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TOPICS:  REGISTER TO VOTE; Houston officials say state made the call on water boil notice; ‘This message can save lives’: State agencies increase enforcement, encourage driver safety during Thanksgiving; Texas Transportation Commission approves toll rate price increase for Grand Parkway, Hwy. 249; ERCOT report: Texas power grid will hold up this winter (in most conditions); New York [City] will involuntarily hospitalize more mentally ill people; Jewish Allies Call Trump’s Dinner With Antisemites a Breaking Point; NATO Supports Eventual Ukraine Membership as US Pledges Millions to Fix Power Grid; More.

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POSSIBLE TOPICS:

1. VOTETEXAS.GOV—Voter Information;
2. Harris County Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum seeks resources, still assessing midterm elections;
3. Harris County’s election missteps fuel GOP lawsuit and calls for investigation;
4. Texas lawmakers target property taxes, election fraud and transgender people in new legislation ahead of 2023 session;
5. Broward [Cty, Florida] Superintendent Vickie Cartwright Fired by School Board;
6. US intelligence official says Russian missiles killed two people in Poland; waves of missile strikes across Ukraine as G20 leaders meet in Bali;
7. Artemis I mission takes flight in historic leap forward for NASA’s moon program;
8. NASA’s massive moon rocket will cost taxpayers billions more than projected, auditor warns Congress;
9. How much did the Apollo program cost?;
10. More.

Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio) is now on Wednesdays at 11AM (CT) on KPFT-HD2, Houston’s Community Station. You can also hear the show:

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3. Visiting Archive.KPFT.ORG

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POSSIBLE TOPICS: VOTETEXAS.GOV—Voter Information; PSA: Low-income Texans may qualify for financial assistance with utility bills; Worksheet error overstates Pearland property values by $1.3B, city faces $10M shortfall; City of Houston moves forward with intentions to purchase Ruffino Tract; Election results: How Texas voted in the November 2022 midterms; DeSantis’ administration won’t allow Justice Department monitors inside Florida polling places, saying his secretary of state will watch the 3 Democratic strongholds instead; Maxwell Frost elected as the first Gen Z member of Congress; Live Results on Nevada Question 3: Voters will decide on ranked choice general elections and top-five primaries; US woman detained by Saudi officials after saying she has been trapped there since 2019; After Decades of Resistance, Rich Countries Offer Direct Climate Aid; Satellite Images Show A Russian Buildup In Belarus. Experts Say It May Be A Bluff.; Scientists evaluate Earth-cooling strategies with geoengineering simulations; More.

Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio) is now on Wednesdays at 11AM (CT) on KPFT-HD2, Houston’s Community Station. You can also hear the show:

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This is a re-airing of an unexpectedly timely interview that was broadcast 1 day before Russia invaded Ukraine. Stan is a widely respected expert in the topics discussed.

INTERVIEW: Weds, February 23, 2022, 11 AM (CT). GUEST: STAN SLOAN. INTERVIEW TOPICS: Ukraine, Russia, and the Greater Euro-Transatlantic Situation. ALSO! Post-interview discussion, available only in this post! 

 

AFTER-INTERVIEW:

 

GUEST: STAN SLOAN

• Stan Sloan has worked on European security issues for over fifty years. He began with service as an intelligence officer at the CIA and in the US Air Force, followed by 24 years advising Congress on international security policy, continuing after retirement in 1999 as a teacher, lecturer, and writer. His most recent books are titled De-Trumping U.S. Foreign Policy: Can Biden bring America back? and Defense of the West: Transatlantic Security from Truman to Trump.
  • De-Trumping U.S. Foreign Policy: Can Biden Bring America Back? De Gruyter Publishing, December 2021; and 
  • Defense of the West:  Transatlantic Security from Truman to Trump, with a foreword from Sir Lawrence Freedman. Manchester University Press, 2020.
• ADDITIONAL REFERENCES MENTIONED DURING SHOW & POST-SHOW:
  • Rio Grande border disputes
  • 2014 Crimean status referendum
• PREVIOUS INTERVIEW with STAN SLOAN (APRIL 20, 2020): The Past/Present/Future of NATO in the age of Trump and Pandemic

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