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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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Anthony McCarten

The Collaboration (Modern Plays)

It was mentioned as a book that discussed how the studios worked with the Nazis and was said to be quite convincing. It was also mentioned that the book has some detractors who believe the studios simply did normal censorship.

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Essentially argues that the studios worked with the nazis and he presents compelling evidence to that point.

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It was mentioned as a book that discussed how the studios worked with the Nazis and was said to be quite convincing. It was also mentioned that the book has some detractors who believe the studios simply did normal censorship.

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Essentially argues that the studios worked with the nazis and he presents compelling evidence to that point.

The men who created the studio system in los angeles were jewish immigrants of eastern european descent

I do want to announce up front that erwand has some detractors people who Don't think collaboration is a fair term and so i'll be getting in when where there are areas of controversy I'll be getting into it a little bit because this is very far from settled history

Erwan who wrote The Collaboration did and he doesn't think it was very good but who knows, I have no way to judge this.

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Robert Evans

A Brief History of Vice

How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

It was mentioned by Michael Swaim as a book he wrote, which is available on Amazon.

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you can find this website on the internet at behindthebastards.com and you can also find us on twitter at at bastards pod you can find us on instagram same way uh and that's that's the episode so chec...

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It was mentioned by Michael Swaim as a book he wrote, which is available on Amazon.

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you can find this website on the internet at behindthebastards.com and you can also find us on twitter at at bastards pod you can find us on instagram same way uh and that's that's the episode so check back in um next Tuesday and there will be another episode and probably something just as depressing and frightening that's my goal i hope it is i hope it really is um so have a good week and i love yeah about 40 percent of you i'm john walsak host of the new podcast missing in arizona and i'm robert fischer one of the most wanted men in the world we cloned his voice using ai in 2001 police say i killed my family and rigged my house to explode before escaping into the wilderness police believe he is alive and hiding somewhere join me i'm going down in the cave as i track down clues i'm gonna call the police and have you removed hunting one of the most dangerous fugitives in the world robert fischer do you recognize my voice listen to missing in arizona every wednesday on the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your favorite shows hi it's andrea gunning the host of betrayal i'm excited to announce that the betrayal podcast is expanding we are going to be releasing episodes weekly every thursday each week you'll hear brand new stories first hand accounts of shocking deception broken trust and the trail of destruction left behind listen to betrayal weekly on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts smashing into each other full force listen to the podium on the i heart app or your favorite podcast platform weekly and every day during the games to hear the olympics like you've never quite heard them before this could be the craziest podcast pairing ever the governor of california gevin newson and super bowl champ march on beast mode lynch our politican what does politican even mean there's bridging gaps with no politics joined by their friend and agent doug hendrickson it's gonna be a wild ride we can change the world podcast by podcast listen to politican with gabin newson march on lynch and doug hendrickson on america's number one podcast network i heart open your free i heart app and search politican and start listening

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James Heiser

"The American Empire Should Be Destroyed"

Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

This book laid out Alexander Dugin's vision of dividing the world up and called for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, all in opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state.

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The Foundations of Geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy

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This book laid out Alexander Dugin's vision of dividing the world up and called for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, all in opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state.

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The Foundations of Geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy

In Dugin's seminal 1997 book The Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin lays out his vision To divide the world up And calling for Russia to rebuild Its influence through annexations And alliances While all in heavy opposition To Ukraine as a sovereign state

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James Heiser

"The American Empire Should Be Destroyed"

Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

This book by Alexander Dugin was extremely popular in the Russian General Staff Academy, and it was one of the things that shifted Dugin from a weird esoteric dissident to actually becoming a more influential and prominent pillar of the conservative establishment inside Russia. The book laid out Dugin's vision to divide the world up and calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, all in heavy opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state.

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The foundations of geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy

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This book by Alexander Dugin was extremely popular in the Russian General Staff Academy, and it was one of the things that shifted Dugin from a weird esoteric dissident to actually becoming a more influential and prominent pillar of the conservative establishment inside Russia. The book laid out Dugin's vision to divide the world up and calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, all in heavy opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state.

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The foundations of geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy

In his seminal 1997 book, the foundations of geopolitics, Dugan lays out his vision to divide the world up and calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, well all in heavy opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state and a lot of Dugan's writing has been about trying to reconquer Ukraine and absorb it into Russia.

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Philip Why

A Mind For Mischief

It was mentioned as Sadler's 1929 book which debunked mediums and psychics, with an appendix where he described two unexplainable cases, including the Contact Commission events.

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In the appendix, he wrote about two cases he could not adequately explain, including this one.

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It was mentioned as Sadler's 1929 book which debunked mediums and psychics, with an appendix where he described two unexplainable cases, including the Contact Commission events.

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In the appendix, he wrote about two cases he could not adequately explain, including this one.

Quote, The other exception has to do with a rather peculiar case of psychic phenomena, one which I find myself unable to classify. I was brought into contact with it in the summer of 1911, and I have had it under my observation more or less ever since, having been present at probably 250 of the night sessions, many of which have been attended by a stenographer who made voluminous notes.

