The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 30 March 2022

Air Date: 
March 30, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
 

FIRST HOUR       
  
9-915 
#Ukraine: Istanbul peace talks on pause. Felix Light, Moscow Times,  @felix_light, @CBS News, @MoscowTimes
https://www.ft.com/content/6afc2715-3f4e-48fc-bbb6-5a50b54f7e4b

915-930        
#Ukraine: Mario Draghi rearms Italy while talking peace with Zelenskiy and Putin. Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-president-says-he-spoke-italian-pm-rome-helping-with-security-guarantees-2022-03-28/
 

930-945       
#NYC: MTA ridership remains low; & What is to be done?  Harry Siegel NY Daily News 
https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership

945-1000 
#Ukraine:  Germany speaks of rationing; US speaks of recession. Simon Constable in Edinburgh, Scotland
https://www.ft.com/content/0706d6f4-6668-4f67-ab1c-d535d847caf7
 

SECOND HOUR
       

10-1015 
#Ukraine: Armor Warfare 2022, Lessons Learned. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant; @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/30/vladimir-putin-lied-advisers-says-gchq/

1015-1030       
#Ukraine: NATO and anti-air. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant; @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/30/vladimir-putin-lied-advisers-says-gchq/

1030-1045       
SpaceX regulated. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-again-delays-decision-on-environmental-reassessment-of-spacexs-boca-chica-facility/

1045-1100       
#Mars: Ingenuity on its 23rd Flight. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-completes-23rd-flight-on-mars/
 

THIRD HOUR      
 

1100-1115 
#PRC: Covid-zero crushes Shanghai.@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill   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.   
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2022/03/29/china-blows-46-billion-a-month-with-zero-covid-fiasco/

1115-1130       
#PRC: Completely defenseless. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Sean Lin @XiaoxuSeanLin , former lab director of the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0330/c90000-10077434.html
Xiaoxu Sean Lin, Ph.D., @XiaoxuSeanLin   Former US Army Officer and Microbiologist. Political analyst & commentator. Survivor of Tiananmen Square Massacre & Falun Gong practitioner.

1130-1145        
#PRC: Taiwan watches Ukraine. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.    Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA , chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative.
https://www.rferl.org/amp/china-eu-summit-russia-ukraine-invasion/317766...
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-china-relations-strongest-level-ever-says-lavrov-2022-03-28/

1145-1200        
#PRC: Xi and the Four Horseman. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill .  Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3172317/stick-zero-covid-xinhua-puts-xi-jinpings-stamp-chinas

 

FOURTH HOUR     
 

12-1215  
#Ukraine:  Russians fall down. George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-emerging-order/

1215-1230       
#Ukraine: After Russia's fall in Central Asia and the Caucasus. George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/central-asia-feels-the-effects-of-the-ukraine-crisis/
 
1230-1245       
#HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.  
George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii 
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

1245-100 AM      
#Ukraine: The unconvertible ruble is worthless, and other Russian trickery. Michael Bernstam @HooverInst 
https://www.ft.com/content/0706d6f4-6668-4f67-ab1c-d535d847caf7