PREVIEW: The decline of California, a brief history: . Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#Ukraine: The war ends without victory or defeat. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-war-is-over-but-no-one-knows-how-to-stop-fighting/
915-930
#Russia: Watch on the Southern Front. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russia-seals-its-southern-border/
930-945
#GOP: The already decided civil trial over by Christmas. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/trumps-civil-fraud-trial-explained/
945-1000
#GOP:Polling the trials. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/trumps-civil-fraud-trial-explained/
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#CA: The big ticket decline of 21st Century California, Victor Davis Hanson
https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/02/california-the-great-destroyer/
1015-1030
#Ukraine. The primary error was the Little Green Men of 2014. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/28/the-ukrainian-gordian-knot/
1030-1045
#France: #UK: Sunak retreat from COP 26 Net-Zero pledge. Simon Constable, Occitanie
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/04/tory-conference-live-rishi-sunak-speech-mordaunt-latest/
1045-1100
#Russia: "Everything for the Front." Michael Bernstam, @HooverInst
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/everything-for-the-front-russia-allots-a-third-of-2024-spending-to-defence/ar-AA1hzHlF
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
#Ukraine: Black Sea Fleet fail. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/03/ukraine-russia-war-kyiv-zelensky-putin-nuclear-drills-live/
1115-1130
#Ukraine: The Allies hesitation grows. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
1130-1145
##NASA: Psyche fixed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/psyche-engineers-discover-and-fix-a-major-thruster-problem-only-two-weeks-before-launch/
1145-1200
#FAA: The regulators in space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/psyche-engineers-discover-and-fix-a-major-thruster-problem-only-two-weeks-before-launch/
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#PRC: Dead Cat Bounce. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Alone: Return to Isolation, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/economy/china-pmi-travel-boom-golden-week-intl-hnk/index.html
1215-1230
#PRC: #Taiwan: Two Elves? Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative ,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-elves-scroll-china-military-releases-animation-taiwan-reunification-2023-10-02/
1230-1245
#Canada:#India: The dispute deepens. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on this
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66991662
1245-100 am
#PRC: #SaudiArabia: Arms Race. Brandon Weichert, author of the just-released Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.dw.com/en/us-china-tech-war-ai-sparks-first-battle-in-middle-east/a-66968886
Transcript
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| 0:28.1 | see one peloton.co.uk. I'm John Bachelor. This is a preview of a conversation I have with |
| 0:33.6 | Victor Davis-Henson of the Hoover Institution about California, about the decline of California's |
| 0:39.5 | ability to do big things. Once upon a time, the highway system, once upon a time, the aqueducts, |
| 0:46.2 | once upon a time, California became the golden state. Every American wanted to be there, but now |
| 0:52.6 | Victor delineates how it failed after 94, after Pete Wilson rebuilt the freeway in downtown L.A. |
| 1:00.0 | and less than a year after the earthquake. The last years have been defeatist, and Victor is very |
| 1:07.0 | careful to say why. This is a preview. The conversation is much longer. You'll find this evening show |
| 1:14.2 | in the second hour. I hope you enjoy it. Here's Victor. |
| 1:19.5 | They left. In that period of 30 years, 10 million Californians, and this was the upper middle class |
| 1:28.1 | in government and business, they left. They decided that California wasn't worth it. It wasn't |
| 1:34.7 | worth paying the highest taxes in the nation and getting the worst schools and infrastructure |
| 1:38.8 | and some of the worst crimes. They went to Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, anywhere that was considered |
| 1:45.0 | a red state low tax date. Then Silicon Valley became under globalization, the richest corridor |
| 1:52.1 | in the world. A very small elite population from San Jose to San Francisco got $9 trillion |
| 2:00.3 | of market capitalization. That salted the political environment of California. There is no |
| 2:08.1 | Republicans in state, white offices. No, there's a super majority in both houses of the legislature. |
| 2:13.7 | I think there's only 12 of 53 congressional seats that are Republican. You'll never have a governor |
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