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Behind the Bastards - Part Four: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Bu...

Part Four: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

Podcast Series Behind the Bastards

In our thrilling conclusion, Robert explores how the Ferguson protests and the right-wing fear-mongering around them radicalized Jeffrey Epstein and his rich friends into fascism.

PT 3 SRC

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 • 1h, 6min

Part Three: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

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Robert explains how Jeffrey Epstein became increasingly pilled on right-wing media and even started funding race science to further his eugenics-laced views. 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3/22 great episode on rev moon WT

Part One: The Moonies Are So Much Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine

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March 8, 2022 • 74 min

Christopher Wong is joined by Robert Evans to discuss the many crimes of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his family.

FOOTNOTES:

https://u1lib.org/book/5533978/0e7f3c
https://u1lib.org/book/683849/cb6752
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Finvestigations%2Fchi-0604sushi-1-story-story.html
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Publications/Smm-Org/works_communism.html
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/Messiah2/Messiah-2.pdf
https://newrepublic.com/article/115512/unification-church-profile-fall-house-moon#footnote-115512-3
https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2012/09/remembering-former-rep-don-frasers-battle-moonies/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/moonies-accused-of-involvement-in-drugs-1.1161827
https://u1lib.org/book/2483311/694fff
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-speaks-at-moonies-911-event-praises-unification-church-2021-9
https://freedomofmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fraserport.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/business/worldbusiness/IHT-reverend-moons-group-wants-to-talk-investment.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/world/suspicion-following-sun-myung-moon-to-brazil.html
https://www.deseret.com/1999/11/28/19477721/moon-sees-a-new-garden-of-eden-in-brazil-br-but-unification-founder-s-proposal-spurs-opposition
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/heartbreak-and-rage-ten-years-under-sun-myung-moon_k-gordon-neufeld/1821376/#edition=3308299&idiq=35159710
https://culteducation.com/group/1277-unification-church/23755-rev-moon-son-made-gun-.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/01/589808670/ar-15s-are-biblical-rod-of-iron-at-pennsylvania-church
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/style/chronicle-983090.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/04/the-strange-life-of-reverend-sun-myung-moon/

video startup bot by FB? loftus?

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

Part Two: Let's Look at the Facebook Papers

November 18, 2021 • 88 min

Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue to discuss the Facebook Papers.

Part One: Let's Look at the Facebook Papers

November 16, 2021 • 86 min

gizmodo soc med bias BS ~ NPR

break glass based on earlier insurr [boog?] not used on 1/6 till too late?

1:50 posts stop steal, 1:10 on pol posts?

2016 roger stone fuckery picked up by ali a 2020

VNI violence ----incitement

co-ord ~ organic? = harm?

delegitimization

boog seen as cohesive and connected?

contact him via revanswriter@gmail.com or Twitter at, @IwriteOK

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 9

November 14, 2021 • 220 min

Part Two: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All

November 11, 2021 • 74 min

Part One: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All

November 9, 2021 • 93 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 8

November 5, 2021 • 198 min

Part Two: The Boy Scouts are a Bastard

November 4, 2021 • 74 min

Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts

November 2, 2021 • 89 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 7

October 29, 2021 • 225 min

Part Two: The Nazi Pedophile Cult Leader who Murdered Santa (With Paul F. Tompkins)

October 28, 2021 • 84 min

BTB says tilly case? K promise to murder trans? 11/21 some sort of morph from when he interv her

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-second-american-civil-61485728/

part One: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

April 21, 2020 • 72 min

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

FOOTNOTES:

http://www.thewaroneveryone.com/

transcriptions: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1f1oDR2GE5C90EZwkgn6ZLwcQbeF_8W-U dl doc 921

at end sez most surprise was jnx xian ID?

Chapter 1: The Eternal Fascist

There is nothing new under the sun. In this chapter, you’ll learn about “Ur-Fascism”, and how humor and irony have historically been used to enable its rise.

Chapter 2: An American Fascist Faith

The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting, the Poway Synagogue shooting, the Olympic park bombing and dozens of other terrorist attacks all have one thing in common- Christian Identity. In this chapter, we delve into a cultic belief system at the heart of American fascism.

Chapter 3: The Apostle of Fascism

William Luther Pierce is the most important Nazi you’ve never heard of, and his work has helped inspire a generation of terrorists- right up to the present day.

Chapter 4: How to Build an Army

Louis Beam was once a normal American soldier. But in the wake of the Vietnam War, he would painstakingly craft a vicious fascist insurgency. When Beam’s ground-level activism met Pierce’s propaganda, the result was the birth of a terrorist movement that still stalks us to this day.

Chapter 5: The Hidden Civil War

Inspired by Beam and Pierce, a young man named Bob Mathews attempted to spark a Second American Civil War. Whether he succeeded or failed is still up in the air.

Chapter 6: The Perfect Soldier

In his life and death, Timothy McVeigh represented the best-case scenario for the kind of warriors Louis Beam wanted to inculcate through his “leaderless resistance” strategy. His story is a tale of triumph for American fascism.

Chapter 7: The Digital Reich

This is where we are now: an era where a distributed network of individual extremists are able to radicalize each other and inspire acts of violence worldwide. This is not the result of an unhappy accident, or an unforeseen consequence of the digital era. It’s the result of decades of careful planning.

L-R 180

1120 evan btb says start young turks but only main guy really made it; left in huff and bounced to other gigs short time but hit paydirt sweet spot b/c had hosted some idw like dr jp so they kept appearing after trend up/ more followers, so he got coattail, but just keep rep and aud falls away tho has 5m$ house in LA?

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-exxon-chevron-and-their-buddies-58986784/

fOOTNOTES:

Exxon accused of misleading investors on climate change
An investor enquiry: how much big oil spends on climate lobbying https://influencemap.org/report/Climate-Lobbying-by-the-Fossil-Fuel-Sector
Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
Exxon’s Climate Concealment https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/opinion/exxons-climate-concealment.html?_r=2
Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show
Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings
On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
Did ExxonMobil Just Admit It’s Still Funding Climate Science Deniers? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/did-exxonmobil-just-admit_b_8625514
Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/18/1509433112.abstract
Two-faced Exxon: the misinformation campaign against its own scientists https://yyy.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/25/two-faced-exxon-the-misinformation-campaign-against-its-own-scientists
Rex Tillerson to oil industry: Not sure humans can do anything to battle climate change
Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails, Witness Says
Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk
‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report https://www.desmog.com/2019/03/22/paris-oil-exxon-chevron-bp-total-shell-billion-climate-lobbying-advertising-influencemap/
The new science fossil fuel companies fear https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/10/22/attribution-science-fossil-fuels-climate-change-001290
Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-21/oil-companies-exxon-climate-change-denial-report

aha/doh: civil war is sys fail

https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/second-american-civil-war/

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In 2020, the United States has been rocked by everything from a deadly pandemic and a brutal recession to civil unrest in a long list of cities to fears that violent conflicts will occur either on Election Day or after the election. Journalist Matthew Gault, in an article published by Vice this week, wonders if the political divisions in the United States run so deep that the country is headed for another civil war.

Describing the unrest that has occurred this year, Gault writes, "People are marching in the streets, aligned with two ideologically distinct factions. Many of them, overwhelmingly from one side, are armed, and violence and death has resulted when these two sides have clashed. The signs of a coming conflict are everywhere."

Certainly, the U.S. has had plenty of unrest in the past, from riots and assassinations during the 1960s to the Los Angeles riots in 1992. But Gault views 2020 as especially disturbing.

"Political polarization is up, gun and ammunition sales have spiked, killers such as Kyle Rittenhouse are being lauded by their political allies, and protests are widespread in American cities," Gault explains. "Police kill unarmed people in the street, the government is polarized and corrupt, and our institutions are failing. Armed militias patrol U.S. streets."

Gault goes on to note that as if everything else that has occurred in 2020 weren't enough, Philadelphia erupted in violence the week before the presidential election following the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr. — a 27-year-old African-American man — by police.

"In the aftermath of the shooting, protestors have smashed windows and spray painted the police substation," Gault notes. "Police say 30 officers have been hurt, and one who was hit by a pickup truck has been hospitalized for a broken leg."

Gault adds, "We have a sect of the president's supporters who have vowed to show up at polling places armed. If you have a terrible and ominous feeling about all this, you're not alone. Some on the far right are talking about another civil war."

What would another civil war in the United States look like? The last one occurred during the 1860s, when Americans were still using horses to commute to work — and a great deal has changed technologically since then.

