The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 5 August 2021

Air Date: 
August 05, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-930 James Brooke, Ukraine Business News
Skyrocketing nat gas prices

930-1000 Evan Ellis, US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute
Disorder in Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015 Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-blinken-guatemala-maria-consuelo-porras-juan-francisco-sandoval-11627845683

1015-1030 @ConradMBlack
Canada, the serene, tolerant, amiable, rich neighbor, during a bad patch in America
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-9

1030-1045 #ScalaReport: Chris Riegel.  Who and how and when back to the office . . . 
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-reverses-course-will-require-vaccines-for-employees-who-want-to-return-to-the-office/

1045-1100 #HotelMars: Birth of an Exomoon; Kate Follette, Amherst College; David Livingston, SpaceShow
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-dot-exomoon-evidence-exoplanet-moon-stars-astronomy
 

THIRD HOUR

11-1130 @AaronKleinShow.
Lebanon rockets; Iran drones
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-renews-counterstrikes-as-fire-from-lebanese-rocket-engulfs-northern-hillside/
 
Third Jab over 60
https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-assures-public-there-is-no-vaccine-shortage/
 

1130-1200 @RichardGoldberg,  Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD.
 
Raisi inaugurated
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-hardliner-raisi-sworn-in-as-president-vows-to-resist-pressure/
 
10 days to fissile material
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-iran-10-weeks-away-from-amassing-enough-material-for-nuke/
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1230 Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol

Afghanistan refugees.
Russia and the price of natural gas

1230-100 AM Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
Horn of Africa: Djibouti turmoil
China turns inward to defeat