Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the CEO of Bechtel Corp., former Grateful Dead bandmates and vintner Robert Mondavi are all scheduled to attend the Midsummer Encampment of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco.
So, too, is conservative author William F. Buckley Jr., liberal TV personality Chris Matthews and gay porn star Chad Savage. [...] Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a perennial camper, arrived Thursday by private plane at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport. Fifty to 100 private jets have landed at the airport daily in the past two weeks, about average for this time of year, said Walt Smith, regional coordinator for the Federal Aviation Administration.
But as of Friday, the Secret Service hadn't alerted airport officials to any special arrivals, despite the fact that Powell is on the guest list and scheduled to stay in Mandalay, the same camp as Kissinger and Riley Bechtel, the CEO of the engineering firm whose projects include the reconstruction of Iraq. [...] Mandalay is the traditional seat of power in Bohemian Grove. Its guest list this year includes George Schultz, a former secretary of state; David O'Reilly, chairman of ChevronTexaco; H.B. Atwater Jr., chief executive officer of General Mills; and Edgar Kaiser Jr., founder of the Kaiser Foundation. [...] Of particular interest are the "Lakeside Talks," which this year include:
An untitled talk by David Gergen, commentator and former adviser to both Republican and Democratic presidents.
"The Landscape of American Politics," by David Brooks, a New York Times columnist.
"College Athletics: Serious Business or Toy Department?" by Ted Leland, Stanford University's athletic director.
"Flight," by Chuck Yeager.
"The Long War of the 20th Century," by James Woolsey, a former CIA director.
"Bohemia," by author Herman Wouk.
"Exploring Mars and Searching for Life in the Universe," by Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
"The Coming Virtual Soldier," by Roger McCarthy, principal and engineer of Exponent Inc.
Presidential counselor David Gergen resigned yesterday from the all-male Bohemian Club, three days after saying he would not run around naked at its annual Bohemian Grove encampment and insisting he would not quit.
White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers annnounced the resignation along with Mr. Gergen's departure from 17 other interest groups, charities and public boards ranging from the Trilateral Commission to the Very Special Arts Foundation.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans hosted a hastily organized ``town hall'' meeting with Silicon Valley executives and workers Thursday afternoon, a gathering that was part political campaign, part tech talk.
Dozens of workers took time out of their offices and cubicles to hear Evans, in the Bay Area to attend this weekend's Russian River Bohemian Club retreat for the business and political elite. The meeting was announced the day before in an e-mail from Tony Perkins, the former chief executive of Red Herring and head of the AlwaysOn news service and online network. It was held in an auditorium at Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto headquarters. [...]
A cop... was brought in for questioning last night in Monday's pipe-bomb explosion in the Times Square subway station, sources said.
The transit cop, who suffered minor burns when the crude device explode, arrived at the Midtown South Precinct stationhouse with a lawyer...
But the cop, who was said to have helped save people on 9/11, denied any involvement in the subway-station miniblast - which spurred new terror fears and a huge police response, the sources said. [...] A bomb-sniffing dog was brought to the cop's car, and appeared to get three "hits." [...] the cop did not put out a standard call for backup after the explosion, and instead called his partner back at the transit bureau. The partner was questioned yesterday, the source said.
The incident prompted police to evacuate the station and close off Eighth Ave. between 42nd and 45th Sts. for nearly two hours. "There were at least 100 people, nervous and trembling, yelling: 'Terrorism! Terrorism!'" [...]
THE power-moguls and political heavyweights now luxuriating at ultra-exclusive retreat Bohemian Grove are ... being waited on hand-and-foot by a famous gay porn star.
We're told that "Chad Savage," who has appeared in such carnal classics as "How the West Was Hung," is... working as a valet at Bohemian Grove, the all-male annual gathering inside a 2,700-acre redwood forest in Monte Rio, Calif., that has been attended by every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge, as well as by industrial titans and media magnates.
Bigwigs who have attended the two-week retreat include George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan, Walter Cronkite, Newt Gingrich, Alexander Haig, Jack Kemp, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, John Major, William F. Buckley, and former C.I.A. director William Casey. [...] Savage sure knows how to provide "service." When he starred in "How the West Was Hung" in 1999, one reviewer wrote that he wore a "beatific grin" while engaging in an orgy, and added that his "youthful enthusiasm is entirely winning."
When they're not listening to policy speeches, "Bohos" are known to urinate freely in the redwoods and perform mock-druidic rituals that revolve around a 40-foot-tall stone owl. In one ritual, called "Cremation of Care," members wearing red-hooded robes cremate a coffin effigy of "Dull Care" at the base of the owl altar.
FREDERICK, Md. — FBI agents yesterday combed laboratory suites at Fort Detrick — home to the Army's biological warfare defense program — and a source said they again were looking for evidence in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
The labs at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have been closed since Friday, Fort Detrick spokesman Charles Dasey said.
