The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 2 August 2023

Air Date: 
August 02, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#NYC: City Hall scrambles and fails to house, feed and solve the migrant surge from the Southern Border at the Roosevelt Hotel. Harry Siegel, The City.https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/7/28/23811598/migrants-shelters-roosevelt-eric-adams

915-930

#France: Oil climbs, inflation falls, and the climate is perfect in the South of France. Simon Constable, Occitane 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/oil-prices-perk-up-as-recession-worries-ebb-and-supply-tightens-fb58bf7d?mod=hp_lead_pos6

930-945

#SpaceForce: Colorado is the now permanent HQ. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/biden-reverses-late-trump-decision-to-move-space-force-headquarters/

945-1000

#Astronomy: First Light for Euclid in search of Dark Matter. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/euclids-first-images-look-good/

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#PRC:Taiwan January 202 presidential contest.  Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-lodges-complaints-over-us-weapons-aid-taiwan-2023-08-01/

1015-1030

#PRC: Apparel giants departing China for Vietnam, India, Bangladesh.Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3229636/china-audits-reveal-consumption-vouchers-did-not-work-and-were-misused-cash-handouts-remain-elusive

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-state-council-issues-measures-expand-consumption-2023-07-31/

 

1030-1045

#PRC; Instability in the CCP. 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.newsweek.com/china-rocket-force-changes-nuclear-xi-jinping-1816589?amp=1

1045-1100

#PRC: Xi says the PLA is unready. Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-calls-combat-readiness-pla-marks-founding-anniversary-2023-08-01/

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Ukraine:  Battlefield pace. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375

1115-1130

#Ukraine: Probing and provoking Poland. . Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-rushes-troops-to-border-belarus-denies-helicopter-violation/ar-AA1eEM36#image=1

1130-1145

#GOP: The January 6 indictment of ex-POTUS Trump.  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover.https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-indictment-2020-election-jack-smith-january-6-fraud-e0068c4f

1145-1200

POTUS: The dilemma of a likely one-term administration. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/11/the-pandemic-of-nuclear-trash-talk/

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NewWorldReport: Haiti abandoned. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bahamas-promises-join-kenya-security-force-haiti-support-grows-2023-08-01/

1215-1230

#NewWorldReport: Money-laundering and gunfire in Colombia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/son-colombias-president-pleads-not-guilty-money-laundering-charges-2023-08-01/

1230-1245

#NewWorldReport:  Commonsensical and prepared Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum & What is to be done? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-urges-end-irrational-ukraine-war-wants-russia-peace-talks-2023-07-31/