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\nIn this episode of the podcast, we delve into the Korean War and then discuss Extinction Rebellion, the Morrison theocracy, opinion surveys and corporate ethics.
\n2:30 Korea
\nCam Reilly.
\nHere is his web site The Podcast Network.
\nCurrently producing 5 weekly podcasts:
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\n* The BS Filter,
\n* The Cold War,
\n* The Renaissance Times,
\n* The Life of the Caesars, and
\n* Think Like a Millionaire
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\nAuthor of a new book, The Psychopath Epidemic.
\nProducer of a new documentary, Marketing the Messiah.
\nWhen I said I might phone a friend to discuss Korea and challenge the idea that America was justified in entering the Korean War, I was of course thinking of Cameron Reilly.
\nWas it a civil war? Was America justified? Did the North start it? Do the present differences in the two Koreas justify the intervention? Did America save South Korea from a brutal dictatorship?
\n38:14 Extinction Rebellion
\nThoughts?
\nFrom Wikipedia
\nExtinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is an environmental pressure group with the stated aim of using civil disobedience to compel government action on climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse
\nExtinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018 with about one hundred academics signing a call to action in support in October 2018, and launched at the end of October by Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook, and other activists from the campaign group Rising Up! In November 2018, five bridges across the River Thames in London were blockaded. In April 2019, Extinction Rebellion occupied five prominent sites in central London: Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Waterloo Bridge, and the area around Parliament Square.
\nExtinction Rebellion uses arrest as a tactic to try to achieve its goals. Co-founder Roger Hallam has said “letters, emailing, marches don\u2019t work. You need about 400 people to go to prison. About two to three thousand people to be arrested.
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\n47:52 Is Labor suffering depression
\nFrom Katharine Murphy
\nPart of the reason Labor feels off balance at the moment, both internally and externally, is because these people have spent the last two parliamentary terms prioritising discipline over everything else.
\nIn order to atone for throwing away government during the Rudd/Gillard period, Labor as a collective has held its tongue for six years. Right now, what we are watching is a group of people learning how to argue productively with each other again, when argument, either constructive or destructive, has been considered the cardinal sin.
\n52:59 Margaret Thatcher\u2019s greatest achievement
\nWhen Margaret Thatcher was asked what she regarded as her greatest achievement, she is said to have replied: \u201cNew Labour\u201d.
\nMorrison could say \u201cAnthony Albanese\u201d
\nOr, maybe it is a case of Stockholm syndrome.
\nWhat is Stockholm Syndrome?
\n54:00 Reliable Power
\nIn California around 2.5 million people will be without electricity, according to one estimate. The power company described Wednesday\u2019s cuts as a precaution, hoping to prevent its electrical equipment and power lines from sparking blazes in dangerous conditions.
\n56:25 Morrison recommends more prayer
\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison promoted the power of prayer in a further demonstration he is perhaps the most religiously motivated prime minister of the modern era.
\nAt a prayer breakfast in Parliament House this morning, organised by the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, Mr Morrison reflected on how he had met his wife Jenny at a small church camp in NSW and then decades later they were being given a t...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}