Good Evening: The Show Begins in Kashmir with Alarms That India and Pakistan Are Determined Adversaries.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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1862 SKETCH OF KASHMIR VALLEY FROM SOLEIMANS SEAT TO THE NISHAT BAGH
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
1/2: #KASHMIR: TERROR AND GUNFIRE. BILL ROGGIO, FDD. HUSAIN HAQQANI, HUDSON
915-930
2/2: #KASHMIR: TERROR AND GUNFIRE. BILL ROGGIO, FDD. HUSAIN HAQQANI, HUDSON
930-945
1/2 #UKRAINE: CRIMEA JAW-JAW. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO, FDD.
945-1000
2/2 #UKRAINE: CRIMEA JAW-JAW. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO, FDD.
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#INDIA VANCE AND POTUS SUPPORT MODI. SADANAND DHUME, WSJ
1015-1030
#PRC: JIMMY LAI'S FATE. MARK SIMON, GORDON CHANG
1030-1045
#DPRK: BOLDER. GREG SCARLATOIU
1045-1100
#PRC:MASS LAYOFFS. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
#NEWWORLDREPORT: BRAZIL AND BRICS AMBITION. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE
1115-1130
#NEWWORLDREPORT: ARGENTINA AWAKENS. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE
1130-1145
#LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH REMAINS DANGEROUS. DAVID DAOUD, BILL ROGGIO, FDD
1145-1200
#GAZA: BRIDGET TOOMEY, BILL ROGGIO, FDD. NOT ERASABLE.
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#YEMEN: RESIDENT HOUTHIS, RELENTLESS US NAVY. BRIDGET TOOMEY, BILL ROGGIO, FDD
1215-1230
#IRAQ: M. SADR SITS OUT THE NOVEMBER ELECTION BAGDAD. BRIDGET TOOMEY, BILL ROGGIO, FDD
1230-1245
#CA: HIGH SPEED FAILURE. BILL WHELAN, HOOVER
1245-100 AM
#UN: HUMAN RIGHTS AGITPROP. PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchel. We begin the show tonight in Kashmir, a very troubled, beautiful land. |
| 0:15.1 | Trouble I can read about. Beautiful, I've never seen it, but I'm told that the tourists, who were victims of the Lashuri-Tiber attack, |
| 0:23.6 | were there to enjoy the sunset and the gorgeous vistas of Kashmir. |
| 0:29.7 | And now both sides are at their starting line. They've exchanged gunfire, Pakistan and India. |
| 0:37.5 | This is deadly earnest. |
| 0:39.8 | There is the opinion that more is coming, |
| 0:43.2 | military action on both sides. |
| 0:45.8 | Las Juri Taiba is a terrorist organization |
| 0:48.0 | linked for years with major figures in |
| 0:50.9 | the Islamabad apparatus, military, for example, or ISI. |
| 0:57.8 | The attack was made by a group calling itself the Resistance Front, but that's a renaming, |
| 1:03.6 | not a reordering. |
| 1:06.0 | The attack was especially appalling because it targeted the non-Muslims pick them out for execution. |
| 1:15.6 | Massacre. The consequence is a standoff, everybody watching. I speak several times tonight |
| 1:25.3 | about the matter to Hussain O'Conni, former ambassador from Pakistan |
| 1:29.6 | of the United States, to Bill Rajo of FD, to Saddamay and the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 1:36.5 | It is an alarming story that will get worse, not better, I'm told. |
| 1:41.9 | Then on to the question of Ukraine. |
| 1:48.1 | The meeting between the President of Trump and President Zelenskyy at the Vatican, |
| 1:51.0 | iconic John Hardy calls it, |
| 1:52.7 | but at the same time, |
| 1:54.5 | the matter comes down to Crimea. |
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