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361 – Power grab / Forget me ought / None sum / Polar expedition

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Jul 312014

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00:07 Power grab: Ontario Ombudsman, London city council, Billy Ts, open meeting laws, power grab, hydro rate increase, flat rate hydro, smart meters, supply and demand for electricity
13:40 Forget me ought: anti-spam legislation, Canadian business reacts to spam laws, CASL, crony favouritism, spam law beneficiaries, European Court of Justice, internet search providers, suppressing offending links, on line reputation, deleting the past
29:01 None sum: Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the nones, religious demographics, religious choices, belief in God, social issues, religious and secular
40:55 Polar expedition: superstition, Pope Francis, exorcism, bible, allegory, the devil, literalism, traditional world view, modern world view, postmodern world view, polarization, reason, principle and politics 53:07 END

361 – Power grab / Forget me ought / None sum / Polar expedition

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Jul 312014

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

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Jul 102014

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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

341 – Black and white views on Christians and slavery / Democracy: All in favour?

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Mar 132014

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00:07 Black and White views on Christians and Slavery: religion’s role in slavery, the Christian context in slavery, Noah’s curse, slavery’s history in a broader context, no concept of ‘person’ in past, story of Shyima Hall
12:51 Humanity’s inhumane history: Slaves to slavery: story of Shyima Hall, the word: slavery, slavery is the ownership of human beings as chattel, a brief history of slavery, the end of slavery, slavery continues today, slavery’s brief history in the United States, freedom as a moral standard, colour-blind slavery, slavery as part of social structure, fallacies of slavery
33:04 Democratic Deficit: De-mocking democracy: voters giving up on politicians, fixing the voting process, freedom and capitalism before democracy, voting for slavery, majority rule vs governing, force is what is governed
44:39 We’re having a party! – a political party: Ombudsman complaint in London Ont, party politics at city hall, democracy with adjectives, socialism is not governance but criminality made legal 57:58 END

340 – Putin, Ukraine, and the myth of democracy / Creationism: much ado about nothing

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Mar 062014

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00:07: Ukraine: Starving to discover capitalism and freedom: Israel Truth Week, Ukraine crisis, personal connection to Ukraine: Maximilian Hillinger, Krivoy Rog (Krivojrog), Russian legacy, Ayn Rand, the continuing politics of mass starvation, beware of Putin, democracy
16:16: Putin Elects to use force: the myth of Democracy in Ukraine: Russian troops in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, events leading to the crisis, Ukraine’s ethnic quagmire, narrow concepts of liberal democracy, ethnic division, language laws, no democracy but mob rule, Brussels or Moscow
33:18: Democratic Deficit: the myth of democracy in London Ontario: Municipolitics, civic engagement, London X, citizen participation, Rob Ford, politics, government, political parties, voting
46:12: Creative debating on creation: creationism vs evolution, religion, God, atheism, the supreme being, existence and non-existence, knowledge, reality, morality, choice, Calvin Smith, belief in non existence, no debate possible on creation 58:30 END

337 – Bitcoin or bitcon? / Society vs the patient / Bread & circuses / Sadder Budweiser

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Feb 132014

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02:54 : Bitcoin or bitcon? Bitcoin, Canadian Federal Budget, online currencies, Satoshi Nakamoto, volatility of Bitcoin, to each his own, fiat currencies, money laundering, government control of currencies, inflation
16:34 : Health Scare: No patience with patients Andrew Brannon, Freedom Party of Ontario, health care, the needs of the community vs the needs of patients, hospital planning based on community needs, hospital funding, patients needs are subordinated to political power, endless hospital planning studies, profit and loss, influence by pressure groups like ONA and RNAO, the separation of health care and the state, as your economics is sick so is your health care
34:10 : No bread, just circuses: London’s growing white elephant collection Check your premises – The Monument Builders – Ayn Rand, The Normal School purchase, YMCA, It’s not their money, Performing Arts Centre, Celebration Centre, Grand Theatre, Centennial Hall, opportunity for our elected mis-representatives, population threshold for the arts
51:25 : Sadder, Budweiser Budweiser Gardens a failure not a success, JLC, Orlando Zamprognia said it all before, perpetual debt on white elephants, clash of visions 57:09 : End

327 – Rob Ford and pussy politics: The media is the message

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Nov 212013

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00:07 Robbed Ford: significance of the Rob Ford controversy, false media rumours, the ‘other’ Rob Ford, informed voters need the facts, defending Ford on principle not ideology, politics is personal, why Rob Ford has enemies, waving the red flag, overriding voters’ authority, news reports on Rob Ford
15:20 The ‘P’ Word: bully politics, Ford ‘needs help’ = crocodile altruism, drug use, drug prohibition, Sherlock Holmes in pre-prohibition times
27:24 Media Is The Message: Ted Harlson’s report from Toronto city hall, Toronto police files on Rob Ford, majority Ford support not reported by media, media objectivity, collapse of moral and intellectual standards in media reporting, conversation with a ‘journalist’
45:27 Beyond Democracy: PC Randy Hillier’s recall bill, the democratic illusion of recall legislation, perpetual political class vs voters, why Ford will win in Toronto’s next election 56:17 END