Is Collapse Of America Inevitable?

We are watching the Fall of the Great American Empire.

Historically, national decline and economic crisis is always accompanied by violence and war. The decline of European empires was marked by World War I and II, with the Great Depression in between.

In the face of global economic crisis (we are still in crisis), the probability of a world war is ever increasing. 

Russian Professor Igor Panarin, Senior Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe and countless economists and political analysts predict the imminent collapse of the United States! 

Panarin, doctor of political sciences and professor of the Russian Diplomatic Academy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says that events are continuing to confirm his doomsday prediction first made over 10 years ago, that the United States will completely collapse like the Soviet Union.

Since 1998, Panarin has been forewarning of the crumbling of the United States and the crash of the dollar. According to Panarin, the recent election victory for Japan’s Democratic Party is yet another sign that the economic collapse of the U.S. is almost upon us.

“Obama is “the president of hope”, but in a year there won’t be any hope,” Panarin said. “He’s practically another Gorbachev – he likes to talk but hasn’t really managed to do anything. Gorbachev at least had been a secretary of a regional communist party administration, whereas Obama was just a social worker. His mentality is totally different. He’s a nice person and talks nicely – but he’s not a leader and will take America to a crash. When Americans understand that – it will be like a bomb explosion.”

Panarin believes that both Japan and China will dump their dollar reserves for other currencies, thus seriously damaging the dollar's value.

Panarin blames the demise of America on a “political elite that implements an absurd and aggressive policy that aims to create conflicts around the planet” and warns that increasing firearms sales in the U.S. are a sign that people are preparing for “chaos” in the aftermath of a total financial meltdown.

According to Panarin, America’s collapse was brought about by economic and political factors, but primarily by the fall of the US dollar and its bursting foreign debt. He states, “They have created in the United States a pyramid (of foreign debt) based on the dollar, and they see no other way to solve this crisis… In the 1980s, the US almost had no foreign debt, but in 1998, this reached $2 trillion. Now, they have [a debt of] $12 trillion and so it grew six times in just a decade… This reminds me of the situation in my country before the USSR fell because our foreign debt increased five times.”

Panarin goes on to say, “In my opinion, the probability of the US ceasing to exist by June, 2010 exceeds 50%. At this point, the mission of all major international powers is to prevent chaos in the US,” Panarin concluded.

My last two articles, Chinese Economic Takeover now Inevitable Many Experts Predict and The Chinese Takeover of America  were exactly about what they implied. China owns ever more of America and the U.S. is becoming ever less creditworthy. China is loosing their trust in America. And they are loosing their patience. How much longer will they keep letting us borrow? How long before they want to collect what we already owe them? And though it is our own fault that it has come to this, it all boils down to China being the greatest threat the United States has ever faced.

The United States will NOT Go Down Quietly

The United States has the largest and most powerful military force in the world. With America headed for collapse and the probability of a violent end of the American empire drastically increasing, it is likely that US perpetration of current wars is in part an agenda to strategically position and prepare American troops for an eventual last stand.

As far back as 2000, a think tank called the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC published a report called, Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century. In accordance with the Defense Policy Guidance document, they write that, “the United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars.” Furthermore, there is “need to retain sufficient combat forces to fight and win, multiple, nearly simultaneous major theatre wars,” and that “the Pentagon needs to begin to calculate the force necessary to protect, independently, US interests in Europe, East Asia and the Gulf at all times.”

The plans for war were already well under development in the 1990s, as Americans developed detailed strategies for a "new world order.” For this, “the USA would need to use all means - diplomatic, economic and military, even wars of aggression - to have long term control of the resources of the planet and the ability to keep any possible rival weak.”

Many believe that PNAC plans for empire were drawn at Bodemian Grove by America's elite and Bilderberg members.

Political economist, Ellen Wood, put it this way, “Boundless domination of a global economy, and of the multiple states that administer it, requires military action without end, in purpose or time.” She went on to say, “Imperial dominance in a global capitalist economy requires a delicate and contradictory balance between suppressing competition and maintaining conditions in competing economies that generate markets and profit. This is one of the most fundamental contradictions of the new world order.”

Following 9/11, the “Bush doctrine” called for “a unilateral and exclusive right to preemptive attack, any time, anywhere, unfettered by any international agreements, to ensure that ‘our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hope of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States’.”

US strategy following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 was focused on encircling Russia and China and preventing the rise of a new superpower.

Did the New World Order make a Mistake?

Unfortunately, unforeseen to those in charge with the best interests of  the New World Order, partially due to the decline in morals, values and work ethics of the American people, the world economy began to change with the shifting of industry and manufacturing to foreign companies and countries.

