The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 31 May 2022

Air Date: 
May 31, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915          
#Markets: Comment on President Biden's op-ed in the WSJ.  @LizPeek The Hill Fox News
https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-plan-for-fighting-inflation-joe-biden-gas-prices-economy-unemployment-jobs-covid-11653940654?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
 
 

915-930          
#Energy:  Brownouts; & What is to be done? @LizPeek The Hill Fox News
https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-plan-for-fighting-inflation-joe-biden-gas-prices-economy-unemployment-jobs-covid-11653940654?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
 
 

930-945         : 
A Short History of SCOTUS and Redistricting. 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/seeking-way-out-redistricting-chaos
 
 

945-1000          
#Energy: How to deal with an exogenous shock. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution;  senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.   
https://www.eenews.net/articles/clock-ticking-as-bipartisan-energy-gang-huddles-again/

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015           
#StateThinking: Antony Blinken's #PRC-thinking.  @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/05/blinken-emphasizes-cooperation-including-with-beijing-in-china-policy-speech/
 
 

1015-1030          
#StateThinking: Does the White House aim to win in Ukraine?   @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-delivers-speech-on-u-s-policy-toward-china
 
 

1030-1045          
#Oceania: Wang Yi rebuffed by Pacific Islanders.  @CleoPaskal, FDD
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/china-launches-empire-building-exercise-pacific-theatre

https://on.ft.com/3G3Kk8s
Cleo Paskal  FDD, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
 

1045-1100          
#Oceania:  The unhappiness with the US Trusteeships of Palau, FSM and the Marshall Islands. @CleoPaskal, FDD
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/china-launches-empire-building-exercise-pacific-theatre

Cleo Paskal  FDD, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115         
#LondonCalling: Britain celebrates the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/31/keir-starmer-patriotic-duty-celebrate-queens-platinum-jubilee/
 
 

1115-1130           
#LondonCalling:  Christine Lagarde's ECB remains dovish. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.ft.com/content/d177b829-ef19-48a1-8c80-53d352018b84
 
 

1130-1145          
#Guam: Fortifying against the #PRC. Patrick Tucker, DefenseOne.com
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/05/china-likely-use-nuclear-coercion-bid-take-taiwan-2027-stratcom-chief-says/366551/
Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move
 
 

1145-1200          
#PRC: Quantum computers are the new Moon race. Patrick Tucker DefenseOne.com
ttps://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/05/white-house-sounds-alarm-threat-quantum-computers/366480/
Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move.  
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215          
#Australia: Meet the Albanese government and the new Defense Minister, Marles. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/anthony-albanese-snubs-tanya-plibersek-and-hands-education-portfolio-to-jason-clare/news-story/310ce9c4eb748577ace6043cdc37ff90
 
 

1215-1230         
#Oceania: #PRC works to fence off #Australia and #NewZealand. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.ft.com/content/d177b829-ef19-48a1-8c80-53d352018b84
 
 

1230-1245          
#SriLanka: Collapse of food security; advance of #PRC.  Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/people-are-going-to-die-crisis-hit-sri-lanka-runs-out-of-medicine
 
 

1245-100 AM           
#Ukraine: Russia slowly nears its strategic goals.  Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/30/biden-will-not-supply-ukraine-with-long-range-rockets-that-can-hit-russia
 
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