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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

Samuel P. Huntington

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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

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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

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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

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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

Mentioned 5 months ago

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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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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

The First Uncensored Edition

The speaker mentioned this book in the context of the Soviet atom bomb project. He stated that NKVD prisoners were used for atomic energy research, 50% of which was done in special NKVD centers called Sharashi, such as those described in this book.

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such as those described in Solnitzens' The First Circle

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The speaker mentioned this book in the context of the Soviet atom bomb project. He stated that NKVD prisoners were used for atomic energy research, 50% of which was done in special NKVD centers called Sharashi, such as those described in this book.

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such as those described in Solnitzens' The First Circle

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Joe Kassabian

Invisible War

A Military Sci-Fi Series (The Undying Legion Book 1)

The Undying Legion is a science fiction series by Joe Kasabian that focuses on military science fiction.

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I'm also an author.

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The Undying Legion is a science fiction series by Joe Kasabian that focuses on military science fiction.

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I'm also an author.

You can find my books anywhere.

I currently have a science fiction series out called The Undying Legion, and check that out if you like military science fiction.

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Joe Kassabian

Invisible War

A Military Sci-Fi Series (The Undying Legion Book 1)

Joe Kasabian, the host of the podcast, is also an author and his military science fiction series "The Undying Legion" was mentioned. He stated that the first two books are already published and the third one will be released next month.

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So my latest, yeah, I have a military science fiction series coming out.

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Joe Kasabian, the host of the podcast, is also an author and his military science fiction series "The Undying Legion" was mentioned. He stated that the first two books are already published and the third one will be released next month.

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So my latest, yeah, I have a military science fiction series coming out.

The first two books are currently out.

You have the Undying, the whole series is called the Undying Legion.

So if you look up the Undying Legion series or my name, you could find it.

And the first two books are currently out and the third book will be out next month.

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Amy Knight

Beria

Stalin's First Lieutenant

Amy Knight's biography "Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant" was referenced multiple times as a source of information on Lavrenty Beria's life. Knight's book was used to describe Beria's personality and early life.

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simple, deeply religious woman who attended church regularly all her life.

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Amy Knight's biography "Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant" was referenced multiple times as a source of information on Lavrenty Beria's life. Knight's book was used to describe Beria's personality and early life.

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simple, deeply religious woman who attended church regularly all her life.

Barry, a Stalin's first lieutenant.

Barry was a mediocre student, not excelling in any subject, but considered cunning and devious.

the story Stalin's daughter relates probably grew from the possibility that they had eloped on Beria's train.

Despite his sexual predatory nature, the marriage lasted and quote, she remained in love with her charmer for the rest of her life.

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Constantine Pleshakov

Stalin's Folly

The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front

The book "Stalin's Team: Living and Dying Dangerously in the Politics of the Soviet Union" was mentioned and referenced as a source of information about Stalin's close circle and their activities.

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There's another book called On Stalin's Team that I use a lot later that's about like the whole gang around Stalin.

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The book "Stalin's Team: Living and Dying Dangerously in the Politics of the Soviet Union" was mentioned and referenced as a source of information about Stalin's close circle and their activities.

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There's another book called On Stalin's Team that I use a lot later that's about like the whole gang around Stalin.

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Ty Seidule

Robert E. Lee and Me

A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Robert E. Lee and Me: Southerners and the Reckoning of Their Past was suggested as a good book to read about the topic.

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One of the other books, this is by a guy named Alan Guelzo, is *Robert E. Lee and Me: Southerners and the Reckoning of Their Past*.

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Robert E. Lee and Me: Southerners and the Reckoning of Their Past was suggested as a good book to read about the topic.

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One of the other books, this is by a guy named Alan Guelzo, is *Robert E. Lee and Me: Southerners and the Reckoning of Their Past*.

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Allen C. Guelzo

Robert E. Lee

A Life

It was suggested that this book was a good read about Robert E. Lee and was discussed briefly.

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*Robert E. Lee* by Alan Guelzo

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It was suggested that this book was a good read about Robert E. Lee and was discussed briefly.

