The Underworld Podcast - From Fantasy Islands to a Coup D’État: The Dominion of Melchizedek:

Episode Date: November 14, 2023

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fake country and a global scam operation, must be in want of a wife with a penny-stock mining operation who can stalk government officials in their dreams. In the second instalment of our Dominion of Melchizedek two-parter, the conman mothership ventures out in search of a home; establishes diplomatic relations with fellow micronations; tries to rebuild the Queen Mary oceanliner; and endures a bitter power struggle. Oh, and its current PM spent two hours shooting the breeze with Sean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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At First Citizens Bank, we roll with your goals because we're built for what you're building. Fit for your ambition for Citizens Bank. It's 1995 in Shasta County, North California. Elvira Gamboa, a Manila-born American with long black hair, a hired jaw and eyes like uncut emeralds, strolls into a small bank seeking a $20,000 car loan. But she's not asking for herself. Gamboa represents an entity called Bank Asia A.G. The name itself is a combination of her home continent, Asia,

and the hometown of Riverbank between San Jose and Sacramento, that she shares with her husband, a shaggy-haired preacher by the name of David Kerem. AG is a bit weirder. It's a German suffix meaning Action Gazerhaft, in other words, a firm with publicly listed stock. only there's nothing public about this outfit and the bank clerk sniff something sinister.

They report Gamboa to state officials who tell her it's illegal to represent herself as a bank without proper licensing. Well, shit, meet fan. Gamboa bites back with, according to a state banking investigator, quote, all this information about the dominion of Melchazetic and how it was a licensed bank. Yes, that dominion of Melchazetic.

The microstate based off a self-pen Bible named for a Talmudic priest that's enabling all kinds of crazy con men to carry out frauds from Dallas, Texas to Dhaka Bangladesh. The Dominion that's headed up by Kerem, aka Branch Finddresser. And now, it seems, his Philippine-born wife. Grab yourself a Dominion passport, the couple promise, and you can be an ambassador with diplomatic immunity, free from the tyranny of the United States or any other. the Latian's law. No matter that the Dominion's U.S. Embassy is a PO box and a voicemail service, or that the, quote, ecclesiastical sovereign state has won about as much territory as a Cardinals' offensive drive. It's an NFL joke for you there, you're welcome. California investigators soon

realized that this bogus car loan is just the tip of an Antarctic-sized iceberg of mad, financial crime, capery, and all-round skullduggery. Gamboa and Kerem, the banking official ads were soliciting deposits from people. There was fraud involved. Gambor isn't one to go quietly though and she quickly declares quote spiritual warfare on the state of California. I will do metaphysical battle with you in your dream state, she writes. And if you interpret your dreams correctly, you will know I'm the victor.

I mostly interpret my dreams that I'm a loser who can't play cricket naked in front of my former girlfriend. So I guess that's one for the Elvira Gamba win column. But this Philippine Freddie Kruger has far more in her locker, namely a sacred quest, not only to stalk Bay Area bureaucrats in their nightmares, but to launch a years-long project to secure the dominion of Melchazetic what its founding father, Kerem's dad David, could never do. A patch of land, somewhere on earth, to call its home.

It's an odyssey that will wend from South America to the South Pacific, and even an unclaimed stretch of Antarctic tundra. That is, until she and Kareem are toppled. In a madcap, and entirely funny, of course, Kuditar. Oh, and don't forget the fake gold mines, Fijian revolutionaries, Hollywood madams, an abortive plot to necromance the Queen Mary Ocean liner. Wait, I mean, you didn't think part two of this show

was going to get any less insane, did you? Welcome to the Underworld podcast. And welcome to the podcast that dives headfirst into the worst of humanity, one second-rate hallmarked movie plot at a time. I'm your host, an OTIA row in New Zealand, Sean Williams, and I'm joined by fellow hack and filmmaker Danny Gold in New York. The sun is out in the southern hemisphere. I'm down to a slightly overweight, 26.8 BMI, according to some website, I just went on.

And I even have a child now, so it's my first year with a certified dadbot. Are we still doing that? No, but you're in New Zealand, so all can be forgiven. You know, I'm still not over that opening line of eyes like uncut emeralds from the beginning of the cold. I just, you know, I love the little dear diary flourishes you do, the intros now as well. I aim to please, yeah.

As ever we got stuff pinging up on the Patreon, I think you just did one, right? It's going up like today or tomorrow as we're recording this. Yeah, yeah. Cool, cool, yeah. Thanks to everyone for helping us, keep the lights on there. It's one on the musical Drug Caper from Australia and New Zealand as well coming soon that I recorded.

And I'm actually, well, as we recorded this, I just went out to meet one of the country's biggest biker gang leaders at a railway station pub, so we'll have a bit more on that soon. But T-shirts and mugs and hoodies and social media posts, I'm still holding out that Danny agrees to do a live show in New York so that I can come out there and tell everyone how stuff's got more expensive since I lived there in 2012. I mean, honestly, like a live show sounds like a nightmare.

I'm trying to fade away into obscurity and in the countryside and not like entertain people at some Brooklyn bar. But until then, patreon.com, so that's the Underwall podcast for those bonus episodes or on iTunes, you can pay for it as well. Yeah, you definitely put the right medium to disappear. Yeah, the co-cobcast. So, yeah, we're back on our Melchizedekian bullshit, guys.

