The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 27 April 2023

Air Date: 
April 27, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

1/2: #NYC: #Albany's hesitation to address the scale of the Norway Rat infestation of New York City Housing Authority's 177,000 units. Greg Smith, TheCity.com

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/4/24/23693523/rat-czar-nycha

 

915-93

2/2: #NYC: #Albany's hesitation to address the scale of the Norway Rat infestation of New York City Housing Authority's 177,000 units. Greg Smith, TheCity.com

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/4/24/23693523/rat-czar-nycha

 

930-945

#PRC: Send Blinken or Yellen or Raimondo to Beijing? Josh Rogin, Washington Post


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/27/china-us-economic-talks-national-security-biden/

 

 

945-1000

#France: US: UK: Banging pots and pans in protest of Macron's visit to Orleans. Banks expecting more flight to cash.  Simon Constable, Forbes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/macron-s-government-sets-road-map-to-move-past-pension-debacle?sref=5g4GmFHo

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2023/04/23/how-the-government-is-making-the-banking-crisis-worse/?sh=1889a8a2649c

 

 

 

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#KeystoneState: Tim Scott of South Carolina on the presidential campaign trail  in Western Pennsylvania. SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaign/tim-scott-2024-presidential-campaign-trump-desantis-news

1015-1030

#KeystoneState: Allegheny County, fentanyl and defunding the police. SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaign/tim-scott-2024-presidential-campaign-trump-desantis-news

1030-1045

#ScalaReport: The slowdown shows from #PRC to EU to US as the consumers pull back and the monetary policy tightens. Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com #Stratacache.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-us-economy-slowed-dramatically-at-the-start-of-2023/ar-AA1aqdBe

 

 

1045-1100

#MrMarket: We can't know if the banking crisis is over until long afterward. Brett Arends, Marketwatch

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-banking-crisis-is-having-a-slow-burn-impact-on-the-economy/ar-AA1akDZo

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Peru: #Paraguay:  Hezbollah in South America. Joseph M. Humire is the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article274588326.html
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-739472

1115-1130

#Azerbaijan: #Israel: The first embassy. Ambassador Mukhtar Mammadov- Ambassador Mammadov is currently serving as Azerbaijan’s first Ambassador to Israel. A career diplomat and government official, he was most recently Azerbaijan’s deputy education minister. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
 
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-735852
https://www.jns.org/azerbaijans-new-ambassador-to-israel-meets-with-senior-us-jewish-leader-in-jerusalem/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-735483

 

 

 

 

 

1130-1145

#Syria: Assad  permanently the Kremlin camp. Andrew Tabler- Andrew J. Tabler is the Martin J. Gross Senior Fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
 
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/middle-east-matters-back-normal-region-reaches-out-assad
https://apnews.com/article/syria-saudi-arabia-arab-league-meeting-e9da2b932bdf37aad0f6a27181bcdd3b
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eu-sanctions-assad-cousins-over-captagon-drug-trade

1145-1200

#Jordan: Gun-running. Jonathan Schanzer- Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft.
 
 
https://thedispatch.com/article/jordans-threat-to-the-middle-eastern-order/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-imad-adwan-mp-critical-israel-under-arrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65374743
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#MrMarket:  Cozy and long-standing Industrial Policy in the EU and in the US & What is to be done?.. Veronique de Rugy Mercatus Center

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/a-closer-look-at-aircraft-industrial-policy/

 

 

1215-1230

#Canada: #PRC influence peddling allegations in the 2019 and 2021 election and the puzzling response from the PM. Conrad Black, National Post

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/liberal-partisan-david-johnston-the-wrong-man-for-a-pointless-job

 

1230-1245

1/2: #Ukraine: The prospects for immediate negotiated peace are not spoken in public. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/04/17/lieven-inside-ukraine-some-real-breaks-and-insights/

 

 

1245-100 am

2/2: #Ukraine: The desire for immediate negotiated peace are not spoken in public. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/04/17/lieven-inside-ukraine-some-real-breaks-and-insights/