BEg2 ch32 brief summary (of a pretty brief chapter)

[Mark Kohut]

I think there is no evidence for this AT ALL. Pure projection.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 3:59 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> So I am increasingly convinced that Maxine and Thrubwell’s reference to
> the thinktankTango is a reference to the Manhattan Institute. I see it as
> one of many ways in which P is observing the historic continuity leading to
> the W presidency that came out of the CIA/Raygun/ Nixon /permanent
> war/surveillance state/fascist eugenics roots of US UK CA, AU imperialism.
> This fundamentally Anglo empire, having absorbed and become dominant over
> the Axis powers, is traced in various dimensions from COL49 through
> Vineland, to Inherent Vice and BE. It  becomes a major theme of his magnum
> opus ATD, particulalry the roles of espionage, Union busting, mining and
> transportation systems .   The fact that the Anglo empire won WW2 is
> portrayed in GR as a technological/market based victory, not as a moral
> victory. The leaders of the UK US victory are every bit as comitted to
> behaviorist social control,  and the skilled application of violence as the
> Reich and have a similar history of racism and land theft through war.
>     William Casey,  former OSS top officer and head of CIA under Reagan
> who founded the Manhattan Institute(funded by Rockefeller money) along with
> a british counterpart, brought CIA heavy G HW Bush in the Reagan
> administration, headed the South american Dirty Wars, and    died days
> before scheduled to testify about his role in Iran Contra is the real-life
> mastermind of patterns represented  as much by Windust as by Ice.  His
> current influence continues in individuals like  David Frum, Eric Schmidt,
> Rudy Giuliani, Bill Kristol( all part of Manhattan Institute) and the
> resurgence of overt racism under Trump. Bill Kristol, leading thinker of
> the NeoCons is part of the Manhattan Institute but I can’t find when he
> first worked for them. When W ran for president he was under the influence
> of MI writer Myron Magnet’s Dream and Nightmare: 60’s legacy to the
> underclass and used the book as a blueprint for the ‘compassionate
> conservatism” he ran on. Of course all that went out the window on 9-11 and
> the ideas of Kristol and the regime changers took center stage. Dick Cheney
> put forth this vision for the “intelligence” community led police state in
> his Total Information Awareness proposal. This is clearly a major, if not
> the major theme of BE, the rise of the IT  from survival communication
> after war to global spy network. It was rejected ideologically and derided
> as a nightmare visionin most of the mainstream press. Obama did TIA on the
> qt and when exposed, criminalized the whistleblower, generally demonizing
> all who exposed the CIA.   What I am trying to say is tha BE is almost
> prescient as to where the empire was headed and it doesn’t matter if you
> expose it by “following the money” or by following the trail of blood,
> because, like Assange,Snowden, or Sy Hirsch you will become the target of a
> huge imperial war-culture machine.
>    The fact that this horrible turning point is so fully empowered by 9-11
> is hard to miss, and the idea of an inside job which is in no way dismissed
> and in many ways endorsed in BE has been in my opinion far too easily
> dismissed, just as the JFK murder by Dulles and friends.
>    So much for today. Back to Chapter 33  and the Jetsons version of
> Departure/Deep Archer next.
>
>
>
> > On Jul 14, 2022, at 1:15 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >
> > I Thought Reg's microsoft joke ," the dress code takes some getting used
> to, all the breathing apparatus and stormtrooper gear . . .” ,was damn
> funny.
> > The idea that Thrubwell’s role in the CIA was an extension of his
> personal trip from childhood of finding embarassing information for fun and
> personal power was interesting,  a somewhat nixonesque interpretation of
> career style.  Later we find Ice is using such tactics to try to get sole
> control of Deep Archer. Is the movement toward a surveilance state driven
> by a widespread social,political, legal  and business use/abuse of personal
> information?
> >
> > Is the think tank Tango that Maxi discusses with Thrubwell really the
> Manhattan Institute?
