705P Eastern Time: John Bolton AEI, re Ayatollah Khatami's uncompromising message at Friday prayers comes as G8 ministers demand immediate end to violence: Mousavi Vows to Continue Election Protests
720P Eastern Time: Marc Morano, Climate Change Depot, A landmark climate bill narrowly passed a procedural hurdle in the House, a sign that leadership may barely have enough votes for final passage later in the day.
735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, DowJones, Jom McTague, Barron's, re The 10 large banks that have been cleared to repay TARP funds would need to submit "a determination of fair market value" to Treasury by the end of next week if they wish to repurchase warrants.
805P Eastern Time: Fred Burton, Stratfor.com Iran's leaders are successfully pushing back threats to their authority, crushing street protests, pressing challengers to withdraw or to limit their objections to the disputed presidential election and restricting the main opposition leader's ability to do much more than issue statements of outrage.
835P Eastern Time: Andrew Rice, author, "My Teeth Are Smiling But My Heart Is Sad." Re the tradic legacy of the tyranny of Idi Amin in Uganda 1972-1979.
850P Eastern Time: Banafshe Zand-Bonazzi, Planet Iran, update on the suppression of the protests of the Ahmadinejad re-election.
905P Eastern Time: Annette Lu, former Vice President Republic of Taiwan, re Taiwan relations with Mainland, re Taiwan the the US.
920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, collapse of relations between Tehran and the G8, breakdown in backchannel communications between Washington and Tehran, Tehran and Venezuela, what of Damascus?
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Mon Charen, NRO, re
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Mark Sanford meets John Ensign mystery.
1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, re the suppression of dissent in Tehran and the fall of the Islamic Republic.
1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Brian Benstock, The
official name of the program is C.A.R.S. - "Consumer Assistance to Recycle and
Save Program and our information website is the bills name: www.ConsumerAssistanceToRecycleAndSaveProgram.org,
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Diane West, DianeWest.net,. Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re hralthcare legislation advances, re the climate change bill passes in the House.
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued re the strange case of Mark Sanford the presidential candidate.
1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Ardeshir Arian, Media-Without-Walls, John AVlon, DailyBeast.com, Larry Johnson, re the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan and the cover-up of the murder, re Dr. Jehazi spesak in London re the Basij shooter.
1120P: (820P Pacific Time):Continued the White House speaks more stridently all week long; holds a luau and cancels the barbecue invitation, and praises Mousavi at week's end
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Larry Tye, author, "Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend."
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, re the Tehran crisis and the cut-off of funds to the terror gangs from Tehran, re hard times in Gaza and the West Bank without the Tehran dollar.
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re North Korea threatens to attack the US, China cracks down on the web and dissent.
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Amir Taheri, author, "Persian Nights: Iran Under the Khameinist Regime."
1255P: (950P Pacific Time): Joseph Sternberg, Europe Wall Street Journal, from Brussels, re trade retatliation between the US and China and the EU.
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Combined Simulcasts: "Whole World Is Watching Tehran" Special.
705P Eastern Time: Michael Ledeen, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, re the Twelver reign of terror in Tehran and the Obama administration policy
720P Eastern Time:
735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Ed Hayes, Dawn Kotecki, Bloomberg Record Unemployment Rates in Eight States
905P Eastern Time: Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re Twelver reign of terror, re how the Ummah regards the Twelvers and the Iran struggles.
920P Eastern Time: Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re WHO alert to Phase Six global pandemic H1N1, re H1N1 mutation in Sao Paolo and what it means for the fall 09?
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, Diane West, DianeWest.net, re healthcare tussle in Congress, re Obama tangle with Senate coats and House costs, re Obama policy on Iran and the Hill condemnation of Twelver regime
,
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re John Ensign mystery.
1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Russ Brit, Marketwatch, at LA, re the Boeing prospects at the Paris Air Show and the C-17 plants at Long Beach, re unemployment in SoCal and California.
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): John Fund, Wall Street Journal. Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, Jom McTague, Barron's, re the president's polling numbers, re healthcare costs balloon, re unemployment skyrockets ahead.,
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued re the Obama administration Tehran policy so far, re "the whole world is watching" remark by POTUS.
1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Ardeshir Arian, Media-Without-Walls, re reign of terror in Tehran, re the Iran expat community in Westwood, Los Angeles, re Radio Farsi 670 in LA, re the latest reports from the resistance in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashad.
