359 – Canada’s Bill C-36 / Addicted to prostitution / The ‘M’ word

 Comments Off on 359 – Canada’s Bill C-36 / Addicted to prostitution / The ‘M’ word
Jul 172014
 

Sex Workers

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 Canada’s Bill C36 – Demanding no demand: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (Bill C-36), prostitution, Peter MacKay, selling sex vs buying sex
10:25 Addicted to prostitution: Prostitutes Anonymous, prostitution as the hardest addiction to break, warning signs, sexual abuse, victims and victimizers, Bill C-36, skewing the statistics, the moral imbalance – buying vs selling sex, ‘bought rape’, sex as a business, consent, pornography definition
29:54 The ‘M’ word: Conservative MP Joy Smith, porn filter, buying vs selling sex, anti-porn activists, Casandra Diamond, Gail dines, predatory capitalists, CRTC Canadian content rules for porn, ‘cultural pornification’, Jonathon Van Maren, pornography as a drug, using religion and science to combat porn, real life of a sex worker, real needs of a sex worker, masturbation
49:00 Contradic-Tory views on sex and the law: Conservative social philosophy – control regulate or prohibit, sexual differences, physical imbalance of power, laws enforce morality 57:32 END

358 – Guest: Arnon Kaplansky – London Mayoral Candidate – Today’s Howard Roark?

 Comments Off on 358 – Guest: Arnon Kaplansky – London Mayoral Candidate – Today’s Howard Roark?
Jul 102014
 

Arnon Kaplansky

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 The Towers of Spite: Arnon Kaplansky – City of London candidate for mayor, incentive to run, The frustrating ‘Towers of Spite’, red tape and bureaucracy choking economy, personal history, infill development, looking up not out, bylaw compliance problem, student housing, fighting city hall, London City Planning Dept has no vision, Official Plan vs zoning bylaw, just saying no, a black day for the City of London
16:50 Political sprawl: public criticism of private effort, driving to bankruptcy, French Quarter signature building, 10-week bay window debate, a 25-year developing history, misuse of the planning process, from a smile to a frown – one sad consequence of city hall’s treatment, cows don’t complain, urban sprawl vs infill
30:05 Bureaucratic sprawl: Andres Duany’s Re-thinking urban sprawl, mix use planning, the Bag Lady vs the Locomotive, planners as managers, city should provide security and basic services at reasonable rates, Re-think plans and Visions – a hoax to spend taxpayer money, student dilemma, making affordable housing unaffordable
49:16 Urban Vision: Arnon Kaplansky’s vision for London, creative development 56:02 END

357 – When the sh*t hits the spam – Digital Canada 150 / Agenda 21- Sustainable Communism

 Comments Off on 357 – When the sh*t hits the spam – Digital Canada 150 / Agenda 21- Sustainable Communism
Jul 032014
 

Digital Canada 150

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 When the sh*t hits the spam: CASL – Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, by permission only, violations and enforcements, commercial electronic message, prior consent, exemptions, voice-messaging, e-mail, text messaging, social media, Four Horsemen of the Internet, Industry Canada, CRTC, Competition Bureau, Privacy Bureau, Harper delivers on the prostitution principle, spam definition
23:55 Digital Canada 150 years to lose our freedom: CRTC, Digital Canada 150, over half a billion dollars already committed, heritage, culture, official languages, emissions tests for your digital equipment, selective policing and enforcement, private lawsuits, passive vs active consent
32:15 Agenda 21 – Sustainable Communism: Lord Christopher Monckton, Agenda 21, an open conspiracy, United Nations’ environmental agenda for the 21st century, Earth Summit 1992, sustainable development, communism, fear of words, ignorance of history returning us to a totalitarian state, environmentalists of today are the communists of yesterday, same difference – communism and socialism, voting for servitude, Green Cross International, redistribute the wealth
46:26 Green Double-Cross International: evidence clear on side of free market, Agenda 21’s implicit goal is destruction, process of Agenda 21 – from international to local, making driving unattractive, mass transit schemes, Aboriginal status, environmental movement destroys environment, successfully destroying the West 59:09 END

356 – Commentary comments / Hudak / Political climate change / Yada, yada, yada…

 Comments Off on 356 – Commentary comments / Hudak / Political climate change / Yada, yada, yada…
Jun 262014
 

Yada, Yada, Yada, Yada

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 A tough weak for Tim Hudak:
feedback, Hudak’s tough reality is a weak approach, representing interests – not the public, Liberals are the mob, compromising identity reduces voter choices, distinguishing oneself, PCs already are Liberals, Liberals moved into PC territory – not PCs who abandoned it, compromising principles to get elected, Peter Hudak and Tim Keating
12:16 Rugged collectivists: giving the public what it wants, attracting rugged individualists, political reality is left wing, Coyne’s advice – move toward a winning policy not a right one, radicalism vs extremism, radical is extreme, extreme is radical, temperament, muddled thinking towards muddled action
28:20 Adapting to political climate change: Consider the source – Michael Warren, climate change fear mongering, weather events – like rain and clouds, stopping the weather, global warming, no data to support view, Michael Warren’s gas emissions
45:45 Nothing to talk about: Glen Pearson has nothing to say, yada yada yada 56:39 END

356 – Commentary comments / Hudak / Political climate change / Yada, yada, yada…

 Comments Off on 356 – Commentary comments / Hudak / Political climate change / Yada, yada, yada…
Jun 262014
 

Yada, Yada, Yada, Yada

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 A tough weak for Tim Hudak:
feedback, Hudak’s tough reality is a weak approach, representing interests – not the public, Liberals are the mob, compromising identity reduces voter choices, distinguishing oneself, PCs already are Liberals, Liberals moved into PC territory – not PCs who abandoned it, compromising principles to get elected, Peter Hudak and Tim Keating
12:16 Rugged collectivists: giving the public what it wants, attracting rugged individualists, political reality is left wing, Coyne’s advice – move toward a winning policy not a right one, radicalism vs extremism, radical is extreme, extreme is radical, temperament, muddled thinking towards muddled action
28:20 Adapting to political climate change: Consider the source – Michael Warren, climate change fear mongering, weather events – like rain and clouds, stopping the weather, global warming, no data to support view, Michael Warren’s gas emissions
45:45 Nothing to talk about: Glen Pearson has nothing to say, yada yada yada 56:39 END

355 – Election 2014 reactions reaction / Ayn Rand’s Party ‘X’

 Comments Off on 355 – Election 2014 reactions reaction / Ayn Rand’s Party ‘X’
Jun 192014
 

Freedom Party X

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 Election 2014 Reactions Reaction: Ontario election 2014, winners and losers, Freedom Party, voter dissatisfaction, Green Party, Greg Vezina, None Of The Above Party, declining ballots
16:45 Beating Progressives with progressive strategies: Progressives moving further left, Progressive Conservatives, Tim Hudak, culture of liberal democracy
31:15 Suffering the Red blues about Ontario politics: Million Jobs Plan, Jeff Bennett, contradict-Tories – not practicing what they preach, repugnant politicians, poll trends during election, Ontario is Left, socialism’s various brands, youth leaving Ontario, what doesn’t matter to voters, declined ballots, Freedom Party vote totals significantly increase
47:25 Ayn Rand’s Party ‘X’: Aug 12 1962 – LA Times – Ayn Rand’s imagined party ‘X’, Party ‘X’ is Ontario’s Freedom Party 57:26 END

Jun 122014
 

Income Tax

 
 
 
 

Topics:
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