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*Robert E. Lee* by Alan Guelzo

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Denise Fleming

underGROUND

The book discussed Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. It was mentioned as an example of people who actively sought to be controlled.

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Haruki Murakami writing about own Shinrikyo, which is the cult that set off a bunch of poison gas in the Tokyo subway, noted that many of its members were doctors or engineers who, quote, actively sou...

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Episode: Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI

The book discussed Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. It was mentioned as an example of people who actively sought to be controlled.

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Haruki Murakami writing about own Shinrikyo, which is the cult that set off a bunch of poison gas in the Tokyo subway, noted that many of its members were doctors or engineers who, quote, actively sought to be controlled.

Haruki Murakami wrote of the members of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult who sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people.

In his book underGROUND, Murakami describes most Aum members as having deposited all their precious personal holdings of selfhood in the spiritual bank of the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara.

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Guido Giacomo Preparata

EMPIRE & CHURCH

Anglo-America’s Buyout of the Vatican and the Hyper-Modern Demise of Catholicism

The book was discussed in the context of the author's views on race and eugenics. The podcast host was critical of the book, calling it racist and noting that the author's views were cited in Mark Andreessen's manifesto.

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So that's cool.

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The book was discussed in the context of the author's views on race and eugenics. The podcast host was critical of the book, calling it racist and noting that the author's views were cited in Mark Andreessen's manifesto.

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So that's cool.

Yeah. You know, I'm I'm stuck on this like, you know, journey to the stars through evolution thing, because I don't know. Robert, do you play Warhammer 40?

By the way, the name of the article Land wrote all this in is called Hyper Racism. So cool guy. Glad Mark Andreessen cites him in his manifesto.

Well, that's the sequel to Flume's Hyper Realism. So that's yeah, it is interesting.

And these guys don't tend to cite it as much. I think you get in some of the deeper stuff. They're all talking about these techno capitalist concepts that Nick Land plays with. They don't talk about what I think is actually one of his most sort of insightful points, which is about a concept called hyperstition.

The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: The Foundation of Our Misbegotten Nation Cover

James LaFond

The Greatest Lie Ever Sold

The Foundation of Our Misbegotten Nation

Candace Owens released a Daily Wire documentary called The Greatest Lie Ever Sold about George Floyd. It is a disinformation documentary with racist content.

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Kanye West's favorite The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by Candace Owens.

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Candace Owens released a Daily Wire documentary called The Greatest Lie Ever Sold about George Floyd. It is a disinformation documentary with racist content.

"

Kanye West's favorite The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by Candace Owens.

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J.D. Barker

A Caller's Game

The book was written by a former member of the Finders cult, who had a lawsuit against Petty. The book details Petty's life and the Finders cult, but as the speaker stated, there are other sources to consider before fully trusting it.

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A lot of these stories come from a book called The Game Caller, which you'll understand that term later.

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The book was written by a former member of the Finders cult, who had a lawsuit against Petty. The book details Petty's life and the Finders cult, but as the speaker stated, there are other sources to consider before fully trusting it.

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A lot of these stories come from a book called The Game Caller, which you'll understand that term later.

He writes a book after the guy dies.

It's about Petty and it's written by a former cult member who like left and had a big lawsuit with him.

But also they kind of were frenemies because he would - whenever journalists would talk to people, like I actually like him a lot.

I don't know whether or not we should trust this either, but it's simply the only source we have.

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JD Michael D. Cicchini

Convicting Avery

The Bizarre Laws and Broken System behind "Making a Murderer"

Candace Owens released a Daily Wire documentary called Convicting a Murderer which is a Making a Murderer ripoff.

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We have a whole bunch of a whole bunch of stuff from Jordan Peterson after he left the University of Toronto and got and got kicked off Twitter.

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Candace Owens released a Daily Wire documentary called Convicting a Murderer which is a Making a Murderer ripoff.

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We have a whole bunch of a whole bunch of stuff from Jordan Peterson after he left the University of Toronto and got and got kicked off Twitter.

We have we have a making a murderer ripoff documentary by Candace Owens called Convicting a Murderer.

