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337 – Bitcoin or bitcon? / Society vs the patient / Bread & circuses / Sadder Budweiser

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Feb 132014

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02:54 : Bitcoin or bitcon? Bitcoin, Canadian Federal Budget, online currencies, Satoshi Nakamoto, volatility of Bitcoin, to each his own, fiat currencies, money laundering, government control of currencies, inflation
16:34 : Health Scare: No patience with patients Andrew Brannon, Freedom Party of Ontario, health care, the needs of the community vs the needs of patients, hospital planning based on community needs, hospital funding, patients needs are subordinated to political power, endless hospital planning studies, profit and loss, influence by pressure groups like ONA and RNAO, the separation of health care and the state, as your economics is sick so is your health care
34:10 : No bread, just circuses: London’s growing white elephant collection Check your premises – The Monument Builders – Ayn Rand, The Normal School purchase, YMCA, It’s not their money, Performing Arts Centre, Celebration Centre, Grand Theatre, Centennial Hall, opportunity for our elected mis-representatives, population threshold for the arts
51:25 : Sadder, Budweiser Budweiser Gardens a failure not a success, JLC, Orlando Zamprognia said it all before, perpetual debt on white elephants, clash of visions 57:09 : End

336 – Guest: Paul McKeever – Freedom Party’s Opposition Budget / Minimum wages

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Feb 062014

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00:07 : Logan’s Runaway from balancing the budget Guest: Paul McKeever – Leader, Freedom Party of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne’s budget, Drummond Report, Balancing the Ontario Budget, end of life care, lethal injections to balance the budget, Tim Hudak chimes in
16:34 : Budging the budgetary elephant: health care’s share OHIP – competition and choice not privatization, taxes, HST, the price of OHIP, health care vouchers, all-day kindergarten, Ontario clean air benefit, opting out of OHIP, Canada Health Act compliance, CAA (Canadian Automobile Association) all candidate’s debate exclusion of Freedom Party candidate Erin Goodwin
34:10 : Maximum denial behind minimum wages Union representation, Ontario minimum wage rise, the relationship between employment and minimum wage laws, the German example, the economic smell test, well-meaning? Kathleen Wynn not sorry for job losses, immorality of minimum wage laws, guaranteed poverty, the employer’s role
51:25 : They do it on purpose minimum wages are designed to hurt the economy, politicians succeeding, beneath our contempt, the evil nature of those who advocate minimum wages, asking Satan to stop sinning, the joke’s on us 57:34 : End

335 – Guest: Salim Mansur – Stephen Harper gets it right about Israel

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Jan 302014

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00:07 : Not harping on Harper: Israel: It’s about survival, Salim Mansur, small ‘l’ liberal, Stephen Harper currying favour with Jews?, the bureaucracy’s involvement in foreign policy, 57 to 1, Canada’s balanced approach to Israel, Western Democratic Group of States, Organization of Islamic States, Harper’s speech to the Knesset
18:03 : Stephen Harper in Israel: Because it is right:Warren Kinsella, to be anti-Israel is to be anti-semitic?, spinning the speech, Israel as an apartheid state?, the left’s hypocrisy on Israel, pulverizing history, re-writing the narrative, blaming the Belgians, fire and water – Harper and Shakespeare, United Nations – anti-Zionism, continuity in government, support for a Palestinian state, people are complex, Jack Layton presses Harper on inconsistency
31:42 : Foreign policy is foreign to domestic politics: foreign policy has little domestic traction, pocket book issues drive elections, Justin Trudeau’s firing Senators and Harper’s response, non-partisan politics?, Harper’s failure domestically, Canada emerging as a great power, Canada is respected abroad, USA no example to follow, Canada not an empire builder
43:50 : In praise of Canada’s values and virtues: Canadians shy about praising our virtues, educating Canadians about our values, Lester Pearson and peace keeping, Pierre Trudeau’s sacking of the military, Canada land of the bland, hot a Hollywood history, punching above our weight, the Edmund Burke model of revolution, making your mark as a Prime Minister 58:28 END

334 – The Asperger’s Excuse / Funding a proper government – The 7% solution / Magna Carta – magna idea

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Jan 232014

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00:07 : Public education’s syndrome syndrome: Asperger’s Syndrome, London Public School Board, Thames Valley District School Board, Asperger’s is not a disease, symptoms of Asperger’s, discipline lacking, bullying not a trait of Asperger’s Syndrome, lack of supervision, children crave structure, lack of male authority figures in schools, only female vice- principals
19:20 : Canada’s federal budget: Can we budge it? How much should the federal government cost?, Canadian federal government: revenues and expenditures, transfer payments, wealth redistribution, essential expenditures, the GST, morality of taxation, a just tax
31:42 : Anti-semantic on taxation: government and taxation, legitimate tax, definitions, legal definitions, tax, compulsion, force, essential elements of tax, right and rights, primary rights, secondary rights, liberty
43:50 : Magna Carta’s taxing proposition for today: Magna Carta 1215 AD, Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton, science and politics, economics and politics, taxation history, origins of parliamentary government, separation of taxing power from spending power 58:28 END

