Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove - Full Video
By Harold Gray
JustGetThere | This weekend the rich and powerful will meet in the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, about 70 miles north of San Francisco in Sonoma County.
The all-male club was initially founded in 1872 by five San Francisco journalist, but later powerful San Francisco businessman joined and helped provide the financial resources necessary to acquire further land and facilities at the Grove. Now, the club includes a variety of political, financial, military and industrial leaders who make the trip each year to discuss global policies in private.
The annual gathering begins Friday night and will run through July 27th. Saturday night begins the opening ritual "Cremation of Care", in which the club's mascot, a 45 foot owl, is burned in effigy, symbolizing freedom from care.
In 2000, Austin, Texas filmmaker and syndicated radio host Alex Jones, was the first to successfully infiltrate the Grove and expose the occult rituals that take place within the redwoods.
Jones' Dark Secrets: Inside the Bohemian Grove, used hidden cameras to document the pagan ritual our world leaders participate in. Although the retreat was covered in the mainstream press in the past, those who spoke about it were labeled conspiracy nuts. After Jones' documentary, the detractors now admit it exists but that it is harmless "good-natured high-jinx."
The Grove motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", which implies that outside concerns and business deals are to be left outside. However, there is demonstrable evidence of political and business deals having been developed at the Grove. The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting, apart from Ernest Lawrence and military officials, included the president of Harvard and representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric. Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees.
Past attendees include Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard M. Nixon and both Bushes; former cabinet members Colin Powell, George Schultz and Henry Kissinger; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff and industrialists Stephen David Bechtel, Leonard Firestone, David Rockefeller and several other prominent attendees to numerous to list.
Many groups protest the annual event to help bring national attention to the annual elite retreat. "These are often public policy speeches," said Mary Moore, with Bohemian Grove Action Network, a protest group. "And the American public is not privy to it."
The point of the protests, Moore said, has been "to let the American public know that what they've learned in civics isn't the full story on how decision-making . . . is made in this country." The Bohemian Club, she said, "is one of the most elite organizations on the planet."
When the group sponsors public policy talks that are held without public scrutiny, "the average American feels left out of the process," she said.
"These are extremely powerful people and private discussions on policy issues that affect us certainly go against democratic principles," he said. "There's no reason that those speeches they're giving couldn't be transcribed and made public. They have a responsibility to be open about it."
Camps
There are also sleeping quarters, or "camps" scattered throughout the grove, of which it is reported there were a total of 118 as of 2007. These camps, which are frequently patrilineal, are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed. For senior corporate executives, the camps are said to be the pinnacle of socio-political networking in the US.
According to Netherlands researcher Joel van der Reijden, the pre-eminent camps are:
* Hill Billies (Big Business/Banking/Politics/Universities/Media);
* Mandalay (Big Business/Defense Contractors/Politics/U.S. Presidents);
* Cave Man (Think Tanks/Oil Companies/Banking/Defense Contractors/Universities/Media);
* Stowaway (Rockefeller Family Members/Oil Companies/Banking/Think Tanks);
* Uplifters (Corporate Executives/Big Business);
* Owls Nest (U.S. Presidents/Military/Defense Contractors);
* Hideaway (Foundations/Military/Defense Contractors);
* Isle of Aves (Military/Defense Contractors);
* Lost Angels (Banking/Defense Contractors/Media);
* Silverado squatters (Big Business/Defense Contractors);
* Sempervirens (Californian-based Corporations);
* Hillside (Military — Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Entertainment venues and gathering spots
* Grove Stage — it is an amphitheater with seating for 2,000 used primarily for the Grove Play production, on the last Friday of the midsummer encampment. The stage extends up the hill side, and is also home to the second largest outdoor pipe organ in the world.
* Field Circle — a bowl-shaped amphitheater used for the mid-weekend, "Low Jinx" musical comedy, as well as for variety shows.
* Campfire Circle — has a campfire pit in the middle of the circle, surrounded by carved redwood log benches. Used for smaller shows in a more intimate setting.
* Museum Stage — a semi-outdoor venue with a covered stage. Lectures and small ensembles shows.
* Dining Circle — seating approximately 1500 diners simultaneously.
* Club House — built in 1903, it is the site of the Manhattan Project planning meeting held in 1942 (see above).
* The Owl Shrine and the Lake — an artificial lake in the middle of the grove, used for the noon-time concerts and also the venue of the "Cremation of Care", that takes place on the first Saturday of the encampment. It is also the location of the daily (12.30pm) "Lakeside Talks." Professor G. William Domhoff (see below) states these significant informal talks (many on public policy issues) have been given over the years by entertainers, professors, astronauts, business leaders, cabinet officers, CIA directors, future presidents and former presidents; these have been the subject of ongoing controversy, as the transcripts of these talks are rarely released to the public (though have been known to be used for such mundane purposes as reading for the lecturer's graduate students).
Below is a archive of pictures courtesy of
PrisonPlanet.com, documenting some of the prominent attendees of the Bohemian Grove. I could not possibly cover all the information on this subject, so please watch the documentary Dark Secrets, and refer to the links below. More coverage on this years 2008 Grove retreat when more information is leaked or reported.
Bush, McCain & Obama To Visit Bohemian Grove?
InfoWars.com - Bohemian Grove Exposed
PrisonPlanet.com - Bohemian Grove Archive
The Mock Sacrifice - this focuses on the segment of the ritual where the mock sacrifice is made to Molech (9 minutes).
Alternet | "The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight." -- Michael Lind, To Have and to Have Not
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