Photo, left: Veterans Administration taken to task by a veteran.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen.
Hour One
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, & Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Muhsin al-Fadhli (24 April 1981 – 8 July 2015; according to media reports, al-Fadhli was a close confidant of Osama bin Laden, and one of a few people to be informed of the September 11 attacks, before they were launched) of Khorasan Group has been killed – was in Iran till 2012, then went to Syria and opposed Iran and was killed?  While he was in Iran, . . .   treasury and State designated him as [terrorist]; that he was leading al Q network in Iran, and of course had to let the ayatollahs know what they were doing. / Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( a regional branch of al Q, although haven't yet publicly sworn allegiange).  Lots of Germans, Turks, and fighters from Central Africa.  Al Qaeda is extremely effective in Afghanistan and fights alongside the Taliban.  Pakistan targets only selective groups.  Abu Khalil al Sudani dead in eastern Afghanistan: US AIRSTRIKE KILLS ONE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN’S MOST TRUSTED COMMANDERS IN AFGHANISTAN  Abu Khalil al Sudani worked with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri for years. He was a member of al Qaeda’s shura council and directed suicide operations. Osama bin Laden’s files reveal that he was one of al Qaeda’s most trusted leaders. The airstrike that killed Sudani took place in the Bermal district of the Paktia province, where the US operated a base before withdrawing its forces.  So-called "core al Qaeda" is comfortable in eastern Afghanistan or it wouldn’t have sent so senior an operative there.
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, & Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Caleb Weiss in Africa: suicide bombers in Nigeria and Cameroon - using women bombers. They have a network for this – women aren’t being checked the way men are, can hide weapons under veils, etc.  Nigerian schoolgirls abducted in northeastern Nigeria. Al Shabaab in Mogadishu: al Q's official branch in East Africa. It continues to launch attacks against hotels where influential people all gather.  Also in Kenya Uganda, et al.  With VBIED, rammed the gates before detonating – if you  have to go there, take a room in back, not near the front gate. Egypt's chief prosecutor was assassinated, no one took responsibility. Administration accuses a fellow who turns out to be the head of al Q in Egypt recall that in 2014 a Sinai group pledged allegiance to al Q, is very strong.  Does al Q want to compete with the Muslim Brothers/  It's complicated – al Q rejected MB's slow approach; but now has moderated its criticism of MB.
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in Seoul, in re: En Chine, forte (re) chute de la Bourse [ http://t.co/rwuBCm3Oge http://t.co/T8OzfAoLzm ] [Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/lemondefr/status/625666578521137152 ]   Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5% in the last session, hasn’t yet opened this morning. Euro stocks responded to Chinese govt intervention.  Beijing intervened, created credit, buoyed it by demanding that no one short-sell, and took half the stocks off the board for weeks. Sunday: rumor that the state govt was paying loans to banks – no exit strategy. Every time they try to exit, people race out of the mkt.  People panicking, not thinking rationally: "The first moment I can take my money out, I will."  Is the central govt now required to save the mkt – predicament: can't save it but have committed themselves to doing so.  Ergo, 因此, failure of confidence in the Chinese regime.  They have to keep this mkt up; cannot; Party is at extreme jeopardy/risk. If the Party explodes, is Washington prepared? Absolutely not.  The US intell community said that Xi consolidated control- despite evident disunity, it won't change its evaluation.   Have vested interest in a nuclear-armed dictatorship in China. And blaming he US for the Chinese mkt fall – which is ludicrous US has paid billions for intell, and many bright analysts – but assembled press releases are garbage.  Our intell apparatus cannot deliver real intell.   The Shanghai-HK Connect lets foreigner buy specially in the Chinese mkt, but when it fails, there's panic around the world.  Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, USA – fleeing Chinese capital to these; $800 BILLION this year.  Shanghai just opened – down 4% in moments. Look for rescue in the later part of the afternoon trading session.  In American Midwest, unfair predatory Chinese trade practices haven't endeared China to our citizens. 
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 1, Block D:  Francis Rose, Federal News Radio, in re: VA; Philadelphia vet walks in sandwich board asking for fair and rational treatment. .@DeptVetAffairs https://t.co/gflbH5IAuX / Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/625697459990360064
 
Hour Two
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 2, Block A: John Fund, National Review Online, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent, in re: Mrs Clinton – the  hardly-challenged-by-rivals empress of the Democratic campaign, now attacks the New York Times, and attacks Trey Gowdy as though he was Ken Starr. This repeats the 4 Ds: deny, delay, distract, and denounce (and now, "delegitimize"). What they're worried about not Sanders or those, but that the poll collapse so much that the staff run for the exits, and Elizabeth Warren or Jim Webb will come in with real money and be a serious challenge,  Why are they attacking Trey Gowdy?  You delegitimize your opponent. Gowdy's may look farcical to many of us, but the Clintons see it as potentially grave.  What HRC did with her private server goes to her overall handling of natl security. Also, people expect pols to be a tad shady, but something that goes to your competence to be president is of much consequence. The server rcd classified info; against all procedures.  Huma Abedin, et al., have yet to testify. The server is the Moby Dick – is it totally scrubbed??  The more the lack of transparency surfaces, the more she takes on Richard Nixon overtones.  Were I HRC, I wouldn’t worry abt horse-race polls, but would about trustworthiness polls.  We don't hear much abt her tenure as Secy of State.   When TR first went to eh New York Assembly, his eers ignored him – but he immed made good friends with the New York Times and got good coverage- read by people who make donations.  The waspish columns of Maureen Dowd don't help Mrs Clinton.  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421589/donald-trump-radical-revenge
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: John Fund, National Review Online, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent, in re:  . . . Rick Perry called Trump "a cancer" – expect him to do this but not to get into an unwinnable rhetorical fight; avoid ropadope. If you're running to be president of the US, you'll be on stages with persons you’re not fond of; need to stay extremely civil. Polite smile. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421589/donald-trump-radical-revenge / http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/clinton-s-conspiracy-of-se...
