Subject: Re: [drugwar] What is the price of freedom?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:31:59 -0400
To:        <drugwar@mindvox.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:28:52 -0400, Jack R. Lebowitz wrote:
>=A0At 12:38 8/21/2003 -0400, Elmer wrote:
> >=A0Bureaucracies and governments have always traded money for=
 nosy information
>
>=A0Well, I tend to be with those who say Libby's politics aren't=
 going to imping on Son in Law's visa, FWIW...
 
 Narcoterrorists in family ? Certainly a black mark .

> the actual Schindler's lists might have been manually=
 typewritten, as the movie showed, but probably would have been=
 typed using the familiar "green bar" computer-like printer paper=
 that would spew from the Hollerith machine printers.

 I think the "407" printers were post-war .  The card sorters=
 mainly did
 just that - extract sets of cards matching criteria in specific=
 columns .
 After that , the info off the cards would be transferred with=
 typewriter and
 carbon paper .

>=A0Hollerith accounting systems were used by both Axis and Allies=
 during WWII to handle military logistics and industrial=
 production oversight.

....

>=A0This book is a really good, creepy read and has a lot of=
 parallels with our present day multi-nationals such as=
 Halliburton.

 Technology , like money itself is intrinsically neutral ;=
 whether used
 for good or ill is in the hands of the user .

 Whatever may be the corruption in the selection of Halliburton ,=
 versus ,
 eg , Schlumberger , all they can do is build . That's their=
 product -
 construction .  It took the last 15 years of US imperialism to=
 destroy .

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