Photo, left: Kurdish refugees from Kobanî in a refugee camp, on the Turkish side of the Syria-Turkey border. This is what the camps actually look like.  Usually some water available; irregular electricity, paucity of cooking faicities, and latrines sometimes a quarter-mile away (along a dirt path with no light at night; very hard for children and the elderly).  Little food. Occasional folding tables scattered among the tents with donated, cheap candies. Children and adults with inadequate nutrition, zero possibility of employment, perhaps no medical care, at all; often unable to reach relatives or friends, an entire family packed into one, small tent.   Desperation, and desperate frustration.  UNHCR puts on a good show but (a) has provided winter tent-insulation that's insanely flammable: one spark, and everybody has a few seconds to race out before being burnt to a crisp; and (b) beyond some mismanagement, is entirely overwhelmed with the brobdingnagian flood of refugees and internally-displaced persons. 
The Westphalian compact, The Peace of Westphalia, has dissolved.  The imperishable metes and bounds of our youth  –  indeed, of life worldwide till four or five years ago  – are ruptured, to be forever gone.  Seers and wisemen propose a variety of futures; none will know till the next phase is settled, in generations. Meanwhile, how does a provident, compassionate person serve humanity and cope with the coming chaos?
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Siegel, New York Daly News, in re: What cops don’t want to see    With President Obama talking a big, late-in-his-term game about ending “mass incarceration,” Comey, the FBI director, didn’t make the boss happy when he pushed back on the post-Ferguson narrative of cops-as-threat-to-black-Americans to say that “something much bigger is happening” — namely that homicides are up in many big cities, and up significantly in a few of them.
“Who’s dying?” he asked rhetorically. “The increase is almost entirely among young men of color.” Nothing accounts for that rise, he said, except for one thing cops whispered to him, but wouldn’t say aloud: that cops “in today’s YouTube world (are) reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime.” That, he said, is having “profound consequences.” . . .
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 1, Block B: James McTague, Barron's, in re: U.S. Economy Cooled in Quarter  U. S. economic growth cooled in the third quarter as firms let inventories dwindle and the pace of spending on the part of consumers, businesses and governments all decelerated.
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 1, Block C: Liz Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox, in re: Third GOP debate: Two big things that could shake up the Republican race  Political outsiders were finally shown to be ill-equipped to occupy the Oval Office.
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 1, Block D:  Gillian Tett, Financial Times, in re: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/06e34a06-7e33-11e5-98fb-5a6d4728f74e.html#ixzz3q4FhEerG  ;  http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d0505ad2-7834-11e5-a95a-27d368e1ddf7.html#ft-article-comments
 
Hour Two
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: http://sputniknews.com/military/20151030/1029365598/nato-drills-europe-us.html
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 2, Block B: Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: US jets intercept Russia warplanes  The White House confirms that the US scrambled F-18 jets to intercept Russian warplanes which flew near a US aircraft carrier off the Korean peninsula.    Nato war games keep Syria and Russia in mind.   South China Sea: Hague panel can rule on Philippines-China dispute - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34671504 . Syria conflict: UN's Ban Ki-moon urges 'flexibility' in Vienna talks
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 2, Block C:  Anemona Hartocollis,  NYT, in re:  This summer, as the Majid family left Syria for Europe, The New York Times followed the group through weeks of defeat and triumph, disillusionment and determination. (1 of 2)
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 2, Block D: Anemona Hartocollis,  NYT, in re:  This summer, as the Majid family left Syria for Europe, The New York Times followed the group through weeks of defeat and triumph, disillusionment and determination. (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 3, Block A: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin (1  of 4)  
"[A] hilarious and heartbreaking story of a Jewish family’s escape from oppression....whose drama, hope and heartache Mr. Golinkin captures brilliantly."  --The New York Times
"An awesome intercontinental whirlwind, funny and smart. Go Ukraine!" --Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Little Failure
"Golinkin's memoir is a look into life during the Cold War, as well as a coming-of-age-story about finding yourself and where you belong. And reading the harrowing details of his family's exodus will have you counting your own blessings—and hugging the people you love." --Glamour.com 
"Mr. Golinkin excels at these moments, describing the emotional truth of immigration... His account is so raw that it manages to capture at a visceral level the feelings of many of the million Soviet Jews who left their homeland at the Cold War’s end." --The Wall Street Journal
"[Lev Golinkin] convincingly relates the purgatory of statelessness, the confused anticipatory state of the immigrant." --The Chicago Tribune
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 3, Block B: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin (2  of 4)
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 3, Block C: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin (3  of 4)
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 3, Block D: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin (4  of 4) 
 
Hour Four
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 4, Block A: Peter Berkowitz, Hoover, via Real Clear Politics, in re: 20 Years After Death, Rabin's Leadership Unmatched Amidst the breakdown of their negotiations with the Palestinians and a wave of terrorist attacks rolling across the country, Israelis will gather on the evening of October 31 in Tel Aviv to honor the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 20 years ago. And they will continue to wrestle with the meaning for Israel’s future of his life and tragic death. (1 of 2)
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 4, Block B: Peter Berkowitz, Hoover, via Real Clear Politics, in re: 20 Years After Death, Rabin's Leadership Unmatched Amidst the breakdown of their negotiations with the Palestinians and a wave of terrorist attacks rolling across the country, Israelis will gather on the evening of October 31 in Tel Aviv to honor the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 20 years ago. And they will continue to wrestle with the meaning for Israel’s future of his life and tragic death. (2 of 2)
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 4, Block C: McKay Coppins, Buzzfeed, in re:  Jeb Bush Continues “Death Spiral” at GOP DebateAn ill-fated attack on Marco Rubio was followed by a quiet, and at times awkward, performance for Bush — who badly needed a good night.
Friday  30 October 2015   / Hour 4, Block D:   Tyler Rogoway, Foxtrot Alpha, in re: Northrop Grumman Wins the Contract to Produce America's Next Stealth Bomber 29  After a Year of Delays, Sikorsky's CH-53K King Stallion Flies for the First Time
 
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