Today we embark on a journey into the fascinating world of western law and how our legal systems came about.
This promises to be a fascinating trip as we journey through many pivotal moments in history and see how they contributed to our current concept of justice.
In episode 1, we head back in time to ancient Greece and ancient Rome as we start with the critical concept of natural law and natural justice.

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In my second interview with Dr. Raszek, we venture into the rapidly developing field of DNA testing. This was a great discussion as we delved into topics on the leading edge of science and bioethics.
It is a field with so much promise and so many questions, our talk will certainly leave you with lots to think about.

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Today we have an interview with Dr. Mikolaj Raszek, a biochemist and geneticist who specializes in genomic medicine based on human DNA sequencing. We discuss science, covid, immune systems and vaccination and it was a fascinating and informative discussion. You will enjoy our talk immensely.

Check out Dr. Raszek's companies;
Merogenomics
Biostream

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It's over! After several episodes of laying out the details of socialist theory vs democracy and capitalist theory, Dry Toast picks the winner - and it's not exactly what you think it's going to be!
So let's dig in and find out the who, what and why of our winner. The future of humanity is at stake.

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Today, Dry Toast goes deep into the heart of the Soviet Union to take a detailed look at the economic systems of communist countries during the Soviet era, as well as a few lesser known socialist style economic projects throughout history.
Before we wrap up with a final decision on which system of government and economics is better in the next episode, we examine the nuts and bolts of soviet economies.

(CORRECTION: The author of Russia and the West was George F Kennan)

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Dry Toast moves his study of socialism versus democracy into the economic realm. We now contrast the two economic systems.
In this first episode, we discuss the great thinkers of both capitalist and socialist economic thought, then we launch into a review of world economic history and development.

Sounds like the most fun you could have with your boots on, so let's dig into it.

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Dry Toast takes us through the requirements for a country to call itself democratic. We review the masterful On Democracy by Dr. Robert A Dahl to get an education on the history of democracy, the required criteria for an ideal democracy, the required institutions for a functional, attainable democracy and then finish off with a review of why democracy is better than other forms of government...and, as usual, he digresses just a little here and there

The book On Democracy by Robert A Dahl

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 In this short series on the ideologies of communism, Dry Toast started with a review of the bible of Communism, the Communist Manifesto and then started an enquiry into the quotations of Mao Tsetung, Mao's Little Red Book. It is a collection of Mao's quotations over about a twenty year period some 70 years after the Communist Manifesto and should provide some clues as to the development of the movement over this time period. This is part 2 of 2 on the Little Red Book.

We will next enquire into democracy and capitalism and end off with a bang as we dare to compare the two. 

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In this short series on the ideologies of communism, Dry Toast started with a review of the bible of Communism, the Communist Manifesto. Today we begin our study of the quotations of Mao Tsetung, Mao's Little Red Book. It is a collection of Mao's quotations over about a twenty year period some 70 years after the Communist Manifesto and should provide some clues as to the development of the movement over this time period. This is part 1 of 2 on the Little Red Book.

When done with communism, we will enquire into democracy and capitalism and end off with a bang as we dare to compare the two.

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In a short series on the ideologies of communism, Dry Toast starts with a review of the Communist Manifesto, reading the most salient parts and commenting as he goes.
Let's take a step back in time to the early days of Marxism.

CORRECTION: Website is www.thefactof the matter.ca 
(in the episode I incorrectly said tfotm.ca)

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