333 – Michael Chong’s a party pooper / Minimum wage – maximum damage

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Jan 162014

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00:07 Chong’s deformed Reform Act: white lies, Michael Chongs’ Reform Act, hyperdemocracy, majority rule, nonconfidence leadership review, government control of political parties, media misinformation and debate,
23:20 For democracy’s sake, party on! leadership, democracy without voting, voting without democracy, democratic participation vs voting, political parties
33:58 Minimum thinking Conservatives: minimum wages, wage and price controls, economics and principles, a Conservative record of socialism and high taxes, taxation
53:00 Got a job? Laissez nous thankful: real job creation vs government job creation, state rationing, capitalism, government intervention in commerce, laissez nous faire 58:59 END

332 – Ann Coulter on evolution / Playing God / Banning light bulbs / Kellogg’s is just right

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Jan 092014

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02:30 Ann Coulter’s airy evolution idea: Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially A Republican, scientific theory, politics in science, evolution, the Bible, unborn babies, teenagers and sex, Darwin’s theory – the ‘mystery religion from the Victorian age’, random mutation, mathematical impossibilities, complex mechanisms, theory without God, ‘God created the world and I’m not particularly interested in the details’, intelligent design,
17:10 Let’s play god: acting against principle, light of knowledge as the creator of moral choice, creationism vs evolution, no first cause, species evolution – an epistemological event
31:57 Just makes no incandescents: 2014 incandescent light bulb ban, bulb manufacturers are behind the ban, General Electric – Sylvania – Philips vs capitalism, consumer choice, no such thing as ‘crony capitalism’, criminal politicians, dirigisme, lobbying government for market monopolies, ‘greedy capitalists’
50:45 Kellogg’s lane change: Kellogg’s plant closing in London, market changes, Kellogg Lane, thank Kellogg’s – don’t condemn it, no greedy corporation, Kellogg’s has its Just Right 58:08 END

331- No monopoly on hating capitalism / The ethics of terraforming / Mitigating Marxism in the classroom

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Dec 192013

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00:07 No Monopoly On Hating Capitalism: Parker Brothers board game Monopoly, capitalism and monopoly, capitalism and ethics, “Capitalism is like an unfair game of monopoly”, Goldwin Emerson, free enterprise, the Game of monopoly
15:20 Boards Of Ethics: Monopoly’s vs Capitalism’s: socialist-minded ethics, equality vs justice, parenting, emotional indulgence, profit and loss, socialist system, monopolies created by governments, outlawing capitalism in space, Communist China lands a rover on the moon, homestead principle, no sovereignty in space?
27:30 The Ethics of Terraforming: terraforming Mars, no life on Mars, bio-centrists, David Suzuki says he is no different than a slug, UN outer space treaties, prohibiting terraforming, hatred of man and life itself is the motivation, altering nature is Man’s nature, private space ventures, asteroid mining, China’s lunar rover, United Nations vs space exploration
44:49 Mitigating Marxism In The Classroom: feedback Public education system, Emily Noble – Canadian Teachers’ Federation president and executive on council of Canadian Labour Congress, Communist Party of Canada labour activists, communist roots of the Teachers’ Federation, Marxist agenda of public school system, feedback from teacher, social studies and science studies are ‘disturbing’, teacher’s dilemma, mitigating the damage, personal happiness first 55:51 END

330 – Pray for us? / Post delivery age / Almost Human / Political definitions

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Dec 122013

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00:07 Pray For Us: feedback on Rand’s groupies and followers, helping the poor, Ayn Rand in poverty, capitalism, Pope Francis, abstractions vs concretes
14:49 Post Delivery Age: Rob Ford, Ford Vs Blair budget debate, media reaction to Rob Ford, Public Education and Ryan’s Law, Ryan Gibbons, asthma inhaler, loco parentis, Colorado six-year-old kiss = sexual harrassment, Canada Post, elimination of door-to-door service, postal monopoly, privatizing postal delivery, corporation not liable for loss of mail, competition cure
38:02 Almost Robot: TV show recommendation: Almost Human, caller Scott on Canada Post, developers pay for community mail boxes, Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Mackenzie Crook, 2048 back-drop to stories, good on screen chemistry, sci-fi robots, human-robot TV teams, Almost Human’s potential
42:12 Mislead Millions With Poli-talk: Obamacare so Obama cares, William Safire’s Political Dictionary, language of politics, ideas, the ‘idea of freedom’, ideology, political proverbs and axioms 55:32 END