Nicely done. Yep. I think I did last week's a little too wordy. I think I also brewed and drunk an entire French press of coffee and took a Ritalin. So I was basically on cocaine. Apologies if I sounded like Robert Lockyer and Scarface. Who is he in Scarface? He's the gangster that screws over Tony and gets shot at the end.

Sorry to ruin it for everyone, guys. that. Yeah, spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Big spoiler alert. The Scarface, no one's listened to that. This will be different, though. Not only because I now know the measurements for Kiwi coffee beans, but because part two of this micronation-based show is going to end with a bit of first-hand reporting.

Ooh. And even a conversation between me and the current Prime Minister of the Dominion of Malchazetic himself. It's a long time since I've done a head of state interview. Needless to say, if you haven't already lived, listen to last week's episode, pause this, go back, give it a go, because it's got everything on how this thing began and how it became a quote,

mothership for con artist worldwide. And we're jumping about a bit with the timeline a bit here because we left the first one off with a scam in the Caribbean nation of Grenada in 1997. But you can trust us, guys, we're professional storytellers. It is what we do. So, in 1995, that's two years before 97, guys, by the way.

The Dominion has just declared war on France, because of course it did, over its nuclear testing in the Pacific, citing connections to a mysterious tribe in the Carpathian Mountains, which is Romania, I think. And its leader, Mark Pedley, aka Branch Vine Dresser, aka David Kareem, which is what we're going to call him in this part, because it's now how everyone knows him, has shacked up with a Philippine woman named Elvira Gamboa, who is absolutely DTF down to fraud. Not bad, not bad. I'll take it, but it gets worse. The couple had actually married, albeit I think under a Dominion certificate, so TLDR, not married. In September 1994,

their ceremony is a quote, cosmic wedding united their common interests in magnifying the dominion for the benefit of mankind. I wish I'd got a dedication like that at my wedding. So far, So Melch is a Deccan. But when Gamboa walks into this Shasta County Bank

in 1995, it's going to alert officials to a whole world of chicanery going on right underneath their noses. Gamboa changes her name around this time to Pearl Asia Gambowa, and assumes the title of President of the DOM, or we're just going to say DOM or Dominion from now on, because if I say Melchazetic many more times, I'm going to lose my goddamn mind.

I would choose more inconspicuous names if I was going to do super fraud, like, you know, for real. Yeah, but this is, like we said, this is kind of like GeoCities era internet. So the matter you make it, the more people, people are going to believe it and actually I am heading out to do something along those lines in a couple weeks on assignment. But anyway, says Stephen Soucho, a Sacramento insurance lawyer, who ends up investigating Gambo and Krem in the 1990s, quote, they are highly entertaining

unless, he adds, you're burned by them. I think they're just entertaining. Anyway, the DOM maintains around this time that its own several hundred banks hold a quote, net asset value of 25 billion bucks, but this doesn't seem to tally with the finances of its president Pearl Asia, who's in arrears to the state of California for, quote, bad faith actions related to her bank scheme to the tune of, wait for it, $1,431.90. Don't worry about her, though. I mean, she wouldn't be president if she didn't have a few tricks up her sleeve. But while the Dominion's stock in trade literally is financial fraud and conning people out of cash by offering them passports to a country that doesn't exist, of course.

It also has this spiritual Nazarene element to it. David Corrin, remember, he conjured up the DoM on his way out of prison, and the vision he had included a homeland, but he doesn't have one. Gambow is alleged to have told him, quote, I can help you get an island, because in my country we have lots of islands, as long as we're doing what is righteous. Actually, that's how I got with my current girlfriend. Okay, anyway, it checks out, basically, from people.

Pearl Asia. Karim has also had a pop at this land grab himself and he lays claim to the barren island of Malepo, which is a few hundred miles off the west coast of Colombia, but there are a handful of small but pretty terminal reasons why he can't get his hands on Malepo. One, it's part of Colombia. It's a pretty big one. Two, it's got a Colombian military outpost on it, bigger. And three, it's a barren lump of rock. And four, it's surrounded by thousands of deadly silky and hammerhead sharks. He's not very good at this. Yeah, I would say the Colombian military is a bad group to go up against if all you've got like arming you is vibes.

Yeah, they're not known for going soft on separatist movements out there. Next, Keremtuce is one of the Karatane or Karatain, I'm not really sure I pronounce it, islands in the South Pacific. This is part of the so-called Kingdom of Polynesia, run by a king called Michara, who, according to sources I read, is. itinerant and claims to travel from island to island in his boat. Wait, so he's a real king, right?

Or is he another fraud? I mean, you can just take these stories like you take everything on Twitter these days. Like, everyone involved is a fraud and not for real. Maybe I have to like, you know, ring a little bell when something is someone that's actually legit. Anyway, this place is

supposedly near the Cook Islands, which is a tropical archipelago and part of the realm of New Zealand, which is between American Samoa and French Polynesia. But when the Dominion declares war on France, again, check out last week's show for all that. The French send vessels out to the coordinates of these islands, and they discover that they're actually just a tidal reef that's underwater most of the time. And even DOM leaders admit, they're not even really sure these things exist at all. What, like the French actually took it seriously enough to send ships out, though?

