CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#PacificWatch:Stopping at Primm, Nevada, enroute to Vegas: Back in SoCal: Hurricane Hilary approaches with sizeable surfing.@JCBliss

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/los-angeles-county-residents-told-to-prepare-now-for-tropical-storm-force-winds-rains/ar-AA1fmE8u

915-930

#USA: Full employment and the welcome.mat for migrants Jim McTague, former Washington Editor Barrons immigrant mat in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/celebrate-lancaster-highlights-citys-rich-culture-and-diversity/ar-AA1fsGRt

930-945

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Spending down the pandemic savings. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-16/americans-have-almost-depleted-excess-savings-sf-fed-study-says

945-1000

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Discouraging mortgage rates for family formation. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194407822/mortgages-housing-homes-freddy-mac-economy-interest-rates

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#PRC: Investing in the enemy. Josh Rogin, Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/15/biden-china-investment-technology-restrictions/

 

1015-1030

#Italy: The annual running of the the Palio di Siena: the winning horse is welcomed in the Cathedral. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palio_di_Siena

1030-1045

##Scotland: Spaceport building in the Shetlands. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/proposed-exclusion-zone-restrictions-revealed-for-new-sutherland-spaceport-in-scotland/

 

1045-1100

#Neptune: Sunspot activity seem to influence Neptune's atmosphere. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-neptunes-clouds-appear-to-ebb-and-grow-in-conjunction-with-sunspot-cycle/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191

Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war―and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.
Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault―on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament―the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia’s ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable.
Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.

1115-1130

2/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

 

1130-1145

3/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

1145-1200

4/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NNSA: The US (and NATO) nuclear weapon arsenal is over budget and ten years late in the planning and execution Henry Sokolski, NPEC.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/over-budget-and-delayed-whats-next-u.s.-nuclear-weapons-research-and-production-projects

1215-1230

#Australia: Celebrating the Matildas. Scott Mayman, CBSNews.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/aug/19/odd-fifa-relic-or-chance-to-end-on-high-matildas-players-on-world-cup-third-place-playoff

1230-1245

1/2: #PRC: #ChipsAct: #PRC advancing its chips build out while America continues to trade with the enemy.  , Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/16/how-the-us-can-get-its-chips-worth-with-china/

 

 

1245-100 am

2/2: #PRC: #ChipsAct: #PRC advancing its chips build out while America continues to trade with the enemy.  , Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/16/how-the-us-can-get-its-chips-worth-with-china/