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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

305 – Fracking Gasland / Words to live or die by, honestly

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Jun 202013

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02:40 Fracking Environmentalists! blipverts, fiction as documentary, Gasland, Josh Fox, hydraulic fracturing, fracking, FrackNation, water on fire, Phelim McAleer, government regulations, private property rights
12:06 Oil’s Well That Ends Well: Gasland vs FrackNation, speculation, water chemicals, motivation, the real story, Leni Riesenstahl, Triumph Of The Will, Cinéma vérité, arrogance and snobbery, emotion instead of truth or fact, Gasland Oscar nominations, oil, pollution, environmentalism, private property
32:22 Words To Live Or Die By: trust, politics of I, morality of we, David Brooks, individualism, demoralization, words and phrases, communal words, individualistic words, moral terms, courage words, bravery, social science terms, governmentalization, moral awareness, moral culture, Briar MacLean, hero, cultural vocabulary
45:30 Trust Me – I’m Honest: fink, my generation, four horsemen, truth, beauty, honour (honor), verities, right and wrong, social metaphysics, definitions, honest people, reality the common denominator, reality check, fact, truth, honesty, lying, intellectual honesty, taking ideas seriously, selfish virtue, when lying is the honest thing to do, knowledge and choice, false guilt, law of identity 59:28 END

302 – My, Me, Mine: The virtue of selfishness

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May 302013

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00:07 Journey Into Selfishness: Dr. Yaron Brook, capitalism most moral system, sacrifice, individual pursuit of happiness, rational self interest, socialism, morality, Ayn Rand, cronyism
09:26 Capitalism Works – So Socialists Lie: capitalism in decline, from poverty to plenty, socialism, fascism, self evident truth that capitalism works, Paul Krugman lies, salt-water economists, government and economy, lying as a weapon, lying philosophy, socialists lie, sharing for sharing’s sake, conditioned for slavery, Montessori instruction, lying is the tool of the left, selfishness
28:25 Just Sad: A Society Built On Sacrifice: JP Morgan, 1907 financial crisis, banking, selfishness, federal reserve, Alan Greenspan, selflessness, elevator regulations, disinterested bureaucrats, robber ethics, altruism, sacrifice, self interest, degrees of fascism, reason, good, evil, thought, productive work, the good, first paycheque
41:45 Saints Alive! Bill Gates Or Heaven’s Gate? moral revolution, group behaviour, morality of service to others, best of both, trading societies, moral credit, Saint Bill Gates, the benevolent society, forced benevolence, cultural revolution through stories, stories of sacrifice, stories of heroes, selfishness is love of humanity, examples of positive stories, work 56:02 END

300 – Totally self issues

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May 162013

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00:07 Conversation: Objectivist – Subjectivist – Intrinsicist personal, religious intrinsicism, nihilistic subjectivism, morality, good, evil, selfishness, altruism, morality, libertarians are the gun control advocates of politics, rational, irrational, anti-life, value, knowledge, punishment, moral choice
16:10 Reality Check: God, Man, Or Underwear? reality check, Shadows and Fog, intrinsicist view, suicide, punishment, karma, right to own life, destiny, reality, theocracy vs democracy, supernatural, Satan, God, hell
30:10 Judge Mentals: Good/Evil – Moral/Immoral – Right/Wrong frightened of freedom, impulses, laws, false gods, divine matters, God, death and dying, Superman, morals and ethics as weakness, Faust, science, knowledge, superstitious, pigeons, moral codes, good and evil, morality and immorality, right and wrong, Cleveland kidnapping, Tim Bosma murder, just a truck, mob, rights, judgment, intentions, action, reality, knowledge vs understanding, John de Ruiter, Pamela Gellar, anti-reason
49:19 Totally Selfish happiness, self hate, need to help, totally selfish, self-sacrifice, duty, altruism, love, generosity, Just Right web site 57:26 END

298 – Guest: Dr. Yaron Brook – Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute

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May 022013

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00:07 Ideas In Conflict – Left And Right Vs Right finance, GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute, morality of capitalism, Free Market Revolution, schools, promoting ideas, left ideas winning, right is left in US, ideas to action, self interest
12:46 A Free Market Revolution – Re-teaching America Its Own Principles market relationship, trade relationship, GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, negative portrayal of capitalists in art and literature, Other People’s Money, self interest seen as vice, businessman, capitalism about self-interest, socialist capitalists, Free Market Revolution, banking, faith in the invisible hand vs visible hand of government, there is no free market, economic stability board, central bankers, revolution vs baby steps, saving the enlightenment, individualism, re-teach America its own principles, art and reality on our side,
left and right are wrong
29:17 Self Interest As The Moral Ideal trading game, faith in the material continuum, GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute, invisible hand, self interest as a moral ideal, happiness and success, voluntary trade is win-win, Tea Party, fear of falling behind, decline of the middle class, political courage required, quick fix with political will, punishing the taxpayers for tax cuts, sequestering, media misunderstanding and propaganda
47:35 Foreign Policy? Or Foreign To Reason? GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, foreign policy, United Nations, Israel, club for savage nations, UN a moral travesty, Canadian foreign policy, Keystone XL pipeline, private business under dictatorships, foreign policy failures, Israel is committing suicide 58:21 END

291 – Dark matters / Ass grab? / What makes a country ‘great?’

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Mar 142013

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01:30 Dark Matters: Why Does London Hydro Want To Keep Us In The Dark? London Hydro, brownouts
14:16 ‘ASSgate’ – Sad BUTT True! – Character ASS ASSination Through Half-ASSed Media Reporting ‘Assgate,’ Sarah Thomson, Rob Ford, feminism, feminists, Megan Walker
31:04 Not So Great Anymore – What Makes A Great Nation? decline of great nations, great ideas, freedom, history, informed electorate
44:46 Whatcott’s Up Doc? Creating Classes Of Citizens And Rights That Are Wrong Ann Coulter, conservatism, free speech, Whatcott decision, hate speech, class society, tribalism, group rights, evil people 58:02 END

290 – The Whatcott decision | Brian Lilley & Paul McKeever

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Mar 072013

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00:07 Exposing The C.B.C. – Just A First Step? news reporting, GUEST Brian Lilley, ‘CBC Exposed’, media bias, state broadcasting, Canadian content
14:53 No Room For Truth In A Class Society GUEST Brian Lilley, left wing journalism, right wing journalism, Supreme Court Whatcott decision, hate speech, truth no defense, Human Rights Commissions
28:33 Supreme Contradictions In The ‘Whatcott Ruling’ Bill Whatcott, Supreme Court Whatcott decision, GUEST Paul McKeever, truth no defense, democratic disenfranchisement
39:30 “Democratic Disenfranchisement” OR “Shut Up And Listen To Me!” hate crimes, democratic rights, GUEST Paul McKeever, hate speech, demonstrably justifiable, immunity from criticism, religious belief, unalienable rights, democracy 56:14 END