The show begins in Taiwan, awaiting the inauguration of President-Elect Lai on Saturday. Then to Shanghai, where there have been no IPOs in 3 years. Next, to Montana. Then to Buenos Aires, with some good news. On to Peru, where there is trouble with the P
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Next, to Montana.
Then to Buenos Aires, with some good news. On to Peru, where there is trouble with the PRC (People's Republic of China).
In North America, the focus is on the search for Avian Flu jumping to mammals.
Moving to Cape Canaveral and the south pole of the Moon.
Then to France, followed by Moscow.
Finally, we arrive at the Cambrian Explosion.
1875 Louisiana
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Taiwan awaiting the inauguration of the new president lie on Saturday, the 20th of May, expecting provocations, challenges, pranks, hacking, other misconduct by the bullies and the mainland. |
| 0:20.0 | Surprising no one, meaning nothing. |
| 0:27.0 | Wasted energy. And then Ann Stevenson Yang picks up from her book, Wild Ride. |
| 0:32.0 | What's wrong with China? |
| 0:33.7 | Gordon Chang says it bluntly. |
| 0:35.3 | The Chinese Communist Party. |
| 0:37.2 | Communism. |
| 0:38.9 | Let the Chinese free. |
| 0:40.1 | They'll be as rich as anyone. Right now they're hobbled by the demands, the bad |
| 0:47.6 | acting, the brutality, the fear, and also the Chinese leadership only knows one thing to export to the world play everybody for a chump. |
| 1:00.0 | It's not working the way it did in the 90s in the early part of the century and they don't have magic thinking right now |
| 1:08.6 | And then we turn to Canada a strange new law proposed online harm A Strange New Law proposed Online Harm Act looks to be sweeping up everybody who descents. |
| 1:20.6 | It has to be read several times in the Parliament, several times in the Senate. |
| 1:25.0 | Still, it's odd for Canada to propose something that is straight up censorship of political thought. |
| 1:32.0 | Odd. censorship of political thought. Strange days, the enemy camp talked to General Blaine Holt, the United States Air Force |
| 1:39.8 | retired. About the... tired about the conjoining of Putin and she in Beijing and how this is not a clear |
| 1:51.8 | indication of the enemy camp, still treating China as a trading partner in some fashion. |
| 2:02.0 | Ever since the balloon, there's been no trading going on. |
| 2:05.0 | China is straight up looking to gather as much information as possible for an assault. |
| 2:12.0 | If not just on Taiwan Taiwan also on the Philippines also on the |
| 2:15.8 | Western Pacific I'm told. New World Report with Avonelis Argentina showing |
| 2:22.1 | progress with inflation and debt. |
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