329 – Pope Francis frank about capitalism / Being frank about Francis / $hocking profits / Up front about back-room politics

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Dec 052013

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02:48 Francis Frank About Capitalism: Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis’ ‘Joyful News’ on politics and the economy, attack on capitalism and Western values, calls for sacrifice and government intervention, Mother Theresa and suffering, consumerism, blaming capitalism for poverty
09:53 Frank About Francis: unfettered capitalism, mixed economy, distribution of income, quoting Pope Francis, prosperity breeds generosity – not the reverse, faith against capitalism, idolatry of money, reality’s dominion, medium of exchange – currency, the pope advocates violence and theft, ‘not sharing is stealing’, philosophy of the arbitrary
29:57 $hocking Profit$: London hydro bill breakdown, profit and price, electricity pricing, electricity billing, Heinz ketchup and profit, price of labour
42:01 Up-Front Back-Room Politics: municipal council meetings, Ontario ombudsman, Billy T’s, ethics and democracy, group diversity requirement, blocking voting blocs, Andre Marin, complaint system replaces rule of law, complaints or complainants?, transparent process, assuming the role of the voter, ‘open government’ 58:06 END

328 – Russell’s Brand of socialism / Teacher bashing

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Nov 282013

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00:07 A Pathetic Viewpoint: Glen Pearson on Rob Ford, apathy, democracy, public virtue, sacrifice for better future, Abraham Lincoln, compassion before ethics, Bruce Tallman on Rob Ford, Jesus Christ, passing judgment, ethics in politics, Rob Ford littering, taxes up in Toronto
19:05 Russell’s Brand Of Socialism: Jeremy Paxman interviews Russell Brand, not voting, not apathy, the political class, socialism, Brand’s socialism is the oldest brand of totalitarianism, Russell Brand’s humour
34:24 Parens Patriae Bashing: teacher bashing, public education, facilitators of public education’s destructive, disintegration of knowledge in public education, gun drawn, in loco parentis = “in place of the parent”, teaching and discipline, lunch supplements, parens patriae = “parent of the nation”, no touching policies, sexual touching policies
46:10 Dsinitgertaion Of Knowledge: school bans, blame the teachers, public education is propaganda machine of the left, destruction of the family, knowledge is hierarchical, public schools abandon knowledge, no education standards, whole language, poor literacy skills 56:56 END

327 – Rob Ford and pussy politics: The media is the message

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Nov 212013

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00:07 Robbed Ford: significance of the Rob Ford controversy, false media rumours, the ‘other’ Rob Ford, informed voters need the facts, defending Ford on principle not ideology, politics is personal, why Rob Ford has enemies, waving the red flag, overriding voters’ authority, news reports on Rob Ford
15:20 The ‘P’ Word: bully politics, Ford ‘needs help’ = crocodile altruism, drug use, drug prohibition, Sherlock Holmes in pre-prohibition times
27:24 Media Is The Message: Ted Harlson’s report from Toronto city hall, Toronto police files on Rob Ford, majority Ford support not reported by media, media objectivity, collapse of moral and intellectual standards in media reporting, conversation with a ‘journalist’
45:27 Beyond Democracy: PC Randy Hillier’s recall bill, the democratic illusion of recall legislation, perpetual political class vs voters, why Ford will win in Toronto’s next election 56:17 END

326 – Victory in the No Go Zone | Gary and Christine McHale, Mark Vandermaas

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Nov 142013

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00:07 Nation Notion: Guests: Gary McHale, Christine McHale, Mark Vandermaas, A brief history of Caledonia, Ontario Provincial Police, Six Nations has no legal claim to land, nation notion, OPP lack of response to violence is the issue, nine arrests, appeasement of native protesters, ‘Victory In The No-Go Zone’ – a book of hope, counter-propaganda tactics, London police are the storm troopers on the book cover, no riot gear for OPP, sued for $7.1 million, liberating lawsuit, paying price for freedom
17:36 An Arresting Situation: Ezra Levant, aggravating people, police contradictions, acting upset, repeated arrests no trials, arrest to prevent a breach, OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino, arresting the innocent, protest by arrest, Charter of Rights means nothing to police, private prosecutions
31:25 Victory In The No-Go Zone – Who Won? Who Lost? OPP declared the no-go zones, non-natives only, establishing your rights, acknowledging rights, police policy, victory for hope
41:30 Language Barriers: nations within nations, Six nations, aboriginal voices, two-tier justice, two-tier policing, natives vs natives, no marital status, aboriginal exception, solution is equality, ‘official’ status, the Indian Act: form vs function 55:28 END

