Rasch Corp. News
evasconcellos
2011-03-11
I knew it! There’s definitely more here than meets the eye, and I’m starting to find the evidence to prove it. I found this ancient news story from a publication called Strathclyde Workers Standard discussing the exploits of the Rasch corporation and the lengths they'll go to satisfy whatever end game they're shooting for. While it adds a greater light to the situation, it still doesn’t quite clarify what Rasch and Hargreave were concocting. However, if you look at the detail of a potential discovery that could be applied to create weapons far beyond their time, you may see what I see. I can’t help but connect the dots. Maybe I’m in “conspiracy theorist” mode, but I’m not convinced that’s the case.
I’ll keep digging for any more information I can get my hands on.
-Skyline
New Weapons – New War?
Austrian Arms Manufacturer’s Dirty Secret - Unauthorised Expedition Into Russian Territory – American Involvement Suspected.
From our correspondent in Vladivostok
JUNE 17TH - The great capitalist war is barely over, the piles of proletarian dead still uncounted, and already arms manufacturers across Europe are preparing for the next conflict.
As soldiers from every imperial power pour into the beleaguered territory of the fledgling Russian Soviet Republic, desperate in their attempts to stifle the first true Marxist society at birth, so too the engines of capitalist death are in for what pickings they can find. This correspondent has learnt that agents of the infamous Rasch corporation arrived in Vladivostok two days ago aboard the former ram-torpedo cruiser Ernst Heinrich, registered out of the Austro-Hungarian naval port of Pola and now converted for commercial use. An expedition into the Siberian interior is rumoured to be in the offing.
What the Rasch Corporation want in the wilds of Siberia is difficult to ascertain at this stage. There can be little doubt that much of the materiel currently being deployed by the imperial powers has its origins in Rasch workshops and manufactories across Europe. But the Ernst Heinrich does not appear to have come laden with arms. Instead, workers at the docks, when questioned by your correspondent, spoke of peculiar machines and measuring instruments, and equipment more suited to mining than war. Elsewhere in the town, the word is that Rasch personnel are seeking local guides for their expedition, and that one name has kept recurring. That name is Tunguska, and the conclusion we may draw from it is no less obvious in its implications than it is alarming.
It is now over ten years since the explosion in the Tunguska region of what scientists believe to have been either a large meteor or a fragment of a comet colliding with the Earth. Incredibly, no formal expedition has ever been mounted to examine the impact site of this explosion. While the world spent four years spilling the blood of the working class in a savage war of imperial dominion, no thought was spared for such scientific endeavour, and now, while the imperative is to crush the Bolshevik Soviet dream before it can arise, doubtless there is as little concern in government circles.
But where commerce and capital see advantage, before long, active measures will most certainly be taken to secure that advantage for the merchant class. Engineers at the Rasch Corporation have long spoken of the need to develop certain lightweight but durable alloys in order to facilitate a new generation of portable machine guns – weapons they envisage with rates of fire as high as the murderous Vickers and Maxim guns of the recent conflict, but light enough to be carried by a single man.
Until now, such alloys have proven difficult to develop, but recent speculation among researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has suggested that so-called “asteroidal matter” might hold the key. In short, it is believed that meteoric and cometary bodies may contain new forms of metal as yet unseen on Earth, and that advances in the scientific slaughter of our fellow men may be secured through such celestial gifts. So much, then, for the Great War to end all wars – those who reap mighty profits from the slaughter of ordinary working men are already planning their next coup. The map of Europe may have changed, but the salient concerns of those that govern it continue ever the same.
And can it be coincidence that on the crew listing for the SS Ernst Heinrich we find the names of two young men from the United States – Jacob J. Hargreave and Walter N. Gould. In both cases, the profession of these gentlemen is listed as research chemist, but this correspondent must continue to wonder how much store can be set by such facile description. The expedition is registered under the nominal captaincy of Rasch family scion Karl Martin Rasch, but Herr Rasch is barely twenty-three years of age. Is it possible that such youth can command an undertaking of this momentous import? Or should we look rather to these two representatives of the world’s newest imperial power, enthusiastic participant in the assault on the world’s only socialist republic, and vociferous advocate for unrestrained global capital – the United States of America. The question we must ask is – who really holds the reins of this ominous enterprise, and what further atrocities can we expect its fruits to seed, as this young century staggers on its blood-soaked, tyrannical way?
