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Behind the Bastards

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of th...

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order cover

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

Mentioned 5 months ago

It Could Happen Here Weekly 220

The discussion referenced Huntington's thesis to illustrate how postColdWar politics framed conflicts as cultural clashes.

It seemed like a sort of kernel of truth in this. It was based on Huntington's writing about the clash of civilizations.

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Balkan Ghosts

Robert D. Kaplan

Mentioned 5 months ago

It Could Happen Here Weekly 220

The hosts noted that Bill Clinton had read the book, after which his administration's rhetoric shifted regarding the Balkans.

and after Bill Clinton read that horrendous book, Balkan Ghosts by Kaplan, his administration's rhetoric began to change

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Shanghai on Strike

Elizabeth J. Perry

Mentioned 5 months ago

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One of the speakers cited Ferry's book as a detailed account of the 1925 Shanghai general strike.

In a book called Shanghai on Strike by Elizabeth Ferry, she describes the massive labor actions and their aftermath.

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The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set Hardcover Illustrated edition 2020 June 25

J.R.R. Tolkien

Mentioned 5 months ago

Part One: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

The hosts compared the children's hockey movies The Mighty Ducks to The Lord of the Rings, calling the former the hockey equivalent of the classic fantasy series.

The Mighty Ducks' premise was strong enough to sustain a trilogy, which no critics consider to be basically the children's hockey equivalent to The Lord of the Rings.

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Devil's Bargain

Joshua Green

Mentioned 5 months ago

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The hosts noted that journalist Joshua Green had written Devil's Bargain, a book about Steve Bannon's rise in the Trump administration.

Bannon became fascinated with the collective power of gamers who gathered on these sites, according to journalist Joshua Green, who wrote a book, Devil's Bargain, about Bannon's rise in the Trump administration.

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Thousand Plateaus (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Professor Gilles Deleuze

Mentioned 5 months ago

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The analysis from these philosophers was referenced to discuss the ways in which fascism and totalitarianism differ, noting that fascism involves a war machine taking over the state. The text was also quoted to illustrate realized nihilism within fascism, characterized by an intense line of escape that transforms into pure destruction.

They discuss the ways in which fascism and totalitarianism differ. They write that totalitarianism is a state affair made up of material components that overmanage society. Quote, even in the case of a military dictator it is a state army, not a war machine, that takes power and elevates the state to the totalitarian stage. Totalitarianism is quintessentially conservative. Fascism, on the other hand, involves a war machine. When fascism builds itself a totalitarian state, it is not in the sense of a state army taking power, but of a war machine taking over the state. Unquote.

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The Suicidal State

Madoka Kishi

Mentioned 5 months ago

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This essay by Virilio was discussed as the framework building off of Deleuze and Guattari's work, arguing that in fascism, the state is suicidal rather than strictly totalitarian. Virilio argued that this evolution of the state is guided by non-progress and terror, founded on the repulsion and fear of all development in the civil domain.

This analysis from Deleuze and Guattari is building off of an essay by the French writer Paul Virilio called The Suicidal State, where Virilio argues that in fascism, the state is far less totalitarian than it is suicidal.

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Progress

Samuel Miller McDonald

Mentioned 5 months ago

It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

The speaker mentioned reading this book and planning a review for the podcast, noting how its content explored the pervasive concept of progress and how it can trip people up, sometimes acting like a sedative against engaging with degrading reality.

You know, recently I read this book, Progress, by Samuel Miller MacDonald, and I would like to do a review of it at some point for the podcast, but... The short of it is that it gets into just how pervasive this concept of progress is in kind of tripping people up and keeping us serving systems that don't serve us.

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Mephisto (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Klaus Mann

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Deleuze and Guattari quoted from this 1936 novel, which contains fascist speeches, noting an excerpt eerily similar to the visuals of Trump as the suicidal penguin.

In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari quote an excerpt from Klaus Mann's 1936 novel Mephisto, which contains fascist speeches and ordinary conversations from Nazi Germany.

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Starship Troopers

Mentioned 5 months ago

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The hosts said it was apparently his favorite novel, that he reads it once a year, and noted that it is often interpreted as a fascist work.

