CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915    Matt Steinglass @TheEconomist
Afghanistan and South Vietnam in the same feudal 12th century
https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/08/28/the-afghan-government-was-undone-by-its-own-corruption?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

915-930   Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation, Genoa, Italy
Volunteering Italy in Afghanistan and the passing of Dr. Gino Strada
https://emergencyuk.org/2021/08/gino-strada-1948-2021-the-new-york-times-obituary/
 

930-945   Aryn Braun, @TheEconomist
Lake Mead empties in the millennium drought
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2011/01/27/the-drying-of-the-west
 

945-1000   Richard Epstein @HooverInst
Three presidents vs Afghanistan
https://www.hoover.org/research/dire-consequences-afghanistan
 
 

SECOND HOUR    5-8       

10-1030     Gene Marks, @Guardian, @genemarks ; Washington Post Small Business columnist.  
1.  Supply chain slowdown for another two years.  Gene Marks @Guardian, @genemarks  Washington Post Small Business columnist.  
https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/33651-the-world-economys-supply-chain-problem-keeps-getting-worse?oly_enc_id=8797D5373267I4C
2.  Amazon goes bricks and mortar.  Gene Marks @Guardian, @genemarks  Washington Post Small Business columnist.  
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/amazon-is-reportedly-planning-to-open-department-stores-.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
 

1030-1045    Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane
Australia lockdown disorder.  Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/world/australia/melbourne-protests-covid-restrictions.html
 
 

1045-1100 Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch, @JCBliss
#PacificWatch: Tahoe burning.   Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch  @JCBliss
https://zoom.earth/#view=39.257,-118.722,7.47z/date=2021-08-27,17:10,-4/layers=fires
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115   Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion
Defunding defense; & What is to be done?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistan-gop-republican-biden-foreign-policy-america-first-spending-isolationist-welfare-11629921576

1115-1130 John Peet @TheEconomist
The row between Washington and London, again.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/08/28/the-afghanistan-debacle-has-weakened-ties-between-britain-and-america?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

1130-1200   Evan Ellis US Army War College
1.  The neo-tropical Amazon gets a neo-minister.
https://www.ft.com/content/43a3864f-d6fc-4362-a1f1-0f82cd716134
2.  Cryptocurrency Bukele of El Salvador

 

FOURTH HOUR    13-16   

1215-1230 Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
1.  Blue Origin struggles to build BE-4.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
2. Ingenuity leads the way.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
 

1230-1245 Emanuele Ottolenghi, FDD 
Tri-border area for money laundering and easy living.  Emanuele Ottolenghi, FDD 
 

1245-100 AM   Hotel Mars episode n.  Rob Godwin @ApogeeBooks, ApogeeBooks.com ; David Livingston, The Space Show.
Remembering Gemini 5, August 1965: Eight Days in a Garbage Can.  Hotel Mars episode n.  Rob Godwin @ApogeeBooks, ApogeeBooks.com ; David Livingston, Dr Space of The Space Show