.5 light years distant in this iron poor arm of the Milky Way, re the space comb in action to discern distant stars light and the Exos in orbit; re the status of the Kepler Eden-hunter probe for 2009.

905P: Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times, re the election results and the American, Canadian and European expectations of the Obama administration, re the financial crisis: The first in many ways.

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the Hamas gangsters and the Obama expectations, re the Bush administration accepts the obvious that Hamas wants the audacity of hope, re the endless Olmert mischief, re the failed Hamas abduction tunnel in Gaza.

935P: Rufus Phillips, author, "Why Vietnam Matters," re the author's CIA service in Vietnam from the summer of 1954 when he arrived in Saigon to work for the legendary Ed Landsdale after the French evacuated Hanoi, re the chaotic, epochal struggle to maintain the Diem brothers elitist, disconnected, eventually unhinged, gangsterish government of South Vietnam (right, Ngo Dinh Diem, PM of South Vietnam, in a Broadway parade, 1957); re the critical, operatic meeting at the White House on September 10, 1963, with JFK, McNamara, McCone, the Bundys, not RFK, in which the removal or the Diems was the unvoiced context, and the debate was between losing the war with the deranged Nhu or winning it with just the passive Diem, re the author, at 88, knows everyone dead who failed in Vietnam, and knows them personally.

955P: Exeunt re the true story of the lemmings of the north and the global warming catastrophe, with Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com re the bailout of Detroit and the end of the car culture.

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705P PT: Jane Hamsher, firedoglake.com, re Rahm Emanuel named chief of staff in first Obama hire, re Chicago veteran and partisan hawk, re the familiar face of the Obama Administration.

How Would Obama Govern.

720P: James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, re the amazing lack of regulations (not really) that wrecked the economy include the the heretofore considered draconian hands-on and ruthless regulation of Sarbanes Oxley.

735P: Professionals Jim McTague, Barrons, re Obama's first presser with eight American flags and 16 animal cracker grayheads from the Democratic elite; Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the new improved predator "Rahmbo" Emanuel of Chicago (right, walking the mean streets of the 5th CD on November 6); Diana West, NRO, re the successful candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy in the body of Barack Obama, and other Huffpo tales of the Ouija Board. Krugman to Obama: Ignore the Trolls, Build the New New Deal.

750P: Continued re the election results and the missing youth turnout vote and the missing GOP vote.

805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, re the election results and the immediate fate of the GOP; Bill Whalen, Hoover, re the election results on California, re Arnold wants tax hikes; John Avlon re the independent vote and the youth turnout.

820P: Continued re "Rahmbo" Emanuel and the Summer of Love in the Winter of '09.

835P: John Matteson, author, "Eden's Outcasts," Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007, re the long, bookish, searching, familial, discerning. agnostic life of Bronson Alcott, teacher, lecturer, abolitionist, father of determined and gifted Louisa May Alcott of "Little Women," re the intellectual world of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the ante-bellum North, re the search for utopian community in America before the second American revolution changed education and piety.

850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the Obama science promises, re the Obama NASA promises, re the Indian probe in lunar orbit, re the Mars rovers reawaken, re the continued too quiet Sun.

905P: Robert Heineman, Harvard Business School, author, "High Performance with High Anxiety," re the corporate governance disaster of the credit collapse and the perfidy of the captains of industry and their lawyers.

920P: Ann Marlowe at Kabul, and Daoud Sultanzoy, member of Afghan Parliament, at Kabul, re the Taliban and the threat to NATO control, re Pakistan and the border, re the American air strikes and casualties.

935P: Jon Meacham, author, "American Lion," Andrew Jackson at the White House, 1829-1837, and the first president not from Massachusetts or Virginia who made war on the Congress, the press and anyone else who crossed him, including Nicholas Biddle and all the money as well as South Carolina and the fathers of the secessionists of 1860 (right, in 1845, the year of his death, at the Hermitage).

955P: Exeunt re Eliot Ness and Patrick Fitzgerald and the looming melodrama of the governor of Illinois.

Sunday 2 November, 2008 NY, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on October 31, 2008 2:44 PM | No Comments

705P ET: Election Special. Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan, Chair House Republican Policy Committee, re the Paulson folly Tarp II bailout and the complete loss of principles in the House GOP leadership, re the rudderless House and John Boehner the blind captain, re the fate of the 111 House GOP who voted "no" on the bailout twice.

