Behind the Bastards

Mutual Aid is quite long.

Kropotkin's book Mutual Aid is quite long.

Well, well first I hope that people have read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.

I hope that people have read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.

Well, well first I hope that people have read "Mutual Aid" by Dean Spade.

I hope that people have read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.

Well, well first I hope that people have read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.

Well, first, I hope that people have read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.

It is the fourth novel in the John Dies at the End series, which I started reading when I was like 12 or 13 and has had a big impact on my sense of humor.

So I cannot recommend your books enough.

the title is, If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe.

It has a lime green cover.

If you buy books based purely on the color of the cover, this one is neon lime green.

It's called If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe. That is coming out right around the time you're listening to this.

It has a lime green cover. You cannot miss it on the shelf if you go buy it in a physical bookstore, which virtually none of you will do.

Find Jason's book there.

It is not a book about MKUltra or anything we're talking about today. It is a work of fiction that is a sequel to the film and movie John Dies at the End, which fans of mine know that well, people who have never heard of me. Look it up.

This is a sequel to the book/film John Dies at the End that exists as both of those things. If you're a fan of that series, this is the latest book.

The one that is coming out, the one that I am here promoting is the sixth, called If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe. It is part of the John Dies at the End franchise.

Again, the title is, If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe.

He did write luck He did write a book recently The Way Of The Shadow Wolves with someone else

We will we'll we'll that has to be another there was just too much. There's you're acting. I couldn't cover it It's about how obama tried to conquer the country It's really like all of the fox news talking points like filtered through alex jones' craziness into the mind of a very very dumb man who doesn't care about the truth

Joe Arpaio wrote the intro to Steven Seagal's terrible book, The Way Of The Shadow Wolves.

Horrible. Don't read it. But listen to our episode on it.

He did write luck He did write a book recently The Way Of The Shadow Wolves with someone else

We will we'll we'll that has to be another there was just too much. There's you're acting. I couldn't cover it It's about how obama tried to conquer the country It's really like all of the fox news talking points like filtered through alex jones' craziness into the mind of a very very dumb man who doesn't care about the truth

Joe Arpaio wrote the intro to Steven Seagal's terrible book, The Way Of The Shadow Wolves.

It's called The Way Of The Shadow Wolves the deep state

It's written by Steven Seagal and a fellow named Tom Morrissey

Vulture called it completely batshit insane the Phoenix New Times called it garbage and breathtakingly bad Hard to follow who's speaking Fight scenes that were even more boring than the dialogue.

How does that pig blood feel asshole? Is it starting to course through your veins maybe even my god profit? Maybe oh my god off the profit. Oh my god

I have a special delivery from you from the Prophet. He laughs and then He Does a deep stab into the Persian's throat killing him instantly.

Joe Arpaio wrote the intro to Steven Seagal's terrible book, The Way Of The Shadow Wolves.

It's called The Way Of The Shadow Wolves the deep state.

the deep state and the hijacking of America

Vulture called it completely batshit insane the Phoenix New Times called it garbage and breathtakingly bad Hard to follow who's speaking Fight scenes that were even more boring than the dialogue.

How does that pig blood feel asshole? Is it starting to course through your veins maybe even my god profit? Maybe oh my god off the profit. Oh my god And then may and then it continues it says I have a special delivery from you from the Prophet. He laughs and then He Does a deep stab into the Persian's throat This is a quote from the book killing him instantly. He drops to the ground on his way to meet Allah.

It's unreadable, it's It's it's one of the worst things I've ever read in my life It was to you. It compares poorly to true allegiance

And he kind of introduced me to ideas from a school of economic thought called chartelism.

And chartelism is kind of the theoretical forebear of MMT.

And chartelism over 100 years before this is putting out very similar ideas around money that is created by states in order to marshal physical resources. They call it biophysical resources.

And Graeber goes through these wonderful examples of silver and other metals being used as international means of payment.

But he says, in order to get from the domestic money into the international money, you need to have these linkages of experts in the temple and the trade networks to get together and make credit instruments, which knit them together into this trade network.

The anthropologist David Graeber described the consequence of one such IMF austerity program in Debt the first 5,000 years quote For almost two years. I had lived in the highlands of Madagascar Shortly before I arrived there had been an outbreak of malaria It was a particularly virulent outbreak because malaria had been wiped out in Highland, Madagascar many years before So that after a couple of generations most people had lost their immunity The problem was it took money to maintain those mosquito eradication programs since there had to be periodic tests to make sure mosquitoes weren't starting to breed again and Spraying campaigns if it was discovered that they were not a lot of money But owing to IMF imposed austerity programs the government had to cut the monitoring program 10,000 people died. I met young mothers grieving for lost children One might think it would be hard to make a case that the loss of 10,000 human lives is really justified in order to ensure That Citibank wouldn't have to cut its losses on one irresponsible loan. That wasn't particularly important to its balance sheet anyways

