Tuesday 12 January 2021
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 1, Block A: Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board; in re: Public is weary of virus restrictions. Government told you how many miles you may travel for exercise; then gave up and issued “guidance.” Police are thrown off base, not sure what to enforce. Boris is in serious political danger: assured everyone that if the NHS were protected till the vaccine arrived, all would be well. It's not turning out that way. First February, then March, then April; then “early fall.” Britain as been a success story in the vaccine; but BoJo and his government keep tripping over their feet.
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 1, Block B: Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board; in re: Europeans count on clear communications with US, are much concerned about apparent instability in Washington. Travel between UK an US is still light.
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 1, Block C: New World Report; Joseph Humire @jmhumire, @securefreesoc, and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal, in re: Cuba was a host of a major negotiation with the FARC, and the current Colombian government wants to maintain smooth relations with Havana. Venezuela: The Maduro regime has entirely taken over the national assembly. Guaido.
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 1, Block D: New World Report.Joseph Humire @jmhumire, @securefreesoc, and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal, in re: Barbados and East Caribbean tourism is wiped out by the virus. £3,000 fine for escaping Barbados’s covid laws. Cali is partly closed; Mexico is largely closed. Not enough emergency beds—Peru, Bolivia, everywhere, including in the East Caribbean. The Dominican Republic closes down at 5 PM. In 2019, Hurricane Dorian caused $3.4 billion in damage; the no recovery in 2020. The Interamerican Dvpt Bank can help the economies a little. It’s a large tragedy. Haiti is the poorest. China and Russia are working to gain strong footholds across the Caribbean.
Hour Two
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 2, Block A: Bill McGurn, @wjmcgurn, @WSJOpinion,WSJ editorial page & Main Street column, in re: Healing and unity? Basket of deplorables? Biden nees not to refight the battles of the last four years. Mrs Pelosi ‘s impeachment vote.
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 2, Block B: Richard Fontaine, @RHFontaine. CEO of the Center for a New American Security, @CNASdc, in re:
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 2, Block C: Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 2, Block D: Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:
Hour Three
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 3, Block A: Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek, Fox News and TheHill; in re: Recovery hesitates.
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 3, Block B: Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek, Fox News and TheHill; in re: Commercial censorship of dissent
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 3, Block C: David Davenport, @HooverInst, Hoover Institution; in re: The failure to teach Civics to American secondary school students
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 3, Block D: Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re: The House process of impeachment
Hour Four
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 4, Block A: Paul Gregory: @PaulR_Gregory, @HooverInst, in re: The failed assassination of Navalny by the FSB
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 4, Block B: Russell Berman, @RussellBermanSF,director of Stanford's Thinking Matters program; Hoover; in re:
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 4, Block C: Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy,by Thomas J. Schaeper
Tuesday 12 January 2021 / Hour 4, Block D: Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy,by Thomas J. Schaeper