720P: Brody Mullins, Wall Street Journal, re 110th lame duck and 111th prospective preparing committee assignments, re a special panel to rewrite financial regulations, re the musical chairs of the senior Democrats, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Jack Reed, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry. And HRC.

735P: Professionals Mona Charen, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, re the closing arguments of the candidates, re the fact that at least 25% of the votes are already in, re the awakening of Sarah Palin and the hiding of Joe Biden, re the last hurrah of the maverick.

750P: Continued re ACORN, re the Obama manipulation of the ACORN ties to Obama, re the questions to come about the 5046 South Greenwood Avenue Obama mansion and the 5050 South Greenwood Avenue lot (right) bought by Tony Rezko.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re the election and the banks, re the Obama tax cuts, re the Fed cuts and the road ahead, re 0% interest by February?

820P: Financial roundtable, with Jim McTague, Barron's, Aaron Task, Yahoo, and Simon Constable, Dow Jones, re the Fed move to cut rates, re future Fed actions, re the bankers prepare to pay themselves bonuses with taxpayer cash.

835P: Continued re Tarp II and enforcement of mandate to loan, re the Obama and McCain tax cuts, re the recession and the Congress.

850P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the U.S. election and Israel, re the Israeli election, re the missing in action Ahmahdinejad in Tehran, re the beggaring of the oil states, re the US October 26 raid on Syria and the Damascus protest.

905P: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, re Jean Bertrand Aristide and the untold story fo the Haitian telecom corruption with Democratic Party bosses in the Clinton years, re Hugo Chavez struggles without the oil spike.

920P: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re the election and the European Union, re the EU and the financial crisis, re the Obama expectations and Nicholas Sarkozy and Iran.

935P: Shane Hamilton, author, "Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy," re the parallel and interlocked rise of the independent truckers since the 1930s and the political phenomenon of anti-union, anti-regulation, decentralized agribusiness that promoted the conservative ideas of smaller government and small business far ahead of the Republican party brew after Goldwater.

955P: Exeunt with Bob Zimmerman re Obama and NASA.

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705P PT: Professionals Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, re the Congressional elections and the expectations of a Democratic agenda, re Mrs. Pelosi elevated to the authority of Tip O'Neill and Sam Rayburn.

720P: Alex Fragos, Wall Street Journal, re Donald Trump's Trump International & Hotel Chicago glass tower out of customers, out of time, out of bankers, and the retail is empty, re the Chicago Tower of Babel.

735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, Diana West, NRO, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the closing hours of the Obama triumph and the McCain torrent, re the MIA George W. Bush and the unseen and unheard Dick Cheney, re the Europeans choose an American president.

750P: Continued re the widely admitted lack of information as to what an Obama presidency will resemble, and what skills Mr. Obama will bring to the transition and the Oval office.

805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the expectations of a Democratic congress, re the return of economic liberalism and the new diplomacy, re the mystery of an Obama management style, re the risk of the election and the next POTUS.

820P: Continued re the retreat and remaking of the Republican Party in a severely reduced state, re who lost the Republicans?

835P: Yosef Bodansky, author "Chechen Jihad," re the report of a North Korean aircraft intercepted and forced down in India, re the Syrian reaction to the US cross border strike Sunday October 26. U.S. Request Grounded N. Korean Plane.

850P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the Japanese markets and the financial crisis, re the collapse of the Hang Seng, the slowdown of the China mainland.

905P: Ann Marlowe, at Khost, Afghanistan, re the facts on Afghan civilian casualties from US air attacks (right, U.S. 1st Lt. Braden Amigo of the Third Platoon Delta company 1-26 infantry listens to an Afghan villager during a patrol in Narang district near Pakistani border in Kunar province eastern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct 31, 2008), re the deterioration of the security, re the stress on the NATO forces, re the Americans propose talks with the Taliban.

920P: Ann Marlowe joined by Daoud Sultanzoy, member of Afghanistan government, at Kabul, re the Americas propose talks with the Taliban, re the Pakistan government harbors the Taliban.

