The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 8 March 2023

Air Date: 
March 08, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine:  "Meat Grinder" Donbas.Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/07/cost-bakhmut-meat-grinder-battle-russian-army-revealed/

915-930

#Ukraine:  Out of ammo just like 1916. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.ft.com/content/cac1f49b-1f24-4d80-a6b0-1bec84d2647e?desktop=true&segmentId=7c8f09b9-9b61-4fbb-9430-9208a9e233c8#myft:notification:daily-email:content

930-945

#NYC: Long delayed and still unknown repairs to the New York City Housing Authority & What is to be done? Harry Siegel, The City, Daily News

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/3/7/23628407/nycha-preservation-trust-vote-schedule-board

945-1000

#MrMarket: Affordable College in sophisticated Europe. Simon Constable, WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-tuition-student-loans-europe-632f7130

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#KeystoneState: The dioxins may be everywhere from East Palestine to East Liverpool. SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/hazardous-waste-moves-into-east-liverpool-causing-fear-among-ohio-residents

1015-1030

#KeystoneState: The decline of available volunteers for Fire Departments. SalenaZito.com

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/03/05/volunteer-firefighters-east-palestine/stories/202303050042?cid=search

1030-1045

#Mars: The noctilucent clouds of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiositys-most-recent-cloud-campaign/

1045-1100 

#Japan: Test failure H3 booster. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japans-new-h3-rockets-second-stage-fails-during-first-launch/

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#PRC: Debt overwhelming and unending. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Alone: Return to Isolation, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/economy/china-two-sessions-lowest-gdp-target-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html

 

1115-1130
#Moldova: #Romania: Threats and possibilities of worse. Greg Scarlatoiu, director of The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, on this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64824517

 
1130-1145

#Canada: Suspect #PRC influence peddling at the highest ranks. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on these:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-jinping-takes-rare-direct-aim-at-u-s-in-speech-5d8fde1a

https://apnews.com/article/china-congress-2023-qin-us-1938a701c0d7a2114a18226962de4879

1145-1200 

#PRC: Giant loading cranes as #PRC surveillance platforms  Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-sees-giant-cargo-cranes-as-possible-chinese-spying-tools-887c4ade

 

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NewWorldRepohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/07/mexico-americans-kidnap-matamoros-medical/rt: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

1215-1230

#NewWorldReport: The Falklands unsolved. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/argentina-asks-uk-resume-negotiations-over-falklands-2023-03-02/

1230-1245#NewWorldReport:  Indigenous People protest.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/07/peru-protests-democracy-economy/

 

1245-100 am

#NewWorldReport: Colombia Petro challenged by armed disorder. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-must-speed-dismantling-armed-groups-united-nations-2023-03-03/