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CEO'S ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM

Further Future [ Burning Man ]

Russell Ward, the general show runner and publicist who’s the mastermind behind the most popular “transformational festivals”. “This is top-league networking and business folks are all here in the guise of having fun. It’s designed around the music, but it’s about the business,” Ward said. “A ton of business will get done here. Entrepreneurs will get funded, investors will find their trajectories, service companies will meet and mix it up.”  

Further Future needs to answer a new set of questions: “What happens post-capitalism? Even post-democracy? What about post-employment, when we have universal basic income?

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet; Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman; and top Facebook executive Stan Chudnovsky go there.  In 1999 Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital paid $25 million for 20% of Google - today Google's market capitalization is over $149 billion (January 2007). Michael Moritz, chairman of Sequoia Capital, was knighted in 2013.

 

Bohemian Club

July 18th was the first day of this year’s summer camp for the global 1% at Bohemian Grove “the greatest men’s party on earth.” 

Bohemian Grove is an American version of building insider ties, consensual understandings, and lasting connections in the service of class solidarity. Ties reinforced at the Grove manifest themselves in global trade meetings, party politics, campaign financing, and top-down corporatism. Speakers this year giving “Lakeside Chats” include past Secretary of Defense and the CIA Leon Panetta, Paul Volcker Jr. former Federal Reserve Chairman, retired Admiral Mike Mullen former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NYU Law Professor Bryan Stevenson, producer Norman Lear, the founder of AOL Steve Case, and Christopher Hill former US Ambassador to Iraq. Private men’s clubs, like the San Francisco Bohemian Club, have historically represented institutionalized race, gender and class inequality. English gentlemen’s clubs emerged during Great Britain’s empire building period as an exclusive place free of troublesome women, under-classes, and non-whites. Copied in the United States, elite private men’s clubs served the same self-celebration purposes as their English counterparts.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/global-one-percent-celebrate-at-the-bohemian-grove/

Peter Phillips, a Sonoma State University sociologist has published extensively on the Bohemian Club, calls “the global dominance group” This is the group of men who have been running the country into the ground and ripping us off for decades. If you want an answer to why the gap has been increasing so dramatically between the rich and the poor over the last several decades, this network is largely responsible. Brought together by their eating club, prep schools, and golf club affiliations, this is the aristocracy that wants to make sure we don't have a democracy.

the men who
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Bohemian Grove Network

“We're all told that we elect representatives…they go to Washington, we have total influence of them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us,” says Moore. “Then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we find out that none of this is true.” “You’ve got more and more of the leadership of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple . . . at the Grove, and more and more of the establishments counting on their technocracies,” says Jones. These are the power brokers,” says Jones. “And they want to be left alone.”

Phillips wrote his dissertation on the Bohemian Club --the Protestant American establishment, men only affair in 1994.

For more than 100 years, with a macabre, hokey ceremony - with Druidic, Masonic, Ku Klux Klan, and Aryan forest-worship overtones - called the Cremation of Care. Members of the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club - 2,500 of America’s richest, most conservative men, including Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, and a passel of Bechtels, Basses, and Rockefellers - are known to urinate freely against the ancient redwoods that cover their 2,700 acre property.

Rumsfeld, Kissinger, two former C.I.A. directors (including Papa Bush), the masters of war and the oligarchs, the Bechtels and the Basses, the board members of top military contractors - such as Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and the Carlyle Group - Rockefellers, Morgans, captains of industry and C.E.O.’s across the spectrum of American capitalism.

The interlocking corporate web- cemented by prep-school, college, and golf-club affiliations, blood, marriage, and mutual self-interest - that makes up the American ruling class.

Many of the guys, in other words, who have been running the country into the ground and ripping us off for decades.Vanity Fair - Secret Rulers of the World - Leaked Emails

Brooks Byers, a member of the Vatican controlled Bohemian Club is on the board of Caremark, which is run by Thomas M. ... Monarchy, which until 1526 was an independent kingdom Bohemian Brethren - 'Bohemian Brethren' and 'Moravian Brethren' . . .

 

what war on drugs? the joke's on us!