935P: Robert Sullivan, editor, author, "The American Journey of Barack Obama," dominated by photographs and featuring an essays by Gay Talese on Ann Dunham, Richard Norton Smith, Andrei Cordescu. Photos include Ted Kennedy, Ken Salazar, HRC, Jeremiah Wright, but no photos of Bill Clinton, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Dick Daley, Rod Blagojevich, the Springfield Senate years, the Woods Fund, the 2000 congressional race against Bobby Rush.

955P: Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, the death of Detroit, GM threatens martyrdom, the VW short squeeze, the luxury car market hesitates

Sunday 26 October, 2008 NY, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on October 24, 2008 11:03 AM

705P ET: Jed Babbin, Human Events, re John McCain's promises and the party's expectations of a McCain presidency with campaign finance reform, offshore-drilling, ANWR, immigration reform, taxes, the Paulson bailout, and especially the courts. Will John McCain fight the Democratic Senate on court appointments? Re is there hope in the bleakness?

720P: Eric Umansky, ProPublica, re the Paulson plan, version 3, how will the Treasury pick which banks stay in the lifeboat and which banks are asked to exit the lifeboat, and what are the rules? Perhaps rules is too strong.

735P: Roundtable with Diana West, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, re the closing hours of the Black Swan campaign, re Obama off the trail and McCain looking for the trail, re the mysteries of Biden Speak, re the absence of information about Obama's, Biden's and McCain's wardrobe.

750P: Continued re Young Barack Obama the sentimental Marxist opportunist, but then, Ivan Ilyich Ulyanov was a celebrated sentimental Marxist opportunist and look how that turned out?

805P: Financial roundtable with Jim McTague, Barron's, and Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re Alan Greenspan says "I'm sorry" and asks for a do-over for the last forty years. Congress applauds. Re the bear market settles in for a long nap. Re "The Traders Who Touch Their Faces" Blog, Friday 24 October editor (right).

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Tehran picks Obama, re Hamas picks Obama, re Syria strangely quiet, re the mysteries of Biden Speak over the decades.

835P: Paul Hollrah, New Media Journal, re the unusually large amounts of money flowing into the Obama campaign in peculia dollar amounts such as $198.77 or $143.04, re the piggy bank explanation, re the foreign currency laundering explanation, re the 2.5 million donors to the Obama campaign and the two million of them still unnnamed.

850P: Kevin O'Rourke, TestTube.tv, re the collapse of TV budgets and Hollywood budgets, re where does a movie company go to get a bailout, the the new sit com pitch, "I Was A Teenaged Banker (and now I'm an outlaw)"

905P: Candice Knezevic, EnoughProject.org, re the genocide in the Eastern Congo the deade long civil war, the depredations and the expectations, re the credit crisis reached the Congo in 1912 and never left, re African expectations of the Obama administration

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re Hamas prepares the victory parade for the Obama/Biden ticket, re what does Hamas want and how long will it take? Re the odd remark by Ahmed Yousef that Hamas is in communication with the Bush administration.

935P: Andrew Meier, "The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Service," re the mystery and the solution of Isaiah Oggins, born 1898 in Connecicut, who pursued his leftist passion to joining Stalin's NKVD in 1928 and working to spy on the Germans, the Japanese and himself until he and his wife were snared by Stalin's Gulag.

955P: Exeunt Bob Zimmerman re the India moonshot and the Asian moon race.

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705P PT: Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal, re the crashed California housing market and signs of repair and reawakening that resemble animating a corpse, re California with 12% of the nation's housing but with 34% of the loans in the mortgage backed security sausage that is the rot inside the machine, re Merced County (right, the original county courthouse, 1875, now a museum) re brown laws, foreclosed renters, banks without pity, re 2006 in Los Banos in Merced county showed subprime loans at 45%. If you own a house in California, you want to know about Merced County.

720P: Devin Nunes, congressman 21st California (R), Tulare County in San Joaquin Valley, the farm belt, re the credit crisis in the Valley, re the campaign trail after his double "No" votes on the Paulson bailout plan Tarp I and Tarp II, re the remains of the Republican House and he GOP minority leadership that failed on September 29 and October 3, voting with the Maximum Bankers.

735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the McCain campaign wanders the map looking for a poll that doesn't frown; re the rumors of McCain camp abandoning ship before it sinks; re the mystery of the Obama team.

