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324 – Guest: Ted Wernham: President – Wernham Wealth Management, Past Chair – London Transit Commission, Four-term member of London City Council

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Oct 312013

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00:07 Last Survivors Of The Middle Class: Guest: Ted Wernham, CHRW radio, wealth vs money, wealth management a process, drowning in information and starving for knowledge, streams of income, don’t save money in RSPs, unlocking retirement accounts, explaining the Canada Pension Plan, underfunded government pensions, last survivors of the middle class, redistributing the private wealth, retirement myths, universal old age security
18:00 Municipal Poll-itics: municipal politics, get back to what’s real, municipal government – business or government, provision of service, clean water – removal of waste – protection, customer not provider, municipal scandals, responsibility in government, back to fundamentals, ombudsman on ‘Billygate’, politics by poll, respecting the position held, public transit inconvenience, public transit monopoly, easy to change legislation if you choose to, garbage collection rotating calendar
33:34 State Of Finance: cost of government services, debts and deficits, quantitative easing is printing currency, future financing and interest, can’t run your household the way government does, income tax, US dollar as world’s reserve currency, short term politicians, the US treasury’s ‘gold coin’, who cares for the elderly?, pension plan claw-backs
46:09 Trading Perspectives: New York commodities exchange, stock exchanges then and now, positive future, retirement planning, living older than expected, is retirement real?, lifestyle by poll, freedom 55 a myth, pension gap, working because you want to, positive power of negative thinking 58:59 END

310 – London West by-election / London Fringe Press / Bankrupt Detroit

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Jul 252013

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00:07 The London West Lie-Election: my adventure in politics, absent Al Gretzky, personal account of the first London West all candidates debate, Who is Al Gretzky?, media gap, Al Where Art Thou?, London Free Press, no tweet, Paul McKeever, Ontario Budget
24:45 The London Fringe Press? London Free Press, avoiding Al Gretzky, reader reaction to Free Press, erosion of the fourth estate, public record, many consequences of biased news reporting, the written word, if it isn’t written it didn’t happen
30:54 Bankrupt Philosophy – Bankrupt Detroit: Detroit bankruptcy, story of Detroit, Windsor, Motown music and CKLW Radio, Ayn Rand’s Starnesville, a tale of two motor cities
41:53 Capitalism Builds Cities, Socialism Destroys Them: unfunded pension liabilities, OMERS, fragile civilization, capitalism builds cities, socialism destroys cities, big city tribalism, fiscal mismanagement, Laissez-nous faire! – from 1680 France to 2013 Detroit, functions of municipal government, where the jobs are, London parallel, municipal government in entertainment, traffic calming curbs, basic services, mass transit 57:21 END

309 – Rolling Stone / Light bulb ban / Cell phone grab / Stellar dialogue zone

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Jul 182013

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03:25 Un The Cover Of Rolling Stone: Rolling Stone Cover, Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, musician’s lament, David Michael Draiman, glorifying violence, polarization, low voter turnout, civility in politics, what we decide matters, voting reform, voting on line, disagreement is part of politics, party politicians, killing the debate through unity, democracy vs majority rule
18:28 No IncandeSense: 2014 federal incandescent bulb ban, stockpiling light bulbs, Green Energy Act, rationing electricity, London Free Press a disservice to readers, the public record, London West byelection, Al Gretzky, London Free Press poll, a brief history of Toronto’s Casa Loma, Sir Henry Pellatt, federal NDP, Thomas Mulcair, Quebec train disaster, Lac Megantic, regulating in the public interest, no tragedy should go to waste
32:10 A Phone-y Issue: emergency phone system – 999, phones are a distraction, distracted drivers, cell phone bans, Stephen Orser, Ali Chahbar, object of distraction: electronic communication or entertainment device, subject of behaviour: drivers, no due process of law, statutory misbehaviour, more police powers no answer
47:10 Exoplanets: Any Life Signs? earth-like planets, Gliese 667 Cc, exoplanets, knowledge is existence, a discovery happens only once, Pluto is still a planet, planet types: rocky gas dwarf, only 22 light years from earth, interstellar communication, ESI Earth similarity index, alien life signs, Robert’s Dialogue Zone, stellar communication zone is 30 light years 58:32 END

