Subliminal Jihad

Subliminal Jihad
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Jun 17, 2022 • 31min

[PREVIEW] #119a - MAKE HIM FAMOUS: A Kony 2012 Psyop Retrospective, Part I

Dimitri and Khalid ask themselves “Who are we to stop a humanitarian imperialist PSYOP?” and then realize “Who are we NOT to?”, resulting in a retrospective look at the (in)famous viral millennial activist documentary “KONY 2012”. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 51min

#118b - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 2

Dimitri and Khalid continue answering questions from the Discord Grotto on: the longevity of the neoliberal status quo, the susness of AOC and the Justice Democrats, why the bourgeoisie drop/allow hints of future catastrophes in mass media, Fabian socialism (briefly), and whether or not the New Deal really ended the Great Depression. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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Jun 10, 2022 • 2h 42min

#118a - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 1

Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about: sus things to do and see in LA and the San Francisco Bay Area, the 2016 Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony/mass ritual in Switzerland, John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, Secret Sun’s grand unified synchromystic conspiracy, and the chronology of the Joker as a (political) symbol. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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Jun 5, 2022 • 3h 47min

#117 - VIY FOR VENDETTA: Dracularity and Poshlost in the Only* Soviet Horror Film

Dimitri and Khalid return to the Subliminal Cinema to dissect the 1967 Soviet horror classic “Viy”, including: the murky etymology of Gogol’s eponymous “king of the gnomes”, satanic Cossacks, sleazy seminarians, getting spiritually molested by a witch, Gogol’s gift for portraying the poshlost of a poshlosty man, the shockingly ghoulish climax of the film, Khoma Brut getting dragged to Hell In A Bucket, some background on Nikolai Gogol’s life, becoming a liberal satirist superhero before doing trad autofiction and getting cancelled, Belinsky’s scorched earth takedown of Gogol’s politics, Stalin the seminarian, religious dynamics of Marxist-Leninist governments, the failure of edgelord atheism and Stalin’s soyface-inducing reconciliation with God during WW2, Aleksandr Ptushko aka “the Soviet Walt Disney”, the evolving Soviet framings of Gogol, and The Responsibility of the Artist to have perfect politics. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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Jun 3, 2022 • 16min

[PREVIEW] #116b - THE MOUSE BETRAYS: A Subliminal History of Disney, Part II

For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. Dimitri and Khalid continue their exploration into the darkest aspects of the Magic Kingdom, including: Disney’s cartoons-as-conceptual homunculus, the absence of explicit religion in Disney movies, worshipping the three-ring icon of Mickey’s head, using Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (virgin sacrifice) in Fantasia, Walt’s creation of Mickey as revenge for the theft of Oswald, the HOTGAF origins of the American film industry, Thomas Edison’s early Anglo-Saxon monopoly over cinema, sending goon squads after the Jewish nickelodeon producers on the Lower East Side and forcing them to flee to California, Hollywood films eclipsing Edison’s “esoteric, non-narrative” arthouse films, Edison weaponizing moral outrage to sabotage his (((rivals))), the original #MeToo era of early 1920s Hollywood, the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, the dawn of the Hays Code, Charlie Chaplin decrying “Presbyterian censorship”, the deep crypto-Nazi cult ethos of Disney, sus Freudian themes in Pinocchio, the Homo(nculus) Disneyus in the Metaverse, the Saudi Princess who tortured a servant at Disneyworld in the 90s, Disneyworld’s pedophile/peeping tom problems, ritualistic “sphincter viewing” abuse at Mickey’s Firehouse, promoting satanism and juggaloism with Hollywood Records, hiring convicted pedophile Victor Salva to make “Powder”, and blatantly ripping off Japanese manga “Kimba The White Lion” to make “The Lion King”.
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May 30, 2022 • 18min

