GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Russia as the Ukrainian incursion pushes on toward Kursk Oblast. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 August 2024
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915 1/2: UKRAINE: The incursion. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.
915-930 2/2: UKRAINE: The incursion. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.
930-945 #SCALAREPORT: Chip wars and Huawei. Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache
945-1000 #VENEZUELA: The US hesitates to condemn. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
SECOND HOUR
10-1015 Northern Israel: Under constant attack.
Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, Founder and president of Alma – a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specializing in Israel's security challenges on its northern border. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
1015-1030 IRAN: Unknown weaponizing schedule. David Albright is an American physicist and a weapons expert who is the founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), its current president, and author of several books on the proliferation of atomic weapons. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
1030-1045 #ISRAEL: Will the US counter-attack Iran or its proxies?
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, leading efforts to enhance U.S. security and counter cyber threats. He also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative focused on implementing recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was the Executive Director. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
1045-1100 #ISRAEL: The scale and pattern of the anti-Israel media: Ben-Dror Yemini is a senior journalist with the Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot. He has conducted a lot of research on anti-Israeli propaganda. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115 #TAIWAN: Can it mitigate the PLA attack? Cliff May, FDD
1115-1130 #PRC: Another twist at the Defense Ministry. Charles Burton, Sinopsis.
1130-1145 1/2: #HOTEL MARS: The postponed Mars Sample Return Mission & What is to be done? David Southwood, Imperial College. David Livingston, Space Show.
1145-1200 2/2: #HOTEL MARS: The postponed Mars Sample Return Mission & What is to be done? David Southwood, Imperial College. David Livingston, Space Show.
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215 #MrMarket: US Industrial Policy of tariffs and subsidies means the voters pay more for lesser quality. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center
1215-1230 #CANADA: Climate Change and Ottawa. Conrad Black, National Post.
1230-1245 #IRAN: The Pakistani national accused of planning assassinations at the direction of Tehran. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, AEI
1245-100 am OCEANIA: Defending the Second Island Chain, Ronan Wordsworth, @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-us-strengthens-the-second-island-chain/
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| 0:00.0 | The show begins tonight in Ukraine, speaking with Antoll Lieben who's traveling in Asia, |
| 0:06.0 | Why the incursion? What's the mission? What's the goal? |
| 0:11.0 | Reached as far as Kursk. Is it going to keep going? Is it going to buckle down in Kursk? Is it going to allow |
| 0:20.0 | itself to be cut off from getting back to Ukraine, unknown. And it all presses the point |
| 0:26.8 | that it certainly does undermine Putin's authority, if that's the aim. Negotiations, however, are in the wind. The presidential |
| 0:36.1 | contest less than 90 days. Both candidates are in a position to settle the Ukraine matter with negotiations quickly or slowly. |
| 0:47.0 | Russia knows this, Ukraine knows this. |
| 0:51.0 | Then to the scholar report talking about ship wars between Huawei and |
| 0:55.8 | NVIDIA, Huawei claims that it has come up with a chip that's equal to the one that |
| 1:00.4 | NVIDIA still sells to China, not the highest end. |
| 1:05.0 | Unknown. |
| 1:06.7 | Envidia is a first-rate outfit, totally transparent in terms of its earnings. |
| 1:14.0 | Huawei, none of the above, a creature of the Communist Party. |
| 1:20.0 | Whatever they say is immediately dubious. |
| 1:24.9 | Moving on to the war in Israel, still waiting for the attack from Iran, |
| 1:30.0 | turning on, who knows, conditions, attitude. |
| 1:35.0 | Hezbollah attacks Israel every day, |
| 1:40.4 | spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Sirid Zhabi who lives 9 kilometers or 10 kilometers or a few |
| 1:47.6 | kilometers from the border, has not been evacuated. |
| 1:51.7 | Drones come over in the middle of the night, the sirens go off. |
| 1:54.0 | They have 15 seconds to get to the shelter. |
| 1:57.0 | He cannot return Israelis back to the northern frontier, |
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