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Carlos Castaneda

The Teachings of Don Juan

A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

The speaker discussed this book, published in the 1960s, as one of the books that inspired Marion Petty and his ideas of futurism and the occult. The speaker went on to say that Castaneda's books were based on a fraudulent claim of apprenticeship under a shaman.

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Now, a lot of people are probably familiar with Carla, the Don Juan books.

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The speaker discussed this book, published in the 1960s, as one of the books that inspired Marion Petty and his ideas of futurism and the occult. The speaker went on to say that Castaneda's books were based on a fraudulent claim of apprenticeship under a shaman.

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Now, a lot of people are probably familiar with Carla, the Don Juan books.

He actually writes these as part of his doctoral program at the University of California.

I hate that I knew where he went to school.

Do you see? Yeah, he sure did, baby.

Yeah, he absolutely did.

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Shann Doig

Good Morning Doggie

Mr. Bircham is an upcoming adult animated series on The Daily Wire Plus. It stars Adam Carolla and has a premise that sounds like an old man yelling at clouds.

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The one Daily Wire Plus series I am not very much excited about is an upcoming adult animated scripted series created by Adam Carolla entitled Mr. Bircham.

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Mr. Bircham is an upcoming adult animated series on The Daily Wire Plus. It stars Adam Carolla and has a premise that sounds like an old man yelling at clouds.

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The one Daily Wire Plus series I am not very much excited about is an upcoming adult animated scripted series created by Adam Carolla entitled Mr. Bircham.

Mr. Bircham attempts to navigate a world he doesn't understand or approve of. He's befuddled by his gaming streamer son, Eddie.

The cast includes Carolla as Mr. Bircham, Megan Kelly, Roseanne Barr, conservative comedian Tyler Fisher, Daily Wire hosts Brett Cooper and Canis Owens, comedian Alonzo Brodin, former Amy Schumer writer Kyle Dunningan, and unfortunately, Danny Trejo and Patrick Warburton.

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Dino Buzzati

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (New York Review Children's Collection)

The book is about bears invading Sicily, taking over the government, and trying to rule. The speaker felt this would be a good move for Sicily.

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This is from a book called The Bear's Famous Invasion of Sicily.

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The book is about bears invading Sicily, taking over the government, and trying to rule. The speaker felt this would be a good move for Sicily.

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This is from a book called The Bear's Famous Invasion of Sicily.

Oh, nice.

They take over Sicily by force. They could not do a worse job in Sicily than the Italian government.

So I think that seems like a real move forward for Sicily.

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Abdullah Öcalan

Sociology of Freedom

Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III (Kairos)

It was recommended as a good way to understand the ideological basis of the Rojava revolution and its principles of women's liberation and the organization of a democratic society.

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I mean in general like this revolution is based on the thoughts of Abdullah calan. So I think a good idea if you actually want to understand like the ideological basis of it about women's liberation a...

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It was recommended as a good way to understand the ideological basis of the Rojava revolution and its principles of women's liberation and the organization of a democratic society.

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I mean in general like this revolution is based on the thoughts of Abdullah calan. So I think a good idea if you actually want to understand like the ideological basis of it about women's liberation about how democratic society can be organized.

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Lisa McGirr

Suburban Warriors

The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America Book 115)

The book was quoted to discuss the movement surrounding Proposition 14 in California in 1964. This was a proposition backed by the California Real Estate Association to rescind the Rumford Act, which made it illegal to discriminate housing based on race.

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Indeed, one activist, Tom Rogers of San Juan Capistrano, who served as the campaign finance manager for John Schmitz's state Senate run in 1964 and who shortly afterwards served as co-editor of the Ca...

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The book was quoted to discuss the movement surrounding Proposition 14 in California in 1964. This was a proposition backed by the California Real Estate Association to rescind the Rumford Act, which made it illegal to discriminate housing based on race.

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Indeed, one activist, Tom Rogers of San Juan Capistrano, who served as the campaign finance manager for John Schmitz's state Senate run in 1964 and who shortly afterwards served as co-editor of the Catholic traditionalist paper The Wanderer, asserted years later that for him and many others, Proposition 14 was what the movement was all about.