Gault explains, "According to several experts I spoke with, a new civil conflict will look nothing like the first American Civil War. It's not likely that clear sides will be drawn up with massive armies of Americans marching towards each other as drones strike from above. An insurgency is more likely — a period of sustained and distributed conflict where non-state actors carry out violence to achieve a political goal."

One of the people Gault interviewed was David Kilcullen of Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Kilcullen is worried about the United States' future, telling Gault,"The worst atrocities come from fear, not hate. Because people think they're good, and they can justify incredible atrocious violence to themselves on the basis that it is defensive….. You need a belief that some other group is encroaching on your territory."

Gault also interviewed journalist Robert Evans, known for his reporting on conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine.Evans told Gault, "We are in a state of civil war whenever, in more than one geographical location in the United States, it becomes commonplace for multiple non-state armed groups to fight each other with deadly force. When that is an occurrence that is common in more than one location in the country, that's a civil war."

According to Evans, "To most people, the idea of a second American Civil War feels more like science fiction than a possible future…. I have seen systems collapse.Everything I've seen and everything I've read over the past two years has convinced me that the United States is closer to that kind of terror than anyone is willing to admit."

Adam Isacson of WOLA — a group that promotes human rights in Latin America — told Gault that a civil war in the U.S. might resemble the one that occurred in Colombia, where the conflict didn't occur throughout the entire country. Isacson recalled that when he was in Bogotá in the early 2000s, Colombia didn't seem like a country that was in a state of civil war.

Isacson told Gault, "You realize that even in this horrible period for Colombia, for most of the country, this conflict was just something you saw on television. It doesn't really impact their everyday lives…. Collapse is not evenly distributed…. I'd say there's a real danger that (the U.S.) is going to see sustained political violence."

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-the-deadliest-school-in-71599099/

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September 22, 2020 • 77 min

Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus for an update on the crimes of Mark Zuckerberg.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-millions-members-facebook-documents-show-n1236317
https://archive.is/rCvAy#selection-1323.0-1327.269
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-failed-kenosha?bfsource=relatedmanual
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employee-leaks-show-they-feel-betrayed
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results?bfsource=relatedmanual
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQ6NpFA-au/?utm_source=ig_embed
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-haircut-explained-augustus-caesar-2019
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/what-attracts-mark-zuckerberg-roman-hardman-augustus
https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-gambia/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg897a/hate-speech-on-facebook-is-pushing-ethiopia-dangerously-close-to-a-genocide
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MAXH38/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Part One: Focus on the Family: James Dobson

September 29, 2020 • 75 min

Garrison Davis is joined by Robert Evans to discuss James Dobson and Focus on the Family.

FOOTNOTES:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/08/08/the-empire-built-on-family-faith/a2b300eb-25f8-4925-af24-ce076c620f51/

https://web.archive.org/web/20040130060421/http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/09news2.html

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/about/historical-timeline/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Focus-on-the-Family

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-02-23-9001160138-story.html

https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ngisc/members/dobson.html#:~:text=He%20served%20on%20the%20task,Delinquency%20Prevention%2C%201982%2D1984.

https://www.frc.org/historymission

https://www.amazon.com/New-Dare-Discipline-James-Dobson/dp/0842305068

https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Gomorrah-Max-Blumenthal/dp/1568584172

https://www.amazon.com/Stations-Cross-Adorno-Christian-Right/dp/0822325411#:~:text=In%20Stations%20of%20the%20Cross,the%20current%20U.S.%20political%20economy.&text=Adorno%E2%80%94can%20illuminate%20the%20political,aspect%20of%20contemporary%20American%20culture.

https://www.amazon.com/James-Dobsons-War-America-Alexander-Moegerle/dp/157392122X

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September 22, 2020 • 77 min

Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus for an update on the crimes of Mark Zuckerberg.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-millions-members-facebook-documents-show-n1236317

https://archive.is/rCvAy#selection-1323.0-1327.269

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-failed-kenosha?bfsource=relatedmanual

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employee-leaks-show-they-feel-betrayed

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results?bfsource=relatedmanual

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQ6NpFA-au/?utm_source=ig_embed

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-haircut-explained-augustus-caesar-2019

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/what-attracts-mark-zuckerberg-roman-hardman-augustus

https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-gambia/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg897a/hate-speech-on-facebook-is-pushing-ethiopia-dangerously-close-to-a-genocide

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MAXH38/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/were-on-the-edge-of-an-authoritarian-nightmare-investigative-journalist-explains-the-grave-dangers-of-this-pandemic-and-the-opportunity-it-offers-for-a-better-world/

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‘We’re on the edge of an authoritarian nightmare’: Investigative journalist explains the grave dangers of this pandemic — and the opportunity it offers for a better world

Written by Chauncey DeVega / Salon April 3, 2020

The novel coronavirus pandemic is a stress test for American society and government — one that the country is failing in spectacular fashion.

