The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington
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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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Reggie, a journalist, was impressed by the documentary Visions of Blood, which chronicled the Navajo Special Forces veterans' direct action campaign that contributed to the Second American Civil War.
Wait, THE Donald Ferris?' Reggie asked. '"The guy who made Visions of Blood?
— Episode: After the Revolution: Chapters Nine, Ten...
Reggie, a journalist, was impressed by the documentary Visions of Blood, which chronicled the Navajo Special Forces veterans' direct action campaign that contributed to the Second American Civil War.
Wait, THE Donald Ferris?' Reggie asked. '"The guy who made Visions of Blood?
'Both, actually,' Reggie replied.
It was mentioned that Charles Dederick read this book, and it is believed to have heavily influenced his atheism and subsequent drinking problem.
The history of mankind is a history of more or less blind endeavors to conceive a common purpose in relation to which all men may live happily and to create and develop a common stock of knowledge whi...
— Episode: Part One: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Progra...
It was mentioned that Charles Dederick read this book, and it is believed to have heavily influenced his atheism and subsequent drinking problem.
The history of mankind is a history of more or less blind endeavors to conceive a common purpose in relation to which all men may live happily and to create and develop a common stock of knowledge which may serve and illuminate that purpose.
I believed literally that I would go to hell if I didn't go to church on Sundays.
I became a militant atheist almost overnight.
The book was mentioned as a critique of issues within the education system, specifically detailing how charter schools may disproportionately enroll certain student demographics while expelling others, contributing to segregation and inequitable funding.
Many studies show that charters enroll a disproportionately small share of students who are English language learners or who have disabilities as compared with their home district. A survey of expulsi...
— Episode: Part Two: The Ballad of Bill Gates
The book was mentioned as a critique of issues within the education system, specifically detailing how charter schools may disproportionately enroll certain student demographics while expelling others, contributing to segregation and inequitable funding.
Many studies show that charters enroll a disproportionately small share of students who are English language learners or who have disabilities as compared with their home district. A survey of expulsion rates in the District of Columbia found that the charters which enroll nearly half of the student population of the district expel large numbers of children. The charter's expulsion rate is 72 times the expulsion rate in public schools.
The Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Force
After his death, Yoni's letters were published, which became a significant part of the hero cult that formed around him. It was mentioned that there were also other books and movies made about him.
Yoni's letters after his death are published as a book, and there are books written about his fateful last battle. There have been movies made.
— Episode: Part Two: What the Netanyahu Family Did...
After his death, Yoni's letters were published, which became a significant part of the hero cult that formed around him. It was mentioned that there were also other books and movies made about him.
Yoni's letters after his death are published as a book, and there are books written about his fateful last battle. There have been movies made.
It was one of the most influential pieces of literature on American sex history, detailing topics like homosexuality, premarital sex, and even bestiality, and was a controversial New York Times bestseller.
In 1948, soon after beginning the Institute for Sex Research, Kinsey published one of the most influential pieces of literature in American sex history, sexual behavior of the human male.
— Episode: Part One: The (Male) Doctor Who Redesign...
It was one of the most influential pieces of literature on American sex history, detailing topics like homosexuality, premarital sex, and even bestiality, and was a controversial New York Times bestseller.
In 1948, soon after beginning the Institute for Sex Research, Kinsey published one of the most influential pieces of literature in American sex history, sexual behavior of the human male.
Five years later in 1953, he published sexual behavior of the human female.
The books contained controversial information for the time as they detailed topics such as homosexuality, premarital sex and even bestiality.
Yet this illicit information intrigued the public and the books quickly rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works
It was mentioned as a book written by Dr. Oz's daughter when she was in college, which was later discussed in a humorous context.
The Dorm Room Diet. It's just free pizza and dick.
— Episode: Part Two: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor'...
It was mentioned as a book written by Dr. Oz's daughter when she was in college, which was later discussed in a humorous context.
The Dorm Room Diet. It's just free pizza and dick.
Hey, you know, if you pour coffee into instant ramen. Right, exactly. It's an efficient breakfast. Two birds, one stone.
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It was mentioned that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion heavily influenced its writing, even though the author knew the Protocols were fake, and excerpts from the book were read aloud.
To what extent the whole existence of this people is based on... This people being Jewish people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by the Protocols of the wise men of Zion, so infinit...
— Episode: Part Two: The Conspiracy to Begin All Co...
It was mentioned that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion heavily influenced its writing, even though the author knew the Protocols were fake, and excerpts from the book were read aloud.