His favorite book was probably Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, surprising no one. His sister told the Daily Mail that he reads Starship Troopers once a year, which completely makes sense.

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

Robert A. Heinlein

Mentioned 5 months ago

The Greg Bovino Episode Extravaganza!

The book was cited as a key influence on libertarian thought, being called a foundational text for the American libertarian movement.

One of his books, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, is often seen as providing a lot of the ideological underpinning for the libertarian movement.

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Emperors in the Jungle

John Lindsay-Poland

Mentioned 5 months ago

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This book served as the main resource for the detailed historical analysis of U.S. intervention in Panama, covering everything from the Bidlack Treaty to the 1989 invasion. The speaker found the book provided fantastic information on topics they had never heard discussed before, shaking them regarding events at the crossroads of the continents.

Panama was a long-standing laboratory of U.S. imperial power.

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Malaclypse the Younger

Principia Discordia

It was said that the entity which inspired the writing of the book left Hill once it was finished, and that part of him disappeared over time.

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But he he he talked about how like his pen name Malaclips the younger he like described it as like as like a spirit that like entered him.

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Episode: Part Six: A Complete History of the Illuminati

It was said that the entity which inspired the writing of the book left Hill once it was finished, and that part of him disappeared over time.

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But he he he talked about how like his pen name Malaclips the younger he like described it as like as like a spirit that like entered him.

And he was he was he was he's able to like channel writing through through the spirit, which is why he credited the work to this to to to this entity.

But he also says that like that the entity kind of left him once. Yeah. Once Principia was done writing, he kind of like it left.

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It was mentioned as a book that listeners should steal from a bookstore that sells it.

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Go steal the Principia Discordia from a bookstore that has the temerity to sell it.

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Adam Gorightly

The Prankster and the Conspiracy

The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture

It was said to be the best book about Kerry Thornley, detailing his life and the events that led to his later struggles.

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when Adam Gorightly, who's who's written the book, The Prankster and the Conspiracy, which is the best book about Kerry.

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It was said to be the best book about Kerry Thornley, detailing his life and the events that led to his later struggles.

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when Adam Gorightly, who's who's written the book, The Prankster and the Conspiracy, which is the best book about Kerry.

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Max Stirner

The Ego and Its Own (Graphyco Editions)

It was discussed as a book that influenced Ragnar Redbeard's ideas, particularly his egoist philosophy, and was described as potentially having both right and left-wing interpretations.

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Sterner wrote a book called the ego and his own

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It was discussed as a book that influenced Ragnar Redbeard's ideas, particularly his egoist philosophy, and was described as potentially having both right and left-wing interpretations.

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Sterner wrote a book called the ego and his own

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Paul Kenyon

Children of the Night

The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

It was mentioned in the context of the trade of Jewish people in Romania in exchange for money during the 1970s, detailing a sliding scale of fees based on the individual's employment status or age.

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Under Ceauescu's stewardship in the 1970s, the trade in Jews became even more elaborate and far more lucrative.

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It was mentioned in the context of the trade of Jewish people in Romania in exchange for money during the 1970s, detailing a sliding scale of fees based on the individual's employment status or age.

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Under Ceauescu's stewardship in the 1970s, the trade in Jews became even more elaborate and far more lucrative.

Financing animal farms was no longer adequate. Ceauescu was prepared to throw caution to the wind and demand direct cash payments in exchange for Jewish exit visas.

The ransom money was to be calculated according to a sliding scale. At the lower end were unemployed Jews and children who were considered Category D and required a ransom fee of around $2,000.

More well-educated Jews were deemed Category A and could only be released from the country for a fee of $6,000.

In exceptional cases, that rose to $250,000.

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It was referenced when discussing Vlad the Impaler and how he burned beggars alive, highlighting a less discussed aspect of his rule and how his actions influenced Romania's future.

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It was around this time during the first couple of years of Dracula's rule that he organized a notorious feast for all the beggars of Targoviste.

The event appeared to be a great humanitarian gesture. The hall was hired and tables were filled with food and wine.

