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455 – The climate changers

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Jun 022016

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00:03 Naturally lying about natural gas: Ontario’s future power crisis, Wynne’s reaction to natural gas ban stories, feedback from Bill on the political party syndrome, Donald Trump, being politically incorrect, Freedom Party – turning philosophy’s complexities into simple planks, the folly of ‘independent candidates’, the necessity of political parties and their purpose
15:35 Power rationing’s rationalizations: Ontario NDP MPP Peter Tabuns’ sinister climate change theories, no ‘beginning’ to climate change – starting points, climate change as communist doctrine, socialist plans to create poverty, Patrick Brown a climate change propagandist
27:55 The climate changers: H.G. Well’s prophetic Time Machine vision of the Eloi (as willing slaves) and Morlocks (their keepers and masters), former UN climate official Ottmar Edenhofer’s clarification that climate change is irrelevant to carbon dioxide politics, redistributing world’s wealth through climate policy, cap-and-trade, executive secretary of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres advocacy of forced poverty and forced depopulation through climate policy
43:45 We are the Eloi: an analysis of Christiana Figueres’ contradictory and evil anti-capitalistic philosophy, capitalism as the solution – socialism as the problem, natural population control through freedom, blaming capitalism for collectivism’s failures, ignoring the creators of wealth, flow economy, stock economy, use of fossil fuels a consequence of economic freedom, calling for anarchy but with a strong anarch 59:42 END

454 – Guest: Paul McKeever / Ontario’s power politics

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May 262016

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00:03 Is it government? Ontario’s state of anarchy, political parties as organized criminal gangs, Toronto pot crackdown, defining what government is, Al Capone’s political popularity, alcohol monopolies and cartels
14:15 Ontario’s power politics: cap and trade, killing production with green policies, ending competition in the energy market, phasing out natural gas, monopoly on energy, rationing electricity, single payer energy system, forced electric car sales, prohibiting fossil fuels for home heating, a long history of Ontario’s power politics, Liberals and Conservatives as gangs, quotas on electricity, smart meters as instruments of rationing
32:15 Criminal conduct is not ‘government’: Liberals-Progressive Conservatives-New Democrats are all climate communists, Progressive Conservatives as no option for change, Ontario as a Green Acres comedy, Conservative destructive policy of ‘Power at Cost’ (1902), Conservatives explicitly against capitalism since 1905, abuse of government power on power, the natural gas problem (1950s), climate change as pretext, legalizing criminality, Ontario’s political cartel, appealing to the ‘something-for-nothing’ voters
47:45 Freedom to party: truth vs lies – and bullsh*t, elected criminal organizations – Liberals, PCs, and New Democrats, electing a government instead of criminals, political party restrictions through finance reforms, plans to silence political opposition, escaping Ontario’s oppression, Ontario’s pension plan as control of individual movement, for government – vote Freedom Party, Kathleen Wynne’s obsession with sex, freedom isn’t free, Freedom Party 59:42 END

453 – May Day M’aider Mayday / First science – then fiction

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May 192016

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00:03 May Day M’aider Mayday: May Day celebrations of oppression, organized labour is organized violence, business as the organizer of labour, no celebration of the mind, celebration of labour, Les Miserables, sinister heroes of the labour movement, socialist admiration of totalitarian thugs, Karl Marx, socialism’s dismal record,
14:50 Un-mutual society: perpetuating class struggles, creating barriers for socialism, workers vs industrialists, capitalism destroys barriers, false classifications of people, class struggles depend on hatreds, eco-terrorists vs the majority, the struggle against reality, destroying the concept of the individual
22:30 First science – then fiction: the birth of science fiction, science fiction’s status of legitimacy, sci-fi pioneer Hugo Gernsback, 1958 movie recommendation – I Married A Monster From Outer Space
47:33 Science friction with science fiction: lunar landing denials and rebuttals, science fiction movie review selections of the 1950s-1960s: I Married A Monster From Outer Space (1958), 12 To The Moon (1960), Cat Women On The Moon (1954), Horrors Of Spider Island (1962), IT – The Terror From Beyond Space (1958), Invaders From Mars (1953), The Thing From Another World (1951), The Wild Wild Planet (1965), Voyage To The Planet Of Pre-Historic Women (1968 / 1962), Visit To A Small Planet (1960) 59:42 END

