Re: IVIV: Chapter four—a deceptively sunny and uneventful spin

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Tue Sep 8 19:27:38 CDT 2009


On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

>
> Great Stuff Robin. This research really adds depth to the setting  
> and storyline. I recently sold a window to a neighboring couple who  
> share an interest in gardening and art museums. Turns out she  
> worked for Bell labs when the Arpa/Darpa net was first being  
> developed. She was telling some mildly big brotherish stories of  
> the defense Dept people who had a floor in the building and along  
> with whatever other "security" issues under their domain actively  
> oversaw the people who worked there, talking to their neighbors etc.
>
> The Wiki on Manhattan Beach is interesting. And speaking of the  
> CIA, it is hard for me not to see connective tissue linking  the  
> Golden Fang to the Golden Triangle and CIA and older capitalist  
> interests converging there.  The links to the international  
> conspiracy of dentists and involving many lower level dental  
> technicians is more obvious but shouldn't distract us from  
> considering levels still higher and deeper.
>
> Guess its time for a second reading and some digging.
>
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