The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 31 MAY 2023

Air Date: 
May 31, 2023



CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#KeystoneState: Two inspiring young men: Tyler Merritt and Michael Block. SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/nine-lines-tyler-merritt-calls-foul-over-ccp-slave-labor-fabric-in-the-apparel-business

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/stories-that-inspire-always-begin-with-an-everyman-never-giving-up

915-930

#KeystoneState: Mastriano drops out and McCormick enters the Senate race, 2024. SalenaZito.com.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/mastriano-teases-twice-in-lifetime-lose-pa

930-945

#Russia: What is the CSTO & What is to be done? Ivana Stradner, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/05/26/putins-mini-nato-is-falling-apart/

 

945-1000

#France: Commodity prices decline while food prices inflate: where is the recession?. Simon Constable, Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2023/05/28/still-no-recession-wall-street-gurus-should-be-ashamed/

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Border: What is the Progressive purpose of the mass migration at the Mexican border? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution


https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/28/it-was-always-only-about-power-with-the-left/

1015-1030

#GOP; What little is known of DeSantis outside Florida.

Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution


https://victorhanson.com/desantis-disney-and-travel-bans/

 

1030-1045

#Russia: Cheating OPEC outputs since 2020. Michael Bernstam, Hoover I

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-russia-ties-under-strain-over-oil-production-cuts-50566e9c?page=1nstitution

1045-1100

#Russia: Are the Russians deceiving or is the military in failure? George Friedman, GeopoliticalFutures.com

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/considering-maskirovka/

THIRD HOUR

11-1215

#PRC: No recovery. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Alone: Return to Isolation, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-steel-prices-hit-three-year-low-demand-woes-2023-05-26/

 

 

1115-1130

#PRC:  The China hands depart State: Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, on this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-state-departments-top-china-policy-official-step-down-sources-2023-05-24/

 

1130-1145

#PRC: The AI Race & What is to be done? Brandon Weichert, author of the just-released Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, 

@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

 https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-wont-tolerate-chinas-ban-micron-chips-raimondo-2023-05-27/

1145-1200 

  #PRC: Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, on this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/29/china-moon-space-astronauts-lunar/

FOURTH HOUR

1200-1215

#Egypt: The persecution of Coptic Christians in the tale of a foundling. Sam Tadros

https://compactmag.com/article/his-name-is-shenouda

1215-1230

#Egypt: How many Coptics? Sam Tadros.

https://providencemag.com/2023/05/counting-coptic-christians-in-egypt/

 
1230-1245

SpaceX: #Starship 25 ready for liftoff. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-confirms-starship-prototype-to-fly-on-next-superheavy-test-flight/

 

1245-100AM

#Jupiter: The grooves of Ganymede. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-grooved-surface-of-ganymede/