Subliminal Jihad

Dimitri and Khalid explore the evolving nature of what is perhaps the ur-text of the "Superhero" in western pop culture: the nefarious English cryptid-turned-avenging silk topper vigilante known as Spring-Heeled Jack...

LA LISTENERS: Dimitri will be manning the decks, synthesizers, and video projector all night TONIGHT, FRIDAY OCTOBER 2ND, at Superchief Gallery in DTLA for the opening party of SPECTRE: A Parapolitical Art Show, exploring the spectre of anti-communism and the resistance to it...

Tickets are still available here: https://spectreartshow.eventbrite.com

Use code "THEYAREWATCHING666" for $5 off at checkout. Limited copies of DEMON FORCES VOL. 2 on cassette and COMMUNOID Issue 01 will be on sale, as well as some classic SJ merch. Don't miss it!

Dimitri and Khalid answer subscriber questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord...

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Dimitri and Khalid explore the often misunderstood, over-simplified, and polemicized history of alcohol prohibition in the US under the 18th Amendment from 1920 to 1934.

Questions considered: was the temperance movement an evangelical Protestant aberration in the heartland of the wet, as Richard Hofstadter declared in the 1960s? Was Prohibition pushed through by silk topper WASP capitalists who wanted to engineer the perfectly optimized American worker/consumer for the automobile age? Was the saloon a despicable ruling class trap to rob the working man of his wages and dignity, or the secret clubhouse of the heckin’ worker’s movement that had to be stamped out by the bosses? Was Prohibition a thinly veiled repression strategy against Catholic immigrants and African-Americans by Klan-adjacent church ladies, or the culmination of Progressive social movements deeply intertwined with slavery abolition, women’s suffrage, and anti-colonialist struggles (or a little bit of both)? And last but not least, did Prohibition “work” at all? The complexity of the answers may shock you…

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Dimitri and Khalid answer subscriber questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord server, including: anti-psychiatrist Scientology ally Thomas Szasz, more on the susness of Peter Levenda, the mysterious Gladio murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the German writer Novalis, the French intelligence-penned JFK conspiracy book "Farewell America", the Oxycontin epidemic as strategy of tension, and more...

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Dimitri and Khalid are joined by Brother Isaac (@coexistpod) for a deep dive into the most hidden playground of the 9/11 conspiratorial network: Southwest Florida.

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Dimitri and Khalid discuss Brian De Palma’s 1987 blockbuster “The Untouchables” and its deeply inaccurate representation of 1930s Chicago crime-fighting. From there, the boys explore the true vigilantes of the era: a shadowy organization of wealthy right-wing Chicago businessmen calling itself the “Secret Six”, who declared a total counterinsurgency war on Al Capone and bootleggers in the Windy City…

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Dimitri and Khalid unpack the influential and controversial American New Age text “A Course In Miracles” and its sinister MK-Ultra origins…

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Dimitri and Khalid investigate the AI-fueled online presence and apocalyptic political activism of a shadowy Theosophical doomsday c*lt originating from Ukraine known as AllatRa…

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Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth discord, including: western intelligence intrigues in Africa, how to critically research primary sources and whether knowledge is an op, the origins of HIV, the varying susness of Lex Fridman, Shostakovich, Jon Ronson, A Course In Miracles, and more…

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For the final two parts of CONTRA VIII, Dimitri and Khalid shift their focus to the origins of the Russian Mafiya in the 1980s and 1990s, as depicted in Robert I. Friedman’s 2000 book “Red Mafiya: How The Russian Mob Has Invaded America”. Topics include:

Friedman getting threatened by the “brainy don” Semion Mogilevich after his Village Voice exposé, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Monya Elson, the cattle prod wielding gangster Evsei Agron, and the long strange career of deeply sus Rabbi Ronald Greenwald…

Jacob Bogatin (and his “Crime Nerd” brother David), ex-IDF cocaine dealer to the stars Boris Goldberg and his gf Tonya Biggs (Bob Guccione’s daughter), Russian crimelord Marat Balagula and the Long Island gasoline bootlegging boom of the 1980s, Russian mob cutouts buying Getty Oil, NY Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo getting bootleg oil cash for their campaigns, ultra-sus double (triple?) agent Shabtai Kalmanovich and the Sierra Leone blood diamond trade, Efim Laskin smuggling weapons to the Red Brigades in Italy (GLADIO ALERT), and more.

Original air date: 11/11/2024

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