Behind the Bastards

If you thought police were deadly up till this point, wait until you hear about what unionization did to the U.S. police (hint: it got a hell of a lot of the rest of us killed.)

FOOTNOTES:

1. The History of Policing in the United States
2. Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion
3. The End of Policing 
4. How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
5. The unjust power of police unions
6. How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power
7. Minneapolis Police Union President Allegedly Wore a “White Power Patch” and Made Racist Remarks
8. Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
9. How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing
10. In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

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Lynching was the sharpest blade in the arsenal of white supremacy for decades, until American police replaced it with the death penalty. In this episode, Prop and Robert trace the evolution of police torture, and how the legacy of 'the third degree' persists in law enforcement to this day. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. History of the KKK in Oklahoma
2. Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Riot
3. Tulsa Timeline
4. The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955
5. ACCUSED TORTURER JON BURGE DIED LAST WEEK, BUT HIS LEGACY OF BRUTAL, RACIST POLICING LIVES ON IN CHICAGO
6. CHICAGO POLICE TORTURE: EXPLAINED

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For years protesters have chanted that the 'cops and klan go hand in hand'. Today, we discuss the very real history behind that, and how it influenced the birth of American policing.

FOOTNOTES:

1. KKK in the PD
2. The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
3. At least 2,000 more black people were lynched by white mobs than previously reported, new research finds
4. Extremist cops: how US law enforcement is failing to police itself
5. Yesterday’s Ku Klux Klan members are today’s police officers, councilwoman says
6. The FBI’s Secret Rules
7. Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction
8. The US government destroyed the Ku Klux Klan once. It could do so again
9. Constituting whiteness: The National Horse Thief Detective Association and racial mores in Indiana, 1850–1930
10. When Watchmen were Klansmen
11. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

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When U.S. police departments didn't evolve out of slave patrols, they tended to form out of a desire to protect the property of the wealthy. In practice, this meant beating, murdering and arresting people who didn't want to work 12 hour days until they died.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Krypteia: A Form of Ancient Guerrilla Warfare 
2. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
3. The Beginning of American Policing
4. How Stereotypes of the Irish Evolved From ‘Criminals’ to Cops
5. REMEMBERING THE 1906 STRIKE FOR UNION IN WINDBER, PENNSYLVANIA
6. State Police were warned about possible racial bias in car searches. The agency's answer? End the research.
7. The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep

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Ever wonder how Policing started in the U.S.? In this episode, Robert and Prop trace the bloody birth of American policing, from Ancient Greece, to the slave-holding South, to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri today. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice
2. A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing
3. Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing
4. How the U.S. Got Its Police Force
5. Slave Patrols
6. The History of the Police
7. The History of Policing in the United States
8. Police Dog Bites Black Man
9. A Look at Urban Violence & Police Brutality in Ancient Rome

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How did American police get so violent? The answer to that question goes back centuries, to the earliest days of this nation. On this special podcast miniseries hosts journalist, Robert Evans and rap artist, Propaganda (Jason Petty) draw a straight line from the darkest days of slavery, to the murder of George Floyd and the mass violence American police meted out to their citizens this summer. 

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Robert is joined again by Bridget Todd to continue to discuss the Wonga Coup.

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Robert is joined by Bridget Todd to discuss the Wonga Coup.

Footnotes:

1. Saving Sierra Leone, At a Price
2. Safety at a price: Military expertise for sale or rent
3. ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare, mercenary in Congo who later led a failed coup, dies at 100
4. An African adventure: Inside story of the wonga coup
5. Ely Calil, backer of a farcical coup plot, died on May 28th
6. A mercenary's tale
7. Understanding the Wonga Coup
8. The Wonga Coup
9. Simon Mann, freed dog of war, is demanding justice
10. The strange and evil world of Equatorial Guinea
11. The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa

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Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue discussing Elon Musk.

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Robert is joined by Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Elon Musk.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Tesla Labor Practices and Musk Tweet Broke the Law, Judge Rules
2. The Trump administration reportedly spent months trying to make sure unauthorized immigrants couldn't go to school
3. Elon Musk, His Rocket, and the Grand Scheme that Tore Apart Boca Chica
4. Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
5. "I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce
6. A teenage Elon Musk once casually sold his father's emeralds to Tiffany & Co. while his dad was sleeping
7. Elon Musk's family owns an emerald mine in Zambia — here's the fascinating story of how they came to own it
8. A Brief History of How Your Privacy Was Stolen
9. The Evolution of Elon Musk: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
10. Tesla workers speak out: 'Anything pro-union is shut down really fast'
11. Unpacking Elon Musk’s daylong Twitter rant on unions and US history
12. Genuine question: Did Elon Musk's family profit from South African apartheid?
13. Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
14. Elon Musk Accused Of Pushing, Verbally Abusing Senior Tesla Employee
15. Court documents show Elon Musk privately called himself a 'f---ing idiot' after attack on British diver
16. Tesla Protest
17. Tesla Worker Group Calls For Elon Musk's Arrest, Safety Inspection Before Reopening
18. Tesla Factory Has Dozens of Environmental Violations

