Wednesday 21 June 2023
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#PRC: CCP Outrage in Beijing & What is to be done?
Jonathan Ward, author of the just-released The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
915-930
#PRC: Lukashenko and the Kremlin's nukes. Peter Huessy, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-has-started-taking-delivery-russian-tactical-nuclear-weapons-president-2023-06-14/
930-945
#Taiwan: The next presidential election. Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/blinken-declares-us-does-not-173627449.html
945-1000
#India: What to watch for in Modi's state visit to the Biden Administration. Kamran Bokhari, director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://time.com/6288278/modi-state-visit-biden-india-key-issues/
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#Titanic: Report of diving twice to the Titanic. Charles Pellegrino, author, The Ghosts of the Titanic; Anthony Al-Khoury, researcher.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Titanic-James-Cameron/dp/0688139558
1015-1030
#Titanic: The unknowns of the missing submersible Titan. Charles Pellegrino, author, The Ghosts of the Titanic; Anthony Al-Khoury, researcher.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/missing-titanic-tourist-submersible-timeline/story?id=100265183
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Titanic-James-Cameron/dp/0688139558
1030-1045
#NYC: Mayor Adams shoulders the migrant surge & What is to be done? Harry Siegel, The City, New York Daily News
1045-1100
#NYC: Bernie Goetz, 1987,and Self-defense in the subway, 2023.. Harry Siegel, The City, New York Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-adams-self-defense-strategy-is-backfiring-20230617-34gr4fs3xnexrhfa5ayy3twn4i-story.html
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/4: #Oceania: How the Compacts of Free Association (Palau, Micronesia, the Marshalls) Support U.S. Interests and Counter the PRC's Influence, Cleo Paskal, FDD.
https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/06-14-23-Paskal-Written-Testimony.pdf
1115-1130
2/4: #Oceania: How the Compacts of Free Association (Palau, Micronesia, the Marshalls) Support U.S. Interests and Counter the PRC's Influence. Cleo Paskal, FDD.
https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/06-14-23-Paskal-Written-Testimony.pdf
1130-1145
3/4: #Oceania: How the Compacts of Free Association (Palau, Micronesia, the Marshalls) Support U.S. Interests and Counter the PRC's Influence. Cleo Paskal, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/06-14-23-Paskal-Written-Testimony.pdf.
1145-1200
4/4: #Oceania: How the Compacts of Free Association (Palau, Micronesia, the Marshalls) Support U.S. Interests and Counter the PRC's Influence. Cleo Paskal, FDD.
https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/06-14-23-Paskal-Written-Testimony.pdf
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#France: Paradise with sunshine days in the 80s and cooling thunderstorm nights, bringing n the hay crop, awaiting wheat, sunflowers and the vineyards. Simon Constable, Occitane
https://www.reuters.com/article/france-grains-institute-idUSKBN2Y013K
1215-1230
#Russia Putin boasts of a shrinking GDP without investors. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution
1230-1245
#NASA: Cost plus contracts vs fixed cost contracts & the rise of commercial space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
1245-100 am
#Mars: #Curiosity climbing an alien panorama of lifeless billions of years. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/looking-down-a-canyon-on-mars/