The John Batchelor Show

TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2024

Air Date: 
January 23, 2024

BS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#Markets:   The Biden Administration ponders a ban on LNG ports & What is to be done? Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-toys-with-an-lng-export-permitting-ban-752a62f4?st=kpbhcc5ej9xbpgp&reflink=article_gmail_share

915-930

#Markets:  Jamie Dimon speaks not unwell of the Trump administration  Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business


https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-2-0-jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-shocks-davos-elites-bring-on

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates?cmpid=BBD012324_AUSTRALIA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240123&utm_campaign=australia&sref=5g4GmFHo

930-945

1/2: #Berlin: Can the Far-right Parties of Europe be contained?  Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.


https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91411

945-1000

2/2: #Berlin: Can the Far-right Parties of Europe be contained?  Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.


https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91411

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#StateThinking: Ukraine out of ammo & What is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/20/ukraine-own-surovikin-line-active-defence-russia-offensive/

1015-1030

#StateThinking: What is the Biden Administration policy with Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/23/houthi-strikes-red-sea-attacks-uk-us-sunak/

1030-1045

#LondonCalling:  The Big Government Tories are in trouble. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cheer-up-republicansat-least-youre-not-the-tories-energy-cost-lack-of-growth-policy-6c3d59be

1045-1100

#LondonCalling: Life in London is the High Cost of Living.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-spending-plans-worse-than-fiction-budget-watchdog-says-6wdpxdzh7

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#IRAN: Defensive, weak-handed, uncertain, impulsive.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/23/second-wave-disruptions-red-sea-crisis-cameron-bowie/

1115-1130

#Ethiopia; Addis Ababa surrounded and PM Abiy on the eve of flight. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://apnews.com/article/egypt-somalia-ethiopia-dispute-somaliland-63d339c238b80c20bb09582d690b86a2s

1130-1145

#Ukraine: Desperate, lashing out, fight to the last dollar that is already spent. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/23/running-out-of-time-defences-war-russia-norway-nato/

1145-1200

#KingCharlesReport: Sharing his medical challenges to encourage others: Australia Day knocked by the own anti-Crown Australian Republicans.

 

https://www.ft.com/content/8e057289-2aa9-49b1-a1cf-e1de85c769a8?accessToken=zwAGD51h4XLYkdOOBXKJKqlJsdOhz-HehcdpqA.MEYCIQCR1LheQ2i0jSJ8hH4guzetRx-8BLNh1N_S_TIWY4fAUAIhAOj8groQ4mx-nb683oAsg3c0jkIRvchvIzD_rCSHbFKt&sharetype=gift&token=e286486b-0a96-4509-93a8-7221f4fc6874

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

1/2: #Indo-Pacific: Preparing for the PRC attack & What is to be done? Mark Montgomery, FDD. Bradley Bowman, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/podcasts/2024/01/19/pacific-deterrence-an-update-from-admiral-john-aquilino/

 

1215-1230

2/2: #IIndo-Pacific:  PRC technology advances: US looks for hypersonic air defense. Mark Montgomery, FDD. Bradley Bowman, FDD

https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2024/01/19/the-us-is-failing-to-quickly-field-hypersonic-missile-defense/

 

1230-1245

#Pakistan: Who are the Baluch? And what threat are the Baluch to Tehran or Islamabad? Arif Rafiq. GlobelyNews.com

https://globelynews.com/south-asia/iran-pakistan-irgc-isi/

1245-100 AM
#1984: Washington pundits warn of dictatorship in the Orwellian style & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/21/bulwark_writers_double_down_on_trump_as_democracys_destroyer_150353.html