Photo, left: Hundred-year commemoration of the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turkey:  at the memorial in Yerevan. 
“In 2015, Armenians worldwide commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and will pay homage to our 1.5 million martyred ancestors.”  Геноцид армян 100 лет.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes
 
Hour One
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD,  and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD, in re:
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD,  and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD, in re
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast & Forbes.com, in re: :  Trouble in the South China Sea. SCMH: “China will  take this matter to the brink of war.”  Awaiting ICC decision on Scarborough Shoal.  Dutchman: “Everyone is worried about China’s unilateral military spending [and aggression].” People are starting to realize that China intends to make its grab of the shoal permanent.  Many nations are thinking for patrolling with the Filipinos; everyone says , “Don't do it.”   Xi gains in his obstinacy by looking powerful – same as Hitler with the Sudetenland.  . . .  Li Kaiching, premier, possible rival to Xi? Comes from Communist Youth League.  . . . Be cause Xi made himself chairman of everything he’s considered responsible for her bad economy, populace looks again to Li.  Nineteenth Party Congress, Oct or Nov 2017.
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Claudia Rosett, FDD & PJ Media: The Rosett Report, in re:  Global cooling to global warming, to climate change heading toward global everything,  Six thousand signatories to the treaty.  Paris Climate Agreement: 176 signatories.  Problem is, either it's meaningless, or an enormous giveaway.  Pretext for central planning,  Coming: more expensive electricity, power, gas, living.  Look for enormous slush funds.  Brilliant for taking huge amounts of money and redirect it whithersoever.  . . .  But it’s unenforceable, and everybody has to trust everybody else’s accounting. Each nation binds itself: where law is followed (wealthy democratic states), it matters; in the dictatorships, no such; e.g., Iran, N Korea, Sudan, Venezuela.   https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/climate-deal-forecast-frost-for-the-u-s-economy-slush-funds-for-the-planet/
 
