Part Two: How the British Empire and U.S. Department of Defense Murdered an Island Paradise

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Robert killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Also he concludes the story of the murder of the Chagos Islands by the U.S. and the ailing British Empire. With bonus Dog Genocide!

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Sources:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and

https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535

Vine, David. Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (p. 18). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/

https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos

https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003

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0:00.0	Who did it? I did it. I did it. Oh you did it. I also did it. I have also
0:10.3	pressed the buttons that I have to start to start my job in the
0:14.1	podcast which you're listening to right now the podcast that I do for a job. You
0:20.0	know who else does podcasts for a job?
0:23.0	This is why people ask you to do the atonal shrieking
0:25.1	because what was that?
0:26.0	Ah!
0:27.4	How's that Sophie?
0:28.4	You happy now?
0:29.2	Beautiful.
0:30.2	You get enough?
0:30.8	And you're thrilled.
0:31.6	Welcome to the program. What up? How's it going? It's going.
0:36.5	It's going. Give us one shriek, Andrew, just one time. That was it. That was tonal. That was a tonal shriek. That was tonal.
0:46.0	That was tonal. There was not a tonal.
0:49.0	Well, the sub-bred it's going to be livid.
0:52.0	People are going to be livid.
0:53.0	People are going to be lighting you up, Andrew.
0:55.0	Get the music theory people on here.
0:58.0	I want to hear what they have to say.
1:00.0	Yeah, somebody make an edm track from all of our, all of my various atonal openings.
1:05.1	But also, oh, I'm odd.
	...

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