GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Ukraine with General Frost...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
1919 Lemberg
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#Ukraine: General Frost dominates. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
915-930
#SYRIA: Balkanized and fog of war. :Â Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
930-945
#REGULATION: Adds 30% to any price. John Cochrane, Hoover Institution
945-1000
#FRSNCE: Best moments for an Englishman living in the South of France. simon Constable, Occitanie
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#StateThinking: Anticipating POTUS-ELECT Syria to Russia.. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
1015-1030
#StateThinking: Trump has a record of pushing back on the Kremlin.Mary Kissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc
1030-1045
SPACEX: Starbase, Texas. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
1045-1100
#MARS: Rovers relentless. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/4: Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist Hardcover – November 12, 2024
by Richard Munson (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ingenious-Biography-Benjamin-Franklin-Scientist/dp/0393882233
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic achievements than his scientific creativity.
In this incisive and rich account of Benjamin Franklin’s life and career, Richard Munson recovers this vital part of Franklin’s story, reveals his modern relevance, and offers a compelling portrait of a shrewd experimenter, clever innovator, and visionary physicist whose fame opened doors to negotiate French support and funding for American independence.
Munson’s riveting narrative explores how science underpins Franklin’s entire story―from tradesman to inventor to nation-founder―and argues that Franklin’s political life cannot be understood without giving proper credit to his scientific accomplishments.8 pages of illustrations
1115-1130
2/4: Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist Hardcover – November 12, 2024
by Richard Munson (Author)
1130-1145
3/4: Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist Hardcover – November 12, 2024
by Richard Munson (Author)
1145-1200
4/4: Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist Hardcover – November 12, 2024
by Richard Munson (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
PRC: Deflation:
Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/china-stresses-plans-to-boost-growth-at-top-agenda-setting-meeting.html
1215-1230
KOREA: Tangled by CONSTITUTIONAL law.
David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, on the latest in South Korea, including this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-global-ripple-effects-of-south-koreas-political-turmoil/
1230-1245
CANADA: TRUDEAUÂ DISDAINED: What about PRC interference?
Charles Burton, senior fellow at Sinopsis, on this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y49ym6em3o
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1245-100 am
DRONES; China, Iran, suspects.Â
Blaine Holt, retired Air Force general who served as deputy military representative to NATO, on the latest on the drones.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm John Batchelor. The show begins to note in Ukraine. General Frost is on the |
| 0:09.7 | battlefield. General Frost is the same century after century for Napoleon for three centuries from now |
| 0:16.7 | when they battle across the Black Sea basin. General Frost has struck Ukraine and Russia alike, |
| 0:24.2 | slowing down everything, making the front line a survival contest with the weather. |
| 0:30.3 | Being shot at is extra. |
| 0:33.9 | Balkanized fog of war in Syria. |
| 0:36.9 | The U.S. is operating in the east of the country, supporting its allies to YPG. |
| 0:42.5 | Turkey is operating in Idlib and along the border region, supporting its sponsorship of the |
| 0:48.9 | al-Qaeda forces, led by HDS, and its Syrian National Army, which is a cutout to make war on the YPG and the PKK. |
| 1:00.0 | And Israel, as the southern border, the Golan and the southern border of the DMZ and Mount Hermon, |
| 1:08.9 | making sure that the al-Qaeda branches gathered in Damascus don't wander into |
| 1:15.6 | Israeli territory. In other words, a Balkanized Syria likely to stay that way. This is not going to |
| 1:23.6 | break out into democracy, not at any time in this decade or maybe the next. No reason |
| 1:29.6 | to see ahead. It's broken. Darkness visible. Regulation, John Cochran of Hoover Institution, |
| 1:37.9 | reminds that regulation for apartments, for toys, for automobiles, for services, any regulation has been demonstrated to |
| 1:49.6 | add 30% to the price. That's right. Deregulate. Smart regulation is what John recommends. |
| 1:56.7 | Reduces the price, maybe not all 30%, but takes a piece out of it. |
| 2:02.3 | Smart regulation. |
| 2:10.3 | Simon Constable's in France, and we talk about the best moments for an Englishman living in the South of France over the last year. |
| 2:21.3 | He picks out several things, one of which is very dear, watching a troop, a gang, a posse, a family of La Sanglier, those are the wild boars, |
| 2:27.0 | troops across the field, run into a bunch of cows standing there looking at them and then running in another direction. I picked out the day that Simon was driving through the country |
| 2:33.7 | roads and there was blackberries on the fences on both. I picked out the day that Simon was driving through the country roads, |
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