Donald Trump’s administration has shown itself wholly incapable of properly responding to the human and economic devastation being caused by the pandemic. Nearly four years ago, Trump’s incoming team was warned multiple times by national security and other experts about the likelihood of a devastating global pandemic. Instead, at almost every moment of key decision-making, Trump’s regime has chosen to ignore the impending crisis and prioritize its corrupt, authoritarian crusade against the Constitution, the American people, multiracial democracy and human decency.

Trump’s right-wing propaganda media have provided cover for his malfeasance. As such, they have made the crisis worse by circulating lies and disinformation to their gullible, ignorant audience. In many ways, the coronavirus plague is a perfect metaphor for the overall harm that Trump, his Republican Party and their minions have done to the American people and American society.

On Wednesday, The editorial board of the Boston Globe perfectly described this state of affairs:

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, it’s clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a season of untold suffering….

While the spread of the novel coronavirus has been aggressive around the world, much of the profound impact it will have here in the United States was preventable. As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership….

What we have instead is a president epically outmatched by a global pandemic.

America’s health care system has been hollowed out by decades of tax cuts and other government policies that have transferred money to the richest corporations and individuals at the literal expense of the public. The private insurance industry has failed to allocate the necessary and humane amount of resources to its customers — the American people. Now our patchwork system is on the verge of collapse because of the coronavirus pandemic.

While doctors, nurses and other health care personnel — as well as unsung heroes such as home health care workers, maintenance staff, food and nutrition workers, delivery drivers and others — are doing their best to deliver essential services in the face of an unprecedented public health disaster, the larger medical system has failed to match their sacrifice and dedication.

On Wednesday, the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the doctors and patients at Northwestern University Hospital who are fighting the coronavirus pandemic. One patient shared his experience:

Dolan was crying because, after spending hours at the downtown hospital’s outdoor triage tent listening to gasping patients all around him, he had just witnessed the first signs of what he believes is the health care system collapsing. It was “an entirely preventable human disaster” caused not by the hard-working health care professionals, but by failed policies, he says.

This didn’t happen at a poorly resourced or rural hospital, either. This was one of the nation’s best medical centers.

And despite 15 days of serious symptoms, including a 105-degree fever, Dolan still hasn’t been tested for COVID-19….

Doctors also shared their experiences:

Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director for the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University, said testing is ramping up but blamed the “incompetence” of President Donald Trump and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a delayed and flawed response to the crisis.

“The whole system sucks,” Murphy said. “You should see these poor guys in the emergency room. All they see is coronavirus patients. COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, everywhere. They’re all exposed. Dozens of them have gotten infected themselves.

“The whole thing is insane, but don’t blame the health care workers,” Murphy said. “It’s the system’s fault.”

How have the American people responded to the coronavirus pandemic? It’s too early to reach a verdict. There has been hoarding and panic buying, along with disturbing acts of racial hatred directed against Asian immigrants and Asian-Americans. There has also been cooperation, mutual support and volunteering. To this point in the coronavirus crisis it is not the American people who have failed, but rather their so-called president and his incompetent regime.

I recently spoke to investigative journalist Robert Evans, who has reported from conflict zones in Iraq and Ukraine, as well as on far-right extremist groups in the United States. His work is featured at the website Bellingcat. He is the host of the podcasts “Behind the Bastards” and “It Could Happen Here.” His new podcast, available at iHeartRadio, is “The Women’s War.”

In our conversation, Evans explains how the average person can better navigate the challenges of life during the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for what comes next. He also discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed rampant social inequality and how this version of capitalism has failed the American people and others around the world — and how from this crisis a new and better society can be created.

