TONIGHT: The show begins in NYC and the migrant crisis that overwhelms City Hall, then moves to the South of France and lessons learned after one year living in sunflower and wild boar splendor. From The Fourteenth Amendment to nuclear weapons in Poland;
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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FIRST HOUR
9-915
NYC: Work permits for the migrants & What is to be done? Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc. New York Daily News.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/09/adams-rhetoric-wont-rectify-the-migrant-crisis/
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/9/8/23863861/migrants-asylum-parole-work-permits-eric-adams
#France: Lessons learned by an Englishman living in the splendor of the South of France. Simon Constable.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nothing-to-toast-as-italy-loses-wine-making-leadership-to-france/ar-AA1gDMEc
1/2: #POTUS: The impeachment tool & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution
https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/11/the-frightened-left/
2/2: #POTUS: The impeachment tool & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution
https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/11/the-frightened-left/
10-1015
#Ukraine: The debate begins re forward deploying tactical nukes in Poland. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/polands-leader-says-russia-is-moving-tactical-nuclear-weapons-to-belarus/ar-AA1fD8HB
##Russia: Escalation North Korea. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-summit-with-putin-kim-jong-un-pledges-to-always-be-standing-with-russia/ar-AA1gDQf6
1/2: #POTUS: The 14th Amendment and insurrection. Richard Epstein, The Hoover Institution
https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-trump-an-officer-of-the-united-states-constitution-14th-amendment-50b7d26?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
2/2: #POTUS: The 14th Amendment and insurrection. Richard Epstein, The Hoover Institution
https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-trump-an-officer-of-the-united-states-constitution-14th-amendment-50b7d26?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
1100-1115
#RUSSIA: #NORTHKOREA: Kim at Vostochny. David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation, on the Kim/Putin meeting. Gordon Chang
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2023-09-12/south-koreas-military-says-north-korea-fired-at-least-1-missile-toward-sea
#PRC: #Philippines: Second Thomas Shoal showdown. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, on this:
http://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/9/11/de-castro-china-escalate-actions-in-south-china-sea.html
#PRC: MIA VIPs. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Gordon Chang
https://www.wionews.com/world/chinas-defense-minister-li-shangfu-goes-missing-amid-leadership-shake-up-634990
#PRC: Currency weakens. Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast. Gordon Chang.
https://www.ft.com/content/badf9bd8-c6ac-47c9-a2be-1dd9084e6ba0
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#VPOTUS: The necessary in-person Southeast Asia diplomacy. Josh Rogin, Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/12/kamala-harris-southeast-asia-china/
#Russia: The ruble checked; inflation unchecked. Michael Bernsta, Hoover Institution
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-warns-economic-strife-should-inflation-rise-uncontrollably-2023-09-12/
#SpaceX: Boca Chica is ready; the FAA is not. Bob Zimmerman, BehinttheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/good-news-faa-issues-own-report-on-april-starship-superheavy-launch/
1245-100 AM
#Mars: Curiosity climbing rough slopes. Bob Zimmerman, BehinttheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiositys-upcoming-travels-on-mount-sharp/
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| 0:34.0 | Tonight I discuss with Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:38.0 | the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, written after the Civil War. |
| 0:43.0 | Its purpose at the time was to enfranchise those who were not chiefly the former slaves of the South. |
| 0:51.0 | However, there is a clause in it addressing those who had been in rebellion, |
| 0:56.0 | and whether or not they could rejoin the government and serve in offices in the government. |
| 1:02.0 | There's the word insurrection used as well. |
| 1:05.0 | The fresh controversy is that there are strong voices saying this amendment |
| 1:12.0 | and the details about insurrection and office holders and office |
| 1:16.0 | can be applied to the former President Donald Trump who's now candidate |
| 1:21.0 | for the Republican nomination for the presidency. |
| 1:24.0 | Can be employed to disenfranchise Donald Trump. |
| 1:28.0 | It's a debate in Richard Epstein and is into it. |
| 1:31.0 | It turns on the definition of words such as office and officer and insurrection |
| 1:36.0 | and the expectation of those who wrote the amendment. |
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