The John Batchelor Show

Monday 18 October 2021

Air Date: 
October 18, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR  

9-915   #AfterAfghanistan:  Speaking Taliban; and the US Senate 20 years later.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/10/ep-57-the-emperor-was-nude-all-along.php

915-930   #AfterAfghanistan:  What levereage? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal
https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/us-uk-prepare-to-re-engage-taliban/
 

930-945   #AfterAfghanistan:   Al Qaeda always in the picture.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/10/ex-guantanamo-detainee-praises-talibans-victory-threatens-america-in-new-aqap-video.php
 

945-1000   #AfterAfghanistan:   ISIS attacks the Taliban East, North, South, Central.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/casualties-explosion-hits-shia-mosque-afghanistan
 

SECOND HOUR   

1000-1015  #NewWorldReport:  The Caracas-Tehran connection in custody. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org
https://www.wsj.com/articles/deal-maker-for-venezuelas-maduro-regime-extradited-to-u-s-11634432668?st=afg3vab7pdgjpjn&reflink=article_copyURL_share
 

1015-1030   #NewWorldReport:  The Magical China–thinking of impoverished Latin America. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) ;Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/10/14/guillermo-lassos-battle-against-populism-in-ecuador

1030-1045   #NewWorldReport:  Ecuador turns to market solutions.   Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/10/16/latin-americas-economies-have-an-opportunity-to-grow

1045-1100   #NewWorldReport:   What can Southcom do for abandoned Haiti?  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave); Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org
https://www.southcom.mil/News/PressReleases/Article/2811605/southcom-to-host-change-of-command-ceremony-oct-29/
 
 

THIRD HOUR   

1100-1115    Plan B for the Iran Deal Ambitions. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-embraces-trump-accords-struggles-withdrawal-iran-nuclear/story?id=80568436
 
1115-1130   3500-year-old ghost of Babylon.  "Indiana" Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1  ; @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/16/figures-of-babylon-oldest-drawing-of-a-ghost-found-in-british-museum-vault
Where to find a Crusader sword 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/18/ftse-100-index-markets-live-news-energy-tax-rates/

1130-1145   Target Taiwan.  Gerrit van der Wees @GerritWees, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, 
https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/what-do-taiwanese-think-of-chinas-record-setting-incursions-into-taiwans-adiz/
Gerrit van der Wees, adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of Foreign Affairs and George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government 
 
1145-1200     Orbital hypersonic missile launch:  "We don't know how they did this."   Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon  and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
 https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1449469070814896132
Brandon Weichert,  @WeTheBrandon, The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower.

FOURTH HOUR   
 
12-1215   The unusual new partnership of Russia and the EU. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/18/ftse-100-index-markets-live-news-energy-tax-rates/
 

1215-1230    Iran invaded Azerbaijan, 2020.  Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer  @FDD
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/what-does-iran-want-in-the-south-caucasus
 

1230-1245    Nuclear power is green, ready now, and doesn’t need sunshine or windy skies.  Mike Hewitt CEO IP3 Security
https://on.ft.com/3mZPSb1
https://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/customers/nuclear/smr-brochure-july-2017.pdf
 
1245-100 AM    Small Modular Reactors for Tomorrow. Mike Hewitt CEO IP3 Securit
https://www.ft.com/content/e504b98e-51f2-4c68-9660-c368499b0473?accessToken=zwAAAXyT333wkdPlBLmOUfJMaNOWYMNoSZsEcw.MEYCIQCw9Kz1CXFqi8dUzSxOhdxomnDcHKCx6GVBvMDDq7itVwIhAN-x8hOYRHNRJTJ4dzulGGVxHn-i3dt4FqV-gr0NnJFT&sharetype=gift?token=423e007d-3500-4ac2-97a3-fb0105e18269
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