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TONIGHT: The show begins in Tehran, the center of chaos and mass murder in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, soon enough in Ukraine, a conversation about the spreading threat with FDD Behnam ben Taleblu. To the Russian Central Bank and the G-7 in search of

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.5 β€’ 2.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Tehran, the center of chaos and mass murder in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, soon enough in Ukraine, a conversation about the spreading threat with FDD Behnam ben Taleblu. To the Russian Central Bank and the G-7 in search of Russian assets to confiscate in order to finance Ukraine. To Google for (30,000?) layoffs, to Beirut and cheats, to Iran, Jordan, Syria, and to Gaza's Rafah Border Crossing. To circumnaigating the moon in 1968, to watching Russian wear down Kyiv's air defense. Much attention to nucear weaons and nuclear energy.


1913 Nicholas II of Russia


CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

1/2 #Iran: Tehran drives chaos in Gaza, in Labenn, in Yemen, in the Red Sea, in the Russo-Ukraine War & Behnam ben Taleblu, FDD


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/world/middleeast/hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah-speech-israel.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-dispatches-senior-envoy-to-cool-roiling-tensions-on-israel-lebanon-border/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-middle-east-violence-israel-hamas-houthis-qassem-soleimani-26605408?page=1

915-930

2/2 #Iran: Tehran drives chaos in Gaza, in Labenn, in Yemen, in the Red Sea, in the Russo-Ukraine War & Behnam ben Taleblu, FDD


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/world/middleeast/hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah-speech-israel.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-dispatches-senior-envoy-to-cool-roiling-tensions-on-israel-lebanon-border/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-middle-east-violence-israel-hamas-houthis-qassem-soleimani-26605408?page=1

930-945

#Russia: G7 studying confiscation of overseas Russian assets. Michael Bernstom, @HooverInst

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-where-are-russias-300-billion-reserves-frozen-west-2023-12-28/


945-1000

#ScalaReport: #AI: #Google: Christ Riegel, CEO Scala.com Large Language Model makes it likely Google lays off tens of thousands. #STRATACACHE.

https://www.peoplematters.in/news/business/googles-30000-layoff-to-tata-...

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Hezbollah: Threatening attack. What sort? Yaakov Lappin Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst for JNS, and the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute. Patreon site is Strategic Assessments. .Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/world/middleeast/hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah-speech-israel.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-dispatches-senior-envoy-to-cool-roiling-tensions-on-israel-lebanon-border/


1015-1030

#Lebanon: #Hamas: Targeted killing of al-Arouri inside the secure Hezbollah neighborhood of Beirut. Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/hamas-leader-dies-beirut
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/03/hezbollah-leader-speak-after-killing-hamas-official-lebanon/


1030-1045

#IRAN: #HEZBOLLAH: Ten thousand Hamas KIA. Yossi Kuperwasser- Yossi Kuperwasser Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was formerly Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs and head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-moving-troops-out-of-gaza-but-expects-prolonged-fight/


1045-1100
#Jordan: Iran smuggling guns through Jordan. Ariel Kahana- Is the Senior Diplomatic Commentator for Israel Hayom. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.jns.org/could-hezbollah-attack-from-jordan-israeli-officials-note-worrying-signs/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-downs-two-apparent-drones-launched-at-israel-by-iran-backed-iraqi-militia/


THIRD HOUR

1100-1115:
1/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)



The story of Apollo 8, the first manned vehicle to leave earth orbit and circle round the moon, is told in vivid detail, focusing on the mission's historical, scientific, and media importance. Reprint.

1115-1130
2/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)

1130-1145
3/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)

1145-1200
4/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

1/2: #Ukraine: Berlin and Washington flagging support for Kyiv & What is to be done?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/01/us-funding-for-ukraine...

1215-1230
2/2: #Ukraine: Berlin and Washington flagging support for Kyiv & What is to be done?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/01/us-funding-for-ukraine...

1230-1245

1/2: #Nuclear: Lessons learned about nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, nuclear energy 2023 & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Non-Proliferation Poly Education Center

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/putin-moved-his-nuclear-weapons/ar-...

1245-100 AM

2/2: #Nuclear: Lessons learned about nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, nuclear energy 2023 & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Non-Proliferation Poly Education Center

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/putin-moved-his-nuclear-weapons/ar-...

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Good evening.

0:31.0

I opened the show tonight in Tehran, figuratively. I speak with Ben and

0:36.2

Ben Taliblu. Iran is the driver of chaos in the Middle East and the Red Sea in Europe soon enough.

0:44.0

Throughout the world, Iran is always in the story as a bad actor.

0:48.0

We begin with Iran and the bomb at Sulemoni's commemoration in Iran, probably planted by ISIS, no confirmation

0:57.5

yet, but that is the assertion.

0:59.9

And then there's the bomb or the targeted killing of a man named Al-Oury, a bad character.

1:06.9

In Beirut, Hamas gangster, working liaison with Hezbollah in Iran and there are more there's more violence

1:16.8

to talk about certainly the threat of Hezbollah to attack Israel is an extension of

1:21.8

Iran's bad acting.

1:23.6

Certainly the support of Hamas, all of Hamas's money, is Iran.

1:28.8

And then we turn to the huthies consulting with Iran

1:31.2

about more attacks on the Red Sea shipping and Benham introduces me

1:36.1

to the speculation that Iran is now a negotiation with Moscow to sell ballistic missiles to

1:42.4

Moscow to use against Kiev.

1:46.2

We turn from Iran and its bad acting in the question of Russia's money. There is 300, 350 billion,

1:55.0

$370 billion dollars worth of Russian assets

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