The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 6 October 2021

Air Date: 
October 06, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915  #NATOThinking: Nuclear weapons and false signals.    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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
 
915-930   #NATOThinking:   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.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/06/nato-expels-eight-members-of-russias-mission-for-spying
 

930-945   Zvezda Module no longer nominal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/due-to-cracks-russia-will-no-longer-use-zvezdas-docking-port/
 

945-1000     Sunspots bloom.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sunspot-update-the-boom-in-sunspots-returns/

 
 

SECOND HOUR 

10-1015   No petrol queues in chilly Scotland. Simon Constable. Edinburgh @TheRealConstable
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-05/u-k-businesses-face-historic-price-jumps-just-as-growth-slows?srnd=premium-europe&sref=5g4GmFHo
 
1015-1030    Decoupling from the PRC real or hoped?   Simon Constable Edinburgh @TheRealConstable  WSJ.com 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-does-decoupling-mean-to-investors-11633112138?mod=searchresults_pos2&page=1
 

1030-1045   Russia battered by a Fourth Wave. Felix Light, Moscow Times,  @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/06/russia-reports-more-than-900-coronavirus-daily-deaths-in-new-record-a75229
 

1045-1100   Millennial South Korea pushes back at Kim shake-downs. @JoshRogin
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/north-korea-promotes-new-five-year-military-plan-amid-heightening-tensions-with-seoul
 

THIRD HOUR   9-12

1100-1115   Marcellus Shale Coalition speaks Keystone jobs. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito @DCExaminer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/annual-shale-energy-industry-event-returns-to-its-roots
 

1115-1130   Beaver County votes with the winds of waves. SalenaZito.com  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/where-the-wave-begins
 

1130-1145      What about the SPD, Olaf Scholz, the Bundestag and Moscow?  Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-wants-continuity-in-ties-with-berlin-following-german-polls
 

1145-1200   Australia Coal 1, PRC 0. vvvGregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-06/china-releases-australian-coal-trapped-in-storage-reuters-says?sref=5g4GmFHo

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215   Watch on the Himalayas.  @CleoPaskal and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3151296/china-india-border-new-delhi-redirects-pakistan-facing-troops
 

1215-1230   Phase One fail PRC; & What is to be done?  Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong; author, Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China.  @acollier. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/us-china-trade-ustr-katherine-tai-vows-to-enforce-phase-1-deal.html
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1230-1245   Evergrande losers and worse.  Fraser Howie, co-author Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise.   @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/04/shares-in-china-property-giant-evergrande-suspended-after-debt-payments-missed
 

1245-100   Bolstering the Garden of Eden of Semiconductors, Taiwan.  @WeifengZhong,
@Mercatus ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/it’s-time-america-tie-knot-taiwan-trade-194275
https://www.ft.com/content/212f44b9-a271-425b-a7cf-608d43d46288
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