> > Manhatten Think Tank Integral
> > To Bush Administration Policies
> > By Robert Lederman
> > robert.lederman at worldnet.att.net
> > 2-27-2
> >
> > Axis of Evil: Another Manhattan Institute Slogan in Service to the NWO
> >
> > The man who coined GW's now infamous slogan, "Axis of Evil" was a senior
> fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI) before joining the Bush
> administration. He's just been dropped from the Bush payroll according to
> the Washington Times [see article below]. MI also coined the slogan,
> "Compassionate Conservatism" for GW, who publicly claims the
> Rockefeller-funded organizations' influence on his thinking is, "second
> only to the Holy Bible".
> >
> > What is the Manhattan Institute?
> >
> > MI is a right wing think tank founded in 1978 by William Casey,
> Bush/Reagan's CIA director. Following WWII Casey helped bring thousands of
> former Nazis involved in eugenics and the Holocaust to the U.S. As CIA
> director he later funded bin Laden and Co. with billions in arms, terrorist
> training and cash and was also a key player in arming the Contras.
> >
> > MI is funded by JP Morgan/Chase bank (owned by David Rockefeller) and by
> pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and Lilly) directly connected to
> Rockefeller, Bush senior and many of the current Bush administration
> officials. Bush senior was director of Eli Lilly in the late 70's. Bush
> Budget director Mitch Daniels was also a Lilly senior executive. Donald
> Rumsfeld formerly headed Searle Pharmaceuticals. All of these companies
> depend in large part for their products on research originally done by the
> IG Farben chemical cartel in Nazi Germany.
> >
> > Rockefeller's Chase bank was among Hitler's biggest U.S. supporters
> before and during WWII. The Rockefeller families' Standard Oil of NJ was
> half owner of IG Farben - the industrial base of the entire Third Reich. GW
> Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush and Prescott's father-in-law George
> Herbert Walker (who GW is named after) were Wall Street bankers whose
> fortune was made operating and financing shipping companies, banks and
> steel foundries for the Nazi regime.
> >
> > MI's most famous alumni after Rudy Giuliani is Charles Murray author of
> "The Bell Curve" a modern classic of eugenics. The Bell Curve popularized
> the idea that Blacks are genetically inferior in intelligence to Whites as
> a justification for eliminating welfare, increasing so-called quality of
> life arrests, limiting parole, taking children from Black families etc.
> Murray was a paid consultant on Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson's welfare
> program and is a spokesman for the Federalist Society, which has direct
> ties to a number of current U.S. Supreme Court judges.
> >
> > Thompson's #2 man on welfare reform was Jason Turner, who Rudy Giuliani
> later hired to head up NYC's welfare reform. Turner actually quoted the
> motto from the gates of Auschwitz to explain Giuliani's workfare policy and
> was later forced to apologize. Rudy Giuliani also claims to get all of his
> ideas directly from MI. Many of his policy ideas are directly based on
> Murray's books.
> >
> > MI has spearheaded a decades long effort to make the goals of eugenics
> respectable again. The Bush family, the Harriman family (the Wall Street
> business partners of Bush in financing Hitler) and the Rockefeller family
> are the elite of the American eugenics movement.
> >
> > Axis of Evil. You'll find the center of that axis right here in NYC at
> the Manhattan Institute.
> >
> > To verify that David Frum is associated with MI see:
> http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl0607 99.htm <
> http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl060799.htm> "Where Did the Sixties Come
> From? By David Frum Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute."
> >
> > Or do a search at the MI website on David Frum manhattan-institute.org
> There are hundreds of pages of documents related to him.
> >
> > Hundreds of mainstream media quotes on the Manhattan Institute, Bush,
> Giuliani, the CIA, Chase Bank and the connection of them all to Nazism,
> eugenics and 9/11 will be found in the articles at:
> http://baltech.org/lederman/ <http://baltech.org/lederman/> At the end of
> the eugenics article below are a sample of these quotes which I've spent
> eight years compiling.
