Photo: Big mining.  Brobdingnadgian mining and processing.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co hosts: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack and Commercial Space.  David Livingston, The Space Show.
 
Hour One
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News, in re:
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 1, Block B: Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board, in re:
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 1, Block C: Jason Rolland, vice president of Materials, Carbon3D, Inc (Carbon 3D.com) & Science Magazine, in re:  Monomer& polymers/3D printing; photopolymer resins; JIT parts.
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 1, Block D: Jason Rolland, vice president of Materials, Carbon3D, Inc (Carbon 3D.com) & Science Magazine, in re:  Monomer& polymers/3D printing; photopolymer resins; JIT parts. parts.
 
Hour Two
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 2, Block B:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 2, Block C:  John  Foley, US editor of BreakingViews, Reuters, in re: what might happen in the coming year in the markets, banks, stability?  Where are investors liable to be happy? . . . . Big mining: Glencore, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, all go in cycles. . .  Buy lithium mines instead of lead? Yes, and cobalt. Big oil; big shale gas.  Oil prices expected to stay low, <$60 Bbl.  MbS in Saudi.  Aramco. Listing in Hong Kong is easier; in Shanghai, more complex but other opportunities.
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 2, Block D: John  Foley, US editor of BreakingViews, Reuters, in re: the #MeToo movement has spread from Hollywood to all other fields.  Can’t afford to ignore or will be sued into oblivion.  Not about harassment, alone is equally about representation. Mining has always been a male industry, but BHP now ahs 15% women (among executives?). Japanese scandals: have fabricated data (incl Kobe Steel!), mfrd dreadful goods.  Skeletons in the closet. If the products are going to be expensive, they’d better be really really good. India, “promoters” promote Indian bz on the global stage.  Breaking the ”crony cord.”
 
Hour Three
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 3, Block A:  Jim McTague, Barron’s Washington , in re:
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 3, Block B:  Jeff Bliss,  Pacific Watch, in re: California hospitals are overwhelmed with flu cases.  Not yet formally labelled an epidemic, but it is one, and getting worse; Influenza A and B; can get both, Headaches, chills, fevers, nausea, respiratory – can be grave.  Also, recreational marijuana. Mushrooms “for health.” Regular and psilocybin. Mushroom coffee-‑yuk.  Thomas wildfire, 300,00 acres.  Small-population Oregon counties now allow people to pump their own gas.  Mt St Helena looks to be about to erupt again.
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 3, Block C:  Hotel Mars, episode n. Anatoly Zak,   , in re: Roscosmos, Soyuz 5, new-gen launch vehicle. Compete with SpaceX Falcon series. . .  All from Baikonur. 
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 3, Block D:  Hotel Mars, episode n. Anatoly Zak,   , in re: Sea launch. ExoMars Lander Mission.
 
Hour Four
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 4, Block A: Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re: a long-term problem in Iran,  not begun nor ended with protests.  Health of the Supreme Leader?  Khamenei; 1979 putsch; is in terminal stages of his illness, will depart perhaps within the year. Succession? IRGC or Basij or  . . .   
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 4, Block B: Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re:
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 4, Block C: Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack, in re: Tabby’s Star!  . . . Predator star.
Friday  4 January 2018 / Hour 4, Block D:  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack, in re:
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