Like, that's kind of amazing. I mean, I guess the French just sniffed out a military victory for once. Yeah, they probably set aside a couple of boats. I mean, I still think a fraudulent fake state based out of an underwater atoll has a shot against them, but Karem retends to the French that the whole thing was a joke, and he searches for another holy land. Sometime around 1996, Gamboa and Kareem have a kid, who they named Hazamak Hazamak, borrowing from a part of Karem's Hebrew name he gave himself after having his epiphany several years earlier.

I can't actually find much about him online other than he competed at the 2009 San Francisco Open Cube Championships. That's Rubik's Cube, so the copyright Unencumbered. It was a first round defeat. And he ranked third in the 2010 WKC World Karate Championships for kids age 14. That kid sounds like a proper renaissance, man. Yeah, I mean, all I managed was like sixth place in the England trampolining championships around that age. And that is actually true.

This is all serious to investigate. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, we'll move. We'll move on. We'll move. No, no, wait, wait, wait. I just, like, a trampoline champion?

What does that mean? Like, you just jumped on a trampoline? Yeah, you know, you do flips and shit. You go round around or you were you a, were you a gym, break your leg sideways and go forward? Were you a gymnast? Like, that's cool. Like, I respect.

I think gym, gymnasts are awesome, but I just didn't know that you don't strike me as the kind of guy. No offense. Who's like that. Yeah, why? Agile enough to, like, do backflips. Oh, right. Well, I can, where are you a gymnast?

I can promise you that I'm still agile, mate. but yeah, I did get really deep into trampolini as a kid. It was fucking fun, actually. I really enjoyed it. Also, there were girls there. Could you do a standing backflip at one point in your life? Yeah, for sure. Damn.

Dude, that is like, that was always, right now. That was always my goal. Like, that's amazing. Dude, I'm proud of you. I'm all struck. I'm absolutely no female attention whatsoever. I'm all struck right now. You should have been doing it at every party you went to.

I think this may have coincided short. before I started drinking and smoking weed, which was way more fun. But, yeah, trampolining, guys. Yeah, that'll do it. Don't do drugs. Anyway, next up on David Karem's wish list, remember him, is a 14 million square mile

unclaimed expanse of Western Antarctica, which is called Marie Birdland. And if that sounds familiar, it's because we covered another micronation last week, West Antarctica that also claims it under US vet Travis McHenry, aka Grand Duke Travis, who founded its raise awareness of climate change on the wildlife of Antarctica.

No such high-minded is from the DOM, of course. Although, when it does annex the territory, it lists among senior officials a figure with the surname Pengweeney. I really, like, I hope there's a proper Mafia so out there named Penguini, because that's a pretty cool name. Yeah, that's awesome, eh? Around the same time, Karem claims Clipperton Island, which is a tiny outcrop in the South Pacific around 1,000 miles south.

southeast of the Mexican state of Michoacan. So don't mess around there, guys. France claims it, so we've got another potential nuclear holocaust on the cards. It writes a 2022 cracked article, quote, The island had become notorious in 1917, when a passing U.S. Navy ship stumbled upon a starving Mexican woman beating the local lighthouse keeper to death with a sledgehammer. Sorry, I don't usually laugh about sledgehammer murders, but anyway.

as it turned out Mexico had once had a thriving guano mining colony on the island, but it had forgotten to send the monthly supply ships when Civil War broke out at home. Trapped on the Barron Island, the colonists had descended into two years of Lord of the Flyers-style savagery before the Navy rescued a dozen starving survivors. Since then, Clipperton has been claimed by numerous self-proclaimed countries, all of whom sensibly declined to actually set foot on Murder Ghost Island. I mean, cool. Clipperton's cool.

I really wouldn't want to be messing around off the coast of Michoacan now. I'm sure there's stuff happening there, but these are all kind of half-ass attempts to win the dominion its homeland. And I'm sure Polasia is sitting there wondering if this Messiah she married cosmically is just a very naughty boy. Whether she gives him a kick or she just gets up off the sofa, her next go is a bit more put together. Rautuma is a remote volcanic island to the far north of Fiji. completely isolated from the rest of the country, but still considered a semi-autonomous dependency.

And this isn't like to bet or something, this is just an island the size of a small village, 1,500 people. But what Karem's interested in is Rathuma's revolutionary history. It's already had a go at seceding from Fiji in 1987 during a series of coups on the country's main islands, led by a part Routouman, part Scottish Kiwi karate instructor living in Auckland, New Zealand, called Henry Gibson. That was a hell of an interesting. actually. He calls himself Rotuma's king. Of course he does. He also says he has visions,

one of which has instructed him to call himself Gagai Salagfatmaro or Unconquerable Victor King. Dude, what the hell is with all these people? It's just like a cornucopia of absolute lunatics. Though, I mean, they mostly sound relatively harmless, but like, why do they, they just choose the most hard to pronounce names as possible. Like, just choose a normal name. It would make it a lot easier

for Sean to do this episode. The thing with the Pacific is, is mostly messed up, and there's loads of crazy cargo cults and Pentecostal movements. Did you know there's a thing in Vanuatu called the David From? No, won't it? John From, not David From? John From Colt. That would be amazing if it was David from.

