Subliminal Jihad

Dimitri and Khalid embark on a metajourney into a largely forgotten episode of Irish-American history: the rise and fall of an alleged secret society called the “Molly Maguires” in 1870s Pennsylvania coal country, whose violent activities struck fear into the hearts of Nativist mine bosses and Philadelphia railroad tycoons. But that’s only one side of an incredibly complicated story of industrial capitalism, early labor unions, megalomaniacal silk toppers, ethnic fear-mongering, media manipulation, private intelligence agencies, and the violence that baptized Modern America… For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid explore Lenni Brenner’s 1983 book “Zionism in the Age of the Dictators”, which tracks the ideological and economic connections between the Zionist movement and European fascism in the 1930s. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid commence their long-planned dive into America’s most frustratingly enigmatic boomer icon, Bob Dylan. Topics include: The calculated ambiguity of Dylan’s public, political, and artistic personae over the decades, getting discovered by Vanderbilt heir/Columbia Records starmaker John Hammond, Dylan’s slightly Discordian memoir “Chronicles Vol. 1”, the fabricated composite character “Ray Gooch” and his sister/cousin/wife “Chloe Kiel” who thinks Dracula rules the world, astroturfed Dimes Square vibes in Greenwich Village, Bob’s career-long obsession with the Devil, his curious admiration for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and more. Part one of two. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

After catching up on a whirlwind of recent insane news items, Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about: the Aum Shinrikyo terrorist doomsday cult in Japan, whether seed oil discourse was a psyop, the spiritual susness of the Evil Dead films, the MK-Ultra roots of modern internet blood cults, and why certain groups of Marxists/leftists are “straight-up anti-conspiracy people”. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid resume their dive into the deep history of the synthesizer and electronic music, this time covering the late 1960s-early 1970s explosion of the Moog and Buchla synths into popular consciousness. Topics include: More from Trevor Pinch’s “Analog Days”, sus acid test graduations, the faux-apocalyptic “Awareness Festival” held amid race riots at SF State, B-52 bombers turning into butterflies, the Diggers Commune and the sounds of space aliens, the Grateful Dead’s pivotal role in sound technology innovation, Moog’s coming out party at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, heckin’ Bernie Krause and the curious Scientologist swinger Paul Beaver selling Moogs in LA, UFO hunting around Mt. Shasta, George Harrison screwing over Bernie to make his shitty electronic album, the impact of Wendy Carlos’ seminal “Switched On Bach” album, the question of gender and the synthesizer, the labor anxieties triggered by “Switched On Bach” and the Moog, Suzanne Ciani’s long strange Buchla trip, synthesizing the sounds of corporate America throughout the 1970s, human-Buchla cathexis, the feminine approach to synthesis, and more. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid catch up on recent upheavals in Syria before diving into various dynamics of the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Jerusalem. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid are joined by researcher Reid for a fascinating and bizarre deep dive into Biosphere 2, the ill-fated eco-utopian experiment/media spectacle that briefly captivated the world in the early 1990s. Topics include: Serious cult erasure in Netflix’s 2021 documentary “Spaceship Earth”, Biosphere 2’s convergence of theater, science, and the sacred, “the naturalist trance”, the early life of Theater of All Possibilities leader John Allen, working for the Battelle Institute and David Lillianthal’s Development and Resources Corporation in Liberia and Iran, running off on a Yugoslav freighter, crossing paths with Boston silk topper Marie Harding in India and South Vietnam, founding a radical theater troupe in SF’s Summer of Love, experiments in management science, attack therapy at Synergia Ranch, recruiting Texas oil dynasty failson Ed Bass, the carefully-cloaked Gurdjieffian influence, and more… Part one of two.

Dimitri, Khalid, and Peter from Events in Ukraine (https://eventsinukraine.substack.com) venture into even deeper and darker corners of the Ukraine conflict, including: Romanian TikTok presidential candidate Calin Georgescu’s “alternative theories on water”, the liberal Ukrainian obsession with being like Poland, the role of the first wave eastern bloc EU countries as a neoliberal showcase, Paul Manafort and the “black ledgers” revealed by Leshchenko, using Russiagate to program American liberals to despise Putler/Russia for giving them Drumpf, the dark phenomenon of Nazi scammer call centers across Ukraine, PTKing Russians into becoming their mind-controlled scam slaves, the tyranny of “Anonymous Patriots” stochastically terrorizing the population, the irony of George Soros starting and ending his Open Society activist career aligning with anticommunist Nazi sickos, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, Anduril, and Ukraine as a testing ground for the new military-industrial-tech complex, possible endgames for the war, and more. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid are joined by Peter, author of the excellent Events in Ukraine Substack (https://eventsinukraine.substack.com), for a wide-ranging conversation about the cultural, military, economic, and deep political dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine war as it faces its three-year anniversary. Topics include: Escaping Kiev after the war started, why bomb shelters don’t matter, the epidemic of “State Department Leftoids”, how the post-Maidan government drove Ukraine’s military-industrial complex into the dirt, Bill 3739 and the role of the Sorosites, what “liberalism” represents in post-Soviet countries (self-hating Europhilia), Aaron Moulton’s work on Soros in Eastern Europe, 133 Western NGOs exempt from military service, the susness of pro-western “anti-corruption” activists, the Soros International Renaissance Foundation, Sternenko’s “LGBT Nazi” gangs vs. the unwoke Nazis, gripes from the Tales of the Fourth Reich Telegram channel run by a former ANTIFA-turned-PROFA soldier, and why the Azovites have become more open to ending the war than “jihadist” Zelensky’s clique… Business shakedowns via the “Trading With The Enemy Act”, the overarching role of media psyops in Ukrainian war strategy, organizational chaos in the army, pre-war ketamine hipsters DJing on a swastika laptop, why Azov is where the cool kids go, ubiquitous meth/LSD Telegram channels, Nazi units smoking DMT in Donbass, international techno superstar DJ Nastia and her NED-trained ex-husband, the coked up Zelensky advisor/pardigmatic Sorosite Serhiy Leshchenko, Nastia’s sus campaign to get Russian techno figurehead Nina Kraviz blacklisted from EU venues and festivals in 2022, and why everyone in late 2024 dreams of leaving Ukraine. Part one of two. Read “Monday Meth Comedown”: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/monday-meth-comedown Subscribe to Peter’s Events in Ukraine Substack here: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid venture deeper into the weeds of British Mandatory Palestine, including: nefarious British lawfare, land grabs, and an overview of Amin al-Husseini, aka DA GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM, tracing his controversial journey from British-installed compromiser in 1921 to exiled Nazi PR puppet in World War Two. For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.