The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 20 April 2022

Air Date: 
April 20, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915          
#Ukraine: Prosecuting the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade for alleged war crimes at Bucha. Ivana Stradner  @ivanastradner @FDD
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putin-honors-russian-unit-64th-motor-rifle-brigade-accused-of-gruesome-war-crimes-in-bucha-ukraine
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/04/11/uyghur-tribunal-model-war-crimes-ukraine/
Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  Eastern Europe, cybersecurity, information operations, Russia's reflexive control, int'l law.
 

915-930          
#Serbia: Who is Alexander Vucic and why does he accuse the EU? Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner @FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/04/11/uyghur-tribunal-model-war-crimes-ukraine/
Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner ,  advisor to @FDD  Eastern Europe, cybersecurity, information operations, Russia's reflexive control, int'l law.

 

 

930-945           
#Ukraine: Russian emigres flee to Turkey, Armenia, Uzbekistan. @Felix_Light @CBSNews   @MoscowTimes
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/19/central-asian-migrants-flee-sanctions-hit-russia-a77387
 
 

945-1000          
#Ukraine: Commodities unstable.  Simon Constable  @RealConstable  @Forbes Edinburgh; @BarronsOnline.@Forbes
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/18/price-of-corn-hits-9-year-high-commodities-food-inflation.html
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/18/price-of-corn-hits-9-year-high-commodities-food-inflation.html
Simon Constable  @RealConstable  @Forbes Edinburgh; @BarronsOnline.@Forbes  economist, journalist, currently based in Scotland; and author, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market.   

SECOND HOUR
 

10-1015           
#Ukraine: Turkey sorties; Poland leads. George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-world-and-a-small-war/?tpa=MzE4ZGIwYzU4YTRhNmY1ODVjMTJmODE2NTExNjAxMDQzNjYyNDA&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-world-and-a-small-war/?tpa=MzE4ZGIwYzU4YTRhNmY1ODVjMTJmODE2NTExNjAxMDQzNjYyNDA&utm_content&utm_campaign=PAID%20-%20Everything%20as%20it%27s%20published
 
 

1015-1030          
#Ukraine: Russian sovereign debt countdown to May 4. Michael Bernstam, @HooverInsto
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-20/russia-ruled-in-potential-default-over-ruble-payment-on-bonds?sref=5g4GmFHo
Michael Bernstam @HooverInst , research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, 

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
 

1030-1045          
#BigSpace: SLS delayed again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sls-launch-now-definitely-delayed-until-july-at-the-earliest/
 
 

1045-1100          
#Mars: Perseverance spies the parachute. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-spots-its-parachute/
 

THIRD HOUR
 

1100-1115          
#Korea: Yoon takes command. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  David Maxwell  @DavidMaxwell161  @FDD, Army Special Forces colonel (ret); Fellow, Institute of Corean American Studies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/south-korea-president-interview/
David Maxwell  @DavidMaxwell161  @FDD, Army Special Forces colonel (ret); Fellow, Institute of Corean American Studies
 

1115-1130          
#PRC: What drives the Shanghai lockdown? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  Anne Stevenson-Yang,@doumenzi, co-founder of J Capital Research in Beijing and author of China Alone: The Emergence from, and Potential Return to, Isolation.    https://www.forbes.com/sites/annestevenson-yang/2022/04/13/chinas-governance-implosion/?sh=4ea5fe5a3041
 
 

1130-1145          
#Ukraine: Deterrence and Russia's tactical nuclear weapons arsenal. Peter Huessy, @hobeyoco, @HudsonInstitute. director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
 
 

1145-1200           
#PRC. Xi and Putin coincide. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

 
 

FOURTH HOUR
 

12-1215          
#Keystone: Incarceration in America and after. Salina Zito, @SalenaZito   CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt.   SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/this-road-to-redemption-began-with-a-poetry-book-slipped-under-a-prison-cell-door
  
 

1215-1230       
#Keystone: Macomb County, Michigan, 2022. Salina Zito, @SalenaZito   CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt.   SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/macomb-county-gop-ousts-party-leaders-stuck-re-litigating-trumps-2020-loss
 
 

1230-1245          
#Ukraine: German Industrialist and Russia. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe.  Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. 
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/86872
The future map of Europe is being decided in Ukraine
 
 

1245-100 AM           
#Ukraine: Global South POV.  Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe.  Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. 
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/86831
Judy Asks: Is Russia’s War in Ukraine Dividing the World?