[#363] JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE: A Global History of Temperance and Prohibition

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… For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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... For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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. For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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… For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid unpack the influential and controversial American New Age text “A Course In Miracles” and its sinister MK-Ultra origins… For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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… For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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… For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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 For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid complete their deep dive into Alan A. Block's "All Is Clouded By Desire". Topics include: The Riggs Bank-Politico connection, Alton G. Keel Jr’s obscure Iran-Contra involvement, the Schultz v. Casey “battle royale” over weapons sales to Iran, George H.W. Bush’s curiously fraught relationship with Israel… The sus European Union Bank (“the world’s first internet bank”) and Soviet wunderkind Alexander Konanykhine, recruiting ex-dandy junkie Lord Mancroft, KGB defector Yuri Shvetz (who would later claim Trump was a KGB asset), the mysterious Karen von Gerke Thompson, the CIA “leaving Aldrich Ames in the catbird seat”, Konanykhine’s appearance on Amazon’s “Unicorn Hunters” game show in 2021, the 2009 spy novel “The Hunted” about Konanykhine’s life written by Alexander Haig’s son Brian, Konanykhine’s banned “Wiki Experts” editing service, Roman Abramovich, Runicom and Sibneft, the Serbian firm Genex… Russian crimelord Semion Mogilevich, YBM Magnex and the Toronto Stock Exchange, blind pools and blank checks, Bank of New York VP Prince Vladimir Galitzine, some background on the elite White Russian House of Golitsyn, Vladimir’s cousin Nicholas and his interesting right-wing Chicago silk topper friends, Rappaport’s philanthropic swan song in Israel, and more… Original air date: 10/16/24 For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid continue wading through the Caribbean shell companies and Swiss bank accounts of Bruce Rappaport in Alan Block’s “All Is Clouded By Desire”, specifically his network’s activities in and around the late Soviet Union/new Russian economy starting in the late 1980s. Topics include: The Iran-Contra “Brunei money” that Rappaport stole with the help of neocon superstars Elliot Abrams, Richard Secord, Oliver North, Albert Hakim, and Michael Ledeen, Lake Resources Inc., Rappaport’s “odd reputation” among lawyers in the late 80s and penchant for “deals” where he’d screw his partners, his involvement in a dispute over MINE Liberia and bauxite mining projects on the Guinea-Liberia border… The Bank of New York (now BNY-Mellon) and Rappaport’s Inter-Maritime Bank together at last, the LITCO-Bill Casey assist, Western Holdings Limited, BONY chairman J. Carter Bacot’s hostile takeover of Irving Trust in 1985 and their Micro-Ca$h Register securities processing software, Burt Kanter putting together the Deal… BONY and Rappaport using Irving Trust’s long-established correspondent accounts with eastern bloc banks to penetrate Warsaw Pact economies, establishing joint ventures in the Soviet Union, Rappaport meeting personally with Gorbachev in August 1990 about the Soviet cruise/shipping industries, the ill-fated Sudopromimpex, Soviet Inter-Ship Builders, and Global Sovcruise, speculating about why China survived its capitalist turn and the USSR didn’t… Burt Kanter & Co. marketing the MoneyFacts magazine in the USSR to facilitate capital flight, the rise of the spetsbank or “zero bank”, the function of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) in international money laundering, Rappaport’s “literary man” Matthew Stevenson, BCCI/Keating associate Alfred Hartman, Riggs National Bank, Valmet-Riggs and Menatep Bank, Mikhail Khodorkhovsky’s meteoric rise from Komsomol computer nerd to Russian mega-oligarch, WACL libertarian Christian Michel and the cult of Friedrich von Hayek in the New Russia, Alton G. Keel, and more… Original air date: 10/01/24 For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.