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Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August NY, DC, SF, LA

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Combined Simulcasts:  

Saturday 1 August NY, DC  (Sunday 26 NY, DC, SF, LA see below)  

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: What do the banks know about million-dollar bonuses, and what does Andrew Cumo want us to know?  With Rob Cox, Breakingviews.com.   

Saturday 920P Eastern Time: What was behind the oil price spike of 2008?  With Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Wall Street Journal.   
 
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Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   Why are we still in Iraq?  With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal.  U.S. May Accelerate Iraq Withdrawal
 
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Men are from Mars and woman are from another part of MArs, Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal.  How Much Sharing Is Too Much?
 
Saturday 1005P(705P Pacific Time):  Will Israel strike at Iran's nukes?  What is to be done with North Korea?  With John Bolton, AEI, and Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan 
 
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Continued re the Obama administration's foreign policy process. 

Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time)Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re Did we win the war in Iraq?  


Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos: U.N.: Afghan Civilian Deaths Up 24%

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Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): What caused Armageddon, and will it happen again?  Why did the Bropnze Age end and the Iron age begin?  With Amos, Nur, Stanford, geologist and eathquake specialist?

Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with Amos Nur, Was Troy destroyed by the Greeks or the plates?  What about Megiddo, Mycenae, Knossos? 
 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): James Maskalyk, author, "Six Months in the Sudan." 
 
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued with James Maskalyk. 
 
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Showdown, re Murder Bares Anger Over China Reform

Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re Cash for Clunkers.

Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Stephan Talty, author, "The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army."

Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt re Tehran prostests and the 4oth day of mounring since Neda Soltan's death.

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Sunday 2 August NY, DC, SF, LA   
 
Sunday 705P Eastern Time: What about the pollutants form the forests of Brazil?  Michael Smith, from Chile. 

Sunday 720P Eastern Time: Olivier Guitta, the Croissant, re Beirut, Damascus, the Assads, and the Sarkozy event.

Sunday 735P Eastern Time: John Tamny, Real ClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, DowJones, re From NY Fed President William Dudley: The Economic Outlook and the Fed's Balance Sheet: The Issue of "How" versus "When"
 
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Sunday 750P Eastern Time: Continued, Tim Bond at Barclays Capital, meanwhile, wrote in the Financial Times about the potential of a stronger than expected recovery in the U.S. He argues that the steep drop in payrolls was likely triggered by panicky managers who over-reacted. As the economy recovers, they may find themselves having to restaff faster than expected.
 

Sunday 805P Eastern Time: Ed Hayes, attorney, re Sotomayor nomination, re Ireland Will Take Two of Remaining 229 Guantanamo Bay Detainees From U.S. Ireland agreed to take two of the remaining 229 prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba

Sunday 820P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, watching the build-up in BEkaa by the now fully re-armed Hizballah.  Re George Mitchell's mission to Damascus.

Sunday 835P Eastern Time: Brooks Hansen, author, "John the Baptizer," the life and times of the man who baptized Jesus.

 

 
Sunday 850P Eastern Time:  Exeunt re the Birthers grow.
  
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Allan Dodds Frank, TheDailyBeast.com, re the missing Madoff money and the suspicions of the wife continue.     

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Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re Tehran instability is not good news?

Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Obamacare stumbles to recess, re the unusual NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, Diana West, DianaWest.net. 
 
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued, with Diana West, DianaWest.net, re the Birthers, re Beer Night at the White House. 

Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time)Drought Wilts Texas  South and central Texas are suffering the deepest drought in a half century, resulting in billions of dollars in crop and livestock losses.  A combination of record-high heat and record-low rainfall has pushed south and central Texas into the region's deepest drought in a half century, with $3.6 billion of crop and livestock losses piling up during the past nine months.  With Tom Benning, Wall Street Journal.
 
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Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time):  Home Prices Rise Across U.S.  Home prices in major U.S. cities registered the first monthly gain in nearly three years, according to a new report that provided fresh evidence that the severe U.S. housing downturn could be easing.   With Nick Timiraos, Wall Street Journal.

Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the Obamacare traffic jam, re the ? 

Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re has POTUS recovered from the "stupidly" remark about the Gates flapdoodle in Cambridge? 

Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable, John Avlon, Daily Beast, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair.   Re Obamacare and who over-reached, re Obamacare and the polls, re Obamacare, the polls and the beer party.  Re Sotomayor. 

Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re Honduras, re Kaye Bailey Hutchinson vs Rick PErry for Texas.

Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Tim Hamilton, author, "Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Graphic Novel."  The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. 

Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re shuttle returns from ISS, re "the Augustine Panel will push to extend the shuttle; they are also stating that the human exploration of space is an essential, though settling the moon might not be their first priority."

Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. -- The promise of new jobs amid a recession is weakening the resolve of some rural residents to keep wildland.  With Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal.  Slump Mutes Call of the Wild.

Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time):  Cash-For-Clunkers, out of control success, now out of cash.  With Lou-Ann Hammond, Carlist.com. 

Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): John F. Ross, author, "War On the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier."  

Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Ardeshir Arian, Media Without Walls, re the 40th day of mourning of Neda Soltan.

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Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 NY, DC, SF, LA

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Combined Simulcasts:
  

Saturday 25 July NY, DC  (Sunday 26 NY, DC, SF, LA see below)  

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Is climate change a science or is climate change a cult?  With Claudia Rosett, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Stop the Apologizing. 

Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Who is stealing the Barnes Museum?  With John Anderson, author
 
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Saturday 935P Eastern Time: Why are we still in Afghanistan?  Why are we still in Iraq?  With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal. 
 
Saturday 950P Eastern Time:  Why are they closing GITMO and does KSM walk away?  With Ed Hayes, attorney.
 
Saturday 1005P(705P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, author, "Showdown," re reports of friction, instability, confrontation at the Beijing Politburo over Urumqi and now over the Rio Tinto bribery allegations, re what does Beijing instability means for North Korea.  many saw the financial crisis approaching?  Eleven economists.  With Steve Keen, University of Western Sydney, re the birth of the zombie economy. 
 
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): What is the BioMask, and how does it defend from Influenza A?  With Melissa Mowbray-D'Arbela, Filligent, at Hong Kong.  

 

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Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time)Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re FDR with King Ibn Saud of Arabia onboard USS Quincy, 1945.  


Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos. 

Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Is climate change a science, or is it a cult, and what explains the recent change in some global temperatures in the last five decades?  With Marc Morano, ClimateDepot.com,  New study 'ought to stir things up royally' New Zealand: Study 'likely to send ripples around the world' Another New Study Challenges Climate Change 'Orthodoxy'

Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with Marc Marano, re the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, re the Boxer climate change bill in the Senate.
 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): What punched a hole as big as Earth in the planet Jupiter?  And could it happen here?  With Ellen Stofan and Tom Jones, authors, "Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe." 
 
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued with Stofan and Jones re recent discoveries on the Moon, Mars, Mercury.  Team Detects High-Speed Hydrogen Atoms Coming From the Moon  Did an Ancient Volcano Freeze Earth? 
 
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Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time):  Banafshe Zand-Bonazi, Planet Iran, re Tehran protests continue, re Khatami calls for a referendum. 

Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the new luxury cars and how to sell them to a finacnial crisis, re does Ford have a better idea?

Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Stephan Talty, author, "The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army."

Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt re why did smear Hu Jintao's son for corruption in Africa's Namibia?  What is wrong with the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the CCP?  With Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, at Hong Kong.


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Sunday 26 July NY, DC, SF, LA   
 
Sunday 705P Eastern Time: What about the lobbyists on Nancy Pelosi's staff?  Whith Jonathan Allen, Congressional Quarterly.

Sunday 720P Eastern Time: Carolina Salas, Bloomberg, why doesn't the White House want to bail-out CIT? CIT Beefs Up Tender; Chapter 11 Possible

Sunday 735P Eastern Time: John Tamny, Real ClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, DowJones, re the jobless recovery and the weak dollar, re seven more banks fail, to bring the total to 64: Seven Banks Fail, Making It 64 for '09  Citi in $100 Million Pay-Package Clash 

Sunday 750P Eastern Time: Continued, Flexibility is Signaled on Oversight Plan 
 
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Sunday 805P Eastern Time: Why does the White House Chief of Staff's brother believe Obamacare should reward 25 year-olds and ignore 65 year-olds?  Who is he?  With Betsy McCaughey.

Sunday 820P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, will the Netanyahu government obey the White House order to stop construction on a hotel in East Jerusalem?

