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Saturday and Sunday, 26 and 27 September

By John Batchelor on September 25, 2009 11:37 PM | 9 Comments
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Combined Simulcasts:    

Saturday 26 September  (Sunday 27 see below)    

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Nathan Hughes, Stratfor, McChrystal and the search for a strategy in Afghanistan.  
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re G20 at Pittsburgh and the surprise of the Iran nuke announcement.    
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Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   AfPakia and the McChrystal report on the potential of defeat in Afghanistan.  With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com. 
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Continued with Nasreen Gross, re Karzai is the same problem as the Taliban.
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Reed Albergotti, WSJ, re what can we learn from the Detroit Lions 19 game losing streak and bottom-dwelling defense? 
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the crack in the nine-member Standing Committee of the CPC. 
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re the AfPakia struggle and the Late Roman Empire, re Tribal Confedeeracy Theme: Our Defense World has acquired a separate national identity. 
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos: a lot like Late Rome and the barbarians.
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Joanna Greenfield, author, "The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild." 
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with Joanna Greenfield. 
 Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): David E. Hoffman, author, "Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy." 
 Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued with Hoffman. 
 Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Stephen Power, WSJ, re Al Gore supports a small, new car company that builds a hybrid smoprts car in Finland. 
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the new Landrover, re Chery moves on Volvo, re the fading of Chrysler. 
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): James P. Othmer, author, "Adland: Searching For the MEaning of Life on A Branded Planet."
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Nick Grace, Long War Journal, re OBL message threatens EU.
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Sunday 27 September   
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Rebecca Christie, Bloomberg, re the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. 
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Tom Mornoney, Bloomberg, re the Duval Patrick appointment of Kirk to take the Ted Kennedy sseatc until a special election is held.   
Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable, Jodi Schneider, re ACORN, healthcare Baucus bill, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Diana West, Washington Examiner, re the Iran nuke announcement.  
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued re Afghanistan 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Tom McInerney, FNC, PAul Vallely, StandUpforAmerica.com, re the challenge of an attack on the unknown and dispersed Iran nuke facilities. 
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Nicholas Thompson, re the revelation of the Soviet built "Doomsday Machine," codenamed Perimeter, in the Ural Mountains. 
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets, Simon Constable, Dow Jones, Mark Pittman, Bloomberg, Jim McTague, Barron's re the extension of TARP, re the jobless number next Friday, re the stimulus package.
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): continued re G20 and global stimulus.
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.con, John Avlon, Max Blumenthal, DailyBeast.com, re Afghanistan and the Obama administration policies. 
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re Iran nukes. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the the announcement of a secret Iran nuke fuel site at Qom, re Netanyahu's speech to the UN General Assembly.
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, an ice sheet on Mars, re water on the moon poles.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, re Manuel Zelaya at the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, re Brazil wants nukes.
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Mary Kissel, Asia WSJ, re report that the Obama administration aims for bi-lateral talks with the junta in Burma. 
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): James Ellroy, author, "Blood's A Rover: a novel" the third in a trilogy about crime in the 1960s, this time with the FBI and LAPD.
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Banfshe Zand-Bonazi and Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly. 
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Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 September

By John Batchelor on September 19, 2009 9:52 AM | 2 Comments
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Combined Simulcasts:  

Saturday 19 September  (Sunday 20 see below)  

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Scott Stewart, STRATFOR's Vice President of Tactical Intelligence, re the Arctic Sea report.  Russia: The Mystery of the Arctic Sea
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: John Kennedy, Autodesk, re the retro-fit of commercial buildings for green living. 
Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   POTUS calls for strategic review of Afghanistan.  US continues missile strikes in AfPakia.  Karzai claims the election is legitimate.  With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com. 
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Abdiweli Ali, Niagra University, re the gunfights in Somalia and the Al Shahab marty attack on AU garrison in Somalia. 
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Karen Hooper, Stratfor.com Latin American analyst, re Chavez buys Russian missiles; re Russia restocks Cuba.
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): John Anderson, author, re the new Toronto Film Festival hit, "Art of the Steal," re the Philadelphia Barnes collection.
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Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re the American narrative inadvertent follows the Late Roman, with Marcus Aurelius battling the barbarian (Germans) on the Rhine.
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos: re the eageerness of the Obama administration to disengage from the empire?
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Norman Polmar, author, "The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: A History of Weapons and Delivery Systems Since 1945." 
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued re the nukes, including the beauty, the MK19 260-mm atomic cannon shell, yield 15-20 KT. 
 Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Douglas Hunter, author,  Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World 
 Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Henry Hudson up the North River to Albany.  
 Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the needle hysteria of Urumqi spreads to Beijing, re quick arrests and sentences..
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Nick Grace, Long War Journal, the fall and death of Melaysian Nooodin Mohammed Top, the major Al Qaeda op in SE Asia. 
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Nicholas Thompson, author, "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War 
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Ardeshir Arian, Media Without Borders, re the Quds protests in Tehran.

