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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 215

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 215
    Jan 17 2026
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - AI Robot Slaves and other CES Miracles - Best and Worst (non AI) Products at CES - What’s Happening in Iran? - What Happened in 2025 with Andrew - Executive Disorder: Portland Shooting, the FED, Visa Pause & Turtle Island Liberation Front You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: What’s Happening in Iran? https://www.instagram.com/hengaw_english?igsh=MTZ3Z29qd3h6YzVlMA== https://www.instagram.com/ali.javanmardi?igsh=ODV2cGZzaXk2Z3dt https://www.instagram.com/soran.mansournia?igsh=OWFhNDdtMTRtNzl0 https://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeople?igsh=MTI3Y3kwZ3V0N3Zvag== What Happened in 2025 with Andrew https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/2025-set-be-second-or-third-warmest-year-record-continuing-exceptionally-high-warming-trend https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4522124/study-warns-brazilian-food-imports-increasingly-vulnerable-climate-change https://wmo.int/media/news/fao-and-wmo-report-highlights-extreme-heat-risks-agriculture https://apnews.com/article/monsoon-rains-nepal-floods-climate-change-india-ef8b703ab93bc310e397d896b032ce8f https://chimpreports.com/un-warns-as-somalia-drought-crisis-deepens-hunger/ https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-tracks-extreme-july-wildfire-activity-both-sides-atlantic https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/weather-tracker-hurricane-melissa-caribbean-jamaica-haiti-cuba https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-switch-gen-z-protests-spread-across-globe-2025-10-02 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scenting-victory-madagascar-youth-give-scant-thought-whats-next-2025-10-14 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/moroccos-youth-police-clash-fifth-night-protests-demanding-education-health-care-2025-10-01 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-military-ruler-randrianirina-sworn-president-reuters-witness-2025-10-17/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5w5nyd5xzo https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/young-anti-corruption-protesters-oust-nepal-pm-oli-2025-09-09/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/peru-youth-protesters-state-of-emergency-gen-z https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/gen-z-styled-protests-spread-mexico-fueled-by-mayors-murder-2025-11-16/ https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025/11/13/politica/marcha-de-la-generacion-z-estrategia-digital-pagada-no-es-genuina-sheinbaum https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trade-unions-india-stage-nationwide-protests-new-labor-127887286 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-ai-on-the-rise-what-will-be-the-environmental-impacts-of-data-centers-180987379/ https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/israel-and-palestine https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/power-struggle-sudan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/blood-spilled-sudan-el-fasher-space-rsf-uae-darfur https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/drc-un-report-raises-spectre-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-north https://cdn.sida.se/app/uploads/2020/08/15103021/Yemen-HCA-2025.pdf https://www.stimson.org/2025/too-little-too-late-china-steps-up-military-aid-to-myanmars-junta/ Executive Disorder: Portland Shooting, the FED, Visa Pause & Turtle Island Liberation Front https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdms/pr/madison-man-arrested-arson-beth-israel-and-goldringwoldenberg-institute-southern https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-synagogue-arson-jewish-south-0e489adc986bfaddd55662075bdb6443 https://www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Indictment-Stephen-Spencer-Pittman.pdf https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26378204-tilf-complaint-signed-redacted/ https://www.foxla.com/news/2-turtle-island-liberation-front-members-plead-not-guilty-new-years-eve-socal-bombing-plot https://www.syriahr.com/en/376284/ https://www.syriahr.com/en/376282/ https://www.syriahr.com/en/376266/ https://x.com/deborahlipstadt/status/2010387174651490769?s=20 https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-vollstrecken-us-politik-deutschland https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/dokumentenarchiv/Dokument/MMD17-5076.pdf https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-13/socal-protester-permanently-blinded-by-dhs-agent-family-says https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-calls-for-the-impeachment-senate-trial-of-judge-boasberg-during-judiciary-hearing/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.229.1.pdf https://georgetown.app.box.com/v/AO-CaseAssignments-061825 https://georgetown.app.box.com/v/AO-NDOs-120125 https://x.com/StateDept/status/2011478657680757214?s=20 https://x.com/StateDept/status/2010740549469557010?s=20 https://www.wired.com/story/...
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    3 hrs and 27 mins
  • Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition

    Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
    Jan 15 2026

    Robert and Sophie continue to answer listener questions.