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Robert is joined by Jack O'Brien to discuss David Grossman, director of the Killology Research Group. More than a hundred police departments, and thousands of police officers, have taken Grossman’s courses over more than twenty years. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. THE TRIGGER AND THE CHOICE: PART 1
2. Non-Verbal Cues Are Easy to Misinterpret
3. The Bulletproof Warrior
4. “Are You Prepared to Kill Somebody?” A Day With One of America’s Most Popular Police Trainers
5. Grossman Interview
6. A day with ‘killology’ police trainer Dave Grossman
7. Inside the School Teaching Cops When It’s OK to Kill
8. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, the “Killologist” Training America’s Cops
9. One week playing violent video games alters brain activity
10. The Evidence that Video Games Lead to Violence Is Weak

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Robert is joined again by Billy Wayne Davis to continue discussing Jim Bowie.

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Jim Bowie, the biggest piece of crap in the Old West.

FOOTNOTES:

1. What became of Jim Bowie's famous knife?
2. Hero Tales of the American Soldier
3. Three Roads to the Alamo
4. The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?
5. James Bowie, Big Dealer
6. Selling the Sandbar: Marketing the Bowie Knife
7. No Wounds In His Back
8. Jim Bowie Before the “Gaudy Legend”

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Robert is joined again by Danl Goodman to continue to discuss Jack Idema.

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Robert is joined by Danl Goodman to discuss Jack Idema, the greatest conman of The Afghan War.

Footnotes:

1. Operation Desert Fraud
2. Bad company: 'Jack' Idema and the bounty hunters of Kabul
3. Vigilante Torturer Dies in Mexico
4. Osama-Hunter Only the Latest Terror-Fightin' Wannabe
5. Man Who Hunted Bin Laden With a Sword Now Jailed on a Gun Charge
6. The Man Who Believed Himself
7. The Shadow Warrior: Jack Idema
8. Freelance Terrorist Hunter
9. Tin Soldier
10. Convicted Torturer, Vigilante in Mexican Stand-Off
11. Jack Idema
12. Jack Idema, jailed for torturing Afghans, reportedly dies in Mexico

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Robert is joined by Shereen Lani Younes to discuss the Doctor Charles Runels, the inventor of the “O Shot."

FOOTNOTES:

1. Plasma Donations from Recovered COVID-19 Patients
2. Sexual Medicine Society on Unproven Regenerative Therapies for Erectile Dysfunction
3. I Got a Shot In My Dick For Stronger Erections, and I Have Zero Regrets
4. The O-Shot
5. "I had the controversial O Shot injection in my vagina"
6. Kim Kardashian Is Suing the Vampire Facials Inventor
7. Not All Orgasm Doctors are the Same
8. Dr. Runels Helps Vampire Procedure Providers Protect Women by Blocking Infringers
9. The Secret Legal Story Behind the Most Famous Celebrity "Vampire" Selfie
10. Spend Two Days with the Inventor of the O-Shot
11. Donut Pussy
12. Westport doc uses ‘O-Shot’ to restore sexual satisfaction for women
13. Dr Orgasm will see you now: is the O-Shot what women need for better sex?
14. The troubling backstory behind the “O shot®”
15. Does the “O Shot®” give insanely good orgasms or is it a “no shot”
16. Platelet‐rich therapies for musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries
17. Orgasmic Disorder
18. Why So Many Women Don’t Have Orgasms
19. Where does the female orgasm come from? Scientists think they know
20. FDA Letter
21. Who is Charles Runels?

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Robert is joined again by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston to continue reading Ben Shapiro's book.

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Robert is joined again by Vic Berger to continue discussing Televangelist, Jim Bakker.

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Robert is joined by Vic Berger to discuss Televangelist, Jim Bakker.