452 – Guest: Salim Mansur – The Trump Rearrangement Conundrum

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May 122016

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00:03 Pericles’ parallel: Conrad Black’s Civitas keynotes on Trump, prediction of a Trump presidency, four failed US administrations, doubling America’s fiscal debt, conservative reactions against Trump, Pericles’ parallel, the universality of human nature, the individual as unique, media disconnect from public pulse, media malpractice
17:20 Observer effect: economics as behavioural psychology, network of conservative opinion makers against Trump, markets and interests at play, ideology and consequences, doctrine vs pragmatism, we the people are sovereign, Declaration of Independence, skill sets for the political game
33:40 Education by election: Trump on women, women on Trump, trumping the sex and race cards, Hillary Clinton as a catastrophe, upcoming electoral conflict as instruction for young voters, immigration issues, unfunded wars with no results, globalization, free trade vs mercantilism, carbon taxes exporting jobs, America first vs protectionism, politics as the Queen of all disciplines
48:25 The Trump Rearrangement Conundrum: changing the Trump conversation, predicting Trump’s nomination and presidency, process of deal making, the Democratic question, emergence of independents, crossing tradition political lines 59:42 END

451 – Principals of Pot | Marc Emery and Christopher Goodwin

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May 052016

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00:03 Principals of Pot: breaking pot laws to change pot laws, redemptive experiences, life behind bars, a privileged life, the importance of loving parents, sentencing reform vs prison reform, the community of prisoners, prison morality, creating a state monopoly for pot
16:25 Arresting developments: dispensing pot in vapor lounges, complaint-driven laws, market demand for cannabis, competitive disadvantages, enforcement by whim, risks of going public, political motives, licensing wars, the black market is the free market, monopolies a secondary issue, state propaganda plans, distribution prohibitions, more punishments under legalization, political hypocrisy as the status quo, on the cusp of legalization, Uber issue like the pot issue
31:20 Civilly disobedient: facing jail for political activism, attracting attention, intellectual arguments as a follow-up, emotional symbols motivate, border-free Europe, border barbarians in North America, police intimidation, global developments on the cannabis front, European tobacco problem, absence of biological father as cause of addiction, fathers figure, playing the blame game, the virtue of classless societies
47:40 Fear factor: Tommy Chong’s prison redemption, normal and not normal people in prison, politics in general, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, the coming global legalization of cannabis, legalizing all drugs, repeal activism, repealing unjust laws, branding the Prince of Pot, fear factor 59:42 END

450 – The THINK police / Women on money / Legalizing the new pot prohibition

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Apr 282016

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00:03 a True Hurtful Illegal Necessary Kind police warning: International Safer Internet Day Feb 9, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), T.H.I.N.K. Before You Send, emotional public response to thought police, the feminized OPP, the Rebel, journalism’s reaction to police warning, questions unasked, deja view news, the safety excuse
13:55 Right on the money: the Famous Five, the women on the face of money, bank note images, gender tokens, Trudeau’s pledge to place woman on Canadian bank note, earning the honour, names under consideration, Emily Carr, Laura Secord, Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine, Agnes Macphail
26:20 Legalizing the new pot prohibition: the illusion of legalized marijuana, news commentaries on cannabis legalization, government monopolies for safety sake, prohibition still the rule, legality of actions, age restrictions and consent
43:20 Turtle injustice: trade barriers, Professor Anindya Sen’s pot proposals, international drug treaties, Mexico declares marijuana a human right, prohibition is force, prohibition of force 59:42 END

449 – Identity Crisis

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Apr 212016

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00:03 Teachers struck: feedback from Michael, blaming teachers for failing to teach reason, recognizing the good teachers, qualifying remarks, some teachers deserve to be bashed, praising the educators who earn it
11:50 Law of nations: national identity, nations as systems of law, changing national borders throughout history, cause of national identity crisis, secular laws vs theocratic laws, Donald Trump on national identity, borders are essential
26:20 Justin Trudeau’s mob Rule: democracy under attack by democrats, Liberal Party of Canada – the party with no memberships, Trudeau breaking Liberal tradition, Liberal movement – not party
43:35 Democratic myths and misses: Goldwin Emerson’s humanist democracy, the meaning of democracy, the meaning of majority rule, the meaning of people rule, voting myths and voting truths, role of political parties, the meaning of democratic equality, the human factor – reason 59:42 END

