Contextual Insurgent Project

Contextual Insurgent Project

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Contextual Insurgent Project episodes

  • Daily Dispatch #25: Buckbreaking Black Rifle Coffee
    With return of guest Techbro Tito: less a hot take or react but lessons to learn from Black Rifle Coffee and analysis of how the left uses a mixture of carrot and stick approaches that most casual observers never see. This leads to outcomes and choices the political right can never make sense of. We peel back some layers.
    53 min
  • Daily Dispatch #24: South Africa approaches Failed State status; A Harbinger for America?
    Tune in for analysis and lessons learned from the South African riots. What happens when a multiethnic society implements racial grievance politics? How can communities protect themselves? Are there parallels with last year’s Floyd riots, in organization and objectives?
    Links and topics covered in the podcast:
    Twitter Thread from SA local:
    https://twitter.com/jonathan_witt/status/1414885049095401480?s=21
    NYPost piece on Kendi and Grievance politics from Anti-apartheid activist Rian Malan:
    https://nypost.com/2021/07/19/how-equity-ideology-plunged-south-africa-into-inequality-and-chaos/
    Oped on Seven Key Takeaways:
    https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/zuma-riots-seven-key-takeaways
    SA article from Police Minister complaining about parallel structures/dual power:
    https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/cele-urges-communities-not-to-take-matters-into-their-own-hands-as-looting-continues/
    Explanation of dual power:
    https://dsa-lsc.org/2018/12/31/dual-power-a-strategy-to-build-socialism-in-our-time/
    Cartelification/gang rule:
    https://www.nber.org/papers/w28458
    Previous podcast about Bernie Sanders bashing open borders, covering the new left/old left divide:
    https://anchor.fm/erin-sith/episodes/Daily-Dispatch-4-Bernie-Bashes-Open-Borders-epcog7
    Grant Park analysis talking the protest/riot/direct action format:
    https://contextualinsurgent.substack.com/p/case-study-grant-park-assault
    1 hr 7 min
  • Daily Dispatch #23 | LGBT Electric Boogaloo: Wi Spa/SF Chorus Conversion Song/Dildo Monkey constume
    Breaking down recent LGBT and LGBT-adjacent controversy in the news, contextual analysis, lessons learned, and suggested responses.
    Topics discussed:
    Be Ready! Issue with two relevant articles from me:
    https://www.osgnewsstand.com/product/be-ready-guns-2021
    Jeremy Lee Quinn interview:
    https://youtu.be/j6rNqgLUEKA
    Ryan Holiday book on PR/media manipulation tactics:
    https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator/dp/1591846285/ref=nodl_
    Wi Spa trans drama:
    https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/wi-spa-video/
    San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus accountant blames song drama on planned psyop:
    https://www.ebar.com/news/news//306871
    Library dildo monkey costume in Muslim neighborhood:
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/13/the-rainbow-dildo-butt-monkey-is-no-laughing-matter/
    50 min
  • Daily Dispatch #20: Coolness and the Crypto Crash, Israel facing a Decision Dilemma?
    ETA: re-recorded intro for rerelease, originally uploaded 5/20/2021. Crypto currency and the incentive attack:
    https://joekelly100.medium.com/how-to-kill-bitcoin-part-1-is-bitcoin-unstoppable-code-7a1b366f65ee
    https://medium.com/@joekelly100/how-to-kill-bitcoin-part-2-no-can-spend-66e59385a4a5
    The Palestinians are hardly “nonviolent” but the basic principle of placing Israel in a position where its overwhelming dominance is a strategic weakness in the narrative domain of this conflict is still relevant:
    https://www.nonviolence.wri-irg.org/en/node/40524
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/us/politics/democrats-israel-palestinians.html
    48 min
  • Daily Dispatch #19: Hypocrisy and Power
    In this episode Erin discusses the recent confrontations in Portland OR and Plano TX between armed marchers and motorists, and how they give us clues about the real nature of power. https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/recent-video-of-antifa-assaulting-drivers-provides-key-lessons-for-law-enforcement-legislators/
    49 min

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Notorious for her undercover research and street activism, Erin Smith uses her hard-won experience to deliver timely and insightful analysis of the current political upheaval and civil unrest.