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
 

Ted Wernham

 
 
 
 

Topics:
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

Oct 242013
 

Tarek Fatah

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 Mosque We? mediocrity of the left, war against
civilization has begun, storm on the horizon, left and right are both wrong,
the right wing’s burden and poor track record, every Mosque in Canada funded by
Saudis, born in Canada Islamic Culture, Saudi Arabia, London has largest
proportion of Muslims, Tarek Loubani, Egypt, humanitarian aid, obsessed with
anti-Semitism, gay marriage, heirachy of hate, demonizing the Jews, Mosques –
from community centres to political hotbeds, Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood
are behind the radicalization of Islam
17:39 The Connecting Flight To Paradise: London Muslim views, deeply
religious vs the ninety percent who don’t go to mosques, making money on our
enemies, moderates vs radicals, Toronto police complaint, diversity committee,
police infiltration, Muslim Canadian Congress, separation of religion and
state, aim to get funded is the death of an organization, not about inter-faith
dialogue but a political process, home grown enemies of Western culture, belief
in life after death, a fascist group that is a death cult, Pakistan the center
of terrorism
31:55 Malala’s Journey – From Freedom To Education: Malala Yousafzai, role of education for women, Malala Foundation, education replaces freedom, educated terrorists, education is not the issue, enlightenment among the illiterate, think-tank solutions are profit motivated, eliminate not educate, Nobel Peace Prize rejection, Pakistan, oil boom empowered the Saudis, rationalism a Western ideal
48:00 Freedom Before Democracy: democracy and freedom, universal values not up for debate, freedom before democracy, human life more precious than any other standard, fight the ideological war, Islamofascism is the enemy, Saudi Arabia’s open door to Canada 58:10 END

322 – Money: Morality’s public barometer / Flawed politicians / Tea Party 2.0

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Oct 172013
 

Currency

Topics:
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

 

320 – Capitalism’s floating distractions / Tyranny is not normal / Fabian socialism

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Oct 032013
 

Pillars of capitalism

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 Capitalism’s Floating Distractions: US budgetary crisis, Tom McInerney, socialism, capitalism, socialized medicine, health insurance, insurance premiums, Ponzi Scheme, currency inflation, economic markets, Obamacare, morality, argument from intimidation, ideology
24:53 The Price Is Metaphysically Right: Kevin Williamson, prices, central planning, socialism, price transparency, federally chartered cartel, credit-rating agencies, inflation
32:50 Tyranny Is Not Normal: Obamacare, Bill Clinton, socialism as reality, accepting one’s fate, complacency under tyranny, Adolf Hitler, tyranny as normal, the frog in the pot, Fabianism, history’s lesson, Soviet Union, complacency under tyranny, Douglas-Coldwell Foundation, Tommy Douglas, M J Coldwell, ominous parallels between NDP and socialist Nazi Germany and socialist Russia, normalcy is progressive, progressive conservative parties, greed and security, Sunday shopping, collective slavery
45:32 A Real Ass Hat: Was Hitler evil?, passing moral judgment on character, parameters of judgment, ad hominem attacks, Obama an evil ass hat 57:41 END

319 – Journalism by ommission / Syria – Better dying through chemisty / Ont. PC convention / Right to work?

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Sep 262013
 

Breaking Syria

 
 
 
 

Topics:
03:40 All The News Not Fit To Print: Egypt, current events, Morsi democratically elected, army vs Muslim Brotherhood, avoiding facts in the news,
Arab Spring and democracy, election plans, information vacuum, media mistake,
majority wisdom, media cover ups
19:18 Weapons: Stephen Harper On Chemicals – Is He? Syria, chemical
weapons, Obama’s red line, precedent, a brief history of chemical warfare
34:17 Conventional ContradicTories: Ontario PC convention, Tim Hudak,
democracy, leadership, London West by-election, by-election results, robopolls
46:18 The Not Quite Right To Work Laws: right to work, jobs, Sid Ryan,
unions, PC plan, union dues, political spending, job creation 57:49
END

318 – DemoCrazy / Muslim Brotherhood / Quebec’s Charter of Values / Wrong rights

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Sep 192013
 

Quebec crucifix

 
 
 
 

Topics:
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

317 – Left and right, right and wrong, or Just Right?

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Sep 122013
 

Just Right

 
 
 
 

Topics:
00:07 Not Right Wing, Just Right: Just Right, left and right, ‘totalitarian capitalism’, political spectrum, power struggle, socialism is a dirty word
16:40 The Uncentred Center: political superstitions in the centre, why there is no centre, left-overs, from left right and centre to just right
34:20 Sinister Or Dexterous? Who’s Right? Caller Matthew: food and poison, etymology of left and right, a brief history of left-wing and right-wing, France 1789, monarchists and revolutionaries, extreme right and left, fluid political ideologies, consistency prevails, blurred ideological distinctions, conservatives legislate most left, dexterous, ruler of conduct, negative left, sinister, right or wrong – not right or left, just right, Star Trek series on philosophy
47:47 Foreign To Reason Policy On Syria: Yaron Brook, why Syria? conventional vs chemical weapons, foreign policy based on emotion and fear, no self-interest at stake, Obama’s stupid red line, the real red line, altruistic intervention, emotion-driven foreign policy, protect individual rights, true left and right, Star Trek’s prime directive, trade embargo 1:00:05 END