The John Batchelor Show

Monday 2 May 2022

Air Date: 
May 02, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915          
#Ukraine: Four fronts in the fog of war.  Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD  
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/02/russia-showing-clear-casualty-aversion-troops-forced-retreat/
 

915-930          
#Ukraine: Reports that Finland looks to apply to NATO.  Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD  
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ukraine-crisis-finland-nato-idUKKCN2MO0A7
 

930-945          
#PRC: Bankers departing #Hong Kong.   Andrew Collier @acollier, managing director at Orient Capital Research.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/fed-up-with-covid-lockdown-bankers-fund-managers-looking-leave-shanghai-2022-04-26/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-28/hong-kong-posts-surprise-export-drop-of-8-9-as-china-locks-down
 

945-1000          
#PRC: Private capital and the State. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Anne Stevenson-Yang, @doumenzi, co-founder of J Capital Research in Beijing. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-plans-reprieve-for-tech-giants-including-delaying-new-rules-as-economy-slows-11651230087
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3176121/chinese-president-outlines-big-role-private-capital-long-its 

Anne Stevenson-Yang, @doumenzi, co-founder of J Capital Research in Beijing and author of China Alone: The Emergence from, and Potential Return to, Isolation.   
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015            
#Ukraine: Search for an exit. Katrina vandenHeuvel, @KatrinaNation  @TheNation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/?itid=hp_top_nav_opinions
 

1015-1030           
#Markets: Eve of a Federal Reserve meeting during a bear market; & What is to be done?  Brett Arends, Barron’s. @BrettArends    @MKTWArends  @Marketwatch ROI
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/fed-expect-week-fomc-meeting-134142497.html
 
 

1030-1045           
#Afghanistan:  Pakistan vs Taliban; ISIS vs Pakistan.  @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/world/asia/pakistan-airstrikes-afghanistan-taliban.html
Bill Roggio, Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior Fellow & editor of FDD’s Long War Journal: original reporting and analysis of the Global War on Terror from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, North Africa, and beyond. Also president of the nonprofit media company Public Multimedia Inc.   @billroggio
 

1045-1100          
#India: #Germany: #Ukraine: Modi, Scholz, Putin, and the meaning of the Indian abstention. Sadanand Dhume, resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.  @dhume   @AEI @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-cant-depend-on-india-either-russia-ukraine-moscow-energy-exports-oil-new-delhi-11651173078?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGEI9SQz79zqDkHVP-2PMFIdrFZdczwSfCz3lIsQ1KjF-hwwz_tdwyN9ZAmKUbPDEFV483zyf76Xq0Frca2dDW6qp1-kwhhFvAPKVx7s1W9cFot#comments_sector
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115           
#Australia: #PRC: #Solomons: Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare vs Canberra.  @CleoPaskal @FDD
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-solomons-security-deal-upends-australian-election/ar-AAWLXqh
 
 
1115-1130           
#Australia: #PRC: #Solomons: The threat of the Hong Kong police. @CleoPaskal @FDD
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/australia-worried-china-will-bring-hong-kong-police-techniques-to-solomons/ar-AAWDAkL
 

1130-1145          
#Ukraine: The Takings Clause and the Russian Oligarchs. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/white-house-unveils-plan-to-sell-russian-oligarchs-houses-and-yachts-to-help-ukraine/ar-AAWHho8
 

1145-1200          
#Musk: First Amendment absolutism: "crude and inexact." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/musk-should-choose-to-run-twitter-under-the-spirit-of-the-first-amendment-opinion/ar-AAWGSlP
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215           
#NewWorldReport:  Narcoterror Trouble in #Ecuador.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Brazil.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ecuador-declares-emergency-in-three-provinces-on-rising-crime/ar-AAWLkm4
 
 
1215-1230           
#NewWorldReport: The legend and legacy of Che Guevara, d. October 9, 1967.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc     Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Brazil.
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/04/09/mario-teran-was-the-man-sent-to-kill-che-guevara
 

1230-1245           
#NewWorldReport:  Disinviting the Axis Powers of #Cuba, #Venezuela and #Nicaragua.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc     Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Brazil.
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/cuba-nicaragua-venezuelas-maduro-governm-idUSKCN2MJ1WE
 
 
1245-100 AM          
#NewWorldReport:  President Boric of #Chile in early disapproval. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc     Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Brazil.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3175633/chiles-president-gabriel-boric-runs-trouble-just-6-weeks-office
 
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