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moondust

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15. IBM? "long-standing values"? "track record"?

Reply to rug (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:31 PM

Dec 2016

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From the first moments of the Hitler regime in 1933, IBM used its exclusive punch card technology and its global monopoly on information technology to organize, systematize, and accelerate Hitler’s anti-Jewish program, step by step facilitating the tightening noose.

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International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691.html

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