The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 20 October 2016

Air Date: 
October 20, 2016

Painting, left: Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video.
 
Hour One
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:  John Fund, in re:   Las Vegas debate.
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: Edward Hayes, Esq, criminal defense attorney, in re: Supreme Court, Second Amendment, policing, FBI investigation of State handling of classified material.
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Kori Schake, Hoover, in re: Las Vegas Debate foreign policy: Asia, Syria, Iraq, Russia, nuclear weapons.
Clinton No-Fly Zone Policy. Trump Nuclear Weapon Policy.
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Mary Kissel, in re: education and Washington.
 
Hour Two
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block A: Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial; in re:  Chester Finn of Hoover to celebrate 25 years since the first charter school law (in Minnesota); the progress so far is positive even with the headwind of the unions.  http://www.wsj.com/articles/dumb-and-dumber-1476917265?tesla=y
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:   Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: Clinton’s E-mails: The Gift That Keeps on Giving to Vladimir Putin   www.nationalreview.com  The mainstream media is an accomplice in the Clinton campaign’s diversion from her e-mail scandal to Donald Trump’s alleged crude behavior. As the generally anti-Trump Wall Street Journal puts it: “It’s almost impossible to turn on the TV without hearing about Trump’s . . .
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:  Christopher Koopman, Mercatus via WSJ, in re:  Seventy Million Millennial Voters against Bail-out Capitalism. @Ckoopman, @Mercatus.  Clear majorities of millennials—whether they’re Bernie Bros, Trumpians or die-hard libertarians—point to the economy as their top issue. This shouldn’t be surprising. Most of us entered adulthood during the Great Recession and tried to find work in its aftermath. This harrowing experience left millions preoccupied with economic issues and convinced that the system is rigged against them.
Does this mean millennials have come to disdain capitalism? Not exactly. We might call it “capitalism” in opinion surveys, but in reality young people are rejecting a system that they have only been led to believe is capitalism. http://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-vs-mutant-capitalism-1476831817
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  Josh Rogin, Washington Post, in re: General Cartwright is paying the price for Hillary Clinton’s sins.  The Obama Administration . . .  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/10/18/general-cartwright-is-paying-the-price-for-hillary-clintons-sins/?utm_term=.501da12f78c8
 
Hour Three
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack,com, in re:  Schiaparelli landing apparently a failure     This report from russianspaceweb.com provides some details about the apparent landing failure of the European Mars probe Schiaparelli on Wednesday.
The very preliminary analysis of the data revealed a number of serious problems in the final phase of the parachute descent. The telemetry showed that the back heat shield holding the parachute had been ejected earlier than scheduled — 50 seconds instead of 30 seconds before the touchdown. Also, the lander was apparently descending at a speed higher than planned. There were also indications that the soft-landing engines had fired for only three or four seconds and all communications from the lander were cut 19 seconds later, or shortly before touchdown. By that time, Schiaparelli’s landing radar had been activated.
It appears the parachutes were released too soon so that they did not function properly and slow the spacecraft down enough. When the retro-rockets fired the spacecraft was probably also closer to the ground than planned and falling too fast, so they failed to stop it from impacting the surface hard and prematurely.
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com (2 of 2)
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Tyler Rogoway,  The War Zone [http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone], in re: Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Pummel Houthi Controlled Radar Sites in Yemen.   US Navy strikes back after two separate attacks on its flotilla patrolling near the Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea.   http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5545/tomahawk-cruise-missiles-pummel-houthi-controlled-radar-sites-in-yemen
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5622/uss-san-antonio-was-targeted-during-anti-ship-missile-barrage-last-week-off-yemen  ;  http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5557/iran-sending-warships-to-yemeni-coast-following-us-navy-tomahawk-strike ; http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5572/usaf-f-16s-deploy-from-italy-to-the-horn-of-africa-as-region-simmers  (1 of 2)
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:  Tyler Rogoway,  The War Zone (2 of 2)
  
Hour Four
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block A: Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts.  Part III of IV; segment 9 of 16.  The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon 2014
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block B: Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts.  Part III of IV; segment 10 of 16.
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block C: Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts.  Part III of IV; segment 11 of 16.
Thursday 20 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:  Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts.  Part III of IV; segment 12 of 16.
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