But I think like, you know, and there was like a lot of like people saying things about like the Agora, you know Democracy the sort of political the political and count space of encounter and that stuff wasn't all wrong Like I mean, I'm sort of being a little sarcastic with a lot of it but I think like like there there was a lot of You know Part of how we I think we should understand the over discussed under and under you know Like over analyzed word neoliberalism that like has largely become meaningless one of the things I should I think I think it's valuable for understanding is a process by which capitalism responded to the long 60s by Disorganizing its production process such that the long 60s could never happen again, right? so like like the for the control the like the concentration of workers within within production in such a way that they could be agitated by students and then like sort of radically unionized Wildcat and sort of like almost overthrow government, right? Like the neoliberalism is like, you know, it smashes the unions Yes, but it also it also like Distributes out the active production right so that so that that's not so easily done. And I think one of the real Problems of you know that was facing social movement, you know in the period, you know the long period like, you know You had stuff like in the US again This is where I know the best but like, you know, you have the LA uprising which is huge And you have you know, the the glow the summit hopping movement and anti globalization which you know It could attack a target but there wasn't really a sense of like how it felt hard to do a local struggle beyond like literally like a Revolutionary riot like LA which you know, you can't really precipitate I mean, you can't really precipitate a movement either obviously, but I think like but like but like a A political a political movement a form of political organizing that didn't require something on the level of George Floyd Which is what the LA rebellion was, right? but that also didn't require like an action from capital that you were like striking against right like the the the You know the summits or whatever and that again and like all of these areas are very important This is not to like, you know, obviously like this is with with respect for those movements But yeah, we felt I think it felt like we were in a political wilderness and I think that that like Occupy really and the movement of the squares globally, I think Really like demonstrated that it was possible to practice a kind of street politics even without You know a shop floor where you can organize even without you know a Capital P party to organize within and I think that was really important I think it also scared a lot of people who and continues to who are committed to those politics. Yeah, and To the 20th century workers movement or the 19th and 20th century labor movement Which they somehow fantasize will come back if they just wish hard enough and write books or whatever and I think like So I think that was powerful. I also think like like Yeah, sorry, we can move on to legacy later but yes, I think that was like I think that was very much like an important thing was was just like and you know, I Graduated college in 2009 So I was like part of that millennial generation that like, you know had gone into incredibly deep Debt Yeah, like we'd have a college degree and then like the bottom fell out of the economy. There were no jobs And like I think there were a lot of you know, like people who like had anticipated a middle-class life Of some kind not that I really had at that point But whatever like but a lot of people like in my economic cohort like had Suddenly facing you know proletarianization right and I think that was one of the strengths of the movement I think that was that you know, like I mentioned the statistics in great in Spain and Greece Like I think that was a global aspect of this kind of movement Arab Spring to like there was there was a lot of like that was really a response to the economic crisis Obviously those folks were already more proletarian than the people who the young people in the squares movements But they they innovated they created the tactics in Arab Spring right, um, Tahrir Square most famously in Cairo and I think like those creating a meeting place where you didn't require a Pre-constructed like political community in order to engage was a strength and a weakness And I think it also, you know as a result of the dynamics of the General Assembly It led to a lot of people who were already confident who are already feeling good being able to like take more power, right like And I think it also was a very white movement certainly in New York But but I think I think across the country. It was largely it was largely, you know, it was it was majority white in a way that You know by higher percentages than any movement that we've really been part of since was And that was obviously a limit for reasons that will be obvious to everyone Including the idea that like a lot of people pushed that like the police are part of the 99% Yeah, right

And a book that really shaped my initial understanding was David Graeber's Debt, The First 5,000 Years.

And it's excellent. It's very long and it's a bit scattered, but I love what he put together with it.

So it's about the origins of money. And origins of money, it turns out, are at least 5,000 years ago, as the title says.

But I think like, you know, and there was like a lot of like people saying things about like the Agora, you know Democracy the sort of political the political and count space of encounter and that stuff wasn't all wrong Like I mean, I'm sort of being a little sarcastic with a lot of it but I think like like there there was a lot of You know Part of how we I think we should understand the over discussed under and under you know Like over analyzed word neoliberalism that like has largely become meaningless one of the things I should I think I think it's valuable for understanding is a process by which capitalism responded to the long 60s by Disorganizing its production process such that the long 60s could never happen again, right? so like like the for the control the like the concentration of workers within within production in such a way that they could be agitated by students and then like sort of radically unionized Wildcat and sort of like almost overthrow government, right? Like the neoliberalism is like, you know, it smashes the unions Yes, but it also it also like Distributes out the active production right so that so that that's not so easily done. And I think one of the real Problems of you know that was facing social movement, you know in the period, you know the long period like, you know You had stuff like in the US again This is where I know the best but like, you know, you have the LA uprising which is huge And you have you know, the the glow the summit hopping movement and anti globalization which you know It could attack a target but there wasn't really a sense of like how it felt hard to do a local struggle beyond like literally like a Revolutionary riot like LA which you know, you can't really precipitate I mean, you can't really precipitate a movement either obviously, but I think like but like but like a A political a political movement a form of political organizing that didn't require something on the level of George Floyd Which is what the LA rebellion was, right? but that also didn't require like an action from capital that you were like striking against right like the the the You know the summits or whatever and that again and like all of these areas are very important This is not to like, you know, obviously like this is with with respect for those movements But yeah, we felt I think it felt like we were in a political wilderness and I think that that like Occupy really and the movement of the squares globally, I think Really like demonstrated that it was possible to practice a kind of street politics even without You know a shop floor where you can organize even without you know a Capital P party to organize within and I think that was really important I think it also scared a lot of people who and continues to who are committed to those politics. Yeah, and To the 20th century workers movement or the 19th and 20th century labor movement Which they somehow fantasize will come back if they just wish hard enough and write books or whatever and I think like So I think that was powerful. I also think like like Yeah, sorry, we can move on to legacy later but yes, I think that was like I think that was very much like an important thing was was just like and you know, I Graduated college in 2009 So I was like part of that millennial generation that like, you know had gone into incredibly deep Debt Yeah, like we'd have a college degree and then like the bottom fell out of the economy. There were no jobs And like I think there were a lot of you know, like people who like had anticipated a middle-class life Of some kind not that I really had at that point But whatever like but a lot of people like in my economic cohort like had Suddenly facing you know proletarianization right and I think that was one of the strengths of the movement I think that was that you know, like I mentioned the statistics in great in Spain and Greece Like I think that was a global aspect of this kind of movement Arab Spring to like there was there was a lot of like that was really a response to the economic crisis Obviously those folks were already more proletarian than the people who the young people in the squares movements But they they innovated they created the tactics in Arab Spring right, um, Tahrir Square most famously in Cairo and I think like those creating a meeting place where you didn't require a Pre-constructed like political community in order to engage was a strength and a weakness And I think it also, you know as a result of the dynamics of the General Assembly It led to a lot of people who were already confident who are already feeling good being able to like take more power, right like And I think it also was a very white movement certainly in New York But but I think I think across the country. It was largely it was largely, you know, it was it was majority white in a way that You know by higher percentages than any movement that we've really been part of since was And that was obviously a limit for reasons that will be obvious to everyone Including the idea that like a lot of people pushed that like the police are part of the 99% Yeah, right

