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
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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
Topics: 00:07 Chemical WarFear: chemical attack in Syria, US military action planned in Syria, why Syria?, Syrian rebels worse than Assad, no official or moral rationale for banning of chemical weapons, sarin gas, American use of sarin gas, irrational fear of chemical weapons, fear of death without blood, preference for conventional weapons 15:00 Unions Vs Capitalism: misrepresentation of capitalism, work hard and prosper, crony forms of capitalism, celebrating Labour Day, Sid Ryan, capitalism not working any more, cost of labour politics on business, share the profit but not the losses, minimum wage laws, Patti Dalton, neo-liberal policies, greedyism, exploitation 32:40 Greed Is Eternally Exploitable: greed and self-interest, concern with welfare of others, group greed vs individual greed, negotiation, exploitation, employment, management organizes labour, unions organize violence, civilized culture vs socialism 44:52 Fasces faeces: capitalism, rational self interest, moral is the practical, socialism, morality of death, mystics of spirit, mystics of muscle, Solidarity Forever, lyrics of strength through unity, fasces, Italian fascism, feeble strength of one, employer as greedy parasite, power of one, no collective mind, unions advocate fascism 57:56 END
Topics: 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
Topics: 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
Topics: 00:07 Capitalism: If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: capitalism under attack, fixing capitalism, social good, prosperity, a different capitalism, Delaware, B-corp, Benefit Corporation, market need vs societal need, distributing the benefits of progress, don’t maximize shareholder value, not capitalism, who benefits?, social benefit, two types of capitalists, unknown ideal, retool and tool, economic sophism, Adam Smith’s invisible hand, win-win, communism, fascism, value, losing enterprises, profit 19:57 Economic Fables, Political Realities: economic fables, war is good for business, cart before horse, heart before course, ends and means, process vs future end, classless society, SEIU, healthcare for people not profit, profit vs rationing, concierge medicine 35:17 No Pasta For You – Quebec’s New Soup Nazis: Quebec language policing, french fascism, language insecurity, English endures, no laughing matter, censorship is the road to violence, freedom of speech, International Free Press Society, interests vs rights 50:10 Freedom’s Pillars: Freedom Of Speech And The Truth: freedom of speech, rule of law, civil unrest, truth, censorship is a useful tool, David Cameron and pornography ban, thin edge of the wedge 60:32 END
Topics: 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