A law-enforcement source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press the activity is related to the anthrax mailings that killed five persons and sickened 17 in autumn 2001.
FBI agents have visited Fort Detrick frequently since the unsolved attacks, amid speculation that the deadly spores or the person who sent them may be connected to the fort. [...]
Check out this RAM file of the movie, "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Moon." (Ignore the crawl added by someone else - not the director/producer.)
The director has a sequel where he interviews Apollo astronauts about his revelations:
Libertythink's "Rat Cat" has made the definitve transcript of Alex Jones' February 1, 2002 interview with John DeCamp. John DeCamp is the former Nebraska state senator who uncovered a massive child sex ring operating at the highest levels of power in the United States.
Here are some excerpts dealing with the tie-in of this ring to the Bohemian Grove:
John DeCamp: Anyway, so yeah, I won the million dollar judgment in federal court finally and it wasn't easy and I want to talk about that a little because some of the stuff coming out about pedophilia in the church now where things were written in my book way back then. But anyway to get to the heart of the matter that you called about as I understand it. I took simply the diaries of Paul Bonacci and I printed a good portion of them in my book and one of them - one of the areas described a trip in 1984. I could even read part of it here. In fact, in which he was taken to an area around Sacramento and then where they had the great big tall trees and then they went in where there is some owl. Some huge carved owl or something...
I didn't know there was a place called Bohemian Grove. I didn't write Bohemian Grove in the book because I didn't know what it was. I just took his diary. Anyway, it clearly is where he was taken and he was taken out there for a ceremony in which they committed some pretty horrible things on another boy. And three boys and they filmed it and I just took his words and the names he wrote there. And they’re right in the book.
And by the way just to answer your next question. Yes, I put names in the book, dates and everything that I could just as they were. Why? Because I figured blow it out all straight and I said when a number of threatening calls came after the first edition came out. They said, "This is the most libelous, slanderous thing we've ever heard." And I said, "Fine, I think I've done enough to prove it and I'm satisfied. If somebody feels that way, if somebody said these things about me I'd sue them for libel and slander." [...] I have right here the diary. Do you want me to read a little? Understand that I didn't know that the thing was Bohemian Grove back then, nor did the kid when he was writing it. All he knew was he was taken to this place...
"I went in January," now this is Bonacci, this is Paul Bonacci writing this. This is directly word-for-word from his diary:
"I went in January of '84 on every trip. I was paid by men King knew for sex. The summer of '84 sometime I went to Dallas, Texas and had sex with several men King knew in a hotel. I flew on YNR airlines (by the way that’s a private airline or a private charter deal) and Cam airlines (another private charter deal) normally for King. I never had much personally to do with King only went where he told me to go.
"In or on July 26th, I went to Sacramento, CA. King flew me out on a private plane from an airfield in Omaha to Denver where we picked up Nicholas. A boy who was about 12 or 13, then we flew to Vegas to a desert strip and drove into Las Vegas to some ranch and got something. Then flew on to Sacramento. We were picked up by a white limo and taken to a hotel. I don't remember the name of it. We, meaning Nicholas and I, were driven to an area that had big, big trees. It took about an hour to get there. There was a cage with a boy in it who was not wearing anything. Nicholas and I were given these Tarzan things to put around us and some stuff like that. They told me to, (I won't use the word) blank the boy and stuff. (In other words have sex with him.) At first I said no and they held a gun to my genitals (I'll use that word) and said do it or else lose them or something like that. I began doing it to the boy and stuff. And Nicholas had anal sex and stuff. We were told to blank him and stuff and beat on him. I didn't try to hurt him.
"We were told to put our blanks in his mouth and stuff and sit on the boy’s blank and stuff and they filmed it. We did this stuff to the boy for about 30 minutes or an hour when a man came in and kicked us and stuff in the genitals. And picked us up and threw us. He grabbed the boy and started blanking him and stuff. The man was about (I'm not sure how to say this) the man was about so many inches long and the boy screamed and stuff. The man was forcing his blank into the boy all the way. The boy was bleeding from his rectum and the men tossed me and him and stuff and put the boy right next to me and grabbed a gun and blew the boy's head off. The boy's blood was all over me and I started yelling and crying and the men grabbed Nicholas and I and forced us to lie down. They put the boy on top of Nicholas who was crying and they were putting Nicholas's hands on the boy’s blank. They put the boy on top of me and did the same thing. They then forced me to blank the dead boy. (It gets pretty crude.) They put a gun to our heads to make us do it. His blood was all over us. They made us kiss the boy’s lips. (Anyway, a few other things.) Then they made me do something I don't even want to write so I won't.
