Wednesday 6 December 2023
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#Gaza: #Ukraine: Seawater pumped into the "Gaza Metro." Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/06/israel-hamas-war-hosta...
915-930
#Venezuela: Two hundredth anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine as Venezuela annexes 75% of Guyana & What is to be done? Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
930-945
#Ponzi: Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff and now nothing much learned: Sam Bankman-Fried. Simon Constable, WSJ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
945-1000
#Russia: Putin races to the Gulf to plead for OPEC production cuts. Michael Bernstam, Hoover
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/06/putin-eau-abu-dhabi-fl...
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#Antisemitism: Penn, MIT and Harvard presidents fail to condemn bad actors who threaten Jewish students. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/04/weimar-america/
1015-1030
#Antisemitism: The UN fails to condemn Hamas & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/04/weimar-america/
1030-1045
#PRC: No solution for Xi and the economy pauses the Third Plenum. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming Wild Ride : China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-third-plenum-delay-in-uncharted-territory-/7384506.html
1045-1100
#Taiwan: Electioneering chaos in Taipei. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/canadian-children-tour-xinjiang-uyghurs
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)
https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801
When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world―the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters―both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
5 maps
1115-1130
2/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)
1130-1145
3/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)
1145-1200
4/8: The Iliad Hardcover – September 26, 2023 by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#PRC Apple takes steps to move the supply chain to India and beyond. Jonathan Ward, author of the just-released The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3243814/how-narendra-modis-india-tiptoeing-towards-taiwan
1215-1230
#PRC: Provocations in the South China Sea. ames Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
1230-1245
#SpaceX: Amazon hires Musk because of Blue Origin the Unready. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/amazon...
1245-100 am
#Astronomny: Sunspot guessing from the best and brightest. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/suns...