No, I didn't. So these remote islanders saw planes coming over and like U.S. soldiers kicking back during the war in the Pacific and now they like they revere some totem of a made up soldier called John Frum because that was the American sounding name they made up and they go on uh they do like

fake sergeant drills with wooden toy rifles and that's how they sermonize this guy. It's absolutely mental. There was another one I think it's also in Vanuatu where there's a group that reveres Prince Philip. I think they think he's God.

What was that movie on? Just like everyone in Britain. With the gods must be crazy. Did you ever see that? I've heard of that. I've got to watch this for my upcoming trip, but that's supposed to be real cool, right? Yeah, I haven't seen, was it, is it Mel Brooks?

I haven't seen it. Yeah, could be. Maybe like 30 years ago. But it was something like that, like worshiping some sort of, whatever. You know, I got no, I don't know where I was going with this, but we can just leave it in.

Like, it doesn't matter, right? Yeah, the Pacific's mental, I think, is what we're saying. But unconquerable Victor King, or Henry Gibson, I mean, come on, man. That sounds like a man after David Karem's heart, and the pair plot an audacious breakaway from the Fijian government in Capital City, Suva. Karem, of course, tells Gibson they'll bring the Routumans under the aegis of the dominion when they free themselves as Suva's shackles.

But the Routumans themselves, they see through the Karem BS, and they send him packing right back to the US with his tail between his legs. A couple of years later, eight of Gibson's followers are rounded up and convicted of sedition, but in paid to retum and independence for a long while. Oh, and all this island hopping? It's being done on Karem's Dominion passport. 9-11, eh?

It's worth mentioning at this point that the Dominion of Melchazetic... Christ, I just said it again. It might be the maddest offshore fraud scheme on the planet in the mid-90s, but it's part of a whole wave of them, supercharged by the internet and scamming billions out of regular people.

I mean, we've gone over this before, but the entire nation of Albania is convulsed a series of pyramid schemes. And there are several out in the Pacific, which you can't name be, well. Wishing you could be there live for the big game, soaking up the atmosphere in the crowd. But too often, life gets busy.

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Anyway, writes Anthony Van Fossin in a 2002 paper called Financial Frauds and Pseysand in the Pacific Islands. Guys, I really am doing the hard work here. quote, the new capital states of the former communist bloc were soon significant players in quote, casino capitalism and financial frauds. Pyramid schemes were prominent throughout Eastern Europe during the early 90s in countries such as Romania. He doesn't give another example, you can't just say such as Romania. Nowhere were they more influential than Albania, you could have just said Albania, Romania,

where they were endorsed by the Democratic Party government and accumulated $2 billion US dollars or 50% of the country. country's annual GDP from 300,000 citizens. Man, you know, I've definitely got like a very romantic image of the Pacific Islands. That is obviously not true and it's formed by, I don't know, like Gilligan's Island and that one season of Archer, but I still really want to go to like French Polynesia, but maybe I should temper my expectations. Well, I think we need another like four or five thousand Patreon followers before we're going

to go out to French Polynesia. But, uh, yeah, those flights are not, they're not, they're not cheap. No, I mean, they're not too bad from here. I want to go to Vanuatu, but I don't know if I'm going to get involved in John from. Beyond it being a hub for wannabe diplomat conmen, the Dominion at this time is charring a silly amount of banks all over the US and Europe. There's even one in Britain that gets pretty big. It's called the Inner Sanctum. I mean, if that's not a red flag, I don't know what it is.

And it's so corrupt that even the Dominion's leadership tells its own followers not to buy stuff from this bank. It's a bit like hush puppy telling his IG fans not to buy. merch from Sean King. There you go. Keeping it topical. There we go. I knew you'd like that one. Anyway, despite his repeated failures to set up a land-based nation, Keremt is desperate for international recognition. Says US currency official John Shockey, quote,

the DOM is a fraud, a major fraud, a not a legitimate sovereign entity. No shit. Persons associate with the dominion and Melchazetic have been indicted and convicted of a variety of crimes. They are always looking for a remote land. mass that nobody would challenge their ownership of. Perhaps they will lay claim to the gloss continent of Atlantis. Like how hard is to find some shit island and just lay claim to it?

Like can it really be that hard? I love that you've just painted the entire Pacific as shit. No, I mean, you know what I. Like not the whole Pacific, but like, you know, something that's like, I don't know, a couple hundred yards by a couple hundred yards. If you're setting up a fake domain country anyway, like why do you need something big and impressive? right? Just find some like fake

like there's like fake islands and like the Hudson, you know what I'm saying? Like obviously don't clear those because we'll fucking take you out. But like there's got to be a bunch of those in the Pacific just do that. How hard is it? Guys aren't that smart. I would love those guys to get in the Hudson. That would be so much fun.

I mean, this is what's going to happen actually. I mean, they're just going for the tiniest little shitty rocky outcrops in like a far corner of Fiji and Micronesia and the Marshal Islands but they take a bit of getting used to, they're just fucking idiots, mostly, but they're going to get a little bit better at it in the moment.

