TONIGHT: The show begins in the Spring rich South of France with calves wandering the roadside and the daffodils in glory. To London where Mps are trading insults. To Brussels where the EU and NATO struggle to find funding for rearming and remobilizing f

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

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TONIGHT: The show begins in the Spring rich South of France with calves wandering the roadside and the daffodils in glory. To London where Mps are trading insults. To Brussels where the EU and NATO struggle to find funding for rearming and remobilizing for the century. To Pyongyang and the Kim family ambitions. To the Ghost Mansions of China, without windows, occupants, plans. To the Moon for China's plans. Then to the frontline in Ukraine where the Kyiv Army is low on ammo and expectations. To Sub-Sahara Africa, to the Moon and Mars.

2006 Curiosity

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#FRANCE: Spring in bloom and worry for the tea fleet. Simon Constable, Occitanie.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2024/02/26/red-sea-attacks-on-shipping-brings-another-pinch---a-tea-shortage/?sh=4ffc789c6ffc

915-930
#UK: The poisonous language in Parliament. Simon Constable, Occitanie.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lee-anderson-leaves-the-door-open-for-a-return-to-the-conservative-party-as-he-tells-the-reaction-it-s-up-to-rishi-what-happens-next/ar-BB1j3ZsG

930-945
1/2: #EU: #NATO: The reluctance to defend Europe. Jakub Grygiel, Hoover Institution.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-has-more-to-fear-than-trump-national-security-complacency-eu-6e193465?st=r80n5cdvy6kyppz&reflink=article_copyURL_share

945-1000
2/2: #EU: #NATO: The reluctance to defend Europe. Jakub Grygiel, Hoover Institution.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-has-more-to-fear-than-trump-national-security-complacency-eu-6e193465?st=r80n5cdvy6kyppz&reflink=article_copyURL_share

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#NORTHKOREA: Cuba shakes hands with Seoul. David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.voanews.com/a/seoul-s-diplomatic-ties-with-havana-seen-as-diplomatic-setback-for-pyongyang-/7496043.html
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/02/103_369441.html
1015-1030

#PRC: The windowless abandoned mansions of China. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-property-foreclosures-surge-growth-095915227.html

https://amp.scmp.com/business/article/3252970/chinas-home-prices-fall-slower-pace-beijing-steps-resuscitate-property-sector

1030-1045
#SPACEX: Musk, Taiwan, Congress, Tesla: the confusion of commerce and security.

Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/24/house-china-committee-elon-musk-spacex-starshield-taiwan.html

1045-1100
#CANADA: #PRC bids for Canada's riche Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
shttps://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinese-money-still-chasing-canadian-critical-mining-deals-despite-ottawas-2024-02-27/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
1/2: UKRAINE: What Ukraine needs now at the frontline & What os to be done? Mark Montgomery, John Hardie FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/02/27/how-to-hold-ukraine-over-until-congress-passes-more-aid-funding/

1115-1130
2/2: UKRAINE: What Ukraine needs now at the frontline & What os to be done? Mark Montgomery, John Hardie FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/02/27/how-to-hold-ukraine-over-until-congress-passes-more-aid-funding/

1130-1145
1/2: #AFRICA: Russia's Africa Corp and the DR Congo. Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russian-influence-in-congo/

1145-1200
2/2: #AFRICA: Russia's Africa Corp and the DR Congo. Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russian-influence-in-congo/

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
1/2: #RUSSIA: #NORTHKOREA:The Kremlin and the Kims. Ekaterina Zolotova Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-limits-of-russian-north-korean-relations/

1215-1230
2/2: #RUSSIA: #NORTHKOREA:The Kremlin and the Kims. Ekaterina Zolotova Geopolitical Futures. @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-limits-of-russian-north-korean-relations/

1230-1245
#MOON: Another private probe on its side. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/odysseus-tip-over-likely-caused-because-it-landed-without-good-elevation-data/

1245-100 am
#MARS: Ingenuity broke off one blade. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-broke-off-one-blade-entirely/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	Tonight I begin in France.
0:02.0	I'll entertain France with my colleague Simon Constable,
0:06.0	admiring the springtime, early, early springtime.
0:10.0	The daffodels are in bloom.
0:12.0	The fields are growing. Simon tells me the fences are built for the mama cow.
0:18.3	However, the baby cow, the calf, newborn, can go underneath and so all over the drive between Simon and the nearby villages,
0:29.0	there are calves wandering down the road looking for a way back to Mama, springtime in the south of France.
0:35.0	On to Parliament, Simon and I despair of the poisonous language in Parliament.
0:40.0	Both sides practicing defamation ad hominem resembling something like the U.S. Congress these days.
0:50.0	On to NATO. Does NATO want to defend Europe? It's the question Jacob
0:55.8	Gregil of Hoover Institution asks, I don't have a good answer.
0:59.7	They've delayed, they've pontificated, they've waited, they've done something, something is
1:07.4	moving, that's a positive.
1:10.3	Is it in time for Ukraine? Unknown.
1:13.0	Then to North Korea, where a peculiar phenomenon, Gordon Chang brings up, we speak with David Maxwell about it.
1:21.0	South Korea, Seoul, sending an ambassador to shake hands in exchange
1:27.1	pleasantries with Cuba, with his opposite in Cuba. North Korea is alarmed by this,
1:33.7	and I'm told they immediately moved
1:36.0	to make sure that there is no repetition,
1:38.7	there's no reporting of this anywhere to the population. It's Seoul, South Korea, the democracy, the capitalist state,
1:47.5	is making friendship with Havana the less than democratic state.
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