The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 28 July 2021

Air Date: 
July 28, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915 Charles Ortel; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
Caveat demolished Chinese stocks.  Charles Ortel; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-chinas-stock-market-meltdown-puts-u-s-investors-at-risk-11627383978

915-930 Rick Fisher @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
China’s nuclear coercion.  
Rick Fisher, senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/politics/china-nuclear-weapons.html?smid=tw-share
“. . . the CCP for decades abjured nuclear transparency and nuclear arms control for its weapons, while it carefully cultivated an image of nuclear restraint. This nuclear deception was summed up in China’s 2019 Defence White Paper . . . The era of a ‘minimum’ Chinese nuclear force is over”
 

930-945 Brandon Weichert, @WeTheBrandon; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Lovely, mythic Chang’e belied: China militarizes the Moon. Brandon Weichert @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Brandon Weichert of The Weichert Report and author of the recently released, Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
https://spacenews.com/china-is-working-on-a-relay-satellite-to-support-lunar-polar-missions/
“. . . a “solar system internet, operating like terrestrial internet, to provide network layer services to users”
 
 

945-1000    Hotel MARS with Michael Hecht @MIT and David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
The little Mars rover has MOXIE. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Oxygen_ISRU_Experiment
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1030   Jeff McCausland, @CBSNEWS military consultant   
China and Afghanistan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-china-afghanistan/2021/07/28/fdfbe024-ef88-11eb-81b2-9b7061a582d8_story.html

1030-1045   James Brooke, Ukraine Business News, Kiev.
With European gas prices at 13-year highs, Gazprom declined an opportunity yesterday to increase its shipments across Ukraine in August by 50%. 
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gazprom-holds-back-exports-via-u...
 
1045-1100   Simon Constable @TheRealConstable Edinburgh
Freedom Day in Scotland August 9.  — and commodity prices world
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/covid-scotland-humza-yousaf-says-scottish-government-confident-in-august-9-freedom-day-for-return-to-normality-3323262

THIRD HOUR

1100-1130   Salena Zito, SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer. “Shorthanded workforce, a broken supply chain, and inflation.” 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/salena-zito
“We are hiring” signs plastered all over small shops.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/american-labor-crisis-has-hit-all-small-businesses-on-this-street/

1130-1145   Paul Gregory @HooverInst.   Biden Administration greenlights Russian hegemony.   
https://www.hoover.org/research/green-light-russian-hegemony
 

1145-1200   Lee Ohanian @HooverInst    $20,000 Designer Garbage Cans.  
https://www.hoover.org/research/new-low-san-francisco-20000-designer-garbage-cans

FOURTH HOUR

12-1230   Amy Wilentz @TheNation
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/haiti-president-ariel-henry/

1230-100 AM   Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
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