Photo, left: TOW missile being fired from an M151 MUTT. US-supplied TOW anti-tank missiles have ended up in the hands of Jabhat Al Nusra, Syria’s branch of Al Qaeda.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, and Tom Joscelyn Long War Journal; in re: Map at LongWarJoural is assembled based on press repots or Taliban claims that have been correct in the past – probably twice 63 districts. Taliban have made an major push, esp to take over the provincial capital Kunduz and being tangent to Tajikistan. A major loss by the US.  Resupply from Pakistan and others.  Hindu Kush: very tough to get supplies in, to Badakhshan and Kunduz.  This is not just a Pashtun group – Tajiks, Uyghurs and many minorities are fighting with Taliban.   Syria, al Nusrah Front: photos of Russian air strikes.  US being quiet about Russians' hitting multiple targets, incl Nusrah and its allies, and some CIA groups in Syria.  It's the Jaish al Fatah Group that's done most of the damage to Assad. First time we have confirmation from CIA that we have CIA ops on the ground.  Harakat Hazm showed up with expensive US TOW missiles. [US-supplied TOW anti-tank missiles have ended up in the hands of Jabhat Al Nusra, Syria’s branch of Al Qaeda. {The US provided the missiles to CIA-vetted Syrian rebel faction Harakat Hazm in May 2014.}] Al Q overran the group and took the weaponry.  WSJ report named new groups and their commanders. Man-portable air-defense systems = Manpads – vs Sukhois or Russian MI28 attack helicopters.
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, and Tom Joscelyn Long War Journal; in re: Afghan interior ministry reported that the jihadi-in-charge of Badakhshan; "The reports of my death are must exaggerated." Natl dir for security said Mullah Salam was claimed to  have been killed; he issued a report saying he was alive. "Resolute Support" is the US crew in Afghanistan and are extremely unhelpful with reports.
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block C:
A dozen Pacific nations members of trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP); China greets this sourly.  Its own crew is ___ - who writes the rules for global trade – US or China? The most important part of the "pivot" – TPP is the core.  Countries will follow either the US, high-standard model, or China's. China s in economic distress, at present.  TPP is open to China, which declined because the standards were written so China couldn't meet them, incl on state-owned businesses.  US says that the world trading system needs to be fair and open whereas China says, We'll sell to you but not you to us.  China distinctly has not been excluded. although academics from Fudan have been wroth and ultra-nationalistic. Big problem is that right now China cannot reform. Beijing has been most concerns about an incr in Fed rates – wd trigger outflows of Chinese cash to the US. Beijing needs low interest rates, incl over time, cd be a fatal blow to the Chinese economy. US kicks the can down the road and gives China time to repair, and China is quite happy with this. Decided to limit cash withdrawals form Union Pay Cards – (overseen by the govt there).  Central bank: strict reserve requirements; a vice-governor began to talk of a Tobin tax (on financial instruments).  Money is gushing out at $135 Billion/mo; $178 Bil left China in August according to Goldman. 
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block D:  Peter Berkowitz, Hoover, in re:
Hour Two
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block A:  David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re:  Joe Biden – When will he decide to run or not?  Will he be in the first debate? He'll have to announce in days if he's going to do it. Signals at present are he'll run; but Mrs Clinton appears vulnerable. Her strategy so far has been to ignore Bernie Sanders, but she'll have to go after him sme time and distance herself from theObama Adm (of which Biden obviouslyis a member). 
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, and John Fund, NRO, in re: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/425020/congress-more-you-know-about... ;  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-biden-to-decide-on-2016-bid-in-...    ;  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-year-out-rnc-runs-war-game-to-test-i...
 
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block C:  Charles Ortel, Phi Ventures, in re: Clinton FOoundations, highly unusual bookkeeping, federal regs on the matter. The multiple international Clinton Foundations, apparently not registered ab initio.
Indian Express   AT AN ART auction by The Indo-American Arts Council, the community people came together to raise funds for the Gujarat earthquake victims, identifying with the unbelievable pain and sorrow and loss faced by them. In New York, there have been many fundraisers and recently the Indian-Americans participated at a $250-per plate fundraiser organized by the IAAC at the Dynasty Restaurant in Radisson Hotel.