750P: Continued re the strange case of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank: the good cop/bad cop formal?

805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, The McLoughlin group, Bill Whalen, Hoover, John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the strange case of the absent candidate doing better in the polls than the present candidate, re the unusual world of Joe Biden, re the delcine and fall of the GOP.

820P: Continued re who will be blamed, re the America people surge for a savior who is also a cipher.

835P: Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the deepening and darkening world wide recession, re the wish-dream of de-coupling, re the sell-off in European bourses accelerates.

850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Univere in a Mirror," re the India moonshot, the Asian moon race, the Soyuz returns to Earth, re the Hubble backup restart.

905P: Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, at Baghdad, re the plunging price of oil and the Iraqi budget, re the world wide recession hits Iraq, re the security in Baghdad and the price of oil, re OPEC cuts and Iraq, Iraqi Spokesman Rebuffs U.S. Admiral Remarks on Security Pact.

920P: Patrick Barta, Wall Street Journal, at Jakarta, re the South Sea seaweed bubble and the collapse of commodities, Indonesia Soaked as Seaweed Bubble Bursts re the global recession hits Asia and takes down the most vulnerable.

935P: Andy Jampoler, author, "The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt's Flight form the Gallows," re the man who knew Booth and the conspirators was in Elmire, New York on the day Booth shot Lincoln, and he ran.

955P: Exeunt re banking crisis of 1933 and FDR's (right, March 12, 1933) -- Let us unite in banishing fear," -- first fireside chat on banking.

Sunday 19 October NYC, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on October 17, 2008 2:00 PM | 5 Comments

705P ET: Amity Schlaes, author, "The Forgotten Man," re the mistakes FDR made in 1933 that lengthened the recession into the Great Depression, re It Can't Happen Here.

720P: Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, author, re the Crash of 2008, the hedge funds commit suicide in public, Mr. Market prepares for Mr. Obama, re who is smarter, Morgan Stanley's John Mack or Goldman's Hank Paulson?

735P: Roundtable with Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re the Housing Bubble wwas the Republican Bubble, re the projections for the GOP in the House and Senate.

750P: Continued re the banks hoard and who is surprised?

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, "Kudlow and Company," re the bear market of 08-09, re the Hank Paulson reload on TARP and the banks prepare to survive, re is John McCain a Republican?

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the rise of Hugo Chavez and the long reach of Tehran.

835P: John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re ACORN and the long standing corruption of voter registration by vandals, re the rest of the facts about Mr. Obama and ACORN. Court Ruling Stokes Voter-Fraud Fight.

850P: David Henderson, Hoover, re the Nobel Price in Economics for Paul Krugman, New York Times, and Oslo votes for Obama early.

905P: Aaron Klein, WND, re conversation with Dr. Ahmed Yusef, chief political advisor to the Hamas government in Gaza, re the report of StateSec Rice writing a complinentary letter to Hamas in Damascus, re the Hamas expectation of an Obama/Biden Administration.

920P: Evelyn Pringle, OpEd News, re the revelations in the Washington Times re a Mutual Bank of Chicago former clerk accusing his bank of fraud and collusion with regard the Tony Rezko handling of Barack Obama's 2005 mansion purchase, re May 2005 and the pressures on Tony Rezko to deliver on a GE lawsuit, on a bribe to Iraq, and on the purchase of the lot and house for Barack Obama, re the ongoing risk to Obama, re the complete picture of how Rezko schemed for the house and the money, see a summary in the Alexandria Library of Obamana: "The Real Barack Obama."

935P: Jacob Weisberg, author, "The Bush Tragedy," re the unusual facts of the Bush family of the 20th century that produced the incurious, put-upon, inert President George W. Bush (right, re the market crisis).

955P: Exeunt re the original proto rubble pile that is Phobos of Mars (right), building blocks of Earth, re Lou ann Hammond and the Michelin tire of the future.

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705P PT: Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal, re congressional hearings on the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac risks as early as 1996, when no one listened or reacted to the risk management.

720P: Shamona Coutts, ProPublica, re the next wave of foreclosures as teaser mortgages balloon, also re AIG continuing to lobby the government that owns it.

