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Episode 460 – The Future of Food

New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our understanding of food altogether. Technologies that could, ultimately, begin altering the human species itself…

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

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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

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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)


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