325 – Ford nation or resig-nation? / Ontario ‘No-Go’ zones

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Nov 072013

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00:07 No Go Zones – From EMDC To Caledonia: murder at Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre, crime vs punishment, Chocolate-Gate In London West, Gold-Gate in Germany, wiretaps, Fort Knox, GUEST: Gary McHale, Victory In The No-Go Zone, two-tier policing in Caledonia, book-signing, Rob Ford’s trials, who Rob Ford wasn’t
15:20 Ford Nation Or Resig-Nation? Rob Ford on crack, CALLER: Scott – Andy Oudman on Rob Ford, threat to democracy, drug use as a disease, slave to ideology, double standards
30:50 Politically-Altering Substances: fear of drugs, mind-altering, mood-altering, why smokers smoke, addiction, choice, not disease but condition, tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, drug possession, drug consumption, drug trade, Marc Emery, Stephen Harper vs Justin Trudeau on marijuana, honesty and drugs
49:47 Lying To State – A Truth: denial and deceit, self-incrimination, punished for speaking truth, confluence of interests, democracy 59:39 END

324 – Guest: Ted Wernham: President – Wernham Wealth Management, Past Chair – London Transit Commission, Four-term member of London City Council

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Oct 312013

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00:07 Last Survivors Of The Middle Class: Guest: Ted Wernham, CHRW radio, wealth vs money, wealth management a process, drowning in information and starving for knowledge, streams of income, don’t save money in RSPs, unlocking retirement accounts, explaining the Canada Pension Plan, underfunded government pensions, last survivors of the middle class, redistributing the private wealth, retirement myths, universal old age security
18:00 Municipal Poll-itics: municipal politics, get back to what’s real, municipal government – business or government, provision of service, clean water – removal of waste – protection, customer not provider, municipal scandals, responsibility in government, back to fundamentals, ombudsman on ‘Billygate’, politics by poll, respecting the position held, public transit inconvenience, public transit monopoly, easy to change legislation if you choose to, garbage collection rotating calendar
33:34 State Of Finance: cost of government services, debts and deficits, quantitative easing is printing currency, future financing and interest, can’t run your household the way government does, income tax, US dollar as world’s reserve currency, short term politicians, the US treasury’s ‘gold coin’, who cares for the elderly?, pension plan claw-backs
46:09 Trading Perspectives: New York commodities exchange, stock exchanges then and now, positive future, retirement planning, living older than expected, is retirement real?, lifestyle by poll, freedom 55 a myth, pension gap, working because you want to, positive power of negative thinking 58:59 END

323 – Guest: Tarek Fatah – Islamism and the hierarchy of hate

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Oct 242013

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00:07 Mosque We? mediocrity of the left, war against
civilization has begun, storm on the horizon, left and right are both wrong,
the right wing’s burden and poor track record, every Mosque in Canada funded by
Saudis, born in Canada Islamic Culture, Saudi Arabia, London has largest
proportion of Muslims, Tarek Loubani, Egypt, humanitarian aid, obsessed with
anti-Semitism, gay marriage, heirachy of hate, demonizing the Jews, Mosques –
from community centres to political hotbeds, Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood
are behind the radicalization of Islam
17:39 The Connecting Flight To Paradise: London Muslim views, deeply
religious vs the ninety percent who don’t go to mosques, making money on our
enemies, moderates vs radicals, Toronto police complaint, diversity committee,
police infiltration, Muslim Canadian Congress, separation of religion and
state, aim to get funded is the death of an organization, not about inter-faith
dialogue but a political process, home grown enemies of Western culture, belief
in life after death, a fascist group that is a death cult, Pakistan the center
of terrorism
31:55 Malala’s Journey – From Freedom To Education: Malala Yousafzai, role of education for women, Malala Foundation, education replaces freedom, educated terrorists, education is not the issue, enlightenment among the illiterate, think-tank solutions are profit motivated, eliminate not educate, Nobel Peace Prize rejection, Pakistan, oil boom empowered the Saudis, rationalism a Western ideal
48:00 Freedom Before Democracy: democracy and freedom, universal values not up for debate, freedom before democracy, human life more precious than any other standard, fight the ideological war, Islamofascism is the enemy, Saudi Arabia’s open door to Canada 58:10 END