> >
> > Excerpted from THE WASHINGTON TIMES 2/26/2002
> http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=200
> 20226-12 681279 <
> http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20020226-12681279>
> 'Axis of evil' writer leaves Bush's staff author: Robert Stacy McCain
> "David Frum, credited with authoring the headline "axis of evil" phrase in
> President Bush's State of the Union address, has left the White House
> speechwriting staff. "It has been the experience of a lifetime and it's
> been the honor of a lifetime to be here during this presidency," Mr. Frum
> said in a telephone interview yesterday. "I leave with nothing but the
> highest regard for all of my colleagues."...Mr. Frum specifically denied
> commentator Robert Novak's claim, made yesterday on CNN's "Inside
> Politics," that he was ousted from the speechwriting team because the
> president was angered by an e-mail from Mr. Frum's wife that became public
> this month. Author Danielle Crittenden e-mailed friends after the Jan. 29
> State of the Union address expressing "wifely pride" that her husband had
> contributed the "axis of evil" phrase. Mrs. Crittenden's e-mail was
> published in an Internet journal by writer Timothy Noah...As for his role
> in the "axis of evil" speech, Mr. Frum said: "I contributed language to the
> president's speech. That is what I was paid to do. But what matters is not
> the language that is proposed to the president; what matters is the
> language the president decides to use. ... The words become important only
> because the president uses them." He praised Mr. Bush, saying, "I began
> [the White House job] thinking he would be a good president, but I go
> thinking he's proven himself to be one of the great presidents of American
> history."
> >
> > Eugenics: More alive than ever by Robert Lederman
> robert.lederman at worldnet.att.net http://baltech.org/lederman/ <
> http://baltech.org/lederman/> (extensive documentation to support the
> statements in this essay will be found at the website)
> >
> > Contrary to the commonly-held belief that eugenics programs ceased at
> the end of WWII, this pseudo-science has merely changed it's terminology
> and undergone a public relations makeover, retooled by think tanks like the
> Manhattan Institute. Today, eugenics is alive and well under the guise of
> su ch seemingly unrelated things as The Human Genome Project, genetic
> alteration of the food supply, U.N. population control measures, mandatory
> vaccinations, pesticide misuse, welfare reform, school vouchers, efforts to
> institute a national I.D., the war on drugs and the ever-expanding prison
> industrial complex.
> >
> > Nowhere has the new eugenics - or as it was nicknamed by the Manhattan
> Institute "compassionate conservatism" - become public policy as thoroughly
> as in New York City under the administration of Rudy Giuliani.
> >
> > Modern eugenics incorporates racial profiling, deliberately exposing
> people to massive amounts of pollutants and experimental vaccines,
> government agencies distributing drugs in order to create addiction and
> feed the prison system, denying equal educational opportunities and then
> claiming the resultant lack of achievement among targeted groups "proves"
> their lower intelligence, the massive over-prescription of pharmaceutical
> drugs and antidepressants, deliberately infecting people with diseases and
> any other governmental or corporate policies intended to reduce the
> fertility, lifespan or chances of success of specific groups of people.
> >
> > Eugenics is practiced in many nations today and depending on who is
> behind it the targeted groups can be Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Africans, gays,
> the poor or any one else those in power wish to downsize or eliminate. Hard
> as it may be for most Americans to comprehend, the entire population of
> this nation is increasingly finding itself subject to eugenics-based
> policies.
> >
> > If this sounds far-fetched ask yourself where issues such as rationing
> medical care and the so-called right-to-die are headed? Americans may
> someday find themselves asked to die for their country for economic rather
> than national defense purposes.
> >
> > Nowhere else on earth did the ideas of eugenics reach such a complete
> marriage to a government's policies as in Nazi Germany. While Nazi Germany
> may have been defeated, many of it's ideas are alive and well and have
> found a welcome reception here in the U.S.
> >
> > In a sense, the thousands of actual Nazis that were brought to the U.S.
