The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 12 April 2022

Air Date: 
April 12, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915          
#Markets: Inflation relentless  @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews
 
 915 -930        
#Markets: Elon Musk always unpredictably exciting. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/12/23021248/elon-musk-twitter-troll-board-seat-fiduciary-vs-fun
 

930-945         
#Balkans: Political actors in Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, France favored by Moscow. Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  Eastern Europe, cybersecurity, information operations, Russia's reflexive control, int'l law.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/putin-is-making-inroads-into-europe
 

945-1000         
#Ukraine: Russia's information war; & What is to be done?    Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  Eastern Europe, cybersecurity, information operations, Russia's reflexive control, int'l law.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3260987-its-also-important-to-win-the-information-war-with-putins-russia/
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015         
#Ukraine: #StateThinking: Europe at War. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russia-ukraine-war-withdrawal-kyiv-vvdzl5fxt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/12/russia-ukraine-war-news-live-updates/
 

1015-1030         
#PRC: #StateThinking: The Covid numbers in extreme doubt. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
 

1030-1045         
#ISS: Roscosmos stays on ISS to 2024. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/12/vladimir-putin-insist-russia-will-achieve-noble-goal-ukraine-dismiss-bucha-killing-fake
 

1045-1100         
#Mars: Curiosity backtracks; Perseverance glides along with Ingenuity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-arrives-at-three-forks-at-the-base-of-jezero-craters-delta/
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115          
Fifty Years of Strategic Thinking: Remembering Stefan T Possony. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1946/june/decision-without-battle
 

1115-1130         
#Indo-Pacific: USMC confronts the PRC threat. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/usmc-force-design-2030-us-marines-and-the-indo-pacific/
 

1130-1145         
#Africa: Food security failing in the Nile River Valley; & What is to be done?  Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1087492
 

1145-1200         
#Ukraine: Charitable giving for future needs and catastrophes. Lawson R. Bader #donorstrust   is president and CEO of DonorsTrust, a community foundation engaged with donors and charities to promote limited government, free enterprise, and personal responsibility.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/04/05/dont_let_politicians_hinder_this_charitable_line_of_defense_825337.html

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215         
#Ukraine: The battle for Mariupol and Donbas, lessons learned.  Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/12/callous-suspected-russian-chemical-weapons-strike-leaves-civilians/
 

1215-1230         
#PacificWatch: PG&E pays a small fine for most big wildfires. @JCBliss
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/business/energy-environment/pge-wildfire-settlement.html
 

1230-1245          
1/2:  #SCOTUS:The Dormant Commerce Clause: Does California rule the other 49 states? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution;  senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.   
https://www.hoover.org/research/high-court-referee-california-food-fight
 

1245-100 AM           
2/2: #SCOTUS: The Dormant Commerce Clause: Does California rule the other 49 states? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution;  senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.   
https://www.hoover.org/research/high-court-referee-california-food-fight