GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Moscow, where the Kremlin is again speaking of nukes and boasting of war exercises with tactical weapons called Iskander missiles.
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Moscow, where the Kremlin is again speaking of nukes and boasting of war exercises with tactical weapons called Iskander missiles.
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#Ukraine: Loose Russian nukes. Moscow and Kyiv waiting for the Election. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/31/russia-train-troops-ukraine-nuclear-weapons-battlefield/
915-930
#VIETNAM: The passing of William Calley and the My Lai massacre, 1968. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.military.com/history/war-criminal-or-scapegoat-william-calley-and-enduring-memory-of-my-lai-massacre.html
930-945
#HOTELMARS: Las Vegas hosts AIAA and Space Geeks. David Livingston, SPACESHOW.com
https://eppro02.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=AIAAASCEND24
945-1000
#IRAN: Ayatollah threatens Israel directly. Behnam ben Taleblu, FDD
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-31-2024/
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#NewWorldReport: The Maduro Regime collaborators. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-they-are-reporting-it-venezuelas-disputed-election-2024-07-30/
1015-1030
#NewWorldReport: The Maduro Regime refusers Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-rica-is-prepared-offer-asylum-venezuelan-opposition-leaders-minister-says-2024-07-30/
1030-1045
#NewWorldReport: Semi-collaborators: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico - Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-they-are-reporting-it-venezuelas-disputed-election-2024-07-30/
1045-1100
#NewWorldReport: US, EU, and OAS and Carter Center reject the regime's victory. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/washington-mulls-individual-sanctions-following-venezuelan-election-2024-07-30/
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
PRC: No way out from the decline.
Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on the Third Plenum @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3272435/chinas-politburo-pledges-support-sending-stronger-expected-signal-boost-economy
1115-1130
#PRC: Taiwan and the presidential Election: Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-29/harris-won-t-dump-taiwan-that-s-why-china-likes-trump
https://www.voanews.com/a/a-look-at-harris-views-on-u-s-policy-toward-china/7709060.html
1130-1145
#PRC: Not ready for war with PLA. James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
: https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/29/us-military-prepared-fight-major-war-congressional-panel-warns/
1145-1200
#VENEZUELA: PRC in the Americas: Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9r3v67w095o
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3272383/maduro-congratulated-china-after-claiming-victory-contested-venezuelan-election
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
FRANCE: Heat wave, cooling stations in Paris, pollution in the Seine and sunflowers, Simon Constable Occitanie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/world/olympics/seine-olympics-triathlon-postponed.html
1215-1230
#England: Labour raises taxes, rewards public sectors and builds public housing, Simon Constable Occitanie.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/31/tory-areas-six-times-bigger-increase-housing-targets-labour/
1230-1245
SPACEX: Boca Chica and the slow-walking FAA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
1245-100 am
#SCOTLAND: Game of Spaceports. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Bachelor. The story begins tonight in Moscow, where again the |
| 0:06.4 | Kremlin and Vladimir Putin are making it clear that nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons, |
| 0:12.0 | are part of the conversation when it comes to Ukraine and NATO. |
| 0:15.9 | Exercises with tactical nuclear weapons. |
| 0:19.0 | They're called Iskandis. |
| 0:20.1 | The Russians call them Iskanders. |
| 0:22.4 | They're mobile and they carry a punch. I speak with |
| 0:26.6 | Jeff McCausen about this because he's written a book about tactical nuclear weapons, |
| 0:31.2 | battlefield weapons, against concentrations, opening up pockets, against |
| 0:36.0 | tanks is the original concept in Europe. |
| 0:40.3 | They also look like terror weapons. |
| 0:42.3 | Jeff does make the point that while the Russians have deployed nuclear weapons, |
| 0:47.0 | we've deployed them as well, gravity bombs returning to England. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't, and there are bombs requested by returning to England. |
| 0:52.5 | And there are bombs requested by Poland. |
| 0:56.2 | Nooks in this conversation. |
| 0:58.6 | We also talk about the battlefield which is frozen waiting for the election. |
| 1:05.0 | Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance have said that they will seek to negotiate quickly and end the conflict. |
| 1:12.0 | Ms. Harris's policy is unclear. |
| 1:14.7 | She said she follows Mr Biden's policy, which is as long as it takes. |
| 1:20.5 | The debate will be joined during the campaign and then the passing of William Callie the only man convicted of the |
| 1:27.4 | Milai Masker of the March of 68 I remember it vividly I was at university it was a blow to all of America and |
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