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

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
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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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