Shocky, that's the US currency official. He says he's read letters at this time addressed to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, begging for dominion recognition from Baghdad. But it's a war-torn state in Africa where Karem gets a massive win, the Central African Republic, which we mentioned last episode, and which is stumbling from crisis to crisis,

officially recognises the dominion. According to a letter from its government, quote, The Dominion of Melchazetic is hereby invited to establish a diplomatic mission in our republic, and will be granted all the consummate and traditional rights and privileges delineated in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which, if you've ever seen the 2011 movie The Ambassador, which is fantastic, again, diplomatic recognition from the CIA is not much of an achievement. Likewise, Kosovo, which is in the middle of a war for its own independence from Serbia,

is gagging for powers in the international community, and it recognises the DOM. Stranger and even more meta is the 1997 establishment of diplomatic ties with something called the Kingdom of Ennquio, a fellow micronation that's also laying claims to tiny chunks of the Pacific, in its case a part of the Wake Island Atoll, claimed by the US and the Marshall Islands, that had been occupied by Japan during the Second World War. Here's a brief story of Ennquio. In 1987, Muriel Hermios, and sorry Muriel, but here's my take on your surname, Irolaplap, declares a traditional claim to Wake Island. Oh, another, 250 other islands in the area of that.

He grants power of attorney, again, over nothing, to Waikiki resident Robert F. Moore, who's already been involved in some scummy shit across the Pacific in Vanuatu. Moore then starts petitioning the US government saying it's deposed Hermios, and in 1994 he demands almost a hundred million dollars from DC for its use of the island. In April 1997, NNKio, get this, declares war on the United States. I do not know how more is able to do this without getting arrested and tried for treason, but I guess it's not my fight. Yeah, it's probably because no one takes him seriously.

Yeah, it's probably that. And in Kio, consensus builds for its coming showdown with the states, forging alliances with military heavyweights, including, checks notes, the Cherokee Nation, the kingdom of Landriff and the country of Oceanus. I mean, I don't think the Cherokees want to go back there again. In 1998, Muriel dies, and his brother, Iroa Lappliap Rameos Hermios, yes, I've got it right.

Signed a 50-year lease of the islands. Again, they're not real to David Karem and the Dominion of Melchazetic. Karem even flies to Maduro, the capital of the marshals, to declare his own stake, which, isn't this just all American imperialism? I don't know. In January 1998, the Marshal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs tell these guys where to go. Quote, the government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands condemns the claims of activities asserted by representatives of the, quote, kingdom of NN. Kio and the, quote, dominion of Melchazetic. The representative making claims of separate sovereignty of not citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and have no right to make claims on behalf of Marshallese landowners.

And that's that, right? Nope. Because this is of course ultimately all about money. And Kareem and Moore have got their teeth into this thing. In 2000, Nankio announces it signed an agreement with Kuwait to provide citizenship for stateless people. A loads of refugees washing up in Kuwait? I think, I mean, they kicked a ton out. Like, he kicked the ton of Palestinians out for siding with Saddam Hussein after Desert Storm.

But that was the early 90s, so I'm not sure what that was about. Yeah, maybe this is like Filipino construction workers and housemates. I have no idea. But it also says that it's going to issue war bonds for NNKio's development for a Bahamas offshore venture. Hmm. It also competes with a dominion over the territory. I mean, I don't know, this thing is so goddamn stupid.

Are you following it? Is it at least entertaining? I stopped saying Melchazetic, but I went mad anyway. You know, I'm not really following it, to be honest with you. Definitely not 100%, but it's entertaining. I mean, I'm sure someone listening is following it. wicked all right cheers

the SEC finally gets a hold of this whole thing in 2000 and it files a financial restraining order against Moore for trying to sell fake bonds worth a billion dollars on his NNKio website

emailed out to folks like a really crap Nigerian print scam writes the filing quote the kingdom of NNNKio is not recognizing any international forum as a sovereign state nor is it a corporate or statutory

the complaint alleges that Moore's offering materials represent that the bonds will pay a compound interest rate of 10% after five years. The complaint also alleged that Moore represents that the bonds are, quote, backed by gold reserves, guarantees, real estate, or other assets. However, according to the complaint, Moore has no gold reserves and no security, real property or otherwise exists for the bonds. He's cooked. So, that's good for Kareem and Pearl Asia, right? They are only just beginning. They stick with their claim to Taoyongi Atoll, an uninhabited corner of the marshals, and they tried to establish a Dominion embassy on the Chatham Islands, about 500

miles off the coast of here in Wellington, part of New Zealand. It too has a cultish breakaway movement, a guy named James and Gatoa, who claims to be the so-called king of the Māori, and where there's a bunch, where there's a Bonobie king, of course, you know Karem's going to show up flashing his Dominion passport and a bunch of fake bank accounts. In April 2000, CBS airs an episode of 60 Minutes 2. I mean, what's that? Like the reserve team for 60 minutes? I don't know.

About the Dominion. And Coram is widely ridiculed. The Dominion, in response, actually sues the broadcaster for a billion dollars. But since it files under Dominion jurisdiction, CBS just ignores it. Hey, that's more than you got sued for. What a story. Damn, I should start working for 60 Minutes 2. Is this a thing?

Is that still a thing? I've never even heard of it. Dude, I don't know. Yeah, God knows. But look, growing a straggly beard and calling yourself king and founding a fake country and scamming poor Pacific nations,

it's all good and well, but it's hardly alpha. Pearl Asia's been sitting here with a karate-loving son wondering if her messianic humby is ever going to bring back home the bacon. And by bacon, of course, I mean a sovereign nation and stacks of cash.