> following WWII by men such as CIA director and founder of the Manhattan
> Institute, William Casey, were coming home to the source of the eugenics
> policies that made Nazi Germany infamous. In our nation's medical, military
> and educational establishments they found like-minded people of enormous
> influence who were more than ready to make use of their experience. Most
> importantly, they found unlimited funding from the Rockefeller family and
> it 's maze of philanthropies, medical research institutions and media
> outlets.
> >
> > I tend to focus to a great degree on the Manhattan Institute, and for
> good reason. It is funded by Rockefeller's JP Morgan Chase bank, which
> admits it enthusiastically helped Hitler through much of WWII.
> Rockefeller's Standard Oil was half-owner of IG Farben, the industrial
> powerhouse of Nazi Germany. Among it's claims to fame, I.G. Farben was the
> builder and operator of Auschwitz and forty other slave labor death camps.
> Bayer, BASF and numerous other pharmaceutical and chemical companies are
> subsidiaries of I.G. Farben.
> >
> > Both Rudy Giuliani and GW Bush claim they get their ideas directly from
> the Manhattan Institute.
> >
> > MI is responsible for the academic reputation of Charles Murray, author
> of the Bell Curve, a modern classic of eugenics which advances the idea
> that Blacks are genetically inferior as a justification to cut government
> social programs. Most of the research the Bell Curve cites was funded by
> the Pioneer Fund, an openly pro-eugenics and pro-Nazi group with extensive
> ties to the entire white supremacy movement.
> >
> > Murray wrote The Bell Curve during eight years as MI's top resident
> scholar. His ideas and works are promoted to this day on their website and
> formed the basis of Giuliani's welfare reform, homelessness, quality of
> life, school voucher and privatization campaigns. GW Bush claims MI's
> influence on his ideas is second only to the Bible.
> >
> > In short, we now live in a society almost as eugenically-oriented as
> Nazi Germany was. There are two significant differences. One is that our
> eugenics policy is not directed specifically at Jews but tends to focus, at
> least for now, on Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos and impoverished Whites.
> >
> > The second difference is that our eugenics policy uses terminology which
> unlike that used in Nazi Germany never acknowledges what it is really
> about. Imagine a Nazi propaganda campaign intended to convince Jews that
> plans for their extermination were based on compassion and you'd have the
> situation we are now witnessing today.
> >
> > To fight eugenics in light of this reality we must first overcome two
> very mistaken ideas. The first is that this pseudo-science ended during
> WWII. The second is that having great personal freedom, Americans will
> never be forced to submit to such an agenda. If we don't wake up soon, we
> may be the last generations of Americans to hold these mistaken notions.
> >
> > NY Times June 12, 2000 Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative
> Thinkers "Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been shaped
> by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute."
> >
> > NY Times 5/12/97 Manhattan Institute Has Nudged New York Rightward
> "...the institute was founded as a free-market education and research
> organization by William Casey, who then went off to head the Central
> Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration."
> >
> > From The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders, New Press [pg
> 132] "The fund raising arm of the Free Europe Committee [a CIA front] was
> The Crusade for Freedom for which a young actor named Ronald Reagan was a
> leading spokesman and publicist. The Crusade for Freedom was used to
> launder money to support a program run by Bill Casey, the future CIA
> director, called the International Refugee Committee in New York [aka
> International Rescue Committee], which allegedly coordinated the
> exfiltration of Nazis from Germany to the United States where they were
> expected to assist the government in fighting Communism...[pg 142]...The
> Ford Foundation gave $500,000 to Bill Casey's International Rescue
> Committee and substantial grants to another CIA front, the World Assembly
> of Youth...the convergence between the Rockefeller billions and the U.S.
> government exceeded even that of the Ford Foundation ."
