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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council under US Pres Donald Trump.
 
Hour One
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Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 1, Block A:  Gregory R Copley, author, Sovereignty in the Twenty-first Century; ed and publ of Defense & Foreign Affairs; in re: China.  Confrontation between Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, and US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Wang had a temper tantrum, threatened the US Navy, Taiwan, and the US-North Korea conversation.
In this era, the world is entertaining thoughts on national sovereignty.
China always understood that there’d be a need for a showdown; with the European Union, which evaporated into a pile of jelly; now is having to rebuild its strategy to confront and push back against Trump, who stopped the inexorable rise of the PRC and the inexorable decline of the US [and kowtowing to China].  Beijing talks globalism and is a profoundly nationalistic government, incl control over it resources and food supplies, of which the PRC has inadequate supplies, esp food. A nation cannot be sovereign if it cannot control its food supplies; in WWII, Britain went from being a net food exporter to being a net food importer.
Chinese people flocked to authoritarian leadership in the knowledge that it was restoring prestige and pride to China such as hadn't been seen since the last empress. . . .
Australia has prospered for these last decades as China’s demand for resources . . .
China has made massive encroachments into Australian political life, literally buying off politicians incl a recent Australian foreign minister, who became a lackey of Beijing; China is also buying lands and agricultural capabilities.  Australia is now starting to import foods, which is  ot healthy for either China or Australia.  Australia is massively urbanized – 89.6% - so voters think in short terms, not in the longer term, as farmers do.
Australia’s GDP has been growing less rapidly than its neighbors, such as India and certainly China (930% bigger than Australia’s); and Indonesia. In relative terms, Australia’s capabilities have radically declined; it had lots of oil refineries, but now has only a 15-day supply. 
Coral Sea:  Chinese inroads in PNG, Vanuatu, and others. Australia is not yet seeing it being as dire a threat as is needed. 
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Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 1, Block B: Gregory R Copley, author, Sovereignty in the Twenty-first Century; ed and publ of Defense & Foreign Affairs; in re:  Monarchy. Governance in the United States. Does the US have a constitutional monarch? Yes; that’s what the founding fathers intended; modeled it on Georgian Britain, with the caveat that the king be elected every four years. Imbued its great documents with mystical powers; symbols became iconic & represent the mysticism of the Crown.
More power reposes in US presidential hands than almost any constitutional monarch has had worldwide in the last 500 years – except for the unfortunate fact that US presidents come from political parties, thus are partisan. A monarchy represents the entire nation, whereas a party represents about half of the population.
People ultimately protect their geography and clans – a function of human society. Seeing a revival of sovereignty and nationalism because he pendulum of globalism after WWII had swung so very far the opposite direction.
Democracies run on transactional politics, while monarchies are based on a social contract, and endure longer.
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Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 1, Block C:   Bill Whelan, Hoover, & Area 45 blog; in re: . . . Impeaching Donald Trump is a dead-end effort in view of the arithmetic of the votes.  There are Democrats hell-bent on revenge. 
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Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 1, Block D:   Steve Moore, Heritage Fdn & Trumponomics: Inside the America-First Plan to Revive our Economy, with Art Laffer;  in re: How we got to and will maintain 4% growth, which we’ve now had for two straight quarters.  “The animal spirits of the economy.”  There are 27 million small businesses in the US: “We know that if we invest in our company, the president won’t come after us with a billy-club.” The USMCA is a big deal; sends a signal that like dominoes he’ll do one with the UK, with Europe, with Korea, and ht big stand-off coming is China – which hasn’t hurt us; it's business plan is to violate all the rules of trade and be a pirate. There’s a panic in Beijing right now- the economy is terrible, and there’s a lot of disinvestment in China.  US supply chain damage? Yes, some pain here, but mighty pain in China; $125bl in tariffs.   They sell $500 bil to us; we sell [$100 bil?] to them.  WSJ on Sat on page A4: the biggest wage gains in the last year have gone to the lowest-paid workers.  This rising tide really does raise all boats.   We’re producing so much energy now it's unbelievable.  The president doesn't want us to be only energy-independent; he wants us to be energy-dominant.
Democrats are running on removing the tax cut. Loony-tunes.  Republican women saw the mistreatment of Kavanaugh; they have sons and husbands, and will vote.
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 2, Block A:  Sebastian Gorka, Fox News & author, Why We Fight;  in re:  The rich history and discussion on the contents of Why We Fight; 1 of 4
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 2, Block B:  Sebastian Gorka, Fox News & author, Why We Fight;  in re:  The rich history and discussion on the contents of Why We Fight; 2 of 4
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 2, Block C:  Sebastian Gorka, Fox News & author, Why We Fight;  in re:  The rich history and discussion on the contents of Why We Fight; 3 of 4
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 2, Block D:  Sebastian Gorka, Fox News & author, Why We Fight;  in re:  The rich history and discussion on the contents of Why We Fight; 4 of 4
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 3, Block A:  Chele Chiavacci Farley, Republican candidate for US Senate in New York State; in re: The current race for US Senate. At Skidmore in Saratoga Springs, on  Sunday 24 October, Chele Farley will debate Kirsten Gillibrand.   [pronounced: shel farley]
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 3, Block B:  Mark Chalmers, Energy Fuels president, in re: Uranium mining in the US; vanadium (vanadium pentoxide); the Section 232 petition to the Commerce Department to reduce American dependence on China and Russia (and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) for uranium for our power plants and even to run the US Navy!
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 3, Block C: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:  Space. . .  The proposed Space Force (“Bob: we need it – we need that uniform and patch!”)  Chang I set to land on the far side of the Moon; landing site in a crater in Aiken Basin; looks rough out there. Already have their relay sat up and ready.  This is a big deal.
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 3, Block D: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: Hayabusa and its photo of an asteroid, and of Mascot on the surface.  Ceres and an underground ocean.  More space.
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 4, Block A:  The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War, by Neal Bascomb
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 4, Block B:  The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War, by Neal Bascomb
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 4, Block C:  The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds
Tuesday 9 October 2018/ Hour 4, Block D:  The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds