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Jay Fidell is founder, president and CEO of ThinkTech Hawaii, Inc. He is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and NYU Law School where he took an LLB (JD) in 1965 and an LLM in Taxation in 1971. Jay served in the U.S. Coast Guard as a lawyer and military judge from 1965 to 1971. He was first assigned to Honolulu and then to New York City. He returned to private practice in Hawaii in 1971.

He was a founder of the firm later known as Bendet Fidell Sugimura and practiced business law there until 2012, when he retired after 40 years of active practice. In the year 2001, Jay founded ThinkTechHawaii and produced a radio show by that name on HPR from 2001 through 2008. He then moved on to producing video talk shows and then created ThinkTech Studios. He likes to interview talk show guests, but more than anything he is dedicated to the electronics, programming and studio systems that make ThinkTech run.

How Serious is the Decline of Japan’s Economy (Global Connections)

And How Does that Decline Affect the Region. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker, senior advisor to Pacific Forum, helps us understand the apparent decline of Japan’s economy and how that decline affects and will affect its future and the economics and geopolitics of the region. […]

The Changing Battlefield in These Two Wars (Keeping the World Company)

What we Should be Learning from What is Happening. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Jean Rosenfeld and Vicky Cayetano. Our panel discusses the changes on the battlefield in the two wars that are going on, including changes in trench warfare, tunnel warfare, drones, gliders, missiles, anti-ship […]

How Are Authors Going to Beat AI (Community Matters)

And if You Can’t Beat Them, why Not Join them. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Chris Trammell. Author and life coach Chris Trammel helps us understand the ways AI is changing things, and threatening the art of writing. And that includes reading what is written, too. For that matter, […]

Reviewing the Greyhound Movie (Movies We Can Learn From)

A Remarkable Movie About an American Destroyer. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Shackley Raffetto and Michael Lilly. Shackley Raffetto and Michael Lilly, both of whom have been associated with the US Navy, review the Greyhound movie. It stars Tom Hanks, who also wrote the screenplay, and is based on […]

Millions in Foreign Payments Going to Trump (Community Matters)

For this Too, He is Not Qualified to be President. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Camron Hurt. Camron HUrt of Common Cause helps us understand the need for an investigation of the millions of dollars of foreign payments going to Trump from foreign governments. He has reportedly pocketed at […]

Cliff Slater Writes About Transit (Community Matters)

It’s Growth, Decline and Pending Demise. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Cliff Slater. Cliff Slater has followed the rail project and transit in Honolulu and around the country. He helps us understand the origins and history of transit, its current status and the challenges that will inform its prospects […]

GOP Ranks Full of Christian Nationalists (American Issues Take One)

CPAC Full of Anti-Gov Anti-Democracy Speech. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. Jack Posobiec spoke as a panelist at this year’s CPAC convention. He said, ‘We’re here to overthrow democracy’. To that, cheers followed. Mr. Posobiec wasn’t kidding. He also held out a crucifix to put an exclamation point on […]

Alexei Navalny and Russian History (Journeys of the Mind)

The Legacy of A. Navalny in Russian History. The hosts for this show are Carl Ackerman and Jay Fidell. While Alexei Navalny has been compared to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela and others, this program outlines others in Russian/Soviet History who were courageous enough to work against the Tsarist, Soviet, and Putin […]

What Really Happened in Putin’s Interview (Global Connections)

Let’s Look at all his Mistakes About Russian History. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. With thanks to Tim Snyder, history professor and Yale, we examine Vladimir Putin’s comments in his recent ‘interview’ with Tucker Carlson. Our guest Dr Roopmai Khandekar helps us understand the circumstances of the […]

How Much like a Proxy Vote is a Proxy War (Keeping the World Company)

Why Do we Have so Many of them. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Our panel discusses the proxy wars now going on in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East. What’s the difference between a proxy war, an asymmetric war and a traditional war, […]

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- Farnaz Fassihi
Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports

Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown. [...]

- Emma Bubola
Who is Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi?

Mr. Raisi has been seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the highest political and religious position in the Islamic republic. [...]

- Danny Hakim, Ken Bensinger and Eileen Sullivan
‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics

Public officials from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It’s changing how they do their jobs. [...]

- Chelsia Rose Marcius and Jay Root
Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally

Officers were filmed punching three demonstrators at the protest in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The police said protesters were blocking the streets. [...]

Rescue teams search for Iran's president after helicopter crash

A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi made a "hard landing" in adverse weather, state media says. [...]

Inquiry's report into biggest-ever NHS disaster due

More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the infected blood scandal. [...]

Mum still feels guilt for son's infected blood death

Martin White died at the age of 33 after being given blood products contaminated with HIV. [...]

Water investors have withdrawn billions, says research

A report suggests shareholders have taken billons but failed to invest as water bills look set to rise. [...]

Why Wikileaks' Julian Assange faces US extradition demand

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hopes to launch a new appeal. [...]

Tehran's Cabinet has met for an emergency meeting following the helicopter accident involving President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian. But who is Raisi? [...]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's term as president officially ends on May 20, and a scheduled election in March was postponed due to the ongoing war. Legal experts explain why he can remain [...]

Speaking with graduating students, US President Joe Biden said he supports their "peaceful nonviolent protest" over the ongoing "humanitarian crisis in Gaza." [...]

Climate change is likely fueling a surge in extreme weather events across the planet. It could be a troubling sign of things to come. [...]

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been involved in an "accident" in the north of the country. Rescue teams scrambled but did not immediately find the aircraft, amid [...]

- The Associated Press
U.S. troops and equipment will leave Niger by mid-September, the Pentagon says

Niger's decision to kick out American forces dealt a blow to U.S. military operations in the Sahel. U.S. troops and some gear already have begun leaving the country. [...]

- John Helton
Sean Combs apologizes for 'my actions in that video' that appeared to show an assault

Without addressing his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who is seen in the video being kicked and dragged in 2016, the hip-hop mogul says, "I was disgusted then when I did it. [...]

- Scott Neuman
At age 90, America's first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to space

Ed Dwight, a former Air Force test pilot who was passed over to become an astronaut in the 1960s, described his flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard as "life changing." [...]

- Stephen Fowler
At Morehouse, Biden says dissent should be heard because democracy is 'still the way'

Facing potential headwinds with both young voters and Black voters, President Biden's Morehouse College commencement address focused on his view of the importance - and future of - democracy. [...]

- Brian Mann
In Knesset speech, GOP's Elise Stefanik calls for unrestricted U.S. war aid to Israel

Stefanik spoke before a caucus of Israel's parliament focused on antisemitism on college campuses around the world. She called for Hamas to be wiped "off the face of the earth." [...]

- Stephen Hawkins | AP

Kevin Pillar got a milestone hit that provided a victory for the Los Angeles Angels while his parents were there to watch [...]

- Brian Mahoney | AP

Tyrese Haliburton scored 26 points and the Indiana Pacers rode one of the most sensational first halves in Game 7 history to a 130-109 victory over the New York Knicks [...]

- Jenna Fryer | AP

Scott McLaughlin in the famed “Yellow Submarine” entry led a Team Penske sweep of the front row of Indianapolis 500 qualifying with a new track record Sunday around Indianapolis Motor [...]

- Claire Healy

Vincent Gray had long wanted to pursue doctoral studies. Now, George Washington University is awarding him an honorary doctorate in public service. [...]

- Susannah George, Maham Javaid, Kim Bellware, Praveena Somasundaram, Kyle Melnick

President Ebrahim Raisi was traveling back to Iran from Azerbaijan. Rescuers were struggling to reach the area due to foggy conditions and mountainous terrain. [...]

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