1120P: (820P Pacific Time):Continued with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and Craig Unger, Vanity Fair re the Obama administration policy steps with reragd Tehran reign of terror.
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Larry Tye, author, "Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend."
1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Daniel Taub, Bloomberg, re housing prices in Southern California rise for the first time in two years, why, what does it mean ahead?
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Stuart Woo, Wall Street Journal, California Schools' Tough Choices
U.S. Fortifies Hawaii Amid
Threat
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Ethan Smith, Wall Street Journal, re Michael Jackson's "Neverland," in foreclosure, now renovated for resale, and the elephants are gone.
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Amir Taheri, author, "Persian Nights: Iran Under the Khameinist Regime."
1255P: (950P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the Kim regime threat to launch a new ICBM at the Eastern Pacific, re SecDef Gates dispatches missile defense to Hawaii.
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Combined Simulcasts: "Rx America" and "Loose Nukes" Special.
705P Eastern Time: Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, re Obama Stumps for a Public
Insurance Option - Obama reiterated his support for a public health-insurance
option, and said he will soon detail plans for new savings that could fund part
of the expensive overhaul.
735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Tom Donlon, Barron's, re Bernanke Success May Come
at Cost of Congress Curbing Fed Power:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's success in stabilizing the financial
system through unprecedented use of the central bank's powers may come at the
cost of Congress limiting some of that authority in the future.
Citigroup Bailout Pays
Taxpayers Three Times as Much as S&P 500: U.S. taxpayers have reaped a 7.5 percent return on the $45
billion used to rescue Citigroup Inc., more than three times as much as if the
money had been invested in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
750P Eastern Time: Lehman Spars With
Barclays in $6 Million Dispute Over Desks, Chairs: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., nine months after
selling its brokerage to Barclays Plc while in bankruptcy, is still in
disputes with the British bank over who owns what, including the investment
bank's own furniture.
805P Eastern Time: Fred Burton, author, "Ghost: Confessions of a Couterterrorism Agent," re the trial of Mohammed Ghailani in New York City.
820P Eastern Time; John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money," re the Torture Memos at the DOJ, re the ongoing legal maze with regard the GITMO detainees.
835P Eastern Time: Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, authors, "Reagan's Secret War," re the Regan search for nuclear disarmament and the end of the Cold War, June 1, 1988a.
850P Eastern Time: Lou Ann Hammond, re Chrysler panics at the arrival of Fiat, re GM prexy from outer space.
A Pentagon
decision to not advise Guantanamo Bay prisoners of their rights during
questioning could prove a big legal obstacle. Gitmo Detainee Pleads Not Guilty
920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the West Bank settlements and the Obama administration, re Netanyahu's speech answering the Obama administration, re Iran Poremkin poll, re Israeli Minister Calls Iran a Threat.
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, War-Funding Bill Set for
Vote After Obama Intervenes on Abuse Photo Issue: U.S. lawmakers are set to approve a $106
billion war-spending bill after President Barack Obama said he would use "every
legal and administrative remedy available" to block the release of photos of
troops abusing detainees. "Negotiators from the House and Senate yesterday
agreed on the compromise legislation after Obama intervened in a dispute over a
Republican-backed proposal to add provisions to the bill to bar release of the
photos. He wrote a letter, read aloud to negotiators considering the war bill,
promising to make every effort to thwart an American Civil Liberties Union
lawsuit seeking to force the release of the pictures."
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Baucus health care tax benefits
unions, re Health Cost CutsObama
outlined another $313 billion in cuts to health care spending over 10 years,
largely impacting hospitals, as he hunts additional dollars to pay for expanded
coverage for the uninsured
1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Jimmy Rogers, author, "A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lesson's for Life and Investing," re the financial crisis and the future of the American taxpayer.
1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re WHO alert to Phase Six global pandemic H1N1, re is WHO dangerous to global health?
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Stephen F. Cohen, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War." Chapter 1: Bukharin's Fate.
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued, Chapter 2 and 3: The Victim's Return: Gulag Survivors Since Stalin; The Tragedy of Soviet Conservatism.
1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re President Lee of South Korea.
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): John F. Ross, author, "War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert ROgers and the COnquest of the American Frontier," re Rogers creation of the special operations rangers during the French and Indian Wars, the battles from Lake George to Lake Champlain, the loggerheads with George Washington, the betrayal of Nathan Hale.