[PREVIEW] #116a - THE MOUSE BETRAYS: A Subliminal History of Disney, Part I

For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. Dimitri and Khalid finally set their sights on Big Mouse and embark on a wide-ranging investigation of all things Disney, including: their monopolistic control over the collective American imagination, how the current conservative attacks on Disney ain’t nuttin’ new, Peter Schweizer’s 1999 takedown “The Mouse Betrayed: Greed, Corruption, and Children At Risk”, Marc Eliot’s much-maligned “Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince” from 1992, Henry Giroux's "The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence”, Disney-as-New Religious Movement, Walt Disney becoming the convenient WASP face of Hollywood to assuage the “Presbyterian censorship” of the Hays Code era, Disney as secularized manifestation of Old Line White Protestant cultural hegemony, Walt’s heavy flirtations with Nazism in the late 1930s, the anality of early Disney cartoons and sus Lacanian undertones, Walter Benjamin and Sergei Eisenstein’s critical support for Mickey Mouse, Walt’s abusive anti-Semitic dirtbag socialist evangelical Christian father, his ancestral ties to the Norman conquest of England, Walt discovering that his parents might not be his real parents, J. Edgar Hoover grooming Walt to be the perfect Lost Boy FBI informant, and the traumatic abduction of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
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May 26, 2022 • 1h 59min

[REDUX] #34 - WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO: The Grateful Dead Steal Your Face, Part II

These episodes were remixed for The Trip on CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg: ckuw.ca/programs/detail/the-trip In Part II of WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO, Dimitri and Khalid discuss the extent of Tim Leary's relationship with the CIA, stories about him getting MKed/lobotomized at Vacaville Prison in the 70s, Terence McKenna & Robert Hunter's letter correspondence about the "Klaxton Men" and Jabba The Hutt Jedi-Jinn they encountered on DMT, Bob Wier & Mickey Hart's membership in Bohemian Grove, and how the Dead served as cultural shock troops for the pernicious biopolitical neoliberalism that now dominates every aspect of US culture. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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May 25, 2022 • 2h 1min

[REDUX] #33 - WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO: The Grateful Dead As Mass Ritual, Part I

These episodes were remixed for The Trip on CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg: ckuw.ca/programs/detail/the-trip Dimitri and Khalid launch into a kaleidoscopic, meandering, improvisational deep dive on The Grateful Dead (née The Warlocks of Palo Alto), the band's extensive links to CIA/MK-Ultra LSD research at Stanford, Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, the deep folkloric origins of the "Grateful Dead" legend, Hank Harrison's anthropological framing of The Dead amidst San Francisco's wily bohemian roots, and begin to unpack the susness of the various counterculture figures/ruling class misfits hovering around the Deadhead scene. (Part 1 of 2.) For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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May 24, 2022 • 24min

[PREVIEW] #115b - L’ATTAQUE DU CLONAGE HUMAIN: The Raëlian Clonaid Mystery

For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. Dimitri and Khalid focus on Raël’s advocacy for human cloning, including: the 1997 establishment of Clonaid following Dolly the sheep, Raël’s 2001 testimony to Congress, Dr. Brigitte Boisselier’s 2002 announcement that a healthy cloned “Baby Eve” had been born, the media frenzy that ensued, getting exposed as a “hoax”, the West Virginia politician who gave Raël $300,000 to clone his dead son, possible overlaps with Epstein who was “working on human cloning” in Mexico back in 2002, the curious disappearance of all human cloning endeavors post-2007, the eclectic list of celebrities who have been given “Honorary Guide” awards by Raël, Raël warning about the CIA’s Abraham Project MK assassination program, and where human cloning stands in the age of CRISPR.
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May 21, 2022 • 25min

[PREVIEW] #115a - L’ÉPISODE QUI DIT LA VÉRITÉ: Inside Raël’s UFO Religion

For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. Dimitri and Khalid explore the French UFO Blue Beam cult of Raël (né Claude Vorilhon) from the 1970s to the present, including: race car magazine owner Claude’s encounter with an Elohim messenger in 1974 and declaring himself a prophet on French television, ethnographer Susan J. Palmer’s “Aliens Adored: Raël’s UFO Religion”, the Elohim’s curious use of a swastika inside a Star of David, similarities and contrasts with contemporaneous UFO cults, Raël’s hyper-materialist atheism and intense beef with the Catholic Church, his second book “Space Aliens Took Me To Their Planet”, Elohim cloning biological sex robots for Raël’s pleasure, organizing his following into a proper religion, advocating for “La Geniocratie” to establish a world government run by “geniuses”, sponsoring Clitoraid hospitals in Burkina Faso, beefing with fellow French UFO enthusiast Jacques Vallée, and the mysterious Teesdale Inheritance affair in 1988. Part 1 of 2.

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