"The unfortunate thing is I don't see as well as I did before, so I may have to speak without notes," Bill Clinton, the chief guest, said. Clinton said he would go to Gujarat soon and he had started a rehabilitation program of $50 million. He has been working closely with several Indian-American entrepreneurs and they are all coordinating money and efforts to assist Gujarat.
Clinton said he hoped these efforts would give the victims a better life and that this would be a model for future rehabilitation in the world over. While people chatted and diamonds flashed their usual semaphore messages, there was a remarkably somber tone to the evening. Clinton said that for 40 villages the total rehabilitation cost would be $20 million, while the estimated cost for supporting a village, with 100 families, was $500,000. If the new America-India Foundation adopts 100 villages, the total cost of the operation will be $50 million.
"In a larger sense, I want to make it clear, what we are trying to do is to develop something that can be a model for the whole world, that we can use in the long term for the economic development of poor places, when they arc hit by disaster or when they just need some help," Clinton said.
"During my travels, I became convinced that intelligence is equally distributed throughout the world, but opportunity is not. There are now proven devices like micro-credit and new opportunities through technology to give people a chance to skip a whole generation of development. To give their children futures on every continent, in every country, that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago."

When Clinton visited Rajasthan last year, he went to a community center that had a computer with an Internet connection. He saw a woman with a baby who asked for information on childcare. In Clinton's presence, a technician printed out information on taking care of a baby. "That woman went home with a set of instructions that are about as good as you can get in the finest paediatrician's office in New York City," he commented.

 "If we could put one good connection to the internet with one good printer in every poor village of the world, we would overcome the textbook problem," he said. He said he visited schools in Africa where maps were so old that they did not list 80 new countries, those which had, politically, come into existence after the those maps were made. 

"There are opportunities for those of us who have been more fortunate to help these villages not only recover to the state they were in before the earthquake, but to give their children a broader future."

Clinton also said that he was interested in earmarking funds for housing, healthcare, clean water, education and micro credits to entrepreneurs in those villages.

"Our goal is to provide enough expertise to prove that we can work together in a partnership to leave these villages, if anything better off than they were before the earthquake. No one can replace the human loss, the loss of life, and the personal things that people lose in a tragedy like this. But we would like to make something good come out of this."

The glittering event was well attended. It raised $64,000 from an art auction conducted by Hugo Weihe, vice-president of Indian and South-East Asian Art at the Christie's, New York."
SMALL CHANGE From the 2003 990 for American India Fund that was not filed in CA or NY in Note 9 to the "Audit" performed by internationally renowned firm of Wilkin & Guttenplan of East Brunswick, NY:
"Prior to the formation of AIF, certain individuals comprising of the senior management of AIF, were instrumental in the fundraising activities for Gujurat Earthquake relief....
Approximately $2,700,000 was raised for such purposes and was disbursed to non-governmental organizations during 2001, 2002 and 2003".
Madoff was a piker.
What until you see the differences between monies raised and monies disclosed as raised for tsunami relief and for many other projects. . . . 
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 2, Block D: Peter Kohanloo, & president of Iranian American Majority, in re:  A road map to regime change in Teheran Critics of the Iran nuclear deal can at least make sure America puts the 10-year horizon to good use.
 
Hour Three
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in re:  Opinion Journal: Supreme Court Cases to Watch University of Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead provides an overview of the high court’s most controversial cases this term.    Opinion Journal: In Praise of Free Trade  Assistant Editorial Page Editor James Freeman on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the benefits of the free movement of labor and capital.
 
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block B:  Simon Constable, TheStreet.com, in re: TheStreet: Why the Pause in the Dollar Rally Should Help Stocks  ;  TheStreet: 3 Reasons to Be Bullish on the U.S. Economy -- and 3 More Not to Be
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block C:  Henry I Miller, Hoover, in re: "The Dirty Truth about 'Organic' "
Monday  5 October 2015 / Hour 3, Block D:   Kevin Baron, Defense One, in re: AFGHANISTAN: US Hospital Strike Stuns; More from Defense One's D Brief  Leaders of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) accused U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan of possible war crimes for killing 22 staff and patients in a deliberate airstrike on the Kunduz hospital this weekend. Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baron examines this news and more in today's D Brief (subscribe here). 
 
Hour Four
Monday  5 October 2015  / Hour 4, Block A: Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott PART I of III (1 of 4).
Monday  5 October 2015  / Hour 4, Block B: Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott PART I of III (2 of 4).
Monday  5 October 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott PART I of III (3 of 4).
Monday  5 October 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott PART I of III (4 of 4).
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