Anonymous ID: 4244b2 Dec. 1, 2024, 6:12 p.m. No.22091277   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>22091090

n Oct. 1, 1967, Chinaโ€™s National Day, Sidney Rittenberg had reached the pinnacle of his revolutionary career. It was the 18th anniversary of the founding of the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China, and Rittenberg was seated on a reviewing stand less than fifty feet from Mao Zedong, overlooking a sea of thousands who had crowded into Tiananmen Square to mark the occasion.

 

But these were Jews of Babylon, which was the center of Jewish culture and life for centuries. When things turned against the Jews in the 19th century, many of these families went to India, where they met the British. There was a meeting of the minds, where very talented and ambitious Jewish merchants saw possibilities in China, and expanded into the opium trade and needed people to run their businesses. They asked [Jewish] families to send their sons to Shanghai, which was the Gold Rush, the frontier, a possibility for young men to earn unimaginable fortunes by starting as clerks and accountants in China. Because they were from Baghdad, they spoke a kind of Judeo-Arabic that the Chinese couldnโ€™t speak, so they had a kind of code. The fact that British firms often excluded the Jews out of anti-Semitism forced them to work with the Chinese. So the Chinese saw Jews as not just being good with money, but very enterprising, under a positive light. The Chinese admire Jews for their emphases on education and the family.

Anonymous ID: 4244b2 Dec. 1, 2024, 7:04 p.m. No.22091572   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>22091327

At the Constitutional Convention there was a proposal to exempt treason from the president's pardoning power, the notion being that if a president conspired with subordinates to commit treason he should not be able to protect himself by pardoning fellow conspirators. But Professor Kalt of Michigan State University notes that the founders rejected the proposal because they said there were and are other remedies.