tazara tazara tazara ...
... Dashing yarn! What a
three-piece-suit! Ah, if I only would
have a chance to take measurement! Mr.
Moon would be reconciled.
Girls, they are in the process to drive
away our American ROLE MODEL!
Monsieur Roquefeuille as a role model?
This one belongs to a species of men who
rather have an erotic relation with money
than with women
Correction: h a s h a d a
relation! Dont forget this always!
We are aboard a ghost-train! And this
Rockefeller here had, if Im not
mistaken, at least six children
by the daughter of an influential
senator
... Ah! Once money marries policy!
...
tazara tazara tazara ...
I believe that every right
implies a responsibility; every
opportunity, an obligation; every
possession, a duty ...
... my words! My conviction ...
Written as a dedication to the
Rockefeller-Centre in New York, my most
important enterprise, a colossal complex
of buildings in the citys heart.
Despite economic depression at that time,
I let it rise during the Thirtieth of
last century.
Originally, the Metropolitan Opera was
supposed to get a new home, but after the
crash of the Stock Exchange in 1929, the
opera gave up.
We steered for a
new path in the history of modern
architecture; and we realized a complete
new concept for town planning
I did not want to build just one
skyscraper I wanted a whole group
of buildings as centre of a town.
And do you know what we used to line the
whole centre with? White limestone! We
got it from a quarry in Indiana
and the speciality is: this limestone
contains fossils of animals which lived
in the seas
some three hundred
million years ago!
and which did not end up
in Rockefeller-oil!
LET ROLL THE TEXT, PLEASE:
Crude oil originates from organisms,
which did not rot in waters, which lacked
oxygen. They formed a kind of mud which
was then changed by bacteria and enzymes
into substances found in todays
crude oil.
Total utilization of fossils!
The Rockefeller-Centre made an annual
profit of hundred million dollars, from
rents alone
until 1989 when the
whole complex was bought by Japanese, a
subsidiary of MITSUBISHI!
A national shame, if I may say so!
1933, the citizens of New York had
received from me a place, which allowed
them to celebrate their great city with a
panoramic view from two hundred
fifty-nine metres above the sidewalks
My observation-deck replicated the
upper-deck of an ocean-liner. At that
time, the seventieth floor featured
deck-chairs, swanlike lamp-posts,
ventilation-shafts like those on ships.
Stay cool, Mr. Rockefeller!
After almost twenty years, the
observation-platform of the General
Electric Building, the highest one in
your complex, was opened again under the
name TOP OF THE ROCK on 1st November
2005.
MITSUBISHI had the grip on your
heart-piece for only ten years. Tishman
Speyer you certainly know them
bought from the Japanese the whole
original Art-Déco-ensemble. This company
has its roots in a family-business
founded in 1898; and it owns today a
portfolio of more than seven million
square-metres in the biggest metropolis
of the U.S.A., of Europe and Latin
America, total value: twenty billion
U.S.-Dollars!
And this will give you joy as well:
The
Rockefeller Plaza Complex sees every
day some two hundred and fifty thousand
visitors. If they wish to go to the TOP
OF THE ROCK, they enter the complex
through the shops in the 50th Street,
between fifth and 6th Avenue. They
proceed on stairs or on escalators to the
Mezzanine-exhibition hall.
While waiting for the lifts, they are
treated to a multimedia-show on
plasma-screens showing the history of the
Rockefeller-Centre.
Then they enter the Sky Shuttle Lifts,
which work like time- and light capsules.
Through transparent roofs, they watch
their rapid ascent you could say,
they experience a vertical train-trip.
Four projectors throw sequences of
historical pictures, from the Thirties
until today, on those roofs,
sapphire-blue lightning marks the end of
each period. The visitors reach with
these lifts the Grand Viewing Room on the
sixty-seventh floor; and from there they
can enjoy in the distance the famous
objects of interest: the Chrysler
Building, the Statue of Liberty, the
whole Central Park and everything from
Hudson River to East River.
Only one object at the tip of
Manhattan does not belong anymore to the
panorama view sorry to say, Mr.
Rockefeller although you never
came to know it: the twin towers of the
World Trade Centre
The two Swearing
Fingers of Capital chopped
off!
Nonsense!
The most important room for global
cartel-capitalism has never been in that
World Trade Centre, it is still located
in the Rockefeller-Centre.
What room, Dag?
Its really not only o n e
room
the whole fifty-fifth and the
fifty-sixth floor of this complex is
called, according to Rockefeller-speak:
ROOM 5600.
More important than all of the
rooms in your glass-palace at the East
River, Dag?
In
my glass-palace? ... It never was mine!
...
This glass-palace, Mr.
Rockefeller, wasnt it already your
second trial to provide a home for sort
of a world-government?
Well, shortly after the First World
War, I offered in Switzerland a place at
Lake Geneva were the newly formed League
of Nation, also called Geneva League,
would have its residence. As you will
know, this League was supposed to further
international cooperation, to negotiate
in conflicts, and to monitor realization
of peace treaties.
I am not sure whether it can be called a
world government; it has been rather a
predecessor of the United Nations as led
by you, Mr. Hammarskjöld ...
And it was an Art-Déco building
like the one, you realized with
the Rockefeller-Centre in New York, later
on?
It was an expression of the feeling
of that time, certainly!
And the idea for a worldwide
cosmopolitan federation, as it was to be
established in that building at Lake
Geneva, was it an expression of the
feeling of that time as well?
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