IBM did business with the Nazis. And so Stanley Kubrick’s clever acronym was also pointing at a dangerous company that did business with mass murderers. It should be pointed out that Microsoft did business early on with IBM. In fact, that’s how they got their start. At the same time, IBM has in fact created a version of HAL. The very thing that Stanley Kubrick warned against in his film. I found it interesting how they resorted to this after their business began going down the drain. Almost like they said: Ok, we’re going bankrupt, let’s make HAL.
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist Edwin Black which details the business dealings of the American-based multinational corporationInternational Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of Adolf Hitler during the 1930s and the years of World War II. In the book, published in 2001, Black outlined the way in which IBM’s technology helped facilitate Nazigenocide through generation and tabulation of punch cards based upon national censusdata.[1]
In 2010 Black reported on unidentified Wikipedia editors marginalizing his research on IBM’s role in the Holocaust.[15] It is not clear whether the editors involved were IBM employees, but Black states that, “[they were] openly fortified by official IBM corporate archivist Paul Lasewicz using his real name, and others”; Black nevertheless calls Lasewicz a “man of integrity” and points out that he deferred taking the lead because of potential conflict of interest and then recused himself entirely.[16][17]
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Jack Parsons, JPL, and the Occult
The Parsons family spent mid-1929 touring Europe before returning to Pasadena, where they moved into a house on San Rafael Avenue. With the onset of the Great Depression their fortune began to dwindle, and in July 1931 Jack’s grandfather Walter died.[15] Parsons began studying at the privately run University School, a liberal institution that took an unconventional approach to teaching. He flourished academically, becoming editor of the school newspaper, El Universitano, and winning an award for literary excellence; teachers who had trained at the nearby California Institute of Technology(Caltech) honed his attention on the study of chemistry.[16] With the family’s financial difficulties deepening, Parsons began working on weekends and school holidays at the Hercules Powder Company, where he learned more about explosives and their potential use in rocket propulsion.[17] He and Forman continued to independently explore the subject in their spare time, building and testing different rockets, sometimes with materials that Parsons had stolen from work. Parsons soon constructed a solid-fuel rocket engine, and with Forman corresponded with pioneer rocket engineers including Robert H. Goddard, Hermann Oberth, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun. Parsons and von Braun had hours of telephone conversations about rocketry in their respective countries as well as their own research.[18][19][11][20]
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
Parsons, OTO, and “Babalon”
Their final ritual took place in the Mojave Desert in late February 1946, during which Parsons abruptly decided that his undertaking was complete. On returning to the Parsonage he discovered that Marjorie Cameron—an unemployed illustrator and former Navy WAVE—had come to visit. Believing her to be the “elemental” woman and manifestation of Babalon that he had invoked, in early March Parsons began performing sex magic rituals with Cameron, who acted as his “Scarlet Woman“, while Hubbard continued to participate as the amanuensis. Unlike the rest of the household, Cameron knew nothing at first of Parsons’ magical intentions: “I didn’t know anything about the O.T.O., I didn’t know that they had invoked me, I didn’t know anything, but the whole house knew it. Everybody was watching to see what was going on.“[113] Despite this ignorance and her skepticism about Parsons’ magic, Cameron reported her sighting of a UFO to Parsons, who secretly recorded the sighting as a materialization of Babalon.[114]
Inspired by Crowley’s novel Moonchild (1917), Parsons and Hubbard aimed to magically fertilize a “magical child” through immaculate conception, which when born to a woman somewhere on Earth nine months following the working’s completion would become the Thelemic messiah embodying Babalon.[115][116] To quote Metzger, the purpose of the Babalon Working was “a daring attempt to shatter the boundaries of space and time” facilitating, according to Parsons, the emergence of Thelema’s Æon of Horus.[112] When Cameron departed for a trip to New York, Parsons retreated to the desert, where he believed that a preternatural entity psychographically provided him with Liber 49, which represented a fourth part of Crowley’s The Book of the Law, the primary sacred text of Thelema, as well as part of a new sacred text he called the Book of Babalon.[117] Crowley was bewildered and concerned by the endeavor, complaining to Germer of being “fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts!” Believing the Babalon Working was accomplished, Parsons sold the Parsonage to developers for $25,000 under the condition that he and Cameron could continue to live in the coach house, and he appointed Roy Leffingwell to head the Agape Lodge, which would now have to meet elsewhere for its rituals.[118]
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
Following his apparent success in doing so, Parsons recounted having an out-of-body experience invoked by Babalon, who astrally transported him to the biblical City of Chorazin, an experience he referred to as a “Black Pilgrimage”. Accompanying Parsons’ “Oath of the Abyss” was his own “Oath of the AntiChrist”, which was witnessed by Wilfred Talbot Smith. In this oath, Parsons professed to embody an entity named Belarion Armillus Al Dajjal, the Antichrist “who am come to fulfill the law of the Beast 666 [Aleister Crowley]”.[132] Viewing these oaths as the completion of the Babalon Working, Parsons wrote an illeist autobiography titled Analysis by a Master of the Temple and an occult text titled The Book of AntiChrist. In the latter work, Parsons (writing as Belarion) prophesied that within nine years Babalon would manifest on Earth and supersede the dominance of the Abrahamic religions.[133]
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
Parsons also founded a new Thelemite group known as “the Witchcraft”, whose beliefs revolved around a simplified version of Crowley’s Thelema and Parsons’ own Babalon prophecies. He offered a course in its teachings for a ten dollar fee, which included a new Thelemic belief system called “the Gnosis”, a version of Christian Gnosticism with Sophia as its godhead and the Christian God as its demiurge. He also collaborated with Cameron on Songs for the Witch Woman, a collection of poems which she illustrated that was published in 2014.[146][147]
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
L Ron Hubbard
In August 1945 Hubbard moved into the Pasadena mansion of John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons. A leading rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Parsons led a double life as an avid occultist and Thelemite, follower of the English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley and leader of a lodge of Crowley’s magical order, Ordo Templi Orientis(OTO).[73][74] He let rooms in the house only to tenants who he specified should be “atheists and those of a Bohemian disposition”.[75]
Hubbard befriended Parsons and soon became sexually involved with Parsons’s 21-year-old girlfriend, Sara “Betty” Northrup.[76]Despite this Parsons was very impressed with Hubbard and reported to Crowley:
[Hubbard] is a gentleman; he has red hair, green eyes, is honest and intelligent, and we have become great friends. He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affection to Ron. Although he has no formal training in Magick, he has an extraordinary amount of experience and understanding in the field. From some of his experiences I deduced that he is in direct touch with some higher intelligence, possibly his Guardian Angel. He describes his Angel as a beautiful winged woman with red hair whom he calls the Empress and who has guided him through his life and saved him many times. He is the most Thelemic person I have ever met and is in complete accord with our own principles.[77]
Hubbard, whom Parsons referred to in writing as “Frater H”,[78] became an enthusiastic collaborator in the Pasadena OTO. The two men collaborated on the “Babalon Working“, a sex magic ritual intended to summon an incarnation of Babalon, the supreme Thelemite Goddess. It was undertaken over several nights in February and March 1946 in order to summon an “elemental” who would participate in further sex magic.[79] As Richard Metzger describes it,
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard#Occult_involvement_in_Pasadena
Werner Von Braun
SS number: 185,068
Nazi Party number: 5,738,692[21]:96
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The Nazis 