The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 16 January 2024

Air Date: 
January 16, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Markets:  PPI under control, Green New Deal sidelined. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.gulf-times.com/article/675598/business/wall-street-journal-federal-reserve-slowly-shrinking-balance-sheet-to-prevent-messy-disruption-to-financial-system

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-trillion-dollar-climate-agenda-blowing-up-john-kerry-answer

915-930
#Markets:  The presumptive GOP candidate and the courtrooms.  Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4403170-hunter-biden-is-destroying-his-fathers-reelection-hopes/

930-945

#LondonCalling: The farmers reject the Green sacrifices put upon their union & What is to be done..  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/angry-german-farmers-win-a-street-fight-over-climate-policy-net-zero-street-politics-6f217269

945-1000

#LondonCalling: The cruel Post Office scandal & What is to be done?  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/16/post-office-data-from-faulty-horizon-software-used-in-court/

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Taiwan: Oceania watches the Taipei success and heartens. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/opinion-the-repercussions-from-taiwan-s-election-will-continue-for-years/ar-AA1n47Xh

1015-1030

#Ethiopia: PM Abiy faces the resistance of the Fanu and the turning away of Eritrea and Djibouti.. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

https://news.yahoo.com/ethiopias-deal-somaliland-upends-regional-181131374.html

1030-1045

#redSea: #Iran:  The Red Sea shootings. The clerics of Tehran misstep badly. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/16/iran-allegedly-attack-mossad-israeli-spy-hq-iraq/

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-attacks-houthi-anti-ship-missiles-vessel-hit-in-red-sea/ar-AA1n4CNt

1045-1100

#KingCharlesReport: The King's portrait and what the badges and medals mean. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/01/15/king-charles-portrait-boost-civic-pride-hugo-burnand/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#StateThinking: Iran and Yemen launching economic war. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-

https://www.ft.com/content/e508268c-57b0-4680-83d2-b9a105a31a66

1115-1130

#StateThinking: Taiwan Democracy and its friends.@MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-ally-philippines-angers-china-congratulating-taiwan-president-elect-1860925

1130-1145

#RedSea: The USN long experienced in the Red Sea Basin. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/16/israel-hamas-war-latest-updates-gaza-yemen-day-102-live/

1145-1200

#USNavy:  The industrial base & What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-11/pentagon-plan-to-rebuild-defense-industrial-base-will-boost-contractors?sref=5g4GmFHo

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
#EU: The EU watches the US depart from Ukraine & What is to be done? Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-davos-talks-ukraine-will-achieve-nothing-russia-is-not-there-2024-01-15/

 

 

1215-1230

#Germany: Christian Lindner faces the jeering farmers. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-farmers-kick-off-protest-over-higher-taxes-berlin-2024-01-15/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-wants-china-join-global-peace-summit-2024-01-15/

1230-1245

#UN: #PRC reports to 3000 United Nations Convention on Corruption correspondents in Atlanta that 97.4% of its citizens"are satisfied" with its fight on corruption & other whoppers. Elain Dezenski, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/01/09/kleptocrats-in-democracys-clothing-beijing-and-moscow-talk-anti-corruption-at-the-un/

1245-100 AM
#HotelMars: Low Earth Orbit is the new new battle zone for space-faring nations & friends.. Jeff Faust Spacenews.com Davd Livingston, SpaceShow.com

https://spacenews.com/fcc-oks-lower-orbit-for-some-starlink-satellites/e