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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:

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Some of the links used for this show are BELOW the break: SOURCES (Below the break) Not all topics discussed on tonight’s show:

• What kind of country is China (PRC)?
  • Communist?
  • Socialist
  • Capitalist?
  • Fascist?
• “Rachel Dolezal resigns, according to letter on NAACP Facebook page ”, CNN
  • “Rachel Dolezal, Caitlyn Jenner, and the Limits of Social Justice “Huffington Post
• Done later than “Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)”: “Black Like Me (1964)“Interestingly, there is no TRIVIA and no QUOTES associated with this IMDB entry.: Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin so that he could experience the realities of a black man’s life in the segregated South.
• Why libertarianism is closer to Stalinism than you think, By Alan Wolfe, June 15, 2015 (REUTERS) Tags: ayn rand | free market | ideology | libertarianism | rand paul | ron paul
• Kalief Browder’s family mourns his suicide and urges reforms, by By Matt Pearce (LA Times): Arrested at 16 years old for a crime he swore he didn’t commit. Charged as an adult on suspicion of stealing a backpack. Three years in jail waiting for a trial that n ever happened … released without charges in 2013 and became a symbol for justice reform in the nation’s largest city. But even as a free man, Browder couldn’t make himself whole. It all ended Saturday with his suicide at age 22.
• What are the differences between today’s Democrats and Republicans?
  • What beliefs or positions makes a person definable as one or the other?
• Bernie Sanders’ campaign kickoff full of symbolismIs There
  • Room For a 3^rd 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.
• Occupation experience: Why did Iraq & Afghanistan turn out so differently from Germany and Japan?
  • The American Reconstruction of Germany and Japan, by Kieran Neeson, Oct 20 2008 (This content was written by a student and assessed as part of a university degree. E-IR publishes student essays & dissertations to allow our readers to broaden their understanding of what is possible when answering similar questions in their own studies.)
  • Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq, The United States Institute of Peace is an American non-partisan, independent, federal institution that provides analysis of and is involved in conflicts around the world. (See Wikipedia entry) Founded: 1984

• Wattage, Watt equivalence, or LUMENS?
  • When/Why did “wattage equivalence” start?
  • What is a “lumen”?
  • Search Results: https://www.google.com/search?q=wattage+lumens+equivalence&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
  • Lumen (unit) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia
    • The lumen (symbol: lm) is the SI derived unit of luminous flux, a measure of the total “amount” of visible light emitted by a source.
  • How to convert lumens to watts (W) – RapidTables.com

• 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; …”

• How EZTag works: They always have your money.

SOURCES WHICH MAY BE RELEVANT TO OTHER DISCUSSION:

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