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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR5 9-915 1/2: #NEW ORLEANS: #LAS VEGAS. ISIS, Lone Wolf, unknowns. .Bill Roggio, FDD 915-930 2/2#NEW ORLEANS: #LAS VEGAS. ISIS, Lone Wolf, unknowns. . .Bill Roggio, FDD
930-945 #PRC: Decline continues unchecked. #SCALAREPORT: Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache. . 945-1000 #OCEANIA: Nauru and Solomons bullied by both camps. @CleoPaskal, FDD SECOND HOUR 10-1015 1/2: #UKRAINE: Talks possible, little else for the Black Sea basin. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute 1015-1030 2/2: #UKRAINE: Talks possible, little else for the Black Sea basin. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
1030-1045 #NEW ORLEANS: What we don't know. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
1045-1100 #POTUS: Ending and postponing the trials of Trump. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 1/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author)
1115-1130 2/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author) 1130-1145 3/8: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author) 1145-1200 4/8: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author)
FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 1/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution 1215-1230 2/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution 1230-1245 GOP: Not Isolatists. Cliff May, FDD 1245-100 am #UN: The US paid $18 Billion in 2022, one-third of the budget, and received disregard for the "assessment." John Bolton, WSJ
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchelor. The show tonight begins in New Orleans and Las Vegas, asking, |
| 0:12.4 | if New Orleans was an attack, was Las Vegas an attack? No easy answers waiting on details. Coincidences, |
| 0:27.3 | common purposes, no, no, no. The checklist is vague, fog of war. |
| 0:36.3 | Moving to a much larger topic, one that affects all of us, is China and its economy. It's in decline. |
| 0:40.2 | It's in a deep recession, something equivalent to but exceeding the whole that the U.S. was in 2008-2009. According to the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:48.0 | the households of America in that critical great recession of eight and nine lost the equivalent of $17 to $18 trillion. |
| 0:58.5 | China's beating that. They've lost more than that in household wealth. Hence this ambition for |
| 1:05.5 | the consumer in China to pull the country together is far-fetched. I discussed this with Chris Regal, |
| 1:12.9 | who has business on all the continents and can see China, asking, can we survive with China in a sink? |
| 1:20.3 | Yes, we can. China needs to be healthy, but the Chinese Communist Party does not have the tools. |
| 1:30.7 | The country needs everyone, not bosses. |
| 1:34.9 | But in any event, that's my simple version of reality. |
| 1:38.4 | I'm sure the PRC is going to struggle through this, |
| 1:41.0 | and I'm not sure they'll find a remedy. |
| 1:43.9 | Turning to Oceania, the contest with the People's Republic of China |
| 1:47.0 | over the sovereign states and colonies and dependencies |
| 1:50.0 | of the Pacific and Indian Ocean. |
| 1:53.6 | Cleo Pascal, on her way out to Oceania again, |
| 1:56.5 | discusses Nauru, a small island, single island, |
| 2:04.9 | north of the Solomons, east of the mainland. |
| 2:09.0 | 13,000 people is all their Naurans there are. |
| 2:11.5 | Once upon a time the economy was based on guano. |
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