David Graeber rest in peace who is there in the early days organizing claimed and That he had he had heard and talked to the some of the like Overheard the police talking about the reason they didn't sweep at the occupy encampment the first day when we were pretty weak frankly Or the first week was because there were a bunch of guy Fox masks and they were scared They were scared They were gonna get hacked They were scared we were gonna hack them and steal their yeah, so so it was a weird time indeed Yeah Yeah

There was a lot of people talking about embarrassingly about heart and neck Riz, sort of like really a really a much better book that was important was also David Graeber's Debt.

early every summer morning in the first years of the 20th century, two small boys awoke as dawn broke over Lake Ontario. Their day began with a cold bath, the only kind their father allowed. After breakfast, they gathered with the rest of their family on the front porch for a Bible reading, sang a hymn or two, and knelt as their father led them in prayer. Their duty done, they raced to the shore where their grandfather and uncle were waiting to take them out to stalk the wily smallmouth bass.

muscular, assertive foreign policy that would force weaker countries to trade with Americans on terms Americans considered fair.

Sullivan and Cromwell played an important role in the development of modern capitalism by helping to organize what its official history calls some of America's greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

quote all were gregarious intrigued by possibilities liked to do things had three bright ideas a day shared the optimism of stock market plungers and were convinced that every problem had its handle and that the CIA should find a way to reach it the intelligence historian thomas powers has written they also tended to be white anglo-saxon patricians from old families with old money at least at the beginning and they somehow inherited traditional british attitudes towards the colored races of the world not the puka sahib arrogance of the indian raj but the mixed fascination and condescension of men like te lawrence who were enthusiastic partisans of the alien cultures into which they dipped for a time and rarely doubted their ability to help until it was too late these were the best men who formed the core of the early CIA most came from privileged backgrounds that isolated them from ordinary life and had gone to the right schools during the war they had traded genteel lives for death-defying adventures upon returning home they found the quiet routines of peace unfulfilling

early every summer morning in the first years of the 20th century, two small boys awoke as dawn broke over Lake Ontario. Their day began with a cold bath, the only kind their father allowed. After breakfast, they gathered with the rest of their family on the front porch for a Bible reading, sang a hymn or two, and knelt as their father led them in prayer. Their duty done, they raced to the shore where their grandfather and uncle were waiting to take them out to stalk the wily smallmouth bass.

muscular, assertive foreign policy that would force weaker countries to trade with Americans on terms Americans considered fair.

Sullivan and Cromwell played an important role in the development of modern capitalism by helping to organize what its official history calls some of America's greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

quote all were gregarious intrigued by possibilities liked to do things had three bright ideas a day shared the optimism of stock market plungers and were convinced that every problem had its handle and that the CIA should find a way to reach it

the intelligence historian thomas powers has written they also tended to be white anglo-saxon patricians from old families with old money at least at the beginning and they somehow inherited traditional british attitudes towards the colored races of the world not the puka sahib arrogance of the indian raj but the mixed fascination and condescension of men like te lawrence who were enthusiastic partisans of the alien cultures into which they dipped for a time and rarely doubted their ability to help until it was too late

early every summer morning in the first years of the 20th century, two small boys awoke as dawn broke over Lake Ontario. Their day began with a cold bath, the only kind their father allowed. After breakfast, they gathered with the rest of their family on the front porch for a Bible reading, sang a hymn or two, and knelt as their father led them in prayer. Their duty done, they raced to the shore where their grandfather and uncle were waiting to take them out to stalk the wily smallmouth bass.

The native inhabitants had proved themselves incapable of maintaining a respectable and responsible government and lacked the energy or will to improve the advantages with which Providence had given them.

Sullivan and Cromwell played an important role in the development of modern capitalism by helping to organize what its official history calls some of America's greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

We probably don't have the Bosnian genocide without The Pelican Brief obviously, right?

The Pelican Brief, basically identical.

Is he the one in The Pelican Brief?

We probably don't have the Bosnian genocide without The Pelican Brief obviously, right?