Invitations were put out around the city to the cripples the blind the diseased and the destitute.

They all congregated in a large wooden hall toasting Dracula's generosity. But towards the end of the meal someone noticed smoke coming from the walls.

They ran to the door only to find Dracula's troops had locked it from the outside and set the place ablaze. Many hundreds were trapped in a bonfire of souls was left burning into the dark Wallachian sky.

The bonfire of the beggars as it became known was a warning. Begging would not be tolerated. It was a drain on the finances of the most decent and generous in society said Dracula. A crime as evil as theft.

Wallachians were uneasy. It was one thing killing the rich but to massacre the poor in such violent circumstances?

On the other hand Dracula's tactics did seem to be working and crime fell. It was said that Dracula's guards would test the townsfolk by leaving a purse full of gold coins in a busy marketplace.

When the guards came to collect it in the evening the purse was always left untouched.

The admiration for authoritarian solutions would also resonate down the centuries.

They had a lackey in prison, a young hooligan who brought them food packages and ran messages.

His name was Nikolai Ceauescu, a 22 year old trainee cobbler who is regularly in trouble for fighting and delivering communist leaflets.

Some of his fellow inmates thought him weird and said that they avoided him because he was such a bore with absolutely no sense of humor.

In the presence of big men like George Uday, Ceauescu remained largely silent and deferential. He avoided speaking whenever possible because of a stutter so severe it made his legs shake.

But he also possessed a powerful memory and an instinctive intelligence and sat among the future leaders, listening to everything they said and slowly learning.

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C. L. R. James

Beyond a Boundary

50th Anniversary Edition (The C. L. R. James Archives)

An iconic read, it explores the author's political development and how he saw himself constituted as a colonial subject through his experiences playing cricket.

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I think he explains I think if people could read it even if they don't like cricket, I'm not a big cricket person. But it's certainly one of the best sports books I've read and maybe one of the best b...

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An iconic read, it explores the author's political development and how he saw himself constituted as a colonial subject through his experiences playing cricket.

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I think he explains I think if people could read it even if they don't like cricket, I'm not a big cricket person. But it's certainly one of the best sports books I've read and maybe one of the best books.

Yeah, I think he does a really good job of explaining it.

If you don't want to read about cricket, he also talks about this in The Krumah and the Ghana Revolution.

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He praised it as a great cricket book, the only one of its kind he'd ever enjoyed, and said it was foundational to his own dissertation work.

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C LR James's book trying to remember it's called Beyond a Boundary or Beyond the Boundary ... it's a great book, it's the only book about cricket that I've ever read ... and that's the only one that I've ever enjoyed, not a big cricket appreciate it but that book was foundational to how I approached my dissertation.

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Warren Farrell Ph.D.

The Boy Crisis

Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It

Jordan Peterson mentioned this book in the context of mass shootings, claiming that every high school shooter was fatherless, which was later debunked.

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I think Warren Farrell wrote a book called The Boy Crisis told me yesterday when I was talking to them, every single high school shooter was fatherless.

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Jordan Peterson mentioned this book in the context of mass shootings, claiming that every high school shooter was fatherless, which was later debunked.

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I think Warren Farrell wrote a book called The Boy Crisis told me yesterday when I was talking to them, every single high school shooter was fatherless.

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The miniseries focuses on the tragedy of the murder of 15-year-old Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khadir by Israeli settlers in Jerusalem in 2015.

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This child was kidnapped by Israeli settlers, tortured, forced to drink gasoline, and burned alive.

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Linda Gordon

The Second Coming of the KKK

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

It was described as incredibly dense, with a lot of information consolidated from many different sources. It was highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of American radical right-wing extremism.

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I read a book for this episode two, The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon. I want to advocate reading both of the books for this podcast because they're both good but Linda Gor...

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It was described as incredibly dense, with a lot of information consolidated from many different sources. It was highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of American radical right-wing extremism.

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I read a book for this episode two, The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon. I want to advocate reading both of the books for this podcast because they're both good but Linda Gordon's book is really special. It is almost unbelievably dense.

