Photo, left: see Hour 3, Block B, Dr. Abdullah Mohtadi, Secretary General of (the Iranian Kurdish) Komuleh Party
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents.
 
Hour One
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in re: Affordable Care Act. In California, revised ability to seize assets: the Institute for Justice fighting civil forfeiture laws. However, state police in cahoots with feds, who can seize more easily – grab personal property jointly and split the moolah. Mary with Garry Kasparov. who's just written a book.  . . . Syrian war; "aht could be worse than hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing, autocrats in power, Europe under siege, Leading from behind is a recipe for war – in the Middle East could be nuclear."  The eve of doom.
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Edward Hayes, Esq., criminal-defense attorney par excellence; in re:  Homeless, displaced persons, drug addicts, mayor who demands that the NYPD cease stop, question and frisk – which removes huge numbers of guns – and does nothing to help deranged and mentally ill persons get professional help, including keeping the ill on their medications. 
Governor’s aide gets shot, heroes step in thebea.st/1NoNGUB pic.twitter.com/jX9CuHgvkM ;  Cuomo Administration Lawyer Is Shot in Head Before West Indian Day Parade - The revelers were crowded onto Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn partaking in the annual West Indian American Day celebration early on Monday when the bullets began to fly in all directions. A dispute, possibly between rival gangs, prompted the shootout, police officials said, endangering the lives of hundreds of innocent bystanders. Among those caught in the crossfire was Carey Gabay, a lawyer with the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who had joined the festivities with his brother. Mr. Gabay, 43, was shot in the head and on Monday afternoon was described as “not doing well” by Mr. Cuomo, who spoke with reporters after visiting the lawyer’s bedside at Kings County Hospital Center. Mr. Gabay underwent surgery and was in critical condition Monday night.  /  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls for 'national gun policy' after ...  While Cuomo touted gun control laws passed in New York during his ... in 2011, first in Albany and most recently in New York City. "He could've . . .  / Cuomo, After Lawyer's Shooting, Revives Call to Overhaul Gun Laws / Gov. Cuomo talks gun control after lawyer shot before West Indian ...
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: Amity Shlaes,  Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, Trustees board chairman, in re: Frozen in time: Hank  Paulson, under Pres G W Bush, is Secretary of the Treasury;; he welcomes in the biggest bankers in the galaxy. Most are no longer with us; but its emergency time The markets are shaken, money mkts teetering at the edge. Hank Paulson stuffs checks of 10, 15, 20 billion dollars in the bankers's pockets.  "The GOP has saved the American economy."   Known globally: the top 1% are the biggest winners. Known nationally: the GOP stands steadfastly for its own.
Jeb Bush, today running for president: He ought first to sign a pledge saying, "I'll never bail out."  Collective amnesia on 2008 among candidates. The Democrats, who mostly advocate raising taxes: more of the same. Marco Rubio: "Look forward!" – but he advocates handouts.  . . .   We've just had a seven-year experiments with higher taxes, that hasn't worked.  I happen to be teaching at The King's College . . . The reason we thought we could afford the Great Society was that we were swimming in money from the Kennedy tax cuts. The regulatory society. Regulatory economic weakness. A trust deficit. Need a policy on bailouts. Uncertainty.  . .  . I'm starting to take Dr Carson seriously. I wrote in Investors Business Daily anent the Trust Index of Sapienza and  Zingalis.   . . . . "John Batchelor is a Republican who doesn't trust his own Party."
"Growth first. The rest will follow." That’s considered Reaganite policy and many American Republicans follow it. This week, for example, Jeb Bush is putting forward his own all-growth Tax Plan. He wants to get America out of the “New Normal” of slower European-level growth.
The Bush reforms contain multiple measures aimed at freeing the U.S. economy to grow faster. Bush cuts in corporate tax rates could keep American businesses home and draw foreign businesses. The candidate would reduce the top rate on the income tax to the level of Reagan’s 1986 reform, 28%, a measure that would cheer a somnolent professional class into working harder. Bush also recommends a dramatic reform: giving business the ability expense all capital investments. Such instant expensing will not only strengthen growth but improve growth’s quality.
To be sure: Trump scarcely offers a developed bailout policy either. In a press conference last month he chose to answer by not answering: “You could have let it go, and rebuilt itself, through the free enterprise system," said Trump. "You could have let it go bankrupt, frankly, and a lot of people thought that’s the way it should have happened. Or you could have done it the way it went [bailouts].  Either way would have been acceptable.” What Trump does do, however, is channel the intense frustration voters feel at politicians who won’t talk about trust betrayed in the past.
Trust first, then growth. The onus is on Republicans to act here. In the coming debate season, candidates will have to debate economics. This fall is the perfect moment for them to get granular: to say whether they will endorse another TARP. Or whether they would have Washington bail out automakers. Or whether they will appoint fans of quantitative easing to the Fed. They must also emphasize, and early, that they would drop the Fed mandate of managing the economy and narrow the scope of the Fed’s authority to stabilizing money.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/12/donald-trump-ga... recent interview
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block D: Lara Brown, George Washington University, Graduate School of Political Management, in re: Jerry Brown Is the Democrats' Best Choice to Replace Clinton  He gets things done; as for marijuana, said, "A whole bunch of stoned people won't accomplish much."  If Mrs Clinton left the field – at present, looks as though she'll win the nomination – but if the Democratic party casts around for a savior, will need someone who's not in Washington. Jerry Brown subscribes to climate change. Will have to avoid making a one-term commitment – sign of a loser – but pick a young VP nominee. If Mrs Clinton's problem with email expands, with more and more questions – how much did Pres Obama sanction of Secy Clinton's practices – the president would protect his legacy [by jettisoning Mrs Clinton].