322 – Money: Morality’s public barometer / Flawed politicians / Tea Party 2.0

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Oct 172013

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00:07 Morality’s Public Barometer – Money: US debt ceiling, moral crisis, Pope Francis, pope attacks global economic system, men and women – not money, Vatican Bank, money, wealth, poverty, people before profit, study wealth not poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, Millennium Villages Project, quest to end poverty, wealth is is a human creation, poverty fighters, wealth is production
21:45 Flawed Thinking About Flawed Politicians: voting, flawed political candidates, redistributing the wealth, no honest politicians, free enterprise, solving poverty
34:53 Mything The Point Of The Tea Party: tarred and feathered, Boston Tea Party December 16 1773, not taxes but representation, a struggle for democracy, American founders were men of enlightenment, taxation without representation, the greater tyranny, a historical footnote – 1776
51:05 From Tea Party To Tar Party: modern Tea Party founding, masses think they’re ‘Paul’, philosophical revolution not yet probable, ignorant rabble, altruism vs egoism, looking for a real Tea Party 58:58 END

321 – Star Trek: Kahn game / Fall TV lineup / Where The Heart Is

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Oct 112013

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00:07 Kahn Game – Star Trek’s Parallel Uni Verse: Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), a Star Trek reincarnation, casting, Wrath of Kahn Two?, parallel themes, searching for the romantic Star Trek; [11:05] 2013 new TV show review: poor casting in Agent of SHIELD, looking for heroes, two thumbs up for The Crazy Ones, Robin Williams’ reputation is his challenge, beef with McDonald’s
17:10 Your Fall Season TV Guys: TV show review: no to The Goldbergs’ narration style, Mom’s edgy humour, Dads with Seth Green and Martin Mull, Super Fun Night’s zany chemistry works, campy Atlantis with Greek gods and minotaurs, Hello Ladies funny, Witches of East End worth a look, Sleepy Hollow enjoyable
29:40 Capitalism Is Where The Art Is: Movie Review: Where The Heart Is (1990), a celebration of art and capitalism, profit and loss, adversity and failure, art, beauty, plot overview, Roger Ebert’s 1.5 out of 4 unreasonable criticism of reasonable characters, romantic art, light and truth
53:21 End Program: TV cancellations, sudden endings to favourite TV shows, binge watching in self defense, time invested in Under the Dome, Lucky Seven cancelled, two (what?s) up for Masters of Sex, writers ‘ strike block: Moonlight, Drive, Eastwick, Invasion, Back To You 1:00:02 END

320 – Capitalism’s floating distractions / Tyranny is not normal / Fabian socialism

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Oct 032013

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00:07 Capitalism’s Floating Distractions: US budgetary crisis, Tom McInerney, socialism, capitalism, socialized medicine, health insurance, insurance premiums, Ponzi Scheme, currency inflation, economic markets, Obamacare, morality, argument from intimidation, ideology
24:53 The Price Is Metaphysically Right: Kevin Williamson, prices, central planning, socialism, price transparency, federally chartered cartel, credit-rating agencies, inflation
32:50 Tyranny Is Not Normal: Obamacare, Bill Clinton, socialism as reality, accepting one’s fate, complacency under tyranny, Adolf Hitler, tyranny as normal, the frog in the pot, Fabianism, history’s lesson, Soviet Union, complacency under tyranny, Douglas-Coldwell Foundation, Tommy Douglas, M J Coldwell, ominous parallels between NDP and socialist Nazi Germany and socialist Russia, normalcy is progressive, progressive conservative parties, greed and security, Sunday shopping, collective slavery
45:32 A Real Ass Hat: Was Hitler evil?, passing moral judgment on character, parameters of judgment, ad hominem attacks, Obama an evil ass hat 57:41 END

319 – Journalism by ommission / Syria – Better dying through chemisty / Ont. PC convention / Right to work?

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Sep 262013

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03:40 All The News Not Fit To Print: Egypt, current events, Morsi democratically elected, army vs Muslim Brotherhood, avoiding facts in the news,
Arab Spring and democracy, election plans, information vacuum, media mistake,
majority wisdom, media cover ups
19:18 Weapons: Stephen Harper On Chemicals – Is He? Syria, chemical
weapons, Obama’s red line, precedent, a brief history of chemical warfare
34:17 Conventional ContradicTories: Ontario PC convention, Tim Hudak,
democracy, leadership, London West by-election, by-election results, robopolls
46:18 The Not Quite Right To Work Laws: right to work, jobs, Sid Ryan,
unions, PC plan, union dues, political spending, job creation 57:49
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318 – DemoCrazy / Muslim Brotherhood / Quebec’s Charter of Values / Wrong rights

