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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

    · Behind the Bastards

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    How the State Created Elon Musk

    Candace Owens' Hollywood Tabloid Pivot feat. Bridget Todd

    Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next

    Nate Silver: The Smoothest Brain On The Internet

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7

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    Sources/Links:

    How the State Created Elon Musk

    https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h

    https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/tesla-clean-credits-trump

    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/tesla-racked-up-greenhouse-emissions-credits-2023-other-automakers-lagged-2024-11-25/

    https://www.aol.com/report-says-elon-musks-businesses-170042735.html?

    https://archive.is/QyXuK

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/wealthy-americans-fuel-half-of-us-economy-consumer-spending

    Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next

    https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/

    https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388516/dl?inline

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-forceful-and-unprecedented-steps-to-combat-anti-semitism/

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-education-accessible-and-ending-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-in-schools/

    https://forward.com/fast-forward/689866/biden-team-resolves-its-final-title-vi-antisemitism-and-anti-arab-cases/

    https://theintercept.com/2025/02/15/columbia-alumni-israel-whatsapp-deport-gaza-protesters/

    https://x.com/dhsgov/status/1898908955675357314?s=46&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg

    https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1897776709778211044

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/can-trump-deport-a-green-card-holding-pro-hamas-columbia-grad/

    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/10/11/cornell-international-grad-student-says-he-wont-be-deported

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum-levies-imports-europe-china-uk-japan-rcna195810

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/business/china-tariffs-us.html

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-beijing-trump-npc-xi-trade-growth-defense-nato-communist-tariffs-rcna195271

    https://fortune.com/2025/03/11/goldman-sachs-chief-economist-downgrades-entire-us-economy-trump-tariffs-markets/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trade-tensions-china-canada-retaliate-us-tariffs-rcna194645

    https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1067709/us-stocks-downgraded-by-investment-banks-amid-pause-on-us-exceptionalism-1067709.html

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-tariffs-stock-musk-business-8a5f28d9bb16e0b8a924d99ead0907fa

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-eu-tariffs-countermeasures-806a3b9bcc9cd4e45817e672d95f0070

    https://fortune.com/asia/2025/03/11/citi-downgrades-us-upgrades-china-trump-recession/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html

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  • Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

    Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

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    Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic.

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  • Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult

    Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult

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    Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.

    (4 Part series)

    Sources: 

    https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509 https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazard https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ Wayback Machine The Zizians Spectral Sight True Hero Contract Schelling Orders – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously  https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidon https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg https://zizians.info/ according to The Boston Globe Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The Independent Silicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 Deaths The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIRED Good Group and Pasek’s Doom – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously Mana – Sinceriously Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg The Zizian Facts - Google Docs Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewer This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | Vox Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer                                                                                                    Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg SquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a Chore PLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not... Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – Sinceriously Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously Infohazardous Glossary – Sinceriously SquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google Drive The Matrix is a System – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium PLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse) Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shooting

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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 172

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 172

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    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa

    The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

    The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff

    King Trump Yells at Congress

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

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    Sources/Links:

    King Trump Yells at Congress

    https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318104/trump-joint-address-congress-takeaways
    https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5318102/trump-joint-session-al-green-protest
    https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/05/january-littlejohn-donald-trump/
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-social-security-fraud-claims/81508815007/

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

    https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4086787/pentagon-deploys-stryker-brigade-aviation-battalion-to-southern-border/

    https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/

    https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4086531/additional-troops-to-enhance-border-security-operations/

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-trump-zelenskyy/

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0

    https://apnews.com/article/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-us-5d5ef8bd41c4567926d543a9526b2e84

    https://www.mining.com/web/copper-prices-surge-as-trump-signals-25-tariff-on-imports/

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-says-its-ready-to-fight-any-type-of-war-us-wants-till-the-end.html

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-lutnick-2b269614084027a4894aa14f3dc16227

    https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/wipp-in-carlsbad-under-doge-cuts/

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  • Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

    Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.

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  • Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

    Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

    · Behind the Bastards

    In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.

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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 171

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 171

    · Behind the Bastards

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal

    How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare

    Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

    Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5

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    Sources/Links:

    The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal

    https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

    https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/

    https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina

    Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

    Dana Goldstein, “Two States.  Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.

    Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)

    James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)

    Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.) 

    Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011  (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)

    Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries

    https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/

    https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/ 

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/ 

    https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0 

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf

    https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/ 

    https://mutualaidsudan.org/

    https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/

    https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

    https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification

    https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886 

    https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief 

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  • Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a

    Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp

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    Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.

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  • Part One: Bruno Bettelheim: The Worst Psycho-therapist

    Part One: Bruno Bettelheim: The Worst Psycho-therapist

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.

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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 170

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 170

    · Behind the Bastards

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's

    Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew

    Mutuality feat. Andrew

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

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    Sources/Links:

    Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's

    https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion

    https://peetslaborunion.org

    @peetslaborunion

    https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD

    Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew

    https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/
    https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

    Mutuality feat. Andrew

    Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

    Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675

    https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration

    https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 

    https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/ 

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

    https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

    https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5

    https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059

    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

    https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies

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  • Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher

    Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.

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  • Part One: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher

    Part One: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.

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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 169

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 169

    · Behind the Bastards

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada

    How the Federal Government Fell

    Constitutional Law Professor Reacts

    What's Happening To Gaza Under Trump: An Update with Dana El-Kurd

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3

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    Sources/Links:

    Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada

    https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-direct-action

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/politics/trump-expansion-ideas-what-matters/index.html

    https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9669319

    https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/motor-cars-and-other-vehicles-principally-designed-cars-for-transport-of-persons?redirect=true

    https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/oils-of-petroleum-or-bituminous-minerals?redirect=true

    https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/mex/partner/usa

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/michigan-poised-to-take-a-big-hit-under-trump-tariffs/78099053007/

    https://www.ilscompany.com/products-imported-from-mexico/

    https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/trumps-25percent-tariffs-this-is-whats-at-stake-for-us-auto-industry.html

    https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/mexico

    https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/

    How the Federal Government Fell

    https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-federal-government-fell

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p19l24g2o

    https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump

    https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bond-traders-waver-trump-questions-us-government-debt-figures-2025-02-10/

    https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-says-us-might-have-less-debt-than-thought-2025-02-09/

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  • Part Two: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind

    Part Two: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert tells Brandie how Richard Doty crafted an elaborate alien ruse to destroy Paul Bennewitz's mind, all with the goal of hiding the U.S. government's drone and stealth bomber programs.

    Spying, disinformation accusations follow UFO figure Rick Doty — an exclusive interview – Mystery Wire

    INTERVIEW: Defiant Rick Doty defends against 'liar' claims — punk rock and UFOs

    Mirage Men: UFO researcher Mark Pilkington on deception and psychological warfare | WIRED

     https://www.tweaktown.com/news/81486/ex-air-force-intelligence-officer-ufos-are-50-000-years-ahead-of-us/index.html

    Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer: UFOs are 50,000 years ahead of us

    Here’s a thing about Richard Doty that not many know... : r/UFOs

    The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Unthinkable True Story of How the US Government Conspired to Destroy a UFOlogist Who Knew Too Much | by Cybertheticproject | Medium

    The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up | Movies | The Guardian

    The U.S. Government UFO Cover-Up Is Real—But It’s Not What You Think - The Atlantic

    Robert Bigelow: Is There Life After Death? - The New York Times

    Here’s a thing about Richard Doty that not many know... : r/UFOs

    https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/were-going-to-work-miracles/

    https://www.amazon.com/Saucers-Spooks-Kooks-Disinformation-Aquarius/dp/0994617682

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/project-beta-the-story-of-paul-bennewitz-national-security-and-the-creation-of-a-modern-ufo-myth-greg-bishop/f43a1e97fc8139fd?ean=9781416513391&digital=t&source=IndieBound

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  • Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind

    Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind

    · Behind the Bastards

    This week we tell the harrowing story of Paul Bennewitz, a simple nerdy engineer who spotted evidence of covert Air Force weapons programs and was gaslit into believing they were alien spacecraft.

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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 168

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 168

    · Behind the Bastards

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    The Internationalists Fighting Fascism in Burma

    (Maybe Don't) Read Siege

    How Trump is Killing Science (And You)

    Greenwashing Genocide In Artsakh

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #2

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    Sources/Links:

    (Maybe Don't) Read Siege

    https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

    Greenwashing Genocide In Artsakh

    Donations:

    VOMA 
    https://www.voma.center/en
    VOMA is a non-governmental movement that aims to strengthen the defenses of the Republic of Armenia through preparing Armenians  and Diaspora to face the immanent threat of invasion by Azerbaijan and Turkey. A defensive organization only. 

