JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 1, Block A: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Globalization: a good thing?  Microsoft, FB, Google, Apple, and the banks that have lent them money, all have much prospered. However, think of the fact that 80% of the pharmaceuticals in the US have come from China, totalitarian, dictatorial regime, and to this day we don't know the origin of the virus.  Am currently on the Stanford campus, where people who work in the successful companies are returning to the vans and cars in which they have to live because their salaries are tiny. All over the world, people don’t have adequate sanitary conditions, or enough to live on.
Economic nationalism: if we had the manufacturing capability. We could maintain our GDP. After the virus, do we revert to our previous dependence? I think not.  We need to have a certain percentage here at home.
As for the Straits of Hormuz, Americans won't go die to give the Europeans an open seaway. Nationalism did not cause WWI; it was German [aggression].  “Nationalism” actually means patriotism. We’ve probably been dealing with this virus for a few months and didn't realize it; meaning, we can survive it.
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 1, Block B: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Democratic party switch in the last 48 hours: Biden’s “Lazarus” rise, as Ed Luce of the Economist writes.   Biden was bewildered on stage and said very odd things; Bloomberg stepped in to the breach; Bernie kept praising Cuba and the USSR, so the Democratic honchos brought Biden out of the closet.  Mythical tales of his valor as a lifeguard, doesn't know what state he’s in, will appoint the first Black Senator . . .  Charles Schumer said something entirely unacceptable to two Justices of the Supreme Court.
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 1, Block C: Conrad Black, NRO, historian and publisher, @ConradMBlack, in re:  It's a puzzle to know what Biden thinks that may be original?  He’s a comforting figure, speaking as Democrats have since the Roosevelt era. Does he have the stamina required of the high office he’s seeking? . . .  The president has delivered a strong economy; as he says, it’s occurred because he’s defended the country.  When this declines, public morale will be much assuaged.
Senator Schumer said something fearful to two Justices of the Supreme Court. “I was shocked; for him to shake his fist and threaten Justices is disgraceful. This has got to stop.”
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 1, Block D: John Cochrane, Hoover, in re: The state was unprepared for the epidemic.  Ergo, after the Central banks move together—then what?  https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/03/corona-virus-monetary-policy....
 
Hour Two
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  Blaise Misztal, in re: Turkey/Russia/Idlib
Blaise Misztal is a Fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Most recently, Misztal served as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he was director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program.
●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/Syria-Idlib-border-c...
●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/us-willing-...
●        https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/russias-power-strugg...
●        https://www.ft.com/content/d10dbef6-5d45-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  Richard Goldberg, in re: IAEA, Iran coronavirus, Muhandis replacement 
Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council.  He previously served as chief of staff for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and deputy chief of staff and senior foreign policy adviser to former U.S. Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois in both the U.S. House and Senate.
●        https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-caught-hiding-nuclear-work...
●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/02/27/coronavirus-and-voting-boycott%3...
●        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/world/middleeast/coronavirus-iran.html
●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/02/26/new-leader-takes-helm-of-iranian...
●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/03/01/u-s-sanctions-leader-of-pro-iran...
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Congressman Josh Gottheimer, in re:   The Never-Again Education Act. Two-thirds of young people have no information on the Holocaust or the historical and social events around it. In my district, six swastikas found in schools in four months.
Josh Gottheimer represents New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District in the northernmost part of the state, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren counties. He was sworn in on January 3, 2017. In Congress, Josh serves on the House Financial Services Committee where he works on three Subcommittees: National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy Subcommittee, the Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets Subcommittee, and the Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee. In February 2017, Josh was elected Co-Chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, where he works to bring the group of 24 Democrats and 24 Republicans together across party lines to find areas of agreement on key issues including lowering taxes, cutting burdensome and unnecessary regulation, lowering health insurance premiums, and improving infrastructure to help the American people.
●        https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/03/04/growing-support-for-never-again-ho...
●        https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1539/text
●        https://gottheimer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1548 
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 2, Block D:  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:
 
Hour Three
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 3, Block A: Shoshi Taragin, KKL-JNF Deputy Legal Advisor.
Shoshi Taragin – KKL-JNF Deputy Legal Advisor. Taragin has been part of the KKL-JNF Legal Department for the past 17 years, where she is in charge of a wide range of legal issues. Taragin is a member of the Israeli Bar Association, L.L.B from Bar Ilan Law Department & M.A from the Interdisciplinary Program in Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation at Bar-Ilan University. For the past year has been working closely with the US based law firm Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, PC and the International Legal Forum towards filing a suit in the Washington District Court against USCPR.
●        https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/gaza-news/Palestinian-human-...
●        https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/11/19/kkl-jnf-terror-victims-sue-us-cha...
●        https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/victims-of-terror-file-suit-aga...
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 3, Block B:  Neri Zilber, in re:  Israel elections
Neri Zilber is a journalist based in Tel Aviv, an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a senior Fellow at BICOM, a British think tank.
·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/final-results-confirm-likud-with-36-seats-...
·         https://www.axios.com/israeli-election-final-results-netanyahu-majority-...
·         https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-an-earthquake-how...
·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-may-recommend-gantz-for-pm-will-s...
·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-fragile-jewish-arab-fabric-the-big...
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 3, Block C:   Bill Roggio, FDD and LongWarJournal.org, in re:
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 3, Block D:  Hotel Mars, episode n.
 
Hour Four
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 4, Block A: Sebastian Gorka, America First Radio; in re:
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 4, Block B: Sebastian Gorka, America First Radio; in re:
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 4, Block C:  The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, by Shankar Vedantam
Thursday 5 March 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, by Shankar Vedantam