Is he the one in The Pelican Brief?

Is he the one in The Pelican Brief?

Brave New World and Ireland, right?

Brave New World is the more famous of the two.

Brave New World, Brave New World, it's really up there with 1984 in terms of its notoriety. It is one of the quintessential dystopias.

It's set several hundred years into the future.

Brave New World, it's written before Huxley had psychedelics. It was like his version of drug use is so different in that book, it's more like a pacifying drug.

I read Brave New World in high school, but I have not read Ireland.

It is like one of the quintessential dystopias.

They say things like by Ford's name and that kind of thing, you know?

They don't do like genetic, um, like coding, whatever. They just, they do a chemical concoctions in those sort of test tubes.

It is really interesting that that, he changes what drugs do in his books. After he starts doing them.

It is the more famous of the two. I don't think a lot of people have heard of Ireland compared to Brave New World. Because I mean, Brave New World is like... I read Brave New World in high school, but I have not read Ireland.

And it's like, it really says a lot about society that we read about the dystopias, but not the utopias.

But anyway, Brave New World, Brave New World, it's really up there with 1984 in terms of its notoriety. It is one of the quintessential dystopias.

It's set several hundred years into the future. Unlike 1984, which took place several decades ago, Brave New World was set in 2540 CE. So yeah, we're several hundred years Star Trek times.

But however, in the book, it isn't called 2550 CE. It's called 632 AF. AF standing for after Ford, because in this world, and I'm sure we'll get into this a bit, Henry Ford, the assembly line guy, the Model T guy, he is basically God. He is the God of their world, you know?

It is the more famous of the two. I don't think a lot of people have heard of Ireland compared to Brave New World.

It is like one of the quintessential dystopias.

They say things like by Ford's name and that kind of thing, you know?

It is like kind of like what's happening today, you know, in terms of the Greek alphabet.

And like they are literally conditioned, you know? So like in the factory, in the baby making factory, which is in this case, literal and not a euphemism for the womb.

Aldous Huxley in 1948 cited research that suggested an inverse correlation between intelligence and fertility.

Basically, Huxley was pointing out that like intelligent people have less children and he called for a world population policy.

Das Kapital is a book written way back in 1867 by Karl Marx, who Karl Marx was the founder of the Marx Brothers.

They transform his life into working time and drag his wife and child beneath the wheels of the juggernaut of Capital, but all production of surplus value or at the same time methods of accumulation and every extension of accumulation becomes conversely a means for the development of these methods.

This is a big part of Marxist theory. And it suggests, Marx kind of suggested that immiseration is what tends to produce revolutions.

in Marx's words, quote, 'destroy the actual content of his labor by turning it into a torment.'

So Marx was a experiment, a psychological experiment run by the by Harvard University that was included in 1897. But he wrote he wrote a bunch of books and one of those books is Capital and in Capital.

Das Kapital is a book written way back in 1867 by Karl Marx, who Karl Marx was the founder of the Marx Brothers.

destroy the actual content of his labor by turning it into a torment.

They transform his life into working time and drag his wife and child beneath the wheels of the juggernaut of Capital, but all production of surplus value or at the same time methods of accumulation and every extension of accumulation becomes conversely a means for the development of these methods.

It follows therefore that in proportion as Capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment higher low must grow worse.

So Marx was a experiment, a psychological experiment run by the by Harvard University that was included in 1897. But he wrote he wrote a bunch of books and one of those books is Capital and in Capital.

Das Kapital is a book written way back in 1867 by Karl Marx, who Karl Marx was the founder of the Marx Brothers.

destroy the actual content of his labor by turning it into a torment.

They transform his life into working time and drag his wife and child beneath the wheels of the juggernaut of Capital, but all production of surplus value or at the same time methods of accumulation and every extension of accumulation becomes conversely a means for the development of these methods.

This is a big part of Marxist theory.

in proportion as Capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment higher low must grow worse.

Das Kapital is a book written way back in 1867 by Karl Marx, who Karl Marx was the founder of the Marx Brothers.

And immiseration theory is the idea that because cutting wages and benefits to workers is the easiest way to increase profits, right?

destroy the actual content of his labor by turning it into a torment.

This is a big part of Marxist theory.

in proportion as Capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment higher low must grow worse.

Bad Blood by John Kerry Rue provides, it's a really good book, provides additional context to Holmes's childhood ambition.

Carrie Rhues interviews with people who knew Holmes as a child people who demands you actually finish the game even once it becomes clear that they're going to win because you can't roll the die without landing on one of their properties.

She usually won, but when she lost she would run off in a huff.

Carrie Ru notes that more than once she ran through the screen of the condo's front door.

That's pretty on brand.

Bad Blood by John Kerry Rue provides, it's a really good book, provides additional context to Holmes's childhood ambition.

Liz the baby.

She responded that she'd look for it when she was back at work the next morning.

Justin got angry and stormed off.

Elizabeth came by his office a little later to say she understood why he was upset but warned him, "don't ever walk off on me again."

Justin tried to remind himself that Elizabeth was very young and still had a lot to learn about running a company.

Lying as a disgusting habit and it flows through conversations here like it's our own currency the cultural disease here is what we should be keering before we try to tackle obesity.

Bad Blood by John Kerry Rue provides, it's a really good book, provides additional context to Holmes's childhood ambition.

Liz the baby.

She usually won, but when she lost she would run off in a huff.