Sunday 835P Eastern Time: Andrew Rice, author, Andrew Rice's first book, The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda, will be published in May by Metropolitan Books.  

Vanished in Uganda  Duncan Laki's father disappeared under dictator Idi Amin's brutal reign. In this excerpt, the terror comes to an end,...  

 
Sunday 850P Eastern Time:  Exeunt re Zelaya invades Honduras.
  
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Daniel Dombey, Financial Times, Mrs. Clinton Takes Command in Asia, how did the trip to India change the landscape?   

Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re Tehran, nukes and does the Obama administration plan to accept a nuclear Tehran?

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Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, re deposed Chavez stooge Manuel Zelaya invades Honduras, with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, also re Obamacare in the ER. 
 
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued, with Diana West, DianaWest.net, re "stupidly" and POTUS  tries a retreat to a beer with Crowley and Gates at the White House. 

Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Nicholas Johnston, Bloomberg, re Rasmussen poll shows 64% of Californians believe illegal immigrants drag down the busted California budget, re the latest numbers on the decline of illegal immigration, and the Obama administration proposals. 
 
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Why do 55% of the Californians polled hate the Califorina budget just passed with gimmicks and one-offs?  With Bobby White, Wall Street Journal.  California Lawmakers Pass Budget Plan

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Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, Who killed Obamacare and will it rise from the dead? 

Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re has POTUS recovered from the "stupidly" remark about the Gates flapdoodle in Cambridge? 

Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable, John Avlon, Daily Beast, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair.  Why would a Baptist family picket Walter Cronkite's funeral, and re Who is Skip Gates of Harvard and what does he know about the media? 

Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re Honduras, re Office James Crowley of the Cambridge Police.

Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Ben Mezrich, author, "The Accidental Billionaires:  The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal." 

Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the hole 
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in Jupiter is the size of the Earth, and what caused it, and can it happen here?  RE the ISS and the broken toilet.  Re the pending return of Endeavor from the ISS.

Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Justin Schenk, Wall Street Journal, Selling Grass Grows Greener in California After years in the shadows, medical marijuana in California is aspiring to crack the commercial 

Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time):  Gordon Chang, author, "Showdown," re reports of friction in Beijing and how this connects to StaeSec HRC mission to Asean Summit; with Joseph Sternberg, Asia Wall Street Journal on the pending EU trade pact with South Korea. 

Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Evalyn Gates, author, "Einstein's Telescope," re newly discovered lensing, re a lens that perceives a planet in Andromeda.

Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Ardeshir Arian, Media Without Walls, re the city of Los Angeles condemns the usurper Ahmadinejad and praises the resistance in Iran.

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Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 NY, DC, SF, LA

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Combined Simulcasts:
  

Saturday 18 July NY, DC 

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Why in the world has Congress murdered the Motor City?  With Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) and the strange life after death of GM and the mysterious determination of Ford to survive TARP.  Is Michigan despair the future of America 2020? 

Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Why are we still in Iraq?  With John Loftus, John Loftus Show, re the redeployment of American troops in Iraq and the slow motion timetable for departure.  Three KIA in Basra.  
 
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Saturday 935P Eastern Time: What is Sarah Palin after?  With Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast, re the unpredictable and perhaps self-destructive celebrity of Sarah Palin.  
 
Saturday 950P Eastern Time:  What happens when Dad (POTUS) and Mom (StateSec) spat?  Why can't men talk about relationships?  Why do women talk so much about relationships?  With Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal.
 
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): How many saw the financial crisis approaching?  Eleven economists.  With Steve Keen, University of Western Sydney, re the birth of the zombie economy. 
 
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re "In this book Vlahos provides a disturbing analysis of why the U.S. is struggling in its war against terrorism. Identity, he argues, is the key driver both for the U.S. and for its new, non-state adversaries in a conflict widely misunderstood. While it is easy to believe we are doing better, his powerful analysis raises the spectra of what will happen when the next major terrorist attack hits us. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the new, dangerous world we are living in--and what to do about it."-A. Lawrence Chickering, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Co-author, Voice of the People: The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life

 

Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos.


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Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, author, "Showdown," re reports of friction, instability, confrontation at the Beijing Politburo over Urumqi and now over the Rio Tinto bribery allegations, re what does Beijing instability means for North Korea. 

Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Astrobiology: Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University, re the Kepler search for 50 Edens in the Southern Sky. 

Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the new exoplanets and the evolving theory of planetary formation.  Mapping Starspots by Exoplanet Transits.  Which Radial Velocity Exoplanets Have Undetected Outer Companions?
 
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Steve Cohen, NYU, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives," re the Obama embassy to Moscow, re reports that the summit was the poorest performance by an American president since JFK at Vienna with Khrushchev in 1961, re what was discussed, re what are the risks of the disputes?  
 
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued re what does Russia want?
 
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time):  Banafshe Zand-Bonazi, Planet Iran, re the ongoing struggle in Iran between the disparate forces for reform and liberation and the fascist cult of the Supreme leader led by Ahmadinejad and the IRGC. 

Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re A Chinese Upstart â€¨Goes After Detroit  The expansion of Chinese auto maker Geely shows how the crisis in the U.S. is accelerating a shift in the auto industry toward emerging market

Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Henry J. Hendrix, author, "The U.S.  Navy and the Borth of the American Century," re the coherent passion of Theodore Roosevelt to build and deploy a vigorous steel Navy, begining with his imagination at 24 to write of the War of 1812 to his genius at using Admiral Dewey as a gambit to maintain the Monroe Doctrine. 

Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt re the twin shahid attacks in Jakarta by IJ, with Nick Grace, LongWarJournal.com.

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Sunday 19 July NY, DC, SF, LA 
 
Sunday 705P Eastern Time: When will they confirm Sonia Sotomayor to SCOTUS?  With Greg Stohr, Bloomberg. 

Sunday 720P Eastern Time: Kate Linebaugh, Wall Street Journal, re the sputtering Michigan economy is dragging down the state's once-strong health-care system, offering a preview of how a lingering recession could corrode Americans' hospitals, savings and health

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Sunday 735P Eastern Time: John Tamny, Real ClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, DowJones, re the CIT failure, re the zombie economy, re the Bank of America surprises, and Goldman, Sachs roars. 

Sunday 750P Eastern Time: Continued, where are the jobs gone? 
 

Sunday 805P Eastern Time: Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg,  U.S. Homebuilder Confidence Hits 10-Month High as Sales, Interest Revive

Sunday 820P Eastern Time:  Rebecca Christie, Bloomberg,   July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury SecretaryTimothy Geithner said there are "durable" signs that financial markets are on the mend, while repeating that the U.S. must not withdraw its stimulus measures before an economic recovery is entrenched. "We're seeing durable signs of greater confidence" in markets, Geithner said in an interview with Bloomberg Television during a visit to Paris today. At the same time, he warned that withdrawing stimulus too soon would "weaken the basic fabric of the econo


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Sunday 835P Eastern Time: Michaela Wrong, author, "It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenya Whistleblower," re the comprehension corruption and degrading of African states by bribery, graft, collusion, colonial depredation, clannish patricide.  Comprehensive and chilling. 
 
Sunday 850P Eastern Time:  Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal, re the Senate Judiciary hearng week with Sonia Sotomayor, and the prospects of confirmation.   
  
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, re deposed Chavez stooge Manuel Zelaya threatens a 72-hour deadline to return to take his office in Tegulcigapa, Honduras..

Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the White House meeting with Jewish leaders over concerns with Israel security, re the IDF sends warships to the Gulf of Aden, re the Tehran regime stalling the IAEA.

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Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, Rob Pollock, Wall Street Journal, Diana West, DianaWest.net, re SCOTUS hearings at the Judiciary committee, re the healthcare ballooning of revenue needs and expenses, re Robin Hood healthcare, re Walter Cronkite RIP.  
 
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued, Continued re clean energy, clean eergy jobs, clean education, re POTUS stomping for Jon Corzine of New Jersey. 

Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Bret Pulley, Bloomberg, 'Hobbit' Heirs Seek $220 Million for 'Rings' Rights ..  "My instinct tells me this is Hollywood accounting in the extreme," said O'Donnell, who wrote a book, "Fatal Subtraction: How Hollywood Really Does Business," about the Buchwald case. "If I was a betting man I'd say there's money owed.
 
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Yukari Iwatani Kane, Seeking Fame in Apple's Sea of Apps Apple's App Store has spawned a cottage industry of software developers trying to profit from games and other applications that people can download onto their iPhones.  With Craig Unger, Vanity Fair.

Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Stuart Woo, Wall Street Journal, re the California legislature seeking a budget deal with Schwarzenegger, re the healthcare balloon, re stimulus package pouring into the states budget gaps. 

Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re Is there a worst case scenario for California?  

Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable SCOTUS, Democrats vs Republicans, John Avlon, Daily Beast, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair.

Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re Honduras.

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Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, WND, re the story of the Obama administration's turmoil over offering an American ambassador to the Assad regime at Damscus, re the leaking of the offer and the wrecking of the State Department negoatations, re the Syria government confirms no concessions. 

Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the troubled launch of Discovery and the falling tiles, re the 4oth anniversary of the moon landing July 20.
 
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Dawn Jordan, Wall Street Journal blogger, re discharged banker seeking work in the California economy.

Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time):  Matthew Rosenberg, Wall Street Journal, in Delhi, re Pakistan instability, re Swat Valley refugees returning to home. 

Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Larry Tye, author, "Satchel: The Life and Times of An merican Legend." 

Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Ardeshir Arian, Media Without Walls, re Rafsanjani prayers in Tehran, demaning the political prisoners be released.

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Walter Cronkite, November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009  

Sunday July 12, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts:   "Uyghur Liberty" Special.   

705P Eastern Time: Nury Turkel, former direction Uyghur American Association, re the Urumqi riots and the Uyghur people struggle for freedom under the Beijing aggression and domination. 
 
720P Eastern Time: Corey Boles, Wall Street Journal, Reid Says Another Stimulus Not Needed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he didn't believe there is yet any case for another economic-stimulus package, saying the impact of the $787 billion plan has yet to be truly felt. That could put him at odds with a top House Democrat and with Vice President Joe Biden
  
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735P Eastern Time: Robert Schroeder, Marketwatch, Marc Marano, Climate Depot,  Climate Change Deadlock at the G8 Meeting: Road to Copenhagen Gets Bumpier Climate change talks on the sideline of the G8 meeting in Italy broke down over divisions over the scope of emissions cuts between developed and developing countries. The draft agreement called for global emissions to be cut by 50% by 2050, with industrial countries cutting theirs by 80%. Emerging market economies balked, worried that the deal did not require industrialized countries to follow through in the near term. Emerging market economies also insisted on the promised aid and technology transfer to help them meet their cuts.

750P Eastern Time: John Tamny, Real ClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re the fourth week of S&P 500 declines, re the shrinking PPIP program and the toxic bank assets, re the struggle over Ben Bernanke.
 

805P Eastern Time: Continued re the call for a Second Stimulus Package. 

820P Eastern Time: Dana Freyer, Global Partnership for Afghanistan's Rural Development, re development and ambition in Afghanistan away from the combat along the AfPakia border. 

835P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, Major American Jewish Organization, re Tehran aggression, Tehran crackdown on dissent, re G8 statements on Tehran, re Syria connection to Tehran. 
 
850P Eastern Time: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re new NASA boss Charles Boland hearings, re the doom of the Ares rocket, re the delayed shuttle.   
  
905P Eastern Time: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, re Arias arbitrates between the booted Chavez stooge Zelaya and the interim Honuran president Michelett.

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920P Eastern Time: John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re Sara Palin drops out, climbs in the polls, re the Obama foreign embassy and the polls.

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Steve Cohen, NYU, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives," re the Obama embassy to Moscow, re reports that the conversations were not smooth.  
 
950P Eastern Time: Continued,  re Putin's plans for Russian empire. 

1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Ryan Knutson, Wall Street Journal, Brian Selway, Bloomberg, re California budget mystery, re the IOUs are rejected, re contracts cancelled.  California Seeks to Redo Contracts
 
1020P: (720P Pacific Time):  Brian K. Sullivan, Bloomberg, re  El Nino conditions are forming in the Pacific Ocean, which may limit the number of hurricanes that form in the Atlantic this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported today. El Nino is a warming of the eastern Pacific that occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, the agency said in a statement. Sea surface temperatures in the area were about 1 degree Celsius above average in June, according to the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. 

 

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1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, James Taranto, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the healthcare ballon, re what will the White House trade for a healthcare bill, re the Obama embassy to Moscow.


1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re the climate bill and the G8. 