448 – Guest: Professor Christopher Essex – The fluid dynamics of the climate debate

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Apr 142016

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00:03 The fluid dynamics of the climate debate: Navier-Stokes equation, long-held skepticism on ‘global warming’, climate change – a difficult study, no discussion on science or technicalities, journalist pop quiz, fluid dynamics, politics vs science, lack of knowledge in the discussion, banning the climate change discussion
16:50 Sounds foolish: Big Bang Theory – the TV show, Large Hadron collider, April Fools victim, songification, noting worlds’ end, mapping sound, every day an April Fools day on climate change, an effort to understand climate change, no experts in the field of the unknown, political obstruction to the serious study of climate change
31:30 Terrestrial extra: alone in the universe, questioning the questions about extra-terrestrial life, standards of life, probabilities of life in space, light-speed game, struggling for the truth of nature, conference on star formation, a positive answer, an amazing overwhelming universe with or without ET, no probability sample space, Graham’s number is bigger than google
48:45 Ether or: gravity wave confirmation, the two flavours of relativity, electromagnetic field, gravity has no charge, space medium and ether, medium is the electromagnetic field itself, invariance of equations 59:42 END

447 – Guest: Dave Plumb – Author of Climate Hope

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Apr 072016

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00:03 Tips and points on climate change: Climate Hope, climate change, antidote to CO2 terrorism, where’s the hope, human impact on climate, climate history, more CO2 needed – not less, relevancy of carbon dioxide content, tipping points, life as the planet’s modifier, science vs politics on climate change, media bias, creating a discussion, lack of balanced reporting
15:10 Assault on battery: the Jacobson Plan, total conversion to renewable energy, five sources of energy, batteries for energy storage, fossil fuel energy density, skyrocketing energy costs, Green Energy Act, the real cost and price of electricity, battery disposal and re-cycling
29:25 Venus fry trap: A Venus inferno for planet Earth, sister planet, envisioning the planet Venus, no similarities between Earth and Venus, a brief history of Venus and Earth, water vapour greenhouse effect on Venus, sequestered carbon, CO2 as consequence – not cause, Jurassic Period – the time of earth’s life
43:10 Nature to be commanded: natural changes, overcoming and controlling nature, man’s relationship to nature, the resiliency of life, agenda of wealth-redistribution, time perspective, Milankovitch Cycles, conditions of glaciation, the four predators 59:42 END

446 – Dead capital-ism / Obama’s working theories / Patrick Brown’s progressive con / Conservative ex-tradition

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Mar 312016

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00:03 Dead capital-ism: feedback from Allan, capitalism as slavery, who are capitalists, Ayn Rand unread
07:45 Obama’s working theories: Barack Obama on capitalism and socialism, division between left and right as a debate, the Cuban ‘debate’ was a leftist revolution, dismissing the philosophical causes, selling pragmatism, dismissing intellectual arguments as grounds for action, what works as the standard of action, Cuban health care system, praising dictatorships, ends and means, moral basis of the market, market exclusions, Obama’s speech symbolizes the end of the American Dream, no longer leader of the free world
26:35 Brown’s Progressive Con: Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown, a conservative approach to the environment, when a tax is not a tax, taxing clean carbon dioxide emissions, carbonated politics, ‘revenue neutral’ is a scam, carbon pricing is a tax, being political while talking economics, redistributing the wealth
41:00 Conservative ex-tradition: voters as carbon copies of their politicians, continued faith in a conservatism that no longer exists, what Brown really means when saying ‘Climate change is a fact’, having the debate conservatives won’t have, why revenue neutrality only means higher taxes 59:42 END

445 – Guest: Salim Mansur “The Trump Derangement Syndrome”