That's pretty on brand.

That one I believe because that both sounds like someone who grows up to do what she did and also sounds like a nine year old.

Silent Cicada, which makes me think of the book Silent Spring

And now I assume that you always carry a full canister of DDT on you at all times.

at Amway, the world's biggest MLM, anyone who works for an employer as opposed to an upline mentor is said with disdain to have a J-O-B or jackass of a boss.

When you work for someone else, you will never get paid what you're worth, Amway's recruits are all taught to say.

Patrick's behavior was unhinged from all angles, but when the FTC brought him to court, their most compelling argument against him and what eventually allowed them to shut down Holiday Magic was their points about his speech.

Ultimately, the court ruled that Patrick's deceptive hyperbole, loaded buzzwords and gaslighting disguised as inspiration were what defined him as a pyramid schemer.

at Amway, the world's biggest MLM, anyone who works for an employer as opposed to an upline mentor is said with disdain to have a J-O-B or jackass of a boss.

When you work for someone else, you will never get paid what you're worth, Amway's recruits are all taught to say.

Patrick's behavior was unhinged from all angles, but when the FTC brought him to court, their most compelling argument against him and what eventually allowed them to shut down Holiday Magic was their points about his speech.

Ultimately, the court ruled that Patrick's deceptive hyperbole, loaded buzzwords, and gaslighting disguised as inspiration were what defined him as a pyramid schemer.

at Amway, the world's biggest MLM, anyone who works for an employer as opposed to an upline mentor is said with disdain to have a J-O-B or jackass of a boss.

Patrick's behavior was unhinged from all angles, but when the FTC brought him to court, their most compelling argument against him and what eventually allowed them to shut down Holiday Magic was their points about his speech.

Ultimately, the court ruled that Patrick's deceptive hyperbole, loaded buzzwords and gaslighting disguised as inspiration were what defined him as a pyramid schemer.

It sounds and honestly looks like Captain Trips, like the plague from Stephen King's "The Stand" that killed all of the people. Like just this horrible plague that makes everybody bleed out and drop where they're standing.

It's like the worst cold ever, but also with your organs bleeding inside, which doesn't sound great. It sounds and honestly looks like Captain Trips.

Like just this horrible plague that makes everybody bleed out and drop where they're standing.

It sounds and honestly looks like Captain Trips, like the plague from Stephen King's "The Stand", that killed all of the people.

It's like the worst cold ever, but also with your organs bleeding inside, which doesn't sound great. It sounds and honestly looks like Captain Trips. Like the plague from Stephen King's "The Stand" that killed all of the people.

It sounds and honestly looks like Captain Trips, like the plague from Stephen King's The Stand that killed all of the people, like just this horrible plague that makes everybody bleed out and drop where they're standing.

It's like the worst cold ever, but also with your organs bleeding inside, which doesn't sound great.

It sounds and honestly looks like Captain Trips.

Le Conte de L'Ile's own tragic view of the universe. His romantic colors were always tinged with somber pessimism strongly appealed to Maximilani.

He regarded all religious symbols as fragments of a divine truth, but the profusion of faiths over time convinced him of the relative value and ultimate vanity of every doctrine.

Maximiani admits that she did not yet connect Hitler with her own dream of a new racial order based on her view of classical Greek antiquity.

Years later, she would recall that she spent such a sunlit afternoon upon the Acropolis on 9th October 1923, the fateful day of Hitler's Putsch when he and his followers had attempted to coup against the Bavarian government and staged a march to the Feldherne Hall in the center of Munich.

The police successfully broke up the march and 16 martyrs of the early Nazi movement fell beneath the hail of bullets. When the tales of the incident were published in the world press the following day, there was some discussion over lunch at the International Home Hostel, which is where she was crashing at the time.

disgusted her and turned her against mankind.

Lecont de Lille's own tragic view of the universe his romantic colors were always tinged with somber pessimism strongly appealed to Maximilani.

He regarded all religious symbols as fragments of a divine truth but the profusion of faiths over time convinced him of the relative value and ultimate vanity of every doctrine.

Beset by a sense of cosmic futility Lecont de Lille rejected Christianity and evoked the stoical heroism of barbarian and exotic peoples in his famous poem, cycle poems Barberes.

He was also powerfully attracted to Hinduism following the translation of its sacred texts in the 1840s, Maximilani felt a profound sympathy with Lecont de Lille's view of life's fragility, the vanity of existence and the illusion of the world his romantic poems about the ancient Egyptians the Scandinavians, the Celts and Hindus their proud paganism and heroic action yet final resignation in the face of death and oblivion confirmed her own aversion to Christianity and helped her form her own fatalistic world view.

disgusted her and turned her against mankind.

Lecont de Lille's own tragic view of the universe his romantic colors were always tinged with somber pessimism strongly appealed to Maximilani. He regarded all religious symbols as fragments of a divine truth but the profusion of faiths over time convinced him of the relative value and ultimate vanity of every doctrine. Beset by a sense of cosmic futility Lecont de Lille rejected Christianity and evoked the stoical heroism of barbarian and exotic peoples in his famous poem, cycle poems Barberes. He was also powerfully attracted to Hinduism following the translation of its sacred texts in the 1840s, Maximilani felt a profound sympathy with Lecont de Lille's view of life's fragility, the vanity of existence and the illusion of the world his romantic poems about the ancient Egyptians the Scandinavians, the Celts and Hindus their proud paganism and heroic action yet final resignation in the face of death and oblivion confirmed her own aversion to Christianity and helped her form her own fatalistic world view.

years later she would recall that she spent such a sunlit afternoon upon the Acropolis on 9th October 1923 the fateful day of Hitler's Putsch when he and his followers had attempted to coup against the Bavarian government and staged a march to the Feldherne Hall in the center of Munich.

disgusted her and turned her against mankind.

