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From: "John Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weiss on cabinet
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2001 7:05 AM
This piece that you have already seen , tends to confirms the Benson idea of
the original wasp conspirators being overtaken by the jewish. The west has
lost the will to live, and the people with a strong group identity are
pulling the power strings at far in excess of their 30% level the elite. and
possibly at even higher in terms of financial power.
You say that the Jews are the front window for the hidden gentile power, but
ther is little evidence saying otherwise. Both elite groups have little
regard for their cattle but the old masons had respect for allowing separate
groups to at least some identity. It is the liberal Jewish groups that want
the destruction of all identity and sense of belonging and they have their
shabas Goys like Gore..
I still estimate that there will be a giant collapse starting any time
now(but probably in 2020) and ending by 2100.
John
January 22, 2001
<http://www.observer.com/pages/opinions.asp>http://www.observer.com<http://w
ww.observer.com/pages/opinions.asp>/pages/opinions.asp
Jews in Bush's Cabinet? Don't Hold Your Breath
by Philip Weiss
George Bush has put every kind of American in his cabinet except Jews,
and no one has complained about this, even though everyone knows it's
nuts. Remaking the American power structure without Jews is like
remaking sports without blacks. At least when it comes to blacks in
sports, you can talk about it; you can say that blacks changed sports.
But no one is allowed to speak up about something we all quietly know:
Jews changed America.
There is hardly an area of public life on which Jews have not had a
profound impact in the last generation, as discrimination against them
ended and as they gained power. The civil rights movement reflects
Jewish values of justice. Feminism is a reflection of liberal Jewish
matriarchal values (note the Jewish groups that are talking about Roe
v. Wade in opposing John Ashcroft for Attorney General).
Ever-more-powerful Jews in the media have ushered in the information
age. Psychologically attuned Jews and Hollywood Jews changed the
language of popular culture-Seinfeld, Weinstein. And the new emphasis
on educational achievement throughout our society reflects the Jewish
love of learning.
I have not even gotten to finance or the law, though anyone who doubts
the Jewish influence here should ask how many white-shoe law firms still
keep gentlemen's hours.
These trends have made America a fairer and more creative place-and no,
it's not as if one or another of them would not have occurred without
Jews. But altogether they represent the force of Jewish values coming
into public life. In a recent study, Jews and the American Public
Square, the Center for Jewish Community Studies argues that Jews have
fostered an important legal trend in the last half century, the
separation of church and state. I'd go further and argue that the
greatly diminished influence of church on public mores wouldn't have
happened without secularized Jews gaining cultural power.
And no one ever talks about it. The most important change in
establishment culture in the last 25 years, and it goes unspoken.
Instead, people talk about blacks all the time, as the press did
throughout the Florida election struggle, as if blacks and Jews share
a political identity, which they don't.
From its beginnings, the Bush campaign represented, in the hearts of
many Jews and apparently in the heart of George W. Bush himself (that
knower of hearts), an attempt to reverse Jewishness in the
establishment. The press has only been able to discuss this power
struggle in code. The most perfectly coded statement appeared in
The New York Times' long series last year on George's life, from
swaddling to bottling, when The Times' Nicholas Kristof marveled
that when Bush went to Yale he directed all his anger at East Coast
"elitists." But, Mr. Kristof pointed out, George Bush was in Skull and
Bones-wasn't that an elite?
Nicholas Kristof knew exactly what George Bush was talking about:
the new elite, the ones who could take SAT's. Mr. Kristof knows
better because he was himself part of that trend, and so was I, at
Harvard. Yes, there were Italian-Americans, Asians, but the sea
change that was upon us was that middle-class Jews were taking up
an important place in the establishment. Which was threatening to
George Bush, as he's made clear in his cabinet choices.
The Jewish press has been concerned about those choices. Forward said
warningly that the cabinet picks were a symbolic "snub." Phil Baum,
executive director of the American Jewish Congress, was quoted by The
Jerusalem Post as saying that the lack of Jews was "a little
distressing." But outside Jewish circles, no one is actively
complaining, apparently in the belief that Jews will weather this one,
too. There was a letter to The Times. William Safire mentioned it.
Richard Cohen lamented it in The Washington Post. Not much else.
The Jewish silence comes out of a profound fear among Jews that this
powerful moment will pass, that Jewish prominence in America is like
Jewish prominence in Vienna in 1920, teetering on the brink. The more
power, the less anyone wants to talk about it. Though there is Alan
Dershowitz, who in his nervy book, Chutzpah, said that Jews must strive
to gain even more power disproportionate to their numbers, because of
growing envy and anti-Semitism. Not long ago, over lunch with a power
Jew at a major New York firm, I marveled at the proliferation of Jews
in the establishment. He held up a warning finger. "In every generation,
our enemies will rise up to destroy us." He was quoting the Haggadah,
the Passover story, and for the rest of our lunch told me movingly
about a visit to Anne Frank's home.
I wanted to say, "Wait, bub-wrong country."
But you can't say "wrong country." The Jewish history of persecution
transcends boundaries, and the Constitution. A recent study by a group
called Public Agenda said that 80 percent of American Jews see anti-
Semitism as a potentially powerful force in American life, while only 55
percent of non-Jews see that reality. That's a giant difference,
reflecting ancient Jewish paranoia. In this space I've argued that Jews
are wrong. Most Jews say, "Just you wait."
