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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 their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 185 Jun 07, 2025

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

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

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Sources/Links:

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492

Tiananmen Remastered

https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/

https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/

http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html

https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4

https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber

Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill

https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203059913-9/pronatalism-motherhood-franco-spain-mary-nash

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237296749_Marriage_squeeze_and_changes_in_family_formation_historical_comparative_evidence_in_Spain_France_and_the_United_States_in_the_twentieth_century

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html

https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000

https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-and-chinas-xi-jinping-speak-at-last-agree-to-more-talks-191201181.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/02/immigration-restrictions-pile-up-on-international-students/

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-law-enforcement-ice-homeland-security/

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musk-privately-expresses-frustration-range-recent-moves/story?id=122485920

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

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Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift Jun 05, 2025

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Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the Trump administration as an excuse to attack the Endangered Species Act.

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Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift Jun 03, 2025

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Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves.

(2 Part Series)

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 184 May 31, 2025

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

16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story
Rendition By Private Jet
What's Happening in Immigration Court
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

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16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

https://thefreeradical.org/

Rendition By Private Jet

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-private-jet-to-hell/

What's Happening in Immigration Court

Donate to Primrose's legal fees: venmo.com/u/kirsten-zittla

https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ajc-access-young-diplomats-reception-tickets-1312062246499

https://www.ajc.org/events/washington

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/22/us/israel-embassy-shooting-dc

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjyxay1zxg

https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1925468225665446272

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1925650699414646909

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Spectrum-Security-Services/Job/Detention-Officer/-in-Los-Angeles,CA?jid=2a4b6034cef9977e

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25954386-24a1153/

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-deported-by-us-being-held-in-notorious-junta-detention-centre/?tztc=1

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965

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Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica May 29, 2025

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Robert builds to the thrilling conclusion of the other Kevin Smith's story: the mass slaughter of his own flock.

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Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica May 27, 2025

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Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.

Sources;

“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus

Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer

The power of religion to abuse, distort and control the realities of susceptible persons | Toronto Caribbean Newspaper

Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices

‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox

Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 183 May 24, 2025

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

Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1
Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 2
War Update
The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 10-12
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17

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Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chuck-morse-anarchism-in-mexico

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-america

Kirk Shaffer’s “Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s–1920s” (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/steven-j-hirsch-lucien-van-der-walt-anarchism-and-syndicalism-in-the-colonial-and-postcolonial#toc97)

War Update

https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pkk-final-declaration-activities-under-the-pkk-name-have-ended-79294

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/cemil-bayik-we-are-now-developing-a-new-paradigm-a-second-manifesto-79403

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/new-message-from-abdullah-Ocalan-79417

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-we-hope-all-relevant-parties-take-the-necessary-steps-79319

https://jacobin.com/2025/05/kashmir-india-pakistan-cease-fire-democracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/14/did-pakistan-shoot-down-five-indian-fighter-jets-what-we-know

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvr4r5d2qo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn617xv4no

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-for-the-next-india-pakistan-war/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/world/asia/india-pakistan-conflict.html

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69775896/dvd-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf

https://www.refworld.org/policy/countrypos/unhcr/2024/en/147589

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/09/south-sudan-incendiary-bombs-kill-burn-civilians

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com https://bsky.app/profile/qjurecic.bsky.social/post/3lppd7wq7jc2h

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/potential-ice-raid-thwarted-central-california-20335765.php

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052025_ice_court_arrests/mayhem-as-ice-officials-arrest-multiple-people-immigration-court-phoenix/

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-05-21/a-childs-obsession-with-fire-and-a-mysterious-cache-of-explosives-inside-the-palm-springs-bombing-probe

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-18/suicide-bomber-targeted-fertility-clinic

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/reddit-bans-anti-natalists-palm-springs-explosion-rcna207677

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/dhs-no-plans-immigrant-reality-show/83743897007/

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-is-considering-reality-show-where-immigrants-compete-for-citizenship-47de277c

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-serial-killers-execution-trump-rcna207171

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/middleeast/diplomats-israeli-fire-west-bank-intl

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-take-control-gaza-uk-france-canada-threaten-action

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965?pr=true

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/a-myanmar-artist-finds-freedom-behind-bars-by-portraying-prisoners-oppression/

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Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism May 22, 2025

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In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.

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Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism May 20, 2025

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Robert walks Blake Wexler through the life and times of Carl Schmitt, a legal scholar born in Imperial Germany who would come to create the blueprint for how fascist movements could destroy liberal democracy from within.

(2 Part Series)

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 182 May 17, 2025

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

The Irish Far Right/Neo-Nazi Movement
Trans Fiction, Trans Sports
The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide"
The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 7-9
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #16

You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!

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Sources/Links:

Trans Fiction, Trans Sports

https://victoria.monster/

https://thepointmag.com/criticism/entering-history/

The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide"

https://support.iraplegalinfo.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057039031-What-is-the-U-S-refugee-resettlement-process

https://welcome.us/explainers/us-refugee-admissions-program-suspended-until-further-notice-welcome-corps-terminated

https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-responds-termination-state-department-grants-refugee-resettlement-program

https://2021-2025.state.gov/refugee-admissions/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://www.nytimes.com/article/afrikaner-refugees-trump-south-africa.html

https://za.usembassy.gov/refugee-admissions-program-for-south-africans/

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/letter-from-presiding-bishop-sean-rowe-on-episcopal-migration-ministries/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #16

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/

https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-highlights-floridas-leadership-immigration-enforcement

https://support.iraplegalinfo.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057039031-What-is-the-U-S-refugee-resettlement-process

https://welcome.us/explainers/us-refugee-admissions-program-suspended-until-further-notice-welcome-corps-terminated

https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-responds-termination-state-department-grants-refugee-resettlement-program

https://2021-2025.state.gov/refugee-admissions/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://www.nytimes.com/article/afrikaner-refugees-trump-south-africa.html

https://za.usembassy.gov/refugee-admissions-program-for-south-africans/

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/letter-from-presiding-bishop-sean-rowe-on-episcopal-migration-ministries/

https://www.aclufl.org/en/press-releases/new-report-reveals-alarming-conditions-florida-ice-detention-centers

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-01/inhumane-conditions-and-death-at-miamis-krome-migrant-detention-center.html

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