FOOTNOTES:

1. PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
2. Touching Empathy
3. The “Real” Reason Televangelist Jim Bakker Went to Jail
4. What happened to Tammy Faye Bakker after the PTL scandal?
5. Jim Bakker is Still Here
6. The Second Coming Of Televangelist Jim Bakker
7. Where Are They Now?: Jim Bakker
8. Jim Bakker's Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town
9. Jim Bakker Freed From Jail To Stay in a Halfway House
10. 1987: Jim Bakker resigns from PTL; Jerry Falwell assumes leadership
11. Interview with Jessica Hahn
12. About Pastor Jim
13. The scandals that brought down the Bakkers, once among US's most famous televangelists
14. Televangelist Jim Bakker’s Road to Redemption
15. Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food'

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss how the bleach church continues to spread.

FOOTNOTES:

1. “Church” claims bleach is coronavirus-curing “sacrament,” faces wrath of FDA
2. How many letters does the president receive daily? 
3. Coronavirus: Leader of group that believes bleach is miracle cure for Covid-19 wrote to Trump
4. A fringe movement that claims bleach is a miracle cure is jubilant after Trump floated injecting disinfectant as a treatment for COVID-19
5. The Genesis II Church of Health & Healing
6. Alan Keyes Is Helping Sell a Toxic Bleach ‘Cure’ to the Vulnerable and Desperate
7. Fake Coronavirus Cures, Part 1: MMS is Industrial Bleach
8. Advocates of a toxic bleach fake 'miracle cure' are telling desperate people it can cure the coronavirus in thriving groups on Telegram
9. Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week
10. Bleach Salesman Who Wrote Trump About "Miracle Cure" Investigated by Feds in Miami
11. 20/20 Investigation into a Church accused of selling snake oil has Tampa Bay area ties

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Black Salve.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Science or Snake Oil: what is black salve?
2. Black salve in a nutshell
3. Victorian Pharmacology V: Jesse Weldon Fell, M.D., Zinc Chloride & Furtive Medicine
4. Warning Letter to Two Feathers
5. Using Two Feathers Healing Formula
6. Black Salve Is A Dangerous Fake Cancer Cure, But It Continues To Flourish In Facebook Groups
7. Cancer 'healer' turned fake lawyer banned from Victorian courts
8. She was a nurse. So why did Helen shun conventional cancer treatment?
9. 'Spiritual healer' told dying cancer patient to stop medical treatment, authorities say
10. 'Black salve' cancer conman banned from treating patients

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Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to continue to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain.

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Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
2. ‘Rape Rooms’: How West Virginia Women Paid Off Coal Company Debts
3. New Evidence for the Gutman-Hill Debate
4. What was the Esau scrip?
5. “Store Pay Is Our Ruin”: The Tyranny of the Company Store
6. Mountaineer Mine Wars
7. The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot
8. The Devil Is Here in These Hills
9. Underground Coal Mine Disasters 1900 - 2010

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Robert is joined again by Soren Bowie to continue discussing explorer, Henry Morton Stanley.

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Robert is joined by Soren Bowie to discuss Henry Morton Stanley.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer
2. The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire
3. Henry Morton Stanley’s Unbreakable Will
4. Stanley: the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer
5. Henry Morton Stanley: Reborn in New Orleans
6. Henry Morton Stanley and His Critics: Geography, Exploration and Empire
7.  Example of Stanley's Congo Treaties 
8. King Leopold's Ghost
9. Henry Stanley, The Man Who Stole The Congo
10. An Apology for a Pathological Brute
11. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis for a bonus episode inspired by the Netflix series, Tiger King.

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Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Ben Shapiro's book.

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Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss the history of priests and plagues.

Footnotes:

1. Popular televangelist: 'We don't have a flu season'
2. Evangelical Trump adviser tells people to skip flu shots in favor of prayer
3. Liturgical Processions in the Black Death
4. THE BLACK DEATH AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CHURCH AND POPULAR RELIGION
5. The Black Death of Cats
6. Priests and the Black Death
7. When a Third of the World Died
8. Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions
9. How a South Korean church helped fuel the spread of the coronavirus
10. Shadowy Church Is at Center of Coronavirus Outbreak in South Korea
11. Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions
12. One pastor was so outraged by church ban during Spanish flu that he went to jail
13. Resolution, addressed to City Council, Los Angeles, written by First Chuch of Christ, Scientist
14. In Italy and beyond, churches grapple with coronavirus
15. 'Superspreader' in South Korea infects nearly 40 people with coronavirus
16. The 1918 “Spanish Flu” in Spain

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Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue discussing Narendra Modi.

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Robert is joined by Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Narendra Modi.