1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable AfPakia: Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com, Nicholas Schmidle, author, "To Live and Die Forever," Bill Roggio, Long War Journal 

1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re Honsiuras as well as North Korea and Burma.

1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Johhny Rico, author, "Border Crosser: One Gringo's Illicit Passage from Mexico into America." 

1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Leslie Hook, Asia Wall Street Journal, re Urumqi riots and Beijing. 
 
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): B. Raman, Topical Studies Institute, why did Hu rush  from Italy G8 home to Beijing? 

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1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal, at Shanghai, re Urumqi riots and crackdown in Xinjiang. 

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Warren Kozak, author, "LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay," re the passionate, determined, bold, relentless flying officer who pulled himself by his own boots from a hardscrabble youth to the bomber battles in Europe and Japan to fight the Cold War with the Berlin Airlift, SAC, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and then George Wallace. 

1255P:  (950P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com and Evan Ramstadm Wall Street Journal at Seoul, re continued cyber attacks by Kim regime.

Sunday July 5, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts:  
 "Sarah, Happy Birthday USA!" Special.   

705P Eastern Time: Jonathan Allen, CQ, re Al Franken joins the U.S. Senate, and what does 60 Democrats mean?  
 
720P Eastern Time: Margaret Chadbourn, Bloomberg,  Home-Loan Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky Mortgages, U.S. Report Says  June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Delinquency rates on the least-risky mortgages more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier as U.S. efforts to help homeowners failed to keep pace with job losses that pushed more borrowers toward foreclosure. 
 
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735P Eastern Time: Ardeshir Arian, Media-Without-Walls, re the mullahs torture for confessions in Tehran. 

750P Eastern Time: Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, at Kirkuk, the hand over to Iraqi forces. 

805P Eastern Time: Kathleen Rowley, Bloomberg, FICO Scores Show Flaws as U.S. Banks Cut Consumer Credit Lines:  As banks decrease loans to consumers, regardless of individual risk profiles, flaws in the FICO formula are becoming more pronounced.  


820P Eastern Time: Hugh Son, Bloomberg,  June 30 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., has an "excellent chance" of repaying the government, outgoing Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy said today at the company's annual meeting

835P Eastern Time: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re the Twitter revolution in Tehran, re David Milliband seeks negotiation re the show trial of British embassy employee Rassam. 
 
850P Eastern Time: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re new NASA boss hearings.   
  
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905P Eastern Time: George Friedman, Stratfor.com, re the Obama embassy to Moscow, and what does Russia want?

920P Eastern Time: Dr. Kamram Khan, Toronto, re the air travel spread of H1N1 pandemic.

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Mona Charen, NRO, Diana West, DianaWest.net, re Sarah Palin quits Alaska governorship 
 
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Is Sarah running for 2012? 

1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal, re California out of moneya nd time, re who will save Arnold? re Sarah Palin quits Alaska? 

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1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Yukari Iwatani, Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc. said Chief Executive Steve Jobs returned to work after a nearly six-month medical leave, but the company provided no update on its leader's health and didn't say if his responsibilities would change.

 

1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Steve Cohen, NYU, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives," re the Obama embassy to Moscow, re meeting with Medvedev.  .


1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re what does Putin want? 

1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re North Korea threatens to attack the US, Kim fires Scuds.

1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued with LArry Johnson, No Quarter, re Honsiuras as well as North Korea and Burma.

1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Claire Shipman, Kattt Kay, authors, "Womenomics, Write Your Own Rules for Success, How to Stop Juggling and Struggling and Finally Start Living and Working the Way You Really Want."   

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1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Mick Crozier, KFI, re Michael Jackson rallies and wakes in LA; Bret Pulley, Bloomberg, re Jackson Will Filed in Californa, setting up battle. 
 
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re the discoveries of pharmaceuticals at Michael Jackson's home in LA and what they represent.  
  
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Leslie Hook, Asia Wall Street Journal, re China backs down on the Green Dam censor software, why? 

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Archie Brown, author, "The Rise and Fall of Communism," re a sweeping and lively reporting on the 17 countries that suffered the road to Communism.

1255P:  (950P Pacific Time): Joseph Sternberg, Europe Wall Street Journal, from Brussels, re China retaliates in the chicken wars, banning US chicken imports, the WTO ignored.

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