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367 – Prohibiting drug prohibition / Teaching Johnny to Think ~ Leonard Peikoff

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Sep 112014

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00:07 A call to prohibit drug prohibition: Global Commission on Drug Policy, United Nations, proposal to decriminalize all drugs, the King of Pot, Jimmy Cournoyer, Prince of Pot, Marc Emery returns to Canada
15:45 Political pot shots? Or practical strategy? Jodie Emery, Liberal Party of Canada, principle and politics, all political parties break promises, left and right, philosophical vulnerability of Liberal Party, NDP, Thomas Mulcair and cannabis decriminalization, contradictions between objectives and strategies, the missing debate
32:30 Why Johnny is Bored and Confused: teaching problems in the schools, Teaching Johnny To Think by Leonard Peikoff, teaching facts at the perceptual level, teaching at a conceptual level, integrated vs disintegrated model of schooling, disintegration, misintegration, integration through objective teaching
44:45 Teaching Johnny to Think: five theories of education, classical theory, socialization theory, child centered theory, moral behavioural theory, cognitive theory, intrinsic vs subjective theories of cognition, objective theory of cognition, systematic process, reading, writing, arithmetic, mathematics, history, science, literature, little or no hope in public school system 55:22 END

354 – Can taxation be justified? / Is taxation slavery?

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Jun 122014

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00:07 Just taxation buys justice: Proper taxation in a free society, feedback on taxation, Ayn Rand on taxation, Objectivism on taxation, voluntary government financing, arresting principle, initiation of force
15:06 An arresting argument: Justice is arresting, Proper government, jails, errors in due process, imposition of a tax on sales, nature of proper government, necessary conditions and institutions for a free society, indirect way to the general welfare, tax injustices, income tax is a bad tax
31:07 No tax freedom any day: Tax Freedom Day June 9 2014, value for tax dollar, war, crime, law and order, early Roman empire, brief history of Roman taxation, ‘voluntary’ taxes are sales taxes, King Louis XIV, worst form of tax
45:45 Is taxation slavery? economic slavery, debt, slave trade in ancient civilizations, definitions of slavery, Greek slavery, Roman slavery, tax slavery 56:18 END

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

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

125 – Legalizing prostitution / Local TV vs cable / Hatred of the good for being the good

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Oct 222009

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Feedback: On Voting And Socialists
Legalizing Prostitution – Who’s The Victim?
Local TV Versus Cable – ‘A’ Channel’s Don Mumford Gets An ‘A’
Lights Out! – On Everything Good

120 – Nature and purpose of government / Playboy philosophy / The extradition of Marc Emery

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Sep 172009

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Ayn Rand, Isabel Paterson, Leonard Peikoff – On The Nature And Purpose Of Government
The Playboy Philosophy – Freedom, Capitalism, Reason, Consent
Playboy’s Hugh Hefner On Politics, Religion, Sex
Is It Justice? Prince Of Pot Marc Emery Awaits Extradition