The average American has a mindset of wanting live well while doing as little work as possible. Why should an American have a job if they can sit at home and get paid for doing nothing? Let the Chinese produce goods for us to use for free.

American employers have long realized that outsourcing work to a country such as China is not only cheaper, but their workers do a better job! To clinch the deal, there are less liabilities when outsourcing work to China or India.

The endless parade of benefits and entitlements has made America lazy and uncompetitive.

Though the act of lowering government worker wages would go a long way in helping re-balance Americas unstable economy, this still would not help get lazy, "entitled" Americans of their couches to do a better job.

Without a fundamental change of America's principles, morals, values, ideals and, especially, work ethics, I am afraid all hope is lost.

Most economists and political analysts agree with me and do not believe the US will recover from the current economic crisis.

The US greenback could very well go on a free fall as early as this autumn, thus triggering the collapse of America as we know it, followed by World War III.

We can only hope that the New World Order, with its rich international bankers, weapons dealers and industrial tycoons can stop the approaching Armageddon.

But maybe the New World Order wants WWIII! They've been talking about population reduction for quite a while. Population reduction up to 90%! What better way to kill off a large percentage of the world's population then by war? 

After a global war, the NWO would be able to rebuild the world as they see fit. With out a doubt, with their almost unlimited resources they would survive any war. With  their almost unlimited resources they could build the world of their dreams!

Do you believe that the United States is headed for collapse? Do you believe we are headed for WWIII? Do you believe that the New World Order can, will and wants to stop it?

My Conspiracy Watch readers and I value your opinion, so please leave your comment bellow.

Written By: Tom Retterbush

Sources

Death of 'Soul of Capitalism' (marketwatch.com)

Is America's financial collapse inevitable?, Pat Buchanan (wnd.com)

The Inevitable Collapse of the Greenback (informationclearinghouse.info)

An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III (globalresearch.ca)

Chinese Economic Takeover now Inevitable Many Experts Predict

Can only the New World Order save America from the Chinese?

Economists Forecast China to overtake U.S. Economy Soon

Though the U.S. still has the world's leading economy, worth $14.6 trillion in 2010, that could soon be history!

China has 1.3 billion people! That's more than four times America’s population. China actually gives birth to more babies each year than Canada has people, and that’s after China’s  jìhuà shengyù zhèngcè policy, allowing the Chinese only one child per family.

A new television ad about the U.S. national debt produced by Citizens Against Government Waste has been deemed “too controversial” by major networks including ABC, A&E and The History Channel and will not be shown on those channels. The commercial is to honor the 1986 “The Deficit Trials” ad that was also banned by the major networks. 

Apparently telling the truth about the national debt is a little too “hot” for the major networks to handle.  But perhaps it is time to tell the American people the truth.  In 1986, the U.S. national debt was around 2 trillion dollars.  Today, it is rapidly approaching 14 trillion dollars. The American Dream is being ripped apart right in front of our eyes, but apparently some of the major networks don’t want the American people to really understand what is going on.

The ad does not even have anything offensive in it. The commercial is set in the year 2030, with the main character a Chinese professor lecturing his students on the fall of great empires. With images of the United States on a screen behind him, the Chinese professor tells his students, “they all make the same mistakes. Turning their backs on the principles that made them great. America tried to spend and tax itself out of a great recession. Enormous so-called “stimulus” spending, massive changes to health care, government takeover of private industries, and crushing debt.” 

Maybe it is the truth the Chinese Professor reveals next that is offending the big networks: “Of course, we owned most of their debt, so now they work for us”.

So is this television commercial offensive? Watch it below and decide for yourself….

1,814,473 views already, by 4/11/11 

Month after month, thousands of jobs and billions of dollars gets transferred permanently from the United States to China.

In 1985, the U.S. trade deficit with China was 6 million dollars for the entire year.  In the month of August alone, the U.S. trade deficit with China was over 28 billion dollars.

China has become an economic Superpower, growing its GDP by about 10% per year. Not long ago China passed Germany as the world's third largest econmy, this year, China passed Japan to become the world’s second largest economy, after the U.S.

World Bank's chief economist, Justin Lin said China has the potential to overtake the U.S. and become the world's largest economy in about 20 years time. There are many others (including myself) who believe this will happen much sooner.

The Chinese government has accumulated hundreds of billions of excess dollars, and U.S. government officials now regularly make trips over there to beg them to keep lending more money to our government so that we can continue to go on living far beyond our means.

But the borrower always ends up as the servant of the lender, and we are rapidly becoming the servants of the Chinese.