Lecont de Lille's own tragic view of the universe his romantic colors were always tinged with somber pessimism strongly appealed to Maximilani.

He regarded all religious symbols as fragments of a divine truth but the profusion of faiths over time convinced him of the relative value and ultimate vanity of every doctrine.

Beset by a sense of cosmic futility Lecont de Lille rejected Christianity and evoked the stoical heroism of barbarian and exotic peoples in his famous poem, cycle poems Barberes.

He was also powerfully attracted to Hinduism following the translation of its sacred texts in the 1840s, Maximilani felt a profound sympathy with Lecont de Lille's view of life's fragility, the vanity of existence and the illusion of the world his romantic poems about the ancient Egyptians the Scandinavians, the Celts and Hindus their proud paganism and heroic action yet final resignation in the face of death and oblivion confirmed her own aversion to Christianity and helped her form her own fatalistic world view.

years later she would recall that she spent such a sunlit afternoon upon the Acropolis on 9th October 1923 the fateful day of Hitler's Putsch when he and his followers had attempted to coup against the Bavarian government and staged a march to the Feldherne Hall in the center of Munich.

disgusted her and turned her against mankind.

Lecont de Lille's own tragic view of the universe his romantic colors were always tinged with somber pessimism strongly appealed to Maximilani.

He regarded all religious symbols as fragments of a divine truth but the profusion of faiths over time convinced him of the relative value and ultimate vanity of every doctrine.

Beset by a sense of cosmic futility Lecont de Lille rejected Christianity and evoked the stoical heroism of barbarian and exotic peoples in his famous poem, cycle poems Barberes.

Maximilani felt a profound sympathy with Lecont de Lille's view of life's fragility, the vanity of existence and the illusion of the world his romantic poems about the ancient Egyptians the Scandinavians, the Celts and Hindus their proud paganism and heroic action yet final resignation in the face of death and oblivion confirmed her own aversion to Christianity and helped her form her own fatalistic world view.

From these thinkers, Kissinger cobbled together his own view of how history operated.

Kissinger finds this logic intoxicating, but he did disagree with Spengler about Spengler's primary contention, which is that civilizational decay was inevitable.

Having lost a sense of purpose, civilizations lurch outward to find meaning.

Kissinger accepted Spengler's critique of past civilizations, but rejected his determinism.

The fact that Kissinger participated in an intrigue that extended the war for five pointless years, seven, if you count the fighting between the 1973 Paris Peace Accords and the 1975 fall of Saigon is undeniable.

And I'm going to quote from Kissinger's Shadow by Greg Grandin.

Sitton, based on recommendations he received from General Creighton Abrams, the commander of military operations in Vietnam, would work up a number of targets in Cambodia to be struck.

Then he would bring them to Kissinger and Haig in the White House for approval.

Kissinger was very hands on revising some of Sitton's work.

I don't know what he was using as his reason for varying them, Sitton later recalled.

And I'm going to quote again from Kissinger's Shadow by Greg Grandin.

The activities of the Nixon team went far beyond the bounds of justifiable political combat. It constituted direct interference in the activities of the executive branch and the responsibilities of the chief executive, the only people with authority to get to negotiate on behalf of the nation.

The activities of the Nixon campaign constituted a gross, even potentially illegal interference in the security affairs of the nation by private individuals,

The fact that Kissinger participated in an intrigue that extended the war for five pointless years, seven if you count the fighting between the 1973 Paris Peace Accords and the 1975 fall of Saigon is undeniable.

If you want an actual biography of Kissinger's whole life and time and power I recommend Walter Isaacson's 1992 book Kissinger.

I actually think Isaacson is too fair to Henry Kissinger.

But even so even though he clearly like does not wholly condemn the man I find the book utterly damning.

And I'm going to quote from Kissinger's Shadow by Greg Grandin.

Kissinger's Shadow.

Kissinger, according to Marvin and Bernard Kolb, knew almost instinctively that he would be able to control the bureaucracy and thus help reorder American diplomacy only to the degree that he became indistinguishable from the president and his policies.

The test had no military or scientific benefit, but was seen as something of a ritual by the right fireworks to celebrate the end of Johnson's presidency when many hawks like Curtis LeMay felt the United States had fallen behind on nuclear development.

Greg Grandin, author of Kissinger's Shadow, sees the bombing campaign in Cambodia and Laos as the terminal phase in what he calls the crack up of America's domestic consensus, which had begun under Johnson.

This was written before Climate Leviathan. This was written before The Uninhabitable Earth.

His most famous book was probably The Day of the Jackal, which made him wealthy.

Well, that's actually where his name came from. But when they made the movie about it, it was pretty inspired.

Well that's actually where his name came from.

His most famous book was probably The Day of the Jackal, which made him wealthy.

His most famous book was probably The Day of the Jackal, which made him wealthy.

'Mann however was a little different.'' ''He was as likely to wear a crumpled business suit'' ''and rimless spectacles as camouflage or chest webbing.'' ''He was an early example of a new sort of mercenary,'' ''the type familiar with company law,'' ''bank transfers and investor agreements'' ''as with the workings of a Browning pistol.'