1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re NASA Delays Space Shuttle LaunchA potentially
dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up during the fueling of space shuttle
Endeavour on Saturday and forced NASA to postpone the launch by at least four
days.
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, author, "The Late Great State of Israel," re the West Bank settlements and the Obama dispute with Netanyahu.
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Exeunt Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the Kim regime turmoil continues.
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Tom Holland, author, "The Forge of Christendom," re the apocalyptic anxiety of the year 1000 and the Norse King Canute, Ciaro Caliph Al Hakim, and their dual imperial visions now one thousand years later still in the news.
1255P: (950P Pacific Time): Steve Gregory, KFI, re the turmoil at the LA Staples Center after the Laker victory in Orlando, Florida.
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Combined Simulcasts: "POTUS in the Great Pyramid Special."
705P Eastern Time: Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, House Lifts
the Lid On Its ExpensesPelosi
directed House officials to post office-expense reports online in the wake of
disclosures that lawmakers spent some taxpayer money on luxury-car leases,
big-screen TVs and flowers. |Video
720P Eastern Time: Jeff Green, Bloomberg, GM Bonds Signal Market
Value Topping Ford's on Federal Bailout: General
Motors Corp. bond trading shows investors are betting its government-backed
bankruptcy will create a company with a higher market value than Ford Motor
Co., the only major U.S. automaker to shun a federal rescue.
735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money." re Sotomayor nomination, re GM bankruptcy, re Chrysler deal, re FDIC cracks down after the fact on 19 big banks.
750P Eastern Time: Continued, re What really happened to Bear and Lehman? re state of banks and fate of TARP money, re is Wall Street in a rally mode? Do we go positive for the year next week?
805P Eastern Time: Keith Perine CQ re Sotomayor
Senators meetings, re Sotomayor Hearings
Likely in July Democrats want the
Senate to vote on Sotomayor before the August recess, scheduled to begin on
Aug. 7. Republicans have said they want more time to prepare for her
confirmation hearing.
820P Eastern Time; Gordon Cucullu is a retired
army colonel and the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea
Became the Evil Twin, re the Kim regime and the provocations. Re GITMO: Gordon Cucullu, a retired
army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for
himself. In a series of visits he inspected every corner of the camp and
interviewed dozens of personnel, from guards and interrogators to cooks and
nurses. The result--coming just as the Obama administration wants to close the
facility--is a riveting description of daily life for both prisoners and guards.
Cucullu describes the six camps reserved for different levels of compliance,
details the treatment of prisoners, and examines their experiences in detail,
including the techniques used to interrogate them, the food they eat, their
medical care, how they communicate with one another, and the many ingenious
ways they contrive to assault and injure their guards
850P Eastern Time: Continued with Wesley Gray, re the risks and lessons of the US Marines in Anbar Province during 2006 along the Euphrates River, re confronting the Sunni Arab tribes and clans with a Shia-based Iraqi army of amateurs.
905P Eastern Time: Melik Kaylan, Forbes,com and Wall Street Journal, re the POTUS embassy to Arabia and to Cairo, re the ambitions of the Ummah and the search for "respegnity." Re the POTUS speech at Cairo.
920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re POTUS confab with Faisal of Arabia, re POTUS speech and visit in Cairo, re the Obama administration policy demand that the Netanyahu government cease development of settlements on the West Bank.
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, re the Sotomayor week of meetings with senators, re POTUS Cairo speech, re the next big adventure of Democratic healthcare.
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Sarah Palin's unusual campaign style language.
1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), Livonia, re Chrysler's deal with Fiat paused by courts, re what does Chrusler's sale to Fiat mean for GM and unemployment in Michigan?
1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Laura Litvan, Bloomberg, House Democrats are
weighing health care overhaul legislation that would require Americans to have
health insurance, with some exceptions, according to an outline circulating in
Washington.
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Roundtable re Afpakia and North Korea. Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, MAry Kissel, Wall Street Journal Asia, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the Pakistan army offensive in Swat Valley, re North Korea provocations. North Korea Succession. re China Tiannamen Square.
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued re Robert Joseph of Bush administration recommends dumping Six-Party and appeasement and getting rough on China re cut-offs to Kim.
1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable. John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jim McTague, Barron's, re POTUS in Cairo, re FDIC gets tough on Citi, re what really happened when Bear and Lehman failed, do we know?
