The John Batchelor Show

Friday 8 July 2016

Air Date: 
July 08, 2016

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Siegel, NY Daily News & Daily Beast, in re:  Dallas Shooter Had Bomb Materials in Home   Bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and “a personal journal of combat tactics” were found in the home of a man called the lone shooter in the Dallas police shootings, authorities said. What We Know About the Dallas Attack on Police
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:  Jim McTague, Barron’s Washington, in re: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/07/08/economists-react-to-the-june-jobs-report-christmas-in-july/
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re:  FEELING THE BERNOUT    Sanders is angering Democrats and squandering his influence, but just keeps going    http://twitter.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a0fd6f3f123ded4f1a8830ee8&id=dfb9616c80&e=6226aef03e
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 1, Block D:  Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes, US News, in re:  Forbes: More Brexit Lies Dispelled  http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2016/07/05/more-brexit-lies-dispelled/#19b8986a3a6e
WSJ: Investors Expand Their Appetite for Commodities  http://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-expand-their-appetite-for-commodities-1467684706?tesla=y
WSJ: What Do Chart Gaps Mean for Investors?  http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-do-chart-gaps-mean-for-investors-1467684003?tesla=y
Barron's: Getting Mileage from Gasoline Prices   http://www.barrons.com/articles/getting-mileage-from-gasoline-prices-1467433640--
U.S. News: How to Save $10,000 in 6 Months  http://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2016-07-05/how-to-save-10-000-in-6-months
 