> >
> > NY Daily News 12/7/98 Chase Banked On Nazis - Report "The New York-based
> bank controlled by the Rockefeller family closed Jewish accounts even
> before the Germans ordered them to do so and did business with the Nazis
> while they were sending Jews to the gas chambers, Newsweek magazine reports
> in this week's edition. And while the U.S. was at war with the Nazis, Chase
> also apparently helped German banks do business with their overseas
> branches, the magazine reported...The relationship between Chase and the
> Nazis apparently was so cozy that Carlos Niedermann, the Chase branch chief
> in Paris, wrote his supervisor in Manhattan that the bank enjoyed "very
> special esteem" with top German officials and "a rapid expansion of
> deposits." Niedermann's letter was written in May 1942 - five months after
> the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. also went to war with
> Germany...And subsidiaries of Ford and General Motors have been accused of
> forcing thousands of Jews, Poles and others to work as slave laborers."
> >
> > Boston Sunday Globe 2/22/98 "The Manhattan Institute clearly has become
> the force, and there is no progressive force to counter it. There isn't
> even a debate.' "The mayor has a very close working relationship with the
> Manhattan Institute," Giuliani's communications director, Crystine
> Lategano, said...Another sign of how much New York has changed: The most
> influential source of political ideas is a conservative think tank that was
> founded by [William Casey] Margaret Thatcher's mentor and Ronald Reagan's
> spymaster."
> >
> > The Hard Heart of Poverty, 4/3/2001 Washington Post "His name is Myron
> Magnet. Eight years ago he published a book called "The Dream and the
> Nightmare," which George W. Bush has called the most influential book --
> aside from the Bible -- that he's ever read. The new president's chief
> political strategist, Karl Rove, has declared "The Dream and the Nightmare"
> a "road map" to Bush's attitudes on the role of government. Magnet, 56, has
> also written columns defining compassionate conservatism for the Wall
> Street Journal and for City Journal, the provocative urban policy magazine
> he edits for the neoconservative Manhattan Institute...Giuliani, who says
> he often has drawn on Magnet's "searching" writings, goes further: A
> "tyranny of political correctness rules intellectual life" in New York, he
> says. "It's like the Spanish Inquisition."
> >
> > "Education and Welfare: Meeting the Challenge A Message from CCI
> Chairman, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith [CCI is a division of Manhattan
> Institute] America is in the midst of an urban renaissance...CCI's April
> conference "Next Steps in Welfare Reform" highlighted just how far we've
> come. The conference brought together public officials like Wisconsin
> Governor Tommy Thompson [GW Bush's Sec. of Health and Human Welfare] and
> scholars like Dr. Charles Murray [author of The Bell Curve] to discuss how
> governments and private groups have reduced dependency and increased
> self-sufficiency...Fifteen years after the Manhattan Institute published
> Charles Murray's landmark study of American welfare policy, Losing Ground,
> the presentations showed that ideas once seen as radical now form the
> mainstream of the welfare debate."
> >
> >
> > "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus,
> former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the
> Florida Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
> http://www.newscoas t.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115 <
> http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115>
> >
> > Philadelphia Inquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one
> of several with possible Nazi links," 9/10/98
> >
> > From an announcement on the MI website in 1999
> http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ <http://www.manhattan-institute.org/>
> Center for Civic Innovation Welfare Conference Held at the Manhattan
> Institute Topic: "Next Steps in Welfare Reform." Participants: [a partial
> list] Charles Murray (Author of Losing Ground; American Enterprise
> Institute), Jason Turner (Commissioner, NYC Human Resources Administration)
> April 14, 1999 New York
> >
> > From: The Manhattan Institute website Summer 2000 Book review: "The
> Journal That Saved the City"
> http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_pi-the_journal_that_saved.htm
> "The City Journal [MI's quarterly magazine] is important not only because
> it has played a key role in the urban renaissance of recent years. It is
> important, too, for the lessons it provides other think-tanks. These
> institutions, some of them based in Washington and focused on one aspect or
> another of national domestic and foreign policy, others concentrating on
> regional affairs or, as with the Manhattan Institute, on policy at the
> state and local level, are rapidly replacing our universities as homes for
> scholars who seek to escape the stultifying politically correct atmosphere
> of campus life. In the case of the Manhattan Institute, we have it to thank
> not only for the City Journal but for supporting the research of such
> leading scholars as Charles Murray, whose Losing Ground has gone from a
> shockingly radical prescription for welfare reform to mainstream public
> policy in a few short years...To read, or in this reviewer's case, to
> reread the 35 articles reproduced here is to be reminded of why the City
> Journal has become the bible of New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose annual
> "State of the City Speeches" so closely follow City Journal articles that
> Magnet could easily win a plagiarism suit. "
> >
> > From the Manhattan Institute website M.I. people and ideas in the Bush
> Administration . . . "John DiIulio has been named Director of the newly
> created White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives.