1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the Obamicans, the GOP joins the Obama administration, re Obama worries about GITMO.
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Gerald Martin, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life," re the new biography of the now 82-year-ol Nobel Lauerate, from rural Colombia, re the rise of the LAtin American Boom writers, re "One Hundred Years of Solitude," re GCM's grandfather and grandmother as the well of magical realism.
1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," There's going to be a
wedding in zero-g: re the founder of
Cirque du Soleil is going to be a space tourist: Also, Virgin Galactic has
begun engine tests of SpaceShip Two's engines:
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): John Bolton, AEI, re North Korea and the Kim regime succession, and what it means for the provocations, re Robert Joseph recommends discarding the Six PArty Talks and pressuring China to cut off aid to the Kim regime, re the threat of the Pyongyang-Tehran axis.
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the Kim regime succession, re the trial of the two American journalists and rumors of Al Gore to the region to negotiate the relase of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Kate Kelly, author, "Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, The Toughest Firm on Wall Street," re the first failure of a New York player in the housing bubble game of 2002-2008, re the self-pity, blame-shifting, recklessness, sloppy greed, ordinary stupidity, and over-bearing self-election of men who paid themselves fortunes for trading risk and lost their sense of proportion when the music stopped. Systemic failure is a non-confrontational way of saying that the lords of Wall Street were naked fools long enough to wreck all of us.
1255P: (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt re Saturn to Penske, Hummer to China.
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Combined Simulcasts.
705P Eastern Time: Ken Jost, Congressional Quarterly, re Sotomayor nomination.
720P Eastern Time: Michael Crittenden, Wall Street Journal, re the state of banking, thr TARP banks, the FDIC oppinion of the troubled banks.
735P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Laurie Meckler, Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Allen, CQ, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, re Sotomayor nomination, re GM bankruptcy, re POTUS trip to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
750P Eastern Time: Continued, re POTUS speech in Cairo, re state of banks and fate of TARP money.
805P Eastern Time: Ed Hayes, attorney, James Rowley, Bloomberg, re Sotomayor nomination, her Sotomayor experience in Manhattan DA, as a criminal trial judge.
820P Eastern Time: Jeff Green, Bloomberg, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), Livonia, re GM bankruptcy, re unemployment and dislocation in Detroit and Michigan.
835P Eastern Time: Anne Nelson, author, "The Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler," re the artists, actors, married couples, colleagues who worked actively against the Nazi apparatus from 1933 until their dectruction by the Gestapo in 1942.
850P Eastern Time: Continued with Anne Nelson, re John Sieg, American born German citizen who resisted Hitler while working for the Nazi machine and passing information to the British and the Russians by radio.
905P Eastern Time: Jeff Rosen, The New Republic, re Sotomayor nomination and the expectation of future Supreme Court decisions based upon her addition the mix.
920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Abbas visit to POTUS at Oval Office, re Tehran sends warships to Gulf of Aden, re Tehran plot against Israeli embassy in Baku.
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Diana West, DianaWest.net, re Sotomayor nomination, re Republican response to Sotomayor.
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re GM bankruptcy, re Congress and the politics of the bankruptcy.
1005P: (705 P Pacific Time): Colin Levy, Wall Street Journal, re Sotomayor nominations of the Senate Judiciary Committee, re Joe Biden and his obstreperous flavor on the Senate Judiciary Committee since the 1980s.
1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan, re the GM bankruptcy and the severe unemployment in Michigan, now at 12.9 moving to as high as 20%.
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Roundtable re Afpakia and North Korea. Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the Pakistan army offensive in Swat Valley, re North Korea provocations.
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued re SecDef Robert Gates statement that the US will not permit North Korea to become a nuclear weapon power.
1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable. John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jim McTague, Barron's, re Sotomayor and the response of the Republicans, re the Obama administration and the Sotomayor process.
1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the Republican self-destruction re the Sotomayor nomination, re the banking crisis and the obfuscations of the Treasury and FDIC.
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Christopher McDougall, author, "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen," re the Aztec descendants in the Copper Canyons of Chihuahua Province, Mexico, utltra-marathons, running medecine and racing 50 miles in sandals.
1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the Hubble rescue mission de-brief, the the Soyuz docking at ISS, re the next shuttle to ISS.
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, WND, from Jerusalem, re the dispute between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government and the West Bank settlements, re the upcoming Obama speech in Cairo.
