The John Batchelor Show for 06-07-2009

It's Sunday night, and that means it's time for John Batchelor!





Here is his website.

The show starts at 7pm Eastern, and continues for six hours of the best radio you will find anywhere, as only John Batchelor can deliver it with his stable of experts...

And here is where you can listen to the show live online:

New York, WABC-AM 770 7-10PM ET;
Washington DC, WMAL-AM 630 7-9PM ET;
San Francisco, KSFO-AM 560;
Los Angeles,KFI-AM 640;

And here is where you can find the podcasts of the show: the first three hours, and the last three hours.

Schedule for Tonight: (all six hours are on the same link now)

The first two hours are below to whet your appetite:

Combined Simulcasts: "POTUS in the Great Pyramid Special."

705P Eastern Time: Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, House Lifts the Lid 
On Its Expenses Pelosi directed House officials to post office-expense reports online in the wake of disclosures that lawmakers spent some taxpayer money on luxury-car leases, big-screen TVs and flowers. |Video

720P Eastern Time: Jeff Green, Bloomberg, GM Bonds Signal Market Value Topping Ford's on Federal Bailout: General Motors Corp. bond trading shows investors are betting its government-backed bankruptcy will create a company with a higher market value than Ford Motor Co., the only major U.S. automaker to shun a federal rescue.

735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money." re Sotomayor nomination, re GM bankruptcy, re Chrysler deal, re FDIC cracks down after the fact on 19 big banks.

750P Eastern Time: Continued, re What really happened to Bear and Lehman? re state of banks and fate of TARP money, re is Wall Street in a rally mode? Do we go positive for the year next week?

805P Eastern Time: Keith Perine CQ re Sotomayor Senators meetings, re Sotomayor Hearings Likely in July Democrats want the Senate to vote on Sotomayor before the August recess, scheduled to begin on Aug. 7. Republicans have said they want more time to prepare for her confirmation hearing.

820P Eastern Time; Gordon Cucullu is a retired army colonel and the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin, re the Kim regime and the provocations. Re GITMO: Gordon Cucullu, a retired army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for himself. In a series of visits he inspected every corner of the camp and interviewed dozens of personnel, from guards and interrogators to cooks and nurses. The result--coming just as the Obama administration wants to close the facility--is a riveting description of daily life for both prisoners and guards. Cucullu describes the six camps reserved for different levels of compliance, details the treatment of prisoners, and examines their experiences in detail, including the techniques used to interrogate them, the food they eat, their medical care, how they communicate with one another, and the many ingenious ways they contrive to assault and injure their guards

835P Eastern Time: Wesley Gray, author "Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army," re the author's assignment to advise an Iraqi battalion in the turmoil of Anbar Province in 2006.

850P Eastern Time: Continued with Wesley Gray, re the risks and lessons of the US Marines in Anbar Province during 2006 along the Euphrates River, re confronting the Sunni Arab tribes and clans with a Shia-based Iraqi army of amateurs.

905P Eastern Time: Melik Kaylan, Forbes,com and Wall Street Journal, re the POTUS embassy to Arabia and to Cairo, re the ambitions of the Ummah and the search for"respegnity." Re the POTUS speech at Cairo.

920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re POTUS confab with Faisal of Arabia, re POTUS speech and visit in Cairo, re the Obama administration policy demand that the Netanyahu government cease development of settlements on the West Bank.

935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, re the Sotomayor week of meetings with senators, re POTUS Cairo speech, re the next big adventure of Democratic healthcare.

950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Sarah Palin's unusual campaign style language.