The John Batchelor Show

TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2024

Air Date: 
February 20, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#Markets: Rate cuts, rate hikes, timing and none of the above.   Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/theres-a-meaningful-chance-the-feds-next-move-is-a-rate-hike-former-treasury-secretary-larry-summers-says/ar-BB1ioKMt

915-930

#Markets:  Walking away from the EV.  Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1142362_ford-cuts-mach-e-ev-prices-by-thousands-as-sales-plunge

 

930-945

1/2: #BERLIN: #EU: Is Europe Ready to Defend Europe? Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91648

 
945-1000

2/2: #BERLIN: #EU: Is Europe Ready to Defend Europe? Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91648

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#AUSTRALIA: Reawakening the Royal Australian Navy. . Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.ft.com/content/420d3cfa-1fee-49a6-804c-f3b5806c3c0c?accessToken=zwAGEdObVMbgkc9CDTz6H-5JptOATPO1gGw8DA.MEYCIQC1SkweUDEpKNXFp_j2H--9TPpACMnnoX5e45kIhIrUHQIhAMwaBk3nDbyBKGkEk8TjvyCa0G9ht-M07innZ09P5Sl9&sharetype=gift&token=241977a9-bd75-42e8-a0cb-98e639ef9382Reawakening the Riyal Australian NavyUA: e=

1015-1030

#MALAYSIA: The outspoken new king of the Constitutional Monarchy and member if the Commonwealth.     Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-s-king-gets-gold-1-number-plate-with-record-rm15m-winning-bid

1030-1045
#UKRAINE: Longer range missiles and risk of w NATO conflict. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/02/20/biden-russia-ukraine-atacms-missile-us-zelensky/

1045-1100

#KINGCHARLES: Prince William managing the Royal duties. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/18/entertainment/prince-william-2024-bafta-awards/index.html

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#ISRAEL: #IJC: SOUTHAFRICA: Answering the falsehoods, smears and UN defaming. Orde Kittrie, FDD.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/icjs-new-chief-judge-has-a-history-of-bias-against-israel-lebanon-hague-96889d53?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

1115-1130

#RUSSIA: #NAVALNY: #PUTIN: Price to pay and the Kremlin assassins.. John Bolton

1130-1145

#LondonCalling:  The Labour Vote and Antisemitism  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/antisemitism-rises-again-in-the-british-labour-party-starmer-corbyn-israel-ed6b93a9

1145-1200
#LondonCalling: Raising Council Taxes in a Recession.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/council-tax-rise-5-percent-britain-april-2024-xctvxgx3g
FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#StateThinking: Death of Alexei Navalny & What is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-20/white-house-vows-major-sanctions-friday-after-navalny-death?sref=5g4GmFHo

1215-1230

#StateThinking: Allies and Clients and J.D.Vance.. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.ft.com/content/3c87ef13-122f-4e78-a7af-54c75c30a91d

1230-1245 

1/2: HARVARD: #ANTISEMITISM:: What drives the prejudice & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, REalClearPolitics.com

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/18/harvards_crisis_stems_from_debased_curriculum_150521.html

1245-100 am

1/2: HARVARD: #ANTISEMITISM: What drives the prejudice & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, REalClearPolitics.com

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/18/harvards_crisis_stems_from_debased_curriculum_150521.html