The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Air Date: 
October 03, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#Markets:  The slowdown everywhere but government spending.  Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/fed-biden-economy-inflation-credit-00118509

915-930

#Markets:  #POTUS: Majority of the CNN polled oppose aid to Ukraine. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4234333-listening-to-voters-gop-resists-more-funding-for-ukraine/

930-945

#EU: Slovakia joins Hungary and Poland with doubts about Ukraine. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://www.newstribune.com/news/2023/oct/03/eu-diplomat-dismisses-concern-about-long-term/

945-1000

#Germany: Populist anti-migrant parties rising. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/germanys-political-landscape-is-shifting-with-the-far-right-afd-party-ahead-in-the-polls/ar-AA1hCmMw

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#StateThinking: Summitry to what end? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/latest-us-china-talks-seen-as-progression-of-plans-for-xi-jinping-and-joe-biden-summit/ar-AA1hBHvv

1015-1030

#StateThinking: #Ukraine: Congress balks. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/explainer-whats-at-stake-in-the-us-congress-debate-over-ukraine-aid/ar-AA1hDMqZ

1030-1045

#LondonCalling:  EU is defenseless before PRC EVs & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-electric-cars-the-eu-is-more-free-market-than-america-mandate-china-tariffs-a6faa5ee

1045-1100

#LondonCalling:  White Elephant called HS2. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/sunak-poised-to-make-incredible-gaffe-by-axing-hs2-in-north-but-saving-london-link/ar-AA1hD3Ip

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/2: #Azerbaijan: #Armenia: #Russia: The Armenian evacuation of Nagorno Karabakh is self-defeatist and meritless. Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan Ambassador to the UK. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/armenian-exodus-from-nagorno-karabakh-ebbs-as-azerbaijan-moves-to-reaffirm-control/ar-AA1hyAWH

1115-1130

2/2: #Azerbaijan: #Armenia: #Russia: The Armenian evacuation of Nagorno Karabakh is self-defeatist and meritless. Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan Ambassador to the UK. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/armenian-exodus-from-nagorno-karabakh-ebbs-as-azerbaijan-moves-to-reaffirm-control/ar-AA1hyAWH

1130-1145

#Iran: Does Iran possess weaponization technology for its bomb making enrichment? Behnam ben Taleblu, FDD.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-can-build-a-nuclear-bomb-in-two-weeks-us-admits/ar-AA1hvQw0

1145-1200

#Iran: What of the Iranian missile proliferation? Behnam ben Taleblu, FDD.

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-missile-russia-vladimir-putin-sergei-shoigu-ukraine-1828727

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#PRC: Putin to Xi; Xi to Biden.Tripolar summitry. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/latest-us-china-talks-seen-as-progression-of-plans-for-xi-jinping-and-joe-biden-summit/ar-AA1hBHvv

1215-1230

#Azerbaijan: Armenia: #Russia: Moscow wins land route access to the Indian Ocean. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/27/russias-new-economic-escape-route

1230-1245

#PRC: Xi and the suspect Rocket Forces. Victoria Herczeg, Geopolitical Futures @GPFuturesgeopoliticalfutures.com/is-xi-jinping-worried-about-the-military/?tpa=ZTE3ZTI1Y2VhN2Y0M2MwZDBhM2FhZTE2OTcxMjUzNzYzNjc2YmE&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://geopoliticalfutures.com/is-xi-jinping-worried-about-the-military/?tpa=ZTE3ZTI1Y2VhN2Y0M2MwZDBhM2FhZTE2OTcxMjUzNzYzNjc2YmE&utm_content&utm_campaign=PAID%20-%20Everything%20as%20its%20published

1245-100 am

#NASA: The unlikely Mars Sample Return Mission funding. Doug Messier, ParabolicArc.com. DAVID LIVINGSTON, SPACESHOW.COM

https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/