The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 15 December 2021

Air Date: 
December 15, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR   

9-915  
The birth and re-birth of Tucker County, West Virginia. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito  @DCExaminer
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2021/12/12/Middle-of-Somewhere-Salena-Zito-This-small-town-likes-it-that-way/stories/202112120028f
Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito
SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer
 

915-930 
Awakening the left-behind counties of Middle America. SalenaZito.com @SalenaZito 
@DCExaminer
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2021/11/28/Salena-Zito-2-Ohio-counties-combat-population-losses/stories/202111280037
Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito
SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer

 

930-945  
Omicron and inflation closing on Scotland. @RealConstable; Simon Constable, Johns Hopkins School of Applied Economics
https://on.ft.com/3F4NF6c
 
 

945-1000 
Siberia is balmy. @Felix_Light @CBSNews Moscow Times
https://www.newsweek.com/1004-degree-temperature-siberia-2020-highest-ever-arctic-un-weather-agency-1659400

 
 

SECOND HOUR  

10-1015 
Charles Burton @cburton001 , MacDonald Laurier Institute; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-hail-russia-china-ties-during-virtual-n1285990
Charles Burton @cburton001  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; associate professor of Political Science at Brock University.  Charles Burton and Associates consults to governments, educational institutions and businesses to support their programs in China.     
 

1015-1030
PRC Planetary Defense.   Rick Fisher, International Assessment Center.@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.theepochtimes.com/gathering-planetary-defense-race-with-china_4122829.html
 
Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center
 

1030-1045  
#NewWorldReport:  PRC buys Ortega.   Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://theglobalamericans.org/2021/12/nicaraguas-flip-to-china/
Evan Ellis, professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
 

1045-1100  
Europe watches Russia and PRC aggression from the chilly sidelines. Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-embassy-france-releases-anti-american-song
Theresa Fallon, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies.
 
 

THIRD HOUR   

1100-1115 
#Ukraine: Putin advancing; NATO planning. Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol 
https://www.ft.com/content/df9c755a-d118-46a6-8b4c-17fd5d2d8b31
 
 

1115-1130 
Annalena Baerbock and the Greens vs the might of Russia. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/585528-have-greens-and-european-bureaucrats-outsmarted-putin

 

1130-1145  
Prepping Superheavy #4.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/superheavy-prototype-4-installed-on-orbital-launchpad/
 

1145-1200 
The Quiet Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/99-9-of-all-mass-at-center-of-milky-way-is-found-in-central-black-hole/

 
 

FOURTH HOUR   

12-1215 
1/2: Abandoning Central Asia along with Afghanistan; & What is to be done? S. Frederick Starr. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies.
https://westminster-institute.org/events/impact-of-the-american-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-on-central-asia/
 

1215-1230 
2/2: Abandoning Central Asia Along with Afghanistan; & What is to be done? S. Frederick Starr. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies.
https://westminster-institute.org/events/impact-of-the-american-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-on-central-asia/
 

1230-1245
1/2 Dinner at the newly confrontational FTC. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst  
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011907383/new-ftc-chair-lina-khan-wants-to-redefine-monopoly-power-for-the-age-of-big-tech
 

1245-100 AM  
2/2 Dinner at the newly confrontational FTC. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011907383/new-ftc-chair-lina-khan-wants-to-redefine-monopoly-power-for-the-age-of-big-tech
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