China is accomplishing this by openly manipulating currency rates, by allowing their population to be paid slave labor wages and by putting up unfair barriers to U.S. goods.

And our politicians are letting them get away with it. In fact, one prominent economist is now projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

But it did not have to be this way. We did not have to merge the U.S. economy into a globalized one-world economy where U.S. workers are put in direct competition for jobs with millions of Chinese workers that make less than a dollar per hour.

Factories, wealth and jobs are leaving the United States at a blinding pace.  Since 2001, approximately 42,400 American factories have closed their doors.

America is being deindustrialized, and the sad thing is that most Americans do not even realize that it is a major problem. As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing.  The last time that less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.

Today, the United States spends about $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that China spends on goods from the United States.

Meanwhile, formerly great American manufacturing cities such as Detroit now look like post-apocalyptic war zones.

But this is just the beginning of the end for America. China is also on track to outstrip the U.S. in scientific research activity over the next two years, according to a Royal Society report.

A Market Watch report picks out China as leading the 'Bric' pack of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India and others) in catching up with and, in the case of China, superseding traditional scientific leaders the U.S., Western Europe and Japan on various running tracks of the scientific landscape.

China will overtake the global share of published research articles in 2013, according to the report, Knowledge, Networks and Nations, published recently.

China will also become a global cultural leader, already for the first time in the auction world, China topped the United States and the United Kingdom as the biggest seller of art last year. Chinese public auctions in 2010 accounted for 33% of worldwide global fine art sales, while American houses sold 30% and UK 19 %. AllGov

China is winning and we are losing 

It almost looks as if The New World Order may be the only thing that could save Americam, Europe and the rest of Western Civilization from the Chinese threat. I'm sure the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Warburgs and the other major international bankers, as well as western societies most esteemed scientists, researchers and cultural leaders are scrambling to prevent this from happening. In case you haven't noticed, the NWO does not include any Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other Asian members.

So which would be worse? Being controlled by the Chinese or the NWO? Maybe the NWO is counting on our fear of the Chinese to get our approval and support?

So what do you think?  Please leave your opinion via a comment down bellow.

Edited By: Tom Retterbush

Tomorrow on Conspiracy Watch, The Chinese Takeover of America, comming Thursday, April 13, 2011.

Sources

Bankergate and the NWO (defendfreedomsite.org)

The Television Commercial About The National Debt That Is Being Banned By Major Networks (Prison Planet)

The Bohemian Grove Conspiracy Meeting of the New World Order

Each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a two-week encampment of the most powerful men in the world.

Bohemian Grove is a 2,700 acre campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men's art club known as the Bohemian Club.


Summer Camp for the Rich and Powerful

In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a two-week encampment of some of the most powerful men in the world, somewhat like the even more secretive Bliderberg Group does in Europe (see my post, The Bilderberg Group Conspiracy, from Wednesday, January 26, 2011).

The Bohemian Club's all-male membership includes government leaders, even royaly such as the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf and many former U.S. presidents, such as Herbert Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and both George Bush Sr. and Jr., government officials such as Robert F. Kennedy, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld, movie and music celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jimmie Buffet, senior media executives including Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation and the management of Time Warner, as well as many prominent business leaders, such as the Rockefeller and Rothschild banking  family dynasties.

Members may invite guests to the Grove although those guests are subject to a screening procedure. A guest's first glimpse of the Grove is typically during the "Spring Jinks", in June, preceding the main July encampment. Bohemian club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is not being used for Club-wide purposes, and are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family and friends, though female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 p.m.

After 40 years of membership the men earn "Old Guard" status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove's daily talks, as well as other perquisites.

Illustration of rumored ritual child offerings

The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", which implies that outside concerns and business deals are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, though discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members. Important political and business deals have 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.

The tradition of a summer encampment was established six years after the Bohemian Club was formed in 1872. Henry "Harry" Edwards, a well-loved founding member, announced that he was relocating to New York City to further his career. On June 29, 1878, somewhat less than 100 Bohemians gathered in the Redwoods in Marin County near Taylorville (present-day Samuel P. Taylor State Park) for an evening sendoff party in Edwards' honor. Freely flowing liquor and some Japanese lanterns put a glow on the festivities, and club members retired at a late hour to the modest comfort of blankets laid on the dense mat of Redwood needles.

