TONIGHT: The show begins in the Gulf of Mexico where the Biden Administration may ban new LNG terminals. Then to Davos, where Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan spoke not unkindly toward the Trump Administration, 2017-2021. To Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, and Berlin 19

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in the Gulf of Mexico where the Biden Administration may ban new LNG terminals. Then to Davos, where Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan spoke not unkindly toward the Trump Administration, 2017-2021. To Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, and Berlin 1933. To Kyiv and Brussels, to Sana'a and Tehran and Beirut. To Perth and Australia Day January 26. To the Indo-Pacific Command and the looming conflict with the PRC. To Baluchistan and finally to Eric Blair (George Orwell) and his fairy tale, 1984

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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#Markets: The Biden Administration ponders a ban on LNG ports & What is to be done? Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-toys-with-an-lng-export-permitting-ban-752a62f4?st=kpbhcc5ej9xbpgp&reflink=article_gmail_share

915-930
#Markets: Jamie Dimon speaks not unwell of the Trump administration Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-2-0-jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-shocks-davos-elites-bring-on

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates?cmpid=BBD012324_AUSTRALIA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240123&utm_campaign=australia&sref=5g4GmFHo

930-945
1/2: #Berlin: Can the Far-right Parties of Europe be contained? Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91411

945-1000
2/2: #Berlin: Can the Far-right Parties of Europe be contained? Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91411

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#StateThinking: Ukraine out of ammo & What is to be done? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/20/ukraine-own-surovikin-line-active-defence-russia-offensive/

1015-1030
#StateThinking: What is the Biden Administration policy with Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/23/houthi-strikes-red-sea-attacks-uk-us-sunak/

1030-1045
#LondonCalling: The Big Government Tories are in trouble. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cheer-up-republicansat-least-youre-not-the-tories-energy-cost-lack-of-growth-policy-6c3d59be

1045-1100
#LondonCalling: Life in London is the High Cost of Living. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-spending-plans-worse-than-fiction-budget-watchdog-says-6wdpxdzh7

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
#IRAN: Defensive, weak-handed, uncertain, impulsive. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/23/second-wave-disruptions-red-sea-crisis-cameron-bowie/

1115-1130
#Ethiopia; Addis Ababa surrounded and PM Abiy on the eve of flight. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://apnews.com/article/egypt-somalia-ethiopia-dispute-somaliland-63d339c238b80c20bb09582d690b86a2s

1130-1145
#Ukraine: Desperate, lashing out, fight to the last dollar that is already spent. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/23/running-out-of-time-defences-war-russia-norway-nato/

1145-1200
#KingCharlesReport: Sharing his medical challenges to encourage others: Australia Day knocked by the own anti-Crown Australian Republicans.

https://www.ft.com/content/8e057289-2aa9-49b1-a1cf-e1de85c769a8?accessToken=zwAGD51h4XLYkdOOBXKJKqlJsdOhz-HehcdpqA.MEYCIQCR1LheQ2i0jSJ8hH4guzetRx-8BLNh1N_S_TIWY4fAUAIhAOj8groQ4mx-nb683oAsg3c0jkIRvchvIzD_rCSHbFKt&sharetype=gift&token=e286486b-0a96-4509-93a8-7221f4fc6874

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
1/2: #Indo-Pacific: Preparing for the PRC attack & What is to be done? Mark Montgomery, FDD. Bradley Bowman, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/podcasts/2024/01/19/pacific-deterrence-an-update-from-admiral-john-aquilino/

1215-1230
2/2: #IIndo-Pacific: PRC technology advances: US looks for hypersonic air defense. Mark Montgomery, FDD. Bradley Bowman, FDD

https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2024/01/19/the-us-is-failing-to-quickly-field-hypersonic-missile-defense/

1230-1245
#Pakistan: Who are the Baluch? And what threat are the Baluch to Tehran or Islamabad? Arif Rafiq. GlobelyNews.com
https://globelynews.com/south-asia/iran-pakistan-irgc-isi/

1245-100 AM
#1984: Washington pundits warn of dictatorship in the Orwellian style & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/21/bulwark_writers_double_down_on_trump_as_democracys_destroyer_150353.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good evening. The show begins tonight in Gaza, Con Eunice, the search for the
0:05.4	hostages. I spoke with Seth Franceman of the Jerusalem Post and the
0:09.2	Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. Significant, the IDF the
0:14.3	I'd have is pulling a lot of combat troops out of Gaza.
0:18.3	They have a great deal of
0:20.0	firepower in and around Con Yunus which is complicated by the tunnels and
0:25.7	traps and booby traps even more tunnels or perhaps better tunnels than
0:32.0	northern Gaza. These tunnels. They were not
0:36.0	built entirely by or even any part by the Gazans, the Hamas. They were built by
0:42.1	the North Korean contractors.
0:44.0	I speak later in the show with Bruce Bechtel.
0:48.0	The tunnels of North Korea, the tunnels of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the tunnels of Hamas, North Korean engineering.
0:56.6	We'll know more in coming days.
0:58.8	I then go to Lebanon with Seth Fransman and we talk about the war in the north.
1:03.0	The 36th division of the IDF, I'm learning these things.
1:07.0	It's called the Rage Division, it's heavily armored.
1:10.0	It is the shock troops.
1:12.0	It has been pulled out of Gaza for rest and retraining and for the
1:18.5	north, question mark, don't have it. Pakistan, in the news because Iran fired a missile into Pakistan, 56 miles or
1:28.6	kilometers into Pakistan against the Baluchs.
1:31.7	The Baluchs are the poorest of the poor.
1:35.0	I have this from Haseena County, former ambassador now at the Hudson Institute.
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