Goldwater's frequent references of freedom of association, his belief that prejudice is a moral issue that cannot be legislated and a strong advocacy of property rights placed him firmly on the side of those opposing the Rumford Act.

Moreover, Goldwater's determination to fight lawlessness, his references to rising crime rates and his linkage of crime to lawlessness of other sorts, a reference to the civil rights and students movements appealed to the white middle classes in Orange County.

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Henry Kissinger

Leadership

Six Studies in World Strategy

Niall Ferguson's book, *Kissinger*, discusses Henry Kissinger's early life, including his interest in soccer strategy, and mentions that Kissinger's father was very strict and pedantic.

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Though no great athlete, Heinz Kissinger was already a shrewd tactician devising for his team, a system that, as it turns out, is the way the Italians play soccer.

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Niall Ferguson's book, *Kissinger*, discusses Henry Kissinger's early life, including his interest in soccer strategy, and mentions that Kissinger's father was very strict and pedantic.

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Though no great athlete, Heinz Kissinger was already a shrewd tactician devising for his team, a system that, as it turns out, is the way the Italians play soccer.

On April 9th, 1932, 15 SA men were set upon by Iron Front members as they left the pro-Nazi Yellow Lion pub.

On March 3rd, there's another torch lit parade by the Nazis through Firth.

An article by Ernst von Salomon, a right wing German writer who had been convicted for his role in the assassination of Walter Rathenau, a German minister in the Weimar Republic.

with his skill for simplifying and expressing complex ideas, Kissinger put the issue starkly.

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Lawrence Lessig

Code

And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0

Lessig's book argued that programmers would have a more significant influence than laws on the development of the internet, and he was a visionary in the field.

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Lawrence had gotten famous in hacker circles for a book he wrote in 1999 called Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.

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Lessig's book argued that programmers would have a more significant influence than laws on the development of the internet, and he was a visionary in the field.

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Lawrence had gotten famous in hacker circles for a book he wrote in 1999 called Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.

The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) Cover

Darryl Li

The Universal Enemy

Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

It was mentioned as a very good book about transnational Islamist networks, Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity.

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But like, okay, I want to ask the audience a question, right? Why would members of the Mujahedin be in Bosnia in the 1990s? And I want to suggest that it might have something to do with the fact that...

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It was mentioned as a very good book about transnational Islamist networks, Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity.

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But like, okay, I want to ask the audience a question, right? Why would members of the Mujahedin be in Bosnia in the 1990s? And I want to suggest that it might have something to do with the fact that Milosevic was trying to kill every Muslim in the fucking country. He almost did it. He was pretty close to actually doing it. But the sort of like left conspiracy solution is like, no, no, it must have been the CIA. There's no plausible reason why ex-Mujahedin guys would have gone to a country where someone was trying to kill the entire Muslim population. Like what the fuck? Like what the fuck? It's all stuff that's like this. And he also talks about how Milosevic would have testified about the CIA institution of a neoliberal government in Kosovo. And like what? Like Milosevic is the guy who presided - he was one of the architects of de-collectivization in Yugoslavia. He is like - before he was the butcher of Belgrade, he was the butcher of the Yugoslavian socialist state. But you can - and he was just a hardline right-wing Serbian nationalist. But you can sell him to a Western audience by using Islamophobia, by exploiting - by doing this thing where you're like, oh, well, actually, like all of these people were - they were all Al-Qaeda. You can use this to sell the guy who destroyed Yugoslavia as like the leftist savior of Yugoslavia. And I think that the part about this that's really sad is like there was - the sort of last true believers of the old Yugoslavian working class were these - the Yugoslavian anti-war protesters. And these guys, they're protesting to stop the war they see coming that the Serbians are about to unleash. And they just get murdered in the streets by Milosevic. Well, because seven years later, the US decided that they didn't like him. He's become this hero of a bunch of these - like a bunch of Marxist-Leninists. Like see, this guy is a hero. And this is - this is just - this is their big sort of political trick is using the threat of terrifying Muslim terrorists to just legitimize right-wing dictators. I mean, speaking of right-wing dictators.

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