Photo: Joyeuse fête nationale!  Happy Bastille Day.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block A: Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial page, and columnist, Wonder Land; in re: 
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block B: Liz Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News, in re: Media and Pres Trump.
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com and author, Capitalism in Space, in re: Lunar orbit, et al. (1 of 2)
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com and author, Capitalism in Space, in re: Lunar orbit, et al. (2 of 2)
 
Hour Two
 
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Not the United States, nor any nation, can be pre-eminent if it lacks a coherent narrative.  Consider Franklin Roosevelt’s ability to overcome mass insularity and insularity and steer the country into fighting and overcoming the German effort to at all of Europe and threaten the US. (1 of 2)
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block B:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: : Not the United States, nor any nation, can be pre-eminent if it lacks a coherent narrative — which the US currently does not have.  (2 of 2)
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Whoever has the most unified narrative is the strongest.  We know now decades later that Truman was successful. Now, the nations that want to be the big three are China, Russia, and the US. After FDR, Truman used the term Cold War to recreate the narrative, almost creating the fervor of WWII, although it didn’t require the same amount of sacrifice. The strength of this narrative actually allowed the US to win the Cold War. ”We’ve lost the narrative power we had in 1945. Now, our narrative is being pushed by Chinese and Russians—by extension, the US has no power. Should we accept the [notion] that we may not be exceptional?  That would be something akin to the destruction between Japan and Germany in WWII. For example, the Confederacy never gave up even after defeat.  And the South China Sea? That narrative? We’ve lost something more than confidence, something more elemental. If China has a stronger narrative, it believes that the US won’t challenge it. There’s no unified message that the  American people believe in. Our administration now is pusillanimous . . .  “. . . of evanescent fireworks.” In the South China Sea, we’re not going to do anything other than surveillance. The Chinese are right in assuming that we won’t challenge. 

Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block C:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: small business around the country. (1 of 2)
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block D:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: small business around the country. (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block A: H. W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block B: H. W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:  John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: The Life
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block D: John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: The Life
 
Hour Four
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block A: Steve Warner, DarkCity.fm, in re:  Fire festival fiasco.  Roswell crash: the memo deciphered; text found: “ . . . victims of the wreck.  . . .  Disc . . .” —weather balloon?  Seems less and less likely.  Material had strange qualities: like a liquid, also indestructible; balled it up and released, it snapped back into previous shape. 
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block B: Jeff Bliss, John Batchelor Show California correspondent, in re: El Camino Real, the road from Palo Alto up the peninsula to  Sam Francisco.  Locals are rejecting RVs parked along the road: people who can't afford to rent at those stratospheric prices starting to live in RVs, which now are rejected by the town’s nouveau riches as declasses.  In Although Nancy Pelosi is widely accepted in California, in Chinatown, inter al., she’s seen as a bit old.  Elon Musk of Tesla, SpaceX, and the Great Tunnel, his Tesla orders are flat-lining.  . . . e umbrellas:  an umbrella-sharing program, where for $8.82 you could share/borrow an umbrella [remember Provos in Holland in 1967, where the bikes were not stolen]; they’re all lost.  Perhaps they’re all in the hands of the 25,000 Chinese spies infiltrated into the US, esp in Silicon Valley. 
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block C:  Craig Unger,  Vanity Fair and New Republic, in re: Russia. Connections, Russian maffiya.  Laundering small oceans of money by buying real estate.  (1 of 2)
Friday 14 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:  Craig Unger, Vanity Fair and New Republic, in re: Russia.  Ivankov, so brutal he was spring from jail and sent to the US to help build up the Russian maffiya in Brighton Beach: extortion, tax evasion, pump and dump. Feds looking all over for him, found him in Trump Tower. Killed in Russia.  . . . Money laundering. (2 of 2)
 
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