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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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1917 Odessa
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 Ukraine: EU must buy Russian gas. Anatol Lieven, Quincy 9:15-9:30 GERMANY: Turning away from Zeitenwende. Anatol Lieven, Quincy 9:30-9:45 Election 2024: It was not the economy. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover 9:45-10:00 Antisemitism: Elite universities continue to fail. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover
SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 ISRAEL: Relocating Gazans. Alex Traiman, JNS.org. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 10:15-10:30 QATAR: Enabling Hamas and the Muslim Brothers. Yaakov Lappin, Alma Research, Miryam Institute, JNS.org 10:30-10:45 HOSTAGES: Hamas deceives. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 10:45-11:00 Antisemitism: Trouble in Australia. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 CANADA: Unhinged denouncing of Israel and Canada at the University of Toronto. Conrad Black, National Post 11:15-11:30 SCALA REPORT: PRC culture of knock-offs and bootlegs. Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache 11:30-11:45 1/2: Nuclear Weapon Arsenal: Two saber-rattling adversaries and What is to be done? Peter Huessy, National Institute of Deterrent Studies 11:45-12:00 2/2: Nuclear Weapon Arsenal: Two saber-rattling adversaries and What is to be done? Peter Huessy, National Institute of Deterrent Studies
FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 Mr Market: Tariffs are not inflationary. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus 12:15-12:30 RUSSIA: EU cannot forgo Russian energy. Michael Bernstam, Hoover 12:30-12:45 1/2: HOTEL MARS: From Ice Station Zebra to the next: Russian spy satellites. Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com 12:45-1:00 am 2/2: HOTEL MARS: From Ice Station Zebra to the next: Russian spy satellites. Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchel. |
| 0:05.4 | The show begins to not in Ukraine with Ennitol Levin. |
| 0:09.0 | Russia must sell its gas and oil in order to balance or at least make up the deficit in the budget. |
| 0:18.0 | Who does it sell the oil to? India and China, we're told. |
| 0:20.5 | But natural gas, the EU has declared that it can't do without it. Therefore, there will be no banning of natural gas in the EU. Germany did. But who is the chief supplier of natural gas to Germany? France and Belgium. Where do they get it? From Russia. That's right. Three years of sanctions, |
| 0:40.7 | and Russia has the income from Europe that is theoretically on the opposite side of the fence. |
| 0:48.8 | I speak to Michael Bern's time about this later on in the show. |
| 0:52.9 | Germany is turning away from the Zayton vendor |
| 0:55.3 | Olaf Schultz's speech of February 2022. |
| 1:00.4 | This sharp turn in the road that Germany claimed it was making, |
| 1:04.7 | supporting Ukraine. |
| 1:06.9 | Three years later, must buy natural gas from France and Belgium. |
| 1:12.8 | The question of relocating the Gossans, can it be done? |
| 1:17.2 | The question of anti-Semitism and elite universities. |
| 1:21.2 | Can the universities deal with it? |
| 1:23.2 | Can they rid themselves of the hate speech? |
| 1:26.5 | The question of the economy in 2024, |
| 1:33.4 | was that the reason Donald Trump was elected? |
| 1:36.5 | All these questions asked by Peter Berkowitz. |
| 1:41.0 | As for relocating Gazans, |
| 1:43.5 | many people say it's a taboo subject and a good idea. |
| 1:47.7 | Gaza Strip, I've spent the night there, I've broadcast from there, I've visited there over the years. |
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