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Mar 242016

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00:03 Trump Derangement Syndrome: the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s popularity, politics is about the people, republic or democracy, the meaning of sovereignty, constraining the sovereign through republican structure, Magna Carta, characteristics of democracy, Constitutional issues as ideological doctrine, no place for academic debate in political arena, constitutional ideologues
15:50 The people’s Trump card: dangers of being doctrinaire on the constitution, government in one’s life, checks and balances, Obamacare, the competent man, America’s three brances of government, single payer health care, immigration not a new issue, problem of incumbency
35:50 Checks and balances – the constrained monarch: Trump’s lack of philosophical focus, dangers of the democratic franchise, racist and bigot charges against the people, making America great again, Eisenhower’s legacy, Democratic-Republican Party of Jefferson, the president as the constrained monarch, the people speak – through Trump, coalition of interests
48:35 Persona and character: Trump as a crude character, messaging through persona, Trump Derangement Syndrome on the Left, Trump as a threat to the left, the Islam factor, conservatism, the problem with ideologues, final predictions
59:42 END

444 – Guest: Lars Hedegaard – Journalist, Author, Critic of Islam

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Mar 172016

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00:03 Attempted murder most foul: an account of the Feb 5, 2013 assassination attempt, Danish police assurances, hate speech charges, mass Muslim immigration, ominous phone call from Danish police, life under 24-7 police protection, all mosques are radical
16:10 The fall of The New Rome: clash of cultures, open immigration or limit immigration, barbarians with a political ideology, support for Sharia law, how ‘liberal’ governments cheat and lie, Danish immigration crisis, Western values reviewed, Islamic opposition to sovereign nations, differentiation within Muslim culture, an amorphous enemy, too late for Sweden
32:10 Controversial labeling: no appeasement possible to Islam, civil war or total submission, liberal altruism and its willful blindness, the people vs the elites, importing a new proletariat, ‘left’ in the past, realist – not pragmatist, a political ideology masquerading as a religion, defying a gag order for self-protection, secret trial, convicted of releasing name of attacker
50:45 Close the barn door: too late for many countries, the nation-state social contract, the state’s monopoly on retaliatory force, government abandonment of its primary function, the rising trend of self-defence groups, closing Islamic immigration, banning advocacy of sharia, advocating secular government – not theocracy 59:42 END

443 – Guest: Scott Williams-Oakes, Stand-up comedian, Author of Happy Trails

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Mar 102016

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00:03 Love letter: Happy Trails by Scott Williams-Oakes, crushing political correctness, story first – message second, Happy Trails – the book, pre-dystopian environment, how bad things have to get, a vision of the future – or the present, failed expectations, deteriorating economic conditions, collapse of government, love letter to Ontario
17:30 Re-set: the Ontario of our future, how bad can bad get, violence no solution, Happy Trails – a story overview (no spoilers), a canary in the coal mine, a happy ending with unresolved issues
33:50 Up against the Brick Wall: a brief history of ‘the Brick Wall’, using satire to criticize, pushing the envelope on the Brick Wall blog, every issue open to comment, a man with a mission, staring too long into the abyss, the jester, pointing out that the emperor wears no clothes, watching Rome burn
47:25 End of the story: Atlas Shrugged – a Happy Trails parallel, pessimistic future, rising again from the ashes, filling the vacuum, a bleak future, operation of the machine requires freedom, the terrifying world of comedy, upcoming screen play 59:02 END — Promo to 59:42

442 – Only two conditions – capitalism or slavery / Rationalizing rationing

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Mar 032016

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00:15 Capitalism or slavery: capitalism vs slavery, freedom, savagery, born consumers, demands of production, political drift towards slavery, Thomas Sowell on the reality of slavery’s history
20:15 History’s unique event – the rise of capitalism: capitalism gone off the rails, feedback on capitalism, capitalism as the objective – not a means to something else, capitalists vs capitalism, profits, prices, losses, life without effort, capitalism as the ideal moral condition
43:10 A majority for slavery: voting does change things, getting government to act in the best interest of the people, voting for things you’re against, political parties as the source for change, government as force, the immorality of slavery, the immorality of forced collectivism
52:20 Rationalizing rationing: rationed health care – dead patients, intolerable conditions of Ontario’s socialized hospital care 59:42 END

441 – Blacked-out history / The N-word / At ease – with fear / Ignoring the ignorance

