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363 – Anti-Semitism / Green Party principles / Legally unborn / Blood Suckers / Happiness

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Aug 142014

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00:07 Jew-ish: anti-Semitism, ancient roots of tribalism, roots of hatred, the Christ, World War 2 anti-Semitism, strange beliefs, taking sides on Hamas vs Israel, left sides with Hamas, Gaza and Israel – contrasting cultures, anti-capitalism, media taking sides, Canadians siding with Hamas, Israel in the right
17:55 Relatively Green Party: Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May, anti-Semitism, moral relativism, party of principles, Hamas vs Israel, Green Party’s six global values, Paul Estrin resignation from Green Party
29:30 Blood suckers / Legally unborn: Ontario blood supply, banning of payments to blood donors, tragedy at Costco, legally unborn, personhood, when rights begin and accrue, London grieves Addison Hall and Rhiannon, grief’s dilemma
43:30 Happiness is a warm sum: happiness, sadness, depression, a measure of happiness, measuring happiness, expectations, stimulus and response, Britain’s Great Brain Experiment, happy studies make happy policymakers 53:45 END

361 – Power grab / Forget me ought / None sum / Polar expedition

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Jul 312014

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00:07 Power grab: Ontario Ombudsman, London city council, Billy Ts, open meeting laws, power grab, hydro rate increase, flat rate hydro, smart meters, supply and demand for electricity
13:40 Forget me ought: anti-spam legislation, Canadian business reacts to spam laws, CASL, crony favouritism, spam law beneficiaries, European Court of Justice, internet search providers, suppressing offending links, on line reputation, deleting the past
29:01 None sum: Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the nones, religious demographics, religious choices, belief in God, social issues, religious and secular
40:55 Polar expedition: superstition, Pope Francis, exorcism, bible, allegory, the devil, literalism, traditional world view, modern world view, postmodern world view, polarization, reason, principle and politics 53:07 END

361 – Power grab / Forget me ought / None sum / Polar expedition

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Jul 312014

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342 – Unintended consequences / Past, present, and futile

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Mar 202014

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00:07 Unintended consequences… : unintended consequences, intentions, flat fee health care reform worse than before, unforeseen consequences of purposeful action, Adam Smith, Robert K Merton, intending social change, positive-negative-opposite consequences, unintended consequence of tipping the outhouse, Weeping consequences over the willow, coach’s rules
14:50 …With the best of intentions: Perry Spencer’s unintended chocolate discovery, DDT, Rachel Carson – The Silent Spring, unintended consequence of the DDT ban, unintended consequence of zero tolerance policies, unanticipated consequences of Terry Fox’s marathon run
28:28 Best on intentions: John Macmurray: philosophy, action, intentions, consequences through time, thought, knowledge, future-present-past, good vs evil, moral vs immoral, right vs wrong
42:20 Past, present, and futile: the determined, the existent, the indeterminate, time, causality, human action, intention, philosophy vs science, political left and right, community 55:57 END

339 – Guest: Rituparna Basu – Analyst, Ayn Rand Institute

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Feb 272014

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00:07: What’s killing American health care? Guest: Rituparna Basu (Ayn Rand Institute), health care contrasts: Canada and United States, American health insurance, no health care free market in America, Obamacare (Affordable Care Act), WWII wage and price controls, tax advantage through employer health insurance, disease killing American health care, single-payer health care, Canadians using American health care system, Canada Health Act, universal health care
13:34: What’s killing Canadian health care? Conservative Party history of socialized medicine in Canada, fear of defending free market health care, individual right to not be his ‘brother’s keeper’, ethics of socialized health care, universal health care vs helping the poor, affording expensive health care, getting real value for your health care dollars, long history of controlling health care in America, fascism or socialism, confusing health care with its financing, socialized medicine ok for ‘health care’ not for sick care
28:12: From socialized medicine to socialism: Canada already socialized, freedom needed to improve health care, stifling innovation through government control, all progress made possible by human minds working to succeed, health care insurance or just free health care?, free market rewards the right behaviours, Americans and Canadians: foreign perceptions of each other’s health care system, a doctor ‘brain drain’?
44:02: Personal pain – Universal sufferage: Tommy Douglas, public resistance to private health care options, United Kingdom’s National Health Service set as Canada’s ideal, suffering together – no dignity in suffering, state rationing in health care 54:51 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

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