"The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group that makes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things happen, and the great multitude which never knows what happened." - Bohemian Club member Nicholas Murray Butler (President of Columbia University, 1901-1945), Article on the Bohemian Grove by Joel van der Reijden, 2005
This weekend British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israeli Deputy Premier Shimon Peres will be guests of Rupert Murdoch at the News Corporation annual conference. Also nearby is George Shultz, former Secretary of State under Reagan, who threw a huge party for Blair yesterday evening. Attending the party were many men who came down from attending the all male networking extravaganza at Bohemian Grove, a meeting bound by a strict code of secrecy.
In 1942 the Manhattan Project was planned by a small group at Bohemian Grove. Nixon previewed the policy of Glasnost at a meeting in 1971. I wonder what they're planning now . . .
The cover of the
Aspen Strategy Group's August meetings for planning disinformation campaigns and wars got blown last year when Scooter Libby made reference to the Aspens in his letter to Judith Miller. It may be that the ultra-secretive
Bohemian Grove meeting is the new cover for plotting warmongerers.
The current 2,700 members and guests are reported to include:
* George W. Bush
* Dick Cheney
* Donald Rumsfeld
* Karl Rove
* George Herbert Walker Bush
* Bill Clinton
* Jimmy Carter
* Gerald Ford
* Jeb Bush
* Henry Kissinger
* George Shultz
* James Wolfensohn
* Alan Greenspan
* Paul Volcker
* Colin Powell
* Riley P. Bechtel
* John Major
* Helmut Schmidt
* Lee Kuan Yew
* James A. Baker III
* Newt Gingrich
* Arnold Schwarzenegger
* Bob Novak
* David S. Broder
* Alexander Haig
* Henry Kissinger
* William Casey
* John Lehman
* Tom Johnson, president of CNN and former publisher of the Los Angeles Times
The speculation here in Britain is that Blair is on a "gissa job" trip to line up lucrative directorships for when he leaves office - whether by choice or by force. I hope the explanation is as innocent as that.
The cross-over with the Aspen Strategy Group is striking. It was at the Aspen Institute meeting in August of last year that the Iran strategy of warmonger disinformation and provoking conflict was likely formulated and agreed.
Bohemian Grove incorporates bizarre occult rituals and has been linked with Yale's Skull & Bones and other occult groups.
When the chairman of News Corporation and director and former president of Bechtel combine with a visiting British Prime Minister and an Israeli Deputy Premier at a time when war is escalating in the Middle East, my cynical mind wonders whether they aren't hatching more war, mayhem and suffering for more innocent civilians.