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Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show (every Monday night from 9-10PM 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:

• Is Trans the new Gay?
  • Gays used to be almost completely taboo in movies and TV, and ‘gayness’ of characters was only hinted at.
  • Today, no TV show or movie seems complete without at least one prominent gay character.
  • The GLBT movement has helped bring Transgender people into the public consciousness.
  • Has Caitlin Jenner now made Trans characters almost mandatory in media?
• Do modern wars have such sloppy endings precisely because there is no Declaration of War and no proper surrender?
• Polemic |
  • Definition of polemic by Merriam-Webster (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polemic): : 1) a strong written or spoken attack against someone else’s opinions, beliefs, practices, etc. 2) polemics : the art or practice of using language to defend or harshly criticize something or someone
  • Polemic – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic) Wikipedia: A person who often writes polemics, or who speaks polemically, is a polemicist or a polemic.
  • Many blog media are written in polemical styles, but when deconstructed still contain useful thoughts and/or information.
  • EXAMPLE: The Obama Doctrine: A New Paradigm Worthy of a Second Nobel Peace Prize, by Spandan Chakrabarti July 14, 2015 (http://www.thepeoplesview.net)
    • Obama Doctrine: The principle that the United States should never fear to negotiate and that we are a power strong enough to take calculated risks.
• Texas Refuses To Issue Birth Certificates To Children Of Undocumented Immigrants
  • This story has been only barely covered (or at least is barely findable) in MSM. In the top-tier Google findings, only Reuters showed an article.
  • Undocumented immigrants’ U.S.-born children denied docs – lawsuit, By Brendan Pierson (REUTERS) Thu May 28, 2015 7:44pm EDT
  • Texas Refuses To Issue Birth Certificates To Children Of Undocumented Immigrants, By @Karoli (CrooksAndLiars.com)
  • The model state of Texas denies birth certificates to children born to immigrants within its borders, by Kerry Eleveld (DailyKos.com) Tue Jul 14, 2015 at 11:45 AM PDT
•  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
• 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

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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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