I rarely in my life encountered so much information from so many different sources and solidated into a single book of this size. I'm just kind of in awe of the amount of work she must have put into it and like how... It's really good.

We're only using fractions of it for this episode, but it is a fantastic book. So I really recommend giving it a read if you're interested in the history of American radical right-wing extremism.

One of the things that is pointed out in the fantastic Linda Gordon book, The Second Coming of the KKK is that this was not radical at the time.

The ideology of this group is not fringe in any way, shape or form. They are preaching to the choir. They are not radicalizing people and that's critical.

Episode: Part Two: The Grifters Who Resurrected the KKK

It was described as incredibly dense and full of information from various sources, and was highly recommended for understanding American right-wing extremism.

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I read a book for this episode two, The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon. I want to advocate reading both of the books for this podcast because they're both good but Linda Gordon's book is really special. It is almost unbelievably dense.

I rarely in my life encountered so much information from so many different sources and solidated into a single book of this size. I'm just kind of in awe of the amount of work she must have put into it and like how... It's really good.

We're only using fractions of it for this episode, but it is a fantastic book. So I really recommend giving it a read if you're interested in the history of American radical right-wing extremism.

One of the things that is pointed out in the fantastic Linda Gordon book, The Second Coming of the KKK is that this was not radical at the time.

In the conclusion of the second coming to the KKK Linda Gordon makes this note some scholars and contemporary observers have seen the 1920s Northern clan as a failure because it was short-lived and because its campaigns against Catholics and Jews did not manage to confine them to second class citizenship, but transience is common to most social movements moreover the clan declined in part because it had triumphed in several respects state eugenics laws providing for forcible sterilization of those of defective stock spread to 30 states and those labeled defective were typically the poor and people of color the biggest clan victory was immigration restriction and imperial wizard Evans repeatedly claimed credit for its passage.

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Sheryl Sandberg

Lean In

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

It's a book written by Cheryl Sandberg, who was hired by Facebook and described as a 'capitalism queen'. The book's themes and Sandberg's actions were discussed in the context of a broader discussion about Facebook.

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In 2008 Facebook hired Cheryl Sandberg, the author of Lean In and generally as slimy as a bucket of weed.

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It's a book written by Cheryl Sandberg, who was hired by Facebook and described as a 'capitalism queen'. The book's themes and Sandberg's actions were discussed in the context of a broader discussion about Facebook.

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In 2008 Facebook hired Cheryl Sandberg, the author of Lean In and generally as slimy as a bucket of weed.

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Donald Spoto

The Dark Side of Genius

The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

The book was used as a major source for the podcast episode, detailing Hitchcock's life, career, and his dark side, particularly his habit of playing aggressive pranks.

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The Dark Side of Genius notes that it's impossible to confirm or deny Hitchcock's story about being locked in a cell for five minutes.

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The book was used as a major source for the podcast episode, detailing Hitchcock's life, career, and his dark side, particularly his habit of playing aggressive pranks.

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The Dark Side of Genius notes that it's impossible to confirm or deny Hitchcock's story about being locked in a cell for five minutes.

In the early afternoon between a lecture class and a quiet study time the boys were free to gather in the schoolyard near the church. Gould who was one of his classmates then nine was suddenly yanked away from his peers by Hitchcock and an accomplice and dragged off to another forbidden area, the basement boiler room of the school.

Before he could cry out or struggle not much use in any case against two bigger boys Gould was bound hand and foot once he was immobilized he was preyed to a carefully planned psychological torture that could have ended disastrously. His trousers were pulled down and Hitchcock quickly stepped behind him.

There was the sound of a scratching noise and the two bullies raced up the stairs. Young Gould must have thought he was attacked by a firing squad. At once the sound of gunfire exploded but it was a string of firecrackers that had been pinned to his underwear and ignited.

To make others feel childish and dependent, this seemed to be part of his goal.

Episode: Part One: Alfred Hitchcock: The Director Who Rando...

The book was referenced as the source for many anecdotes about Hitchcock's pranks and his early life, which were discussed throughout the podcast.

