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.

Dimitri and Khalid continue their dive into Alan A. Block’s “All Is Clouded By Desire”, including: A peek into the career of Rappaport business associate Major Edward Phillip Barry (head of X-2 Counterintelligence in Vienna), Project SYMPHONY, Captain Koenig, and the Bricha Jewish Migration network…Paul Helliwell and Burton Kanter’s interlocks with Rappaport and the sus Mercantile Bank, the star-studded roster of the Far East China OSS station during the war, and Castle Bank’s mysterious LSD kingpin Allan George Palmer…Rappaport’s operations in Antigua, Swiss-American Bank, IRA money laundering intrigues involving Boston crime boss/MK’d FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger, Israelis funneling guns to Colombian cartels via Antigua, future Charles Taylor associate Yair Klein training “anti-terrorist” cartel death squads in Colombia and Antigua…Iraqgate, Oman, and Bechtel’s Aqaba pipeline deal, Rappaport parlaying with Antony Blinken’s father-in-law Samuel Pisar, Rappaport and the CIA in Oman, Marc Rich, Abbas Gokal, and more. Original air date: 9/6/2024 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 are finally back with the eighth installment of SJ’s deep political meta-series CONTRA. We start off by checking in with the Big Boy star of CONTRA VII, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, including: the long march of the Big Boy meme accounts, unpacking the fuzzy allegations that the Pritzkers and Rockefellers have been “funding” pro-Palestine protests, and where the Pritzkers actually stand on Gaza in 2024. We then begin our dive into Alan A. Block’s “All Is Clouded By Desire” and its dracular protagonist, the Palestine-born “businessman” Bruce Rappaport, whose collaborations with the venerable Bank of New York resulted in the greatest heist of the 20th century: the wholesale looting of the post-Soviet economy by Russian gangsters, Western banks, and an intricate web of sus international intelligence assets in the early 1990s. [Originally aired August 17, 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 explore the maddeningly insane and sus career of Victor Marx, the Cajun Karate black belt/PTK Marine vet/Dominionist Pastor/“high risk humanitarian” operator who just shocked the political world by narrowly winning the Colorado GOP primary for Governor. 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 the implosion of Oystergruppenfuhrer Graham Platner's left slopulist Senate campaign, and speculate about the sus forces that both hyped him up and struck him down... For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid dive into Khaled Hroub’s 2000 book “Hamas: Political Thought and Practice”, which charts the origins and evolution of the vanguard of the Palestinian Resistance. Also addressed: the nuanced relationship between Hamas and previously ascendant secular/Marxist Palestinian resistance groups, specious claims in the NY Times that Netanyahu “propped up” Hamas on purpose, the importance of the “mosque-building phase” in revolutionary movements, the Axis of Resistance’s progress in transcending the “sectarian” Sunni-Shia divides of the GWOT era, and more… For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid conclude their trilogy on the early history and crises of the Islamic Caliphate with the climactic event that would echo across centuries up to this current day: the revolutionary martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s (ﷺ) grandson Husayn by the military forces of the corrupt Caliph Yazid at the Battle of Karbala. For access to full-length 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 about: whether the Beatles wrote their own music, whether Y2K was an op, Peter Levenda on Michael Aquino, and more… For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad