The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 22 March 2023

Air Date: 
March 22, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine:  Scramble for ammo for a Spring Offensive. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2023/03/20/eu-nations-rush-to-scrape-up-one-million-artillery-rounds-for-ukraine/

915-930
#Ukraine:  Japan to the frontlines. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japanese-leader-kishida-outraged-by-the-cruelty-on-surprise-trip-to-kyiv-chinas-xi-stands-with-a-war-criminal-live-updates/ar-AA18THXC

930-945

#NYC: Staging a comeback with Gen Z and the younger Millennials. Harry Siegel, TheCity, NY Daily News. 

https://projects.thecity.nyc/hows-new-york-city-doing/index.html

945-1000

#FoodSecurity: Wheat crop harvests in Russia and Ukraine at risk for 2023. Simon Constable, Barron's.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/wheat-prices-commodities-trade-110226e8?refsec=commodities&mod=topics_commodities

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

1/2: #Russia: Moscow leans on Third Party traders to bust sanctions. Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures.

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russias-new-foreign-policy-takes-shape/Ekaterina

 

1015-1030

2/2: #Russia: Moscow leans on Third Party traders to bust sanctions.Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures.

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russias-new-foreign-policy-takes-shape/Ekaterina

 

1030-1045

#Moon: Moon Race 2 for stations and robotic colonies by0 205. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/both-indias-chandrayaan-3-and-intuitive-machines-nova-c-lunar-landers-pass-vibration-tests/

1045-1100

#Mars: Plotting the icefield for robotic colonies by 2100. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-ubiquitous-presence-of-ice-in-the-martian-mid-latitudes/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Russia: #PRC: The meeting in Moscow, the meager results. Theresa Fallon, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies,  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/economic-asphyxiation-puts-russia-chinas-orbit-2023-03-20/

 

1115-1130

 

#PRC: Reshoring now. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/manufacturers-move-back-to-china-as-renewal-of-u-s-trade-deal-is-delayed-88ed456b

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-china-trade-becoming-less-093000435.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKMjnMP95ZJ0ae-aBmDYPVWoDrJFbFjWtycoFMbo_79YaDsE-pz8Z9pwAoG-_c79txfbe8a0uLn2l5WnNfB52iPb8DSQRc7Qe8ccwTwBF5nZqe62vT2xrpT_DjGKRKXbrhml4Air7ITO0EFeg_1rmACpe_kvPvH7Hs9ZMZgyCUwl

 

 
1130-1145

#NorthKorea: ICBM inbound and What is to be done? Bruce Bechtol, author of North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, and professor at Angelo State University, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hille

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/03/if-north-korea-launches-a-full-range-icbm-test-will-joe-biden-shoot-it-down/

1145-1200: 

#Japan: Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/japan-pm-kishida-announce-new-indo-pacific-plan-97980236

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#HotelMars: Countdown to Boca Chica premiere. Jeff Foust, SpaceNews.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-now-eyeing-april-for-starships-1st-orbital-launch-elon-musk-says/ar-AA18Le99

1215-1230

#PRC: #SVB: Beijing like firesales. Emily deLaBruyere, FDD

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3900492-vultures-at-the-gate-the-national-security-risk-of-silicon-valley-banks-failure/

1230-1245

#Russia: The long asphyxiation. Michael Bernstam, Hoover.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/03/20/whs_kirby_russian_economy_barely_being_propped_up_by_some_pretty_radical_measures.html

1245-100 AM

#Stanford: Without leadership, despair, disorder. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/19/what-happened-to-stanford/