Photo:  Memorial Ravensbrück, Bundes archive image 183-66475-0004. The death camp where Ann Spoerry murdered women.  See:   In Full Flight, by John Heminway
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio
 
Hour One
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 1, Block A:.  Dan Griswold, Mercatus, in re: NAFTA
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 1, Block B:   Dan Griswold, Mercatus, in re: NAFTA
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 1, Block C:   Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus & New York Times,, in re:  Tariffs 
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 1, Block D:   Larry Kudlow, in re: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: the couple (Felicity and Samuel) invented by NY Times to show that Trump is all wrong wrong wrong; and it turns out that the Times‘s calculations were deeply in error. The Times published a retraction/apology: “Oops — we used the wrong tax software.”
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: MAD – mutual assured destruction.   Russia’s defense minister says that US defense has “holes in the NATO umbrella.”  The RS28 ICBM (NATO’s moniker for it:  SSX30 Satan 2) – hypersonic-speed-capable; comes in at a low level; MIRVed, each weapon 7500 kilotons.  Global Engagement Center:  $120 mill PA budget; has spent nothing to date? – to counter foreign interference in US elections. “Historic” means something profound, with consequences, at a turning point. Post-Soviet Russia has defeated the underpinning of Washington’s policy, to wit: superior US mil dvpt able to overwhelm Russia.
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: See Putin’s speech – the last third is posted on eastwestaccord.com  
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56957
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  . .  . Putin has been in power for 18? years;  in his speech, he said, “You didn't listen to me.”  https://eastwestaccord.com   It looks as though portions of Putin’s speech were written by hawks.  In 2014, Putin explained why he moved into Crimea, with lucid historical references. Madeleine Albright said, “I don’t even read his speeches because they’re all fiction” – Albright, who disgraced herself by clicking Champagne glasses with Kim Jong-il while saying, “We can do business with this man.” 
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: 
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block A:  Jed Babbin,  Washington Times & American Spectator, in re: China’s expansionism.   Xi Jinping, now Dictator for Life, takes over as permanent despot – from South China Sea, Pak istan, South America, worldwide.   . . . US Air Force needs a recapitalization of the force, probably $100 Billion in the next five years. Ploughshares into swords.
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block B:  Bill McGurn, WSJ editorial board, in re: Prrs Trump’s proposed tariffs, and Mrs Clinton’s history of voting in favor of protectionism,
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block C:  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 3, Block D:  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:
 
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block A:  The Marquis, Laura Auricchio
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block B:  The Marquis, Laura Auricchio
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block C:   In Full Flight, by John Heminway.  The story of Ann Spoerry
Tuesday 6 March 2018/ Hour 4, Block D:   In Full Flight, by John Heminway.  The story of Ann Spoerry