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Feb 252016

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00:03 Blacked-out history: Black History Month, London Ontario cited as racist community, history as experiences of racism – not liberation, diversity hiring in city hall, legislating racial mirroring, white power groups are on the left, Ontario’s anti-racism directorate, celebrating enslavement – not freedom, essential history
20:45 Run run from the N-word: why the N-word is different from other racial and cultural slurs, the ‘N’ stamp of determinism, colours do not have histories, London Ontario’s Meeting Tree, capitalism freed the slaves, the welfare state as cultural slavery
38:15 At ease – with fear: fear as the mind killer, promotion of fear, fear for attention, at ease with fear during WW2, Chuck Lorre’s vanity card about fear, attention as a commodity, worthy of fear, list of latest fears, unreal fears and lies
54:05 Ignoring the ignorance: failure of the teaching profession, imparting ignorance instead of knowledge, the dominance of fear in reason’s absence 59:42 END

440 – Legal ease / Feminist protection racket / The gravity of gravity / Rand crater

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Feb 182016

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00:03 Legal ease: Christie Blatchford on feminism and the Ghomeshi trial, challenging the ‘women never lie’ myth, the Bill Cosby connection, feminist politics in the police department
16:50 Feminist protection racket: Woman first person second, Jian Ghomeshi’s lawyer Marie Henein, feminist Megan Walker, protecting women from being held accountable for their actions, lawyer Phil Millar, the polarization of public opinion on Ghomeshi,
34:55 The gravity of gravity: gravity wave breakthrough, LIGO, disturbance in fabric of space-time, practicality of gravity waves, Einstein’s theory confirmed, global positioning technology
50:05 Rand’s crater: The naming of Uranus, naming the craters on Venus, public input to naming planet features, Robert’s 25-year-old submission to name a crater on Venus after Ayn Rand, Rand Crater 59:42 END

439 – Feminism – The uncivilizing force / The court of gender bias

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Feb 112016

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00:03 Parallels – Cosby and Ghomeshi: stunning testimonies at the Jian Ghomeshi trial, a brief account of the collapsing case against Ghomeshi, complainants all lied, parallel profiles of Cosby and Ghomeshi
14:50 Court of gender bias: denying the evidence to promote a cause, innocent until proven guilty, siding with the wrong victim, determining guilt by numbers, feminist Megan Walker, lawyer Gordon Cudmore, complainant Lucy DeCoutere, the unconscionable court of public opinion
29:35 Uncivilizing force – Feminism: male feminists, feminism’s objectives, civilizing sexes, differences in sexual attitudes are cultural – not gender based, lying as the new normal
42:40 Gender morality? Angus Reid gender poll, differences in gender attitudes, differing moral views on pornography, Gawronski Study – University of Texas, moral dilemmas – differing gender responses, women identify with victims, moral condemnation of male sexual motivation, subjective moralities vs objective morality, legitimacy of feelings, consent as a condition
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438 – Winning a debate by ending it / Moral relativism’s relevance / Infernal revenuers

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Feb 042016

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00:03 Presumptuous Causes: feedback on cause and effect, ‘snapshots of the continuum’, events and causes in historical accounts, progressive thinking, Alberta’s drift to progressivism
13:15 Winning a debate by ending it: “Ecojustice” vs Friends of Science, global warming, climate change, freedom of speech, Calgary and Edmonton billboard campaign, Competition Bureau, censoring the debate, the ‘denier’ label, the nature of censorship, truth as the victim of censorship, Doomsday Clock, end-of-the-world predictions
31:30 Moral relativism’s relevancy: Roger Scruton on moral relativism, shared values, reality and God, progressive lack of external truths, comparing Objectivists and conservatives, nihilism’s imposing imperatives, nihilism’s contradiction, atheism’s variances
44:35 Proper tax: Roger Scruton’s conservative realization, common values, feedback from Liam on property taxes, preferable forms of taxation, land value tax, asset sales, selling the sales tax
59:42 END

