David Emory (born 1949) is an American

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host and

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, born in

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, based in the

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. Self-described "anti-fascist researcher", he is known for his radio show which purports to uncover

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and

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; among his more notable claims is that the

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was connected to the

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Weekly radio programs

Dave Emory, since the 1980s, has produced, written and hosted several radio programs: ''The Guns of November,'' ''Miscellaneous Archive Shows,'' ''One Step Beyond'' and ''Anti-Fascist Archives'' (formerly ''Radio Free America''). In 1983, Emory and "Nip Tuck" (AKA

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) created ''The Guns of November'', a four-part four-hour-long-segments series on the

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for

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's radio station,

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, in

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. Emory became co-host of KFJC's ''One Step Beyond'' which started in 1979 and was a multi-hour Sunday night phone-in show hosted by Nip Tuck focused on political topics emphasising "Nazi spies, CIA mind control experiments and mercenaries, among others." In the 2000s, Emory's ''For the Record'' series has aired every Monday on KKUP-FM,

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, Wednesday on

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, in the early a.m. hours Thursday on

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, Thursdays and Fridays on KFJC, and Fridays on

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. Descriptions and summaries of ''For the Record'' programs are archived and maintained by SpitfireList.com. Audio archives are maintained by

. Recent programs consist of two 30-minute monologues or telephone interviews on one or more topics, including

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, the

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movements and international banking scandals. Recurring topics also include the Kennedy assassination and its alleged relations to the

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and the

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-controlled

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and banking, the

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, the

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, the

and its business connections to the

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family and the

(through Senator

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), the P-2 Lodge,

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s. Interview guests include writer Kevin Coogan, author John Loftus, author

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, freelance journalist and 2004 presidential candidate John Buchanan, and investigative journalists

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and Robert Parry.

"The Underground Reich"

Emory frequently propounds the existence of an "Underground Reich" as a central feature of his broader theses. An entity which maintains the long-term interests of German-based multinational conglomerates, it includes heavy industry, chemicals, communications, as well as international shipping, banking and financial interests. Emory contends that the many units which make up the "Underground Reich", having survived

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, persist and flourish as major components of the current global capital elite. Boris Kachka of

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wrote, "According to Dave Emory’s radio programs, nearly every figure in world politics is a tendril of the “Underground Reich”, a network including Hitler's personal secretary". Kachka agrees there were obvious connections around World War II, "but Emory’s present-day analysis is a little more paranoid, even for the age of WikiLeaks".

References

External links

SpitfireList, Dave Emory's website

WFMU's streaming audio archive of Dave Emory's programs

Dave Emory's Politics of Acrimony
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Weekly radio programs

"The Underground Reich"

See also

References

External links