Inside Bohemian Groove

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A friend of mine made this video, taking you into Bohemian Groove, via google earth.

www.youtube.com/watch

If you are not familiar with Bohemian Groove, it is a much older version of Burning Man, that Larry Harvey seeks to imitate by raising ticket prices. ha ha ha

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
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    Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

    Sat, November 24, 2007 - 3:27 PM
    Yeah, the big difference between BG and BM is that when the participants leave BG they go home and RUN the world. When the peeps leave BM they just bitch about how the world is run ;-)
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    Sat, November 24, 2007 - 4:19 PM
    <If you are not familiar with Bohemian Groove....>

    As far as I know, Bohemian Groove is a clothing line and a band. Bohemian Grove is a place where a bunch of people get together and act silly. As far as world domination and all that, I happen to know people who have worked there and I used to know someone who was on the invitation list. No reports of world domination came from anyone I know who has been there.
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      Groovy grove or Grovey groove?

      Sat, November 24, 2007 - 4:42 PM
      Having worked at the airport at Burningman and been at the Santa Rosa Airport during The Bohemian Grove Retreat ,I can say that the planes that the Burners fly are a lot less expensive. Our 'big' plane this last year was a Citation 500. There were several Gulfstream V's last time I saw the planes at STS for BG.

      I too know people who have worked there and are on the invite list. And that is one other big diff, you don't have to get invited to Burningman! It is no secret that the speakers and many of the participants are very powerful people.

      I don't buy the hype that they plan all of their evil plots there or anything, but I'm sure it is helpful to them to meet in a casual environment and discuss the latest techniques for rendering souls into cash! All while relaxing with fine wine and a lack of pesky proletariats.

      And no, not all Burners just bitch either. 'Specially not ME!
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        Nixons take on it

        Sat, November 24, 2007 - 4:53 PM
        This was the funniest thing in the wikipedia article:

        "The Bohemian Grove, that I attend from time to time — the (inaudible) and the others come there — but it is the most faggy goddamn thing that you would ever imagine. The San Francisco crowd that goes in there, it's just terrible. I can't even shake hands with anybody from San Francisco." — President Richard M. Nixon,

        Some would say the same about Burningman!
      • "As far as I know, Bohemian Groove is a clothing line and a band."

        Don't forget "Bohemian Grove Laxative"
        . . . . I feel it working right now ...phrrbbbbt "I demand transparency for the Bohemian Grove!! "
        • It is where some pretty powerful people put on black and red robes and re-create a human sacrifice (effigy, theoretically) to a 40 foot Owl.

          The symbolism gets a bit creepy after that.

          And if Nixon said it gets "faggoty" I don't think he was necessarily referring to consenting male adults. Look into Larry King (not the tv host) and the Boys Town scandal. EEEEWWW!
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            Sun, November 25, 2007 - 2:06 AM
            Actually, they make a symbolic sacrifice representing the "cares of the world" so the participants can put aside their everyday worries on the outside just and have fun. Bunch of ritual but not much more creepy than that. Sorry to disappoint you.

            On the other hand,I don't know of any Burning Man camps that have 8-burner Viking stoves, Sub-Zero refrigerators, and million-dollar renovations. But give us time.
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      Mon, November 26, 2007 - 4:55 PM
      Yes, David, thanks for pointing out that I have caused more hurt and misinformation by blaming a clothing line and band for world domination.
      • Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

        Mon, November 26, 2007 - 6:11 PM
        I can tie Old Navy to the Philadelphia experiment, into Project Rainbow, into a concerted effort to manipulate the populations of the USA, England, Canada, and New Zealand using electric music, subliminal messages.

        so, if given enough thread, I could wrap that yarn into a comfortable sweater.