Evans also offers a dire warning: The coronavirus pandemic may usher in a global surveillance society and authoritarian nightmare almost beyond comprehension.

You can also listen to my conversation with Robert Evans on my podcast “The Truth Report” or through the player embedded below.

How are you feeling in this moment of the coronavirus plague? Surveying the state of the world right now, and especially this country, how are you making sense of it emotionally and cognitively?

I actually feel OK. To an extent that is because of the selfish reason that I have been trying to warn people about what could be on the horizon for some time. I did a podcast series last year about a second civil war in America. I repeatedly advised people that they should get a reasonable stockpile of dried food and start thinking about ways they can have a small amount of water stored. People should have a disaster plan. I was also advising people that they should develop skills that will be useful in a time of societal crisis or collapse.

Now it is happening. I don’t think 9/11 holds a candle to what is happening with the coronavirus pandemic. We are not sure what the final outcome will be, of course. Hopefully it will not be as bad as some experts are predicting.

The immediate change to our daily lives is much more pronounced than 9/11. What we are dealing with in terms of the pandemic is very scary, of course, but I don’t feel alone in confronting it. The fact that everyone around me is dealing with this at the same time, and with the same emotional tenor, makes it a lot easier to handle. Moreover, because we are confronting this crisis together it also gives me some hope that the worst injustices of this moment with Donald Trump and the global new right may actually have a better chance of getting remedied.

The kids in cages at the U.S.-Mexico border — yes, it is easy to get people angry about that horrible situation, but at the end of the day, most people focus on what is happening outside their front door. If a problem does not impact them directly then it is really hard to get them to take serious direct action to remedy it. When an injustice hits the entire working class at once — such as what is happening with bailouts for the rich and layoffs, furloughs, and that a huge number of Americans and other people in this country are suddenly not able to support themselves — that means there is actually a better chance than I’ve seen in my lifetime to get real justice. I’m trying to be cautiously optimistic.

Power always pushes back. But right now, as the coronavirus pandemic is really starting to hit the United States and destroy the economy, it feels like something is going to break in the extreme. But when will that happen? When will the empire strike back internally? How do you make sense of this moment of crisis?

The single best line I’ve heard to define our time is that“everything is teetering on the edge of everything.” There is an opportunity for a wider expansion of an understanding of not just labor rights, not just workers’ rights, but of the necessity for a robust safety net that we do not chisel away at. We are becoming more aware of how, at a fundamental level, we are dependent on each other and our collective health. Such understandings can lead to policy changes that will make life better for unthinkable numbers of people, both in the United States and possibly around the world.

At the same time, we are also on the edge of an authoritarian nightmare, the likes of which we can barely comprehend. China has massively ramped up surveillance measures and introduced new systems and apps to track people, and there is a lot of talk about doing that in the United States in response to the novel coronavirus.

Power will push back even though it is reeling right now. The people who have been on the top of the economic pyramid are terrified because the type of collapse we are seeing because of the coronavirus pandemic is the kind that even they were not ready for. The bottom of the system has fallen out, and it is those people at the bottom of the economic hierarchy who the rich sit on top of.

Right now, the elites are offering concessions out of panic and out of a hope that it can be like a tourniquet. They can stop the bleeding and the system can get back on track. But eventually the powerful, the elites, will push back, and it will be with social monitoring. I worry that many people will embrace being monitored and tracked. The ability of an authoritarian regime to co-opt that technology — some of which is already in use by Google, for example — is very frightening.

I think most frightening of all is my worry that the Trump administration might figure out that one of the ways to stay in power is by turning around the public perception by creating the social programs which the left has been advocating for many years. Trump will try to take credit for those social programs and rebrand himself as some type of FDR-type figure — but one who is an authoritarian and with much more ability and power to crack down on political dissent and to monitor the public, as a result of some of the political and social changes that are going to be made in this country in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus is a system shock. In the course of two weeks or so, baseline expectations about the economy, jobs, food, health and safety, and freedom have all been turned upside down in the United States. How do we make sense of these elements of the crisis?

The coronavirus can be turned into a positive because it has laid bare the contradictions and flaws in our economic, social and political systems. There is no hiding the flaws of capitalism in a pandemic. You can hide the flaws of capitalism as they apply to global warming. It is very easy actually to hide those flaws because there are still cold days and snowstorms. There are mild spring days. Most people have a hard time thinking about climate change in a way that really highlights the existential danger to them.