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In the early afternoon between a lecture class and a quiet study time the boys were free to gather in the schoolyard near the church. Gould who was one of his classmates then nine was suddenly yanked away from his peers by Hitchcock and an accomplice and dragged off to another forbidden area, the basement boiler room of the school.

To make others feel childish and dependent, this seemed to be part of his goal.

He was not only considered most people a threat, they were better looking, more intelligent, better educated, more socially acceptable than himself and by reducing them to a sudden discomfort perhaps he felt he was bringing them to the level on which he always lived by thus subjugating those he resented for whatever reason and on whatever level of consciousness by submitting them to varying degrees of humiliation and danger he was not only controlling them but also being able to make them dread.

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Kati Marton

Wallenberg

It was mentioned in the context of Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to save Jews on a death march, including a quote from the book where he is seen to be actively rescuing Jews from being handed over to an executioner.

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You there, the Swede pointed to an astonished man waiting for his turn to be handed over to the executioner. Give me your Swedish passport and get in that line, he barked. And you, get behind him. I k...

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It was mentioned in the context of Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to save Jews on a death march, including a quote from the book where he is seen to be actively rescuing Jews from being handed over to an executioner.

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You there, the Swede pointed to an astonished man waiting for his turn to be handed over to the executioner. Give me your Swedish passport and get in that line, he barked. And you, get behind him. I know I issued you a passport.

Wallenberg continued moving fast, talking loud, hoping the authority in his voice would somewhat rub off on these defeated people.

The Jews finally caught on. They started groping in pockets for bits of identification. A driver's license or birth certificate seemed to do the trick. The Swede was grabbing them so fast.

Faster, Wallenberg's eyes urged them. Faster, before the game is up.

In minutes he had several hundred people in his convoy. International Red Cross trucks there at Wallenberg's behest arrived and the Jews clambered on. Wallenberg jumped into his own car. He leaned out of the car window and whispered, I am sorry to the people he was leaving behind. I am trying to take the youngest ones first, he explained. I want to save a nation.

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It was mentioned as a source of information about Wallenberg's actions during the death march where he saved several hundred Jewish lives by confidently claiming they had protective passes.

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You there, the Swede pointed to an astonished man waiting for his turn to be handed over to the executioner. Give me your Swedish passport and get in that line, he barked. And you, get behind him. I know I issued you a passport.

Wallenberg continued moving fast, talking loud, hoping the authority in his voice would somewhat rub off on these defeated people.

The Jews finally caught on. They started groping in pockets for bits of identification. A driver's license or birth certificate seemed to do the trick. The Swede was grabbing them so fast.

Faster, Wallenberg's eyes urged them. Faster, before the game is up.

In minutes he had several hundred people in his convoy. International Red Cross trucks there at Wallenberg's behest arrived and the Jews clambered on. Wallenberg jumped into his own car. He leaned out of the car window and whispered, I am sorry to the people he was leaving behind. I am trying to take the youngest ones first, he explained. I want to save a nation.

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Richard Henry Savage

The Last Traitor of Long Island

A Story of the Sea

It was discussed as the single best article ever written about the Sentinelese people, and that John Chow, if he had prepared properly, would have read it before his fateful trip.

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The Last Island of the Savages

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It was discussed as the single best article ever written about the Sentinelese people, and that John Chow, if he had prepared properly, would have read it before his fateful trip.

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The Last Island of the Savages

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It was discussed as the single best source of information about the Sentinelese people, including their history and interactions with outsiders, and was likely known by John Allen Chau.

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The Last Island of the Savages

published by Adam Goodheart in 2000, nearly 20 years before Chow's own journey.

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Elinor Langer

A Hundred Little Hitlers

The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America

It was mentioned as a resource or book for those interested in learning more about the racist skinheads that resided in Portland during the 1980s and 1990s.

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anyone who's curious can get the book 100 Little Hitlers

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It was mentioned as a resource or book for those interested in learning more about the racist skinheads that resided in Portland during the 1980s and 1990s.

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anyone who's curious can get the book 100 Little Hitlers

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It was mentioned as a book that might provide context or details about the skinheads and racist groups operating in Portland during the 1980s.