437 – Knowledge and causality

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Jan 282016

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00:03 Just Wrote: feedback from Paul T – Murray – Rob – Trevor, our WBCQ sponsor Paul Lambert, skepticism, cause of feedback, cause of ship, introducing the four causal modalities – Formal – Material – Efficient – Final
17:15 No time for cause: integrated knowledge vs retention of facts, motivation of the left, John Macmurray on cause, natural law, the continuant, law of nature as pattern of continuance, time and the present, Leonard Peikoff on cause, entities vs actions, time travel fantasies
33:20 Necessity of choice: the inefficiency of efficient cause, cause vs motivation, from facts and stats to knowledge, significant knowledge, knowledge as source of morality and ethics, choice and knowledge
44:25 The sum of your experiences: life as an end in itself, predictions vs intentions, be cause, knowledge and eternity, first cause, God, existence
59:42 END

436 – Back to nature commune-ism / The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

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Jan 212016

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00:03 Commune-Ism: resurgence of back-to-nature culture, rejection of modernity-reason-capitalism, Wicca culture, tribalism and the rejection of Western values, contrasting cultures and music of the late 1960s, Don Van Vliet, Captain Beefheart, Mel Tillis,
17:30 Natural harmonies: communing with nature, personification of nature, personification of ‘society’, technology’s communing with nature, ‘Nature to be commanded must be obeyed,’ human nature
27:15 Profound questions: truth defined, truth predates human history, feedback from Murray, same facts – different conclusions, how can we know the truth, knowledge vs belief, philosophy and epistemology, accusations of arrogance, metaphysics, a question of truth
44:25 Certainly true: Truth vs facts, causal modalities – first-material-efficient-final, search not for truth but for reality, John Macmurray on thought without purpose, knowledge for knowledge’s sake as a relapse into unreality, necessary significance and purpose of knowledge, divorcing knowledge from action, educate in reality, fear of being wrong, fact determines truth, the importance of clear definitions 59:40 End

435 – George Jonas – A farewell / The right vocabulary / Bill Cosby and the corruption of justice

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Jan 142016

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00:03 Bye George! in praise of George Jonas, National Post, journalism, Jonas on immigration as invasion, competing identities of the new immigrants, Justin Trudeau’s hypocrisy, Jonas the poet, aboriginal science, ideological fanatics in universities, Jonas on international courts
15:55 The right vocabulary: terms of experience, losing our understanding of culture and politics, Donald Trump vs Ted Cruz, a vocabulary of freedom, freedom misunderstood, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, Freedom Party of Ontario, freedom in a political context, freedom is not freedom from government, right and rights are moral concepts, individual rights – not group rights, no such thing as animal rights, Constitutional rights vs natural rights
28:47 Corruption of justice: Bill Cosby charges, still innocent until proven guilty, feminist Megan Walker, feminist Gloria Allred, allegations vs the known facts, fourteen things you should know about the Cosby controversy, affirmative consent is an anti-concept, principle of justice under attack
49:35 Many women do lie: a brief review of a few Cosby allegers, Gloria Allred’s legal strategy and political objectives, Cosby’s defence, Cosby’s counter-suits, the judgment vacuum 59:42 END

434 – 2016 forecast?… Cultural nihilism | Salim Mansur, John Thompson, Paul McKeever

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Jan 072016

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00:03 No great expectations: speculating on 2016 and beyond, 2013 Bill Whittle commentary
06:50 Expectation disintegration: promoting despair and malaise about the future, longing for a garden of Eden, human infallibility, the no hope philosophy, cultural nihilism, post-modernist culture, political narcissism, political trends, time to revolt against political correctness, distinguishing between society and the individual, achievements of past generations, teaching history as a continuum, deconstruction of values, cultural decontextualization, information – knowledge – wisdom, cultural stories, the cult of envy, destroying values to destroy differences, hatred of the good for being the good, tolerance of intolerance
31:45 Cultural fragmentation: Justin Trudeau, lost capacity to make reasonable judgements, Liberal Party platform, Trudeau as Canada’s hollow man, Trudeau the counter-intellectual, spirit of the times, one world government agenda, nation state concepts, using environmentalism as the means to defeat capitalism, defending or defeating human nature, multi-culturalism is the immigration crisis, cultural fragmentation
53:30 Our cause – freedom: personal-cultural-societal values, necessity of values for a freedom culture, values create Western culture 57:07 END — Promo to 59:42

