SHISH KEBAB UPDATE & WONDERFUL AVOCADO USES: Chef Kim Holmes

KIm Holmes
ALL MARINE RADIO
OFFICIAL CHEF

The AMR Head Chef joined us to update our debate on how to grill Shish Kebab… half-turn or quarter-turns for the skewers (we only flip steak once ya know)?   He’ll update on the results from his experiment!

We also discuss the Avocado.  How to pick them.  How to ripen them.  Kim’s favorite uses for one of the world great delicacies and a couple of tricks to preserve it.

SOUTH KOREA AND THAAD — MINDANAO PHILIPPINE UPDATE: Grant Newsham

Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)

Monday, June 12 2017 — Hour 2

Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), and our Pacific Rim Security expert joined us to interpret the latest events from the Korean Peninsula, (1) South Korea pausing the THAAD battery deployment, (2) North Korea’s surface-to-ship missile demonstration and (3) American diplomats singing China’s praises for pressuring North Korea with no apparent evidence of progress.

We also discuss the ongoing siege on Mindanao between the Philippine Army partnered with US Special Forces and Islamic Fundamentalists which is the latest chapter in the a decades old conflict.

A GREAT translator of things in the Western Pacific.

 

SECDEF JAMES MATTIS’S SPEECH TO THE SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE IN SINGAPORE

Monday, June 05 2017, Hour 1

Secretary of Defense Jame Mattis delivered a speech to Pacific Rim allies at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense conference in Singapore.  You’ll hear his entire speech today.

His speech is focused on the Pacific Rim; his speech and the Q & A session that follows is certainly worth a listen.