This festive gathering was repeated the next year, without Edwards, and became the club's annual encampment. By 1882, the members of the Club camped together at various locations in both Marin and Sonoma County, including the present-day Muir Woods and a redwood grove that once stood near Duncans Mills, several miles down the Russian River from the current location. From 1893, Bohemians rented the current location and, in 1899, purchased it from Melvin Cyrus Meeker who had developed a successful logging operation in the area. Gradually over the next decades, members of the Club purchased land surrounding the original location to the perimeter of the basin in which it resides.

Since the founding of the club, the Bohemian Grove's mascot has been an owl, symbolizing knowledge. A 40-foot (12 m) hollow owl statue made of concrete over steel supports stands at the head of the lake in the Grove; this Owl Shrine was designed by sculptor and two-time club president Haig Patigian, and built in the 1920s. Since 1929, the Owl Shrine has served as the backdrop of the yearly Cremation of Care ceremony.

The Club's patron saint is John of Nepomuk, who legend says suffered death at the hands of a Bohemian monarch rather than disclose the confessional secrets of the queen. A large wood carving of St. John in cleric robes with his index finger over his lips stands at the shore of the lake in the Grove, symbolizing the secrecy kept by the Grove's attendees throughout its long history.

Writer and journalist William Henry Irwin said of the Grove:

"You come upon it suddenly. One step and its glory is over you. There is no perspective; you cannot get far enough away from one of the trees to see it as a whole. There they stand, a world of height above you, their pinnacles hidden by their topmost fringes of branches or lost in the sky."

Not long after the Club's establishment by newspaper journalists, it was commandeered by prominent San Francisco-based businessmen, who provided the financial resources necessary to acquire further land and facilities at the Grove. However, they still retained the "bohemians"—the artists and musicians—who continued to entertain international members and guests.

Past and Present Members

The Bohemian Club is a private club; only active members of the Club (known as "Bohos" or "Grovers") and their guests may visit the Grove. These guests have been known to include politicians and notable figures from countries outside the U.S. Particularly during the midsummer encampment, the number of guests is strictly limited due to the small size of the facilities. Nevertheless, up to 2,900 members and guests have been reported as attending some of the annual encampments.

The membership list has included every Republican U.S. president since 1923 (as well as some Democrats), many cabinet officials, directors and CEOs of large corporations including major financial institutions. Major military contractors, oil companies, banks (incl. the Federal Reserve), utilities (incl. nuclear power) and national media have officials as members.

The members stay in different camps at the Grove, which have varying status levels. Members & frequent guests of the most prestigious camp (Mandalay) include: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, S. D. Bechtel, Jr., Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM), Phillip Hawley (B of A), William Casey (CIA). and Ralph Bailey (Dupont). George Bush resides in a less prestigious camp (Hillbillies) with A. W. Clausen (World Bank), Walter Cronkite, and William F. Buckley.

Other well known members include both the Rockefeller and Rothschild families, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, former US presidential advisor Karl Rove, former US Surgeon General, Richard Carmona, former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Schmidt, former Consul General of Japan, Makoto Yamanaka, even the King of Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett, and the list goes on.

For a list of most past and present Bohemian Grove members, see my Players page. Note, that due to the secrecy surrounding the Bohemian Grove membership, it is impossible to be sure of each and every member, regardless of what some sources may claim.

Activities

The primary activities taking place at the Grove are varied and expansive entertainment, such as a grand main stage and a smaller, more intimate stage. Thus, the majority of common facilities are entertainment venues, interspersed among the giant redwoods.

The Cremation of Care ceremony was first conducted in the Bohemian Grove at the Midsummer encampment in 1881, devised by James F. Bowman with George T. Bromley playing the High Priest. It was originally set up within the plot of the serious "High Jinks" dramatic performance on the first weekend of the summer encampment, after which the spirit of "Care", slain by the Jinks hero, was solemnly cremated. The ceremony served as a catharsis for pent-up high spirits, and "to present symbolically the salvation of the trees by the club..." The Cremation of Care was separated from the Grove Play in 1913 and moved to the first night to become "an exorcising of the Demon to ensure the success of the ensuing two weeks." The Grove Play was moved to the last weekend of the encampment.

Photo by Mike Hanson
Picture secretly taken of actual ceremony ritual 

The ceremony takes place in front of the Owl Shrine, a 40-foot (12 m) hollow owl statue made of concrete over steel supports. The moss- and lichen-covered statue simulates a natural rock formation, yet holds electrical and audio equipment within it. For many years, a recording of the voice of club member Walter Cronkite was used as the voice of The Owl during the ceremony. Music and pyrotechnics accompany the ritual for dramatic effect.