    Kooyrigs
    https://kooyrigs.org
    Kooyrigs is a women-led organization and NGO. Focused on supporting Armenia and Artsakh refugees  through various humanitarian projects, especially in the areas of education, healthcare, and emergency relief efforts.

    Pahapan Development Foundation: 
    http://www.pahapan.org/en/
    Donations go toward supporting and developing Tavush: there are about 10000 children who live under regular shootings by Azeri troops in 23 borderline villages of Tavush region. This organization helps their safety as well as implementing social, cultural and educational programs.

    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
    https://www.himnadram.org
    This fund is one of the main sources of support for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, focusing on community development, health, education, and infrastructure.

    Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU)
    https://www.agbu.org
    AGBU is one of the largest Armenian-American organizations that provides support for educational, cultural, and social welfare initiatives in Armenia and globally.

    Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR)
    https://www.farusa.org
    FAR focuses on providing relief to vulnerable populations in Armenia, supporting programs in health, education, and economic development.

    Paros Foundation
    http://parosfoundation.org/available-projects/
    Donations can contribute to a number of humanitarian missions they have in Armenia. You can choose to support individual projects or donate to the foundation in general.

    Armenia Fund
    https://www.armeniafund.org
    A wide ranging charity for infrastructure projects, educational scholarships, and providing aid to vulnerable populations.

    Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund
    https://armenianwoundedheroes.com
    This fund provides direct support to Armenian soldiers who have been injured in the line of duty, offering medical assistance and helping them reintegrate into society.

    Tumo Center for Creative Technologies
    https://www.tumo.org
    Tumo is an innovative educational program that provides free tech and creative skills to young people in Armenia. Donations help support the growth of this pioneering center and its ability to empower youth with skills in areas such as animation, coding, game development, and design.

    Armenian Volunteer Corps (AVC)
    https://www.avc.am
    AVC connects volunteers with opportunities in Armenia to support a variety of causes, from community development to disaster relief. Donations help fund the ongoing programs and volunteer recruitment.

    The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF)
    https://coaf.org
    COAF supports rural communities in Armenia with educational, healthcare, and technological programs.

    Armenian Red Cross Society
    https://www.redcross.am/en/home.html
    The Armenian Red Cross provides critical humanitarian assistance in Armenia, offering emergency relief, health services, and disaster response.

    IMAST 
    https://imast.am/
    IMAST helps Armenian non-profits with micro-donations for individual projects from wildlife to health to community building. 

    Other:
    One Armenia
    https://www.onearmenia.org
    A travel group that features local travel opportunities with local people. Promoting responsible travel.

    Hike Armenia
    https://hikearmenia.org/

    Learn4Artsakh
    https://learn4artsakh.org
    Instagram: @learn4artsakh
    Learn4Artsakh is a leftist  platform dedicated to providing educational resources about Artsakh’s history, culture, and people.

    Books:
    The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide by Peter Balakian

    The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geo-politics of Nagorno-Karabagh, by Patrick Donabedian & Claude Mutafian
    Available on learn4artsakh.com

    My Brother’s Struggle:
    A great book by the brother of a complicated Armenian revolutionary who grew up in California.
    Available on learn4artsakh.com

    AVOID anything by Thomas de Waal

    News sites:
    https://armenianweekly.com/
    https://evnreport.com
    https://hetq.am/en

    Videos:
    White Phosphorus in Artsakh
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwzHkyGYQA&rco=1

    Armenia: The Fall of Nagoro-Karabagh
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tld7Vz42QSI

    Articles:
    Cultural destruction by Azerbaijan
    https://hyperallergic.com/482353/a-regime-conceals-its-erasure-of-indigenous-armenian-culture/

    Azeri War Crimes
    https://azeriwarcrimes.org/
    An archive of evidence of war crimes, ethnic cleansing and human rights violations committed by Azerbaijan. Not for the faint of heart.