> Stephen Goldsmith has been named Special Advisor to the President for
> Faith-based and Community Initiatives and the board of the Corporation for
> National Services. David Frum has been named Special Assistant to the
> President for Economic Speech Writing. He is the author of How We Got Here:
> The 70's. Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow since 1993, appointed to the
> U.S. Commission on Civil Rights | PRESS RELEASE. She is co-author of the
> highly acclaimed book, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible.
> (Simon & Schuster, 1997) Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare: The
> Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass is "The book that helped shape Bush's
> message" Walter Olson, MI Senior Fellow since 1986, appointed to the U.S.
> Justice Department Transition Advisory Committee Karl Rove Read about Karl
> Rove and litigation reform on Overlawyered.com. He is the author of two
> influential books, The Litigation Explosion and The Excuse Factory.
> Lawrence Lindsey, President Bush's chief economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey,
> while a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote The Growth
> Experiment: How the New Tax Policy is Transforming the U. S. Economy (Basic
> Books, 1990)."
> >
> > Village Voice 8/8/2000 Uncle Shrub's Cabin "Absent in the sticky
> Philadelphia heat was the drumbeat of the fire-breathing, nay-saying
> Christian Right. In its place, singing the praises of the Jesus-influenced
> candidate and following a script laid out by the Manhattan Institute, were
> Reverend Herbert H. Lusk II, the former "Praying Tailback" for the
> Philadelphia Eagles, whose Greater Exodus Baptist Church had been
> transformed into a Republican revivalist stomping ground, and Stephen
> Goldsmith, the ex-mayor of Indianapolis, who is Dubya's main
> domestic-policy adviser. In June, Reverend Lusk told a GOP
> platform-drafting committee in Billings, Montana, that private, faith-based
> groups, such as his People for People, are better purveyors of
> social-welfare services than government welfare agencies. "The fact is, we
> are there_we do it better, and we do it cheaper," Reverend Lusk said. In
> the background on Sunday, thundering the gospel of the black church, was a
> mass choir. After an inspiring musical opening, the social scientists from
> the Manhattan Institute rolled out their charts and reported that kids who
> go to church in poor neighborhoods do fewer drugs and thus, churches,
> mosques, and synagogues "should be supported as uniquely qualified agencies
> of social control that matter a great deal in the lives of adolescents in
> America's most disorganized and impoverished communities."