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Sunday 20 September   
  
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: John Bolton, re the UN gathers .
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Continued with Bolton and Rosett, re NATO moves toward Moscow.  
Sunday 935P Eastern Time:  Continued with John Bolton re the Obama administration stands down the missile shield in Eastern Europe. 
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Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued with John Bolton and Claudia Rosett, FDD, re the appeasement of the illegitimate Tehran regime. 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Peter S. Green, re the Yale lab murder and arrest, A Promising Life, Ended in a Lab Basement
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Tamara Audi, WSJ, re the Station Fire bookkeepers, Keeping the Books on Calif. Fires
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time):Roundtable, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Jodi Schneider, CQ, Craig Under, Obamaobserver.com, re ACORN, healthcare Baucus bill, Wilson manners, missle shield. 
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): continued re ACORN blows up the House. 
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.con, Diana West, Max Blumenthal, DailyBeast.com and "Republican Gomorrah."  
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re ACORN defunding. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the Obama administration offers unconditional negotiations to Tehran and Pyongyang.  
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, re the sun continues solar minimum, with a sunspot formed on the far side of the sun but not visible yet.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, re Mexico and the drug wars, re Calderon and the cartels, re legalizing drugs.
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Mary Kissel, Asia WSJ, re the new Japanese government and the prospect of the zombie going back to sleep.
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Bertrand Patenaude, "Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary."
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Joseph Sternberg re the Obama administration battles China in a proto-trade war.
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Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September

By John Batchelor on September 12, 2009 1:07 PM | 1 Comment
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Combined Simulcasts:  

Saturday 12 September  (Sunday 13 see below)  

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Karman Bokhari, Stratfor.com, re the House of Saud and preparations for succession: Saudi Arabia: Satisfying the Sudeiris
 Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the needle hysteria of Urumqi spreads to Beijing, re quick arrests and sentences.
Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   What is the status of US combat forces in Afghanistan?  Carl Levin calls for an Afghan surge.  With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal.  
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, re the US and Israel conversation as the US declares unconditional talks with Tehran.
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Steve Cohen, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the Cold War," re Putin indicates he may take the presidency again in 2012, re Russia and the G20, Russian and NATO.
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Continued with Steve Cohen, re the state within a state, Gazprom. 
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re the Democratic chair Carl Levin says time for an Afghan surge -- isnt the Taliban an Afghan surge?
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos: re the Obama administration offers unconditional talks to Tehran Twelvers: what is the narrative?  FDR and Japan?
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Marina Belozerskaya, author "To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance MErchant and the Birth of Archeology." 
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with Marina Belozerskaya, re Rome and Byzantium the last decades before Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks and Mehmed II.
 Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Max Blumenthal, author, "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party." 
 Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued re R.J. Rushdoony's "The Institutes of Biblical Law"  and James Dobson's Focus on the Family.  
 Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Mark Rozzo, WSJ, re George and Giles Martin reissue the Beatles and launch a guitar video game, the Beatles in the 21st Century.
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Henry Miller, Hoover, re H1N1 and the preparations for the second wave of the pandemic in the north temperate zone.
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Joe Drape's OUR BOYS: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen 
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re Opel sold by GM to Magna/Germany/Russia: when can we buy an Opel?

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Sunday 13 September   
  
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Mark Pittman, Bloomberg, re the day the music died and Lehmans failed: Sleep-at-Night-Money Lost in Lehman Lesson Missed With Bent's $63 Billion  
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Claudia Rosett, FDD, re Robert Morgenthau's remarks on the dangers of unrestricted Hugo Chavez.
Sunday 935P Eastern Time: Jodi Schneider, CQ, James Taranto, WSJ, Mona Charen, NRO, Craig Unger, Obamaobserver.com, re POTUS healthcare, re Joe Wilson?
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Carl Levin says, Time to Go Home. 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Alistair Barr, Marketwatch, re one year after and  From the Wreckage 
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Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Stu Woo, WSJ, re California Babylon, the resignation of California Assemblyman Mike Duvall for speak on mic of his spanking pleasure with a utilities lobbyist, who denies the scenario.
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): John Tamny, REalClearMArkets.com, Jim McTague, Barron's Simon Constable, DowJones, Dawn Kotecki, Bloomberg, re one year after Lehmans and what has changed save Dick Fuld's loneliness? 
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re Larry Summers gets gloomy about jobs. 
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.com, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, re Obamacare and the demonstration in Washington.
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued re ACORN blows up. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the Obama administration offers unconditional negotiations to Tehran and Pyongyang.  
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Bob Zimmerman, author, re the Obama administrations space panel says no likely manned missions to the moon or asteroids in the next two decades.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): John Bolton, AEI, re Obama administration offers unconditional talks to Tehran and Pyongyang, re the UN gathers .
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Gordon Fairclough, WSJ, re the luxury car market moves to China.
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Mitch Horowitz, author, "Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation."
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Joseph Sternberg re the Obama administration puts tariffs on cheap China tires.  Protectionism?