Each year, a Grove Play is performed for one night during the final weekend of the summer encampment. The play is a large-scale musical theatrical production, written and composed by club members, involving some 300 people, including chorus, cast, stage crew and orchestra. The first Grove Play was performed in 1902; during the war years 1943–1945 the stage was dark. In 1975, an observer estimated that the Grove Play cost between $20,000–30,000, an amount that would be as high as $122,000 in today's dollars.

The culmination of this event ends with this all-male “Club” wearing red, black and silver robes and conducting a ceremony in which a human effigy is ritualistically burned at an altar beside a forty-foot concrete statue of an owl. The owl itself is said to be connected to wisdom and the occult symbolism of the Illuminati. A depiction of an owl figure, the “Great Owl of Bohemia,” can be seen within the architecture of the streets surrounding the United States Capital in Washington D.C.

Protests and controversies

With its combination of wealth and power, Bohemian Grove's secrecy has been a target for protest for many years. The Bohemian Grove Action Network of Occidental, California organizes protests and has aided journalists who wish to penetrate the secrecy surrounding the encampment. Over the years, individuals have infiltrated the Grove then later published video and claimed accounts of the activities at Bohemian Grove.

Infiltrations

In the summer of 1989, Spy magazine writer Philip Weiss spent some seven days in the camp posing as a guest, which led to his November 1989 article "Inside Bohemian Grove". He wrote about uninhibited behavior he witnessed: "You know you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes. This is the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like..." Weiss noticed "hundreds of cigars whose smokers had ignited them in defiance of the California Forest Service's posted warnings."

On July 15, 2000, Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, walked into the Grove. With a hidden camera, Jones and Hanson were able to film the Cremation of Care ceremony. The footage was the centerpiece of Jones' documentary Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones claimed that the Cremation of Care was an "ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony," and that the owl statue was Moloch. The Grove and Jones' investigation were covered by Jon Ronson in Channel 4's four-part documentary, Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in his book, Them: Adventures With Extremists, writing "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, the heavy drinking. These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed trapped in their college years."

Also filmed for The Order of Death was Jones' return to the entrance of the Bohemian Grove in 2005 where he filmed a protest organized by the Bohemian Grove Action Network that took place at the Grove's entrance on Bohemian Highway, only to discover a majority of the protesters engaging in an "occult counter-ritual" known as the Resurrection of Care, supposedly a counter-ritual against the Cremation of Care. Jones' narration for the film lambasted the protesters' actions and motivations from a religious standpoint. In 2005, Chris Jones (no relation) walked into the Grove when hired as an employee, and videotaped the Owl Shrine in daylight, even venturing inside the hollow statue. He also got footage of effigies, the lakeside, and select camps; as well as stealing a membership list. Chris Jones said he was propositioned for sex several times by the Grovers. Chris Jones was subsequently sentenced to three years in state prison for a lewd act with minors. Alex Jones included Chris Jones' video in "The Order of Death".

Actor/writer Harry Shearer (This Is Spinal Tap, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons), who has attended at least one Bohemian Club event, wrote and directed The Teddy Bears' Picnic, a parody of Bohemian Grove mock pagan pageantry and drunken revelry.

Now, for the First Time in History, an Outsider Has Infiltrated Bohemian Grove with a Hidden Digital Video Camera and Caught the Ritual on Tape. That Man is Alex Jones, an he released an awesome digital video about the encounter, called Dark Secrets: Inside the Bohemian Grove.

You can watch Alex Jones's full-length, 2 hour 2 minute and 56 seconds long video bellow. Enjoy!

Facilities

The main encampment area consists of 160 acres (0.65 km2) of old-growth redwood trees over 1,000 years old, with some trees exceeding 300 feet (90 m) in height. The primary activities taking place at the Grove are varied and expansive entertainment, such as a grand main stage and a smaller, more intimate stage. Thus, the majority of common facilities are entertainment venues, interspersed among the giant redwoods.

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 patrimonial, are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed.

Since there are lots of different venues and activities at Bohemian Grove, several different buildings were constructed to accommodate the gatherings. They included:

Grove Stage—an amphitheater with seating for 2,000 used primarily for the Grove Play production, on the last weekend of the midsummer encampment. The stage extends up the hillside, and is also home to the second largest outdoor pipe organ in the world.

Field Circle—a bowl-shaped amphitheater used for the mid-encampment "Low Jinks" musical comedy, for "Spring Jinks" in early June and for a variety of other performances.

Campfire Circle—has a campfire pit in the middle of the circle, surrounded by carved redwood log benches. Used for smaller performances in a more intimate setting.

Museum Stage—a semi-outdoor venue with a covered stage. Lectures and small ensemble performances.

Dining Circle—seating approximately 1,500 diners simultaneously.

