Category Archives: Police State

Robert Stark interviews Caleb Maupin about Kamala Harris

Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Caleb Maupin, capitalism, censorship, Culture, Donald Trump, Economics, Globalization, Hillary Clinton, History, Huey Long, Imperialism, income inequality, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Liberalism, Marxism, Morality, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Personality Types, Philosophy, Police, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, Tulsi Gabbard, War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst, Caleb Maupin about his new book Kamala Harris & The Future of America: An Essay in Three Parts. Check out Caleb’s website, other books, Youtube, and Twitter.

Topics:

Caleb’s involvement with Occupy Wall Street, the anti-war movement, and socialist politics
Kamala Harris’ record as a prosecutor during the tough on crime era and debate with Tulsi Gabbard
Kamala Harris’ family upbringing and evolution of her personality and moral framework
Kamala Harris as the culmination of a number of trends, including polarization and the distortion of leftwing politics
The significant role that identity politics plays for Kamala Harris
They Named Her Kamala: Clinton Staff, Donors Anoint 2020 Candidate
How Kamala Harris could play a similar role that Hillary Clinton played in the Obama administration, pushing a muscular liberal interventionism
Concerns about civil liberty abuses and tech totalitarianism under a Biden/Harris administration
Bezos v. Trump: 3 Major Divisions in the US Ruling Class
The degree to which Trump is an impediment to the “Open International System”
The ideological conformity, and destructive and anti-populist philosophy of the New Left

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Round Table discussion on the long term ramifications of the Pandemic

2020 Riots, Anatoly Karlin, Asia, Black Lives Matter, Brazil, California, China, Cities, Class, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, Culture, Dain Fitzgerald, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, England, Hong Kong, Immigration, India, Joe Biden, Peter Turchin, Police, Police Brutality, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Rachel Haywire, Russia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warriors, Suburbia, Urbanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark is joined with Moscow based Unz Review columnist Anatoly Karlin and Bay Area based blogger Dain Fitzgerald who has written for Spliced Today, Rachel Haywire’s Trigger Warning, and . Follow Anatoly and Dain on Twitter.

Topics:

Going back to Anatoly’s initial predictions on the pandemic from February
The short term modest economic recovery due to the stimulus but not sustainable long term
How the pandemic has been neglected due to the rallies
Spike after re-opening and limits of quarantine capital
Asia’s hard lockdown vs the West’s potential epidemic yo-yo of cyclical lock downs
Peter Turchin published a paper in 2010 predicting political, economic and social instability would peak in 2020
Protests overseas as American Cultural Imperialism
The culmination of the Great Awokening
How conservatives are naive to think that wokeness only thrives under prosperity
Whether woke capital really is a deliberate plan to subvert class consciousness
How de-funding police might be purely symbolic but, if true, we’ll see more private security and gated communities
The oncoming urban exodus due to remote work, the pandemic, economics, and rising crimes rates
Fertility and Immigration trends
UK may grant refugee status to residents of Hong Kong
Breaking of the Chimerica arangement?
Biden’s advantage as a perceived return to normalcy
Speculating which nations will fare the best economically and containing the pandemic

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Robert Stark talks to Ryan England about Civil Unrest, Class, and Identity Politics

2020 Riots, Alternative Left, Baby Boomers, Black Lives Matter, Canada, capitalism, Class, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, Culture, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, income inequality, Joe Biden, Matt Pegan, Matthew Pegas, Millennials, Oligarchy, Police, Police Brutality, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Ryan Englund, Social Justice Warriors, Socialism, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Matt Pegan discuss the role of economic class and identity politics in regards to the recent protests and civil unrest and whether we can find a nuanced middle ground between polarized extremes. Ryan is based in Calgary, Canada and runs the blog Alternative Left. Follow the Alternative Left on Facebook.

Topics:

Ryan’s Alternative Left project as an alternative to the regressive left
The dogmatic religious like fervor of the woke left vs. the traditional materialist left
Meet the anti-woke left
Ryan’s observations from the mostly peaceful protest in Calgary, Canada
Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race with the highest rates among low income men
Practical rather than polarized solutions to police brutality and militarization
Skepticism about whether the power structure will actually downsize the police state
The increased use of private security and potential of a privatized police state
Motives behind exploitative economic elites’ support for race based identity politics
Cornel West: Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
How the racial wealth gap is more extreme among the older generation as opposed to the youth
The civil war inside The New York Times
The ramifications of the protests on the presidential election

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Robert Stark and Matt Pegan discuss the Nationwide Civil Unrest

2020 Riots, American Culture, Anarcho Tyranny, Andrew Yang, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, Beverly Hills, Black Lives Matter, California, Cities, Class, Conservatives, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, income inequality, Leftism, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Matt Pegan, Matthew Pegas, Media, Neoliberalism, New York, Oligarchy, Police, Police Brutality, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, social capital, Social Justice Warriors, Suburbia, Urbanism, Walnut Creek CA, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Matt Pegan discuss the civil unrest that has occurred over the past week and the social and political ramifications. Note the show was recorded on June 3rd. Follow Matt on Twitter.

