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FLASHBACK: The Bystander Effect – #SolutionsWatch (2021)


FROM 2021: The bystander effect describes a seeming paradox: the more people who are around to help in a given emergency, the less likely that any one individual will actually stop to help. Today James dives into the psychology underlying the bystander effect and explains how we can flip this quirk of human cognition on its head to help change the world for the better.

Interview 1800 – James Corbett and Keith Knight Tackle Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

Interview 1800 – James Corbett and Keith Knight Tackle Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War


via LibertarianInstitute.org: James joins Keith Knight of The Libertarian Institute to discuss Patrick J. Buchanan’s 2008 book, Churchill, Hitler and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. They each choose five key insights from the book and explain what those insights teach us about World War 2 in particular and war in general.

National Citizens Inquiry – #SolutionsWatch

National Citizens Inquiry – #SolutionsWatch


The National Citizens Inquiry is a citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative that is hearing testimony from Canadians and experts examining the nature, the legality and the effects of the Canadian governments’ COVID mandates and restrictions.  Today James talks to the volunteer-run inquiry’s volunteer communications director, Michelle Leduc Catlin, about the inquiry itself, what it is seeking to accomplish and how Canadians (and people around the world) can support it in its endeavours.

FLASHBACK: 5 Stupid Ideas Governments Actually Tried (2017)


FROM 2017: Ask anyone who’s ever worked in the public sector: With a never-ending stream of taxpayer money and no competition in sight, governments are a breeding ground for stupid ideas. In fact, coming up with a list of all the idiocy that governments have inflicted on the world would be an impossible task, so let’s just narrow it down to five really stupid government ideas.

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Ukrainegate: What You’re Not Being Told

If you're one of those poor deluded souls who get their news from the mainstream media, you'll have noted that the issue of President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the one and only issue worth talking about in the entire world. In...

How to Worship Your Government

"The President of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven." Thus spake Pat Robertson during the recent brouhaha over Syria, where the unthinkable notion that the US might actually pull out of a war zone instead of sending more troops in began to...

Everything (g)Old is New Again: What QE4 Means For You

After years of denials by the Fed and its minions in the controlled corporate media, the Federal Reserve had to admit this week that it's beginning its fourth round of so-called "quantitative easing" (QE4) since the Lehman collapse and ensuing financial crisis over a...

Highway Wars: The Battle to Develop Eurasia

If we can only envision guns and bombs when we think about war, that is merely a failure of our imagination. Make no mistake: There are wars for geopolitical dominance taking place between various players around the globe right now, and it's all happening without a...

Zuck For Pres 2020: The Nightmare Begins

Look at that. Do you see it? The pieces are sitting there on the table. All we have to do is fit them together. But it's as if a Medusa head has been cut up into a jigsaw puzzle; simply piecing it together would create a picture too ghastly for anyone to behold. So...

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