Saturday 29 August NY, DC (Sunday 30 NY, DC, SF, LA see below)
Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Reva Bhalla, Stratfor.com, re the Scottish debate ont he release of al-Magrahi to Libya. Big Oil Still Finds Barriers in Libya
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Arif Rafiq, re the passing of the baton in the Mehsud gang of the Taliban, re the AfPakia elections in Pashtunistan.
Saturday 935P Eastern Time: Taliban attacks at the Kyber Pass, Holbrooke feuds with Karzai. Stirep on Taliban in Afghanistan elections. With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal.
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, re the dangers of Facebook, How Facebook Ruins Friendships
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard, Origins of Life, re Kepler update and the first imaging success, re WASP 18b, the exoplanet committing suicide in the constellation Phoenix .
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Continued with Dimitar Sasselov, re 400 years since Galileo Galilei and the telescope.
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re the slow-motion breakdown of order in Afghanistan, the creation of s staelet called Pashtunistan.
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos: re the ambitions of the Saudi Wahhabists to control Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Iain McCalman, author, at Syndney, "Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and he Battle for the Theory of Evolution."
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the voyages of Charles Darwin, the BEagle, Joseph Hooker, Erebus and Terror, Thomas Huxley, Rattlesnake, and Alfred Wallace in the Amazon and Southeast Asia.
Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Jackson Lears, author, "Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modenr America, 1877-1920."
Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued with Jackson Lears. Re Teddy Roosevelt and Houdini.
Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the Opel deal, re Harley Davidson and the Indian Motorcycle, re luxury car rethink.
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Banafshe Zand-Bonzazi, re the strange case of the Tehran lobbyist now indicted for fraud, re the Tehran regime prosecutes the election losers.
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Margaret MacMillan, author, "Dangerous Games: The USes and Abuses of History."
Saturday 1250P: (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Nick Gracer on the search for Noordin Top, master terrorist of Indonesia.
Sunday 9 August NY, DC, SF, LA
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Ed Hayes, re CIA Interrogation Review May Lead Prosecutor Durham to Top Bush
Officials John
Durham, a federal prosecutor probing alleged CIA abuses, may have to confront a
politically controversial issue: whether the U.S. should pursue charges against
senior Bush administration officials.
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re Ahmadinejad: Prosecute Opposition. Merkel warns Iran on sanctions
Sunday 935P Eastern Time: Jodi Schneider, CQ, James Taranto, WSJ, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Diana West, Examiner, re the death of Ted Kennedy and the legacy of healthcare, re the polls and the Democrats
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued, re will the Senate try to the nuclear option?
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Steve Davis, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Pepperdine University, re the Los Angeles area vegetation that provides fuel to the fires. Re Adaptations of coastal chaparral to wildfire, drought and freezing.
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Jim Carlton, WSJ, re who can save California? The newbie candidacies of two IT superstars, Carly Fiorina of HP, and Meg Whitman of EBay. California GOP Pins Hopes on
Ex-CEOs
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): John Tamny, Real ClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Jim McTague, Barron's Simon Constable, DowJones, Russ Britt, Marketwatch LA Bureau Chief, re the wildfires of LA continue, re the GDP is not on fire, down 1% in the second quarter for the longest string of dropped quarters since the Great Depression.
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re Ben Bernanke to the rescue?
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.com, re John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re the Antioch, California abduction mystery, re the POTUS polls continue to settle, re the Reconciliation gambit in the U.S. Senate.
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued re the death of Ted Kennedy and the healthcare legacy.
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Karen Gullo, Bloomberg, re the lost $1 billion California school repair bonds and the candidacy of Attorney General Jerry Brown for Demicratic governor once more (first term in the 1970s).
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the missing sunspots and how does the sun change our weather? Re the Moon Wood scandal. Re the delayed shuttle.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Leslie Hook, WSJ, Gordon Chang, author, re the show trials in Urumqi, re Beijing confesses to decades of organ harvesting from condemned prisoners.
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Parris Chang, NDP, Taipei, re the Dalai Lama to visit the Taiwan typhoon victims and Beijing condemns his mercy.
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, Jerusalem, re Netanyahu negotiates with the Obama administration via London and Berlin, re when will the peace talks start again?
Sunday 1250P: (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Joseph Sternberg, re trade disputes between China and the US, how will POTUS rule on the China dumping of cheap tires on the US market.
John, why am I not finding anything on the Banafshe Zand-Bonzazi story? Very interesting, don't you think? Well, I did find something on Wikipedia...sheezzzzz.