Topics:

The economic crisis due to the pandemic
How economic despair combined with identity grievance culture created a perfect storm
How in crisis people reject civility and revert to their base instincts and polarized narratives
Virtue signaling from Woke Capital
The relationship between bourgeois liberalism and the far left(see Opinion poll based on income)
How the civil unrest is a shock to many but shows the long time social breakdown of our society
How this hits close to home for Matt as an LA resident
How, unlike in past riots, looting was in wealthier areas such as LA’s Westside and Midtown Manhattan
Unrest spreads to Bay Area suburbs
How the pandemic made it hard to jail looters
Narratives about law enforcement
Trump’s handling of the crisis, and how he’s in the worst possible situation
Comparisons with past media narratives when dealing with right wing extremism
How the worst of rioting has been quelled but we could see long term urban decay

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Robert Stark interviews Brandon Adamson about The Rats of Nationalism

aesthetics, Alternative Right, Andrew Yang, Art, Board Games, Brandon Adamson, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Film, Gender, Literature, Memes, Nationalism, Police State, Politics, Psychology, Sexuality, Social Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Brandon Adamson of Altleft.com about his new book The Rats of Nationalism. It’s available on Amazon.

Topics:

The board game Candy Land and how it relates to political dissidents
How Brandon has never been into conspiracy theories but became interested in this topic after first hand experience on social media
How most people’s conception of fed infiltrator is mistaken and incomplete
How the proliferation of certain memes, political figures and ideas is not entirely organic
Pinksheet Yang; de-radicalizing dissident rightest, giving them a path back into respectable society
Easily programmable people
How psyop motivations are often counter-intuitive(example of modern art)
The various film references in the book including The Secret of NIMH, which served as an inspiration for this book
The problems with anonymity
Why Brandon was never interested in activism
The symbolism of the color blue
The importance of being sincere and real

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Robert Stark interviews Marcus Ruiz Evans of Yes California

American Culture, Calexit, California, Cities, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Kamala Harris, Liberalism, Marcus Ruiz Evans, Mass Transit, Middle Class, Oligarchy, overdevelopment, Police State, Politics, Russia, Secessionism, Silicon Valley, Tulsi Gabbard, Urbanism, War, Wealth, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcus Ruiz Evans is President and Founder of Yes California, an initiative for California Secession. Check out Yes California on Twitter and Facebook.

Topics:

Robert and Marcus’ radio background on AM1680 and conspiracy theories about conservatives being behind Calexit
Marcus as one of the first to popularize California secession in his book California’s Next Century
The financial burden of the United States on California
California values
The impact of the election of Trump on Calexit and why he will win re-election
The Russian conspiracy theory about Calexit and anti-establishment candidate Tulsi Gabbard
Examples of California acting as an independent nation
The concern of California becoming a one party nation and the need for an alternative party such as the California National Party
Who moves to California? The wealthier and better educated, mostly
The housing crisis, need for infill growth rather than sprawl, and importance of investing in infrastructure
Immigration policy
The tech oligarchy and need for regulation
The legal precedent of secession and likelihood of America allowing it

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Robert Stark talks to Guillaume Durocher about the Yellow Vests & National Economics

Alain Soral, Anatoly Karlin, Banking, capitalism, Class, Communism, Crime, Cuba, Culture, demographics, Economics, Elections, Emmanuel Macron, energy, Europe, European Nationalism, France, Front National, Globalization, Guillaume Durocher, Hungary, Immigration, income inequality, Jean Mélenchon, Latin America, Leftism, Marine Le Pen, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Paris, Police, Police Brutality, Police State, Politics, Russia, Socialism, terrorism, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Wealth, Yellow Vests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Anatoly Karlin talk to Alt-French Unz Review blogger  about the Yellow Vest Protests, political situation in France, and National Economics.