735P: Roundtable with Diana West, Larry Johnson and Jim McTague re the third debate and the inability of John McCain to follow his own questions, re the skills of Barack Obama, re Joe the Plumber joins the campaign.

750P: Continued re the mysteries of the candidate's tax planning.

805P: Roundtable with Monica Crowley, Bill Whalen, and John Avlon, re class warfare works, re the last debate and the competences of demagoguery,

820P: Continued re the silence or hoarseness of the Bush Administration.

835P: Charles Forelle, Wall Street Journal, re the continued saga of Iceland, re how Iceland saw the end coming and sought a way out, re the failure of all defenses and the beggary of an island nation. Iceland Missed Signs of Liquidity Freeze. Icelandair Tries to Restore Health.

850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the trouble with Hubble improves, the restart of the "486"computer onboard, re coffee cups in space, re the space tourist who can buy the Soyuz.

905P: James Bamford, author, "The Shadow Factory," re the NSA that missed the 9/11 killers and has rebuilt itself into a global signals intelligence system, Big Brother's Big Uncle.

920P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the global credit criss and the Asia markets, re the coming recession in Asia.

935P: Peter Heller, author, "The Whale Killers," re the radical ecologists chasing the piratical Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica, December 2005 to January 2006, re playing chick in a gale, re the agony of the whales.

955P: Exeunt re Science Magazine on the uncharted landscape of race and presidential polling 2008.

The Crash of '08, October 12, 2008

By John Batchelor on October 11, 2008 5:33 PM | No Comments

John Batchelor Show Special The Crash of '08, October 12, 2008

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705P ET: Devin Nunes, 21^st California (R), representing San Joaquin Valley, the farm belt of America, re the Paulson bailout package votes of September 29 and October 4, re the global market plunge continue regardless of the Paulson plan.

720P: Claudia Rosett, Foundation Defense Democracies, re the Obama Policy, for rogues and failed states, vs. the McCain Policy, from the Nashville debate, the the market collapse and the rogue North Korea.

735P: Roundtable with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re the campaign week during the market plunge and the global crisis.

750P: Continued re the "relationship" between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers and John McCain.

805P: Dan Henninger, Wall Street Journal, re the collapse of norms on Wall Street and across all of the four estates. A Call for Norms.

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the Russia cooperation with the illicit Tehran nuclear fuel program, re the ambiguous remarks by the presidential candidates re Iran's nuclear weapons program, re the oil bubble collapse and the rogue Iran.

835P: Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times, re Tony Rezko, Barack Obama's campaign financier for the '04 Senate race, cooperating with prosecutors in the ongoing investigation of Illinois government corruption.

850P: Conor Dougherty, Wall Street Journal, re the spiral of the California economy as harbinger for the nation, the continent. California May Point Way for U.S.

905P: Judy Shelton, Wall Street Journal, author, re the crisis in money, re the gold standard vs. the central bank board, re the prospect of a new Bretton Woods monetary conference called for by Nicolas Sarkozy.

920P: James Polti, Financial Times, re the 35 year-old Goldman protégé at Treasury now in charge of spending $700 billion for Hank Paulson, Kashkari. Rescue Was Sold Softly to the Street

935P: Bill White, author, "Intrepid," re the Intrepid Air and Space Museum and the famous boat that houses it, re the 1941 birth, the 2001 draft into the War on Terror.

955P: Jim McTague, Barron's re the de facto nationalization of the banks.

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705P PT: Amity Schlaes, author, "The Forgotten Man," re the great depression and the FDR errors and oversteps that deepened the crisis, re the Crash of '29 vs the Crash of '08.

720P: Kristin Jones, ProPublica, re the troika of Paulson, Cox and Bernanke praise credit derivatives once upon a time. Top Regulators Once Opposed Regulation of Derivatives

735P: Professionals Larry Johnson, Diana West, Craig Unger, re the campaign week, re the dullness of the Nashville debate, re McCain erratic and Obama cool, the market rules, and the end of the banker.

750P: Continue re the "relationship" of Ayers and Obama and McCain and Palin. Re the Chicago report that Tony Rezko cooperating about Alexi Giannoulias, the puppy treasurer of Illinois and Barack Obama's hand-picked candidate for Rod Blagojevich.

