by BannedfromDU » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:57 am
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bohemian Grove pilgrimage starts<br>Yearly men-only gathering of dignitaries begins Saturday, sure to draw protesters</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br> Friday, Jul 14, 2006<br>By BOB NORBERG<br>THE PRESS DEMOCRAT<br><br>A steady line of Gulfstream, Cessna and Falcon corporate jets landed Thursday at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, signaling the opening of the annual Bohemian Grove encampment.<br><br> "We love this," said Bob Gallagher, general manager of Apex Aviation, which had more than a dozen private aircraft parked on its tarmac. "It's good for business, it's good for Apex, cars, hotels, catering . .. it helps the whole county."<br><br>The annual encampment is as much a thread in the fabric of Sonoma County as the fall grape crush and foggy beach days, and it draws as many as 3,000 to the exclusive men-only club amid the Russian River redwoods.<br><br>Among the attendees will be former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is scheduled to speak, according to the Bohemian Grove Action Network, which has been protesting at the encampment since 1980. Grove officials would not confirm the speech schedule.<br><br>Meanwhile, rumors circulated among airport workers Thursday that actors John Travolta and George Clooney also were expected to fly in.<br><br>The annual gathering has its detractors, who contend the participants - from government leaders to corporate executives - meet outside public view and discuss such issues as the war in Iraq and terrorism.<br><br>"I wouldn't say 'sinister' is the word at all, but the people who are involved there are doing some politically very inappropriate things to the world," said Peter Phillips, a Sonoma State University sociology professor who wrote his doctoral thesis on the club.<br><br>Phillips will be among the protesters July 22 outside the gates of the Monte Rio retreat, where they have picketed each event since 1980.<br><br>FULL-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060714/NEWS/607140325/1033/NEWS01">www1.pressdemocrat.com/ap...033/NEWS01</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>==============<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, Jones and his assistant infiltrated the annual secret gathering of the Bohemian Club. He was aided ... all » by a team of British filmmakers working for Channel 4. Footage was later shown in the U.K. as part three in a four-part documentary, The Secret Rulers of the World. One of the filmmakers, Jon Ronson, subsequently documented the experience in his book, Them: Adventures with Extremists. <br><br>While in the Grove, Jones used a hidden camera to record—among other things—the Cremation of Care ritual, in which some of the most powerful men in the world gather before a 40-foot stone resembling a huge owl (Moloch), and burn a human-like dummy in effigy of "dull care." They then proceed to "read the sign" within its ashes. <br><br>Google video-1 hr 31 min 36 sec<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1358319439993514946&q=bohemian+grove">video.google.com/videopla...mian+grove</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>