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re GM bankrutpcy and what caused GM failure, re Chrysler failure, re Ford future.
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the financial crisis and the weak European recovery, re the reasons for prolonged Euro GDP weakness.
1250P: (950P Pacific Time): Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the North Korean threat, re the Seoul government response, re Robert Gates statement.
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Memorial Day Special.
705P Eastern Time: Matt Bai, NYT, re the surprising non-story of the gay marriage amendments and law changes in states, re how the young voters poll an indifference to the topic, that is, no opposition.
The probe into who knew
about Madoff's massive fraud has broadened to include high-profile investors
including Jeffry Picower and Stanley Chais, and Carl Shapiro, an old friend of
the money manager
750P: Stephanie Simon, Wall Street Journal, Using Spidey Sense on the Border A small Homeland Security unit is charged with adding whiz-bang wonder to the drudgery of border patrols and vehicle checkpoints. Texas Mayor Trades Job for Romance Texas mayor J.W. Lown resigned this week, saying he is in love with a Mexican man who doesn't have permission to remain in the U.S.
805P: Ed Hayes, attorney, re In Bronx Bomb Case, Steps and Missteps Alike Caught on TapeIn documents, interviews and court hearings, details of a homegrown terror plot and the checkered life stories of the four men charged further emerged.
835P: Financial Roundtable, Thaddeus McCotter, Member of Congress, Jim McTague, Barron's, David Weidner, Marketwatch.com, re the auto talks, re the report that Chrysler will emerge from bankruptcy and that GM will go into bankruptcy. U.S. to Steer GM Toward Bankruptcy
850P: Continued re GM Reaches Deal in CanadaThe Canadian Auto Workers said it has reached an agreement with General Motors on cost-cutting measures.
905P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, from Jerusalem, re Netanyahu's visit to the White House, re the missile test in Iran, re the POTUS statement of a deadline for Iran diplomacy.
920P: Aaron Klein, author, "The Late Great State of Israel," re the Hamas preparation for an Obama administration outreach.
935P: Jim Leeke, author, Manila and Santiago, re the Spanish American War of 1898 and the rise of Assistant Secretary of the Navy T.R. Roosevelt.
955P: Exeunt, re Quentin Tarrantino, Brad Pitt, at Canne, "Inglourious Basterds."
Forty-four
states lost jobs in April, led by California where employers slashed 63,700
positions. Michigan's 12.9% jobless rate was the nation's highest.Schwarzenegger Puts Legacy on the Line
720P: Zuhdi Jasser, narrator, "The Third Jihad," re the four Newburgh New York residents arrested for plot against a Riverdale synagogue and military aircraft.
735P Professional roundtable; re Obama administration policy on Iran: with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Bill Roggio, Long War Journal,Manda Zervin, PlanetIran.com, Diana West, DianaWest.net, re the Obama meeting with PM Netanyahu of Israel, re the Tehran test firing of an ICBM, re the Obama diplomacy toward Iran.
750P: Continued re Iran's operations in Iraq, in Baluchistan, in Afghanistan.
805P: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Asia, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, B. Raman, Institute for Topical Studies, re the two rogues of Pakistan and North Korea, re the Pakistan Army offensive in Malakand, the containment policy, the Obama administration gift-giving to Zardari.
820P: Continued re North Korea provocations, the Google Earth map of North Korea, the credible threat of an additional North Korean nuke test.
835P: Eric Boehlert, "Bloggers On The Bus:How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press" re Kos, MYDD, Maddow, de Vellis, Greenwald, Palin, the rise and fall of the netroots, 2004-2008, and the seeds of future journalism. Fun, helpful, curious, anecdotal, comprehensive, shrewdly suspicious and finally dismissive of the Obama campaign as exploiters more than experts of the blogosphere.
850P: Jason Gale, Bloomberg, Singapore, the state status of WHO and H1N1 threat, re the status of the vaccine, re what we know of the virus spread so far.
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EIT Special
705P Eastern Time: Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, re Goldman Sachs will be the first permitted to repay the Treasury and escape the grip of TARP, re Bear, Sterns, the prosecution.
720P: Michael Crittenden, Wall Street Journal, re AIG and the plan to repay the Treasury on five years, re Congress doubts CEO Liddy.
