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Robert is joined again by Margaret Killjoy to continue our series on Lawrence of Arabia.
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Robert tells Margaret Killjoy the whole story of Lawrence of Arabia, a British imperialist, hopeless romantic and asexual icon who invented the concept of modern insurgent war. Through it all we ask: was he a bastard?
(4 Part Series)
https://www.cliohistory.org/thomas-lawrence/lawrence/youth
https://www.investigativeproject.org/4256/guest-column-the-final-death-of-lawrence-of-arabia
https://www.salon.com/2015/03/01/i%C2%A0realize_now_that_he_was_sexless/
https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/t-e-lawrence-art-war-twenty-first-century/
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2016/2/16/what-would-t-e-lawrence-do
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-lawrence-arabia-180951857/
https://www.tracesofevil.com/p/blog-page_24.html
https://www.firstworldwar.com/features/telawrence.htm
https://baklol.com/baks/Misc/Great-people-who-were-also-per-_1492/T--E--Lawrence-_18491
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html
https://stljewishlight.org/top-story/lawrence-of-arabia-or-lawrence-of-zion/
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/
https://israelforever.org/programs/balfourinitiative/Implementing_Balfour_Declaration/
https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Implementing-the-Balfour-Declaration
https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Desert-Fire-T-Lawrence-ebook/dp/B006072QSG
https://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/players/dahoum.html
Schneider, James. Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt (p. 52). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Sattin, Anthony. The Young T. E. Lawrence (pp. 34-35). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Trump's Constitutional Sheriffs
- Remember, Remember, the (Other) 5th of November
- An Election Episode feat. Robert
- Still Don't Panic: An Election Response
- Trump's Deportation Plans
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Sources:
Trump's Constitutional Sheriffs
https://politicalresearch.org/the-insurgence-sheriffs
Remember, Remember, the (Other) 5th of November
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/real-story-of-bonfire-night/
https://www.ajc.org/news/on-luther-and-his-lies
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/guy-fawkes-bonfire-night/index.html
https://deadline.com/2024/10/lilly-wachowski-anarchists-united-grants-1236161483/
https://www.autostraddle.com/lilly-wachowski-interview/
Trump's Deportation Plans
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/MIGRATION-DEPORTATIONS/akpeoeoerpr/
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/title-8-and-title-42-statistics-fy22
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-trump-would-crack-down-immigration-second-term-2023-11-14/
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation
https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g
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Robert and Noah conclude the story of Peter Thiel, who just might get the corporate god king he's dreamed about.
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Robert tells Noah how Peter Thiel went to war against Gawker and also completely whiffed on profiting from the 2008 financial crash. Bonus: how Palantir enabled a bunch of creepy corporate security types to stalk their girlfriends, each other.
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