The problem with this belief is that it short-circuits any discussion of
Jewish power in America. If you talk about Jewish influence, you're
risking a Holocaust. So there's no public acknowledgment of something
almost everyone understands: Jews are major players in the
establishment.
On Jan. 15, the Center for Jewish History on West 16th Street held a
discussion on the subject "The Jewish People in the 20th Century:
From Powerlessness to Power." The moderator, Sylvia Hassenfeld,
said that Jews had "blithely" ignored the question, and then the three
professors on the panel promptly attacked the assumption that Jews
are powerful.
There are so many Jews in the media that the cone of silence falls over
the territory where you might expect wider discussion. The establishment
tends to be portrayed as a kind of bland rainbow of excellence-all
welcome, Jews, suburbanites, Asians, Hispanics.
By the way, I don't claim to know how Jewish the membership of the
establishment is. Twenty percent, 50 percent? I'm guessing 30.
There's nothing wrong with an elite. Society couldn't operate without
one. But a democracy demands some accountability of these elites.
A generation ago, the scholar E. Digby Baltzell, a good Philadelphia
WASP, published The Protestant Establishment, in which he argued that
"a crisis in moral authority" had developed because of the inability of
WASP's to share power, and in particular because of their
anti-Semitism. In his more recent book describing the end of that
order, The Big Test, my friend Nicholas Lemann detailed the ways
that certain members of what he called "the Episcopacy" felt
compelled to make the system fairer, and ushered in the meritocracy.
I remember when I got to Harvard in 1972, and all my outsider Jewish
energy was focused on tearing down the WASP bastions that kept me back.
And we tore them down.
Jewishness is not a social bastion, but the failure of Jews to
acknowledge their status is problematic.
"Jews are very much insiders who continue to be fixated on the mentality
of the outsider," says Alan Mittelman, a Muhlenberg College professor
and the director of the project, Jews in the American Public Square.
"We're certainly part of what they used to call 'the establishment.' But
we continue to think about ourselves as this embattled minority. We have
to re-orient ourselves to a greater sense of responsibility for the
culture, rather than a sense of the precariousness of the outsider."
Mr. Mittelman wants political Jews to show greater flexibility on the
issue of school vouchers, which are supported by many blacks who were
once so allied with Jews. But on this question as on others, Mr.
Mittelman says, Jews vote as outsiders, as if "we're voting against the
czar."
Mr. Mittelman is getting at the heart of the new Jewish problem in
America: the degree to which Jewish caste identity as victims of power
obscures a real understanding of their place in America. This belief can
often be smug and self-congratulatory, reflecting a refusal to cop to
power and its responsibility.
I can think of a few examples of this attitude. Last year, The New
Yorker published a glowing profile of outgoing Monsanto chairman Robert
Shapiro, by Michael Specter. The unspoken theme of this article was,
"He's a Jew from the Upper West Side who gardens, so he must love the
planet!" The piece was remarkable because it casually overturned the
magazine's long-standing environmentalist stance. Monsanto is the
producer of Roundup, an herbicide that is a nightmare among greenies,
but Roundup went virtually unmentioned in Mr. Specter's assessment,
which was awash in Jewish chauvinism, in the warmth of Jewish social
arrival-Mr. Shapiro's and Mr. Specter's. This is how meritocracy works:
The successful adore the successful, and everybody else is a loser.
Or there was an aside by Hanna Rosin, in Slate last summer, in which she
characterized Reform Jews as blending into the "American mush" of
religion. Hers is certainly a widely shared attitude. What is remarkable
is that Ms. Rosin was identified as the religion correspondent for The
Washington Post. The Post is an important newspaper; what is the
responsibility of such a reporter to have some sensitivity to the
varieties of modern religious practice?
Or there's the continuing attack on politicians for merely visiting Bob
Jones University-whose intolerant policies are justly criticized-when
Jewish groups are given a complete pass for promulgating policies of
in-marriage that half of the Jewish population have said in surveys are
racist (and which few goyish Americans even know about).
Or there was the profile of Hadassah Lieberman in The New York Times
suggesting that she was a humanitarian because she had given to Jewish
causes. Shouldn't we make the definition a little broader? Indeed, the
same sort of definition that caused the media to all but ignore the
troubling aspects of the raid on Waco, whose victims-besides 25
children-were ignorant gun-toting Christians, the very sort who, in
the Jewish imagination, might have been responsible for pogroms in the
old country.
That Jewish imagination has been the most powerful force in elite life
in the last generation. The rise of the meritocracy, the celebration of
feminism, the emergence of the media: all have been spearheaded by Jews
who re-imagined America.
So long as Jews continue to see themselves as powerless, they fail to
recognize the effect they have had on society and, worse, fail to move
outside a privileged position of wounded self-regard and come to terms
with their real spot: big winners in the new order. It looks like the
next chapter in the democratic discourse is going to be about winners
and losers in the globalist pursuit of excellence. Liberal Jews owe it
to themselves and to American ideals to take an honest part in that
conversation. Doing so might begin with asking the President-elect
bluntly what's in his heart.
This column ran on page 1 in the 1/22/2001 edition of The New York Observer.
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