#BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon “…MKUltra-type programs have… proven useful as diversionary narratives." Project MKUltra,CIA run experiments during the 50s-70s using torture, drugs, and hypnosis on US and Canadian citizens to determine efficacy in producing a confession.
"Is living on borrowed time. Getting away cheap. Never caring about who's paying for it, who's starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs…planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering…” #BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon
#BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon “…visiting-lecturer gigs, including at the infamous School of the Americas.” School of the Americas(renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)trains Latin American military personal.Many were accused of human rights abuses,including rape and murder.
#BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon “…a cadre of…U.S. veterans of the Dirty War who then stayed on to advise the IMF stooges…” Argentina’s Dirty War of the 1970s-80s refers to the period of military rule, including that of Jorge Rafael Videla, and the state sponsored terrorism, including Operation Condor..
#BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon “…the planes that bombed the presidential palace and killed Salvador Allende.” Nixon ordered,Kissinger advised, and CIA-lead coup to remove Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973 with the military junta of Augusto Pinochet taking power.
"My mother demonstrated….” "Nicaragua…Ronald Raygun and his little pals." Iran-Contra affair where in the 1980s arms were sold illegally to Iran to sent funds to the Contras (rebel group who employed acts of violence against civilians) in Nicaragua. #BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon
“Politically her family was trouble…activists with a…hatred for United Fruit…” In 2007,United Fruit,now Chiquita, pleaded guilty to paying $1.7m. to the Self-Defense Forces of Colombia(AUC),a terrorist group,and today it’s refusing to pay $38m. to victims’ families. #BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon
“…the destination borderline is between Haiti and the Dominican Republic,uneasy with melancholy karma dating back to the days of the Perejil Massacre…” Perejil Massacre,1937 mass killing of Haitians,ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo,trained by the US Marines. #BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon
“Culture, I'm sorry, Hermann Göring was right, every time you hear the word, check your sidearm. Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted." #BleedingEdge#ThomasPynchon