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Sep 192013

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00:07 Crazy About ‘cracy: democracy, London’s Wael Haddara a trusted adviser to Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Freedom and Justice Party, freedom and rights, a free democratic Egypt, Brotherhood of Blood – Egypt 1928, Hassan el Banna, laws of the Koran, advancement of Islam, theocracy vs democracy, voting
14:57 Democracy Is Still An Alien Concept:freedom and religion, exporting democracy, religious liberty, First Amendment (1791), religious liberty, political vs religious civility, value-neutrality, multiculturalism, cultural breakdown, pluralism, communitarianism vs libertarianism, relativism, rights, one-person one-vote, taxation without representation
32:31 OrnaMental – Charting Quebec’s Values: Quebec’s Charter of Values, freedom of religion, banning of facial coverings, religious dress and ornamentation, division of loyalties, oath to the monarch or pope, , Catholics, Islam Christians Jews, no right to be irrational, imposing obligations, no right to violate life liberty property, no rational reason to ban religious garb, no conflict between personal expression and government employment
43:30 Wrong Rights: evasion of reality, rights that are just wishes and demands, United Nations list of rights, false rights, things as rights, imposing obligations on others, wrongs not rights, rights are a moral concept, individual rights 55:43 END

317 – Left and right, right and wrong, or Just Right?

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Sep 122013

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00:07 Not Right Wing, Just Right: Just Right, left and right, ‘totalitarian capitalism’, political spectrum, power struggle, socialism is a dirty word
16:40 The Uncentred Center: political superstitions in the centre, why there is no centre, left-overs, from left right and centre to just right
34:20 Sinister Or Dexterous? Who’s Right? Caller Matthew: food and poison, etymology of left and right, a brief history of left-wing and right-wing, France 1789, monarchists and revolutionaries, extreme right and left, fluid political ideologies, consistency prevails, blurred ideological distinctions, conservatives legislate most left, dexterous, ruler of conduct, negative left, sinister, right or wrong – not right or left, just right, Star Trek series on philosophy
47:47 Foreign To Reason Policy On Syria: Yaron Brook, why Syria? conventional vs chemical weapons, foreign policy based on emotion and fear, no self-interest at stake, Obama’s stupid red line, the real red line, altruistic intervention, emotion-driven foreign policy, protect individual rights, true left and right, Star Trek’s prime directive, trade embargo 1:00:05 END

316 – Chemical warfear/ Unions vs. capitalism / Fasces faeces

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Sep 052013

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00:07 Chemical WarFear: chemical attack in Syria, US military action planned in Syria, why Syria?, Syrian rebels worse than Assad, no official or moral rationale for banning of chemical weapons, sarin gas, American use of sarin gas, irrational fear of chemical weapons, fear of death without blood, preference for conventional weapons
15:00 Unions Vs Capitalism: misrepresentation of capitalism, work hard and prosper, crony forms of capitalism, celebrating Labour Day, Sid Ryan, capitalism not working any more, cost of labour politics on business, share the profit but not the losses, minimum wage laws, Patti Dalton, neo-liberal policies, greedyism, exploitation
32:40 Greed Is Eternally Exploitable: greed and self-interest, concern with welfare of others, group greed vs individual greed, negotiation, exploitation, employment, management organizes labour, unions organize violence, civilized culture vs socialism
44:52 Fasces faeces: capitalism, rational self interest, moral is the practical, socialism, morality of death, mystics of spirit, mystics of muscle, Solidarity Forever, lyrics of strength through unity, fasces, Italian fascism, feeble strength of one, employer as greedy parasite, power of one, no collective mind, unions advocate fascism 57:56 END

315 – Full disclosure / Just say YES! to cannabis

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Aug 292013

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04:10 Full Disclosure: Who Dat Who Say ‘Who Dere’ When I Say Who Dat? full disclosure, informed choice, positive plus negative, cooking with wood, pipelines, personal disclosure, climate change, pollution, oil sands, mother nature and father time, apart or separate from nature?, a society of sound bytes, being right, truth vs consensus, Alex’s adventure in wondering which service, information shortage, green energy, vested interest, industry expertise vs industry interest, lose-lose green energy future, coal plants in Germany, special interests affecting the news and public perception
20:43 Green With Energy: price of electricity, accepting disclosure, accepting the financial loss, full disclosure in green energy, tar sands project, corporate responsibility accepted, oil leak, no devastating catastrophe, industry reputation, well intentioned well written but uninformed, environment never better, future generations, environmentalists, industrial revolution, Silent Spring, DDT, malaria, population bomb, ice age, anti-industrial revolution, motivated by destruction
31:40 Just Say Yes! To Cannabis: cannabis users, cannabis prohibition, marijuana, politicians, drug culture, hyPOTcrisy video, Justin Trudeau pot admissions, Marc Emery clears up misunderstanding between himself and Trudeau, coming out of the cannabis closet, trust and credibility issue, Rob Ford and pot
44:22 In Pot We Trust: majority want pot legalized, oath to Queen and country, oath to the Crown, swearing as a Canadian citizen, upholding the law vs changing the law, sovereignty, symbolic not literal, lying vs obeying the law, the trust dilemma, Marc Emery trusts Trudeau, polls justify, integrity, law breaking as the means of law changing 56:41 END

