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Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Anything's possible with the Decider I suppose. Personally, I think he was snatching up that land when the first signs of a one way trip to Hague seemed like it was in his future for all of his crimes against humanity, but with this lunatic, who knows. Good thread either way, some food for thought...
My Amazon Review
This book was recommended by someone I respect very much. It was definately an interesting look into the planting, hunting, and detention of the German spies before, during, and after World War II.
The Double-Cross system was also informative as well, and the games that spies on all sides played in order to make certain their side won were informative and interesting.
Some of the things that were done were quite simple and some were extremely difficult and diverse. It was definately worth purchasing and I only wish I had heard of the book sooner than last year.
Amazon Review
Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution? That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust, the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth. "IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg."
The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project. The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data. Black says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort. Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians? Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.
The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York know about IBM Germany's work, and when? Black documents a scary game of brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler. He shamefully delayed returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany. (Hitler was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated in How Hitler Could Have Won World War II.)
Black has created a must-read work of history. But it's also a fascinating business book examining the colliding influences of personality, morality, and cold strategic calculation. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Oh, if I had to harbor a guess, this last post of yours, SKL, seems the most plausible to me. There's a lot of room to hide in those thar woods. lol. We were all screaming that back when this story first broke. It seemed a pretty conspicuous place to snatch up such a giant expanse of land--Sort of like somebody was foreseeing the writing on the wall, and making preparations for going on the lam when necessary. But it could go either way-It could be an escape route, or it quite possibly could be some sort of maneuvering ground in this self-grandeurized "revisionist's" plans...
[edit on 27-7-2008 by DimensionalDetective]
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Or it could be a COMBINATION thereof! I have a feeling that some of these mercs will be put into use when TSHTF, both foreign, and domestically...That's why I think they're pushing so hard to establish domestic training bases here. Now, perhaps you're on to something---Perhaps a simultanious launching pad for a corporatized and privatized war might be initiated by one of these "guns for hire" corps, AS WELL as serve as a "buffer zone" for TPTB inside a hard-to-reach parameter?
Hmm, interesting indeed...
Originally posted by TheRepublic
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
you are correct about that. bush is just the most crystalized example of being a traitor.
most of congress and the senate are too. money hungrey corporate globalist whores one and all. bankrupting the country, marching us into WW3, and planning a summer home in the wilds of bolivia.
stop the planet, i want off...
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
I agree,
As was stated in the hearings,
Bush cannot be prosecuted WHILE IN OFFICE..
but when he's out, he's fair game.
Thus, as soon as he's out '' if that day comes '' I expect him to announce a long vacation on his new property.