To what extent the whole existence of this people is based on... This people being Jewish people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by the Protocols of the wise men of Zion, so infinitely hated by the Jews. They are based on a forgery. The Frankfurter Zeitung mourns and screams once every week. The best proof that they are authentic, what many Jews may do unconsciously is here consciously exposed, and that is what matters. It is completely indifferent from what Jewish brains these disclosures originate. The important thing is that with positively terrifying certainty, they reveal the nature and activity of the Jewish people and expose their inner context as well as their ultimate final aims.
The essay was referenced when discussing how aspects of American consumerist culture have been co-opted by far-right groups, including RAM, in their promotion and branding of a certain 'lifestyle fascism' aesthetic.
It's also a real good example of one of the things Umberto Eco talked about in her fascism, his essay trying to kind of explain what fascism is, syncretism, right?
— Episode: Part One: RAM: Nazi Fight Club
The essay was referenced when discussing how aspects of American consumerist culture have been co-opted by far-right groups, including RAM, in their promotion and branding of a certain 'lifestyle fascism' aesthetic.
It's also a real good example of one of the things Umberto Eco talked about in her fascism, his essay trying to kind of explain what fascism is, syncretism, right?
RULES FOR THE SIGMA MALE
It was described as a short, poorly written book about the Sigma Male philosophy, which included numerous poorly written and grammatically incorrect sentences, and was deemed a sad and potentially harmful book.
I need more. Yeah, you need more. You need THE SIGMA MALE CODEX rules for the Sigma male by Daniel Jones.
— Episode: Part Two: A Live Investigation Into The...
It was described as a short, poorly written book about the Sigma Male philosophy, which included numerous poorly written and grammatically incorrect sentences, and was deemed a sad and potentially harmful book.
I need more. Yeah, you need more. You need THE SIGMA MALE CODEX rules for the Sigma male by Daniel Jones.
If you are reading this, then it means that you are very intelligent and in search of knowledge. And if you are reading this and you are not in search of knowledge, you will have it by the time you are done. That's one sentence. Congratulations King. You can read now get ready for your life to fucking change.
Well, the Sigma male by definition is a man who does not think or act like everyone else where the Alpha male always wants to be seen. The Sigma male keeps a low profile as not to draw attention to himself, also the Sigma male is the most valued prize amongst women because unlike the Alpha male, the Sigma male makes no effort to chase women. Rather he catches women with his intellect one sentence.
I am a Sigma male and it took me a long time to come to that realization. I knew that an Alpha male because I had no desire to chase every woman that I saw and I knew that I wasn't a Beta male because they don't believe that they can get a woman. So I had to fall somewhere in between, which brought me to the concept of the Sigma male. It made perfect sense. I am educated and quiet and I am constantly analyzing everything around me.
The Sigma male reads, which means he is obsessed with educating himself and gaining knowledge and wisdom.
It was described as a landmark book, and details how the military's resistance to the left had less to do with politics than might be expected.
Historian Stanley Paine calls 1898 the first modern post-colonial trauma in Western Europe.
— Episode: Behind the Insurrections - The Birth of...
It was described as a landmark book, and details how the military's resistance to the left had less to do with politics than might be expected.
Historian Stanley Paine calls 1898 the first modern post-colonial trauma in Western Europe.
I know. Right. Interesting. Yeah. Symptomatic of the dismay of the nationalist military was an editorial in El Giraldo Militar on 23rd, November 1908 entitled Worse than Anywhere. It declared wherever we look, we find greater virility than in our own people in Turkey, Persia, China, the Balkan states, everywhere we find life and energy, even in Russia. In Spain, there is only apathy and submission.
In his landmark book, Fascism in Spain, scholar Stanley Payne notes that the military resistance to the left had less to do with politics than you might expect.
Army officers demanded suppression of the left's disorder, violence and subversion of national unity.
In some provinces, sectors of the old political elite did join and dominate. But the organization also incorporated ordinary middle class people who had not previously been politically active.
It was cited as a source for Robert Evans to discuss the impact of Kurt Eisner's assassination on Bavaria's political landscape and the subsequent rise of right-wing forces.
The assassination of Eisner had worked as a solvent upon political consensus such as it was in Bavaria. The Hoffman government found itself caught between the advance of radicalism on both the right a...
— Episode: Behind the Insurrections - Hitler's Muni...
It was cited as a source for Robert Evans to discuss the impact of Kurt Eisner's assassination on Bavaria's political landscape and the subsequent rise of right-wing forces.
The assassination of Eisner had worked as a solvent upon political consensus such as it was in Bavaria. The Hoffman government found itself caught between the advance of radicalism on both the right and the left.
No longer able to maintain itself in Munich. The Hoffman government decamped on April 7th, eventually coming to rest in the northern Bavarian city of Bomberg.
