The John Batchelor Show

Friday 21 July 2017

Air Date: 
July 21, 2017

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block A:  Liz Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News, in re:  GOP makes a mess.  Mitch MConnell’s clever call for a vote next week, perhaps obliging naysayers such as Susan Collins to vote against her previous vote on repeal/replace. 
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block B:  Henry I Miller, Hoover, in re: further adventure of the government regulationists gone amok. The rogue African Sunset petunias  (hybridized with a corn gene and thus illegal) whose seeds are available on Amazon, sent here from China (where, apparently, they're also illegal). When you receive the seeds, be sure either to bury them under a foot or more of soil, or to double-bag and obliterate them, in order to follow regulationism.
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block C: Craig Unger,  New Republic,  in re:  buying US real estate to launder money from Russia, China, e al.    Felix Seter(?), Bay Rock, malfeasant; now under Federal protection. . . . Ten thousand condos sold from $2 mil to $10 mil each; most sold between Pres Trump’s election till now have been bought with laundered funds, many from Russia and FSU.  Can't be sure of laundry unless you have proof that the origin of the funds was illegal – drugs, prostitution, theft, and the like.  
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch; John Batchelor Show reporter, in re:  Housing in the Bay Area.  Skyscrapers.  El Camino Real from Palo Alto to the City. BANANA: build absolutely nothing near absolutely nobody.
 
Hour Two
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  China’s view of its place in the world.  The disaster of China’s subservience in the Nineteenth Century, to which Americans seem to be oblivious.  Xi Jinping’s intentions in restoring China to a pre-eminent position, which happens to include disparaging (or worse) Japan, keeping Vietnam in its lowly place, figuratively punching the US in the nose, and so on. 
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block B:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  Japan, whose GDP is equivalent to China’s, sees Chinese planes flying over it sovereign space and saying, “Get used to it.” Oops.  Btw, a plurality of Americans say they're “afraid of North Korea.”  China will use DPRK to undermine the entire US alliance in the East.   US SecDef to be asked by Congress to re-establish ports of call [and naval bases?]  in Taiwan.  Let US put tac nukes in South Korea to let RoK know that we’ll back them up 100%, and China know that the US is not even slightly afraid of DPRK’s bark or China’s bullying.  US badly errred in taking Lend-Lease away from Russia at the end of WWII. China is looking to scrap with Japan; Japan is being mild and patient—so far. US must signal to Japan that it may be scrappy, which would “freak out” the Chinese.  Rename the Japanese Self-Defense Force as The Nippon ______.
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block C: John A. Farrell, author, Richard Nixon: The Life, in re:  Anna Chennault, very much in the China Lobby till the end of her life, was sent to Vietnam by Richard Nixon to be conduit of any messages Washington might care to send there,  Sends words to Vietnamese Pres Thieu to avoid any dirty tricks that the Democrats might convey, Johnson happened to have real info, that the USSR was planning to interfere in the US election.  Johnson, through  [probably illegal] wiretapping, finds that the GOP has instructed Thieu to drag his feet, and Johnson explodes; “Treason!” he screams to Everett Dirksen. Hubert Humphrey was an unconvincing candidate, whereas Nixon had a persuasive message. 
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block D: Farrell, author, Richard Nixon, (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block A: Holly Tucker, author, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.    In a library in a Paris reading 500-year-old notes on a murderess who’d slipped a knife under her dress as she was about to be taken to a dungeon where her body later was found.  She committed suicide rather than be tortured by inquisitors for being a witch.  Louis XIV ‘s two main counsellors.   (1 of 4)
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block B:  Holly Tucker, author, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.    . . . Louis XIV hears tales of poisoning occurring in Montorgueil . . .  Red suitcase with vials; usually arsenic, but victim became ill slowly so it wasn’t evident that s/he had been poisoned.  (2 of 4)
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:  Holly Tucker, author, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.  (3 of 4)
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  Holly Tucker, author, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Four
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block A:   Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times theater critic, in re: Broadway theater; women’s almost consistently receiving minor roles in major plays.   Wise solutions.
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block B: John Batchelor’s weekly news review. 
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block C: Richard A Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re: Single-payer medical coverage (1 of 2)
Friday 21 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:  Richard A Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re:  Single-payer medical coverage (2 of 2)
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