Footnotes:

1. The Delhi pogrom 2020 is Amit Shah’s answer to an election defeat
2. What Happened in Delhi Was a Pogrom
3. Hitler Film Reveals India's Nazi Fascination
4. World's Biggest Toilet-building Program in India Gets Mixed Results
5. Hitler’s Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India’s Nazi-loving Nationalists
6. Humble Beginnings: The Early Years
7. In pictures: Narendra Modi's early life
8. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
9. PM Modi turns 69: As a child Narendra Modi joined NCC, wanted to serve in the Army
10. Modi: From tea boy to India's leader
11. Personal Life Story
12. Narendra Modi: man of the masses
13. Modi to youth: If you don’t make sacrifice in battle today, history will curse you tomorrow
14. The Unbearable Loneliness of Narendra Modi

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Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Kurt Saxon's Survivor Magazine.

Footnotes:

1. The Survivor PDF

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Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss pandemic grifters.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Gwyneth Paltrow blasted for hawking fancy outfit amid coronavirus pandemic
2. Makeup Mogul Michelle Phan’s Coronavirus Strategy Is Educate and HODL Bitcoin
3. Dr. Pimple Popper shut down beauty guru Michelle Phan's claim that burning 'antiviral' essential oils can kill off viruses before they enter your system
4. As Coronavirus Spreads, Hastily Produced Books Capitalize on Fear
5. Alex Jones’ Infowars is attempting to profit from the coronavirus outbreak
6. Televangelist ordered by New York attorney general to stop promoting ‘cure’ for coronavirus
7. “Eat More Onions!”
8. Spanish flu: The deadliest pandemic in history
9. Coronavirus Scam Alert: Beware Fake Fox News Articles Promising A CBD Oil Cure
10. Giant Silver Solution Bundle

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Robert is joined live for SF Sketchfest by David X. Cohen to discuss Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

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Robert is joined LIVE from Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

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Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss free birthers.

FOOTNOTES:

1. About Yolande
2. Rise of the 'free birthers': These women are choosing to give birth without medical help — and at least one baby has died
3. Home birth advocate’s baby dies during free birth, prompts questions
4. An Infant’s Death Has Sparked A Heated Debate Around The "Free Birth" Movement
5. She Wanted a ‘Freebirth’ at Home. When the Baby Died, the Attacks Began
6. Why American infant mortality rates are so high
7. Home births 'as safe as hospital'
8. Woman: Doctor Told Me to “Shut Up and Push”
9. What Is "Birth Rape"?
10. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape.
11. The hallmark of women who choose freebirth: emotional immaturity
12. Home deliveries
13. Emilee Saldaya is as ethically responsible for baby Journey Moon’s death as if she had taken out a gun and shot her
14. Radical Birth Keeper Consultation
15. Rise in ‘freebirthing’ suggests women feel midwives and doctors are ignoring their needs
16. Why do some women choose to freebirth? A meta-thematic synthesis, part one
17. Free Birth Society Instagram

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Robert is joined by DJ Danl Goodman to discuss Jack Parsons and Black Magic Scientology.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The Mysterious Mr. Parsons — Life at the Crossroads of Crowley and Hubbard
2. Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of Nasa's history
3. Black Magic and Betty
4. SCIENTOLOGY: Revealed for the first time. . .
5. ALEISTER CROWLEY
6. A Correction of the Falsehoods in Lawrence Wright's Book on Scientology
7. Hymn to Pan
8. Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL

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Robert is joined by Molly Lambert to discuss the Bastards Who Covered Up Climate Change.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Exxon accused of misleading investors on climate change
2. An investor enquiry: how much big oil spends on climate lobbying
3. Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
4. Exxon’s Climate Concealment
5. Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show
6. Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings
7. On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
8. Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
9. Did ExxonMobil Just Admit It’s Still Funding Climate Science Deniers?
10. Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change
11. Two-faced Exxon: the misinformation campaign against its own scientists
12. Rex Tillerson to oil industry: Not sure humans can do anything to battle climate change
13. Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails, Witness Says
14. Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk
15. ‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report
16. The new science fossil fuel companies fear
17. Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change

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Robert is joined again by Billy Wayne Davis to continue discussing Harry Hoxsey.

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Harry Hoxsey, the fake Cancer-Curing Alex Jones of the 1950s!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Cancer War: The FDA Vs. Harry Hoxsey
2. HOXSEY, HARRY M.
3. The Medical Messiahs: Chapter 17
4. The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery 
5. Nature Doctors
6. The History of The Hoxsey Formula in Cancer Support
7. Hoxsey Herbal Therapy
8. Carrying their last hopes, ill Americans cross border

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Robert is joined again by Miles Gray to continue discussing William Walker.

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Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss William Walker, the American who tried to conquer Central America.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Mercenary Hero William Walker
2. Filibusters and Financiers: The Story of William Walker and His Associates [1916] 
3. William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
4. The Texas Press William Walker in Nicaragua 
5. William Walker’s Dark Destiny
6. Costa Rica in 1856: Defeating William Walker While Creating a National Identity.
7. Agents of Empire
8. The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny

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Robert is joined again by Teresa Lee to continue discussing Basil Zaharoff.