735P: Professional Roundtable with Jodi Schneider, CQ, Mona Charen, NRO, Diana West, Dianwest.net, re the strange parallel ordeals of Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi, re Guantanomo the revision, re the military tribunals, the revision, re healthcare where? Re EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques). Obama to revive military trialsDecision angers civil rights groups
750P: Continued re the long term rivalry of Nancy Pelosi and Leon Panetta.
805P: David Weidner, MarketWatch.com re the Obama administration proposal to regulate Wall Street bonuses and salaries at the banks that took TARP and those that did not.
820P: Marc Morano, ClimateDepot.com, re the Waxman-Markey markup of th cap and trade bill for the Obama energy program, re the latest reversals in the global warming theory.GOP plans 450 climate bill changes
835P: Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, Realclearmarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Ed Hayes, attorney, re Fear of TARP, re the Obama administration controls bonuses, control markets, controls insurers and banks, re the growing federal hand in enterprise. Insurers Back Away From TARP
850P: Continued re healthcare and cap and trade, re more taxes.
905P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, from Jerusalem, re
920P: Aaron Klein, author, "The Late Great State of Israel," re
935P: John Huddy, author, "Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-born, Soviet-trained, Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tunes of Five World-class Hotels, Three Aroured Cars, and Millions of Dollars." Jose Vioga, thug, mystery, buried alive forever.
955P: Exeunt with Gordon Chang, re North Korea continued provocations.
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705P Pacific Time: Phil Radford, Greenpeace, re the Obama administration energy proposals, re the Waxman-Markey mark-up of the cap and trade bill, re the prospects of legistlation.
720P: Robert Windrem, DailyBeast.com, re Charles Duelfer, Phil Zelikow, Dick Cheney and the EIT of non Al Qaeda detainees in 2002 and 2003.
735P: Professional Roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re the Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, the EIT of Abu Zubaydah, the closing of Guantanomo, the Obama revisions of the military tribunals.
805P: Thaddeus McCotter, Member of Congress, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Bill Whalen, Hoover, re political roundtable, re Chrysler?GM dealership closings and the GM and UAW deal pending, re the unusual Mrs. Pelosi and her atack on the CIA. GM to Close 1,100 Dealerships
820P: Continued re California Sinking, re the Terminator and the case for Mrs. Pelosi in a San Francisco Depression. Two Southern California Staples Falter
835P: Fasli Subhan and colleagues, SwatValley.org, re the huma crisis in the Swat Valley and the Northwest Provinces of Pakistan,Flood of Refugees Engulfs Pakistan
905P: Dilip Hiro, author, re Pakistan and the Zardari government, Pakistan and Britain and Europe. U.S. Sends Special Forces to PakistanThe U.S. is sending Special Forces teams into two of Pakistan's most violent regions, bringing U.S. personnel deeper into the country's lawless tribal areas.
920P: Joseph Sternberg, Asia Wall Street Journal, at Hong Kong, re the sharo fall off in China GDP and exports, re the continuing evidence of protectionism against China.
935P: Tom Holland, author, "The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West." From the First Crusade to the Norman conquest of Britain, the sweeping and paradoxical story of how Western Europe was convinced it was at the end of days and then, when the Anti-Christ did not arise, turned to creating an empire on earth that has dominated for a millenium and counting.
805P: Rebecca Christie, Bloomberg, re the stress tests, re Grading on a Curve
820P: Ed Hayes, attorney, re David Souter retires, and Sonia Sotomayr approaches the bench, re Associate Justice Bronx.
835P: Jim McTague, Barron's, Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, Realclearmarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Where You'll See Real Recovery First - Bill Fleckenstein, MSN Money
905P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, from Jerusalem, re pending visit by Pope to Jerusalem, re Netanyahu goes to Egypt.
920P: Aaron Klein, author, "The Late Great State of Israel," re the immediate threats to Israeli security, re Jews vs Jew over the security of the Jewish State.
935P: George Friedman, author, "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century," re the geopolitical map in 2009, its origins, meaning and future, re a projection into the struggles of the alliances in 2050, Japans vs the United States, with Turkey siding with Japan, Germany siding with Turkey, Great Britain siding with the United States, the greater Poland the battlefield.
955P: Exeunt with Jim McTague, Barron's, re White House briefing on healthcare initiative.
