The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 11 May 2022

Air Date: 
May 11, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915         
#Ukraine: Drawn-out artillery war. Jeff McCausland, CBS News. Dickinson College.  Diamondsix.com
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-heavy-artillery-cause-russia-153300495.html
 
 

915-930        
#Ukraine: UK allies with Sweden and Finland.  Jeff McCausland, CBS News. Dickinson College. Diamondsix.com
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-uk-pledges-support-if-sweden-attacked-russia-negotiations-harder-with-each-new-bucha-says-zelenskiy-–-live/ar-AAX8MpG
 

930-945        
#Russia: Slow motion collapse into deep, decade-long depression. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.
,https://tass.ru/ekonomika/14580901
Michael S. Bernstam, a research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, is an economic demographer who studies the centrality of income redistribution for the taxonomy and evolution of economic systems, long-run economic growth, demographic transition, social revolutions, conflict, and other social changes.
 

945-1000        
#Ukraine: Big Oil innovation. Simon Constable Barron's
https://www.barrons.com/articles/oil-stocks-europe-1540567315
 
Simon Constable,  Forbes Edinburgh;economist, journalist, currently based in Scotland; and author, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market.  
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015        
#SriLanka #PRC: Shoot on sight. Cleo Paskal, FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/china-backed-projects-testament-to-sri-lankas-mismanagement/articleshow/91468692.cms
 

1015-1030        
#HongKong: #PRC: Detaining the Catholic Church. Mark Clifford, author. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  Mark Clifford, author of, Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/report-former-hong-kong-bishop-cardinal-zen-arrested
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/8/23062437/hong-kong-chief-executive-john-lee-restrictions
 

1030-1045        
#DPRK: #PRC: Kim provocations with nukes. Bruce Bechtol, author.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/asia/north-korea-nuclear-ukraine-war-lessons-intl-hnk/index.html
Bruce Bechtol, author of North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability, and professor at Angelo State University
 

1045-1100        
#PRC: Friend-shoring.  Jonathan Bass, onshoring advocate and CEO of PTM Images. 
@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3484262-we-should-be-restricting-not-expanding-trade-with-china/
 

THIRD HOUR
 

1100-1115         
1/2: #Ukraine: Unanswered questions of the Russian air. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.airforce-technology.com/analysis/despite-failures-in-ukraine-dont-underestimate-russias-armed-forces/
 

1115-1130         
2/2: #Ukraine: Unanswered questions of the Russian air. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.airforce-technology.com/analysis/despite-failures-in-ukraine-dont-underestimate-russias-armed-forces/
 

1130-1145         
#Australia: #Solomons: PRC cash. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnation%2Fpolitics%2Felection-2022-aussie-robson-djokovic-at-centre-of-sogavares-probeijing-circle%2Fnews-story%2Fb7695b5e0a862a519a7dc8de73251790&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-cold-test-noscore&V21spcbehaviour=append
 

1145-1200       
#Australia: AUKUS at Perth. Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnation%2Fdefence%2Fjohn-howard-says-domestic-nuclear-industry-inevitable-with-aukus-subs%2Fnews-story%2Fd9a1d35e2327ddf2ca664de6292a45b6&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-cold-test-noscore&V21spcbehaviour=append
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215        
#Israel: One year after the Gaza War. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1652290594-israel-former-army-spokesperson-reflects-on-2021-gaza-war
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JMFWWDV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
 

1215-1230        
Reviewing Mark Esper.  John Bolton. WSJ.
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Oath-Memoirs-Secretary-Extraordinary/dp/006314431X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652307956&sr=1-1
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-sacred-oath-review-keeping-the-peace-11652133962
 
 

1230-1245        
#Mars: Ingenuity on support. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-in-trouble/
 
 

1245-100 AM          
Spaceport Shetlands. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/lockheed-martin-to-move-its-smallsat-rocket-launch-project-to-the-uk/