        Thanks for keeping us OT, Shooter
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    Mon, November 26, 2007 - 8:09 PM
    The Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre redwood grove in Sonoma Co., CA; it's definitely a place where the corporate elites gather, every July, for the "Summer Fire Festival." It's an all-male encampment, frequented by the Bush and Clinton families, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, and I've seen an old photo with Reagan and Nixon sitting at the same table together. It's admitted, by the Bohemian Grove, that they do the "cremation of care" ritual, wherein they perform a mock human sacrifice to a 40-ft.-tall stone and metal owl statue, a.k.a. Moloch. The "cremation of care" is basically geared towards getting people to burn up their consciences, especially when relating to business, or "the marketplace," as it's referred to in the ritual itselt.
    It's definitely degenerate behaviour, the music is horrible, and it's definitely a wicked ceremony, at its core.
    Unfortunately, what's being done at Burning Man is also a mock human sacrifice, and was very polluting.
    I'm glad to hear about the "Green Man" development, and hope that the people who attend Burning Man will also reject the Bohemian Grove for what it is. Mock human sacrifices isn't a good common ground to bond with, if you catch my drift.
    The New World Order agenda isn't "all planned" at one place, either; Bohemian Grove is like a big business meeting, and is orchestrated by the same people who are going way over the top to invade every nation they can, steal the resources, and enslave the people of those nations. It's a real situation, and we all need to be vigilant to help shut it down.
    The global corporate elites are not all-powerful, and they rely on us, the people, the bow down to them so that they can stay in control; history is full of examples of people's revolutions, and we need another on in America, today.
    It's already happening, so the question now is whether you want to be a part of it or not...Resist and Rebel!

    Forever Wild,
    Shunka Wakan
    • Dear Shunka Wakan

      Mon, November 26, 2007 - 8:19 PM
      Dear Shunka Wakan
      I would like to be a part of the New World Order!
      Can you get me a ticket to the Grove or Burningman?!
      I tried Rainbow, but they just sat around and got stoned.
      I want to make a difference while making a pile of money oppressing the Masses!
      Your friend
      Kamikaze Kelly
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      Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

      Mon, November 26, 2007 - 8:25 PM
      "Shunka have you met "Cowboy Angel"? Something tells me you two would get along famously or at the very least swap foil hat designs.
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        Mon, November 26, 2007 - 9:03 PM
        Pass Shunka the Kool-aid while you're at it........
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          Mon, November 26, 2007 - 10:14 PM
          Rhino, Rhino, Rhino.
          I am dissappointed in you. 1000 (almost) died that night, and they had rehearsed their deaths numerous times before. They were trapped in jungle, or at least rain forest country (now I can put a date on using the old term) far from any town, people and information carefully permitted or denied access. Family members adn survivors, 30 years later still suffer. And you have turned that sufferring into a snide and dismissive remark.
          Think about it, please.
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            Tue, November 27, 2007 - 6:20 AM
            No derisive reference to Jonestown was intended. I mean the NASTY stuff they used to call "bug juice" in summer camp...that orange kool-aid that they prepared in the 10-gallon pots and poured over ice in jugs....that stuff never tasted right, and they told us it was good for us. Vitamin C, sure, but gimme a strong cuppa joe today.

            Don't tell me something nasty tasting is good for me. Lemme make my own choices in life. THAT is the whole point.
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        Mon, November 26, 2007 - 9:31 PM
        True enuff, in the "keen grasp of the obvious kinda way" but

        Fuckin A.
        Dude ate too much aluminum in the third grade.


        But that is mean of me.

        Why yes,
        yes it is.
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    Tue, November 27, 2007 - 8:31 AM
    My old boss used to go to the Bohemian Grove. Sure, I thought the whole thing was pretty gay. Way to gay for me. And I live with my boyfriend.

    He used to have my department build scale models for a set he'd build for a play they'd put on. And ya, the play sounded like something I would never want to watch (as in it sucks).

    But hey, when it comes down to it, I wish that more of those upity white guys in power would go to the Grove. I get a feeling that it's not the ones who actively participate in the Grove that are the problem. Heck, I think running around the woods necked slappin each others ass while on mushrooms would be good for some of them. I sure wish that Heir Bush would pull that stick out of his ass every now and then and loosen up with them.
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    Tue, November 27, 2007 - 11:16 AM
    I worked at the Notty Room in Monte Rio back in the early '80's (bartender) and taxi drivers would stop in after delivering a few "girls" to the grove (by the way only one "o"). My understanding it was right wing power politics. No art people, except republican actors, singers..etc.
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      Tue, November 27, 2007 - 11:31 AM
      As for doing them any good, I doubt that. It was RR who said, "A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" when the Redwood National Park was proposed in 1966 and "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," in 1981. Some people just don't get it.

