TONIGHT; Speaking of Karnataka, India; Taipei, Taiwan; Vilnius, Lithuania; Toulouse, France; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Quito, Ecuador and more; and the surface of Mars.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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TONIGHT; Speaking of Karnataka, India; Taipei, Taiwan; Vilnius, Lithuania; Toulouse, France; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Quito, Ecuador; Buenes Aires, Argentina; Bogota, Cololmbia and more; and the surface of Mars.
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone. |
| 0:03.9 | And that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.3 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20mph. |
| 0:12.3 | Because 20mph roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or serious injuries by 24%. |
| 0:19.6 | That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:30.8 | Good evening. This is John Bacheler. Tonight's show I speak with George Friedman of Geopolitical |
| 0:35.6 | Futures about what to make of not only NATO but Russia's conduct |
| 0:40.8 | that's regard to its battlefront. Are we looking at another Russian offensive? |
| 0:45.6 | Are we looking at a grinding out of combat along the Donbass and Crimean front lines? |
| 0:51.6 | George indicates that the Cremlin is preparing the Russian public for negotiations. |
| 1:00.4 | The Cremlin's job is to frame the story so that it's not a loss and that they've achieved something |
| 1:07.3 | despite the fact that they have no more territory now than they did when they started the war |
| 1:12.3 | in February of 2022. I also spoke with Simon Constable. He's in the South of France. |
| 1:19.5 | About a very happy dinner he had in a large city nearby to lose a city of about a million |
| 1:25.3 | on a Saturday night, calm breezes, and people from all over the world, from all over |
| 1:31.6 | the Francophile world, especially West Africa and North Africa, the Middle East, were there in |
| 1:38.0 | attendance as well at this outdoor dinner. And there was no trouble whatsoever. The French |
| 1:45.1 | right wing, especially Marie Le Pen, is making odd remarks about what must be done because of the |
| 1:53.1 | troubles in very large cities in France in these last days. In any event, in to lose on a Saturday |
| 1:59.3 | night, all was most agreeable. A conversation with Gordon Chang and Peter Hussie of the Hudson |
| 2:08.0 | Institute about nuclear weapon deterrence. The question is, does the US have an adequate supply |
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