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Behind the Bastards

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Apr 13, 2024 • 2h 45min

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Delving into Trump's education agenda, exploring new accreditation standards and racial discrimination challenges. Navigating QAnon rhetoric in schools, Trump's homeschooling support, and parental dominance in education reform. Discussing Trump's immigration policies, birthright citizenship controversies, and the impact of migrant benefits. Exploring Trump's stance on transgender healthcare, executive orders' effects, and threats to gender identity rights. Analyzing Trump's targeting of big pharma and extreme measures against cartels, with military intervention proposals in Mexico.
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Apr 11, 2024 • 1h 18min

Part Two: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

Historical expert Joe Kassabian discusses Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's sinister cop, revealing his sex crimes, ethnic cleansing, and nuclear pursuits. The podcast explores power dynamics, ruthless acts, targeting children in revolutions, corruption, and Beria's manipulative rise to power in Stalin's regime.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 14min

Part One: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

Joe Kassabian dives into Lavrentiy Beria's dark past as Stalin's head of secret police, discussing his sex crimes, ethnic cleansing, and nuclear ambitions. They explore Beria's rise to power through ruthless tactics, manipulation, and disturbing predatory behavior towards underage girls. The discussion delves into the shadowy world of Soviet politics and the challenges of researching historical figures like Beria.
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Apr 6, 2024 • 2h 33min

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Exploring the origins of April Fool's Day and the Syrian New Year, the significance of April 1st, solidarity among nurses for Palestine, controversies surrounding the Kinsey Institute, legal battles and immigration enforcement in Texas, criminalizing homelessness, and emphasizing individual action to address social issues.
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Apr 4, 2024 • 1h 31min

Part Two: How Conservatism Won

Exploration of rightward societal shifts and neoliberalism's influence. Financial gains of conservatism and Reagan's anti-Berkeley tactics. Humorous cat-FBI takeover and political commentary. Reagan's battles against student activism, budget cuts, and police brutality impact. Rise of conservative economic policies and unethical asbestos practices. Evolution of conservative think tanks shaping policy and threats against establishments.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 25min

Part One: How Conservatism Won

David Bell discusses the funding of right wing think tanks and the shift in American culture. Topics include the evolution of political labels, the influence of think tanks on policy decisions, the flawed strategy of the Rand Corporation in the Vietnam War, and the marketing of trickle-down economics.
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Mar 30, 2024 • 3h 4min

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Exploring finance tools in the prison industrial complex, financial bezels of scams, prison uprisings, AI disinformation, conflict in Rakhine State, ethnic resistance struggles, worker self-management post-colonial economies, Houthi resistance in naval warfare, irregular conflict tactics in Ukraine and Myanmar, covert anti-ship sabotage in Miyama, and playful naval warfare engagement.
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Mar 28, 2024 • 1h 7min

Part Two: The Real Bastard Was Health Insurance Companies All Along

Delve into the deceptive practices of healthcare fraud and the dark side of fitness services, as a man poses as a doctor to defraud insurance companies. Unraveling an intricate fraudulent scheme, this episode sheds light on the challenges in holding insurers and healthcare providers accountable, with a touch of gratitude and humor sprinkled throughout.
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Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 12min

Part One: The Fake Doctors Who Gave Everyone Alzheimer's

Dr. Kaveh Hoda shares hilarious fake doctor stories exposing the dark side of health insurance. Topics include deceptive fake doctors, medical fraud, unethical practices, and the controversy surrounding coconut oil's impact on Alzheimer's patients.
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Mar 23, 2024 • 2h 43min

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The podcast delves into protest tactics in Atlanta, house raids on activists, decline of third places in cities, dangers of stalkerware, tech-related issues, spyware activities, impact of media on crime rates, tough-on-crime policies, and non-state actors' use of advanced weaponry like surface-to-air missiles.

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