But the coronavirus and the shortcomings of capitalism are very different.

The fact that more than half of Americans had less than $500 in savings when this disaster hit, the fact that we have no social safety net, that the vast majority of American workers can’t even rely on unemployment because of the nature of the gig economy, that shows in a personal way how capitalism is deeply flawed.

The fact that people do not have proper health care in America and couldn’t go in to get screened because they couldn’t afford it — and therefore they kept going to work and being out and about and spreading the virus.

There were waiters and other people in the restaurant and hospitality industries, and the service industry more broadly, who were asymptomatic and spreading the disease. If even a few weeks ago if you had explained what the coronavirus pandemic would do to the economy and society, many people would have said that you were a conspiracy theorist or some type of crazy alarmist. Now, it does not seem that those voices were so crazy after all.

Those “alarmist” voices were not so hysterical when we see how so many people have lost their jobs and are losing their homes. We on the left have been sounding the alarm for a very long time about the many problems in America’s economy and how these serious vulnerabilities needed to be addressed.

If we are smart, diligent and compassionate — and if we fight like hell — there can be a positive outcome from the coronavirus pandemic here in the United States because, hopefully, more people will then wake up to the fact that our system needs massive, fundamental, ground-level change.

Global warming is a slow-motion crisis in many ways. The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden shock. The food and other shortages at the supermarket and elsewhere have really shattered most peoples’ sense of what is normal in the United States.

It is not a problem where there is not enough food. What’s freaking a lot of people out is that we have gotten so accustomed to what I would call the only truly great work of art that capitalism has put together: the variety of foods from around the world, and products from around the world, that are available to even those of us on a modest budget at all times.

And that has changed because people are panic-buying very specific things. And so suddenly folks are going in and there’s only one thing available. And now certain congresspeople are talking pictures at the supermarket of bare shelves and announcing, “This is what it’s like under socialism!” Such stunts are not helping. They are in fact frightening people and making matters worse.

The grocery store near where I live was picked clean. But there were also still enough calories to survive from the food left on the shelves. There were not a lot of comfort items and other items the public has gotten used to. It is harder for folks who got used to being able to easily shop gluten-free, or easily do a carnivore diet, or easily do a vegan diet. That has all gotten more difficult. Such a reality is shocking to people because it is a crack in the firmament of this system. Most people never owned stock on Wall Street. Most people never had a real hope of becoming a millionaire. Most people are not business owners. But most people were able to go to the supermarket and get the items they wanted. These food shortages at supermarkets have shattered the base level of our reality.

Have people reached out to you and said they wished they had listened to your warnings about society-wide disruptions and other crises?

Some folks have reached out. The biggest thing is that I’ve got a lot of friends who are very anti-gun. I’m very pro-Second Amendment. I think it’s one of the things the founders got more or less right. However, I do support changes in the laws to make it harder for mass shooters. I’m supportive of the right to bear arms, and I have had an awful lot of friends who would argue with me about guns who have recently reached out to me wanting to know what type of gun they should buy. I don’t take any satisfaction from folks reaching out and being, “You were right about this.”

What I do take satisfaction in is the hundreds of people who to this point have reached out and told me, “Hey, because of your podcast ‘It Could Happen Here,’ when this hit I had a month of dried food on hand. I had water and food supplies. I had a go-bag ready. I had survival equipment ready and I didn’t have to freak out and rush to the store and contribute to the panic.” That is what I am grateful for. It makes me feel good that I had some positive impact on peoples’ lives.

How do we separate conspiracy theories from being reasonably prepared?

I think everyone in the country should endeavor to have a one-month supply of nonperishable food and a two-week supply of water. Obviously going out and buying it all at once is not going to work for many people’s budgets. But it is surprisingly affordable to build up that supply by just buying an extra two or three dollars of canned food each trip to the grocery store.

Over time, you build up the stockpile. Emergency services across the country are now recommending two weeks to a month of dried foods. That is a reasonable thing.

In general, the difference between reasonable prepping and unreasonable prepping is that reasonable prepping is being prepared to take care of yourself and then the people around you, with the understanding that the only real security is community security and the only real self-defense is community self-defense.