So she does it herself. In 2004, she's start soliciting investment in Philippine gold mining operations called Pearl Asian Mining Inc or Paym, P-A-I-M? Damn, these guys make me feel so unaccomplished. You know what? One thing fails and they're like, fuck it. Like, let's take another shot. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. They don't get brought down for fraud and they don't even waste like a year. They're already doing like a whole new fraud. Yeah, we felt with this like two years ago. Yeah. Look at that. I gave up a long. I mean, these guys deserve to succeed, to be honest.

with you. Yeah, I mean, it's nuts, right? This pain, I hate that, P-A-I-M, this late becomes something called X-Nex mining, and Pearl Asia writes a ton of PRs claiming she's onto massive deposits and has a turnover of $37 million, but, of course, this isn't true. It's a pump and dump. There are a 49-acre plot on the Islamist riddles southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Sure there is, but that's about it. Oh, no, no, wait. Pearl Asia claims she's bought $160,000 gold refining machine from China, quote, not a dinky one. But it's actually just a small machine bought online that's used to purify a scrap jewelry. Basically, this mining company is just a piece of paper from the Philippine government,

a shitty little gadget bought online, and Gamboa say so. By June 2009, the SEC has sued Xenex Mining Corporation and Gamboa for fraud, claiming she's been hyping up this fake mining firm to pump its penit. stocks, take the cash and run. Quote, P-A-I-M was and currently is nothing but a shell used by Gamboa to generate stock sale profits and any gold mining operations that do exist belong to a separate Philippine company of the same name owned almost entirely by Gamboa, says the filing. Barron's, by the way, it currently has X-Nex stock valued at zero dollars and zero cents per share.

Things really take a tumble from here. The X-Next Affair brings unwanted attention to David Kerem, who gets swept up as part of Operation Broken Trust, a nationwide police crackdown on small-time fraud. He's exercisedited to Florida and sentenced the two years in prison in Miami for his role in the pump and dump. At the same time, Pearl Asia tries to hone a Palo Alto real estate guy out of 300 grand

in a supposed bid to rebuild the famed 1930s Ocean liner, the Queen Mary. Eric Diesel, no relation of Vin, an associate of infamous Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, says that Pearl Asia snared him in the phony deal before hiring Filipino thugs to kidnap him and ferry him from hotel to hotel. According to an email, Diesel sends the Palo Alto city clerk headed David Karem's elder abuse crime ring. He writes, quote, The kidnapping was directed and funded from the Gamboa property's Palo Alto, and I was taken to Palo Alto as outlined in the attached medical board complaint. The kidnapping was in part to stop my threat to report to the Palo Alto PD.

When authorities failed to act, Diesel begins editing Gambo's Wikipedia page. That's like, that's when you know the war is on right there, when they get going on the Wikipedia page. Yeah, I mean, she's well up for a scrap as well. I mean, she responds by emailing quote, and this is all caps. you are totally possessed by Satan and the devil that taught you to fabricate untruthful stories you came up with and that you should have to bite your tongue hard until it bleeds and your hands will be cut into several pieces until you are no longer able to write or post-malicious and vicious lies in the Wikipedia, which is pretty much how I feel when I read the grey zone.

Anyway, Perlager and Karem then break up. Not only if their recent cases put the cosmic union under black hole levels of stress, but Kareem, and it's hard to believe this, given his squeaky, clean past, has been living a double life, complete with, according to SF Weekly, quote, its own set of esoterically named loved ones, to the one he conducted in the Bay Area with Gamboa and Hazamac. In February that year, Sadia Barameda, the proprietor of fashion boutique in Brentwood, California, presented a letter to federal court in Miami begging for leniency in Keremps' sentencing. David Kareem is many things.

she wrote. The most important from my perspective is that he has been an excellent father to our six-year-old son, Sedek. Ouch. Epic hammer blow for Pearl Asia. She's out there pumping and dumping, and dumping, and that husband is, well, he's dumping and pumping and pumping. That, I mean, I feel like it's still pumping and dumping and dumping. Yeah, I mean, you can pump then dump and dump, I mean, whatever you want to do with your spare time, guys. A little something on Kerem's side, chick barrameda and if you thought this was going to get any less weird well you haven't been listening at all have you as far as i can tell she's also filipina and she got in trouble back in 2014 for trying to sell fake louis Vuitton selina d'orca in california her facebook page claims she's a

fashion designer and a legal weed advocate same as me she's penned a few novels alongside somebody called the holy ghost ryer including prepare for this one nine eleven terrorist descent into jah anahannam being a lair of Muslim hell. She's also written Michael the friendly ghost, which according to the Amazon entry asked, quote, what if Michael Jackson's too early death didn't cut short his good deeds on earth?

What if God had a greater plan for Michael's spirit? And it involves sending Michael's soul back to help those in need. I can hear the desperate pleading of teenage boys everywhere. I think she ends up saying in the book that the King of Pop was murdered by a croat secret society, but the best one is I shit you not called Piroz the ISIS Slayer. I saw a buffy fan fix set in Racker or something,

but I really need you to read the plot summary on Kirkus. I mean, this is one of the best things you hear on the poll, and apologies if you're listening to News on Global Organized Crime and Not Obscure, Self-Published Literalia, but anyway, quote, when members of the terrorist group, al-Dahua al-Al-Somia, fear al-Arat al-Sham,

my Arabic's a bit rusty these days, guys, aka the Islamic State Group, ISIL or ISIS, massacre a village. It turns out that they have a hidden agenda. Do they? What? Retrieval of some Ebola samples and their corresponding research.

