The John Batchelor Show

Friday 28 April 2023

Air Date: 
April 28, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#POTUS: The election polling looks unpromising for the president except vs the former president. Dan Henninger WSJ Opinion. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-democrats-learned-to-love-joe-biden-white-house-election-2024-candidate-af31bede

915-930

#PacificWatch: Whaling waters with an Albino Orca off Newport Harbor.. . @JCBliss

https://www.newsweek.com/rare-white-killer-whale-calf-orca-pod-1796725

930-945

#California: Three non-conforming voices  from the 1990s:  Richard Riordan, Pete Wilson, Dianne Feinstein. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution.


https://www.hoover.org/research/if-only-90s-generation-were-still-running-california

945-1000

#Colombia: President Gustavo Petro on a charm OFFENSIVE: New York, DC, Palo Alto, Bogota. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-colombian-marxists-charm-offensive-venezuela-white-house-nicolas-maduro-socialism-democracy-9c2b2d12

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Sustainability: What is "Sustainable intensification" and "Agroecology" Same as GMO? & What is to be done. Henry Miller is the Glenn Swogger Distinguished Fellow at the American Council on Science and Health. He was the founding director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology

https://henrymillermd.org/26925/genetically-engineered-crops-are-key-to

1015-1030

#Italy: The economy rebounds and outpaces the EU. Moving to Basilicata!  Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/italy-s-economy-rebounds-in-q1-in-boost-for-meloni/ar-AA1atiuh

 

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/irsina-basilicata-italy-americans/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/irsina-basilicata-italy-americans/index.html

 

 

1030-1045

#Voyager2: Engineering wonders in interstellar space.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/engineers-extend-voyager-2s-life-by-tapping-into-reserve-power-supply/

1045-1100

#SpaceX: To Vandenberg rocket base while waiting for Starship/Superheavy. to launch again in Texas.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-successfully-launched-46-upgrades-starlink-satellites/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/4: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Your-Own-City-Travels/dp/0593536886/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraq’s history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a new country; who experienced the horror of having their home fragmented into a hundred different cities.

When the “Shock and Awe” campaign began in March 2003, Abdul-Ahad was an architect. Within months he would become a translator, then a fixer, then a reporter for The Guardian and elsewhere, chronicling the unbuilding of his centuries-old cosmopolitan city. Beginning at that moment and spanning twenty years, Abdul-Ahad’s book decenters the West and in its place focuses on everyday people, soldiers, mercenaries, citizens blown sideways through life by the war, and the proliferation of sectarian battles that continue to this day. Here is their Iraq, seen from the inside: the human cost of violence, the shifting allegiances, the generational change.

1115-1130

1/4: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 

 

1130-1145

1/4: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 

 

1145-1200

1/4: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

1/2: #HotelMars: #PRC plans to imitate SpaceX with Long March -- a superheavy two-stage fully reusable booster combination to LEO and Lunar Orbit. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

 

https://spacenews.com/china-plans-full-reusability-for-its-super-heavy-long-march-9-rocket/

 

1215-1230

2/2: #HotelMars: #PRC plans to imitate SpaceX with Long March -- a superheavy two-stage fully reusable booster combination to LEO and Lunar Orbit. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

 

https://spacenews.com/china-plans-full-reusability-for-its-super-heavy-long-march-9-rocket/

 

 

 

1230-1245

##Secrets: The Space Force overclassification & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/declassify-space-force-dod-still-working/

https://npolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2303-Full-Classification-Report.pdf

1245-100 AM

#Ukraine:  Kremlin GRU planned to use Zaporizhia nuke plan and others as weapon to leverage NATO. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-spies-targeted-ukrainian-nuclear-power-plants-before-invasion-2023-4