Tonight: The show begins in New York City reporting on the threat of violence and on the still surging migrant numbers. Then to small business in Indiana, Texas and Illinois. Attention to three nuclear-weapon-armed peer nations without an arms treaty. And that AI is now an existential threat until controlled. Later the conclusion of The Red Hotel, Moscow 1940-1945. And the successful launch by a Falcon Heavy of the Pysche mision for rendezvous in 2029.

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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR


FIRST HOUR

9-915
#NYC: NYPD massively deployed to keep the peace. Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc. NY Daily News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/10/11/23913640/new-yorkers-israel-hamas-gaza-war-reactions


915-930
##PacificWatch: Campus turmoil. @JCBliss
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2023/10/13/tension-over-israel-hamas-war-grows-college-campuses

930-945
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Anxious Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers because of PRC dumping. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/us-small-business-sentiment-kept-sliding-in-september-cb0a1856

945-1000
#SmallBusinessAmerica: On the one hand, on the other hand. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www.asbn.com/articles/confidence-reaches-post-pandemic-high-among-small-business-owners-in-q3/


SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#PRC: #Russia: Three peer nuclear weapons powers at odds & What is to be done?

https://on.ft.com/3PX5rPl

1015-1030
#MrMarket: Boomers holding up the consumer economy in wartime. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/prices-rose-37-percent-in-september-as-fed-keeps-up-inflation-fight/ar-AA1i5G4s


1030-1045
#Israel: Proportionality in International Law. Richard Epstein,Hoover Institution.
https://www.hoover.org/research/moral-clarity-hamas-israel-and-terrorism

1045-1100
#Israel: Fail Harvard. Richard Epstein,Hoover Institution.

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
5/4: The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War by Alan Philps (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Hotel-Metropol-Stalins-Propaganda/dp/1639364277/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=


In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, Lenin’s body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian controls – unbending censorship, no visits to the battle front, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens.

The Red Hotel explores this gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and share their beds. On the surface, this regime served Stalin well: his plans to control Eastern Europe as a Sovietised ‘outer empire’ were never reported and the most outrageous Soviet lies went unchallenged.

But beneath the surface the Metropol was roiling with intrigue. While some of the translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were secret dissidents who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. Using British archives and Soviet sources, the unique role of the women of the Metropol, both as consummate propagandists and secret dissenters, is told for the first time.

At the end of the war when Lenin returned to Red Square, the reporters went home, but the memory of Stalin’s ruthless control of the wartime narrative lived on in the Kremlin. From the weaponization of disinformation to the falsification of history, from the moving of borders to the neutralisation of independent states, the story of the Metropol mirrors the struggles of our own modern era.

1115-1130

6/4: The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War by Alan Philps (Author)

1130-1145
7/4: The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War by Alan Philps (Author)

1145-1200

8/4: The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War by Alan Philps (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
#Ukraine: #Israel: #Taiwan: Arsenal of Democracy into action with dissent. Josh Rogin, Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/10/biden-republicans-israel-gaza-ukraine/

1215-1230
##KeystoneReport: Unacceptable conduct/Acceptable conduct. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com

1230-1245
#SpaceX: Falcon Heavy launches Psyche for 2029. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-successfully-launches-psyche-asteroid-mission/

1245-100 AM
#PRC: Poorly Copying Hubble. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1711647269370392780