It's about time. . . .

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

    Me:  
    Fine groovy, and all that but---
    Why the focus on I.G. Farben in GR? Or is that the wrong question?
 
    Monte Davis
    Umm... Because it was a real industrial conglomerate in Germany,

     Bon Ami;
     incorporated on Wall Street, in co-operation with 
     Brown Brothers Harriman (as in Averill Harriman and Prescott Bush)

     and, because without Farben and the other banks' support
     Hitler would have been nothing

     --- it's as if Deutsche Bank sponsored David Duke's 
     winning presidential campaign and organized the weapons
     factories for his Resurgent Confederate Army ---

      Monte Davis:
      leave it at that

      BMI:
      yeah, before I start frothing at the mouth...

Which leaves me where I started. Assuming that the Pynchon family 
fortune is tied into the tale, then Our Beloved Author was probably 
aware of what the Bushes were up to as of the time he worked on 
Gravity's Rainbow. And I'm sorry, but Pynchon's political skew is patently 
obvious. He might point out the human flaws of his 'counterforce', but 
mostly it proves that they're human, unlike the ubiquitous and not so 
human forces of 'them', Pynchon's chosen name for the fiscal illumanati 
[and whatever else fed into his paranoia, but mostly the 
'military-industrial-complex']  in Gravity's Rainbow.

By the way, Cometman, did you watch http://zeitgeistmovie.com/ ?