Soon they create weapons armed with the virus, a new strain that rapidly infects and kills its victims. Dude, that was a fucking plot line in, um, what's it called? the show with John Krasinski on Amazon. I think Jack Ryan, right? No way. I'm like I had to turn it off because it was so bad. But the plot line was like some ISIS group stealing Ebola, like the Ebola virus to like weaponize it in like the White House or like a school in the U.S.

I swear to the Clancy one. I swear to God. Oh my God. Jack Ryan. Yeah. Yeah. I'm almost positive. Let me look.

Hold on one second. This is a. I'm almost positive. it was season one or season two, but it was so bad that I had to, I had to stop watching it, like, almost right away. And, uh, dude, I, fuck, it might have been season two. I don't, it, dude, awful.

But I wonder if what came out before, here you go, here you go. Yeah, I wonder if they stole it from this terrible book or if the more, I think it came out like 2018 or like what, like, if they stole it off this terrible book, or if they... It's so much better if they did. It'd be incredible. She'd have grounds for like a lawsuit if they did, which would be amazing.

This is apparently was published by weed growth funding in February 2015. I think they nicked it up. Yeah, dude. Yeah, they might have nicked it off. Like they literally might have stolen this plot line offer. I have to look up.

I don't want to keep us like recording for, for hours. All right. Wait, actually. Okay. It's something like it was, like I found like a plot right up thing where it's like in season one episode six,

Suleiman and his brother excavated an Ebola victim's body from Liberia and go to Azerbaijan for six months. They provide 12 captive doctors without borders with some requested medicines and they, they give them Ebola, they affect them with Ebola to try to spread it to the president. So something along those lines. But it's like,

it's definitely like ISIS radicals trying to infect people with Ebola in the States I don't know man I think she's got I think her suit's got merit

and I think she should get on it oh my God Sadia you gotta get on this if you're listening out there like forget

forget Michael the friendly ghost concentrate on this lawsuit I was gonna read the rest of it I mean it's not even it's not even worth reading the rest of this plot now forget the islands

forget all these these fraudulent plans, sue Amazon. I mean, do that too, because we want more content. But yeah, definitely, definitely, sue. Anyway, this thing, there's a character to call Wren. Her weapon of choice is a knife, because of course, when you're fighting ISIS, you're going to need to come out of them with a knife, especially if they've got Ebola.

Anyway, yeah, this is actually a really good review from someone on Kirkus, which is, I don't even know what Kirkus is. Is it like respected? It's better than half the stuff we've had reviews of the pod. But anyway, there's a reason that Baramada is so into Ebola too. Paradei presenta. Ojos with Alerjia and Picasson. Contra the Hardinero.

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See you on the roof. I mean, I don't know if you can be into Ebola. She actually patents Ebola.com during the 2014 Ebola. or outbreak in West Africa, and it seems to be aimed at convincing folks that weed kills the virus, which that's way less called and Piroz and a selection of anti-terror kitchen knives. I think she should stick to the writing and the lawsuits. Anyway, for Peral Asia, it's got to be tough seeing her former man with such a successful writer. And despite somehow avoiding prison, Pirlasia suffers too.

In 2010, she has a serious aneurysm. And when the SF Weekly reporter asks what her condition was, she responds, quote, without missing a beat. I died. You died? I died. At least that's what I call it. She says she was dead for three days,

not unlike another well-known religious leader, and then returned to the world of the living. Prest about the details of her resurrection, Pearl Asia Gamboa, aka Olvera Gamboa, aka Pelaida, aka Bay Kataguman, Princess of Peace,

declarer of war, past president of a country that does not exist, simply bats her dark eyelashes and smiles. It was a miracle. And that kid's is how to write a kicker. Really cool story. It's on the reading list. You should read it immediately.

David Kareem gets out of prison in 2012, just in time for London Olympics. But he emerges to discover he's been usurped by an American named David Williams. And he spells his name, get this, David hyphen Parker, colon Williams, which is a kind of tell that he's part of the extremely cool

an interesting sovereign citizens movement. That year, Williams takes over the dominion, and he denounces the Melchizedekian Bible, like a kind of con-man Christchiev. Yeah, I don't get what do you mean by usurped. Like, was there an election? I thought this was a one-man operation. Well, are you questioning the functions of the Melchazadecian government?

Yeah, I mean, it's just a bunch of old white guys sitting in school halls mostly and talking bullshit, so they can make up whoever they want. it seems he just kind of took over while Coram was in prison. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But he writes on the website, quote, The Dominion of Melchazetic, hereby denounces the Melchazetic Bible, and hereby declares it has no bearing to the functions of administration or philosophy

of the current standing sovereign members of the Dominion of Melchazetic. Mr. Corem can choose to believe and profess what he likes. However, in relation to the dominion of Melchazetic, this guy is making me say the words so much, his beliefs have no bearing on the functions of the state and are separate and apart from how we conduct ourselves as members of the family of nations. Kerem is gone. Guy got banished from his own fake country. That's got to hurt.

And for a while, the Dominion kind of fizzles out. In 2015, Williams films himself and six others in a Florida meeting hall simply with the purpose of cutting tires with the former leadership. Williams' play is basically that anyone who's... committed crimes associated with the DOM has been tried and convicted as U.S. citizens under U.S. law and therefore cannot have anything to do with the dominion.

