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WE HAVE MOVED TO MONDAYS AT 9-10 PM BEGINNING 4/13/2015.
Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show (every Wednesday night from 10-11PM CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My engineer and discussion partner is Egberto Willies (@EgbertoWillies).
For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:
- You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
- An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
GUESTS: (More complete biographical info on my guests are below Source links.)
- CALLERS
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
______________________________________________________________________ Some of the links used for this show are BELOW the break: SOURCES (Below the break) Not all topics discussed on tonight’s show:
- Pay-as-you-go flood control. How do you feel about it now?
- “Pay-as-you-go flood control” forces gov’t to invest in flood control more slowly, meaning more flood damage in the meantime.
- Rand Paul and the NSA
- Fellow Republicans can’t stand Rand Paul’s NSA fight, (BBC.com, 2015-June-1) by Anthony Zurcher, North America reporter
- GOP senators tear into Rand Paul, By Manu Raju and Burgess Everett (5/31/15 11:01 PM EDT, Updated 6/1/15 4:04 PM EDT) http://www.politico.com : One fellow Republican accuses him of ‘lying’ about government surveillance to get more campaign donations.
- Senators flash anger at Paul — and vice versa, By Alex Byers, Politico.com (5/31/15 6:13 PM EDT, Updated 5/31/15 6:45 PM EDT): He “needs to learn the rules of the Senate,” McCain snipes.
- Wars are laboratories and test sites for new weapons.:
- It’s an old strategy.
- The Germans did it in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, testing both weapons and tactics through their proxy, Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
- The latest tech weapons the US might deploy in Syria By Sharon Weinberger (9 September 2013) BBC.com
- Is There Room For a 3rd Party?, 5/12/2015 (usnews.com) by Joseph P. Williams is a news editor with U.S. News & World Report
- Parties are – and become – the people active in them and the people that vote for them. The Republican Party we see today that is considered so radically rightwing became that way because of the grassroot activists that claimed positions of power within it and then the people that voted for it.
- Bernie Sanders’ campaign kickoff full of symbolism
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP):
- Trade Policy As A Strategic Tool During The Cold War.
- East-West Trade and the Cold War – Jyx – Jyväskylän yliopi (Finland)
- Trade Policy in the 1990s | Brookings Institution
- S. Trade Policy: Free Trade and Globalization | SFPPR
- Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
- S. Trade Policy – Council on Foreign Relations
- Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1136927395 (J. Barry Jones – 2002 – Business & Economics): “One of these is the reviving use of strategic trade policies. … Likewise, trade can be used more directly as a tool of foreign policy. During the Cold War, for example, access to the US market was used as an enticement away from communism; …”
- Trade Policy As A Strategic Tool During The Cold War.
- How EZTag works: They always have your money.
SOURCES WHICH MAY BE RELEVANT TO OTHER DISCUSSION:
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