Topics:

The gas tax as largely symbolic for overall populist discontent
Macron’s Neoliberal economic polices
Decentralized nature of the movement
The culture of protest in France
The role of the police(update: Police Deploy Rifles with Live Ammunition to Yellow Vest Protests)
The White Working Class demographic
Fusion of Left and Right Populism and support from both nationalist Le Pen and leftist Mélenchon supporters
How the outcome of the Yellow Vest protests will impact the next election
Why movements need a segment of the elite to succeed
Russian and American(ex. Steve Bannon) conspiracy theories
Orbánomics, or the Return of National Economics
National Economic policies such as state control of banks, national banks, and local production
The Economics of Globalism and High vs. Low Globalism
Left Wing French Social Nationalist Alain Soral
France Is Becoming More Violent

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Robert Stark talks to Ashley Messinger about Restructuring Education in Self Contained Cities

aesthetics, Architecture, arcology, Ashley Messinger, Aspergers Syndrome, automation, Basic Income, Brandon Adamson, Cities, City-State System, Class, College, conformity, Culture, demographics, Economics, education, England, Eugenics, Futurism, High School, Internet, Introversion, Personality Types, Police State, Psychology, Sexuality, Skyscrapers, social capital, Social Isolation, social status, social trust, technology, Urbanism, Utopia, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to ASHLEY MESSINGER about restructuring education to adapt to future social, economic, and urban trends. Ashley is based in the UK and writes for AltLeft.com. You can also find Ashley on Twitter.

Topics:

Ashley’s article Educational Formality and Its Abundance
How education is primarily about job-market signalling, hence the phenomenon of credential inflation
Education as a form of day care
How Geniuses tend to be self-taught
The problem of age segregation
Free-range parenting movement
Education as conditioning for wage slavery and the need for a leisure culture
Education alternatives such as virtual education and apprenticeships
The need for specialization in education and the economy
Ashley’s article The Harmless Psychopaths
Finding niches for different personality traits
The lack of social cohesion caused by our education system, internet culture, demographic change, and suburban sprawl
How self contained cities can address these social ills
Universities campuses as models for self contained cities
The U-Shaped Fertility Trend and Affordable Family Formation in a self contained city

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Robert Stark talks to Joshua Zeidner about Bernie Sanders’ anti-Corporate Welfare Bill & The Tech Oligarchy

Anti Trust Legislation, automation, Baby Boomers, Bernie Sanders, capitalism, censorship, Class, Conservatives, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Donald Trump, Economics, Immigration, income inequality, Joshua Zeidner, Law, Millennials, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Police State, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Socialism, technology, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topics:

Bernie Sanders bill targets Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s pay practices
How the bill would tax companies for state benefits that their workers receive
How state benefits for low wage workers are a form of corporate welfare
The role that corporate HR and temp agencies play in modeling their employment payment program on state benefits
The disturbing part about Amazon’s HQ2 competition
The emphasis on job creation rather than creating high quality jobs and living standards
The deregulation of labor rights in the Tech Industry
Joshua’s advice that it’s not worth it for young people to go into tech
Rep Yoder’s immigration bill and the Tech Industry’s lobbying for mass immigration 
Bernie Sanders’ flip flop and Trump accomplishing little on immigration enforcement
The monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook
Social media as a public utility
National Review Denounces “Internet Fairness Doctrine”
Social media censorship and manipulation of content
The Safe harbor (law) which makes social media immune from libel laws
Surveillance Valley — Yasha Levine
Why Did Walmart Leave Germany?

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Robert Stark talks to Joshua Zeidner about Social Nationalism & Israeli Internal Affairs

aesthetics, Alt Center, Alternative Right, Arabs, Architecture, Baby Boomers, Bauhaus, Bernie Sanders, Bibi Netanyahu, Brutalism, California, capitalism, Class, Conservatives, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Economics, Germany, History, Immigration, income inequality, Israel, Italian Futurism, Joshua Zeidner, Le Corbusier, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Matthew Pegas, Millennials, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Police State, Politics, Retro Futurism, Russia, Silicon Valley, Skyscrapers, Socialism, technology, Urbanism, War, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Matthew Pegas talk to Joshua Zeidner about Israeli Politics and Social Nationalism.

Topics:

Israel’s Social Nationalist origins
The book Perfidy by Ben Hecht about the Kastner trial
The rise of the far right in Israel
The corruption of Bibi Netanyahu and the Likud Party
Likud’s suppression of civil liberties and political dissidents
Israel’s shift to neoliberal economics
The influence of American elites on Israel’s political and economic affairs
The book Start-up Nation and Joshua’s experience working in Israel’s tech industry
How the state is responsible for more innovation in tech than the free market(ex. DARPA)
Joshua’s observations on Germany’s labor environment
Real Estate: investors buying up unoccupied apartments, NIMBYism, and renters rights
The need for an economic outlook based on socialism and the national good
The need for a fusion of the dissident left and right under the banner of social nationalism
The divide between capitalist boomers and socialist millennials in both Israel and the West
Bauhaus architecture, White City (Tel Aviv), Italian Futurism, Brutalism, and Le Corbusier’s Architecture and Politics
Why are Israel’s top models blonde and European looking?
Shlomo Sand

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