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Backchat is RTHK Radio 3's week-daily current affairs discussion programme, with expert panels and listener participation. It airs every Monday to Friday from 9.05am - 10am (HKT). Have your say by calling us on 233 88 266, find us on Facebook - Backchat on RTHK Radio 3, or email backchat@rthk.hk Listen live on Radio 3's homepage - www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3 The Backchat podcast is available after each live broadcast
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Join Fernando Augusto Pacheco for a spin through the hits and misses of the world’s music charts, from the sublime to the ridiculous and everything in between. Whether it’s tropical treats from his native Brazil, a surprise hip-hop smash in Mongolia or the latest Swedish pop sensation, Fernando is on hand every week to ensure you never miss a beat.
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Robert Bound and his guests discuss what has piqued their interest in our one-stop shop for lively reports and in-depth interviews on the newest and finest in art, film, books and the media business.
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There's never been a better time to understand what's going on in Asia. That's why we talk to the people who know it best. The Asia In-Depth podcast brings you conversations with the world's leading experts and thought-leaders on the politics, economics, and culture of Asia — and beyond. Subscribe today.
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On Asia Inside Out, experts and guests of the Asia Society Policy Institute take you beyond the policy headlines to provide an insider’s view on regional and global affairs. Featuring interviews with with informed observers and decision-makers from across the Asia-Pacific region, Asia Inside Out gives you a fresh take on Asian politics and policy. Subscribe today.
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I have conceived this podcast as a personal endeavour to bring interesting topics that I have encountered through my professional and academic life to the table. Each episode will take place as conversations with relevant guests who can shed light into the issues being discussed. The podcast will cover economic and political issues with major impact in the countries of the region. EU-Asia relations will feature prominently. I am currently working in Public Affairs in Brussels (Belgium). I ha ...
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The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.
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GREETINGS: The show begins in Ottawa to observe with Conrad Black at Toronto the debate about hate speech and punishment.Then to inflation in 1983 when the Fed changed the rulesi. To Beijing, to Kyiv and the Black Sea. To Jerusalem, Jordan, the West Bank, Harvard College, Ramallah. Then to Odie the lander in the region of the South Pole, to Santiag…
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#NewWorldReport: closely watched Argentina Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/markets/argentine-markets-celebratory-mood-ahead-easter-break-2024-03-25/ 1936 BUENOS AIRESBy John Batchelor
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#NewWorldReport: More political murder in #Ecuador. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuadors-youngest-mayor-found-shot-death-alongside-advisor-2024-03-24/ 1905 ECUADOR…
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#NewWorldReport: Lawfare rules. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-investigate-bolsonaros-stay-february-hungary-embassy-source-2024-03-27/ 1956 BRAZILBy John Batchelor
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#NewWorldReport: Maduro bullies Machado and the opposition. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-opposition-leader-machado-says-yoris-remains-coalition-candidate-2024-03-26/ 1845 CARACAS…
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#ISRAEL: International Red Cross abets the PA "pay for slay" scheme Itamar Marcus is a researcher and the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, which studies Palestinian society by monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
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#ISRAEL: No famine in Gaza; no 34,000 KIA in Gaza. Alan M. Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein…
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#Jordan: Gun-running to the West Bank. Dr. Eran Lerman is a lecturer at Shalem College, Jerusalem, and Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. He served as Israel's Deputy National Security Advisor (2006-2015) and prior as Director for the American Jewish Committee's Israel and Middle East Office. https://www.msn.com/en…
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#GAZA: Unfinished mission. Ron Dermer is an American-born Israeli political consultant and diplomat serving as the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs since 2022. He served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021 Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/us-wants-more-de…
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#RUSSIA: :#UKRAINE: With anti-ship strikes, Ukraine solves the grain and food blockade in the Black Sea. Also, Russia struggling to get paid. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-russia-struggles-collect-oil-060405738.html 1830 KyivBy John Batchelor
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#SCALAREPORT: #PRC: no indication of fresh hiring in China to match the Xi rhetoric of a high end manufacturing boom to solve the deep recession. Chris Riegel, CEO, #SCALA˽REPORT:˽Chris˽Riegel˽CEO,˽Scala.com˽@Stratacache..com #STRATCACHE https://www.ft.com/content/ae517907-0244-4344-ad0a-1d029c03555b 1930 Shanghai…
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#MRMARKET: The public perception of suffocating inflation is not wrong & What is to be done? Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/03/24/americans-can-tell-the-difference-between-rosy-economic-data-and-reality 1914Federal ReserveBoard…
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PREVIEW: #PA: #ISRAEL: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch re how the International Red Cross enables the PA "pay-for-slay" scheme for terrorists who are rewarded by the PA with a salary for their crimes. More later. 1950 RamallahBy John Batchelor
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PREVIEW: #CANADA: #HATESPEECH: Conversation with colleague Conrad Black of the National Post re a bill in the Parliament, Online Harms Act, that would permit life mrisonment for advocating "genocide." More later. https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-reading https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-dirty-canadian-secrets-i-dont-tel…