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anyone who's curious can get the book 100 Little Hitlers

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Margaret Killjoy

We Won't Be Here Tomorrow

And Other Stories

Margaret Killjoy's book, 'We Won't Be Here Tomorrow', was mentioned as part of her introduction and podcasting style, focusing on individuals who live as if the world were ending.

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Author of We Won't Be Here Tomorrow.

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Episode: Part Two: Peter Nygard: The Epstein of Fashion

Margaret Killjoy's book, 'We Won't Be Here Tomorrow', was mentioned as part of her introduction and podcasting style, focusing on individuals who live as if the world were ending.

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Author of We Won't Be Here Tomorrow.

I have a book called We Won't Be Here Tomorrow.

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Margaret Killjoy mentioned her book 'We Won't Be Here Tomorrow' which includes fictional stories, including those about people programming drones to kill people.

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Well, after that enjoyable...Yeah, I have a book that is probably out by the time you hear this called We Won't Be Here Tomorrow which includes such stories as people programming drones to murder people like we're discussing the show in a fictional setting.

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Gerald Horne

The Color of Fascism

Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States

It was mentioned as a book discussing Lawrence Dennis, the intellectual founder of American fascism, and his secret racial identity.

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The Color of Fascism

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It was mentioned as a book discussing Lawrence Dennis, the intellectual founder of American fascism, and his secret racial identity.

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The Color of Fascism

Every year approximately 12,000 white skin Negroes disappear People whose absence cannot be explained by death or immigration Men and women who have decided that they will be happier and more successful if they flee from the prescription and humiliation which the American color line imposes on them

Well you could see why he would think it was inevitable Fascism was a far greater threat to the U.S. than communism ever was Dennis had no faith in the white working class so if you believe it's going to happen you have one of two choices You can fight against it or you can ride the wave He decided to ride the wave and that was hard boiled cynicism and coldly calculating

Episode: Part Two: The Birth of American Fascism

It was mentioned as a book about Lawrence Dennis, who was the intellectual founder of American fascism, and the fact that he was secretly a Black man who had been passing for white.

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Gerald Horn who wrote a book about Dennis called The Color of Fascism doesn't know if Dennis's wife even knew he wasn't white

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Arnie Bernstein

Swastika Nation

Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund

This book was referenced in the context of the German-American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939, which was described as the high point for the Bund's power and a showcase for their ideology.

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The unprecedented event was really intended to be the german american bund's apothesis Proof positive to america and the world as well as berlin that the american nazis were here to stay

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This book was referenced in the context of the German-American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939, which was described as the high point for the Bund's power and a showcase for their ideology.

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The unprecedented event was really intended to be the german american bund's apothesis Proof positive to america and the world as well as berlin that the american nazis were here to stay

The rally was to be kuhn's shining moment an elaborate pageant and vivid showcase of all he had built in three years

kuhn's dream of a Swastika Nation would be on display for the whole world right in the heart of what berlin press called The scimitized metropolis of new york

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L Ron Hubbard

Scientology 8-8008

It was written in 1958 and Hubbard bragged about the abilities it gave, including healing the sick without physical contact and making one's body young at will.

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the ability to make one's body older, young at will, the ability to heal the ill without physical contact, the ability to cure the insane and the incapacitated is set forth for the physician, the laym...

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It was written in 1958 and Hubbard bragged about the abilities it gave, including healing the sick without physical contact and making one's body young at will.

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the ability to make one's body older, young at will, the ability to heal the ill without physical contact, the ability to cure the insane and the incapacitated is set forth for the physician, the layman, the mathematician and the physicist.

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It was a later Scientology text where Hubbard boasted of its ability to control aging, heal illnesses remotely, and cure insanity, highlighting the evolution and expansion of his claims and beliefs.

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In Scientology 8-8008...he bragged...with this book, the ability to make one's body older, young at will, the ability to heal the ill without physical contact, the ability to cure the insane and the incapacitated is set forth for the physician, the layman, the mathematician and the physicist.

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L. Ron Hubbard

Mission into Time (A Scientology book)

It was a Scientology book where L. Ron Hubbard embellished his trip to China with his parents, creating fictional tales of Tibetan Mystics and Hindu cat hypnotists.

