War Notes, and life's natural aburdities // Kevin, you want conspiracies, we got 'em...

[Michael Bailey]

(top posting, long day and I didn't feel like snipping)

Roosevelt had goons from the Chicago Democrat machine come up from
the basement at the 1940 Democratic Convention, grab signs away from the
other candidates' boosters, and start a "Roosevelt" cheer as if it was a
grass roots acclamation from the hearts of the attendees.

Well maybe his people did that, not himself.  Still, Bush-league
tactics to be sure.
My dad remembers hearing the Roosevelt cheer on the radio.

Burton Wheeler (Senator from Montana during those populist times)
was one of the other candidates whose signs were grabbed...even from
the hands of his kids who were representing him (as the kids say) at the Con.

Wheeler's autobio, still a good read, relates how he (Wheeler) had come
upon a plan in 1940 for military conquest in Europe and Asia and was about
to leak it to the press...but then Pearl Harbor happened.

Admiral Forrestal appears to have been aware of some jiggery-pokery
with the official Pearl Harbor story, and we all know what happened to him
http://www.rense.com/general69/advance.htm

(For that matter, Hale Boggs dissented from the Warren Commission's
findings, and we all know what happened to him)

The Dude (Charles Hollander) has made a case for Burton Wheeler being a
simulacrum of some order or other of an objective correlative for Zoyd Wheeler
in Pynchon's (wonderful) book, _Vineland_
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/wanda.htm (Wheeler connection
embedded in other major arcana)
btw, Otto's Pynchon page http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/ rocketh.

Also, Roosevelt was tolerated by the oil-i-garchy because his measures
staved off the much more radical populism of Huey Long.

Mises et al make a case for the Federal Reserve having caused
the Great Depression, and New Deal measures having prolonged it.

Pynchon is on top of all this material.  This is most evident in GR,
but it imbues his other work as well.  The Hollander articles are available
on Michael Ryckx's site as well: http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/

So if one were interested in the theme of conspiracy and paranoia
in Pynchon, one could do worse than to look at vheissu.info and ottosell.de,
maybe starting with the Charles Hollander articles and emanating from there...

I personally relate more strongly to the aesthetic and literary values
in Pynchon than to the conspiracy-master, the anarchist philosopher,
the occultist.
But have been fascinated enough by those other facets to spend more than
a few golden hours looking at source material on them...
mind-blowing stuff!

On 9/3/08, K3 V iN Cummiskey <kevincummiskey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  The Yellow-Peril and Co. hailing from Nippon were never in the business of making land-grap in a easterly fashion, towards the islands of Hawaii. One day, Roosavelt called Hirohito and said - "we're gonna be cutting off our supplies of the black-goo and other necessary war-materials to you, and go fuck-yourselves." Well, Japan needed american-shit to pursue her wars and land-graps in her own back-yard, which she was pursing because she had squat in the way of natural resources at home.  Rusesavelt, called on Japan because he suspected they would totally over-react and knew they had the capacity to do so.  Yamamoto and his ilk did Perl Harbor in order, they thought, to keep the Yankees out of Indonesia and other real-estate so they could continue raping unabated and and aquiring the neccesities necessary to keep the lights burning and perpellers-a-rotating. As the day in infamy recalls, they did over react. americans on the hole didnt want to get into the
>   war-games, at that time, so Ruseavelt needed some spectacular reason to super charge the american ass.  That's why he baited Japan, because he wanted in the big games, in a big way, to spur war-profits and make a name for himself. And the american pubic bought the now-immediate, at the time, and dastardly reason to get into the big games too, hook line and sinker. That's really how we got into second series of great-wars mid-century of the last spent century.
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