Friday 7 June 2023
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#Publicschools, #Charterschools, Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court: Dan Henninger, WSJ Opinion
915-930
#MrMarket: Soft Landing not improbable. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/june-jobs-report-keeps-fed-on-track-raise-rates-in-july-953a3823
930-945
#Australia: Coal generates a bountiful trade surplus. Scott Mayman, CBS News.
945-1000
#Syria: "Assad must go," agrees POTUS in Maryland, June 27. What of Jimmy Lai? Josh Rogin, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/06/biden-syria-rhetoric-deeds-assad/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/01/hong-kong-china-crackdown-democracy/
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#Ukraine: No confirmation of the sabotage risk at ZNPP. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
https://www.bits.de/public/researchnote/rn97-3.htm
1015-1030
#NPT: #Belarus: The ambiguity of the 1968 Non-proliferation Treaty word", control." and threats. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
https://www.bits.de/public/researchnote/rn97-3.htm
1030-1045
#SpaceX: Taiwan needs Starlink & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack
1045-1100
#Moon: Large amount of Granite discovered. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
#PacificWatch: The Sacramento homeless overwhelm the public buildings & What is to be done?@JCBliss
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/california-judge-homeless-people-threaten-access-to-justice/
1115-1130
#Italy: Congratulations to 22,000 Italians (80% Female) over the age of 100. Lorezno Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
1130-1145/2: #HotelMars: MOXIE onboard Perseverance triumphs with a full throttle run to manufacture from the Mars atmosphere oxygen. Jeff Hoffman, MIT and JPL. David Livingston, SoaceShow.com
1145-1200
2/2: #HotelMars: MOXIE onboard Perseverance triumphs with a full throttle run to manufacture from the Mars atmosphere oxygen. Jeff Hoffman, MIT and JPL. David Livingston, SoaceShow.com
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
1/8: 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.
1215-1230
2/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
1230-1245
3/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
1245-100 am
4/8: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Evan Thomas (Author)
2/2: #HotelMars: MOXIE onboard Perseverance triumphs with a full throttle run to manufacture from the Mars atmosphere oxygen. Jeff Hoffman, MIT and JPL. David Livingston, SoaceShow.com