    University Network for Human Rights
    https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/we-are-no-one
    How Three Years of Atrocities Led to the Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians

    Azerbaijan’s Ethnic Hatred Theme Park
    https://www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan-karabakh-theme-park-armenia-ethnic-hatred-aliyev/31217971.html

    History of Artsakh
    https://www.armenianmuseum.org/artsakh

    Armenian Genocide Historical Overview
    https://genocideeducation.org/background/brief-history/

    Artwashing and Sportswashing by Azerbaijan:
    https://hyperallergic.com/615519/artwashing-a-dictatorship/

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #2

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-washington-ceasefire-1c8deec4dd46177e08e07d669d595ed3
    https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lieutenant-gsa-ai-agency/
    http://wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
    https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
    https://x.com/USAO_DC/status/1886537850390483276
    https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3lhfjn7ires2h https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html
    https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social/post/3lhc52j6kns2d https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26?user_email=dabc81d5ec766cfb0c88230c077bd88afdc57894c6b8dcdfcf8102146e6c

    https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/pr/2024/dojpr-041224-former-border-patrol-agent-sentenced-18-years-prison-drug-smuggling-and-bribery.pdf

    https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-border-agent-nicknamed-goalie-took-bribes-to-let-drugs-into-u-s-prosecutors/3259608/

    https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/quick-facts/Fentanyl_FY23.pdf

    https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/frontline-against-fentanyl

    https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1886606794614587573?mx=2

    https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/el-salvador/

    https://apnews.com/article/eu-us-ukraine-defense-trump-greenland-tariffs-c3e454c8f0959d273c2b6dd5941395e3

    https://www.theverge.com/news/605483/shein-temu-amazon-trump-tariffs-de-minimis-exemption

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/americas/mexico-military-migrants-killed-int-latam/index.html

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/

    https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/denver-health-pauses-gender-affirming-surgeries-minors-federal-funding/73-e61f598b-e32d-474e-94b4-4b11d4c5c8af
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/nyregion/nyu-langone-hospital-trans-care-youth.html

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/02/04/transgender-hospitals-gender-affirming-care/78204417007/

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/school-systems-across-us-declare
    https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/02/04/nyc-parents-push-for-statement-from-schools-chancellor-opposing-trump-executive-order-on-race-gender/
    https://www.seattleschools.org/news/commitment-to-sps-students-staff-and-families/ https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lhh7qpjygk27 

     

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  • Part Two: Space Magic from Venus: A Literary Odyssey

    Part Two: Space Magic from Venus: A Literary Odyssey

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert and Molly continue their exploration of Venusian health science which apparently involves eating nothing but raw fruit.

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  • Part One: Space Magic from Venus: A Literary Odyssey

    Part One: Space Magic from Venus: A Literary Odyssey

    · Behind the Bastards

    Robert sits down with Molly Conger to explore a book at the foundation of American conspiracy culture that may have helped kill Steve Jobs.

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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

    · Behind the Bastards

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    The Decline and Fall of the American Post Office

    Nut Country Revisited feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

    They're Trying to Put Women Into Men's Prisons

    How Unions Can Protect Trans Rights

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #1

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    Sources:

    The Decline and Fall of the American Post Office

    https://www.nalc.org

    https://www.fightingnalc.com

    https://concernedlettercarriers.com

    https://www.nalc.org/member-benefits/nalc-disaster-relief-foundation 

    Nut Country Revisited

    Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America https://www.ucpress.edu/books/a-culture-of-conspiracy/paper 

    Mark Fenster, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture   https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816654949/conspiracy-theories/ 

    Edward H. Miller, Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo19197692.html

    How Unions Can Protect Trans Rights

    Solidarity Pledge:  https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/SJID0H 

    https://sbworkersunited.org/

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaiming-there-are-only-two-sexes-2025-01-20/

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-orders-end-federal-support-gender-affirming-care-minors-2025-01-28/

    https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/tennessee/bill-would-block-insurance-companies-that-cover-gender-affirming-care-from-contracting-with-tenncare/

    https://www.npr.org/2024/12/24/nx-s1-5238169/starbucks-strike-christmas

    https://www.them.us/story/starbucks-threatens-to-take-away-trans-rights-at-stores-that-unionize

     

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    Bonus: The Bastards of Oprah

    · Behind the Bastards

    This is a bonus episode of our Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, and John of God episodes aka the bastards of Oprah episodes stitched together with limited ad breaks

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