CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Markets:  Not hot, not cold, just single digit right-sized market advance 2024.  Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-01-02-2024?mod=hp_lead_pos4

915-930

#Markets:   Bidenomics unserious. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4371449-bidenomics-is-a-flop-and-america-knows-it/

930-945

#EU: Sleeping soundly because America will take care of it. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91309

 

945-1000

#EU: Confident managing China like the old days. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin. 

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91309

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Israel: Netanyahu's challenge to welcome MBS and to retain the nationalists. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/31/netanyahus_saudi_bind_muddles_planning_for_the_day_after_150264.html

1015-1030
#Israel: The trauma visible in the commons. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst
 

1030-1045

#LondonCalling:  Elections 2024 & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/worldwide-2024-elections-promise-a-whirlwind-d5ebaeaf

1045-1100

#LondonCalling: Life in London: Surge of rude theater audiences  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/actor-halted-hamlet-soliloquy-after-audience-member-opened-laptop-9ztpql7qz

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
#REDSEA: The EU passes on guarding the Red Sea.. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/maersk-pauses-transit-through-red-sea-until-further-notice-after-attack-on-ship-a494ae24?mod=hp_lead_pos6

1115-1130

#REDSEA: Ethiopia gains access through Somaliland  & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ethiopia-breakaway-somali-region-sign-deal-giving-ethiopia-106035914

1130-1145

#Republics: Entertaining the possibility that republicanism has peaked. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

1145-1200

#KingChalresReporyt: Charles speaks ecology and retires to gloomy and damp Scottish Winter. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-charles-iii-gives-eco-themed-message-alongside-living-christmas-tree/ar-AA1m12J7

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#StateThinking: The Biden Administration has lost control of the Southern Border and now? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/congress-biden-mexico-border-migrants-ukraine-russia-vladimir-putin-f5828921?st=cejs9x1yyz9cf82&reflink=article_imessage_share

1215-1230
#StateThinking: Francis Collins apologises sort of.  @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/francis-collins-covid-lockdowns-braver-angels-anthony-fauci-great-barrington-declaration-f08a4fcf?st=epzql56aeuv3lvy&reflink=article_copyURL_share

 

1230-1245

#EU: #Romania: On the front line of the Ukraine tragedy. Antonia Colibasanu, @GPFutures.

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/defining-global-economic-issues-in-2024/

 

1245-100 am
#Iran: #RedSea: If Iran were to pay a price for arming the Houthis. John Bolton, Daily Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/28/the-west-may-now-have-no-option-but-to-attack-iran/