"After that the men grabbed Nicholas and drug him off screaming. They put me up against a tree and put a gun to my head but fired into the air. I heard another shot from somewhere and then saw the man who killed the boy drag him like a toy. Everything including when the men put the boy in the trunk was filmed. The men took me with them and we went up in a plane. I saw the bag the boy was in. We went over a very thick brush area with a clearing in it. Over the clearing they dropped the boy. One said the men with the hoods would take care of the body for them.
"I didn't see Nicholas until that night at the hotel. He and I hugged and held each other for a long while. About 2 hours later the men or Larry King came in and told us to go take a shower since we'd had only been hosed off at some guy’s house. We took a shower together and then were told to put on the Tarzan things. And after we were cleaned up and dressed in these things we were told to put on shorts, socks and a shirt and shoes and were driven to a house where the men were at some others. They had the film and they played it. As the men watched it they passed Nicholas and I around as if we were toys..."
[...] Alex Jones: There were convictions and you wrote the book and nobody sued you because... I mean these children didn't know - they were flown to Sacramento and then driving for an hour and that's how long it takes to get to the Grove and they describe it in great detail and the stuff that had come out earlier. And then I’ve been there for their big to-do when it's not a small crowd when it's a big crowd. They have all this regalia, bring a bound body in, it begs for its life, they burn it and it screams in pain and that's just the stylized stuff they do there. When Skull and Bones came out on Fox news last year - slitting the woman's throat, the blood squirts. Why isn't there a police investigation? If my neighbors saw me slitting women's throats and worshipping Satan, which they were doing by the way on the tape, in my back yard wouldn't they call the cops on me? Wouldn't the cops have probable cause, John, for a search of my house? [...] JD: Let me say something here. It’s kind of important. I don’t know what George [HW] does or doesn’t do or his children or whatever. I guess I know him. I, John DeCamp, who wrote this book was the number one vote-getting delegate pledged to George [HW] Bush, famous president. At the Republican National Convention, I was the number one vote-getter from Nebraska attending the Republican National Convention in New Orleans and Texas and so on and so forth. And I guarantee you, I had no idea any of this was going on at the time. At the same time, I also attended the single biggest party ever put on at any, at any national convention. That was put on by Larry King at the Southport Ranch in Dallas at the Republican Convention in 1984. I attended it. It was only later, one of the things that I absolutely know when I interviewed this kid Paul Bonacci in prison, that I told you about, knew absolutely he was telling the truth when he starts describing that party and that Convention as well or better than I could. And you would have had to have physically been there, which he was – to know some of these things – to see and identify some of these things. So, just because you were at a party… And Larry King, by the way, rented a mansion on Embassy Row in Washington, DC that cost about $5000 a month during all this time even though Larry King was officially earning $16,000 a year during that time.
AJ: Well, let's go further. They use Bohemian Grove to compromise. [Cross-talk] They use it to compromise people. Dick Nixon, Richard Nixon said, quote, and this is on the record, I have a news article, it's "the most faggy place" he'd ever seen. He hated to go there but he went there for power. He went there to smooze. And, so you want to make all that clear, exactly. We are not even saying that even though this is what the evidence shows is going at the Grove with these witnesses – a lot of people just cannot bring themselves to admit that this is the full magnitude.
(Libertythink.com) - Reviews for the children's reader including "My Pet Goat" are being deleted from Amazon.com for some strange reason. This is the exciting story you can see footage of our Maximum Leader George W. Bush reading intently in Michael Moore's new documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11. Bush reads on for a good seven minutes after his chief of staff allegedly tells him of the 9/11 attacks.
Steady Readership In Times Of Change, July 8, 2004 Reviewer: A reader (Sarasota, Florida) A riveting story that keeps you glued to the page until the stunning climax. Even a notification from your staff that the nation you lead is under attack can't keep you from reading the gut-wrenching final words.
If only the book were longer......, July 8, 2004 Reviewer: A reader (Raleigh, NC USA) Then I could have sat there and read it for 7 hours...still, it was nice to be able to get lost in the adventure of this adorable goat - more fun than my "day job"!....maybe I should become a miseducator....I do resignate with these kids!
Nothing could tear me away from "The Pet Goat", July 7, 2004 Reviewer: A reader (Washington DC) Not even a national emergency! This is probably the greatest book EVER written. It has lots of colorful pictures, and it's just so fun to "read" while I sit there for at least seven minutes wondering why I took a job that I have absolutely no skills for, and that when it comes right down to it, I didn't even want! It's not as good as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (the words are bigger), but it comes close!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful: Why is it a goat?, July 19, 2004 Reviewer: rizzella (In the big state of Texas) The book was OK. Some of the words were a little hard for me but it is a Level 2 reader. I would have liked a Level 1. I also thought it would have been much better if it was called "My Pet Elephant". That would have made it much more better. After all, the GOP has an elephant for our mascot. Another reason an elephant would have been more better is because I have been known to have seen pink elephants lots of times. So, that is why I think it should have been about an elephant and not a goat. But at least it was not "My Pet Donkey". Haw, Haw. Then I wouldn't have liked the story at all.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful: A "must" for my library, July 18, 2004 Reviewer: A reader This book totally captured my imagination and I could not resist telling my friends all about it, even though the grownups kept bugging me about other things I was sposed to do. This book belongs right beside The Very Hungry Caterpillar Katapilla??? in my presidential library. Actually it's more of a presidential bookshelf and my friend Johnny Ashcroft always wants to know what I and my other friends are reading.
