GOOD EVENING. The show begins in 1944 with Ike visiting the 101st Airborne the afternoon of the 5th. To Lebanon, Manila, South China Sea, Singapore, Indo-Pacific. To Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, London, Occitanie, Brussels, Far side of the moon, Boca Chica
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
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GOOD EVENING. The show begins in 1944 with Ike visiting the 101st Airborne the afternoon of the 5th. To Lebanon, Manila, South China Sea, Singapore, Indo-Pacific. To Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, London, Occitanie, Brussels, Far side of the moon, Boca Chica, Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | The show begins tonight, remembering Eisenhower visiting the 101st Airborne on the 5th of June, |
| 0:06.5 | 1944. Jeff McCausen tells a story of the man who has the number 23 around his neck, that's the 23rd part of the stick |
| 0:16.2 | that's going to jump. |
| 0:18.3 | His name is Sobel. |
| 0:19.3 | He comes from Michigan. |
| 0:20.7 | What did Eisenhower speak to him about? He said he asked me where I was from. I said |
| 0:25.4 | Michigan he said pretty good fishing. That's that famous photograph of the |
| 0:30.0 | 101st. I stuck around to watch all the planes take off. The last of the plane rolled out just |
| 0:36.0 | after midnight. 101st Airborne jumping into Normandy. Moving on to the question of Hezbollah and is the war imminent. |
| 0:45.2 | Hezbollah continues provoking and firing into Israel setting fires, injuring people |
| 0:51.7 | with drones. The military is gathered for an offensive operation |
| 0:57.5 | and in the north in the Bekah and it's not hard to imagine it going forward. |
| 1:04.0 | Then the UN and the cash of the numbers from Gaza, David Edesnick, of the FTD joins |
| 1:09.0 | to do what we can so far to figure out why the UN participated in such gross |
| 1:15.8 | distortion of the casualties in the Gaza conflict. Unknown at this point. |
| 1:20.8 | Biden administration asking everyone to go soft with Tehran and |
| 1:26.7 | soft with Russia and soft with Gaza and soft with Iran in general why John Bolton joins to comment. It isn't entirely about the |
| 1:37.8 | price of gasoline but that's a piece of it. And Rebecca Grant comments on the threats by the Chinese Defence Minister at the |
| 1:46.4 | Shangrela Security Conference out in the Pacific threats. That's what we get from the Chinese these days. Lots of threats. |
| 1:57.7 | And then a conversation about the Moon Race with Rick Fisher, the International Assessment and Strategy Center. |
| 2:07.0 | He pictures that China that wants to dominate the Moon, |
| 2:11.0 | claim it for its own, surround the moon with a constellation of satellites. |
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