720P: Martin Wolf, Financial Times re Eurozone rates cut to record 1% lowECB sets out strategy to boost economy and reduces rate to the lowest since the creation of the single currency in 1999
735P: Professional Roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Forbes.com, Ann Marlowe, re Who Lost Pakistan?
835P: Arthur I. Miller, author, "Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung," re the conversation between the eminent physicist Pauli and the pioneering Jung re the mysterious primary number 137. Part 2, re 3 into 4 and 137 and synchronicity.
850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe In A Mirror," re NASA prep for Hubble rescue mission, re NASA put under the black cloud of review by Obama administration.
905P: Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times, re the anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake and the thuggish endeavor of the local Communist Party to suppress the protests of the parents who lost children in the collapsed school buildings.
920P: Zahid Hussain, Wall Street Journal, at Islamabad, Who Lost Pakistan? from the point of view of the Pakistan capital.
935P: Barbara Moran, author, "The Day We Lost the H-Bomb," re Curtis LeMay's decision to reshape the Strategic Air Command into a continually flying nuke threat, re the collision of a refuel tanker and B-52 over Spain and the disperasal of hudrogen bombs over the landscape and into the sea.
955P: Exeunt, re Debra Burlingame and the 9/11 families.
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A/H1N1 Pandemic Alert Special
705P Eastern Time: Adriel Bettlheim, Congressional Quarterly, re the Obama administration responds to the A/H1N1 outbreak, re the press conference on the outbreak, re the sudden revelation of an advance White House op testing positive for the mid-April visit to Mexico City, re the Joe Biden gaffe re his family flying. Re the Air Force One Double Fly By of Ground Zero.
720P: James Rowley, Bloomberg, re Senate to Vote on Plan
Bolstering Mortgage-Fraud Prosecutions:
The U.S. Senate is poised to approve legislation giving the government more
power to prosecute mortgage and financial fraud and creating a commission to
investigate the causes of the economic crisis.
735P: Professional Roundtable with Jodi Schneider, CQ, Mona Charen, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re David Souter leaves the Court, re Arlen Specter leaves the GOP Senate, re Joe Biden loses his mind re H1N1, re Detroit loses Chrysler. Souter exit starts court war
750P: Continued re the Democratic Congress approves the gargantuan budget, re the Obama administration leaves open the possibility of a Torture Memo investigation.
805P: Betsy McKay, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta chief, re the search for the origins of A/H1N1, the search for Patient Zero, not Edgar Hernandez of La Gloria, Veracruz, but is it the children in San Diego and Imperial counties? Oaxaca Hunts for Its Flu VictimsThe Age of Pandemics
820P:David
R. Kotok, Chairman
and Chief Investment Officer Cumberland
Advisors, the the stress tests on the 19 biggest banks, re the L shaped economy? Citi Said to Need Up to $10 Billion
835P: Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg, Jim McTague, Barron's, Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, Realclearmarkets.com,Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re IMF puts sell on Planet Earth, re 100 Days Obamanomics, re 19 big bank stress tests.
905P: Malcolm Hoenlein, re Justice drops the prosecution of the AIPAC ops, re the Jane Harman smear, U.S. Drops Pro-Israel Spying Case. Re Ahmadinejad adopts "Yes, we can" slogan
920P: Evelyn Gates, author, "Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe," re the discovery of the most distant object, a GRB at 13 billion light years, red shift 8.2. The search for the proto stars at 200 to 400 million years after the Big Bang.
935P: Arthur I. Miller, author, "Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung," re the conversation between the eminent physicist Pauli and the pioneering Jung re the mysterious primary number 137.
955P: Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com, re the Chrysler bankruptcy and the race to reorganize: what of Jeep?
720P: Elizabeth Lopatto, Bloomberg, re Killer Pandemic of 1918 Gives
Lessons on Limiting Flu, re the WHO declares the new A/H1N1 virus does not closely resemble the 1918 flu.
735P: Professional Roundtable Claudia Rosett, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Larry Johnson, No Quarter,Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re North Korea is declared a nuke power by IAEA, Kim regime will prosecute two American journalists, re China opens its border to North Korea
750P: Continued re the Obama administration policy for China and North Korea, re who is Kim regime successor? Pakistan Tries Two-Track Approach
835P: Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, author. "A Soldier's Story: Wiser In Battle," re former commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, re Abu Ghraib, re the Torture Memos, re the Bush Administration decision to establish "an uncontrolled interrogation environment" after 2002.