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    34 mins
  • Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition

    Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
    Jan 13 2026

    Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.

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    28 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 214

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 214
    Jan 10 2026

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

    - 2025 Q&A

    - 2026 Predictions

    - Trump Kidnaps Venezuelan President Maduro

    - Inside Our AI Future: Report from CES

    - Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update

    You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!

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    Sources/Links:

    Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115850817778602689

    https://t.me/s/Operasyon1

    https://x.com/war_noir/status/2008927274326761631?s=20

    https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg

    https://hengaw.net/

    Https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-response-israel-gaza-war

    https://files.constantcontact.com/7fef1c1f901/78a97f42-d0ad-4077-94b0-1e3300697e20.pdf?rdr=true

    https://www.defendrojava.org/news/ecr-statement-on-the-situation-in-aleppo

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/what-bombing-means-for-freedom-in-286094596/

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/trump-kidnaps-venezuelan-president-maduro-315837818/

    https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-franklin-park-marimar-martinez-operation-midway-blitz/

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/us/marimar-martinez-shooting-case-what-we-know

    https://mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation

    https://pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-sent-to-minneapolis-area-to-carry-out-largest-immigration-operation-ever-ice-says

    https://www.defendrojava.org/news/call-in-campaign-urge-congress-to-take-action-in-support-of-syrian-kurds

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    3 hrs and 28 mins
  • CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

    CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
    Jan 8 2026

    Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • CZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

    CZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
    Jan 6 2026
    Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry. (2 part series) https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-tobacco-in-america/https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/james-buchananduke-father-of-the-modern-cigarette-by-william-kremer/comment-page-1/ https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/tobacco.htmlhttps://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/duke-doc.htmlhttps://sites.middlebury.edu/smokingkills/forms-of-tobacco-advertisement/ https://csts.ua.edu/files/2016/09/A-History-of-Tobacco-Tradinghttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402187/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/?report=classic#bib3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40469740https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470496/?report=classichttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cigarette/JX6mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcoverhttp://www.cigarettecentury.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • CZM Rewind: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult & The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)

    CZM Rewind: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult & The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)
    Jan 1 2026
    Part Three: Robert tells David about Ziz's glorious plan to take to the sea and sever the right and left brains of her followers in order to make them psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder. Part Four: Robert concludes the story of the Zizians with a spree of horrific violent crimes and deaths, culminating in a shoot out with the Border Patrol in Vermont of all places. Sources: https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazardhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/Wayback MachineThe ZiziansSpectral SightTrue Hero ContractSchelling Orders – SinceriouslyGlossary – Sinceriously https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidonhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRghttps://zizians.info/according to The Boston GlobeInside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The IndependentSilicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 DeathsThe Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIREDGood Group and Pasek’s Doom – SinceriouslyGlossary – SinceriouslyMana – SinceriouslyEffective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - BloombergThe Zizian Facts - Google DocsSeveral free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewerThis guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | VoxInadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get StuckEliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - BloombergSquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a ChorePLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not...Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – SinceriouslyIntersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – SinceriouslyInfohazardous Glossary – SinceriouslySquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google DriveThe Matrix is a System – SinceriouslyA community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | MediumIntersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – SinceriouslyA community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | MediumPLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse)Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shootingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    2 hrs and 26 mins
  • CZM Rewind: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult & The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

    CZM Rewind: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult & The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader
    Dec 30 2025
    Part One: Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers. Part Two: Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic. Sources: https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazardhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/Wayback MachineThe ZiziansSpectral SightTrue Hero ContractSchelling Orders – SinceriouslyGlossary – Sinceriously https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidonhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRghttps://zizians.info/according to The Boston GlobeInside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The IndependentSilicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 DeathsThe Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIREDGood Group and Pasek’s Doom – SinceriouslyGlossary – SinceriouslyMana – SinceriouslyEffective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - BloombergThe Zizian Facts - Google DocsSeveral free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewerThis guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | VoxInadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get StuckEliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - BloombergSquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a ChorePLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not...Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – SinceriouslyIntersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – SinceriouslyInfohazardous Glossary – SinceriouslySquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google DriveThe Matrix is a System – SinceriouslyA community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | MediumIntersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – SinceriouslyA community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | MediumPLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse)Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shootingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    2 hrs and 30 mins