Hour Two
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block A: Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs;  in re: The Iran deal is so wholly disapproved by the American people – 21% approve ; and the American people want the deal debated in the Senate, and have said that they'll hold their representatives responsible for [voting down the deal]. Also, the White House has failed to reveal the side deals; does the IAEA maintain secrecy?  Sometimes, but need not  here. The inspection plan for Parchin "cannot work" – and you were deputy director of the IAEA.  This approach – using cameras to watch -  [is basically inadequate].  The raison d'etre of the IAEA is to inspect.  . . . How can Iranians alter the surface of Parchin eqpt? . . . I the IIAEA fids that samples have been taking poorly, can it go to Parchin? Difficult to certify via a camera shot that there's been [incorrect sampling].  What we need to do is see the document –it needs to be released to the people.  Any of the 35 member states may request release under Article V.  Difficult for Amano to release without request from Board of Governors plus any of the 35 states. The White House repeatedly assert that it has not seen the side deals  and cannot ask – but it certainly is encouraged to ask under the IAEA structure.
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block B:  Steve Cook, Council on Foreign Relations, in re: Rehanli refugee camps in Turkey. Two million official refugees, probably many more..  Turkish society has welcomed he refugees as well as it can, but the fairly tale among the refugees is that if you get brother, son or father through to Western Europe, he can send you air tickets to Amsterdam.  Problem now is between Turks and Kurds, and many of the Syrian refugees are Syrian Kurds.  . . . The Kurdish Democratic Arty did get into the Turkish parliament, is part of the interim govt.  Recip Tayyip Erdogan had sought to tie this party to the PKK terrorists, but its membership in the coalition discredits that. New elections on November 1. In four of five Turkish provinces bordering Syria, Syrians make up substantial portions of the population.  Human smugglers' taking refugees into Turkey  . . .
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block C: Anna Borshchevskaya, Washington Institute, in re: Russia in Syria
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 2, Block D:  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:
Hour Three
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block A: Pinhas Inbari, Arab affairs analyst, formerly Israel Radio & Al Hamishmar newspaper, now Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs;  in re: The Palestinian predicament, especially Mahmoud Abbas's inability to move o Jordan, the Gulf, almost anywhere he might care to live. His only visible option is to continue into the fiftieth year of his four-year term as president of the PA, and to live forever. 
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block B: Dr. Abdullah Mohtadi, Secretary General of (the Iranian Kurdish) Komuleh Party; currently  in Iraqi Kurdistan; in re: the Peshmerga have been fighting ISIS; a very tough crew, helped by US Air Force. There was an assassination plot against the Iranian Kurdish Komuleh Party, which has bases in Suleimaniya and Erbil; on 8 Aug we found out that Iranian agents had planted five very powerful bombs in a certain section of our HQ in our compound; fortunately, the bombs were found, we contacted experts in the Kurdish govt in Iraq, and they were able to defuse the bombs. The compound includes a playground, nursery, canteen, library.  The type of explosives was C4 – invented by Iranians may years ago, and often made into road bombs that killed many, many American soldiers. This was not only an attack on our people but an encroachment on the region.
Kurds see the Iranian deal as  direct threat to Kurdistan and the stability of the region – the nuclear deal must not empower Iran; on the contrary, it should limit the terrorist actions of Iran. The international community shd not trust the Iranian diplomats's smiles, as  they continue with large-scale regional destabilization – actions against its own people and all its neighbors.  Kurds are a nation divided among four countries; we have solidarity. We all took part in fighting ISIS in Kirkuk.
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block C: John Tamny, Real Clear Markets, in re: 'Tax Havens' are essential checks on governments like ours that are prone to overtax because they represent competition for wealth. To the extent that it can be shielded from the feds, we're all better off simply because politicians are incapable of effectively allocating capital.  This would be true even if Warren Buffett were the senator allocating.  Whether in the Caymans or the U.S., capital will always reach its highest use. But with the Caymans even more is thankfully kept from the grasping hands of politicians, which means more capital reaches real ideas.  Cayman Financial Review.      The Critical Importance of the Cayman Islands to the U.S. Economy   By John Tamny   In May of 2012, and soon before Facebook's IPO, Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship. Saverin was a co-founder of the social-networking site, and the consensus was that he gave up his citizenship to avoid U.S. taxes that would be levied after the offering.
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 3, Block D:   Robert Zimmerman, behind theblack,com, in re: Apollo lunar samples crumbling to dust
Hour Four
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block A: Thomas Wildenberg, author,  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power. (1 of 4)
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block B: Thomas Wildenberg, author,  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power (2 of 4)
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block C: Thomas Wildenberg, author,  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power.  (3 of 4)
Thursday  10 September 2015 / Hour 4, Block D: Thomas Wildenberg, author,  Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power (4 of 4)