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Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September

By John Batchelor on September 5, 2009 11:57 AM | 5 Comments
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Combined Simulcasts:  

Saturday 5 September  (Sunday 6  see below)  

Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Michael Ladeen, Foundation Defense Democracy, re the deteriorating Tehran regime and legitimacy. 
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Karen Hooper, Stratfor.com, re BP developed the Gulf of Mexico for Pemex and the development problems of Mexico.  
Saturday 935P Eastern Time:   NATO airstrike at Kunduz kills up to 90 civilians.    Gates and Mullen debate withdrawal.  With John Loftus, John Loftus Radio Show, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal.  
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: Siobhan Gorman, WSJ, re Palantir, the Hobbit based IT of Silicon Valley that is connecting the dots for the CIA terror gathering network.
Saturday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Sandanand Dhume, Forbes.com, The Myth Of A Moderate Malaysia
Saturday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Gordon M. Goldstein, author, "Lessons in Disaster," re the comparison of Vietnam to Afghanistan. 
Saturday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, author, "Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change," re the "bridge too far" of Afghanistan, re the latest intelligence on the Obama administration goals for the region
Saturday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time): Continued with Michael Vlahos: re the Pashtuns change sides, re the long slog required to build Afghanistan.
Saturday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Rufus Phillips, author, "Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Acount of Lessons Not Learned," re a comparison of Vietnam to Afghanistan,  
Saturday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued with Rufus Phillips, re his recent month in Kabul with Holbrooke observing the elections, 
 Saturday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Janet Soskice, author, "The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels." 
 Saturday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Continued the adventures of Agnes and Margaret Smith. 
 Saturday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com, re the development of Mazar-i-Sharif in the north of Afghanistan.
Saturday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the Urumqi riots and the Han risimg against the CCP in China.
Saturday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Kate Cambor, author, "Gilded Lives: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque." 
Saturday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Ardeshir Arian, Media Without Borders, re the just discovered arrest of Neda Soltan's fiance in Tehran.
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Sunday 6 September   
  
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney, StandUpfor America.com, re the deterioration in Afghanistan and the McChrystal plan. 
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, re the White House pressure on Netanyahu re the West Bank settlements.
Sunday 935P Eastern Time: Jodi Schneider, CQ, James Taranto, WSJ, Mona Charen, NRO, re the White House falls off track with healthcare and Afghanistan?
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Continued, re the school children address. 
Sunday 1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Steve Davis, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Pepperdine University, re the Angeles Forest wildfires of LA and the regeneration of the coasatl chaparral forest, re the beginning of fire season.
Sunday 1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Mike Marios, Bloomberg, from Sacramento, re the wildfires, the prison crowding, and the California budget collapse.  All state governments try sabbaticals.
Sunday 1035P: (735P Pacific Time): John Fund, Wall Street Journal, John Tamny,  Jim McTague, Barron's Simon Constable, DowJones, re the jobless rate, the stimulus package, the failure to regulate, the roll of the dice on healthcare.
Sunday 1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re the SEC is F Troop and Bernie Madoff is LArry Storch?
Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.com, re , re the Antioch, California abduction mystery, re the POTUS takes command? 
Sunday 1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued re Afghanistan and the anti-war Democrats. 
Sunday 1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re  Ahmadinejad: Prosecute Opposition. Merkel warns Iran on sanctions 
Sunday 1150P: (850P Pacific Time):  Marc Morano, Climate Depot. re the Washington Post turns on the doubters, re the WaPo blames the White House.
Sunday 1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Tom Harman, California State Senate, Huntingdon Beach, re the pending release of tens of thousand of felons from California prisons, with Jeff Bliss.
Sunday 1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Leslie Hook, WSJ, Gordon Chang, author, re the Urumqi riots and the Party trembles.   
Sunday 1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Sam Tannehaus, author, "The Death of Conservatism.
Sunday 1250P:  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt with Evan Ramstad, WSJ, from Seoul, re North Korea announces bomb-building.
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