Hour Two
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:   David M Drucker, Senior Congressional correspondent, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re: The story comes down to Indiana.  I’m the son and grandson of Hoosiers!  Deep GOP roots back to its build-up in the 1850s and the Civil War. It doesn’t encourage polls - leaving the outside world a bit stumped. Is the conversation ‘twixt Kasich and Cruz going to deliver Indiana to Cruz?  Polling shows 30-35% for Trump.  Trump has a few good evenings coming; this agreement might put Cruz over the top. “Shtick.”  Where's Gov Pence at?  “He didn't rule out the notion of an enforcement.”  [?] He has a difficult re-election race; is not a shrinking violet, might endorse Cruz.   I thought April wd be good to Trump; May, to Cruz.  Nebraska, Montana, S Dakota, maybe Wash State, for Cruz. It’ll all come down to California. Again, the down-ballot races if delegates vote for Trump.  . . .  His lack of discipline is a known; he’s chaotic.  . . . What you see is what you get; when something works you think it always will. Manafort’s influence with Trump?  Umm, his attempt to change Trump.  If you like what he says – or don't like what he says - wait five minutes; a classic adult attention-disorder victim.  None of it is made up; Donald Trump is being authentic. 
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Senior Congressional correspondent, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re: Why does Mrs Clinton want Bernie Sanders to hang around? She’d like him to go away, but he helps her as long as he doesn't threaten her too much.  Needs to look  as though her lurch to the left is sincere.  Has Sen Sanders reached the apex of his popularity and begun a decline?  In comparison, she looks reasonable.  “A sort of MoveOn.org with a leader.”
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:  Pietro Shikarian, Ohio State University, Ph.D. student in History of Russia & Caucasus, foci Armenia and Georgia;  in re: The Armenian Genocide, April 24, 1915. Ottomans persecuted Christians: transferred them through the desert where they grew weak, and gangs of thugs attacked and massacred almost all of them. What has happened just now in Yerevan, capital of Armenia?  Very symbolic, emotional. April 24 was hre day Armenian intellectuals were arrested and removed from Constantinople (“red Sunday”). April 24 1955, massive demonstrations in Yerevan, in then-Soviet Armenia – 100,000 people protested, asked fro official recognition and a monument.  Monument completed in 1957.  This is a trauma that Armenians have been living with for 101 years – denied by Turkey for many decades, then acknowledged as a sort of civil war – not true! Congress won’t acknowledge because of fear of Turkey.    Aras Sarafian, of London.  We hail Ataturk as a great modernizer,but many of the peiple in his govt were authors of and active in genocide,
JKurds assisted in ht genocide.  Now thtey;re coming to terms with their past, and asre seeking forgivness    Turkic cultures vs Armenians.    Ankara gets farther and farther away from acknowledging.  A famous Turkish journalalist was recently murdered and generated much “we’re all one people” sentiment, but now that ‘s gone.  Russians want Turkey to recognize the genocide – Russia was the first nation to do so.” Crime against humanity” is a phrase that was coined by Russia a century ago about Armenian genocide,  Sergei Lavrov, is half-Armenian from Tbilis -  visited the memorial.   Traditional torchlight procession kicks off in Yerevan. Live  The traditional torchlight procession from the ... Yerevan Forum Calls for Joint Efforts to Counter Crimes Against Humanity  ;  Lavrov meeting with Armenian foreign minister in Yerevan ;   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTZ8OSUNWfE ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqiPwJB5Ks
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 2, Block D: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:   Yemen:  Houthis and Bab al-Mandab Strait.  “Destabilizing efforts” – Kerry responded again about Iranian banks’ having access to US dollars.  A new rocket: detection of a North Korean shipment of very big missiles. Head of US Northern Command said this is a serious threat; these rockets could deploy an ICBM by 2020.  Teheran sees that there’s no serious move to rein it in according to signed agreements. Now that the US Supreme Court has ruled against Iran, it reacts immediately.  The White House-directed messages we send are [pretty soft and fuzzy].  As Iran increases its provocations it pays no price.   We see Hezbollah’s increasing activity; as for US involvement, 250 people is small.
Iran showed off parts of its new Russian S-300 missile defense system during National Army Day on April 17, Reuters reported. During an event in Tehran, President Hassan Rouhani said the country's armed forces and its missile defenses were no threat to neighboring countries, but would defend Iran. Russia delivered the first part of the S-300 missile defense system — which can engage multiple aircraft and ballistic missiles around 150 kilometers away — to Iran last week. Russia has said it canceled a contract to deliver S-300s to Iran in 2010 under pressure from the West. But President Vladimir Putin lifted the ban in April 2015, after an interim agreement that paved the way for a full nuclear deal with Iran that ended international sanctions. Since then, Iran's hard-line conservative Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has carried out four ballistic missile tests, upsetting the United States in part to undermine Rouhani and his economic reform efforts that could disrupt Iran's political system.
 
Hour Three
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:   Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, and Daily  Beast op-ed editor, in re: The beleaguered Bill DeBlasio and Tammany Hall.   
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  John Tamny, Forbes, com, RealClearPolitics; in re: George Gilder’s 1981 classic, Wealth and Poverty – update: The Scandal of Money – what can go wrong and why. The correlation is that we had a weak dollar in the Seventies but real estate was the top asset class, which the American people were rushing in to. Now, we have a housing boom among falling interest rates. Common: When money is being devalued, there’s a rush to safety.  The cost of one ounce of gold: when the dollar is 1/725 of a dollar it’s stronger than when it's 1/1750.  . . . “The economy of now” – when the dollar is stable, seen as good, we can invest in stock and bond income streams representing future wealth. When the dollar is weak, we go for real estate, jewellery, known values.  . . . . . . The sole use of money is to circulate goods (Adam Smith); what’s needed is a stable dollar. 
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, NYU Law, in re:  Attorneys-General are trying to sue Exxon Mobil for lying about climate, and make it a RICO case. (1 of 2)
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:  Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, NYU Law, in re:  Attorneys-General are trying to sue Exxon Mobil for lying about climate, and make it a RICO case. (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (1 of 4)  "MacKeen weaves multiple historical sources for corroboration and context, but her main material, Stepan’s unpublished memoir, lands the emotional punch of personal narrative. MacKeen’s added perspective is what makes this book though. A moving portrait of one family’s relationship to the past that offers surprising hope for reconciliation."  —Toronto Globe & Mail
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (2 of 4)
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 4, Block C:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (3 of 4)
Monday 25 April 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (4 of 4)
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