Hour Two
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 2, Block A: Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  Washington Post:  NATO Allies Reaffirm Pledge for Higher Military Spending  WARSAW—North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials pushed European leaders for more ...   Unity, but not unanimity? NATO split on countering Russia amid Warsaw summit  (1 of 2)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:   Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  Washington Post:  NATO Allies Reaffirm Pledge for Higher Military Spending  (2 of 2)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:  Ian Urbina, NYT, in re:   A Model for ‘Clean Coal’ Runs Off the Tracks   A Mississippi project, a centerpiece of President Obama’s climate plan, has been plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal, and by cost overruns and questions of who will pay.   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/science/kemper-coal-mississippi.html?r... (1 of 2)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  Ian Urbina, NYT  (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: small business.  Robots replace CVS staff, and also tool-makers and Wendy’s staff.  Minimum wage – 0f $7.25/hr nationally – allows many students and modestly-paid employees, but $15/hr obliges layoffs/firings.  Demand for labor has weakened in June despite a decent jobs report.    Many companies not hiring.   IRS looing for big co’s hiding taxes, and insurance co’s sheltering cash, and such.  Heavy-duty truck orders fall.  Machinery and truck orders are dwindling.  ACA has older, sicker and __ population than Obmacare expected. Have 13 mil  members (max), need twice that. United Health Care lost $1 bil in the last two years, pulled out Colorado working toward a single-payer system (Medicare for all”).
Robots are coming for our jobs — here are 15 they're already taking over   http://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-quickly-disappearing-thanks-to-robots-2016-6
Small business jobs outlook turns gloomy  http://www.nfib.com/foundations/research-foundation/monthly-reports/jobs-report/?
Chicago minimum-wage hike hitting small-business owners  http://www.chicagonow.com/city-limits/2016/07/chicago-minimum-wage-hike-hitting-small-business-owners/
IRS Waging New Audit Campaigns Against Business Taxpayers  http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2016/07/07/irs-waging-new-auditcampaigns-against-business-taxpayers/
Heavy-Duty Truck Orders Fall to Lowest Since 2010  http://www.wsj.com/articles/heavy-duty-truck-orders-fall-to-lowest-since-2010-1467823241
U.S. factory orders fall, but rising backlogs hint at stabilization  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-factory-idUSKCN0ZL1M8
George Osborne looks at corporation tax cut to attract overseas investors  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/03/george-osborne-looks-at-corporation-tax-cut-to-attract-overseas-investors
Can You Guess the Typical American's 401(k) Balance? (Hint: It's less than $100,000)  http://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/07/03/can-you-guess-the-typical-americans-401k-balance-h.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004
This State May Ditch Obamacare for Single-Payer Healthcare This November  http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/07/03/this-state-may-ditch-obamacare-for-single-payer-he.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004
 \"Off the Rails\" - What Slumping Rail Traffic Tells Us about the U.S. Economy   http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/zerohedge/feed/%7E3/mIxX7lAb4Jo/rails-what-slumping-rail-traffic-tells-us-about-us-economy
 US Recoverable Oil Reserves Are World’s Largest   http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/typepad/RyNm/%7E3/hPfHRC9nogM/
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: Black Moon, a Russian start-up with working branches around the FSU, has just entered to get into the lending industry in the US.   Charge: 30-50% annual interest  - small bz can borrow for a few weeks just to buy eqpt.  Kylie Jenner, half0sister of Kardashians, has a cosmetics company, got an F from the BBB (complaints about poor customer svce, et al.).  Lent her her name and brand to a bz partner to mkt and distribute and another to mfr; they both let her down.    D-light company, by Sam Goldman:  made very cheap, efficient solar lights; now has 51 million customer in 60 countries; $1.8 bil in sales.   Mark Cuban funding: Hourly Nerd, a temp agy for tech staff in Boston and expanding; business people look not for bling but for solid cash generation. New Zealand wants to attract people for homes in a village 21 hours’ drive from Aukland.  Can buy weed in [Colorao? Cali?]; let’s combine them.
Russian startup Blackmoon launches online lending platform in the U.S.    http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/05/blackmoon-russia-us/
Kylie Jenner Learns a Harsh Business Lesson That You Already Know  https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278648
How This Entrepreneur Is Turning a Profit in Developing Countries   https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/274858
Mark Cuban adds to another funding round for Boston's HourlyNerd   http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2016/07/mark-cuban-adds-to-another-funding-round-for.html
 Entrepreneur Omar Samra's extraordinary business    http://www.arabianbusiness.com/entrepreneur-omar-samra-s-extraordinary-business-637423.html
5 Great Places to Invest Your Company's Excess Cash This Year  http://www.inc.com/gene-marks/5-great-places-to-invest-your-company-s-excess-cash-this-year.html
 New Zealand Town Recruiting New Residents with Land and Home Deals    http://mentalfloss.com/article/82600/new-zealand-town-recruiting-new-residents-land-and-home-deals
 Recreational weed legalization in California could lead to $1 billion tax windfall for state     http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/recreational-weed-legalization-in-california-could-lead-to-1-billion-tax-windfall-for-state/
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Hotel Mars, episode n. Dr. Michelle Thaller, Deputy Director of Science Communication for NASA, in re:   . . . Jupiter’s giant auroras – gorgeous and change.  Magnetic interactions among the moons.  Amazing tubes of electrical current (Io, Europa, Ganymede & Callisto).  . . . Hope to have first Junocam images in August.  In November, then 14-day orbits we hope to open it up the public voting to see which areas we should focus on.    . . . The origins of our Solar System and how we came to be the third planet from the Sun.
If all goes according to plan today, here’s what we can hope to learn from the Juno probe    “JUNO, welcome to Jupiter.”
Those were the words that could be heard over the intercom at NASA headquarters as scientists celebrated the successful launch of its Juno spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit.
The world watched with bated breath as the unmanned probe embarked on the crucial bid to slip into its target orbit.
After launching nearly five years ago, researchers held their breath for the moment of truth at 1:18pm AEST this afternoon.
That was the time an all important 35-minute window began in which the spacecraft kicked in its engines in a bid to slow down enough to be dragged into Jupiter’s gravitational pull, in what NASA scientists referred to as the crucial engine burn.
As it kicked off, all was going well and scientists on the ground were optimistic.
“Right now it looks like the main engine is doing well,” said Juno project manager Rick Nybakken at the midway point.
While he and his team were very excited prior to the end of the 35-minute period, he was quick to point out that “it’s a crazy place to go” and nothing is guaranteed.
NASA was shooting for a 53-and-a-half day orbit, which the space agency ultimately succeeded in hitting.
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When confirmation came in the form of a three-second beep from the probe, the control room erupted with cheers.
The truly hard part was done, but they weren’t in the clear just yet. Thirty minutes after the confirmation of success, NASA scientists had to turn the probe around to once again face the sun in order to get the electricity to power the solar powered spacecraft for the rest of the mission.
The space agency was again successful, and the festivities are set to continue into the night as NASA celebrates this historic event.
The logic of the questions in this article [http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/if-all-goes-according-to..., beginning with the launch journey and orbit insertion of Juno, then turning to the instruments onboard, then the mission profile; and finally what are the ambitions for the probe -- longevity, unknowns, risks. (1 of 2)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:   Hotel Mars, episode n. Dr. Michelle Thaller, Deputy Director of Science Communication for NASA, in re; Jupiter has twice the mass of all the other planets combined.  We think it formed in a different position, maybe as close as Mars is now; if so, probably sent other planets careening and some ejected out of our Solar System.  We're measuring to se if it has a solid core – if not, may be more like a little star.  We ‘ll swing in so close– 2,600 mi above cloud tops -– that we can discern much about the gravity field and the plant’s density core.  Water, even in minerals, determines a good deal about the planet.   Earlier Galileo probe: sent back report of no water, but we think that may be anomalous.   Junocam: high-res.  Ham radios worldwide sent data to the rocket and it responded; “Hi.”  The Great Red Spot = a giant high-pressure system  The microwave radiometer can rcv microwaves at many frequencies so we can see through clouds.    (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam, by William Reeder Jr. (Part II of II)  (4 of 8)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam, by William Reeder Jr. (Part II of II)  (5 of 8)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 4 Block C:   Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam, by William Reeder Jr. (Part II of II)  (6 of 8)
Friday  8 July 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:  Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam, by William Reeder Jr. (Part II of II)  (7 of 8)
 
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