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PREVIEW: ##UKRAINE: #RUSSIA:: #BLACKSEA: Conversation with colleague Michael Bernstam of the Hoover Institution re the Uraine and NATO success to drive the Russian Black Sea Fleet out of the ses lanes in the west of the sea so that shipments of grain and foodstuffs can navigate to the needy nations of Africa -- and what this means for the Polish pr…
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PREVIEW: #VENEZUELA: Conversation with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College re the Maduroplan to hold a mockery of an electon in July by banning the opposition's choice of candidate, Maria Corina Machado, and also using State Security to harass and arrest opposition figures -- all this to manufacture an excuse for the US not to reimpose …
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PREVIEW: #PRC: Conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of #SCALA˽REPORT re the Beijing boast that it can revive its credit collapse "Lost Decade" damaged economy by subsidized high end manufacturing products such as EVs and chips that can be dumped in Europe and the Americas -- an assertion that meets with much doubt and opposition in Europe and t…
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GREETINGS: The show begins with the declaration of "war" by the Kremlin. Then to Kyiv, to Beijing, to Seoul, to Stalin in 1942, to Napoleon in 1807, to Mao in 1966 -- all instances when ideology failed. To China sinking without a plan. To Central Africa and the Russian ambition of building a railroad from Tripoli to the Central Africa Republic. To …
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2/2: #IGini coefficient: Extreme inequality between the 1% of the super rich and the 99% of the rest drives cultural self-destruction such as addiction, homelessness and broad antisocial conduct. Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Nature Magazine. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3 1910 Wall Street broker Charles Gates (1876-1913)…
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1/2: #IGini coefficient: Extreme inequality between the 1% of the superrich and the 99% of the rest drives cultural self-destruction such as addiction, homelessness and broad antisocial conduct. Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Nature Magazine. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3 1922 Burma…
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2/2: #RUSSIA: The G5 Sahel leans toward Russia and its vision of a railroad from Tripoli to the CAR. Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical Futures @GPFUTURES https://geopoliticalfutures.com/what-washingtons-departure-from-niger-means/ 1770By John Batchelor
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1/2: #RUSSIA: The G5 Sahel leans toward Russia and its vision of a railroad from Tripoli to the CAR. Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical Futures @GPFUTURES https://geopoliticalfutures.com/what-washingtons-departure-from-niger-means/ 1895 NigeriaBy John Batchelor
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#PRC: Can Baidu manage the candor of AI ? Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/baidu-shares-rise-on-news-that-apple-will-use-its-ai-services-in-china-products-fede5a4f 1930 ShanghaiBy John Batchelor
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#PRC:Xi walks and talks with the same old solution of exporting cheap goods in volume. Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-apple-iphone-security-risk-semiconductors-foreign-direct-investment-ives-2024-3 1857 China…
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#DEI: Marxist-Leninist Ideology failed Stalin in 1942 and Mao in 1966, will DEI ideology fail the US? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution. https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/25/will-dei-end-america-or-america-end-dei/ 1966 Red GuardBy John Batchelor
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#ROK: Confident Defense Industrial Base. David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/south-korea-starts-ship-launched-ballistic-missile-development/ 1951 KoreaBy John Batchelor
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#PRC: Theft and blackmail is the business plan..Charles Burton, senior fellow at Sinopsis, o@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-hackers-linked-to-chinese-government-targeted-critics-politicians-and/ undated (1949?) ChinaBy John Batchelor
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#Ukraine: Moscow and Kyiv now a "war," says the Kremlin. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/03/27/russia-is-gearing-up-for-a-big-new-push-along-a-long-front-line undated KyivBy John Batchelor
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PREVIEW: #SAHEL: The Moscow planned vision of developing a Central Africa railroad from Tripoli to the Central African Republic for resource extraction and market economies -- alongside security provided by the ex-Wagner mercenaries, now regular Russian Army called the Africa Corps. More later. 1823By John Batchelor
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PREVIEW: INEQUALITY: Excerpt from a long conversation with two professors of social epidemiology re income inequality in the US and its allies in Europe, and how the exaggerated income of the richest 1% drives bad outomes in the population, leads to national wide anti-social behavior such as addition, violence, hommelessness, self-destruction. More…
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PREVIEW: #CALIFORNIA: #MOUNTAINLION: Conversation with Professor Ted Stankowich of California State University at Long Beach re the recent and most rare fatal mountain lion attack of a hker in the El Dorado County hills--and advice how to conduct yourself if you ever confront an apex predator such as a mountain lion of California. More later. 1865 …
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PREVIEW-##DEI: #LIBYA: Conversation with colleague Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution re the historical analogies to the ideology of DEI that illlustrate how choosing leadership or workers on the basis of adherence to ideology has long led to bad outcomes: e.g., such as the example of Stalin 1942 entrusting the Red Army to commissars and…
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PREVIEW: #PRC: asking colleague Charles Ortel, just returned from overseas travel in Asia, what will work to repair the damaged PRC economy, now drowning in debt and bad credit and empty, cynical, cruel promises. Charles Ortel answers bluntly. More later 1900 BeijingBy John Batchelor
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PREVIEW: #APOPHIS: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com re a rendezvous with Near Earth Object #Apophis (next near passage in 2029) -- this proposal, Bob explains, is for a private enterprise, a spacetug company, sometime the year prior in 2028. Mention that Apophis closest passage next will be late 22nd Century. More lat…
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