01:00 ‘We Will Not Be Frightened’: Young Israel Of Century City Synagogue Vandalized, https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/05/28/we-will-not-be-frightened-young-israel-of-century-city-synagogue-vandalized/
11:00 ‘Mail-in Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139307
19:00 Life After Globalization (Peter Zeihan), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kch4Z1GpNOQ
24:00 NYT: Efforts to Advance Racial Equity Baked In Throughout Biden’s Budget, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139726
29:00 The social conservative core of the Republican party
34:00 Why the lab leak theory matters, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/opinion/wuhan-lab-leak-theory-covid.html
39:10 Peter Zeihan says China will be a failed state in a decade, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yttug-a3sWI
40:00 Who will Dominate the Geopolitical System in this Decade?
45:00 China’s $18 Trillion Ticking Time Bomb Threatens ‘V-Shaped’ Boom, https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2021/05/25/chinas-18-trillion-ticking-time-bomb-threatens-v-shaped-boom/?sh=5b6ec53814af
48:00 Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain The World’s Sole Superpower, https://www.michaelbeckley.org/book-project
49:00 Michael Beckley essay on China vs USA, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00066
51:00 Why would America leave globalism?
53:30 China is not a Superpower | Professor Paul Dibb, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYgZkNWep0
1:04:45 China’s Economic and Demographic Problem, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P13r6teKIW4
1:19:45 The U.S.A. as a Rogue Superpower | Michael Beckley, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDMzqvEcBo
1:22:00 A Summer of China | George Friedman Interview 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCKRCtdAkNE
1:27:50 China will not attack Taiwan | George Friedman April 2021
1:49:00 Deep Rig, https://www.infowars.com/posts/new-film-deep-rig-proves-the-2020-election-was-stolen/
1:52:00 Patrick Byrne: pro-Trump millionaire pushing election conspiracy theories, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/29/patrick-byrne-trump-fundraiser-election-conspiracy-theories
2:02:00 Russian collapse
2:04:40 U.S. Alliances in the Western Pacific Archipelago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAco4W5kuUQ
2:12:00 Stained Steel And A Tricky Trade Truce, https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2021/05/18/stained-steel-and-a-tricky-trade-truce/?sh=2dc526d67709
2:14:00 Disunited Nations 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuwVaUntpNQ
2:15:00 Naftali Bennett Joins Forces with Yair Lapid to Form Unity Government
2:33:40 Peer-reviewed science papers
2:46:00 Mid-West vs Southern attitudes towards investment
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