      Oh, and speaking of the right wing closet, they said on the news last night that Trent Lott is stepping down by the end of this year to "spend more time with his family."

      Er, okay. We believe that line when we hear it.
      • Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

        Tue, November 27, 2007 - 2:16 PM
        if you have an hour and a half this is pretty interesting.

        video.google.com/videoplay
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          Tue, November 27, 2007 - 3:34 PM
          Alex Jones B.S is exactly why I cringe every time somebody brings up the BG. It's like trying to discuss the engineering of the pyramids. You can't have realistic conversation because somebody always brings up aliens, lizard people etc. Hunter Thompson always said the most interesting thing about the BG was how silly and uninteresting the event really is(unless of course when he was using it as an example to call a politician a pervert). Kind of like summer camp for CPAs and Lawyers. Then again people like Alex Jones use that as an excuse to call Hunter Thompson a liar and try to say he is covering up that he was really the cameraman in a snuff film starring Larry King filmed at BG.
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            Tue, November 27, 2007 - 3:42 PM
            I think you're right, Eddie. I think it is a dreary little gathering, noteworthy only in that it gives the rich and powerful a wonderful networking opportunity and a nice bulwark against anything outside influancing their worldviews. I actually think that making all those claims about satanism and human sacrifice is conterproductive, because it make even legitemate opposition looks silly by association.
      • Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

        Tue, November 27, 2007 - 3:37 PM
        <It was RR who said, "A tree is a tree>

        Not to quibble, but it was Interior Secretary James Watt who made that observation.
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          Tue, November 27, 2007 - 3:39 PM
          He immedieately followed it up by saying "A Squaw is a Squaw."

          And that's so gross that even my making it up and posting makes me an object of suspicion and derision.
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            Tue, November 27, 2007 - 7:41 PM
            actually what RR said was,"once you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all""
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              Tue, November 27, 2007 - 9:21 PM
              "actually what RR said was,"once you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all"" "

              Actually, that's how he's most often misquoted. What really said was the quote I posted.

              “It was in this context that candidate (not yet governor) Ronald Reagan, while speaking before the Western Wood Products Association in San Francisco on 12 March 1966, said the following:
              I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a
              natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common
              sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of
              trees — you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?”

              www.snopes.com/quotes/rea...edwoods.asp
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                Tue, November 27, 2007 - 9:43 PM
                omg! when is this going to end?

                i grew up in mill valley,approx 5 miles from a grove of coastal redwoods named "Muir Woods" after the sierra and yosemite valley adventurer and writer.

                i was getting a haircut next to RR at ray's in town when i asked him about the upcoming vote to make the grove a state monument.

                im pretty sure he said " when you've seen a bunch of red trees, you don't need to see no more"

                or something like that.
                • Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

                  Tue, November 27, 2007 - 9:58 PM
                  Okay, James, maybe he said that to YOU at Ray's, but he said something slightly different in front of a microphone to the Western Wood Products Association in San Francisco on 12 March 1966, and it's THAT quote the following sources (and many more) rely on, not your Q & A at the barbershop.

                  Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2003. ISBN 1-58648-030-8 (pp. 177-178, 299-303).

                  Associated Press. "Conferees OK 58,000-Acre Redwood Park." Los Angeles Times. 10 September 1968 (p. 3).

                  United Press International. "Redwood Park Plan Approved, Sent to Johnson." Los Angeles Times. 20 September 1968 (p. 3).

                  Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
                  www.sierraclub.org/carlpope...index.asp

                  [FWIW I try not to misquote people and don't offer a quote until I can cite my sources]
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                    Re: Inside Bohemian Groove

                    Tue, November 27, 2007 - 10:04 PM
                    ?????

                    my post was a Joke mnjg.

                    maybe that 152 is getting in way of your funny bone. sheese! please forgive the capital letters?

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