Friday 7 April 2023
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#POTUS: The pseudo events of Zuccotti Park and the Manhattan Indictment & What is to be done? Dan Henninger, WSJOpinion
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915-930
@PacWatch:#PacificWatch: PS LAX private lounge for direct boarding, $1000 plus per flight. . @JCBliss
930-945
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Commercial real estate troubles ahead. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://cre.moodysanalytics.com/insights/cre-trends/q1-2023-preliminary-trend-announcement/
945-1000
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Confidence dips. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
Small-business owners’ confidence is down, even though most say business is good
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#MrMarket: The jobs and retail slowdown not slow enough. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's Magazine.
1015-1030
#Italy: Pope Francis keeps indoors from chilly Rome. Banning ChatGPT. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2023/04/pope-skips-good-friday-via-crucis-due-to-cold-weather
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/italy-has-banned-chatgpt-heres-what-other-countries-are-doing.html
1030-1045
#SpaceX: Starship stacked, waiting. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/starship-now-stacked-on-launchpad/
1045-1100
#JamesWebb: Rings of Uranus. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/8: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Beaverland-Weird-Rodent-Made-America/dp/153875519X
From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers who lead her through waist high water, fur traders and fur auctioneers, as well as wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers, and the colorful group of activists known as beaver believers.
Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver’s profound influence on our nation’s early economy and feverish western expansion, its first corporations and multi-millionaires. In her pursuit of this weird and wonderful animal, she introduces us to people whose lives are devoted to the beaver, including a Harvard scientist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, who uses drones to create 3-dimensional images of beaver dams; and an environmental restoration consultant in the Chesapeake whose nickname is the “beaver whisperer”.
What emerges is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing ecological and historical investigation of these heroic animals who, once trapped to the point of extinction, have returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation stories of the 20th century. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, BEAVERLAND reveals the profound ways in which one odd creature and the trade surrounding it has shaped history, culture, and our environment
1115-1130
1/8: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip (Author)
1130-1145
1/8: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip (Author)
1145-1200
1/8: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
1/2: #POTUS: Unprecedented and the Founders. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/trump-indictment-puts-america-on-threshold-of-losing-its-democracy
1215-1230
2/2: #POTUS: Unprecedented and the Founders. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/trump-indictment-puts-america-on-threshold-of-losing-its-democracy
1230-1245
1/2: #PRC #Russia: Nuclear war and the Two Peer problem. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
https://cgsr.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/CGSR_Two_Peer_230314.pdf
1245-100 am
2/2: #PRC #Russia: Nuclear war and the Two Peer problem. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
https://cgsr.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/CGSR_Two_Peer_230314.pdf