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- From: orwell@reg.triumf.ca (BALDEN, RON)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Bohemian Grove (was: Re: Bohemian Party???)
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 13:24 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- References: <18DEC199219320073@reg.triumf.ca> <BzHvDs.ExK@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <BzHvDs.ExK@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
- (Daniel B Case), commenting on my posting:
-
- >> [stuff omitted]
- >>The Bohemian Grove gathering was named recently (last year?)
- >>as one of the "top ten censored stories of the year" in the
- >>U.S. mass media by Project Censored (Communications
- >>Studies Program, Sonoma State University, CA.)
- >
- >That same study (posted here) also mentions Philip Weiss's Spy article from...
- >I think 1989. If you'd read it, you'd see that rumors of sinister doings there
- >are somewhat overrated-all these powerful middle-aged white men are too busy
- >getting drunk and pissing on trees to do anything conspiratorial.
- >
- > Dan Case
-
- Well, I myself wasn't claiming anything *especially* sinister about Bohemian
- Grove; it's no more sinister than other coordination mechanisms (e.g. the
- Business Roundtable) of the ruling elite of the United States. It just happens
- to be one of the places where *some* of "the elite meet to eat", as it were.
- (Please, no uninformed idiocies complaining about the phrase "ruling elite".
- It's not ten people meeting in a conference room. Start with C. Wright Mill's
- "The Power Elite" (1956) and move on to Domhoff and colleagues.)
-
- Other references (I haven't read these myself) on Bohemian Grove I found in
- secondary sources:
-
- The book I referred to by G. William Domhoff is
- "The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study of Ruling Class
- Consciousness", 1974, Harper and Row.
-
- An essay of Domhoff's, "Politics among the Redwoods",
- The Progressive (magazine), January 1981, pp. 32-36
-
- Rick Clogher, "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", Mother Jones,
- August 1981. (The title is from some kind of motto of the
- Bohemian Club.) I found this reference in "The Big Boys"
- by Nader and Taylor (1986) (in the profile of Thomas Jones, CEO of Northrop
- -- not T.K. Jones, he is someone else).
-
- Ron Balden
-