The John Batchelor Show

Friday 17 February 2023

Air Date: 
February 17, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#POTUS: What did we learn from the White House response to the #PRC spy balloon? Dan Henninger, WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-unexplained-ufo-silence-balloon-attack-spying-shot-down-air-traffic-national-security-a179243c

915-930

#PRC: What is airspace, near space, outer space? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-and-mystery-objects-raise-question-of-who-controls-near-space-8645b9aa

 

 

930-945

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Producer price index Inflation weighs heavily on prospects. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

Wholesale prices rose 0.7% in January, more than expected, fueling inflation increase

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/producer-price-index-january-2023-.html

945-1000

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Why ban tips? @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

https://genemarks.medium.com/the-small-business-case-for-banning-tips-f296b928b6f7

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#MRMarket: Tightening until something big breaks. Brett Arends, Marketwatch

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-tightening-always-breaks-something-s-p-500-will-drop-to-3-800-by-march-warn-bank-of-america-strategists-e86be31e?mod=home-page

1015-1030

#PacificWatch: Replenishing the Oroville Reservoir and the Central Valley.  @JCBliss

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11749705/Dramatic-new-images-parched-Lake-Oroville-transformed-California-storms.html

1030-1045

1/2: #HotelMars; Unexplained  non circular ring around a Trans-Neptunian ?" Bruno Morgado, Nature Magazine. 

1045-1100

2/2: #HotelMars; Unexplained  non circular ring around a Trans-Neptunian ?" Bruno Morgado, Nature Magazine. 

 

 

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
5/8: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by  Josiah Osgood  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Wrath-Rivalry-Destroyed-Republic/dp/1541620119

 

In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men’s toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war.

 

1115-1130

6/8: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by  Josiah Osgood  (Author)

1130-1145

7/8: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by  Josiah Osgood  (Author)

1145-1200

8/8: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by  Josiah Osgood  (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#MrMarket: Half a point at the Fed soon enough. Jim MCTague, former Washington Editor of Barron's Magazine.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-02-17-2023/card/key-takeaways-from-this-week-s-cpi-and-ppi-reports-other-data-and-earnings-L2wVgptvIvCR119KvACc

1215-1230

#Italy: Another drought year in the Po River Valley. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/italy-faces-another-year-severe-drought-little-winter-rain-snow-po-river

1230-1245

#Mars: Ingenuity flies 43 successfully. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

1245-100 am

#NASA: Recommendations to future privately owned, profit making space stations. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com