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Dimitri embarks on a multi-episode exploration of sinister US government influence in the affairs of Liberia, the small West African republic settled by emancipated African-American slaves in the 1800s. 

CHAPTER 1: the founding of the Liberia colony by nervous wealthy slaveowners in the US, “purchasing” land from local tribes with a well-timed pistol to the head of King Peter, repelling British/French color revolutions, the total domination of Americo-Liberian Freemasons over the political system, Firestone’s neocolonialist master plan, Marcus Garvey vs. W.E.B. DuBois, Kwame Nkrumah vs. William Tubman, the Food For Peace rice PSYOP, and how Liberia became the CIA’s counterrevolutionary “nerve center” in Africa during the Cold War.

[UNLOCKED] #101 - DEMON FORCES 1: History of the Great Liberian Misfortunes

Everything you remember about the Cambridge Analytica scandal is probably wrong—from its power to swing elections to the so-called whistleblower who saved democracy. Julian Feeld of The QAnon Anonymous Podcast is back to discuss their major revelations about this memory-holed story. 

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MUSIC by Anahedron

Cambridge Analytica: The Mindf*ck That Wasn’t

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Dimitri continues tracking the bloody and complex political intrigues at play in and around 1980s Liberia, including: Charles Taylor’s mysterious “escape” from a US federal prison in 1985, rumors and counter-rumors of US government forces arranging the jailbreak, Doe blatantly rigging the elections of 1985 with US support, the failure of Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa’s November 1985 coup, the CIA tip-off/“message from God” to Doe that resulted in Quiwonkpa’s defeat and ritual cannibalization in the streets of Monrovia, Samuel Doe’s late 80s anti-neocolonial turn and the collapse of his warm relationship with the Reagan/Bush administrations, Charles Taylor’s murky activities between 1985-1989 in West Africa, meeting President Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso and training at Gaddafi’s “World Revolutionary Center”, Sankara's socialist transformation of Upper Volta into Burkina Faso and refusal to pay Western debts, and last but not least, Charles Taylor’s pivotal but well-concealed role in the CIA/French-backed assassination of Sankara in October 1987.

[UNLOCKED] #122b - DEMON FORCES 3, Part Two: Sacrifices for a Revolution

Dimitri and Khalid talk with music producer/researcher @KhristKoopa about the career of German scientist Franz Anton Mesmer and his theories of “animal magnetism” that took late 18th century France by storm, including: Mesmerism as precursor to Spiritualism, the ain’t nuttin’ new overlaps between Serious Science and metaphysics throughout history, Mesmer’s confirmed membership in the Bavarian Illuminati, discovering a field of “invisible fire” more subtle than ether, Mesmer’s remarkable rizz, running group “seances” in Paris, curing the blindness of piano prodigy Maria Theresia von Paradis, hanging out with Mozart, Jesuits lurking on the periphery, the Illuminati’s passion for tactical PR and ARGs, early theories of the subconscious, yet another Ben Franklin deboonking saga, noting the real phenomenon of hypnosis operating within Mesmer’s “magnetic” therapy, tracing the legacy of magnetism through Freud up to modern mind control, and how the under-examined sex magick teachings of African-American occultist Pascal Beverly Randolph and his Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor/Light influenced Helena Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley. 
Part 1 of 2.

MORE KHRIST KOOPA:
insta/twitter: @KhristKoopa
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Uz9CUAY7NAIlTSQ3lYj8o
Blog articles about Mesmer: https://swimpool.blog
Bandcamp: https://underworlddustfunk.bandcamp.com

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[#140] IN THE MOUTH OF MESMER: Illuminating the Origins of Magnetism & Mind Control ft. Khrist Koopa

Dimitri talks with curator Aaron Moulton about THE INFLUENCING MACHINE, his controversial 2022 exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, which explores the largely forgotten but deeply consequential activities of the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in early ‘90s Eastern Europe, including:

How the SCCA “landed like a UFO” in former eastern bloc countries from 1992 to 1995, engineering the scripted avant-garde, the rise of socially-engaged practice, comparing and contrasting SCCA with the CIA’s promotion of abstract expressionism, ontologies of randomness and meritocratic achievement in the art/media world…