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Robert is joined by Teresa Lee to discuss Basil Zaharoff, The First Great Arms Dealer.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Man of Arms: The Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff
2. Men Of Wealth: The Story Of Twelve Significant Fortunes From The Renaissance To The Present Day 
3. Arms Race prior to 1914, Armament Policy
4. A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults
5. The Mysterious Mr. Zedzed: The Wickedest Man in the World
6. The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
7. ZACHARIA BASILIUS ZACHAROFF

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Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Savitri Devi.

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Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss Hitler's Priestess, Savitri Devi.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Hitler's Priestess
2. Twitter Photo
3. Savitri Devi: The strange story of how a Hindu Hitler worshipper became an alt-right icon
4. Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
5. The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It
6. Ritualistic Cat Torture Was Once a Form of Town Fun
7. The Great Cat Massacre: French History Revealed by the Americans
8. Savitri Devi: The mystical fascist being resurrected by the alt-right
9. Hitler is Homeless in Vienna
10. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CULT EXPERIENCE
11.  HINDUISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
12. Priestess of Hitlerism: Savitri Devi
13. The Death of Adolf Hitler
14. Savitri Devi Wiki
15. Savitri Devi
16. From Christchurch to India: How India’s RSS Inspires White Nationalist Violence
17. Feuerkrieg Division (FKD)

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Robert is joined by Cody Johnston to discuss the childhood of Stalin.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Stalin as a Theological Student
2. The Finnish City Where Lenin Met Stalin Still Lives in Russia's Shadow
3. On the Origin and Significance of the Name "Stalin"
4. Stalin, from Child to Bolshevik Leader
5. HOW STALIN BECAME STALINIST
6. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 
7. Young Stalin

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Robert is joined by Cody Johnston to discuss Hobby Lobby.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Meet David Green: Hobby Lobby's Biblical Billionaire
2. Some thoughts on the Hobby Lobby antiquities case
3. Hobby Lobby’s Legal Expert Speaks: “I can’t rule out…they used my advice to evade the law.”
4. The Green collection and the Museum of the Bible: 443,000 square meters of mess
5. Dispelling the Myths Around the Hobby Lobby Antiquities Case
6. DID HOBBY LOBBY’S C.E.O. UNKNOWINGLY SPONSOR TERRORISM?
7. How much money has ISIS made selling antiquities? More than enough to fund its attacks.
8. Mission From God: The Upstart Christian Sect Driving Invisible Children and Changing Africa
9. America’s Biggest Christian Charity Funnels Tens of Millions to Hate Groups
10. Hobby Lobby: Who is David Green? 9 facts telling you everything you need to know about the evangelical entrepreneur
11. 5 things to know about Hobby Lobby’s owners
12. Hobby Lobby Allegedly Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy
13. Bad Boss: Yes, Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green Does Want You To Live By His Religion’s Rules
14. How the Hobby Lobby ruling helped and hurt religious freedom
15. Column: The Supreme Court’s awful Hobby Lobby decision just spawned a very ugly stepchild
16. Aftermath of the Hobby Lobby Decision

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Robert is joined again by political activist, poet, and podcaster, Propaganda to continue to discuss the monsters who murdered the Black Panthers.

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Robert is joined by political activist, poet, and podcaster, Propaganda to discuss the monsters who murdered the Black Panthers.

FOOTNOTES:

1. New Documents Reveal FBI Secretly Monitored Protests, Feared ‘Black Supremacist’ Attack
2. Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, assassinated on this day in 1969, explains how the ruling class uses racism to exploit working people.
3. The most radical thing the Black Panthers did was give kids free breakfast
4. How the FBI Conspired to Destroy the Black Panther Party
5. The Black Panthers’ 10-Point Program
6. The social perception created by the Black Panthers
7. The Founders of the Black Panther Party: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
8. The Secret History of Guns
9. The Radical Origins of Free Breakfast for Children
10. Survival Programs
11. F.B.I. SOUGHT DOOM OF PANTHER PARTY
12. Yesterday’s Crimes: The Living Martyrdom of Huey Newton
13. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BLACK PANTHERS
14. Black Panther Fred Hampton Created a "Rainbow Coalition" to Support Poor Americans
15. The Black Panther Raid and the death of Fred Hampton
16. When the black justice movement got too powerful, the FBI got scared and got ugly
17. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party 
18. A timeline of the rise and fall of the Black Panthers

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