The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 3 Aapril 2024

Air Date: 
April 03, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#IIsrael: Two shocking  Israeli air strikes. One murderous combat siege.   Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-blasts-israel-over-aid-workers-but-his-gaza-policy-is-unchanged/ar-BB1l1XkF

915-930: 

#Ukraine:  The drone war.  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukrainian-drone-hits-russias-third-biggest-refinery-damage-not-critical/ar-BB1kXCbu

930-945

#NorthKorea: The Russian romance. Bruce Bechtol, author of North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa and professor at Angelo State University,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240328009900315?section=nk/nk 

 

945-1000
#Taiwan: Earthquake. TSMC nominal. Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.reuters.com/world/taiwan-told-vacate-embassy-honduras-after-ties-severed-2023-03-27/

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#India: Congress proposes back to the caste system & What is to be done? Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, AEI

https://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-desperate-opposition-pushes-caste-quotas-36f8ad4a

 

 

1015-1030
#Serbia: #Kosovo: Disinformation weapons in the Western Balkans. Ivana Stradner, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/03/25/serbia-and-russia-want-to-refight-kosovo-this-time-with-disinformation/
 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/serbias-vucic-nominates-ally-vucevic-as-prime-minister-designate/ar-BB1kNNyo

1030-1045

#USN: Carrier-based military diplomacy works.  Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, on the latest on the developing China-Philippines crisis in the South China Sea.

 https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/navy-makes-shocking-aircraft-carrier-decision-while-china-threat-rises

1045-1100

#PRC: #DPRK: Proliferators galore.  Peter Huessy, president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://highergroundtimes.com/higher-ground/2024/feb/29/chinas-nuclear-expansion-is-breathtaking-in-number/

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Hamas: Hamas is the occupier. Hamas is a tool of Iran.  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution. 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/28/gaza-truths-behind-all-the-lies/

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1115-1130
#CA:  Refusing all the water the Central Valley needs. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution

https://victorhanson.com/election-rhetoric-storm-and-california-slippin-away/

1130-1145 

#EU: The farm vote  pushes back & What is to be done? Judy Dempsey Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/92076

1145-1200

#Turkiye: Erdogan setback.& What is to be done? Judy Dempsey Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/92051

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
#HotelMars: Growing edibles on the Moon. Haym Benaroya, Rutgers University, author Building Habitats on the Moon: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements 
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-3-plant-growth-experiment-moon

1215-1230

#Russia: The drone strike against Teneco, the third largest refinery, 800 miles from the frontline. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-refineries-targeted-by-ukraines-drones-2024-03-25/

1230-1245
#SpaceX: Routine business three launches within hours on both coasts. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-two-launches-in-three-and-a-half-hours-third-launch-scrubbed/

1245-100 am

#Sun: The incomprehensible solar cycle. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sunspot-update-the-weak-solar-maximum-continues/

RobertGarritano@iheartmedia.com