Originally aired August 2020

Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss the U.S. Border Patrol.

SOURCES:

1. https://timeline.com/harlon-carter-nra-murder-2f8227f2434f 
2. https://theintercept.com/2019/01/12/border-patrol-history/ 
3. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-civil-rights-project-harrington-retire/ 
4. https://www.amazon.com/Migra-History-Border-American-Crossroads/dp/0520266412
5. https://www.salon.com/2012/07/20/cruelty_on_the_border/ 
6. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/border-patrol-the-green-monster-112220
7. https://www.propublica.org/article/a-group-of-agents-rose-through-the-ranks-to-lead-the-border-patrol-theyre-leaving-it-in-crisis 
8. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/us/border-patrol-culture.html
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=mFQor2oScm0C&pg=PA29&dq=kicking+a+Mexican+male+who+was+handcuffed+and+lying+facedown+on+the+ground&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinlJqK0r3fAhUSnFkKHdzJDD4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=kicking%20a%20Mexican%20male%20who%20was%20handcuffed%20and%20lying%20facedown%20on%20the%20ground&f=false 

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• Reportback from the West Bank
• The LA Anti-ICE Protests
• Migrant Detention in Libya
• On The Ground In LA
• Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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Sources/Links:

The LA Anti-ICE Protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/paramount-california-home-depot-protest-rcna211650

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kv1lgdpkjo

Migrant Detention in Libya

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61570/libyas-coast-guard-has-intercepted-and-returned-nearly-21000-migrants-in-2024

https://apnews.com/article/italy-libya-ossama-almasri-icc-arrest-hague-305b5eed193ef7774e6591d4f0a256fc 



European Commission Financial Transparency System
Andrea Beck, 2024

Italian and EU Funding of the Libyan Coast Guard: How Italian External Border Immigration Policies Have Created Crimes Against Humanity, Public Ignorance, and Legal Accountability Issues

Ronald Bruce. Libya: From Colony to Revolution

Ship of Humanity: Witness to Rescue in the Mediterranean by Judith Sunderland

Capitivity, Migration and Power in Libya. Nadia Al-Dayel, Aaron Anfinson & Graeme Anfinson 2021.

Tilley: War Making and State Making as organized crime

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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Robert tells Jack about the 'rescue' of Eliza Fraser and how her lies about what happened on K'gari Island helped to fuel decades of colonial war and genocide.

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Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to tell the story about Eliza Fraser, who survived being shipwrecked thanks to the indigenous people of an island her lies helped destroy.

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

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

2. Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1

3. Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
4. Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill

5. 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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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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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)

Sources:

1. George Church, Colossal W*nker – For Better Science
2. Can Gene Therapy Slow Ageing in Dogs? - Gowing Life
3. Never-ageing Anti-aging to cure COVID-19 – For Better Science
4. The original sins of Leonard Guarente – For Better Science
5. Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA - The New York Times
6. Biologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffreyticl Epstein
7. Genetics Company Wants To Bring Iconic Tasmanian Tiger Back From Extinction - Newsweek
8. Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ | Extinct wildlife | The Guardian
9. Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love
10. George Church Explains How DNA Will Be Construction Material of the Future - DER SPIEGEL
11. Geneticist George Church gets funding for lab-grown woolly mammoths
12. Wooly Mammoth De-extinction Scientist Reveals Plan To Create 'Arctic Elephant' - Newsweek
13. Bringing back dinosaurs or making new ones? – DW – 06/10/2015
14. ‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’ — Harvard Gazette
15. CRISPR gene editing on human embryos may be dangerous
16. Here are some actual facts about George Church’s DNA dating company | MIT Technology Review
17. Scientist on the Loose: George Church Strays Into Eugenics—Again | Center for Genetics and Society
18. So...What do we think of Colossal Biosciences? : r/pleistocene
19. The "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth, a "Colossal" hoax? - Genomic chronicles | Medicine/Science
20. Hiltzik: New frontiers in pseudoscientific baloney - Los Angeles Times
21. Colossal Liar Wolves – For Better Science
22. Meet The Disruptors: How Ben Lamm & Hypergiant Are Shaking Up the Space and AI Industries | by Jason Hartman | Authority Magazine | Medium
23. Millionaire Ben Lamm Warns Against Entrepreneurship - Great Entrepreneurs
24. The Serial Entrepreneur Turned Billionaire: Ben Lamm’s Tech and Science Revolution | Where Business News Meets Thought Leadership
25. How 39-year-old Ben Lamm has started five companies
26. Meet Ben Lamm: The World's First De-extinction Billionaire - Forbes India
27. Oral history interview with George M. Church - Science History Institute Digital Collections
28. Dr. George Church, Founding Father of Genomics | News | W.I.
29. The Church Of George Church
30. The World Has a Data Storage Problem. Is DNA the Answer? - proto.life
31. DNA: The Future of Data Storage?. DNA, with its amazing storage… | by Nithil Krishnaraj | TechTalkers | Medium

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1. 16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

2. Rendition By Private Jet

3. What's Happening in Immigration Court

4. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

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Sources/Links:

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

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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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