433 – Radio talk shows – opening the line to public discourse

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Dec 312015

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00:03 Opening the line to public discourse: influence of open line talk shows, spoken word vs talk, Andy Oudman on cross border shopping, promoting the general welfare through self interest, wealth creation, will Trudeau get elected?
11:10 It’s in the mail…: taxes, jobs, Canada Post’s mail monopoly, ending door to door delivery, technology the challenge to Canada Post, privatize mail delivery, Kellogg’s survival, biting the hand that feeds, community mail boxes
24:20 Officially complacent: reconciling Islamist terrorism with Muslim immigration, Tarek Fatah, Salim Mansur, vigilance not intolerance, appropriate response to Montreal attack, political Islam’s open and stated objectives, avoid political correctness, a war has been declared upon the West, ideological conversions, radicalization of Islamist terror, Western society penetrated by Muslim Brotherhood
42:00 Triple play on governance-voting-democracy: fining or rewarding the vote, voting is not democracy, voting a right-not a duty, obtaining a false sense of consent through the forced vote, democracy about equality under the law, informed voter responsibility, buying your vote through advertising, purpose of political advertising, government expanding beyond governance 59:42 END

432 – Red Alert! – Santa Claus is coming to town / Better to give than receive?

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Dec 242015

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00:03 Red Alert! – Santa Claus is coming to town: Santa Claus on the political spectrum, is Santa a socialist or a capitalist?, socialism’s monopoly on the spirit of giving, source of wealth, Santa as a generous capitalist, elves economics, needs vs wants, commercialism of Christmas, gifts valued and de-valued
14:30 Better to give than receive? preference to give, selfless giving vs selfish giving, the morality of giving vs receiving, presents not wanted, expectations vs actuality, personal Christmas depression, a brief history of Santa Claus, popular ideology and Santa, duty gifts, caller John, consumerism – bad or good, materialism, consumer societies vs producer societies, happiness on subsistence, gift entitlement
33:30 Naughty or nice: caller Don, Canada a free country, Canada a productive country, caller John, mercenary-minded profit motive, foolish commercialism, exploration of space vs wealth redistribution, Christmas tenant evictions, the coal issue, naughty or nice, Black Peter and the lump of coal, Christmas stresses, religious significance, the secularization of Christmas, Christianity’s appropriation of pagan ceremonies, annual celebrations of harvest, festival of the nativity, creation of myths, evolution of the myth of Christmas, a multiculturalist Christmas
53:00 Be sure to check the Santa clause: Santa a contradictory figure, working conditions of Santa’s elves, union busting at the North Pole, Christmas wishes
58:57 END — Promo to 59:42

431 – Donald Trump, Muslim immigration, and the requirements of freedom | Salim Mansur, John Thompson, Paul McKeever

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Dec 172015

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00:03 Taboo topics: history of Just Right’s suspension, Middle-east “refugees”, Western values under attack, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, immigration ban, political correctness as neo-totalitarianism, immigration history, parallels in history, taboo subjects: immigration – health care – theocracy – anti-capitalism
17:30 It’s a comma. Period. religion vs political ideology, reactions to Donald Trump’s calls to stop Islamic immigration, qualifying remarks, political Islam, the West’s history of banning ideologies, multiculturalism vs immigration, national sovereignty, constitutional rights not abrogated, misquoting Trump
36:10 What freedom requires: destruction of democracy through democratic institutions, history of Muslim brotherhood, the West’s culpability, Christian parallels, not his theocracy-our theocracy, what freedom requires, the left is pro-theocratic, terrorism as a distraction, freedom is responsibility
49:40 A fighting culture – Western civilization: carry both shield and sword, fighting ideologies by breaking them, Westernizing hostile cultures, knowing our own values and traditions, checking bad ideas with good ideas – and weapons
59:42 END

430 – Feedback / The value of playing computer games

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Dec 102015

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00:03 Feedback… : feedback from our listeners, voting with a clear conscience, CHRW suspension of Just Right, UWO university environment, WBCQ, shortwave radio, cultural appropriation, Donald Trump
20:45 …and forth: freedom of speech, God, the Jewish religion, shortwave radio, the Grundig incident
31:50 Hunger for games: on-line game addiction, value of game play, time spent playing games, computer game experiences, Intellivision, Advent, interactive games, dangers and attractions of games
47:15 All women’s daze: Big Bang Theory, memorable experiences on campus radio, All Women’s Voices Day, Balkanizing Canadians through sexism and racism, too much Hitler, more feedback on: the collective evil, shortwave as the voice of freedom, QSL cards, University universality 59:42 END