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Martin Gardner

Urantia

The Great Cult Mystery

It was mentioned as the source of a quote illustrating a pattern in various spiritualist and religious contexts where visions claimed to be from God were revealed to be plagiarized from other sources.

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Now, this happens constantly in various different spiritualist and religious things where people are getting visions from God and it'll turn out to be plagiarized from someone else's book.

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It was mentioned as the source of a quote illustrating a pattern in various spiritualist and religious contexts where visions claimed to be from God were revealed to be plagiarized from other sources.

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Now, this happens constantly in various different spiritualist and religious things where people are getting visions from God and it'll turn out to be plagiarized from someone else's book.

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Lothrop Stoddard

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

The Worldview of an American Eugenicist & Ku Klux Klan Historian

It was described as a best-selling eugenics text of its time, promoting racist and anti-immigration sentiments and warning of non-white populations overtaking white people. It was also referenced in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'.

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Lothrop Stoddard evokes a new peril that of an eventual submersion between vast waves of yellow men, brown men, black men, and red men whom the Nordics have hitherto dominated with Bolshevism menacing...

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It was described as a best-selling eugenics text of its time, promoting racist and anti-immigration sentiments and warning of non-white populations overtaking white people. It was also referenced in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'.

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Lothrop Stoddard evokes a new peril that of an eventual submersion between vast waves of yellow men, brown men, black men, and red men whom the Nordics have hitherto dominated with Bolshevism menacing us on one hand and race extinction through warfare on the other.

Many people are not unlikely to give Stoddard's book respectful consideration.

Whoever will take the time to read and ponder Mr. Lothrop Stoddard's book on the rising tide of color must realize that our race problem here in the United States is only a phase of a race issue that the whole world confronts.

civilization's going to pieces. I've got to be a terrible pessimist about things.

Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard?

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Funny The New Normal Is Abnormal Current Events T-Shirt

It was discussed as a paper written by William Sadler's wife, Lena Sadler, advocating eugenic measures to combat racial degeneration and warning of the dangers of 'the army of the unfit'.

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We are coddling feeding training and protecting this Viper of degeneracy in our midst all the while laying the flattering unction to our souls that we are a philanthropic charitable and thoroughly Chr...

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It was discussed as a paper written by William Sadler's wife, Lena Sadler, advocating eugenic measures to combat racial degeneration and warning of the dangers of 'the army of the unfit'.

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We are coddling feeding training and protecting this Viper of degeneracy in our midst all the while laying the flattering unction to our souls that we are a philanthropic charitable and thoroughly Christianized people.

We presume to protect the weak and lavish charity with a free hand upon these defectives all the while seemingly ignorant and unmindful of the fact that ultimately this monster will grow to such hideous proportions that it will strike us down.

That the future descendants of the army of the unfit will increase to such numbers that they will overwhelm the posterity of superior humans and eventually wipe out the civilization.

We bequeath to our descendants and all this will certainly come to pass if we do not heed the handwriting on the wall and do something.

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Karl Shaw

Royal Babylon

The Alarming History of European Royalty

Robert Evans recommended Royal Babylon by English poet and activist Heathcote Williams to learn more about how fucked up the monarchy is.

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I'm gonna quote from the book Royal Babylon by English poet and activist Heathcote Williams Quote, the fact that each US president's record, without exception would earn them seats on...

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Robert Evans recommended Royal Babylon by English poet and activist Heathcote Williams to learn more about how fucked up the monarchy is.

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I'm gonna quote from the book Royal Babylon by English poet and activist Heathcote Williams Quote, the fact that each US president's record, without exception would earn them seats on the dock at Nuremberg or at the International Criminal Court on genocide charges doesn't deter the royal family from honoring them, for by an ironic twist, each US president morphs into George III against whom their forebearers fought Which is a nice little quote by this English writer In the pretty good book Royal Babylon

If you want to learn about how fucked up the monarchy is this is a pretty fun book

Also, I'll recommend you check out the book Royal Babylon

If you want a nice poetic history of how the Queen is fucked up and the monarchy sucks Royal Babylon's a nice easy read

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Geoffrey Robertson

An Inconvenient Genocide

Who Now Remembers the Armenians?

An Inconvenient Genocide by Adam Hochschild was described by Joe Kasabian as illuminating, making the point that the Armenian genocide was a factor in emboldening Hitler to carry out his atrocities.

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There's a book I'm interested in your thoughts on it actually, Joe I found it quite illuminating a number of years ago, An Inconvenient Genocide by Adam Hochschild, which is about the...

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An Inconvenient Genocide by Adam Hochschild was described by Joe Kasabian as illuminating, making the point that the Armenian genocide was a factor in emboldening Hitler to carry out his atrocities.

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There's a book I'm interested in your thoughts on it actually, Joe I found it quite illuminating a number of years ago, An Inconvenient Genocide by Adam Hochschild, which is about the Armenian genocide and its influence on Hitler making the point that even though Hitler never was anywhere close to Armenia, neither were any fucking German troops for that matter particularly close Oh they sure were.