307 – Personhood / Heaven and Hell / She’s so sorry, Uncle Albert

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Jul 042013

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03:53 Personhoodwinked: Rand Paul’s Personhood Bill, Bill S-583, born
and pre-born, personhood, right to life, abortion, rights vs status,
[09:49] resale rights on art, government-subsidized art, welfare for
artists, [12:05] Convocation thoughts, parting words on sacrifice, chaos
fate and luck, don’t make plans, words of wisdom
17:28 Hell Be Damned! heaven or hell?, hell as socialism, punishment as
sensation, physical pain, afterlife, Klingon heaven and hell, punishment, 3
concepts of hell, Gehenna, fear and guilt, Dante, banish hell, after life
32:28 Heavenly Hopes For An Atheist: explanation, God, atheism vs
belief, could an atheist be a country’s leader?, religion and politics, atheism
vs religion, love is God, acts of God, Pascal’s wager is not a belief, faith vs
fundamental truths, back to paradise, paradise is hell, the tree of knowledge,
morality and knowledge
43:38 She’s Sorry: Ontario by-elections, baby elections, Kathleen Wynne is sorry, Caller Scott: anger against atheists, fear of being wrong, Freedom Party election ad, on being sorry, Liberal Ken Coran, who votes Liberal?, Ali Chahbar, Al Gretzky, political colours 56:41 END

304 – Feedback / Architecture of oppression / Cancerous cell (phones) / Shocking hydro

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Jun 132013

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02:11 Your Feedback Is Just Right: feedback, fascism vs communism, Just Right updates
13:28 Edward Snowden – Blowing The Whistle: Edward Snowden, government surveillance, turning fascist, 9/11, laws to fight terror, NSA, intelligence agencies, unfree but comfortable, American future worse, turnkey tyranny, secret government decisions, digital communications, content vs meta-data, privacy, Fourth Amendment, NSA’s constitutional violations, data dangers, perpetual war on terror, a fascist tyranny, corrupt government, no honest thief
32:16 Cell Phone Tumour Rumours: cell phones and cancer, Lawson Health Research Institute, electromagnetic fields may be healthy, radiation
38:08 Shocking Debate: Who Owns London Hydro? sale of London Hydro, ownership, Vinay Sharma, City of London is sole owner of 1001 shares, imaginary shares, conservation, economic resources vs natural resources, fixed charges, rationing electricity, hydro cost’s negative effects, jobs lost, top dollar for bottom service, judging the success of of London Hydro, Outage Management System, profit for government, no cash cow, infrastructure, regulation no protection 59:28 END

293 – Municipal meddling / Media polemics

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Mar 282013

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00:07 Municiplan – All Solutions Point To City Hall municipal planning, London city hall, job creation, CJBK Radio, Steve Garrison, Dennis Desrosiers, Joe Swann, Phil McLeod, Investment and economic prosperity committee, common agenda, free downtown electric charging stations, electric cars, environmentalism, not arms length
18:25 Masterplan – All Solutions Point To Taxpayers economic crisis, permanent economic inequality, earnings gap, political equality, class divide, government stimulus, productivity gap
31:32 Writing To Win Rather Than Inform – From Bob Woodward To Rob Ford Watergate, journalism, polemics, Tanner Colby, John Belushi, Bob Woodward, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, media bias, Toronto Star, politics in media
49:23 Beyond Media Bias: When The Line Has Been Crossed Watergate, journalism, polemic point of view, controversy, London Free Press polemics, Toronto Sun, journalistic bankruptcy, Detroit bankrupt 56:18 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