The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 9 December 2021

Air Date: 
December 09, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915    
What does Europe want for Ukraine? Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59582146
Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  Georgetown University 
 

915-930   
What does Russia want for Ukraine? Anatol Lieven @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/world/europe/ukraine-military-russia-invasion.html
Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  Georgetown University 
 
  

930-945 
1/2: SCOTUS and stare decisis, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis
 
 

945-1000 
2/2: SCOTUS and stare decisis, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015 
Evergrande fails @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.ft.com/content/6d6b1f79-52b3-49e5-aa8a-7068adec7a9d
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-09/evergrande-defaults-for-first-time-as-china-debt-strains-spread?cmpid=BBD120921_CEU&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=211209&utm_campaign=closeeurope&sref=5g4GmFHo
 

1015-1030 
Europe worries about both inflation and debt. @Veronique deRugy @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center,
https://ecaef.org/academic-seminars/v-ecaef-ceprom-conference-monaco-2020/
Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy,  @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University & NRO Online.
 

1030-1045 
#ScalaReport: Omicron early mandates and the recovery.  Chris Riegel @scala CEO,  @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport. Chris Riegel Scala.com
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/johnson-issues-work-from-home-guidance-to-curb-omicron-in-u-k?sref=5g4GmFHo
https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-covid-closures-a-new-quest-to-make-offices-less-awful-11639045809?st=if3av494ubgebnn&reflink=article_gmail_share
 

1045-1100 
In praise of Brian Mulrooney and Winston Churchill. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack   @NationalPost
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-brian-mulroneys-well-deserved-churchill-society-honours

Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack  @nationalpost  Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG; British former newspaper publisher; prolific author
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115   
"Accommodation" and Eastern Europe.  Bradley Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman,  @FDD,   @WestPointSosh,  @USArmy officer
 and Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/why-russian-exports-hold-sway-over-european-british-gas-prices-2021-11-03/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/world/europe/ukraine-military-russia-invasion.html
https://www.vox.com/2021/12/8/22824015/russia-ukraine-troops-tensons-putin-biden-nato
Red Line Ukraine. Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman,  @FDD,  Former @WestPointSosh, Former @USArmy officer
 
1115-1130  
What is the Red and Green Alliance? Eran Shayshon, @eranshayshon, CEO of the Reut Group;   Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.reutgroup.org/Publications/The-Red-Green-Alliance-is-Coming-to-America

1130-1145 
NGO terror deceptions.  Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt  @WashInstitute; @Georgetown;
Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/pflp-ngo-ties-are-far-from-hidden-opinion-685616
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/pflp-ngo-ties-are-far-from-hidden-opinion-685616
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/blurred-line-between-civil-society-and-terrorism-examining-charges-ngos-funding
https://www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-palestinian-woman-pleads-guilty-to-raising-pflp-funds-through-charity/
 
 

1145-1200 
Plan B Iran. Michael Makovsky  @MichaelMakovsky JINSA; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-to-launch-major-exercise-this-spring-simulating-strike-on-iran/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-us-to-discuss-military-drills-to-prep-for-worst-case-iran-scenario-us-says/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-israels-talking-about-when-it-talks-about-striking-irans-nuclear-program-war/
Michael Makovsky is President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA).
 
 

FOURTH HOUR
 
12-1215
#NewWorldReport: Colonialists return.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/07/09/spains-complicated-relationship-with-latin-america
 

1215-1230 
#NewWorldReport: Chile at a crossroads. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-04/chile-presidential-poll-shows-leftist-candidate-s-lead-narrowing?sref=5g4GmFHo

1230-1245
 #NewWorldReport: Guatemala offers remedies. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis
https://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-migrants-remain-border-guatemala-waiting-asylum-cases/story?id=81542658
 

1245-100 AM 
#NewWorldReport: Lula's old answers to new questions.   Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_Inácio_Lula_da_Silva