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