429 – Giving Tuesday back / Religion… literally

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Dec 032015

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00:03 Giving Tuesday back: Black Friday, 92nd Street Y, Ted Turner and the United Nations, giving away the farm, the guilt of wealth, spreading capitalism the best gift
16:05 Foreign to aid: Foreign aid’s dilemma, the taking community, proper charity
26:50 Literal fools: the religion of literalism, a real religion, God, existence, religion, supreme being, law of causality, birth of morality, good and evil
40:10 Majority fools: Fall of Roman empire, defining democracy, majority rule, voting, representative government, majority rule, the mathematics of voting, the morality of voting
56:39 END — Promo to 59:42

428 – Just Right suspended! / The right balance

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Nov 262015

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00:03 Suspended! CHRW continuing on-air suspension of Just Right, political correctness on campus, a brief review of circumstances leading to show suspension, Just Right 419, the Syrian refugee crISIS
10:30 Held in suspense: a question of balance, taking the right out of Just Right, the complaint cited for Just Right’s CHRW suspension, CRTC complaint threat, no reasons yet for suspension, circumstances of Just Right’s suspension, shame on the complainant, alternate views are not right, how the racist label prevents discussion
28:40 The right balance: academic justice, taboo topics – feminism and Islam, our history of complaint concerns, balancing the unbalancable, political interests hiding behind complaint process, early threats of balance directed towards Just Right, John Thompson – guest threat, volunteers with no rights – just responsibility, picking the right guests
48:20 Guest who’s not coming? risks of inviting left-wing guests, past history of leftist debating tactics, Tim Carrie – London District Labour Council – no show on Just Right, our next step for freedom of speech 59:42 END

427 – Marchons! Marchons! / Submit to reason / CBC no evil / Islam – The elephant in the room

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Nov 192015

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00:03 Marchons, marchons!: Islamist attacks on Paris, political Islam, symbolism of the French flag, symbol of surrender and capitulation, literalists of the Koran, denying rational suspicions while stressing irrational suspicions, defining the enemy, enabling causes of Islamist violence, perfect storm for cultural collapse, ideas rule the world, the collective vs the individual, compliance to authority, shockingly lethal Submission
18:40 Submit to reason: the Fourth Reich, pressure to comply and submit, race is the collective, racist accusations represent submission to the collective, the true racists – campus activists, sympathy for Muslims, French national anthem
28:10 CBC no evil: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – terrorism enabler, suspicious of Christians but cautious of blaming Islamists, denial of evil, denial of discussion, distractions from the evil, war of ideas, terrorism’s after-effects
40:15 Islam: the elephant in the room: John Thompson CBC interview, John Rhys-Davies on Islam, Western cultural values, political correctness, incompatibility of sharia law with democracy, fighting ideas with ideas, Ayn Rand’s call for rational ethics
59:22 END — promo to 59:42

426 – Campus of the damned / The failure of success

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Nov 122015

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00:03 Campus blahs: Yale campus disturbance, inter-cultural affairs committee letter on Halloween costumes, theory vs practice
13:10 Progressive deformity: zero tolerance for free speech on campus, John Dewey, Ayn Rand’s Comprachicos,deformity for political suppression, disconnecting the mind from reality through progressive education, anti-cognition as the standard of education, from structure and discipline to chaos and disorder, student activists as the modern comprachicos, abandonment of reason in favour of force
28:25 The failure of success: Harry Dent’s great re-set, predicting economic crashes, engineered destruction of capitalism in America, David Stockman, ‘Irrational Economics Summit’, government enterprises as successful failures
40:50 The success of failure: the economic re-set, no political re-set, inflation’s attractions, irrational fears of deflation, the relativity of inflation, quantitative easing, recognizing the crisis, system of socialism vs conditions of capitalism, ends and means 55:18 : END — promo to 59:42

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