Programmed to Chill Jimmy Falun Gong

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Songs:

I’m Gonna Live Some Before I Die by Faron Young

Putin by Raus

Monsters You Made by Burna Boy feat. Chris Martin

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Songs:

Go Back, You Fool by Faron Young

Forget the Past by Faron Young

False Flag by Massive Attack

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Songs:

I Hear You Talkin’ by Faron Young

Live Fast, Love hard, Die Young by Faron Young

Face to the Wall by Faron Young

[originally published on Patreon March 22, 2024]



This is the fifteenth and last installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.



Rodolfo and I finish discussing the film La Llorona. We get into some of the more spiritual themes of the film. We sincerepost and share our thoughts on spirituality more generally. This leads to a discussion of family ghost stories, and we each share one. 



Songs:

La Llorona by Gaby Moreno

Ghost Party by Messer Chups

[originally published on Patreon March 21, 2024]



Diving deeply into the claims made in the film La Llorona, I examine the question of Guatemala's oil industry in the wake of the 1954 coup and onwards, especially during La Violencia. As it turns out, most of the story deals with a company named Basic Resources International SA, or BRISA. 



BRISA was owned by Sir James Goldsmith, a very curious man from a curious family. A corporate raider, far-right donor, and backer of private military contractor companies. I discuss the relationship between conservation movements and PMCs, and how the Goldsmith family backed both. 



This leads me to discuss the privatization of intelligence, such as Six Eye / 6I, and Goldsmith's ties to Le Cercle. That, in turn, leads to a discussion of the P2 Lodge which itself loops right back to Banco Ambrosiano and would you look at that - BRISA again.



Then, I lay out BRISA's money moves and acquisitions next to the events of La Violencia and it starts to look more and more like the genocide was to move the Mayans off oil-rich lands. Finally, I find the piece of the puzzle to connect BRISA to the genocide directly via the case of General Vernon Walters. 



Then, I cite several key examples which strengthen the hypothesis. After that, I explain what happened to the Guatemalan oil industry afterwards, where Guatemalan gangs came from, and why Guatemala continues to be unstable.

Songs:
False Flags by Massive Attack
Third World Blood by Behind Enemy Lines

[originally published on Patreon March 20, 2024]



I am joined by Rodolfo (from the Bolaño series) to discuss the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, which features a lightly fictionalized account of a Montt stand-in and deals with the psychic and spiritual fallout from La Violencia. We discuss about half of the film's plot which led us to one of the throwaway lines in the film - the question of Guatemalan mineral rights. 



Songs:

Lonely Surf Guitar by the Safaris

Surfin’ Todd by the Burzums