'families told of husbands and fathers who scrabbled at the chance of well-paid work.'' ''No questions asked.'

'you can see why this is tempting. It's fun, it could work, you trust the leaders.'' ''Some of the guys did it for the kicks because life is boring.'

'it was a casual conversation at a drinks party around a swimming pool about a security project at an African mine.'

'The two most potent general threats are, one, as it is potentially a very lucrative game, we should expect bad behavior, disloyalty, rampant individual greed, irrational behavior, kids in toy shop style, backstabbing, bumfucking, and similar ungentlemanly activities. Two, if the result is not seen by the outside world as noticeably better than the current situation, our position there and anything other than the very short term will be hard to sustain, and our involvement will be more likely to be the subject of unfavorable scrutiny.'

So I'm going to quote next from a book called The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts for a picture of how Fernando Poe fared under colonialism.

Quote, in 1936, the British novelist Graham Green, who was generally fond of West Africa, dismissed the dreadful little Spanish island where there existed a mild form of slavery that enabled a man to pawn his children.

Towards the end of its two centuries of rule, Spain did little to improve the lives of those it ruled.

The colonial power set up an economy based on cocoa plantations and a reasonable school system.

By the second half of the 20th century, equatorial Guineans were less poor than most Africans thanks to exports of cocoa.

But few Spaniards settled and native Africans were denied political rights and economic chances.

When independence loomed, the Spanish organized hasty polls to find a new government.

Spain, under its own dictator, General Franco, was hardly qualified to promote democracy, and equatorial Guinea was ill-prepared when in late 1968 it became the 126th member of the United Nations.

But the first part was really just a more general description about the history of coups in Africa as both a literary tradition and as a real attempted thing ending with the terrible story of the dictators of Equatorial Guinea.

...where you like attempt to overthrow a sovereign nation in order to make a profit and fail but still get rich off of the book.

...by the turn of the year, Wales's ideas and presumably Mann's had expanded to something grander in Equatorial Guinea.

...He proposed forming a company controlled by Mann and his closest plotters to run Equatorial Guinea with Moto as a puppet leader.

...the two most potent general threats are, one, as it is potentially a very lucrative game, we should expect bad behavior, disloyalty, rampant individual greed, irrational behavior, kids in toy shop style, backstabbing, bumfucking, and similar ungentlemanly activities.

Quote, in 1936, the British novelist Graham Green, who was generally fond of West Africa, dismissed the dreadful little Spanish island where there existed a mild form of slavery that enabled a man to pawn his children.

Towards the end of its two centuries of rule, Spain did little to improve the lives of those it ruled.

By the second half of the 20th century, equatorial Guineans were less poor than most Africans thanks to exports of cocoa.

No food in the shops, no water, no electricity, no kerosene for the lamps. At night we walked in blackness.

Nightclubs and schools closed. Missionaries were chased from the country.

Quote, in 1936, the British novelist Graham Green, who was generally fond of West Africa, dismissed the dreadful little Spanish island where there existed a mild form of slavery that enabled a man to pawn his children.

Towards the end of its two centuries of rule, Spain did little to improve the lives of those it ruled.

The colonial power set up an economy based on cocoa plantations and a reasonable school system.

Health campaigns reduced the impact of tropical diseases, at least on Fernando Poe.

But few Spaniards settled and native Africans were denied political rights and economic chances.

Quote, in 1936, the British novelist Graham Green, who was generally fond of West Africa, dismissed the dreadful little Spanish island where there existed a mild form of slavery that enabled a man to pawn his children.

Towards the end of its two centuries of rule, Spain did little to improve the lives of those it ruled. The colonial power set up an economy based on cocoa plantations and a reasonable school system. Health campaigns reduced the impact of tropical diseases, at least on Fernando Poe.

But few Spaniards settled and native Africans were denied political rights and economic chances.

No food in the shops, no water, no electricity, no kerosene for the lamps. At night we walked in blackness. Yes, for 11 years we walked in blackness.

Nightclubs and schools closed. Missionaries were chased from the country. Macias, like Pol Pot in Cambodia, launched a campaign against the educated and they began to disappear.

And one of my sources is King Leopold's Ghost, which is really big, a really good book by Adam Haaschild.

And the Stanley that Adam describes as a monster who shot his way through the Congo to discover the source of the river,

It was as if through his handwriting he were trying to pull himself out of disgrace and turn the script of his life from one of poverty to one of elegance.

And one of my sources is King Leopold's Ghost, which is really big, a really good book by Adam Haaschild.

And the Stanley that Adam describes as a monster who shot his way through the Congo to discover the source of the river, shot his way back out and then connived a bunch of African chiefs to hand over their land by making them sign treaties they couldn't read and giving them cloth in return.

It was as if through his handwriting he were trying to pull himself out of disgrace and turn the script of his life from one of poverty to one of elegance.

Henry held out for six weeks before changing sides he had been through hell with his fellow southerners and felt disloyal but as a foreigner embroiled in the war by chance of his new significance Stanley's behavior was not forgivable.

what we learned in the textbooks was that Leopold was the greatest benefactor the Congo ever had because he sacrificed his fortune for the Congolese.

keep your head down, think small, look after yourself. These constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit once comprehensively crushed does not recover easily. For 75 years from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second great dictator.