55 of 57 people found the following review helpful: Bestes book in da worl!, July 15, 2004 Reviewer: A reader I think this is the bestes book in da worl! I was lef thinkin for seven minutes caus this book is soooo cooool. I wanna read it again and again and I don care if the whole worl is attac. This is the coooolest book eva!
209 of 212 people found the following review helpful: Presidential material, through and through!, July 6, 2004 Reviewer:Lolla Fallujah(Hannah Storm's house) After reading the enclosed story "The Pet Goat," I was stunned by its lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings.
TIME MAG INVESTIGATION REVEALS: EDWARDS LOVES 'DIET COKE' [...] John Edwards drinks Diet Coke -- a lot of Diet Coke!
TIME unearths: "The North Carolinian who would be a caffeine-and-sodium-buzzed heartbeat away from the presidency subsequently admitted that 'on a good day' he has been known to open four before noon, at which point Kerry pronounced himself stunned, seized the can from Edwards and started reading the nutrition label aloud. 'Sodium, 2%. Protein, John, zero,' he called as Edwards scrambled for the door. As for himself, Kerry owned up: 'When I drink Coke, I have to drink the real thing, because of the sugar in it.'" [...] "This man drinks a lot of Diet Coke," Kerry whispers to TIME, in its cover story...
This new video documentary is from Dave Von Kleist of The Power Hour. It puts together television news footage broadcast following the 9/11 attacks; compiling all the unanswered anomalies. Should be compelling.
On Saturday, some 2,000 CEOs and politicos and arty types arrived at the cool redwoods and lily-choked lake of the Grove, the famous Russian River playground of the powerful Bohemian Club.
They say it's the place to be seen in America in July.
Except, of course, you can't see them.
Signs abound: No Thru Traffic. No Trespassing. Members and Guests Only. No Turn Around. Sentries scan the paths from above with binoculars, helped out by infrared sensors. [...] There are 125 different camps -- Toyland, Dog House, Sons of Toil, etc. George H.W. Bush will be in Hill Billies, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
FAT CATS' FESTIVAL AND PARADE Annual Protest at the Summer Encampment at the Bohemian Grove This is where the boys (Bush Sr., Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Bechtel, Cheney, and so many more), who bring us war for profit, frolic!
Join Not In Our Name Sonoma County on Sunday, July 18th, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. [with] David Rovics, singer/songwriter of "Who Would Jesus Bomb" http://www.davidrovics.com/
[...] The parade/march will proceed to the entrance to the Grove. Dusty will perform the Resurrection of Care ritual. The protest will proceed to the Monte Rio amphitheater for the performances...
Say "No!" to the incestuous relationship between corporations and the government.
Say "No!" to the wars they foment for their own profit.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon, a member since 1953, was to be the lakeside speaker, but reporters had finally raised a ruckus about a sitting president giving an off-the-record speech at the Grove. Nixon sent sugary regrets in a telegram that hangs in the city clubhouse today, saying that anyone could be president of the United States, but only a few could aspire to be president of the Bohemian Club.
Privately, he said to domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman (and the hidden tape recorder) in the Oval Office that May: "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time -- it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."
The caption for this 1934 Bohemian Club pic published in today's San Francisco Chronicle says the Bohemian Club now excludes journalists. That is certainly misleading in that it is attended by many high-level news executives from both print and broadcast media as well as public media figures from Walter Cronkite to William F. Buckley, Jr. to Walter Williams.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat July 24, 2004:
New York Daily News July 21, 2004:
New York Post Page Six July 22, 2004:
Check out this 
RAM file of the movie, "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Moon." (Ignore the crawl added by someone else - not the director/producer.)
interview with John DeCamp. John DeCamp is the former Nebraska state senator who uncovered a massive child sex ring operating at the highest levels of power in the United States.
(Libertythink.com) - Reviews for the children's reader including "My Pet Goat" are being deleted from Amazon.com for some strange reason. This is the exciting story you can see footage of our Maximum Leader George W. Bush reading intently in Michael Moore's new documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11. Bush reads on for a good seven minutes after his chief of staff allegedly tells him of the 9/11 attacks.
Yet these were the only four reviews remaining on Amazon.com as of July 20:
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Steady Readership In Times Of Change, July 8, 2004 
Why is it a goat?, July 19, 2004