The John Batchelor Show

Monday 4 April 2022

Air Date: 
April 04, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915                    
1/2: #Ukraine: The Horrors of Irpin and Bucha. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus
@TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/04/bucha-survivor-one-man-tortured-cut-cheek-shot-heart/
 
 

915-930                    
2/2: #Ukraine: The Horrors of Irpin and Bucha. Mohammed al-Kassim @foreignfocus
@TheMediaLine, The Media Line News Agency. 
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-calls-for-tougher-sanctions-on-russia-k58x38lrw
 

930-945                    
#NorthKorea: Expect more provocations before the Inauguration May 10. David Maxwell  @DavidMaxwell161  @FDD, retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel and Fellow at the Institute of Corean American Studies.  Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang.  Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill; author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-threatens-retaliation-preemptive-strike-south-korean-official
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/koreas-incoming-president-nominates-prime-minister-83842411
David Maxwell of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
 

945-1000                    
#HongKong: Brain drain is real. Andrew Collier @acollier, managing director at Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong.  Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang.  Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill; author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-citys-brain-drain-unarguable-2022-03-30/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-01/china-home-sales-slump-worsens-despite-vows-to-support-market

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015                    
#Ukraine: The 100-year Russian attack on Kyiv. James Brooke, @ FDD.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/04/guy-brutal-joe-biden-insists-vladimir-putin-must-face-war-crimes/
 
 
1015-1030                     
#Ukraine: Kyiv is the natural resources authority of Eastern Europe. James Brooke @JimBrookeUKR,   @FDD Visiting Fellow.
https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/04/26224416/why-ukraines-infrastructure-resources-are-pivotal-to-the-global-economy
 

1030-1045                     
#Ukraine: The campaign to capture Odessa by sea and land. RADM Mark Montgomery,USN (ret) @MarkCMontgomery  @FDD, Executive Director at the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission; Senior Fellow at Foundation for the Defense of Democracies;
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-strikes-strategic-black-sea-port-city-odessa-201637
 
 
1045-1100                      
#Ukraine: The Russian Central Bank's Moscow treasure chest and the confidence of physical gold. Charles Thorngren @LegacyGoldIRA, Legacy Precious Metals.
https://legacypminvestments.com
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-traders-think-of-us-led-efforts-to-block-gold-transactions-by-russia-e2-80-99s-central-bank/ar-AAVsvnM

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115                      
#Cuba: The Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years later. Katrina vanden Heuvel Katrina vandenHeuvel, @KatrinaNation @TheNation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_D%C3%ADaz-Canel
 

1115-1130                     
#Ukraine: POTUS Invokes the Defense Production Act and the Lithium Bounty of North America. Steve Hanson @INN_Lithium ; AcmeLithium.com US: ACLHF. Canada: ACME
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/03/30/critical-minerals-defense-production-act/
 

1130-1145                     
1/2:  #Ukraine: How Russia threatens the Balkans. Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  
https://www.newsweek.com/bosnia-putin-war-russia-balkans-ukraine-turkovic-1684848
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad_Dodik
Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  Eastern Europe, cybersecurity, information operations, Russia's reflexive control, int'l law
 

1145-1200                     
2/2:  #Ukraine: How Russia threatens the Balkans. Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  
https://www.newsweek.com/bosnia-putin-war-russia-balkans-ukraine-turkovic-1684848
Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  Eastern Europe, cybersecurity, information operations, Russia's reflexive control, int'l law
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215                     
#Ukraine: European sacrifice missing in action. Stanley Pignal. @spignal. Charlemagne columnist and Brussels bureau chief for  @TheEconomist.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/03/26/weaning-europe-off-russian-energy-will-mean-making-changes

1215-1230                     
#Ukraine: Tactical Nukes in the US Army, 1955. Sebastien Roblin, @sebastienroblin, writes on technical, historical and political aspects of international security and conflict. Nineteen45.com
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/03/how-the-us-army-planned-to-use-tactical-nuclear-weapons-on-russia/
 
1230-1245                     
#Pakistan: Drama Islamabad.  Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute. Bill Roggio @FDD
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/04/world/imran-khan-pakistan-news#imran-khan-throws-pakistan-into-a-political-crisis-and-his-future-hangs-in-the-balance

1245-100 AM                    
#Somalia: Mali: Al Qaeda's al Shabaab and ISIS in the Sahel.  Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute. Bill Roggio @FDD
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/03/generation-jihad-ep-67-meanwhile-in-africa.php