 

 

THE COMMITTEE OF 300

The committee of 300 is a group of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States that control the opium-heroine-cocaine trade as they have for centuries. War on Drugs? What a fucking joke!  This committee essentially owns the Federal Reserve, the insurance companies, corporations, foundations, and communications networks. 

The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300. The opium-heroin-cocaine trade is still in the hands of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States. Today, through many powerful alliances, the Committee of 300 rules the world and is the driving force behind the criminal agenda to create a "New World Order", under a "Totalitarian Global Government". There is no need to use "they" or "the enemy" except as shorthand. We know who "they", the enemy, is. The Committee of 300 with its "aristocracy", its ownership of the U.S. Federal Reserve banking system, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators-this is the enemy. Secret societies exist by deception. Each is a hierarchy with an inner circle at the top, who deceives those below with lies, such as claiming a noble agenda; thus, duping them into following a web of compartmentalized complicity. The inner circle of the Committee of 300 is the Order of the Garter, headed by Queen Elizabeth Windsor II. It is interesting to note that the Windsor's changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during WWI, because of anti-German sentiment.

 

BILDERBERG GROUP

The Bilderbergers are trying to control the world, not through a one world government or a new world order, but through a "one world company".

BBC the safe haven for HSBC executives, who "independently" slope off to Bilderberg soiree's. In what capacity was HSBC Director, and Chair of BBC Trust Rona Fairhead, attending the Bilderberg Conference this year.

The Dutch royal family continued its long established ties with drugs trafficking which originated with king William I who in 1824 founded the Netherlands Trading Society, in essence a Bruinsma-like organization for trafficking and distributing opium throughout the colonies. The enormous family capital of the Orange family dates back to that illustrious era.

Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an annual, unofficial, invitation-only conference of approximately 140 guests, most of whom are people of influence in the fields of politics, banking, business, the military and media.
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/index.php

The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 - 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations. Approximately 130 participants will attend of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the balance from North America. About one-third is from government and politics, and two-thirds are from finance, industry, labor, education, and communications. The meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion.

American Friends of Bilderberg.
The names of attendees are made available to the press, but the conferences are closed to the public and the media, and no press releases are issued.It has been accused by conspiracy theorists of being perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. Davignon told newspaper EUobserver that the Bilderberg Group had "helped create the euro in the 1990. Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group

Bilderberg Watch

Virginia 2012

Bilderberg 2012: The Official List of Participants

CHECK http://twitter.com/lukewearechange for when the WeAreChange Bilderberg Donation Drive Broadcast from Chantilly.

Security tighter than ever at Bilderberg conference. Secretive meeting only invites curiosity. Tight security is nothing new at the infamous meeting, but more press coverage in recent years — driven largely by antisemite and radio character Alex Jones, among others — has led organizers to thicken the protective shell around the conference to new heights.

NY Times Editor-in-Chief Jill Abramson Runs From Bilderberg Question

Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn: "I don't want to talk about Bilderberg"

bilderberg
secret aristocratic global  government

Bilderberg is the Ultimate Elite Network. It is a shadow global government made up of the richest and the most powerful power players in the world who hold private discussions about government policies and international relations, NOT open to the public. If this is not an outrage, I'm not sure what is.

How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. As part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World? series, Bill Hayton tries to find out more.
Every year since 1954, a small network of rich and powerful people have held a discussion meeting about the state of the trans-Atlantic alliance and the problems facing Europe and the US.Organised by a steering committee of two people from each of about 18 countries, the Bilderberg Group (named after the Dutch hotel in which it held its first meeting) brings together about 120 leading business people and politicians. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4290944.stm

bilderberg group founder a nazi!

Corporate Fascism- and the Third Reich

Bilderberg Group Founder Was Member of Nazi Party
Bruno Waterfield London Telegraph March 8, 2010
Prince Bernhard, the father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, was a member of the Nazi party, a new book has claimed, contracting the German-born Dutch war hero's life-long denials. "Bernhard, a secret history" has revealed that the prince was a member of the German Nazi party until 1934, three years before he married Princess Juliana, the future queen of the Netherlands. Annejet van der Zijl, a Dutch historian, has found membership documents in Berlin's Humboldt University that prove Prince Bernhard, who studied there, had joined Deutsche Studentenschaft, a National Socialist student fraternity, as well as the Nazi NSDAP and its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung. He left all the groups on leaving university in December 1934, when he went to work for the German chemical giant, IG Farben. Full article