Unreasonable prepping is seeking to have a bunker alone in the woods somewhere so that you can survive the apocalypse alone or with your wife and kids. The security you gain from hiding alone like that is illusory, it’s not real. It will not last. Real security comes from having enough food to share with your neighbors, setting up cooking rotations, delivering food to each other’s houses, taking care of each other, doing training in skills such as foraging and hunting small game, and setting up food kitchens in order to help people who don’t have the resources to do so during this time.

We can better take care of ourselves by building up community resiliency and a productive sense of belonging. This sense of belonging leads people to build something together and to make it better and more resilient over time. That’s true prepping to me. That’s really being prepared for a disaster and I think everybody should seek to be more prepared by doing these things.

On the conspiratorial thinking, I do think one of the most important things to keep mind is never to attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. Of course there are these theories that the novel coronavirus is some type of bioweapon that originated in China. Or, in the case of Alex Jones, that the virus is a bioweapon from the United States government that Obama sold to the Chinese. When you have to make it really complicated in your head in order for it to work out, that is one of the main signs that you are lost in conspiracies.

You are an expert on right-wing extremist groups. How are they going to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic?

No one had a plan for this really. I have been talking with members of center, right and left-leaning militias over the last week or two. These are folks who were prepared for a disaster, who had been prepping, and are kind of more paranoid. They’re all blindsided by this too. I don’t think there’s a great deal of preparation, but they absolutely will attempt to use it to their advantage. The main thing I am worried about right now is how fascist groups are positioning themselves much closer to the mainstream right wing. They are trying to co-opt the mainstream right. This is a different threat than right-wing extremist groups which are “accelerationists,” that want to destroy all of society.

I’m worried more about these right-wing groups that are seeking to mainstream fascism, who are going to see Trump talking about the “Chinese virus” and other racial dog whistles. Those groups are going to double down on pushing a narrative that “China destroyed your life and your economy with this virus.” They will also say things such as, “This is why we’ve been saying all immigration is bad. This is why we’ve been saying you have to keep nonwhite people out of this country.”

The right-wing fascist groups are also going to be engaging in flyering and stickering campaigns and other types of propaganda to recruit new members. There is a very real possibility that such groups can use the coronavirus crisis to massively expand their membership. Times such as these tend to radicalize people. In total, these extremist right-wing groups will use this as an opportunity to push racial hatred, to get more people involved in these fascist organizations and to participate in fascist political actions.

These right-wing extremist groups and individuals, and those sympathetic to them, have infiltrated the police, the military, Homeland Security, ICE and other parts of the government, including the highest levels of the Trump administration. What do we know about the nature of the threat they pose to the country right now?

There’s a lot of debate as to how coordinated they are. There are a number of very wealthy financiers who have put money into supporting these groups as part of the resurgence of a fascist movement in the United States. Richard Spencer’s group is founded by a millionaire for example.

One of the things that makes it so dangerous is that there’s no head, there’s no center to it. It’s just a series of more or less isolated independent groups with some different connections between them carrying out a mix of propaganda and direct-action campaigns.

And one of the things that’s very worrying is there are a lot of explicit fascist activists who are not personally violent but who seek to use the violence of the state to advance their goals. Many of these people are in Homeland Security and the White House. Some of them have been throwing up little coded messages like that Homeland Security memo with the Nazi codes of the “14 words” and the use of the number “88.”

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller is an example of such a person.There are a lot of them in law enforcement. The fact that a whole Border Patrol class was caught giving the Nazi “Sieg Heil!” salute wasn’t a joke. I will tell you that right now. We’ve seen other examples of that behavior. There have been been a number of cops busted participating in and coordinating with right-wing extremist marches and groups. A number of military people have also been caught there. But I’m less worried about the military than I am about the police because the United States military is at least an extremely diverse organization. While it has a lot of white nationalists and white supremacists, I don’t think those people tend to have a huge amount of influence within the structures of the military.

Whereas within police nationwide, right-wing extremists do have a great deal of influence. Here we’re mainly talking about sheriff’s departments and local city police departments. That is the area at which these types of white racist extremists can do the most damage.

What is Russia’s role in terms of providing resources and support to fascist and other right-wing extremists in the United States?