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 2, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: The Vienna Accords; side-deals, codicils, promises; conversations and documents not in the possession of State. Sidebars – and similar euphemisms: Parchin (never yet inspected by the IAEA), and MD – the baseline f what Iran has done Stae know acknowledges that the MD wlll not be provided to Congress, which will have to vote [in the dark].  White House rushed the deal to the UN for a vote long before the Congress could. Now we see secret deals with IAEA anent Parchin –Iran gets to chose which samples to provide to IAEA. Ask a drug addict to choose what sample to hand over? No unfettered access to major sites.  "Inspect anywhere, any time" – the longstanding WH promise is now called "a flourish of rhetoric."  Hunh?  Also WH scapegoating Israel – a sovereign state that has a right and actually an obligation to raise its concerns, as Jordan and Saudi Arabia are doing. Dore Gold (rightist) and Amos Yadlin (Labor) warmly agree, as do the Saudis, which have a ten-year  plan to become a nuclear power.  US pres has to certify that Iran has ceased terrorism funding, weapons _, at al.  A treaty preempts states from _ but this is merely an "agreement."  Third, the deal itself seems to negate/violate the NPT, the nonproliferaton treaty.  Who reviewed this?  WH thinks it has 51 Senators – enough votes to win on the first round (a tactic). A two-month process. And a bunch of Dems who voice strong concern. 
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 2, Block D: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: two votes: need simple majority; then later need 2/3.  Hezb in the Syrian civil war: complaining that Iran has quit funding; Saudis say they'll give more to the PA.  See the UN GA session this September when Sisi and Rouhani and many others will converge in New York. Hamas has been in rivalry with ISIS in Gaza; Hamas has been getting money from Iran.  If even 10& of the $150 billion to Iran goes to terrorism, major effects!
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-dispatching-big-guns-to-us-as-ira... / http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-announces-mideast-trip-skipping-israel/   http://www.timesofisrael.com/huckabee-hits-back-at-obama-for-ignoring-irans-big-holocaust-threat/
Hour Three
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 3, Block A:  Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com; in re: Opinion Journal: The Presidential Money Game 
Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips on how record donations to Super PACs may affect the Republican presidential candidates. Photo credit: Getty Images.
Opinion Journal: Hillary Marches Left ; Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot on the Democratic candidate’s stance on climate change, tax and trade. Photo credit: Getty Images.
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com; in re: Opinion Journal: Mutual Funds: Too Big to Fail? Investment Company Institute Chief Economist Brian Reid on why federal regulators may impose more red tape on the industry, and what it means for investors. / Opinion Journal: Iran Won’t Come Clean: Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot on news that the nuclear pact doesn’t
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 3, Block C:  Michael Ledeen, FDD, in re:  http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2015/07/27/how-to-defeat-the-grand-bargain/
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 3, Block D:  Bud Weinstein, SMU, in re: Allow private facilities to store used nuclear fuel   http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Weinstein-Allow-private-facilities-to-store-used-6376198.php?t=1d8331d623&cmpid=email-premium
Hour Four
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 4, Block A:  Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: IDENTITY THIEF EXPLAINS THE ART OF EMPYTING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT   From 2007 to 2010, Dmitry Naskovets was an identity thief in Minsk, Belarus who smoothed the way for more than 5,000 instances of fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. His hacker partners did the complex computer work of stealing account data; then Naskovets provided the final piece, getting around the toughest security measures on the phone and giving final approval for fraudulent wire transfers. As data theft has exploded in recent years, so has this service sector. Naskovets talks to Bloomberg’s Dune Lawrence from his home in Brooklyn, explaining how his criminal trades worked.  http://buswk.co/IDthief  (1 of 2)
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 4, Block B:  Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg Businessweek (2 of 2)
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: David Grinspoon, Blumberg Chair of Astrobiology, Library of Congress, in re;
Monday  27 July 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: David Grinspoon, Planetary Space Institute; Blumberg Chair of Astrobiology, Library of Congress, in re: 1.  Mars http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/592429/Mars-Amazing-picture-shows-... / http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-curiosity-continental-crust-early-mars-03022.html  /  “Combined with the identification of feldspar-rich rocks elsewhere and the low average density of the crust in the Martian southern hemisphere, we conclude that silica-rich magmatic rocks may constitute a significant fraction of ancient Martian crust and may be analogous to the earliest continental crust on Earth,” the scientists wrote.
2.  Pluto   New Horizons Finds Frozen Plains in Pluto's Heart-Shaped Feature  /  New Horizons data suggests mountains of nitrogen ice on Pluto ...  /  Here's All the Pluto Science from New Horizons So Far
3. Ceres:  Dawn at Ceres: A haze in Occator crater?   Those mysterious spots on Ceres may have mysterious haze over ...  /   Mysterious 'Haze' Seen Above Ceres' Weird Bright Spots   /   Why Aren't We Hearing More about Ceres?   /   Mystery haze appears above Ceres's bright spots