The point that Hochschild was making was that Hitler was not engaged in the Armenian genocide but he paid attention to it and the fact that the young Turks got away with it and got to take that land that as you pointed out is currently occupied by some US nuclear warheads was part of what emboldened him to do not just the Holocaust but everything he did in Europe and there was a line specifically in reference to the Holocaust from Hitler, I believe it was during his table talk that was like essentially he was saying of course we'll get away with it, nobody remembers Armenians anymore.

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H. P. Blavatsky

The Secret Doctrine

It was Helena Blavatsky's last book, and it contained anti-Darwinian ideas, the theory of seven root races, and placed Atlantis near the North Pole, referencing Bailey's work and Bulwer-Lytton's novel.

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And that Jamie Loftus, Sophie Lichterman, brings us all the way back around to our old friend from episode one, Jean-Salvain Bailey, the astronomer who crafted the theory of a hyperborean Atlantis.

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It was Helena Blavatsky's last book, and it contained anti-Darwinian ideas, the theory of seven root races, and placed Atlantis near the North Pole, referencing Bailey's work and Bulwer-Lytton's novel.

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And that Jamie Loftus, Sophie Lichterman, brings us all the way back around to our old friend from episode one, Jean-Salvain Bailey, the astronomer who crafted the theory of a hyperborean Atlantis.

Blavatsky's text is an anti-Darwinian dissent of man that tells the rise and fall of seven root races.

We are currently on number five, going on six.

Each root race is divided into seven subraces and is associated with a different continent.

Although with continental drift and the disappearance of certain continents, these do not correspond with the ones we know.

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Martha Stevens

The Hyperborean Adventure

A Cat in Atlantis #8

It was mentioned while discussing Helena Blavatsky's work and how she drew upon Bailey's ideas, incorporating them into her own theories on Atlantis and the Aryan race.

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When we talked about this earlier, I quoted from Dan Edelstein's Hyperborean Atlantis.

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It was mentioned while discussing Helena Blavatsky's work and how she drew upon Bailey's ideas, incorporating them into her own theories on Atlantis and the Aryan race.

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When we talked about this earlier, I quoted from Dan Edelstein's Hyperborean Atlantis.

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Ignatius Donnelly

Atlantis, The Antediluvian World

Illustrated Edition

It was briefly mentioned in the context of Helena Blavatsky's book, "The Secret Doctrine," where she differed from Donnelly's placement of Atlantis between Europe and America, positioning it in the far north instead.

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Although writing shortly after Ignatius Donnelly, whose Atlantis, The Antediluvian World, launched the Atlantis craze, Blavatsky did not place Atlantis in between Europe and America a...

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It was briefly mentioned in the context of Helena Blavatsky's book, "The Secret Doctrine," where she differed from Donnelly's placement of Atlantis between Europe and America, positioning it in the far north instead.

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Although writing shortly after Ignatius Donnelly, whose Atlantis, The Antediluvian World, launched the Atlantis craze, Blavatsky did not place Atlantis in between Europe and America as Donnelly had, but rather in the far north, near the North Pole.

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William Yeats

Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth (Penguin Modern Classics)

It was mentioned as the second best-selling book in Nazi Germany and a significant example of how Blavatsky's ideas were adopted and adapted by the Nazi ideology, particularly regarding the concept of a Hyperborean Atlantis and racial hierarchy.

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Alfred Rosenberg's book, The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under Mein Kampf.

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It was mentioned as the second best-selling book in Nazi Germany and a significant example of how Blavatsky's ideas were adopted and adapted by the Nazi ideology, particularly regarding the concept of a Hyperborean Atlantis and racial hierarchy.

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Alfred Rosenberg's book, The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under Mein Kampf.

And his whole book is a plagiarism of the secret doctrine.

Like he's basically taken the secret doctrine and doing what Blavatsky did with The Coming Race.

He opens the book by restating the myth of a Hyperborean Atlantis and insisting that the existence of a, quote, prehistoric Nordic cultural center was the basis of all Nazi race science.

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Hermes Trismegistus

Corpus Hermeticum

The Divine Pymander

It was discussed as a text that Helena Blavatsky drew inspiration from for her book ISIS Unveiled, which presented a cosmology that contradicted Darwinian evolution.

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Its basic premises are contained in Corpus Hermeticum, a text of unclear origin translated into Italian and popularized in the 15th century by a Renaissance philosopher, Marsilio Fici...

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It was discussed as a text that Helena Blavatsky drew inspiration from for her book ISIS Unveiled, which presented a cosmology that contradicted Darwinian evolution.

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Its basic premises are contained in Corpus Hermeticum, a text of unclear origin translated into Italian and popularized in the 15th century by a Renaissance philosopher, Marsilio Ficino.

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Andrew Jackson Davis

The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Relations, and a Voice to Mankind

It was based on the works of Emanuel Swedenborg and became a bestseller at the time, popularising the idea that the physical world is a shadow of a larger spiritual one, and that the dead constantly interact with the living.

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Andrew Jackson Davis wrote the divine principles of nature.

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It was based on the works of Emanuel Swedenborg and became a bestseller at the time, popularising the idea that the physical world is a shadow of a larger spiritual one, and that the dead constantly interact with the living.

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Andrew Jackson Davis wrote the divine principles of nature.

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