Photo, left: Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas in June 1865, and more generally the emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the Confederate South.   Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and is recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in most states. 
The holiday is observed primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and readings by noted African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou.[3] Celebrations may include parades, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, or Miss Juneteenth contests.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW 
Hour One
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Devin Nunes, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in re:  House Intelligence Committee Completes Markup of FY14 ... Nov 21, 2013 - ... of the Fiscal Year 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 3381 passed the Committee by ... Devin Nunes (R-CA) authored language in the bill requiring a ... It is the House Intelligence Committee's responsibility to give our ...
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 1, Block B:  Tamar Levin, NYT, in re: In storage facilities across the nation, hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos — perhaps a million — are preserved in silver tanks of liquid nitrogen. Some are in storage for cancer patients trying to preserve their chance to have a family after chemotherapy destroys their fertility. But most are leftovers from the booming assisted reproduction industry, belonging to couples like the Wattses, who could not conceive naturally.
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: Gregory Copley, StrategicStudies director; GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs; & author, UnCivilization, in re:  Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. US policy officials refrain from comment on moves by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) toward acquiring a strategically significant military basing agreement in Djibouti, at the critical Strait of Bab el-Mandeb on the Red Sea-Suez sea line. But that does not mean that China’s move is not happening. And that it is also part of a commitment by Beijing to what will, within a half-decade or so, become a global string of military bases. 
Pakistan Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif on June 10, 2015, assured the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that there would be no hurdles in the completion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, adding that maximum security was put in place for completion of the project. The CPEC will transform the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar into a mega-hub, linked by rail, road, pipeline, and air services to Kashgar, in the PRC’s Xinjiang province. PRC project investment would exceed $45-billion.   (1 of 2)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 1, Block D: Gregory Copley, StrategicStudies director; GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs; & author, UnCivilization, in re: Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. Not one serious trend analyst seems to have a view on how to deal with the severe dislocations of global human society which will almost certainly begin in many parts of the world in a decade or two. At best, we are treated to narrow-discipline, linear projections of scientific or technological progress which could occur, assuming that the economic, social, and structural conditions prevailing today were to continue.    (2 of 2)
Hour Two
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: http://tass.ru/en/russia/802482 ;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-warns-sweden-it-wi...(1 of 2)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: http://tass.ru/en/russia/802482 ; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greece-crisis-alexis-tsipras-woos-vladimir-putin-as-greeks-rush-for-their-savings-10333104.html (2 of 2)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 2, Block C:  Sohrab Amari, WSJ London, in re:   Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini bangs his fists on the table. “Gentlemen, gentlemen!” he says. “If we do nothing else this week, we must conceive at least one terrorist act that will show all the world that the United States, the Great Satan, is but a paper tiger, a weak nation of weak people, a people ripe for destruction!” He is chairing a gathering of the infamous, among them Yasir Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mikhail Gorbachev. In the background, the man serving tea to the assemblage suddenly doffs his garb to reveal he is Frank Drebin of Police Squad. Drebin then delivers a well-deserved whupping to the whole lot of international thugs, Khomeini very much included.(1 of 2)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 2, Block D: Sohrab Amari, WSJ London, in re:   July/August issue of Commentary magazine and is available online, here: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-36-year-project-to-whitewash-iran-1/ (2 of 2)
Hour Three
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 3, Block A: They Were Heroes: A Sergeant Major's Tribute to Combat Marines of Iraq and Afghanistan, by David Devaney  (1 of 4)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: They Were Heroes: A Sergeant Major's Tribute to Combat Marines of Iraq and Afghanistan, by David Devaney  (2 of 4)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 3, Block C: They Were Heroes: A Sergeant Major's Tribute to Combat Marines of Iraq and Afghanistan, by David Devaney  (3 of 4)
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 3, Block D: They Were Heroes: A Sergeant Major's Tribute to Combat Marines of Iraq and Afghanistan, by David Devaney  (4 of 4)
Hour Four
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 4, Block A:  Daniel Henninger, WSJ, in re: Carly Fiorina's Case for Merit.
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 4, Block B:  John Markoff, NYT, in re: The robots were graded on their ability to complete eight tasks, including driving a vehicle, opening a door and operating a portable drill.
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: Preview of, Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans, by Malcolm Gaskill.
Friday  19  June 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: Preview of , An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America,  by Nick Bunker
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