Tuesday 11 July 2023
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#MrMarket: The expected and/or doubted recession. #Markets: Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
m/2023/07/11/opinion/us-recession-yield-curve.html
915-930
#POTUS: Unusual reports from unusual sources at an unusual time. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/liztpeek%40gmail.com/WhctKKZGVx...
930-945
1/2: #Afghanistan: Taliban, Al Qaeda, TTP and ISIS reported by the UN and the DNI to be encamped and unchecked. Bill Roggio, FDD
945-1000
2/2: #Afghanistan: Taliban, Al Qaeda, TTP and ISIS reported by the UN and the DNI to be encamped and unchecked. Bill Roggio, FDD
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
NATO: Not a 21st Century alliance with a mission. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/zelensky-gets-a-nato-boost-and-rock...
1015-1030
#EasternMed: Exhaustion of the regional players, inattention of the needful EU, opportunity for Turkiye. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/world/europe/turkey-eu-membership.html
1030-1045
#BRICS: Credible and growing alliance for the 21st Century. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
1045-1100
#KingCharlesReport: Welcoming the anti-England POTUS to Windsor Castle. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/07/10/king-charles-joe-biden-windsor-castle-uk-visit/
THIRD HOUR
11-1115
5/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252
At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet?
So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito’s Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender.
Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson’s recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender.
To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.
1115-1130
6/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
1130-1145
7/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
1145-1200 am
8/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#Iran: Gross and uncorrected violations of the NPT lead to Tehran threatening mayhem & What is to be done>. Andrea Stricker, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/07/07/iran-must-notify-about-new-enrichment-facilities/
1215-1230
#Russia: How long can the OPCW (Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons) overlook #Rusia's non cooperation & What is to be done?? Andrea Stricker, FDD.
1230-1245"
NATO: Positive momentum for the NATO chiefs on the first day at Vilnius. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/90137
1245-100 am
#USMC: What does the USMC need for its new role as global crisis responder? Bradley Bowman, FDD.
https://www.fdd.org/podcasts/2023/07/07/americas-top-marine-in-the-middle-east-on-the-iran-threat/