[#250] HOW THE HIPPIES OCCULTED FYSIKS, Part 1: Jack Sarfatti, the FFG, & the Cold War feat. Jay

Dimitri, Khalid, and Jay the Neuroscientist (@the_hague_icc) continue their dive into the origins of the Fundamental Fysiks Group and Jack Sarfatti’s long strange trip, including: Sarfatti’s uncle and grandfather, the gifted children programs, Courtney Love’s father Hank Harrison attending a West Coast version, Philip K. Dick and VALIS, Jeffrey Kripal’s “Esalen and the Religion of No Religion”, Joseph Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, helicopter inventor Arthur Young’s Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, Werner Erhard, 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 returning guest Jay the Neuroscientist (@the_hague_icc) for a spiritual sequel to SJ’s Copemorehagen Deception episode (SJ 95), this time focusing on renegade hippie physicist Jack Sarfatti and far-out physics research in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s-80s. Topics include: David Keiser’s book “How the Hippies Saved Physics”, the early ‘70s recession in government funding for physics research, Sarfatti and his repressed God Phone Call, Uri Geller coming to SRI, Bell’s Theorem, fear of the “psy gap”, covert CIA funding conduits, how all of this crunchy North Beach marginalia is merging with UFO and AI God discourse in the 2020s, 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 unpacks one of the most consequential and murky events in the history of the Cold War: the 1948 split between Tito’s Yugoslavia and Stalin’s USSR. Topics include: Tito “giddy with success”, tactical disagreements over Yugoslav activites in Albania and the Greek Civil War, the proposed “Balkan Federation” with Bulgaria, the establishment of the Cominform, the blowup in early 1948 over Yugoslav army deployments to Albania, escalating ideological charges from the Soviet Central Committee, Tito’s fateful refusal to accept Stalin’s criticism, the death of General Arso Jovanović on the Yugoslav-Romanian border, escalating charges of treason, spying, and murder from other eastern bloc countries, and an extended oral history of the Goli Otok concentration camp as told by one of its survivors, the pro-Soviet “ibeovci” Yugoslav Communist Vlado Dapčević. For access to new episodes of DEMON FORCES and the full Subliminal Jihad catalog, subscribe to the Demon Forces Tier at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid continue exploring the strange apartheid-loving life of Elon Musk’s grandfather and whether any faint echoes of Technocracy, Inc. might be found in today’s PayPal Mafia “techno-optimist” AI slop dystopia. 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 investigate Technocracy, Inc., a mostly-forgotten group from the 1930s, its plans for an automated North American “technate” controlled by gray suit-clad engineers, and the dracular life of Technocracy’s leader in Canada, the fascist chiropractor (and Elon Musk’s maternal grandfather) Joshua Haldeman. 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.

Dimitri and Khalid unpack the life and times of revolutionary imam Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, how his death in 1936 sparked the second Arab Revolt, and why he remains a symbol of Palestinian martyrdom/Arab national liberation up to the present day. 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 the deadly climax of the Molly Maguire phenomenon in 1870s Pennsylvania coal country, including: Pinkerton spy James McParlan’s exposure and narrow escape from Schuylkill County, the spectacular(ly corrupt) murder trials from 1876-78 that captivated the nation, Reading Railroad President Franklin B. Gowen’s mesmerizing star turn as lead prosecutor in the courtroom, his four hour Aaron Sorkin monologue about the perfidious Irish conspiracy threatening the very foundations of our (Protestant Capitalist) Republic, squealing witnesses and Pennsylvania Dutch jurors, McParlan/McKenna on the witness stand, Gowen’s relentless drive to convict Hibernian leader “Black Jack” Kehoe of a Civil War murder he didn’t commit, Black Thursday and the Day of the Rope, executing two Mollies just after Governor Hartranft grants a reprieve, the Great Railroad Strikes of 1877, two descendants of convicted Mollies becoming militant IRA-supporting Teamster leaders in the 20th century, Gowen’s HOTGAF arc going off the rails, the Reading’s slide into crushing debt and bankruptcy, getting forced out of the game by a rising JP Morgan, and Franklin Gowen grimly imitating the tactics of his Molly adversaries by shooting a mine boss - himself - in 1889.  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 dive into the heart of the Molly Maguire story in 1870s Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, including: the simultaneous rise of the first successful labor union for miners (Irish-Catholic John Siney's Workingmen's Benevolent Association) and the charismatic Irish-American (Protestant) industrialist wunderkind Franklin B. Gowen, Gowen's sinister HOTGAF plans for the Reading Railroad (crushing the independent owner-operators, bribing the State Senate, price-gouging everyone, implying the WBA is controlled by a murderous global Irish-Catholic cabal), the brutal Long Strike of 1875, bloody clashes between Irish workers and Nativist "vigilance committee" death squads, the two-year infiltration of Irish Pinkerton detective James McParlan into the innermost circles of the Molly Maguires, 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 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.