John Batchelor Podcasts

If you're interested in staying up to date with world affairs, and in much more detail than what you hear on typical newscasts, then this is THE source. John Batchelor's show has been called "BBC without the accents". I simply call it "Superb!"

The beautiful thing about podcasts is if a given topic is of little interest, you can quickly move onto the next!

Brian Deese: "Boldly Ignorant and Unskilled Apparatchik"

Further to my earlier post on the very strange happenings at GM, come thoughts from others:

John Batchelor:

• Brian Deese is a Gen X version of a commissar - a political officer in charge of maintaining the aura and discipline of a Leninist cult at any particular enterprise.
• ... he dropped out of Yale Law, worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign, then switched to the winning Obama campaign after it won? Or that he lives with his dog? This may be a new kind of passive punishment for GM. Bought by POTUS to be handed over to a boldly ignorant and unskilled apparatchik who thinks of himself as dog-lover.

Uppity Woman:

• I guess the world has changed since last week or something. Most people who are put in charge of important things generally know something. Usually they are picked for experience and knowledge. Oh wait. How stupid of me.
• Don’t you just love the way the New York Times describes an arrogant, horrendous, self-impressed horse’s ass when it’s one of Barack Obama’s horrendous, arrogant, self-impressed horse’s asses?
  

The Arrogant Rahm Emanuel & Nancy Pelosi

Canada's recent budget process showed a good example of bi-partisanship to help out the country. In the United States the Democrat leadership is taking a very different approach:

John Batchelor on Iran's Role in Gaza

Interesting tidbit: Batchelor's mother is of Iranian descent.
Related audio can be heard in the first 9 minutes of this audio file (15.5MB).

The John Batchelor Show

If you'd like to hear what I consider to be the very best, most informative radio program available in North America, then click here (right-click to Save As). Might make an interesting contrast to the usual stuff you carry on your iPod!

More on John Batchelor can be read here and here.

Historical Perspective on Barack Obama's Views

Historian, John Batchelor, has a fascinating new article on socialist perspectives through the years. Worth a read!

Success on Two Battlefields

I've long been a huge fan of John Batchelor, a distinguished author and radio talk show host. His weekly Sunday evening show is what I consider to be the finest program on American radio. The latest version was especially superb. You can listen to it here.

Here's a quick summary of the show:

• 00:18 - The Sarah Palin Phenomenon - Who is She?
• 11:32 - Technological revolutions incl. Twitter
• 19:20 - Sarah Palin at the Republican Convention
• 30:18 - Keith Olbermann Demoted at MSNBC
• 39:48 - Olbermann and the Obama campaign
• 49:20 - Barack Obama's vs. Sarah Palin
• 58:17 - Basra, Iraq
• 1:08:35 - The significant turnaround in the Anbar Province of Iraq
• 1:16:42 - Why the Left are Losing - Brad Miner: Smear Tactics: The Liberal Campaign to Defame America
• 1:26:18 - Democracy in Asia
• 1:36:15 - How America finally turned the tide in Iraq - Bing West: The Strongest Tribe
• 1:51:08 - Closing thoughts

If you have limited time, be sure to catch the items in bold.

General Motors -> Colonel Motors?

John Batchelor has a fascinating column about the ongoing woes of GM. Is there any hope for this once great company? Not with the current [lack of] leadership, it seems.

It's a fascinated read and highly recommended!

Interesting Discussion on the U.S. Federal Reserve

If you're as confused as me about what on earth is going with the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then do yourself a favour and listen to an interesting interview between John Batchelor and Jim Rogers. Tune to: 1:11:50.

According to Rogers, this is a blatant example of corporate welfare, protecting the riches of a tiny few, at the risk of hurting all the rest of us.

Ezra Levant on John Batchelor's Show

American radio show host, John Batchelor, interviews Ezra Levant about the fiasco going on in Alberta. Batchelor, being the astute historian he is, makes an interesting comparison with totalitarian Albania. Notice the similarity in the spelling? Apparently that's not all that's similar about these two places.

The Best Show on Radio Returns

John Batchelor, mi numero uno favorito radio show host is back! He will be returning once per week, 7 - 10pm ET (4 - 7pm PT) every Sunday on WABC. His truly is the most comprehensive, most informative radio program anywhere. Give it a listen if you want to learn what's really going on in the world!