314 – Hatred of Ayn Rand / Envy / Citizen Marc

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Aug 222013

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00:07 How Much Was That Doggie In The Window? hating capitalism, self interest as evil, ban on the sale of dogs and cats, puppy mills, altruism as a moral code, animal welfare, Judy Foster, London Humane Society, Mark Beatty, Pets Paradise, animal sales vs adoptions 15:58: Ayn Rand Nation, Gary Weiss, Ayn Rand, truth winning, Ayn Rand as electoral candidate – not
20:12 Hatred Of The Rand For Being Ayn: Gary Weiss, Ayn Rand Nation, free tuition and chaos, government above morality, no fan of Ayn Rand, ideas, controlling capitalism, who wants to control socialism?, government as the good, kill the messenger, messenger’s dead but message lives
33:30 Enviously Not Obviously: Peter Foster on peddlers of envy, Chrystia Freeland, Linda McQuaig, emotional primitives, envy is politically useful, Communist Manifesto, Galt’s speech, the selfless zero, conspiracy against the mind, the age of envy, hatred of the good for being the good
43:04 Citizen Marc, Citizen Marked: Citizen Marc, Roger Larry, Montreal Film Festival, Marc Emery, Paul McKeever, Principle of Pot, Chris Doty, Messing Up The System, Citizen Kane, documentaries, megalomaniac narcissist, Roger Larry despises Ayn Rand, demonizing mom 57:50 END

313 – Any Ayn daRn Rand Nation notiaN / Ayn Rand: from Aristotle to Charlie’s Angels

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Aug 152013

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00:07 Any Ayn daRn Rand Nation notiaN: Ayn Rand, Gary Weiss, Ayn Rand Nation, disturbing and disturbed, an Objectivist America, capitalism, free market, fanatical about reality
22:35 What’s The ‘Matter’ With Ayn Rand? Why Ayn Rand Matters, moral component, selfishness, greed, Ayn Rand an extremist, individualism, Objectivism, Tea Party, inconsistent stands, William F Buckley Jr, Whittaker Chambers, gas chambers, Atlas Shrugged, Virtue of Selfishness most popular book, caricature of the caricature
33:38 Government Above The Law Of Man: The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Tea Party, Gary Weiss, government financing in a free society, taxation, Taxpayer Protection Act, political systems and ethics, morality not applicable to society, outside the moral law, individual rights, moral code, legal code, when right is might, internal corruption as the means to destroy individual rights, social benefits as rights, turning political rights into economic rights, “Freedom means responsibility. That’s why most men fear it.”
54:07 What’s The Matter With Gary Weiss? art, reality, unreality, romanticism, Gary Weiss, Ayn Rand, publish, Ayn Rand Nation 57:45 END

312 – Sophism’s choices: war, slavery, theocracy, monopoly

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Aug 082013

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00:07 We’re All Effed: feedback, capitalism, socialism, ideal, communism works, ideal is that which is achievable, not perfect, force, fraud, pure capitalism, profit and loss, business
15:28 There Are Capitalists And Then There Is Capitalism: race to the bottom, capitalists, capitalism, business, labour, plunder, no alternatives no solutions, your cure for corporate radio, public radio, CHRW, corporate radio, effed, Frederic Bastiat
33:15 Sophism’s Choices – War, Slavery, Theocracy, Monopoly: Frederic Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, the physiology of plunder, production vs plunder, at another’s expense, legal system, moral code, war, slavery, theocracy, monopoly, fraud, when reason is taboo, government services are restrictions, negotiated price, opening their eyes to the evil, the only remedy is enlightened public opinion, the nature of plunder, wealth destruction
51:36 Honestly! honest people, economic fallacies, abundance vs scarcity, theory of scarcity 58:37 END

311 – Capitalism / Censorship / No pasta for you!