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In Mission Into Time, a Scientology book though, he spun his basic vacation with his parents in China into, quote, in China he met an old musician whose ancestors had served in the court of Kubla Khan...

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It was a Scientology book where L. Ron Hubbard embellished his trip to China with his parents, creating fictional tales of Tibetan Mystics and Hindu cat hypnotists.

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In Mission Into Time, a Scientology book though, he spun his basic vacation with his parents in China into, quote, in China he met an old musician whose ancestors had served in the court of Kubla Khan and a Hindu who could hypnotize cats.

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This Scientology book was mentioned as a source of false claims by Hubbard about his travels in China, including interactions with musicians and mystics.

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In Mission Into Time, a Scientology book though, he spun his basic vacation with his parents in China into, quote, in China he met an old musician whose ancestors had served in the court of Kubla Khan and a Hindu who could hypnotize cats.

In the High Hills of Tibet, he lived with bandits who accepted him because of his honest interest in him and his way of life.

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Steven Seagal

Songs From The Crystal Cave by Steven Seagal [2009]

It was described as overproduced garbage by some reviewers, though it also received 4.1 stars on Amazon, suggesting some listeners found it enjoyable. The album cover depicts Seagal in a loincloth battling a minotaur within an ice maze, reflecting his current persona.

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After a night of hitting the clubs you meet a girl head home with her things get heated put the cd in u system Turn it on and you'll find that magic happens and it also doubles as a great white elepha...

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It was described as overproduced garbage by some reviewers, though it also received 4.1 stars on Amazon, suggesting some listeners found it enjoyable. The album cover depicts Seagal in a loincloth battling a minotaur within an ice maze, reflecting his current persona.

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After a night of hitting the clubs you meet a girl head home with her things get heated put the cd in u system Turn it on and you'll find that magic happens and it also doubles as a great white elephant exchange gift

I can only describe it as it looks like an album that steven seagull would write like clearly He's in a loincloth fighting a minotaur In the center of an ice maze

My own opinion is more in line with the one star reviews of his album that call it overproduced garbage

It's not a sensational a failure as you'd like hope it's it's not like uh, it's not like a shan or not shan khan Captain Kirk the fuck william shatner. It's not like william shatner singing rocket man

Does that sound like the blues dude? I don't know what the fuck that was That's the club jam. I know he wants the punani tonight Now really what he said he wants the punani tonight

Episode: Part Two: Steven Seagal Is So Much Worse Than You'...

It was described as overproduced garbage, and the album cover depicts Seagal in a loincloth fighting a minotaur. Many listeners said they found the music forgettable and not representative of the blues genre.

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After a night of hitting the clubs you meet a girl head home with her things get heated put the cd in u system Turn it on and you'll find that magic happens and it also doubles as a great white elephant exchange gift

I can only describe it as it looks like an album that steven seagull would write like clearly He's in a loincloth fighting a minotaur In the center of an ice maze

My own opinion is more in line with the one star reviews of his album that call it overproduced garbage

It would it would it's boring enough that it would pass under your mind It's not a sensational a failure as you'd like hope it's it's not like uh, it's not like a shan or not shan khan

Does that sound like the blues dude? I don't know what the fuck that was That's the club jam. I know he wants the punani tonight Now really what he said he wants the punani tonight

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M.D. C. Everett Koop

The right to live, the right to die

It was written in 1976 and argued against abortion and euthanasia, selling 100,000 copies in its first year, primarily to Christian readers.

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Coop said quote a scam

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It was written in 1976 and argued against abortion and euthanasia, selling 100,000 copies in its first year, primarily to Christian readers.

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Coop said quote a scam

Episode: Part Two: Ronald and Nancy Reagan: The Bastards Be...

It was published in 1976 and discussed Koop's opposition to abortion and euthanasia, selling over 100,000 copies within its first year, primarily to Christian readers.

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He was a born-again Christian in 1976 and published 'The right to live, the right to die' which argued against both abortion and euthanasia.

The book sold 100,000 copies mostly to Christian readers in its first year.

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