Clubhouse—designed by Bernard Maybeck in 1903, completed in 1904 on a bluff overlooking the Russian River; a multi-purpose dining, drinking and entertainment building; the site of the Manhattan Project planning meeting held in 1942.

The Owl Shrine and the Lake—an artificial lake in the middle of the grove, used for the noon-time concerts and the 12:30 p.m. daily "Lakeside Talks." 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 and former presidents and have been the subject of ongoing controversy.

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).

Women

Though no woman has ever been given full membership in the Bohemian Club, the four female honorary members were hostess Margaret Bowman, poet Ina Coolbrith (who served as librarian for the Club), actress Elizabeth Crocker Bowers and writer Sara Jane Lippincott. Since Coolbrith's death in 1928, no other woman was made a member. These honorary members and other women guests have been allowed into the Bohemian "City Club" building and as daytime guests of the Grove, but not to the upper floors of the City Club nor as guests to the main summer encampment at the Grove. Annual "Ladies' Jinks" were held at the Club especially for spouses and invited guests.

What's wrong with this Picture?

When rich and powerful people get together, they form alliances to become even more rich and powerful. The Grove membership is wealthy, and becoming more so, while the middle class is steadily becoming poorer and the poor is constantly struggling to eat. By their control of the banking system, money supply, and markets, this close-knit society determines when prices rise and fall. They determine our rights and make laws that do not apply to them, by controlling the whole judicial system. They decide among themselves who is to be in office, from our mayors, our governors, congressmen, senators, to even our president, then selling candidates to us through the very media they own. Important issues are omitted and facts are hidden from discussion or slanted to suit their agenda, but believe you me, they are discussed at the Grove.

There has never been a true democracy in America. It was founded as a republic, which is by definition ruled by the rich and powerful elite. By definition, our forefathers never disguised the fact that the upper class was to rule America. All you have to do is look at who our Founding Fathers were. They were the same sort of people who still run our country today.

When talking about a democracy, it is implies direct rule by the people, all of whom are supposed to be equal, whereas a republic implies a system of government in which the will of the people is mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person.

In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.

That is why the popular majority does not always get its way. That is why the will of the rich and powerful prevails. It has been as such since the beginning of society, even since the beginning of America, and it isn't about to change anytime soon. True democracy is an illusion. 

It is the members of Bohemian Grove who write the rules, make the money and get their way.  

Do you believe that Bohemian Grove is just a social club for the rich and powerful, or do you believe its something more sinister? Are there power-plays being made, alliances being formed and conspiracies being hatched at Bohemian Grove or is it nothing more than a glorified fantasy camp?

My readers and I would really like to know your opinion. Please leave your take on the The Bohemian Grove Conspiracy in the form of a comment, bellow.

Written By: Tom Retterbush

Bohemian Grove: Cult Of Conspiracy
Mike Hanson is a journalist and activist who, with Alex Jones, secretly infiltrated Bohemian Grove with a hidden video camera, the footage of which became the basis of this book.
Paperback, 446 pages, by Mike Hanson
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Sources

Bohemian Grove (wikipedia) 
Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove (apfn.org)
2010 Bohemian Grove members list pdf download (Scribid)
Bohemian Grove Action Network (Sonoma County Free Press)

Will Japan's Catastrophe Trigger a Worldwide Economic Depression?

Japan has just been hit by  biggest fall in stocks since the two-day fall of the 1987 global stock market crash.

Japan was already teetering on a bad economic situation before the current disaster. Their markets were already trashed.


Could this compound their problems and set in motion a ripple effect that will plunge the whole world into an economic meltdown?

We must not forget, that although China has surpassed Japan as the second largest global economy, it is still the third largest financial power in the world.

Still, just 16% of adults say America’s relationship with its former World War II enemy is not very or not at all important. 59% of Americans say Japan is an ally of the United States. Only 10% view the country as an enemy, while 24% think of it as somewhere in between an ally and an enemy. 46% believe America should help Japan militarily if it comes under attack, but 41% disagree.

So is the United States ready to help our second biggest financial trading partner master their disaster?

Japanese cash plays a crucial role in global bond and stock markets. Despite two decades of stagnant growth on home turf, Japan is the second largest foreign owner of US government securities, with nearly $900bn of America's public debt. This time it could be the rest of the world that takes a financial hit while the Japanese economy booms.

To understand how this could happen, we need but to follow the Japanese money. Savings by individuals and money held by Japanese insurers and financial institutions amounts to trillions of dollars in cash, much of which makes its way on to world securities markets. When natural disasters happen in Japan, individuals and companies need this cash to rebuild, and insurance companies need it for payouts.