King Leopold's Ghost

It was as if through his handwriting he were trying to pull himself out of disgrace and turn the script of his life from one of poverty to one of elegance.

In 1869, Stanley received an urgent telegram from Bennett, his boss. Come to Paris on important business.

And the Stanley that Adam describes as a monster who shot his way through the Congo to discover the source of the river,

shot his way back out and then connived a bunch of African chiefs to hand over their land by making them sign treaties they couldn't read and giving them cloth in return.

It was as if through his handwriting he were trying to pull himself out of disgrace and turn the script of his life from one of poverty to one of elegance.

that he promptly agreed to do so

According to the book The Baby Thief, Georgia frequently falsified the birth dates of many children she placed for adoption.

According to The Baby Thief...

By the late 1930s single mothers were not only being prevented from bonding with their babies but often even from seeing them.

Mothers were sometimes blindfolded during labor.

Some social workers urged pregnant way young women to sign forms allowing doctors to circumcise their child if it turned out to be a boy so that the workers could keep mothers uninformed of even their baby's gender.

she became obsessed with finding adoptive homes for children who had already had homes. She would acquire these children through kidnapping or deceit.

Georgia felt she was taking children from trashy people and elevating the children.

One spring morning, she drove from Model T to a cabin in Jasper County near her hickory hometown. A sleep inside was Rose Harvey, who was young, poor, widowed, and pregnant and suffering from diabetes. Who two-year-old son Onyx played on the back porch. Georgia lured the sturdy black-haired brown-eyed boy into her car.

she developed both her business and the institution of adoption by doing something unprecedented, making homeless children acceptable, even irresistible to childless couples.

she didn't openly affix price tags to children but instead charged fees for transporting them to their new homes.

According to the book The Baby Thief, Georgia frequently falsified the birth dates of many children she placed for adoption.

According to The Baby Thief...

By the late 1930s single mothers were not only being prevented from bonding with their babies but often even from seeing them.

Mothers were sometimes blindfolded during labor.

Some social workers urged pregnant way young women to sign forms allowing doctors to circumcise their child if it turned out to be a boy so that the workers could keep mothers uninformed of even their baby's gender.

she became obsessed with finding adoptive homes for children who had already had homes. She would acquire these children through kidnapping or deceit.

Georgia felt she was taking children from trashy people and elevating the children.

One spring morning, she drove from Model T to a cabin in Jasper County near her hickory hometown. A sleep inside was Rose Harvey, who was young, poor, widowed, and pregnant and suffering from diabetes. Who two-year-old son Onyx played on the back porch. Georgia lured the sturdy black-haired brown-eyed boy into her car.

she developed both her business and the institution of adoption by doing something unprecedented, making homeless children acceptable, even irresistible to childless couples.

she didn't openly affix price tags to children but instead charged fees for transporting them to their new homes.

According to the book The Baby Thief, Georgia frequently falsified the birth dates of many children she placed for adoption.

According to The Baby Thief...

By the late 1930s single mothers were not only being prevented from bonding with their babies but often even from seeing them.

Mothers were sometimes blindfolded during labor.

Some social workers urged pregnant way young women to sign forms allowing doctors to circumcise their child if it turned out to be a boy so that the workers could keep mothers uninformed of even their baby's gender.

She became obsessed with finding adoptive homes for children who had already had homes. She would acquire these children through kidnapping or deceit.

One spring morning, she drove from Model T to a cabin in Jasper County near her hickory hometown. A sleep inside was Rose Harvey, who was young, poor, widowed, and pregnant and suffering from diabetes. Who two-year-old son Onyx played on the back porch. Georgia lured the sturdy black-haired brown-eyed boy into her car.

she developed both her business and the institution of adoption by doing something unprecedented, making homeless children acceptable, even irresistible to childless couples.

She didn't openly affix price tags to children but instead charged fees for transporting them to their new homes.

She placed with no regard to whether children would be happy in their adoptive homes. It was hidden myths. She was trying to place every child in Memphis. She wanted to get her hands on every child. She could.

He was the only US journalist who ever had a real in depth embed with US special forces, Robin Moore. Now more was the author of the book The Green Berets which that John Wayne movie that Jack Adima had loved as a kid was based on.

And in order to write the Green Berets more it had to do something no civilian journalist had ever done. He was through special forces training and qualification and like qualified as a Green Beret.

He writes this book, The Green Berets, which is like it's like on the bestseller list for more than a year. It's a huge hit.

And he publishes this book as a fiction book because he has to do that in order to pretend he's not giving away operational secrets.

The government considers prosecuting him because he's writing about a bunch of shit he shouldn't be writing about.

Now more was the author of the book The Green Berets which that John Wayne movie that Jack Adima had loved as a kid was based on.

He writes this book, The Green Berets, which is like it's like on the bestseller list for more than a year. It's a huge hit.

And the reason one of the reasons apparently that they don't go through prosecuting him is that John Wayne buys the film rights from Robin Moore in order to make a movie.

He basically says I want to make the first pro war movie about the Vietnam War to try and build public support for this thing.

Now more was the author of the book The Green Berets which that John Wayne movie that Jack Adima had loved as a kid was based on.

Now more was the author of the book The Green Berets which that John Wayne movie that Jack Adima had loved as a kid was based on.

And in order to write the Green Berets more it had to do something no civilian journalist had ever done. He was through special forces training and qualification and like qualified as a Green Beret.