Authority in Munich was assumed successively by two councils, the first led by an ill assorted collection of independent socialists and anarchists, and the second by the communists.
By the end of April, the feeble Red Forces had been pressed back into the environs of Munich itself.
At this moment, with their backs to the wall, elements of the Red Army executed 10 hostages. Some of the hostages were members of the right radical Thule Society. Others appeared to have been selected almost at random. None of the 10, however, had done anything to earn so terrible a retribution.
With one gratuitous act, the leftist defenders of Munich had opened the floodgates of violence. The aroused white forces poured into the city on May 1st, bent upon the eradication of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and its supporters in the most literal sense imaginable.
The hardened Free Corps and Army troops coursed through the streets of the city, shooting anyone who appeared even remotely suspicious.
The orgy of execution did not stop until May 7th, when it was discovered that the white forces had mistakenly murdered a group of 21 Catholic schoolboys.
These schoolboys were by no means the only innocents who fell before the guns. Before this first wave of killing had come to an end, over 600 individuals had been slain, many of them individuals with no connection to the Red Army or the Soviet Republic.
The revolution which had begun so peacefully six months before had ended in a bloodbath. Order had returned to Bavaria.
The debt with which the Nazi movement owed Pohner was real. As police president, Pohner extended a sheltering hand to protect the activities of the nascent Nazi movement.
In doing so, he ensured its survival and gave it an opportunity for future growth.
This passive image, however, does little to convey the full dimensions of Pohner's commitment to both the radical right in general and Nazis in particular.
A road map to success for the salesman… who is not aggressive, who is not a “smooth talker,” and who is not an extrovert
It was described as a collection of folksy anecdotes about Welch's sales experience, along with inoffensive advice on how to sell products, and was deemed not worth reading.
Unlike loser jobs like bricklaying and lumberjacking, being a salesman is a true profession like being a doctor.
— Episode: Part One: How The John Birch Society Inv...
It was described as a collection of folksy anecdotes about Welch's sales experience, along with inoffensive advice on how to sell products, and was deemed not worth reading.
Unlike loser jobs like bricklaying and lumberjacking, being a salesman is a true profession like being a doctor.
He does start the - I enjoyed that he starts the book by noting that unlike loser jobs like bricklaying and lumberjacking, being a salesman is a true profession like being a doctor.
The Road to Salesmanship, brackets, pamphlet, Robert Welch, Robert not capitalized, Welch capitalized, 1941, rare and out of print collector's item, limited availability.
The Road to Salesmanship, pamphlet in brackets, by Robert Welch, this time capitalized, 1941.
I found a copy of it on Amazon today for $3.99, and the product description text is wonderful.
It was Robert Welch's first political book, and a full-throated condemnation of US foreign policy in Asia, where he believed the government was handing the continent over to communists.
The strategy of the socialists is to divide and conquer.
— Episode: Part One: How The John Birch Society Inv...
It was Robert Welch's first political book, and a full-throated condemnation of US foreign policy in Asia, where he believed the government was handing the continent over to communists.
The strategy of the socialists is to divide and conquer.
Call all businessmen crooks so that nobody will speak up for them and strangle them with controls and taxation.
Bribe all the farmers with their own money into a selfish pressure group for more bribes.
Infiltrate the labor unions and convert them into political tools.
Discredit the medical profession until the rest of the public clamors for government medicine.
It was mentioned as an article written by Roy Cohn's first cousin's son, which contained a quote about Roy Cohn's overbearing mother.
My relatives couldn't stand Roy's overbearing mother, Dora Marcus Cohn. She was the original helicopter parent long before anybody knew that term, fussing over her only son's grades, appearance and re...
— Episode: Part One: Roy Cohn: The Man Who Made Don...
It was mentioned as an article written by Roy Cohn's first cousin's son, which contained a quote about Roy Cohn's overbearing mother.
My relatives couldn't stand Roy's overbearing mother, Dora Marcus Cohn. She was the original helicopter parent long before anybody knew that term, fussing over her only son's grades, appearance and relationships.
How Masculinity is Expressed Through Aesthetics
It was quoted from, explaining the shift in McCarthy's tactics to focus on homosexuals to save face after his accusations of communists in the State Department failed.
To save face with his colleagues in the American public he changed his tactics calling out those he was unable to trace back to communism as being homosexual This began what is now called the lavender...
— Episode: Part One: Roy Cohn: The Man Who Made Don...
It was quoted from, explaining the shift in McCarthy's tactics to focus on homosexuals to save face after his accusations of communists in the State Department failed.
To save face with his colleagues in the American public he changed his tactics calling out those he was unable to trace back to communism as being homosexual This began what is now called the lavender scare
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