Earthquake insurance is hard to get for most households in Japan, so much of the cost, estimated at $100 billion, will have to come from a mountain of ordinary savings held in Japanese financial institutions, much of it invested overseas. Japanese insurers will also have to sell overseas assets, but they will be spared the full cost because they have reinsured a lot of their risk with overseas insurance firms, who in turn have reinsured it with other insurers. This insurance trail is a global labyrinth. Japan's risk, it turns out, is the world's risk.

As was expected, when US markets opened on Friday, the sell-off of Japanese-held treasuries began. Bond prices fell and yields rose, although analysts say the selling was offset by buying from investors fleeing debt problems in the eurozone and unrest in the Middle East.

Within hours of the disaster the yen was sold off in record perportions. Japan's central bank says it will inject 15 trillion yen into the economy to stabilise markets, but that didn't stop the Nikkei index slumping 16% so far this week. This is the biggest two-day fall since the 1987 global stock market crash.



As stock markets plunge around the world, Ray Suarez talks with The Economist's Greg Ip about the economic fallout from the ongoing disaster in Japan on PBS Newshour.

Yet, all of this was predictable. In 1991 Peter Hadfield wrote a book, Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World, about the consequences of a major earthquake in the Tokyo area. Peter wrote that the rest of the world would come off far worse than Japan and that US treasuries would have to be sold to meet insurance claims and pay for rebuilding, resulting in falling bond prices and rising interest rates. The yen would then rise as these overseas savings were sent back to Japan. What a scam!

A model produced by the Tokai Bank in 1989 found that Japan, after experiencing severe short-term negative growth, would bounce back as the cash flowed home and the rebuilding began. It was the rest of the world, starved of this investment and hit with rising interest rates, that would end up in a recession.

However, today Tokyo's fiscal position, awash in debt that amounts to two years' worth of GDP, can ill-afford the generous injections it is making to stabilise markets and the spending that will be needed to restore infrastructure.

The immediate effect on the Japanese economy will likely be to send Japan into a worsening  recession, possibly escalating into a depression. However, if production of everything from cars to concrete will be ramped up to satisfy the expected demand, within a year the rebuilding effort could deliver growth.

The Japanese are tremendously energetic and disciplined race. They have more than a 1000 years of Martial Arts Culture and warrior spirit behind them. Even though their population is aging, they still have the capacity to recover quickly. They are a very able, talented, hard working people like the Chinese, Koreans and the Germans.

In the Grand Scheme of things, however, Japan has little natural resources and no essential strategic location. A World Wide depression will originate from a strategic and natural resource rich region like Middle-East or Central Asia, which sucks in major world powers with natural resources like oil, diamonds and gold.

Japan will face orderly stagnation or very very gradual decline, but is not a likely candidate for causing a World Wide event.

Do you believe the world is headed for a financial  meltdown? If so, do you think Japan's current crisis could be the beginning of a downwards spiral towards a global economic depression?

My readers and I would love to know what you think, so please let us know your opinion in the form of a comment, bellow.

Written By: Tom Retterbush


For more on this subject, read my post, Economists Fear US Apocalypse, which includes predictions from world famous economist Nouriel Roubini, who first gained national recognition after predicting the chaos wrought by the mortgage crisis and the collapse of the housing bubble.

Sources

Japan Catastrophe Pressures Deadbeat Debtors buzzle.com

Global Economic Implications of Japan's Tragedy  seekingalpha.com

Japan's earthquake will cause a global financial aftershock guardian.co.uk

Japan’s Economy in Crisis: Growth in Q2 Shrinks to Near Zero globaleconomiccrisis.com

Japanese super earthquakes to cause worldwide interest rate spikes thecomingdepression.net

The Bilderberg Group Conspiracy

Bilderberg is an annual conference for a few dozen of the world’s most influential people

“You can do nothing against a conspiracy theory,” sighs Etienne Davignon, the aristocrat and former vice-president of the European Commission, sitting in an office with a view over Brussels.


Davignon is a man who has sat on several corporate boards, but that is not why some people consider him too powerful. He presides over the Bilderberg group, an evil conspiracy bent on world domination. At least, that is what numerous websites allege; also that it has ties to al-Qaeda, is hiding the cure for cancer and wishes to merge the United States with Mexico.

In reality, Bilderberg is an annual conference for a few dozen of the world’s most influential people. Last year Bill Gates and Larry Summers hobnobbed with the chairman of Deutsche Bank, the boss of Shell, the head of the World Food Programme and the prime minister of Spain. One or two journalists are invited each year, on condition that they abstain from writing about it. (Full disclosure: the editor of The Economist sometimes attends.)