Bilderberg Crime Cartel Founders Bernhard & Beatrix of the House of Orange
Children of the Dutch royal family are destined to carry along the torch of treason. In the following article, we set out to trace the steps of two brothers, both of whom are grandsons of Bilderberg-founder Bernhard, who have now been destined to carry along the torch of treason. The objective: to dismantle the nation-state, strip the people of their self-determination and free will, and position themselves as sovereign rulers of the planet. Their common cause does not deviate from the age-old directive, but their means are custom-made to fit current times.

Jim Tucker is the journalist watchdog. Conspiracy of Silence: Who are the Bilderberg Group?

History

 

TRILATERIAL COMMISSION

Trilateral Commission -- About Trilateral Commission

Trilaterals Over America by Antony Sutton

David Rockefeller (1977–91) Founder of the Trilateral Commission and Honorary North American Chairman; Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank board from 1969 to 1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985, now honorary Chairman; a life member of the Bilderberg Group

Bilderberg Group is a private organization, established to foster closer cooperation among the United States, Europe and Japan. It was founded in July 1973 at the initiative of David Rockefeller, who was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as an off-shoot of the Council on Foreign Relations which is the public relations arm of the Bilderberg Group.

In July 1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting, which was held at Rockefeller's Pocantico compound in New York's Hudson Valley. It was attended by about 250 individuals who were carefully selected and screened by Rockefeller and represented the very elite of finance and industry. Its first executive committee meeting was held in Tokyo in October 1973. The Trilateral Commission was officially initiated, holding biannual meetings.

A Trilateral Commission Task Force Report, presented at the 1975 meeting in Kyoto, Japan, called An Outline for Remaking World Trade and Finance, said: "Close Trilateral cooperation in keeping the peace, in managing the world economy, and in fostering economic development and in alleviating world poverty, will improve the chances of a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system." Another Commission document read:
"The overriding goal is to make the world safe for interdependence by protecting the benefits which it provides for each country against external and internal threats which will constantly emerge from those willing to pay a price for more national autonomy. This may sometimes require slowing the pace at which interdependence proceeds, and checking some aspects of it. More frequently however, it will call for checking the intrusion of national government into the international exchange of both economic and non-economic goods." In other words, let's keep national governments from intruding on our one world aristrocratic organization! We billionaires know what's best for everyone!


 

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

The Council on Foreign Relations

Not to be daunted by the failure of the League of Nations, this same high level, money clique decided to keep the "One-World" concept alive for self-serving reasons, and promptly planned for a new vehicle, aided by plenty of spade-work in advance, that looked ahead twenty-five years or so to successfully trap the American people.
In order to make certain that there would be no possible slip this time, an organization was created by them called The Council On Foreign Relations (C.F.R.), to carefully train men for various areas of operation and to suitably mold their ideological, political, financial, military, and educational objectives. In London, England, there was also created a Counterpart called The Royal Institute of International Affairs. The World phase of these two groups is known as The Bilderbergers, headed by H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Its headquarters are often in Holland.
The first important financial donation to the C.F.R., and there had to be a first one, of course, was made by one of the Rockefeller Family Foundations, in 1919. Since then, there have been other donations of size. President Wilson's advisor, Col. House, initially "fronted" the new C.F.R.-U.N. promotion for the Internationalists, with Mr. Baruch and Mr. Frankfurter looking over his shoulder.

"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, FDR My Exploited Father-in-Law

Cheng Li (李成). Bilderberg Meeting 2012 was captured on camera as his vehicle approached the compound. 

Carlyle Group, the arms dealing "investment fund" featured in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, of which GHW Bush, the Saudi royal family, and, at one time, the Bin Laden family, are all equity partners.
The Foundation structure is used by these organizations to funnel corporate and personal wealth into the policy-making process. Foundations are tax-free, and contributions to foundations are deductible from federal corporate and individual income taxes. The Foundations themselves are not subject to federal income taxation, and they control hundreds of billions of dollars of money that would normally go to pay these necessary taxes.

