Photo, left:  Latakia Harbor, Syria.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW 
Hour One
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: KEVIN BARON, DEFENSE ONE: "NATO Caught ‘Surprised’ By Russia’s Move Into Syria." It's the top-performing story on Defense One right now, and Kevin is available for comment on admissions by NATO's intelligence director that the alliance is "absolutely not" keeping up with threats in the region -- and disagreement over whether Moscow or ISIS is the greatest threat. 
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block B:   Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View, in re: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-10/russia-s-syrian-air-base-has-u-s-scrambling-for-a-plan
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: JULIAN BROOKS, GETTY MUSEUM:
What explains an architectural sketch lying underneath the surface of an . . .  http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-renaissance-mystery-from-a-marriage-to-a-sacrifice/#sthash.skA8JLMu.dpuf.  I'm associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, particularly looking after Italian, Spanish, and British works (they're all fairly well-behaved). My own drawing talents are very limited, though I scratch away with a pencil every now and then as an exercise in self-humiliation. Chocolate sustains me through the day. Although I'm English (and even educated at Oxford, so I wear a lot of tweed), I adore California. My accent has softened somewhat, and the Ts have turned to Ds; I now say "Geddy" instead of "Getty."
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block D:  Liz Peek, Fiscal Times,  September 9, 2015: Once again, Donald Trump has stumbled upon an issue that is generating controversy and that is ripe for review. His criticism of Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish while in the U.S. is of course absurd; speaking a second language is broadening and can be valuable in all kinds of professions. Speaking a second language in the U.S. is perfectly acceptable. What is not acceptable is allowing children to pass through our school system and emerge functionally illiterate in English. Nothing condemns people to second-class status faster in our country – or alienates them culturally -- than not being able to speak our common language.
This truth led to widespread abandonment of bilingual education in the 1960s. Only four states today still require the approach; Texas, New York, Illinois and New Jersey. However, some are pressing for the return of the bilingual approach, which allows children to master subjects like math and history in their native tongue while being taught English separately. California, where bilingual teaching was barred in 1998, has 2.7 million students (43 percent of total enrollment) whose families speak a language other than English in the home.
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Some 23 percent are so-called “English learners” who require help with English.  At the urging of activists and teachers groups, the California Multilingual Education Act was signed last year by Governor Brown, heralding a possible turnaround in that state’s approach. On the November 2016 ballot, voters will choose whether parents can again request bilingual education for their children.   
 
Hour Two
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block A:  LEE SMITH, WEEKLY STANDARD: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/putin-solution_1028504.html?nopager=1
The Putin Solution
What Russia is up to in Syria.
Sep 21, 2015, Vol. 21, No. 02 • By LEE SMITH: A photograph of a drowned 3-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach after his family failed to find refuge from the war in Syria seems to have finally gotten the world’s attention. The conflict has been an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe for more than four years. A quarter of a million are dead, and millions have been driven from their homes, either displaced within Syria or moved to flee abroad, where they take their chances on reaching shelter. The Europeans don’t want the refugees, but they also don’t want images of more dead children washing up on their shores.
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block B: TYLER ROGOWAY, FOXTROTALPHA:  So What The Hell Is Russia Doing In Syria Exactly?  
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block C: Gene Marks, WashingtonPost.com. New York could be the first state with a $15 minimum wage http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/10/3700157/new-york-15-wage/
Girl Scouts hiking cookie prices
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2015/09/08/girl-scouts-hiking-cookie-prices.html
Google Is Getting Into the Grocery Delivery Game
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/250408?ctp=BizDev&src=Syndication&msc=Feedly
Finland raises taxes on wealthy to cover refugee costs http://news.yahoo.com/finland-raise-taxes-wealthy-partly-cover-cost-migrants-135841935--business.html
 Homeless launches twitter campaign against de Blasio http://nypost.com/2015/09/09/homeless-launch-twitter-war-against-de-blasio/
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block D: SEBASTIAN GORKA, MARINE CORPS UNIVERSITY
http://www.heritage.org/events/2015/09/winning-the-long-war
 
Hour Three
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block A: Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins. MICHAEL VLAHOS, JOHNS HOPKINS,
http://time.com/4030159/evian-conference/
Backlash grows against Merkel over refugees
Politico‎ - 12 hours ago Migrant crisis: People treated 'like animals' in Hungary camp BBC News‎ - 9 hours ago

Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins. continued
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block C: PATRICK TUCKER, DEFENSE ONE: DRONES: Will Subdrones Cause World War III? Smart, well-armed and built to operate on their own, underwater drones are becoming a dangerous wildcard. By Defense One Technology Editor Patrick Tucker
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block D:  HENRY MILLER, HOOVER:  Forbes column (coauthored with Kavin Senapathy), "A New, Bizarre Activist Scam: Formaldehyde In GMO Soybeans,"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/09/09/a-new-bizarre-activist-scam-formaldehyde-in-gmos/
Hour Four
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block A: Michael Auslin, AEI, re City Journal: the need for a revival of America's nuclear culture. Becoming fluent again in nuclear thinking may become the most important survival skill for America in the twenty-first century. 
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block B:  continued.
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block C: ALFRED RUNTE, PERC MAGAZINE
Stephen Mather's Ghost
Alfred Runte
Revisiting the consensus for national parks.
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- See more at: http://www.perc.org/perc-reports/volume-34-no1-summer-2015#sthash.I74why...
Friday 11 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block D: continued.