905P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe In A Mirror," re NASA prep for Hubble rescue mission, re the search for a NASA administrator drags on irresponsibly.
920P: Jason Gale, Bloomberg, at Singapore, re the A/H1N1 defenses in Asia, re fresh reports of outbreak in Asia.
935P: Thomas Parrish, author, "To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941," re the two most prodigiously active aides and ops for FDR in wartime, Harry Hopkins of Iowa, and Averill Harriman of New York, the missionary and the scion.
955P: Exeunt, Mary Kissel, re flu quarantine Hong Kong.
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100 Days Obama Administration Special
705P Eastern Time: Francesco Guerrera, Financial Times, re Wall
St fears grow over stress test resultsWith
less than three weeks to go before Washington releases the results of its
"stress tests" of the nation's 19 largest banks, most of Wall Street appears to
be in need of Prozac.
735P: Professional Roundtable with Clive Crook, Financial Times, Ken Silverstein, Harper's, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re 100 Days Obama administration, re the Torture Memos, re Commission on CIA Tactics Is Unlikely.
750P: Continued re 100 Days Obama, Obamanomics undergo the stress tes, and gets grades. A? B? C?
805P: Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg, re U.S. Lawmakers Consider Bair's
Suggestion to Limits Banks' Size: U.S. lawmakers considered and some backed an idea
by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair to limit the size of
banks and prevent lenders from becoming "too big to fail," U.S. House
Democrats said.
820P: Claudia Rosett, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. just back from Durban II at Geneva, re the mass walk-out by delegates on Ahmadinejad as he spoke of his Holocaust denia, re the failure of the UN to gain credibility.
835P: Jim McTague, Barron's, Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, Realclearmarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re IMF puts sell on Planet Earth, re 100 Days Obamanomics, re 19 big bank stress tests.
850P: Continued re death of Chrysler and the furlough of GM, re cliff-diving (see below).
905P: Malcolm Hoenlein, e Durban II conference in Geneva and the disgrace of Ban Ki-Moon with Ahmadinejad, re the smearing of Jane Harman.
920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re Bibi Netanyahu prepares to negotiate with Washington, Damascus, Cairo, Ramallah, Gaza and the EU all at once.
935P: Andrew Newberg, author, "How God Changes Your Brain," re the new brain science about the role of the thalmus region of the human brain, re the evidence that meditation and or prayer changes the brain and alters the physical being.
955P: Exeunt with Gordon Chang, Forbers.com, re North Korea is declared a nuke power by IAEA, Kim regime will prosecute two American journalists.
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705P Pacific Time: Tim Starks, Congressional Quarterly, re the Obama adminsitration release of the Torture Memos and the Byzantine debate between the Hil and the White House and the GOP.
720P: Jeff Green, Bloomberg, re GM
Said to Speed Plant, Model Cuts to Lower Break-Even Point: General Motors Corp.,
trying to avoid a U.S.-backed bankruptcy on June 1, may close plants and scrap
models as much as four years sooner than planned to lower its break-even
point.
735P: Professional Roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Ann Marlowe, Tunku Varadarajan, re the Taliban surge south toward Rawalpindi.
750P: Continued re the Obama administration plan in Afghanistant, and with the Pakistan regime.
805P: Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Diana West, 100 Days of Obama, re the Torture Memos and the Watergate prosecution model.
820P: Continued re George Soros calls for torture investigation and how does the Obama administration stop it?
835P: Alec Russell, Financial Times, re the South African elections and the elevation of the contentious Jacob Zuma of the ANC to the new leadership. The failre and retreat of Mbeki.
850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe In A Mirror," re NASA prep for Hubble rescue mission. Re Gliese 581 e and d (see below).
905P: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re the Durban II fiasco and the mass walkout of delegates, re the sudden alarm in the EU for the surging Taliban in Pakistan.
920P: Joseph Sternberg, Asia Wall Street Journal, re Chinese
official warns US on protectionismA top adviser to the Chinese government warned the
US that a proposed border tax on carbon sensitive materials 'smells of
protectionism' and could spark retaliation from developing countries
935P: Richard Beeman, author, "Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution," continued re the drama and opera of the writing and rewriting of the Constitution by cranky, devious, sophisticated, ambitious young men, led by the bold and tireless James Madison in the spring and summer of 1787.
955P: Exeunt: Lou Ann Hammond, re the GM plant furloughs.
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