Unleashing a dump truck of cash on two dozen cities at the height of shock therapy and currency collapse, the curiously advanced new media practices of the Centers, a Trojan Horse called “art”, grooming local artists to embrace Open Society values, subtly blacklisting artists who thrived under the socialist system of Artist Unions, building early internet infrastructures in Romania, Eastern Europe as the bleeding edge of the cyber-frontier, “cowboy wizard internaut” Jonathan Peizer, artists as the first point of call for any new technology, the mysterious "British spy lol" Bill McAllister, the 1994 “Alchemic Surrender” false flag exhibit on a Ukrainian battleship…

Suzy Meszoly’s intriguing journey from SCCA “czarina” and faithful Soros lieutenant to Buddhist vibrational healer and New Age conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, the challenges of discussing George Soros the Boogeyman, the prescient 1989 profile of Soros from a recently deceased friend of the show named TRAIN, comparing Meszoly’s 1990 Romanian exhibit “The Media Were With Us” with the 2003 German documentary “Checkmate: Strategy for a Revolution”, the CIA dramaturgy of Ceaușescu’s overthrow, Josh Harris, Pynchon’s “Bleeding Edge”, Gelitin, 9/11, Marina Abramovic and crossing the Pizzagate event horizon…

Part one of two.

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[#142] ALCHEMIC SURRENDER: George Soros & the Rise of the Influencing Machine w/ Aaron Moulton, Pt 1

We are joined by Abeba Birhane — Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation — for a critical discussion about the release of GPT-4 and OpenAI. We also get into the excellent work that Abeba and colleagues have done mapping the specific values encoded into, and the surveillance pipeline that influences, the vast majority of AI/ML research. 

••• Abeba’s twitter: https://twitter.com/Abebab
••• Abeba’s paper – The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3531146.3533083 

Stuff we referenced
••• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will reshape society, acknowledges risks: 'A little bit scared of this' https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-reshape-society-acknowledges/story?id=97897122 
••• GPT-4 Technical Report https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
••• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
••• The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-sparks-of-agi-or-the-end-of-science
••• GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks

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243. GPT-4 and the Politics of OpaqueAI (ft. Abeba Birhane)

It’s a fan cam episode for our favorite tech columnist, Brian Merchant, who had two pieces come out recently that are back-to-back bangers. First is about why all the people making and selling AI keep talking about being afraid of their own creations. It’s Frankenstein meets sorcerer's apprentice but as a marketing strategy for their own power (and their unique ability to control that power). Second is about what all these people should actually be afraid of. As history shows us, there is more than one way to crash a computer.

Article we discuss
••• Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be | Brian Merchant https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-31/column-afraid-of-ai-the-startups-selling-it-want-you-to-be
••• Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be | Brian Merchant: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-24/column-how-afraid-should-silicon-valley-be 

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245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)

Dimitri and Khalid return to the deep well of questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord, starting with two big ones: possible similarities between the German Wandervogel movement and today’s youth-oriented climate activism, as well as the lurking influence of eugenics in environmental discourses; then a nuanced assessment of Whitney Webb’s work on Jeffrey Epstein and her analysis of the criminal deep state networks that supported him (and some thoughts about recent critiques of Webb for being an “Alex Jones-style” conspiracist who won’t call out capitalism).

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[#148] GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XX, Part One

Cory Doctorow — returning champion, friend of the show, and author of the new novel Red Team Blues — joins us to chat about fiction (science), finance (crypto), forensics (accounting), and much more. You never knew forensic accounting could be so radical and thrilling, but Red Team Blues is an immanent critique of techno-financial capitalism in the guise of a page ripping novel. We cover a lot of ground, all of it fascinating, as we always do when Cory comes on TMK.

••• Buy Red Team Blues: https://craphound.com/shop/
••• Follow Cory: https://twitter.com/doctorow 
••• Cory’s blog: https://pluralistic.net/ 

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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)

Charles and Alex catch up on OK Go's cereal lawsuit, Rivers Cuomo's visit to the Rock Hall of Fame, and guys who still talk about Bored Apes every day. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

165 - Perfect Score

Alexander Edward from Minion Death Cult joins us to talk about the possible upcoming UPS strike. But first, what the fuck just happened in Russia??? We sort of catch you up ish.

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Big UPS w/ Alexander Edward

A p*dcast where Dimitri (@drposhlost) and Khalid (@khalidbinyaqub) explore deep politics, occult history, conspiracy, and ontological ops from a critical-paranoid perspective.

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[#148] GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XX, Part One

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