The Dominion of Melchizedek (1993)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It’s June 2nd. This day in 1993, the very-fake nation known as “The Dominion Of Melchizedek” received official recognition from the Central African Republic. The Dominion was a nation set up to commit bank fraud, but now it was formally recognized as a sovereign state.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how Melchizedek was able to exploit a number of legal loopholes to establish itself — and how the scheme brought up all sorts of deeper questions about politics, religion, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia, my name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:09.0 | Let me just say right off the bat that this is a listener suggestion. This comes to us from Joseph and we love listener suggestions, but as I get into this, please remember, Joseph is responsible for the words that we are all about to say and what I'm about to read because this gets very weird very quick so this day |
| 0:27.0 | June 3rd 1993 Andre Kalingba the president of the Central African Republic wrote a letter formally acknowledging |
| 0:36.2 | quote an ecclesiastical sovereignty by the name of the Dominion of Melkise deck. |
| 0:42.3 | This was a big deal for the Dominion of Melkizadak. This was a big deal for the Dominion of Melkizadak. |
| 0:45.0 | This was formal recognition by a real state, the Central African Republic, |
| 0:49.0 | of what is safe to say their very fake micronation. It was a micronation, the |
| 0:54.4 | Dominion of Melkizidek, and it was founded by one very ambitious and very |
| 0:58.8 | unscrupulous American to basically, I think, commit bank fraud, and it would lead to a long and bizarre game of |
| 1:06.2 | cat and mouse with authorities and the SEC, but also raise all sorts of questions about |
| 1:10.8 | statehood and recognition and sovereignty and what is a religion and what are scams and yeta, |
| 1:15.0 | yada, yada, yada. |
| 1:16.0 | So, Nicole and Kelly, are you confused yet? |
| 1:19.0 | I actually have a beautiful mind-style layout here that connects all the pieces. |
| 1:25.0 | Yes, I mean this is you know ultimately a scam but it ties into all sorts of |
| 1:30.2 | deeper political questions that of course is |
| 1:33.1 | is Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley. |
| 1:35.6 | Hello there. |
| 1:36.6 | Hello Jody. |
| 1:37.3 | Hey there. |
| 1:38.8 | And before we get into the details I do want to read from a there was a big article in the |
| 1:42.3 | Washington Post in the late 90s |
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