I mean, you see how fucking tedious these people are? At one point when they mentioned the pedleys, that's Branch Vine Dresser and today's dominion, somebody called Ambassador William Trevino pipes up to say, quote, that's like holding Chancellor Lemurkel responsible for the damages that Adolf Hitler did.

Damages? Come on. And William goes, Yeah, right, exactly. I mean, this is proper face palm stuff. Except there's a moment in this 30 minute recording when one of the main guys was a missionary named Huey Painter who's been with the D-O-M forever.

He admits they've been sending aid, I don't know what the aid is, to countries that help quote, name-drop the D-O-M worldwide. And this is pretty much the key. The Dominion has been busy over the past few years shipping aid, which is like desks and solar,

panels and books and bags of rice as far as I can tell all over the world. Actually, David Williams says that he shipped 50,000 books to Liberia, which that's not true, is it? Nothing wrong with that in principle anyway, of course. But the fact is that it's focused on two countries above all others in the past pretty much decade, and that is Liberia and Haiti. And that suggests a deeper purpose. And actually, when I spoke to David Williams last week for two hours, he admitted they're doing this

stuff to get the dominion back off the ground. He's getting the old gang back. But why? Like what purpose? Just to do more fraud? Yeah, I mean, it's tax fraud, basically. It seems like tax fraud. I don't know.

There's a bunch of... I support tax fraud. Maybe I should join the Dominion of Mel Ked Zetik. I'll put you in touch of him. I mean, all you've got to do is have about a two-day conversation about, you know, the tyranny of United States law, which I don't know. It could be fun. Wasn't fun for me.

In 2021, the D-O.M appoints a Liberian named Mike Sompon as, quote, emissary extraordinaire. And he's busy setting up something called Tangi National University near Monrovia, the capital. There's a big problem in Africa who's unlicensed educational facilities, stealing students' money. I've asked a couple of local journalists actually to look into it, and I'm going to do an update on the Patreon soon. There's also something called, weirdly, Kennedy University of Baptist, singular, a Miami faith-based university with the goals of all caps again guys truth freedom and beauty it's accredited by here we go the Florida Department of Education which no it's not the Dominion Melchazetic Ministry of Education the International Education Professional Accreditation Association or A.E. Pah nationally for short which is an agency of the Dominion of Melchazetic. also the Ministry of General Education and Instruction of South Sudan, the Royal Council of Aceh Dara Salam,

which as far as I can tell, ceased to exist in 1945, Tony National University, because of course, and the President of the United States. Oh, and their email is dotPL for Poland, because of course. Now, the AEPA, for what is worth, claims to have graduated 499 children. Loads of the website is peppered with Laura Mipson placeholder texts. Testimonials include, quote,

Donekfell Ague Lassina by Laura Fenty, who is a quote senior garden of farmer, and Fasalasit Ahmed Eurna Akmetus Aquilum Voltaipet in Anula, which of course means the fleet should be a lot of fun and fearsome Voltape in Anula. That's by Al Hossein, by the way, and as luck would have it, he's also a senior guard. than the farmer. I mean,

what is this? Is this sound scammy as shit? David doesn't think so. He runs a Patreon called David Williams Unleashed, which costs $200 a month and covers topics like the Maryland Naturalization Act of 1779

and the British Stamp Act of 1765. Basically just legal papers are used to push his sovereign citizens' agenda. Is he doing better than us? What does he need? Two followers? Yeah, maybe.

I mean, if you pay us $200 a month, we're going to send Danny on assignment with Max Blumenthal. Jesus, terrible joke. I mean, you would have to spring for a defense attorney. I've since been emailing with David.

I mean, he calls me a quote, prolific writer of fiction, which, thank you, David. I did do a bit of fiction back in a day. I'll spare you some of the details of these email back and forth, but basically he denies all illegality related to the minion

since 2003. and he's really obsessed with its Wikipedia page. See if you can make sense of this. There are no actual verified defaults of any illegality, since illegality is a matter of law and jurisdiction, a matter of standing and court judgments. I have read all of the US agency information, which I found weighted and likewise duplicity

based on the operations of its Federal Reserve at its off-book money printing operations, which is used, as I have been formed more than once, to bribe other nations and its leaders in such instances as former President Obama giving 400 million cash to Iran the alleged US enemy. So, yeah, does that make sense?

I'm not really sure it does. I mean, this guy does like voice to dictation as well. It's like completely bad shit. And David, since I don't want to get on your bad side again, I'm going to end this episode. We are at the end, guys, with one of David's emails to me. see if you can detect any red flags

quote the massive amount of fraud on this planet with men such as Biden Zelensky, Clintons and elite families control a fraudulent global banking system and your best, he means me, is to try and do some hit piece on me and DoM I mean what do you reckon? Is this show a hatchet job?

I'm exhausted, man. Yeah, I would be exhausted too and hopefully people appreciate your effort as always, bonus is up on the Patreon, patreon.com, slash in a world podcast, iTunes. Yeah, I guess that's it, man. Enjoy your holiday.

Wait, is it the holidays next weekend? Yeah, this stuff. Anyway. This stuff. Yeah. Yeah, there's something. Enjoy yourself in general. Some follow the noise.

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