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

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

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