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Aug 012013

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00:07 Capitalism: If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: capitalism under attack, fixing capitalism, social good, prosperity, a different capitalism, Delaware, B-corp, Benefit Corporation, market need vs societal need, distributing the benefits of progress, don’t maximize shareholder value, not capitalism, who benefits?, social benefit, two types of capitalists, unknown ideal, retool and tool, economic sophism, Adam Smith’s invisible hand, win-win, communism, fascism, value, losing enterprises, profit
19:57 Economic Fables, Political Realities: economic fables, war is good for business, cart before horse, heart before course, ends and means, process vs future end, classless society, SEIU, healthcare for people not profit, profit vs rationing, concierge medicine
35:17 No Pasta For You – Quebec’s New Soup Nazis: Quebec language policing, french fascism, language insecurity, English endures, no laughing matter, censorship is the road to violence, freedom of speech, International Free Press Society, interests vs rights
50:10 Freedom’s Pillars: Freedom Of Speech And The Truth: freedom of speech, rule of law, civil unrest, truth, censorship is a useful tool, David Cameron and pornography ban, thin edge of the wedge 60:32 END

310 – London West by-election / London Fringe Press / Bankrupt Detroit

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Jul 252013

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00:07 The London West Lie-Election: my adventure in politics, absent Al Gretzky, personal account of the first London West all candidates debate, Who is Al Gretzky?, media gap, Al Where Art Thou?, London Free Press, no tweet, Paul McKeever, Ontario Budget
24:45 The London Fringe Press? London Free Press, avoiding Al Gretzky, reader reaction to Free Press, erosion of the fourth estate, public record, many consequences of biased news reporting, the written word, if it isn’t written it didn’t happen
30:54 Bankrupt Philosophy – Bankrupt Detroit: Detroit bankruptcy, story of Detroit, Windsor, Motown music and CKLW Radio, Ayn Rand’s Starnesville, a tale of two motor cities
41:53 Capitalism Builds Cities, Socialism Destroys Them: unfunded pension liabilities, OMERS, fragile civilization, capitalism builds cities, socialism destroys cities, big city tribalism, fiscal mismanagement, Laissez-nous faire! – from 1680 France to 2013 Detroit, functions of municipal government, where the jobs are, London parallel, municipal government in entertainment, traffic calming curbs, basic services, mass transit 57:21 END

309 – Rolling Stone / Light bulb ban / Cell phone grab / Stellar dialogue zone

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Jul 182013

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03:25 Un The Cover Of Rolling Stone: Rolling Stone Cover, Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, musician’s lament, David Michael Draiman, glorifying violence, polarization, low voter turnout, civility in politics, what we decide matters, voting reform, voting on line, disagreement is part of politics, party politicians, killing the debate through unity, democracy vs majority rule
18:28 No IncandeSense: 2014 federal incandescent bulb ban, stockpiling light bulbs, Green Energy Act, rationing electricity, London Free Press a disservice to readers, the public record, London West byelection, Al Gretzky, London Free Press poll, a brief history of Toronto’s Casa Loma, Sir Henry Pellatt, federal NDP, Thomas Mulcair, Quebec train disaster, Lac Megantic, regulating in the public interest, no tragedy should go to waste
32:10 A Phone-y Issue: emergency phone system – 999, phones are a distraction, distracted drivers, cell phone bans, Stephen Orser, Ali Chahbar, object of distraction: electronic communication or entertainment device, subject of behaviour: drivers, no due process of law, statutory misbehaviour, more police powers no answer
47:10 Exoplanets: Any Life Signs? earth-like planets, Gliese 667 Cc, exoplanets, knowledge is existence, a discovery happens only once, Pluto is still a planet, planet types: rocky gas dwarf, only 22 light years from earth, interstellar communication, ESI Earth similarity index, alien life signs, Robert’s Dialogue Zone, stellar communication zone is 30 light years 58:32 END

308 – Snowden job / London Free of Press about Gretzky

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Jul 112013

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03:05 Snowden Job: feedback from Matthew: a hellish story; guilt; [06:10] Edward Snowden affair, state secrets, rights violations, violations of law, whistle blower, which whistle to blow?
14:14 London Free Of Press About Gretzky: London West by-election, media coverage, London Free Press election handicap, media contrasts, Gretzky election commercial, Al Gretzky, Freedom Party, voting for change, different parties with same ideas, Patrick Maloney, disservice to voters, chance of winning
29:56 What’s The Point Of Running… …A Free Press Editorial? political spectrum, Greg Van Moorsel, wannabe politicians, corrupt but electable vs principled but rejectable,
41:30 Hard(ly) Right Progressive Conservatives: right left out, Progressive Conservatives brought us: health insurance monopoly, income tax, retail sales tax, rent controls, LCBO monopoly, electricity monopoly, 100kph speed limits, and support: Green Energy Act, deficits till 2017-18 or whenever 56:41 END

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