The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 26 October 2022

Air Date: 
October 26, 2022

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine: Threat of a dirty bomb as the Russians prepare for the worst case. David Albright, Institute for Science And International Security.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63369175

 

915-930

#Ukraine: #Russia: Mobilization and the Brain Drain to Astana and Baku: Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/putin-s-mobilization-hit-russian-economy-central-bank-says?sref=5g4GmFHo

930-945

#NYC: Crime, Prospect Park, Governor Hochul and the unacceptable loss of a golden retriever. Harry Siegel, NY Daily News

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-moose-dog-prospect-park-nypd-apology-brooklyn-20221026-42wrrreaxzearpml2yqod63lxq-story.html

945-1000

#EU: France: Timely stockpiling of natural gas for Winter '23. Simon Constable, Barron's.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/business/europe-gas-prices-winter.html

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#PRC: #Taiwan: After the 20th Party Congress and the major war warning in East Asia.

Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-looks-like-chinas-xi-installed-a-war-cabinet-and-removed-the-reformers-says-kyle-bass-11666724569

 

1015-1030

#PRC: #Russia: #Germany: Scholz to visit the hostile Beijing. Rebekah Koffler, former DIA intelligence officer and author Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-scholz-wont-dump-china-will-europe-ever-learn/amp/

 

1030-1045

#PRC: #EU: Doing any kind of business with a dictatorship: Fraser Howie, co-author Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise:

@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hillhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-25/foreigners-flee-china-stocks-at-record-pace-as-panic-spreads

 

1045-1100

#PRC: Trade after the 20th Party Congress threats: Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/our-so-called-foreign-policy-for-banning-all-u-s-high-tech-sales-to-china/ 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#NewWorldReport: Brazil leans toward the Evangelicals. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis

https://www.ft.com/content/6a4f43a2-8b82-4e64-9dd6-b4d225ad9214

1115-1130

#NewWorldReport: Cautionary Central Bakers moved to raise rates in the Spring of 2021.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis

https://www.ft.com/content/47d7fa8a-47d9-4a4d-ade2-9472dca146b9?shareType=nongift

 

1130-1145

#NewWorldReport: #Mexico: The celebrated authoritarian populist AMLO and his military tools. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/mexico/mexico-dying-democracy-amlo-toll-authoritarian-populism-denise-dresser

1145-1200
#NewWorldReport: Haiti tragedy abandoned by the UNSC. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/21/haiti-foreign-intervention-united-nations-peacekeeping/

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
1/2: #USN:  The "Coffin Corner" of the threats and the necessity to grow the fleet dramatically to 2050: Jerry Hendrix, Sagemore Institute. NRO

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/the-united-states-is-in-a-coffin-corner/

1215-1230

2/2: : #USN:  The "Coffin Corner" of the threats and the necessity to grow the fleet dramatically to 2050: Jerry Hendrix, Sagemore Institute. NRO

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/the-united-states-is-in-a-coffin-corner/

1230-1245

#SpaceX: Starlink is also GPS capable. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/researchers-figure-out-how-to-make-the-starlink-constellation-a-gps-type-constellation/

 

1245-100 am

#Mars: Valiant, dutiful InSight.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-still-hangs-in-barely/