This first episode of the American Exception podcast is also the first of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination. It features a discussion with Zachary Sklar, co-screenwriter of Oliver Stone's 1991 masterpiece, JFK. The writer and co-creator of JFK Revisited, James DiEugenio, also joins the discussion. The episode also includes contributions from Abby Martin of Empire Files and Media Roots Radio. 

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Episode 1: Oliver Stone's JFK w/Zach Sklar & Jim DiEugenio

Dimitri and Khalid investigate the murky grail quest of poet-turned-SS Ahnenerbe officer Otto Rahn, including: his books “Crusade Against the Grail” (1933) and “Lucifer’s Court” (1937), getting personally hired by Heinrich Himmler to search for ancient Aryan treasures, Rahn’s obsession with Parzival graal myths and the medieval Cathar civilization of southern France, the vicious Catholic crusades against Cathar heretics, sicko Crusader Popes skinning archbishops alive, egalitarianism and gnosticism in Cathar society, and haunting parallels between the crimes of the “Luciferian” Catholic Crusaders and the Luciferian SS.

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#120a - TRIUMPH OF THE GRAAL: SS Obersturmführer Otto Rahn’s Crusade for the Grail (Pt. 1)

Dimitri and Khalid continue their discussion with ex-Moonie @Alisa_Mahjoub about Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, including: Mike Flynn’s “I AM” Activity, “Cults, Anti-Cults, and the Cult of Intelligence”, the abusive “deprogramming” industry, Rick Ross, Jolly West and the Cult Awareness Network cult, Ed Lansdale’s Blue Beam plot against Cuba, Elimination by Illumination, Sean Moon’s AR15-toting Rod of Iron Ministries, “Inside The League”, the American Security Council, abandoning the pretense of bourgeois democracy, overlaps between QAnon, Alex Jones, and the Moonies, and more. 

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#131 - BAD MOON RHIZOME, Part Two: Rise of the Contracults (with Alisa Mahjoub)

Dimitri and Khalid continue answering questions from the Grotto of Truth discord about: Alison McDowell’s writings (continued), Lockheed Skunkworks head Ben Rich’s cryptic comments about black budget ESP-powered UFO tech, and what conspiracy theories they DON’T believe in.

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#135 - Grotto of Truth Q&A XVIII, Part 2

Dimitri and Khalid continue answering questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about Morgellon’s, general opinions on firearms, a suscheck ov Genesis P-Orridge, and the intersection between irony, fascism, and the occult.

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#137 - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XIX, Part Two

We offer some thoughts on where the tech sector is heading right now, how the markets are performing amidst a down turn, and what big trends for tech and capital are looking strong in the new year.

Stuff we reference
••• A new era: the end of cheap money https://www.ft.com/content/6d312b6c-9f74-4816-ad7e-7e797c5e0f6b
••• Silicon Valley start-ups race for debt deals in funding crunch https://www.ft.com/content/d12a4baa-53c6-4256-b125-d25622f9555f 
••• Silicon Valley staff rush to offload start-up shares as valuations plummet https://www.ft.com/content/7178364f-1f0d-46e4-9692-b648ea258d06 
••• Private Markets Don’t Like to Go Down https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-04/private-markets-don-t-like-to-go-down#footnote-1 
••• Forecast: Startup M&A Could Pick Up In 2023 As Fundraising Tightens Further https://news.crunchbase.com/ma/startup-forecast-2023-fundraising-venture-valuations/ 
••• A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/technology/generative-ai-chatgpt-investments.html

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223. Money for Nothing? In this Economy?

We spend more time talking about the political economy of AI – the production and application of AI within a capitalist system and how it might (and should) differ within a socialist or communist system. We pay particular attention to discussing the growing and specialized industries for producing, supporting, propping up, and stepping in for AI in a variety of applications. Living labor creates the machinery of dead labor, which then acts as an agent of capital to discipline and dominate living labor, making it more machine-like, thus turning the living into the undead.

Stuff we reference
••• Seven questions to ask about AI https://maxread.substack.com/p/seven-questions-to-ask-about-ai 
••• Human_Fallback https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/
••• The Worldwide Data Annotation Tools Industry is Expected to Reach $13.2 Billion by 2030 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220824005423/en/The-Worldwide-Data-Annotation-Tools-Industry-is-Expected-to-Reach-13.2-Billion-by-2030---ResearchAndMarkets.com 

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225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead

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In Chapter 3 of Demon Forces, Dimitri examines the labyrinthine intrigues and brutal realpolitik of Liberia in the early 1980s, including: overwhelming evidence that the assassination of President William Tolbert was a covert US plot, the rise to power of Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe and his pro-US People’s Redemption Council, left-wing General Thomas Weh Syen’s confrontation with Firestone and subsequent execution, Doe’s use of juju/magickal warfare to maintain power, simmering tensions among the various indigenous tribes, Reagan/Bush/Casey’s enthusiastic support for Doe, and the emergence of General Thomas Quiwonkpa as an opposition/coup leader…Some background on young Liberian activist Charles Taylor and his activities in 1970s Massachusetts, fathering a son with a Trinidadian-American woman before accepting a position in Doe’s government, running the “very important” General Services Agency, fleeing back to the US in 1983 after embezzling government money to bankroll the anti-Doe opposition, hiring sus Ramsey Clark as his lawyer, getting arrested by US Marshals, and Liberian ex-pats in New Jersey plotting a Quiwonkpa-led coup against Doe in 1985.

[UNLOCKED] #122a - DEMON FORCES 3, Part One: Authority Stealing (1980-1985)

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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 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

Dimitri and Khalid begin to set the setting for a profound, ecstatic, therapeutic anti-heroes’ journey into the figures, fables, and fallacies that are fueling the modern psychedelic renaissance. 

PHASE ONE: INTENTIONS

Dimitri and Khalid share their intentions for this journey, which include: holding space for the promise of entheogenic therapies while acknowledging the vast Jungian shadow energy of Peter Thiel’s various psychedelics startups, his employee Hamilton Morris splashing around in a pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck, the endless subliminal jihad of mainstream promotion of psychedelics from Michael Pollan to Joe Rogan, attempts to patent psychedelic molecules and therapy spaces, Psymposia’s trenchant critiques of the “corporadelic” revival, toxic therapy practices seeping into MAPS clinical trials, New York Magazine/Psymposia’s “Cover Story” podcast about sexual abuse cover-ups in the psychedelic underground, potential for spiritual/emotional addiction, the growing right-wing embrace of psychedelics that really ain’t nuttin’ new, Tim Leary’s claims that LSD cured Allen Ginsberg’s homosexuality, and why everybody suddenly stopped talking about the Machine Elves…

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[#144] SUS PSYCHEDELICS, INC., Part One: Profits for Prophets

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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[UNLOCKED] #122a - DEMON FORCES 3, Part One: Authority Stealing (1980-1985)

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