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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: The Iran Nuke Treaty, Greece: Is Austerity The Best Way To Address Excess Debt? Air Travel/Airport/Passenger Pick-up Hell; Infrastructure: Be careful what you wish for.

• Mission to Pluto: Over 9 years at 31,000 mph.
• As Jade Helm 15 Military Exercise Begins, Texans Keep Watch ‘Just in Case’, New York Times
  • Tex. – Despite the Internet chatter about trains with shackles and Walmart stores being closed to be used as detention camps, this small West Texas town on Wednesday seemed to be surviving the start of Jade Helm 15, the military exercise …
  • IRAN NUCLEAR TREATY:
    • Why the Iranian nuclear deal is great news for Assad By Ari Heistein (Haaretz)| Jul. 14, 2015: Freeing Iranian billions will help the regime pay to keep propping up the Syrian dictator, interfering in the region’s bloodiest civil war.
  •  Greece: Is Austerity The Best Way To Address Excess Debt?
    • The Greek Responsibility:
    • Governed by adults who should know the consequences of borrowing
    • More effective collection of taxes
    • VAT: Great for tax on consumptions, but what about people who make far more than they can spend?
    • Cutting expenditures to pay sovereign debt:
    • Pain worth the gain?
    • Might Austerity be fair for multiple generations?
      • Should debt forgiveness be essential?
      • Why, and by whom?
      • Does austerity make it much harder to pay creditors by hurting economic growth?
      • Are some forms of austerity better or worse than others?
      • Do Banks and Financiers share responsibility because they over-lent?
      • Should Banks and Financiers ‘forgive’ some of Greece’s debt, and it so, why?
  •  Air Travel/Airport/Passenger Pick-up Hell
    • Americans are getting bigger:
      • Clothing, shoes, furniture, even toilet seats are getting bigger. Why are airplane seats getting smaller?

      • DOJ subpoenas airlines over keeping ticket prices high, By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Reporter

      • Safety risk of shrinking , By Associated Press (Aprl 15, 2015)

      • Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protection – See more at: http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/ACACP#sthash.7bh0CrUI.dpuf
      • Airports, airlines disagree about raising ticket fees, October 29, 2014
  • Infrastructure: Be careful what you wish for: North-South access suddenly very challenging
    • Downtown segment of I-45 going through major reconstruction.
    • Shepard between us-59 and Allen Pkwy going through major construction
    • Studemont experiencing some construction between I-10 and Memorial

  • Kylie Jenner Sports Cornrows, Sparks Racially Charged Debate—Was Amandla Stenberg One of Her Critics?

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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:

• White House: Greece Should Be Allowed To Remain In Eurozone, Huffington Post

• Greece prepares new bailout bid ahead of EU summit, By Michael Birnbau July 6 (Washington Post)

• AIR TRAVEL: Safety risk of shrinking , By Associated Press (Aprl 15, 2015)

  • Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protection – See more at: http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/ACACP#sthash.7bh0CrUI.dpuf
  • Airports, airlines disagree about raising ticket fees, October 29, 2014
• What kind of country is China (PRC)?
  • Communist?
  • Socialist
  • Capitalist?
  • Fascist?
• What are the differences between today’s Democrats and Republicans?
  • What beliefs or positions makes a person definable as one or the other?
• 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

Lumens to watts table

Lumens Incandescent light bulb watts Fluorecent / LED watts 375 lm 25 W 6.23 W 600 lm 40 W 10 W 900 lm 60 W 15 W 1125 lm 75 W 18.75 W 1500 lm 100 W 25 W 2250 lm 150 W 37.5 W 3000 lm 200 W 50 W

• 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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