805P: Professionals Bill Whalen, Hoover, and Jim McTague, Barron's, re the California credit crisis, re the run on small and medium regional banks, re the imminent collapse of Detroit and Dover (credit cards), re the campaigns ignore reality to talk about jobs.

820P: Continued re the market crisis and the credibility of Bush, Congress, the Federal Reserve, the G7, and globalization.

835P: Charles Forelle, Wall Street Journal, re the collapse and bankruptcy of the krona and Iceland with it, re the poster for banking excess, re the krona vs. the cod.

850P: Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal, at Shanghai, re the Chinese military breaks off cooperation with the U.S. military over the Taiwan arms deal. Re the market collapse and Chinese stability. Pentagon Feels Chill Set In With China.

905P: Jimmy Rogers, author, "Bull in China," from Singapore, re the global credit panic and the crash of '08. In March, Jimmy Rogers told this audience to sell every rally and fire Ben Bernanke and to stop bailing out the guys with Maseratis.

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, Universe in a Mirror, re the trouble with Hubble, re the NASA cutbacks on Mars and in low Earth orbit, re the US cuts a deal with Russia Soyuz, re the space program and the U.S. budget.

935P: James O'Donnell, author, "The Ruin of the Roman Empire," re the limits of the Romanization of continental Europe, the revanchism of the Byzantines until the dead of the Sauron-like Justinian (563 A.D.) and the rise of the Franks and the Britons as the center of global civilization for fifteen hundred years.

955P: Lou Ann Hammond, re the collapse and bankruptcy of insolvent Detroit, GM first.

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday October 5, 2008

By John Batchelor on October 5, 2008 5:40 PM | No Comments

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday October 5, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on October 03, 2008 at 9:51 PM

WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET: Thaddeus McCotter, Member of Congress, 11th Michigan (R), re the Paulson bailout fight, re the rejection in the House on Monday, 205-228, re the jam job by the Senate, re the passage in the House after the pork and perks, 263-171. Re the GOP holds, 91-108.

720P: James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, re the Bill Clinton defense of the Phil Gramm deregulation bill of 1999 that lowered the alls between banks, investment banks, brokerages and hedgies.

735P: Roundtable with Mona Charen, NRO, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re the bailout bill and the struggle with Congress, re the Paulson-Pelosi-Hoyer trio, re the revolt of the GOP.

750P: Continued re the Palin and Biden debate.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re the crisis in the banks and the TARP, re the Paulson plan going forward, re the calls for recapitalizing the banks. "There's more here than just the bailout package."

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Olmert makes more promises, re the North Koreans restart their reactor program and what that means for Syria.

835P: Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy, re "American Carol."

850P: Jack Shaw, ex-DoD, re Nadmi Auchi part 2, the corruption of the CPA leads to corruption of the Maliki government, re Iraq as a kleptocracy.

905P:John Gapper, Financial Times, re "The Banker's Fall," and the complete collapse of the banking sector.

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the gathering storm in Lebanon as Syria looms.

935P: Bill White, author "Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship."

955P: Exeunt Bob Zimmerman, re the Hubble trouble and the delayed ISS mission to Hubble.

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KFI Sunday Schedule October 5, 2008

By John Batchelor on October 5, 2008 5:35 PM | No Comments

KFI Sunday Schedule October 5, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on October 03, 2008 at 6:57 PM

KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT: Nomi Prins, author, "Other People's Money," re the credit crisis, the collapse of the banking sectr, the emergency bailout, the road ahead.

720P: Aaron Task, Yahoo Business, re the market gyrations, the bear market, the recession in place, the limits of the Fed, the panic, hysteria, gloom on Wall Street and in the global markets.

735P: Roundtable with Margaret Hoover,FNC, Jim McTague, Barron's, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the credit crisis and the election. The showdown in the House. The futile maneuvers of John McCain. The anti-climactic Palin/Biden debate.

750P:Continued: McCain camp abandons Michigan: is this the end of the McCain campaign? Palin pushes back re Michigan.

805P: Roundtable with Monica Crowley, Monica Crowley Show, Bill Whalen, Hoover, and John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the market swoon and the crisis management at the White House and Treasury, re the bullying nature of Hank Paulson, the aimless appeals of George Bush, the feckless leadership in the House of Representatives.

820P: Continued re the pointless debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.

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