Saturday 28 August 2010
Masjid al-Farah, 245 West Broadway, Manhattan: Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf's current mosque, squeezed between two bars. Questions are raised concerning the source of the proposed $100mil to pay for building a controversial new mosque overlooking Ground Zero
Guest-host: Aaron Task, Yahoo TechTicker
Co-host: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com
Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Herb London, Hudson Institute, in re: proposed mosque at Ground Zero
Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Gerald Celente, Trends Research Institute, in re: very glum economic forecast.
Saturday 935P Eastern Time: continued. "Double-dip? Do they think this is an ice cream parlor?" "PIMCO. Like there's no self-interest in Bill Gross's demanding that the Fed pay?"
Saturday 950P Eastern Time: call-ins
Saturday 1005P (705P Pacific Time): Bill Black, former senior bank regulator and S&L prosecutor, now University of Missouri - Kansas City, in re: Fraud was at the center of the Wall St. crisis and incentives to commit fraud remain intact.
Saturday 1020P (720P Pacific Time): continued
Saturday 1035P (735P Pacific Time): Bruce Bechtol, Marine Corps Command and Staff College and U San Angelo, Texas, in re: North Korea, China, the mysterious absence of Kim when Carter arrived
Saturday 1050P (750P Pacific Time): Simon Constable, WSJ NewsHub, in re: Robert Shiller of Case-Shiller U.S. Home Price Indices
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Saturday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): David Gordon, Eurasia Group, in re: Iran's imminent possession of nuclear weapons - geopolitical implications, US and Israeli interest in nipping this in the bud. Overflight of Iraq? [Saudis have given permission sotto voce.]
Saturday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): continued. Unlikelihood of such an attack
In the map above, note absence of an arrow to Bushehr, on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
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Saturday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Jeff Kreisler, comedian and author of Get Rich Cheating, in re: observations on standard methods the sharpies use to skim or divert enormous amounts of cash; how to emulate them for fun and profit
Saturday 1150P (850P Pacific Time): Matthew Bishop, author of The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top, in re: Gates/Buffett "billionaires' pledge"; Philanthrocapitalism.
Saturday/Sun 1205A (905 Pacific Time): Greg Ip, The Economist, in re: the Jackson Hole meeting; how few options are in fact available to stimulate growth.
Saturday/Sun 1220A: (920 Pacific Time): Allison Fishman, of Cook Yourself Thin; spokesperson and columnist for Cooking Light Magazine, in re:
Saturday/Sun 1235A: (935P Pacific Time): Jeff Ma, 1990s MIT blackjack team and author of The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business, in re: translating blackjack skills into investing lessons.
Saturday/Sun 1250A (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.
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Sunday 29 August 2010
Charlie Crist's regular policy flip-flops are "giving weathervanes a bad name."
Sunday 905P Eastern Time: Steven Russolillo, Dow Jones; Paul Vigna, Dow Jones, and John Tamny, Real Clear Politics, in re: Bernanke swears to do "what he can." Jackson Hole debate on 'double dip' Treasury two-year yields increase the most since April - after Bernanke's speech
Sunday 920P Eastern Time: continued re jobs report Friday September 3.
Sunday 935P Eastern Time: Mary Kissel, WSJ Asia, in re: Kim in China with Hu Jintao.
Sunday 950P Eastern Time: Sean Miller, The Hill, in re: POTUS in New Orleans to speak on Katrina.
Sunday 1005P (705P Pacific Time): John Avlon, CNN, and John Fund, WSJ, in re: POTUS in New Orleans; Mary Landrieu's direct appeal to the president via Meet the Press.
Sunday 1020P (720P Pacific Time): continued. Apparent oncoming electoral disaster for Democratic Party. "The House is gone. How do you count the Senate?" Charlie Crist shot himself in both feet having changed his policy on health care multiple times. Also flip-flopped on returned contributions; "the man is giving weathervanes a bad names." John Fund predicts Pat Toomey (PA) winning by about 6 points.
Sunday 1035P (735P Pacific Time): Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and Larry Johnson, NoQuarter blog, in re: Gov Manchin has secured the nomination for WV Senate seat. POTUS is tone-deaf to politics, refuses to refer to the tanking economy. Katrina.
Sunday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):
- Nick Gentle, Bloomberg Hong Kong, with Asian markets round-up.
- continued, Salena Zito and Larry Johnson.
Sunday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11), in re: appalling unemployment in Michigan; further, the national economy is now a trillion dollars in the hole. Rep McCotter spoke of this to POTUS in 2009 but his words we ignored. Democrats held that redistributing these funds would work; are now shocked to see that it hasn't.
Sunday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): Evan Ramstad, WSJ Asia, and Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: the dying dictator leaves DPRK for China at the moment that Jimmy Carter arrived; major propaganda opportunity missed, most mysterious. Must be something important: enormous amount of money on the table? The Grim Reaper calls Kim home? Hu Jintao is said actually to have flown to visit Kim. Highly anomalous, as Koreans don't ask Beijing about their own internal matters, and Chinese leaders don't fly out to visit vassals whom they see as racially inferior.
Kim Jong-il's private train
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Sunday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Huge cache of manpads in found Sinai. Syrian defense minister visits Moscow as Moscow sends weapons to Syria. Everything endangered, including Israel's new oil fields.
Sunday 1150P (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: solar cycle; NASA called to consult on Chilean mine rescue; Japan and Europe considering upgrading their unmanned cargo carriers to ISS so that they can return cargo - a first step toward making these unmanned ships manned. Mt St Helens, vulcanism.
Sunday/Mon 1205A (905 Pacific Time): Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com, in Kabul in re: preparations for elections. Nasrine Gross has trained 200 female candidates
Sunday/Mon 1220A: (920 Pacific Time): Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy Blog, in re: flooding of the Indus River Valley, newly a crisis in the Sindh and into Karachi.
Sunday/Mon 1235A: (935P Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, WABC, in re: weapons cache of Stela SA7 shoulder-fired rockets found in Sinai en route to Gaza. IDF deploys heavily along Lebanese and Golan borders. Rev Wright says that the 24% of Americans who think that POTUS is Muslim are "psychopathic."
Sunday/Mon 1250A (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.
I'd be surprised if Johnson's prediction re: the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq "at some point becoming a story" proves correct. The fact that it would represent a discrediting of Obama is enough to make the MSM go deaf, dumb, and blind. The only stories we'll get out of Iraq now will be those of returning troops happy to be reunited with their families, even briefly before they head off to "the good war" in Afghanistan.