CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine:  Warplanes , artillery and unknowns of the reported Russian offensive/Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.ft.com/content/164360c3-1b37-46c9-b26a-4444d2045eef

https://www.ft.com/content/3fd6e91f-71e4-4c02-9360-be20a2a78763

915-930

#PRC: Over reaction. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://theweek.com/us-military/1021005/us-may-have-shot-down-3-benign-o...

930-945

#NYC: Revelatory report of the inadequacy of the NYPD response to the looting and disorder of June 2020. Harry Siegel, NY Daily News. The City

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-unreleased-nypd-report-missteps-response-george-floyd-protests-20230213-ga42f6xlhjgqjfnnxamytto65m-story.html

 

945-1000

#Ukraine: #Russia: #EU sanctions aim at Foreign Reserve assets and high-end imports. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.

https://on.ft.com/3IqZac2

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#NewWorldReportEllis: Latin American Re Haiti "catastrophic."  Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-arrests-four-more-suspects-plot-kill-haitian-president-moise-2023-02-14/

1015-1030

#NewWorldReportEllis: #DominicanRepublic builds a wall. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-arrests-four-more-suspects-plot-kill-haitian-president-moise-2023-02-14/

1030-1045

#NewWorldReportEllis: #Nicaragua like the Hermit Kingdom of the Americas. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-makes-fresh-call-jailed-nicaraguan-bishops-release-2023-02-14/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaraguan-political-prisoners-families-seek-their-release-after-others-freed-2023-02-14/

1045-1100

#NewWorldReportEllis: Paradox of the #Amazon deforestation. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-launch-fresh-operation-combat-wildcat-mining-yanomami-lands-2023-02-10/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/deforestation-brazils-amazon-falls-first-month-under-lula-2023-02-10/https://www.reuters.com/world/us-eyes-joining-amazon-fund-during-biden-lula-visit-2023-02-09/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#PRC: Military grade green laser aimed at Philippine Coast Guard & What is to be done? 
James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/) @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/13/china-laser-philippines-coast-guard/

 

1115-1130

#PRC: The balloon and the supply chain: Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/14/us-china-spy-balloon-drama-is-drifting-into-supply-chain-politics.html 

1130-1145

#PRC: #Canada: Ottawa and the Balloon. 

Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64633990

 

1145-1200

#PRC: NORAD: Threat  from the South. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet,

https://apnews.com/article/china-threatens-us-entities-over-balloon-inci...

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#PRC:The balloon hints that the #PRC satellites are inadequate. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures.

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/mysterious-balloons/

1215-1230

#Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon departs yet Scotland still aims for independence and an EU membership. Simon Constable, Occitane.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scottish-first-minister-sturgeon-re...

1230-1245

#ISS: The unsolved mystery of the holes on Roscosmos spacecraft. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-...

1245-100 am

#Mars: Ingenuity emerges robust from Martian winter, ready to soar. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/winter...