VL: Wheresoever the CIA putteth in its meathooks upon the world

[Michael Bailey]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Marijuana Initiative Challenges Costly, Bloody Drug War
> by Tom Hayden posted on Thursday, 2 September 2010

there's a name from the bright shining 60s!  I wonder what he thinks of Obama?

> The UBC was not a 'bank'
>        at all but 'in reality a clearing house' for many assets and
>        enterprises held by Fritz Thyssen, a German steel magnate who
>        has written about his role in helping to finance the Third Reich.
>        Located close to Bush's 59 Wall Street office, it was 'founded in
>        1924 by W. Averell Harriman on behalf of Thyssen and his
>        Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N. V. of Holland.'"
>
>

ok, now here's something - in GR pretty early on (so early that we
actually got to it, or almost to it, or close, maybe, in the truncated
2005 read?)
you've got the flashback on Slothrop's part of being part of a crowd
of adults and kids
(Slothrop, it seems to me, is reaching back pretty far, as if it's a
childhood memory)
watching from afar as a mansion, pretty sure a Harriman mansion,
burns down.  And everybody has this kind of camaraderie as they watch,
adults have a somewhat more meaningful interpretation


Which is an interesting reversal of how I picture these rich people
getting together and enjoying each others' company
(the Bush biography by Kitty Kelley is full of details on the
Mafia-strength personal loyalties their crowd espouses)
while other peoples' houses burn...

...but maybe not the author's main thrust for the incident...we'll
probably cover that next GR group read (-;  right?