The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Air Date: 
April 24, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine:  Relieving Pork Chop Hill.  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/24/weapons-ukraine-61bn-us-aid-boost-himars-howitzer/

915-930

#Israel:  Rafah and Bekaa and Air Defense.  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/24/weapons-ukraine-61bn-us-aid-boost-himars-howitzer/

 

930-945

#PRC: Justice jailed: Charles Burton, senior fellow at Sinopsis, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3257603/chinas-former-justice-minister-tang-yijun-facing-corruption-probe-top-anti-graft-agency-says

 

 

 

945-1000

#PRC: Gold fever breaks out: Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, on this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/gold-price-china-consumers-central-bank-pboc-economy-concerns-dedollarization-2024-4

 

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#France: The cost of energy. The Rwanda Bill. Simon Constable, Occitanie
https://www.ft.com/content/5e7591b2-87c2-4ea3-8922-ee7a4c8c7913

1015-1030
#EV: The quiz.  Simon Constable, Occitanie

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-quiz-ea7247f3

 

1030-1045

SPACEX: May is the best guess. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

1045-1100

#Voyager-1: Called home. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
1/2: #MARS: Insight and the Marsquakes. Ken Croswell, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400778121

1115-1130

2/2: #MARS: Insight and the Marsquakes. Ken Croswell, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400778121

1130-1145

PLA: Defense of the Philippines. James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/),@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/asia/us-land-attack-missile-philippines-china-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

 

 

1145-1200

PRC : TikTok no more. Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-china-internet-war-intensifies-as-house-passes-tiktok-ban-7d19ff05

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

PRC: Still no way out of the real estate crater. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/chinas-fiscal-stimulus-is-losing-its-effectiveness-sp-says.html

1215-1230

#GLOBALIZATION: Data management and the future of insurance. Martin Shen, CEO Fingermotion.com
https://fingermotion.com/news/176-fingermotion-entering-into-arrangements-to-facilitate-widespread-use-of-charging-terminals-for-subscribers-of-the-da-ge-app

1230-1245

1/2: #HOTELMARS: The risk and reward of the JAXA and NASA missions to Ryugu (2014-202) and Bennu (2015-2023)  & What is to be done? Harold Connolly, Rohan University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu

1245-100 am
2/2: #HOTELMARS: The risk and reward of the JAXA and NASA missions to Ryugu (2014-202) and Bennu (2015-2023)  & What is to be done? Harold Connolly, Rohan University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu