CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Mr.Market: Gloom  from NY to London to Brussels; Great Britain strikes for wages. . Brett Arends, Marketwatch

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/christmas-transport-public-services-strikes-cost-london-2-billion-b1047728.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=section_banner&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_content=6

915-930

#PacificWatch:The unknown fate of mountain lion P-22;  Heavy snowpack building in the north. @JCBliss

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/fate-of-famed-mountain-lion-p-22-still-undetermined-after-capture-euthanasia-possible/

930-945

#SmallBusinessAmerica: CPI/ PPI no longer rising but A long way to reversing. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

945-1000

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Conversations with ChatGPT to enhance customers experience .@GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

https://genemarks.medium.com/a-more-human-like-artificial-intelligence-could-enhance-customer-experience-68c4a0ae4790

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#MrMarket: Old-fashioned affinity fraud and embezzlement at FTX; the Fed tries psychological warfare on the investor class. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor Barron's.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-sachs-plans-thousands-of-layoffs-expects-to-eliminate-some-bonuses-11671212043?mod=hp_lead_pos1

 

 

1015-1030

SCOTUS: First Amendment vs woke rules. Dan Henninger, WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-want-to-shut-you-up-free-speech-censorship-lorie-smith-colorado-supreme-court-same-sex-wedding-obergefell-11671051368

 

1030-1045

#Ukraine: All of the nuclear power plants remain at severe risk to failure; Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-136-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine

1045-1100
#Italy:The economy outperforms the neighbors and the snows fall in the Alps. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/italy-minister-takes-swipe-ecb-after-policy-moves-hit-markets-2022-12-15/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

5/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel  by  Lloyd Clark  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Commanders-Leadership-Journeys-Bernard-Montgomery/dp/0802160220/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the 20th century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives, they charted very different, often interrupted, paths to their ultimate leadership positions commanding hundreds of thousands of troops during World War II and celebrated as heroes in the United States, Britain, and Germany.
Patton was born into a military family and from an early age felt he was destined for glory; following a disjointed childhood, Montgomery found purpose and direction in a military academy; Rommel’s father was a former officer, so his pursuit of a military career was logical. Having ascended to the middle ranks, each faced battle for the first time in World War I, a searing experience that greatly influenced their future approach to war and leadership. When war broke out again in 1939, Montgomery and Rommel were immediately engaged, while Patton chafed until the U.S. joined the Allies in 1942 and the three men, by then generals, collided in North Africa in 1943, and then again, climactically, in France after D-Day in 1944.
Weaving letters, diary extracts, official reports, and other documents into his original narrative, recounting dramatic battles as they developed on the ground and at headquarters, Clark also explores the controversies that swirled around Patton, Montgomery, and Rommel throughout their careers, sometimes threatening to derail them. Ultimately, however, their unique abilities to bridge the space between leader and led cemented their legendary reputations.
1115-1130

6/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel  by  Lloyd Clark  (Author)

1130-1145

7/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel  by  Lloyd Clark  (Author)

1145-1200

8/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel  by  Lloyd Clark  (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#Pakistan: Brittle, impoverished, opaque, without food security for the climate change ahead.
Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft.

https://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-seeks-un-help-flood-120859767.html

 

1215-1230

#Ukraine:  A war of incomplete and unlikely reports by both Moscow and Kyiv. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/16/russias-new-defensive-lines-may-appear-daunting-looks-can/

 

 

1230-1245

#ISS; Unsolved leak from the Soyuz lifeboat on ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

 

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russian-official-soyuz-leak-possibly-caused-by-micrometeorite-hit/

1245-100 am

#Mars: Sounds of the winds of Mars recorded by Perseverance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

 

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-records-sound-of-dust-devil/