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GOOD EVENING: The show begins the day after Gaza is secured and looks to the challenges in the North in Lebanon and Syria, and in the East in Iran. To Tehran and the empty presidential administration. To Kabul, Islamabad, Baluchistan, Baghdad, Riyadh,

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

GOOD EVENING:

The show begins the day after Gaza is secured and looks to the challenges in the North in Lebanon and Syria, and in the East in Iran.

To Tehran and the empty presidential administration.

To Kabul, Islamabad, Baluchistan, Baghdad, Riyadh, Washington, Moscow.

To Galilee and Homo erectus bones.

To Canada, to the nuclear arsenal.

Back to Tehran and the succession.

To ceasefire talk in Brussels and Beijing.

To SETI and the Dark Forest Theory.

To Medellin, Brasilia, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Managua, Santo Domingo, Panama City.

1932 Hoovers

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening. The show begins tonight in Gaza.

0:04.0

Peter Berkowitz asking the question,

0:06.0

what is diplomacy after Gaza?

0:08.0

What are its aims?

0:10.0

What are its successes? What risks after Gaza.

0:14.0

After Gaza.

0:15.0

Then to Iran, the loss of race, he changes the mix for a Supreme Leader.

0:21.4

He was a candidate, much to buy how many the son of the Supreme Leader,

0:28.1

now becomes the number one candidate for a Supreme Leader.

0:31.5

The Supreme Leader himself is 85 and could live another 10-15 years.

0:35.6

In any event, scrambled for succession. Also, Iran has to deal with the neighborhood and I talked to Bill Rajo and Saint-A-Kani about the neighborhood.

0:47.0

Succession in Iran is the subject for Malcolm Hoanline as well and then there's the lawfare of indicting or seeking an indictment

0:56.2

an arrest warrant in some fashion, a lawfare move by the International Criminal Court, the ICC.

1:04.4

Politics at the European level.

1:07.9

The prosecutor is named Khan.

1:09.4

He's an English barrister out of Edinburgh troubled family in an event drama and then Malcolm

1:19.2

Hoeline introduces us in the guise of Indiana Hole

1:22.8

to a new hominin park just opening in Israel,

1:26.2

south of the Galilee, where they've discovered

1:31.0

human ancestors, hominins, homo erectus, millions of years old, wonderful in a cave.

1:42.4

On to Canada where Charles Burton and Gordon Chang discuss the influence peddling done by China at the behest of or in cooperation with an American national well-to-do man and his wife

1:57.2

living in Shanghai. Very strange. Everybody's strange when it comes to China. We discuss the influence peddling how obvious

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