I think Russia’s role in this is mainly disinformation and misinformation.Russia absolutely has a documented history of pushing, inciting and providing oxygen to these fascists in the United States. I do not believe it’s based on ideological affinity. They are doing it because they want to spread division and violence and chaos in the United States because it weakens the country as a geopolitical power and gives Russia more of a free hand to do what its leaders want to do.

My primary concern about Russia is their disinformation campaigns. They recognize that aiding and providing oxygen to these movements contributes to the breakdown of American society and American power. That having been said, there are many good questions that need to be asked about how extensive Russia’s aid to these fascist groups in the United States really is.

What advice would you give the average person about navigating life during the coronavirus pandemic and what comes next?

Don’t panic. There is no benefit to panicking. Fear will not help you through this. Seek to build resiliency. On my podcast “Worst Year Ever: The Reasonable Person’s Guide to Prepping,” I provide free guides for foraging and urban foraging. For example, there is an app called “Falling Fruit” that helps a person to find food in your neighborhood.

Do you have extra money? Work on getting a 30-day supply of dried food that you don’t touch and then work on some other survival necessities.

Start building ties with your local neighborhood, get involved in mutual aid. There are so many mutual aid projects springing up around the country. Get involved in some of them. Meet members of your community. Work with them to make this a better place. Maintain those ties once the pandemic passes and build on those ties. And don’t let this opportunity pass. We have a chance here.

One way or the other, on the other side of this quarantine, on the other side of this pandemic, every one of our lives is going to be different than it was before. There is no going back to baseline. It is our decision now whether or not what happens after the pandemic will be better or worse. Whether or not the world that emerges from this will be more equitable, one where people are more secure and safe. Or will that new world be one where people are less secure and less safe and less free? The decision we have is whether to be an active participant in making that decision.

Bjorn Lomborg: Patient Zero of Climate Denial

Oct 15, 2019

In Episode 89, Robert is joined by Eric Lampaert to discuss Bjorn Lomborg.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Bjorn Lomborg’s lukewarmer misinformation about climate change and poverty

2. BJORN LOMBORG: PERFORMANCE ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE

3,Bjorn Lomborg Bibliography

4. Hot, It’s Not

5. On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction

6. The Skeptical Environmentalist: A Case Study In The Manufacture Of News

7. Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune

8. Bjørn Lomborg WSJ Op Ed Is Stunningly Wrong

9. Who’s Behind Trump’s Claim the Green New Deal Will Cost $100 Trillion?

10. Exclusive: Bjorn Lomborg Think Tank Funder Revealed As Billionaire Republican 'Vulture Capitalist' Paul Singer

11. Common Core’s Global Warming Agenda

12.James Harff

13. Copenhagen Consensus III

14.Bjørn Lomborg centre got $640,000 for report saying limiting warming rise to 2C not worth it

15. Atmospheric engineering may help reverse global warming

16. SCIENTIST AT WORK/Bjorn Lomborg; From an Unlikely Quarter, Eco-Optimism

17. About Bjorn Lomborg

18.UCS Examines 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'

19. THE EXTINCTION CRISIS

9/16 on youtube as redpill entry point, seth rogen has stefan molyneux

Episode 67: How YouTube Became a Perpetual Nazi Machine Footnotes

JUN 20, 2019

https://www.behindthebastards.com/footnotes/btb-ep-footnotes-67.htm

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:{2. HOW YOUTUBE PERFECTED THE FEED:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

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:{5. Finding YouTube's top recommendations from any query:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

:{6. YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

7. YOUTUBE SEARCH AUTOMATICALLY SUGGESTS CONSPIRACY THEORIES FOR FLORIDA SHOOTING

https://adage.com/article/digital/youtube-suggests-hoax-videos-florida-school-shooting/312473

:{8. Advertisers Abandon YouTube Over Concerns That Pedophiles Lurk In Comments Section:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

:{9. On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

:{10. CONTENT MODS WOULD SOLVE AN URGENT PROBLEM, IF ANYONE WERE WILLING TO PAY THEM:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

:{11. Google Paid This Man $100 Million: Here's His Story:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

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Robert Evans is a former editor at Cracked.com and author of the ridiculous book A Brief History of Vice. Over the course of his career, he’s reported from war zones in Iraq and Ukraine, experimented on his co-workers with strange ancient narcotics and interviewed hundreds of people about their baffling careers. Now he’s taking his voice, as smooth as warm molasses, and making a podcast for HowStuffWorks.