new episode, with lots of great stuff, like where else will you find out that Allen Dulles didn't get to make contact with VI Lenin because he was having a threesome with some Swiss twin sisters?
two economists fighting over the Versailles treaty
we talk about Le Sphinx brothel in Paris, and (unrelated to Le Sphinx) a young Ho Chi Minh
we talk about the Ruhr, its industrialists, and a little bit about the Ruhr uprising
we talk about the Krupp dynasty and the Dulles connection thereto
lots of talk about the Dawes Plan and war reparations (but not boring)
I unintentionally found suggestions that William Nelson Cromwell might be a pedo
we meet Dr. Hjalmar Schacht for the first time
and the case of Heinrich Albert, a German spy who ends up running the German office of S*llivan & Cr*mwell, and who "had close ties with the Ford Motor Company" ;)
38 minutes, you can play it at double speed. come on and check it out
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parenthetically I've got 934 pages of various WerBell Word docs - the text of the 17 episodes is 225 pages and then everything else is stuff not in the episodes that would have formed the bulk of the book (lol)
how about one last thread for the road? maybe the second to last?
I’m a fan of Cuba and the Cuban people. Politically, I support ending the embargo and the repeal of the Helms-Burton act. I think Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were some of the most interesting figures of the 20th century. There is much to admire in the Cuban project.
I’m always a fan of subterranean histories, especially when they intersect with insurrectionary and/or revolutionary history. What’s the parapolitics take on Cuba? What still remains to be studied with the Cuban Revolution?
a thread: a couple days ago, Daniela Klette, age 65, of the Red Army Faction’s third generation was arrested.
a lot of people are saying Bellingcat and/or podcasters found her. it's not entirely clear which, but it looks like some German podcasters for like a Most Wanted type podcast found her using AI tools, and then either they or a Bellingcat guy sent it to the cops
via the NYT article, the Bellingcat guy said “Somebody like me, who does not speak German, who does not know much beyond the basic background of Daniela Klette — Why was I able to find such a lead in like literally 30 minutes?”
for various reasons I’m obsessed with the baleada. it’s become one of my all-time favorite dishes.
the baleada is in some ways THE national dish of Honduras. what’s known for sure is that the baleada was invented in La Ceiba on the beautiful northern coast of Honduras. some claim that it was originally a Mayan dish (which I'll discuss later)