Because the meetings are off the record, they are catnip to conspiracy theorists. But the attraction for participants is obvious. They can speak candidly, says Mr Davignon, without worrying how their words might play in tomorrow’s headlines. So they find out what other influential people really think. Big ideas are debated frankly. Mr Davignon credits the meetings for helping to lay the groundwork for creating the euro. He recalls strong disagreement over Iraq: some participants favoured the invasion in 2003, some opposed it and some wanted it done differently. Last year the debate was about Europe’s fiscal problems, and whether the euro would survive.

The world is a complicated place, with oceans of new information sloshing around. To run a multinational organisation, it helps if you have a rough idea of what is going on. It also helps to be on first-name terms with other globocrats. So the cosmopolitan elite—international financiers, bureaucrats, charity bosses and thinkers—constantly meet and talk. They flock to elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Trilateral Commission and the Boao meeting in China…

As far as global politics and finance go, the Bilderberg is the top of the pyramid, the all-seeing eye gazing upon the construction of a New World Order. This one-world system of governance, lurking in the shadows cast by flowery language about our new "global village," will transfer nearly all economic and political power into the hands of a small group of the world elite.

According to Bilderberg's draft document of 1989, "Bilderberg takes its name from the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the concern expressed by many leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe and North America were not working together as closely as they should on matters of critical importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions would help create a better understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations in the difficult post-war period."

According to Conrad Black, the Bilderberg "was set up in the mid-fifties by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.... [Meetings] normally include senior officials of the governments of all the countries represented, with a wide swath of enlightened business, academic, media and military leaders...."

Prince Bernhard gave the go-ahead, but the idea for the Bilderberg belonged to Joseph H. Retinger, a man who could make an appointment with the President of the United States just by picking up the telephone. In 1952, Retinger proposed a secret conference to Prince Bernhard which would involve the NATO leaders in an open and frank discussion on international affairs behind closed doors.

The Prince thought it was a grand idea, and they formed a committee to plan the conference. Berhhard briefed the Truman administration about the meeting in 1952, and although the idea was warmly embraced in the U.S., the first American counterpart group was not formed until the Eisenhower administration.

CIA Director General Walter Bedell Smith and C.D. Jackson were key players in organizing the American counterpart group, heavily influenced by the Rockefeller dynasty, whose Standard Oil holdings competed with Bernhard's Royal Dutch Petroleum. Hence, the interests of the oil industry were well-represented at Bilderberg meetings.



At early meetings of the Bilderberg, attendees expressed frustration with American politics, then in the throes of McCarthyism, whose nationalist ideology stood in the way of global planning. C. D. Jackson tried to quell their fears by saying, "Whether McCarthy dies by an assassin's bullet or is eliminated in the normal American way of getting rid of boils on body politics, I prophesy that by the time we hold our next meeting he will be gone from the American scene."

Bilderberg meetings are held in remote places, and attendees are encouraged to leave spouses and aides at home, to not use prepared texts, and to conduct discussions in English as much as possible.

Director and advisory board members include Gianni Agnelli of Fiat, Dwayne Andreas (controlling shareholder of Archer-Daniels Midland), Zbigniew Brzezinski (former national security advisor in the Carter administration), Lord Carrington (former British foreign and defense secretary and secretary-general of NATO), Andrew Knight (editor of the Economist), Richard Perle (former U.S. assistant secretary of National Defense and one of the champions of the Strategic Defense Initiative and Euro-missile deployment), Paul Volker (former Federal Reserve chairman), and George Will (U.S. conservative columnist and commentator), to name just a few. For a more complete list of members, go to the Conspiracy Watch Players page.


Critics of the Bilderberg say that the secret group:

• perceives itself as being supra-governmental;
• manipulates global finances and establishes rigid and binding monetary rates around the world;
• selects political figures whom the Bilderberg decrees should become rulers, and targets those whom it wants removed from power;
• decides which countries shall wage war on others.

"Providentially, the world became more accessible for me as Canada became less commodious," Conrad Black said in his biography, "A Life in Progress". "It was from Bilderberg that our company's eventual vocation as an international newspaper organization arose."

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New World Order Intelligence Update

Deverell, John. "Black Plays Host to World Leaders," Toronto Star , May 30 1996, page 1A.

"The Bilderberg Group: The Invisible Power House." Nexus Magazine , Volume 3, #1 (Dec '95-Jan '96).

Katson, Trisha. "Bilderberg To Meet Secretly in Toronto," The Spotlight, News Release.