Good evening: The show begins in debate over the mineral assets of Ukraine...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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FIRST HOUR 9-915 #UKRAINE: DEALINGS. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND, USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL 915-930 #GAZA: WAR RESTART. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND, USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL 930-945 SCOTUS: CORRECTING KELO/ RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UT 945-1000 SCOTUS; AGE DISCRIMINATION UNIVERSITY. RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UT
SECOND HOUR 10-1015 USN: NEED A NEW CNO. REBECCA GRANT, LEXINGTON INSTITUTE. @GordonGChang, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1015-1030 ROK GREG SCARLATOIU, DIRECTOR OF THE COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA, ON THIS: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-court-hear-closing-statements-yoons-impeachment-trial-2025-02-25/ 1030-1045 1/2: #CANADA: CHINA ACCUSES. AND THE ELECTION CHARLES BURTON, SENIOR FELLOW AT SINOPSIS, ON THESE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-xi-affirms-no-limits-partnership-putin-call-ukraine-rcna193574 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-russia-sanctions-1.7467605 1045-1100 2/2: #CANADA: CHINA ACCUSES. AND THE ELECTION CHARLES BURTON, SENIOR FELLOW AT SINOPSIS, ON THESE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-xi-affirms-no-limits-partnership-putin-call-ukraine-rcna193574 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-russia-sanctions-1.7467605
THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #DOD: WHAT DO SERVICE SECRETARIES MAKE OF CHIEFS? TOM MODLY, FORMER ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. 1115-1130 #RUSSIA: DOING A PROPERTY DEAL WITH KYIV AND MOSCOW. BP LOSES. MICHAEL BERNSTAM, HOOVER INSTITUTION 1130-1145 #OCEANIA: COOK ISLANDS IN BEIJING CLEO PASKAL 1145-1200 #PALAU: INAUGURATION CLEO PASKAL
FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #FRANCE: ROBINS AND ELECTRICITY SPIKE. SIMON CONSTABLE, OCCITANIE 1215-1230 #FRANCE: 2024 BAD YEAR FOR FINE ART INVESTMENT. SIMON CONSTABLE, OCCITANIE 1230-1245 SPACEX: 8 STARSHIP TEST, FRIDAY 28. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM 1245-100 am COMMERCIAL SPACE: STARTUPS GALORE. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
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| 0:31.8 | Good evening. |
| 0:33.1 | The show begins in Ukraine asking, is this a war or is this a property development deal? |
| 0:39.9 | The minerals of Ukraine, east and west center, the U.S. wants to extract money from the income |
| 0:48.9 | from those minerals, including oil, over the next X number of years, an exaggerated number worth in the ground, |
| 0:58.3 | $11 trillion, something like that. None of it sounds realistic, but it is a way of talking between |
| 1:04.0 | Moscow and Washington. So there it is. Talk to Jeff McCausen also about a war restart in Gaza, which is possible, very possible, |
| 1:14.6 | given that the hostages might be at an end for living hostages. |
| 1:19.2 | And Amas is said to be reorganizing its rocket launch sites, looking for martyrdom, question mark. |
| 1:27.0 | Then to Skoda's question, the Kilo case of 20 years ago, |
| 1:32.2 | seizing land takings, |
| 1:35.1 | because the municipality had a better idea, it didn't work out. |
| 1:40.3 | And therefore, is this wise to take land that could be back into where it is today, which is pretty much a trash heap? |
| 1:49.8 | There's a new case that the court I learned from Richard Epstein of the Civitas Institute, |
| 1:55.7 | a new case that is much similar to the Kilo case of 20 years ago. |
| 2:01.6 | Which way will the court go? |
| 2:02.8 | Is it justified to claim it's a conceivable public use, |
| 2:07.9 | not necessarily provable, conceivable, your imagination? |
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