They’re the most powerful men on the planet. So why the Frat-boy antics, asks alexander cockburn |
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The secret government of the planet assembles this weekend for the summer session of the Bohemian Grove - three weeks of heavy-hitter revelry in a well-guarded 2,200-acre grove of mighty redwoods on the Russian river, 60 miles north of San Francisco.
Here, every year in mid-July, a well-placed infernal device would put a serious dent in the top brass of the Republican Party, the czars of Fortune's World 500, most of California's business elite and a world leader or two. Henry Kissinger would most likely be among the fallen. The trashy Christian Evangelists, and Mrs Clinton, all of whom are unwelcome at the Bohemian Grove - a men-only affair - would inherit the earth.
The conspiracists who track world government's perambulations from Bilderberg to Ditchley to Davos claim the Bohemian Grove rendezvous is unequalled among these
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secret sessions because it involves hideous rituals, possibly including human sacrifice, the default occupation of bankers of whom there are many to be found at the Grove.
The climax of this first weekend will be the traditional masque, representing the Banishment of Care. Robed tycoons move with stately gait (the gin fizzes start early in the day) through the trees amid Wagnerian music and a supportive squadron of caped riders.
The prosperous cortege carries a bier supporting the effigy of Care, probably this year a papier-mache creation of worthless derivative contracts and sub-prime real estate loan paper. They launch the effigy into a vast bonfire (inside every tycoon is a little boy roasting marshmallows) and Care is finally cremated. In its place they light the flame of eternal friendship and three weeks of Boho-dom get underway.
Hence the conspiracist allegations of beastly ceremonial and human sacrifice, though in fact the core Boho rituals were worked up nearly a century ago by a real estate  |