> >
> > From Accuracy in Media website http://www.accuracy.org/artic
> les/manhat.htm <http://www.accuracy.org/articles/manhat.htm> The
> Manhattan Institute: Launch Pad For Conservative Authors "The Manhattan
> Institute was founded in 1978 by William Casey, who later became President
> Reagan's CIA director. Since then, the Institute's track record with
> authors has been notable. Funneling money from very conservative
> foundations, the Institute has sponsored many books by writers opposed to
> safety-net social programs and affirmative action...Charles Murray's Losing
> Ground -- a denunciation of social programs for the poor -- catapulted him
> to media stardom in 1984. More than a dozen years later, the Philadelphia
> Inquirer (10/13/97) recalled that Losing Ground "provided much of the
> intellectual groundwork for welfare reform." As Murray wrote in the book's
> preface, the decision by Manhattan Institute officials to subsidize the
> book project was crucial: "Without them, the book would not have been
> written."...When Murray appeared on ABC's This Week (11/28/93), host David
> Brinkley introduced him with lavish praise as "the author of a
> much-admired, much-discussed book called Losing Ground, which is a study of
> our social problems." Minutes later, Murray was explaining his solution: "I
> want to get rid of the whole welfare system, period, lock, stock and barrel
> -- if you don't have any more welfare, you enlist a lot more people in the
> community to help take care of the children that are born. And the final
> thing that you can do, if all else fails, is orphanages."...: Shortly after
> The Bell Curve was published [in late 1994], the Institute sponsored a
> luncheon to honor Murray and the book, in which he proposes a genetic
> explanation for the 15-point difference in IQ between blacks and whites
> that is the basis for his dismissing affirmative action policies as
> futile."...Along with ongoing subsidies from a number of large conservative
> foundations, the Manhattan Institute has gained funding from such corporate
> sources as the Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, Time Warner, Procter &
> Gamble and State Farm Insurance, as well as the Lilly Endowment and
> philanthropic arms of American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA and
> Merrill Lynch. Boosted by major firms, the Manhattan Institute budget
> reached $5 million a year by the early 1990s."
> >
> > NY POST 4/18/2001 "Tonight, the Manhattan Institute - the New York-based
> think tank that has served as the source for some of the most innovative
> proposals on the nation's urban problems - inaugurates its Alexander
> Hamilton Award. The first recipients of this honor, to be conferred at a
> gala dinner, are former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and William C. Steere
> Jr., chairman of the Pfizer Corp."
> >
> > NY TIMES 6/27/98 City Official Is Sorry for Remark Some Thought Was
> Anti-Semitic "The Commissioner of the city's Human Resources Administration
> apologized yesterday for making an errant remark during a television
> interview that was construed by some viewers as anti-Semitic. During a
> televised discussion of the city's welfare-to-work program, the
> Commissioner, Jason A. Turner, said, "Work makes you free." A German
> version of the same phrase -- "Arbeit macht frei" -- was printed on the
> gates of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, where thousands of Jews
> were forced into slave labor before many were killed during World War II."
> >
> > Newsday 8/18/89 Holocaust `Reminder' Claimed "A concentration camp
> suvivor who witnessed the murders of his parents and five siblings at
> Auschwitz claimed that during questioning after his arrest on bribery
> charges he was placed before a blackboard bearing a Nazi slogan by former
> U.S. Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani's office as part of an attempt to
> "break" him...Written on the blackboard was the German phrase "Arbeit Macht
> Frei." The slogan, "Work Shall Set You Free," adopted by the Nazi party,
> appeared over the gates at Auschwitz."
> >
> > PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 12, 2022, at 2:46 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Reg Despard calls from Seattle, he’s okay & temping for Microsoft. Even
> had
> >> dinner with the ex & her new husband.
> >>
> >> They talk about the DVD, float some theories.
> >>
> >>
> >> Maxine and Cornelia meet for lunch at “Streetlight People” (Slagiatt’s
> >> business) where Maxine gives Rocky a copy of Windust’s file.
> >>
> >> M & C lunch at another Jewish restaurant, and talk about her distant
> cousin
> >> Lloyd Thrubwell, a CIA guy. Maxine recognizes a hint - and gets his
> contact
> >> info.
> >>
> >>
> >> Segue immediately into a brief chat with said Thrubwell, in the course
> of
> >> which he agrees to look into Windust in the classified files to which he
> >> has access, and boasts that he’s cleared “pretty much all the way to
> Eyes
> >> Only.”
> >>
> >> Maxine’s purpose is dual: not only to find out more about Windust, but
> also
> >> to rattle W’s cage because she feels sure Thrubwell’s investigation will
> >> leave traces visible to the “Friedmanite hit man.”
> >>
> >> Maxine then succumbs to a brief melancholy reflection on the limits and
> >> nature of her quest, w/r/t Windust but also to the “planetary pyramid
> >> scheme” he fronts for.
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