In his book Trading with the Enemy, Charles Hingham 
documents how both the Rockefeller and Ford fortunes were enhanced in part through collaboration with Nazi Germany, the Rockefellers by selling the Nazis oil through the Standard Oil Company, and the Fords by selling the Nazis tanks through subsidiary corporations (note: the only industrial infrastructure spared in the Allied bombing of Germany was the Ford Motors plant near Cologne). Both Standard Oil (eventually Amoco) and the Ford Motor Co. made huge profits from Defense contracts following WWII. Since 1950 a Rockefeller has held a prominent leadership position in the Council on Foreign Relations, and David Rockefeller was cofounder of the Trilateral Commission. Both organizations helped craft the "Carter Doctrine" of the late 1970s which stated that the US would heretofore intervene militarily to protect its oil supply from the Middle East.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has been the historical driving force behind such bedrock institutions of corporate globalization as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Word Trade Organization, and NATO, and which Esquire magazine referred to in 1962 as "that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation."
In 1950, the Chicago Tribune published a story on the CFR in which they stated, "[the members] have used the prestige that their wealth, their social position, and their education have given them to lead their country towards bankruptcy and military debacle. They should look at their hands. There is blood on them— the dried blood of the last war and the fresh blood of the present one."

These supranational bodies seek to dismantle national sovereignty (through mechanisms such as "Free Trade" agreements) in favor of a one-world government which primarily upholds the rights of corporations and the wealthy over the people.

 

REMEMBER IT ISN'T A CONSPIRACY "THEORY" WHEN YOU CAN SHOW PROOF OF STRATEGY

 

International Monetary Fund ADMITS NEOLIBERALISM IS WRONG!

2016 The world’s largest evangelist of neoliberalism, the International Monetary Fund, admitted NEOLIBERALISM IS WRONG.  Neoliberalism refers to capitalism in its purest form. It is an economic philosophy espoused by libertarians — and repeated endlessly by many mainstream economists — one that insists that privatization, deregulation, the opening up of domestic markets to foreign competition, the cutting of government spending, the shrinking of the state and the “freeing of the market” are the keys to a healthy and flourishing economy.

NOW  top researchers at the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, the economic institution that has proselytized — and often forcefully imposed — neoliberal policies for decades, have conceded that the “benefits of some policies that are an important part of the neoliberal agenda appear to have been somewhat overplayed.” These statements represent an enormous reversal for the IMF. It is somewhat like the Pope declaring that there is no God; it is a volte-face on almost everything that the IMF has ever stood for.

The IMF and ECB IMPOSED AUSTERITY ON GREECE

Countries Do Not Borrow, They Are Bought
Varoufakis reveals cloak and dagger 'Plan B' for Greece, awaits treason charges

Total Greek debt $315bn - total RBS bailout £1.3 trillion (if you include liquidity support & loan guarantees) H/T @Ian_Fraser

“My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract.”   — The Godfather (1972)

NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/magazine/why-greeces-lenders-need-to-suffer.html
There is definitive proof, for anyone willing to look, that Greece is not solely or even primarily responsible for its own financial crisis.

The proof is not especially exciting: It is a single bond, with the identification code GR0133004177. But a consideration of this bond should end, permanently, any discussion of Greece’s crisis as a moral failing on the part of the Greeks. For decades, this was a much better world. Federal bonds funded the growth of an American highway infrastructure and created a truly national economy; municipal bonds brought the South out of its agrarian doldrums. In Europe, the impact was even greater. European bonds allowed money to flow freely across borders, knitting disparate states that had warred for millenniums into one unified economy. More prosaically, bonds provided objective rigor to the funding of private companies’ activities, helping to break up a cozy, WASPy boys’ club that had determined which enterprises got to borrow money.

On Sept. 17, 2008, in the late afternoon, this almost happened. For a few dramatic days, prominent economists and other financial experts — serious, unemotional people who had never before said anything shocking in their lives — talked privately, if not publicly, about the real possibility of the end of the United States, the end of electricity and industry and democracy. When the bailout money flowed to save the banks, that was just the fastest way to accomplish the real goal: to save the bond market.

And in that moment, the essential nature of the bond market shifted. Previously, the stability of bonds was reinforced by the cautiousness of people who owned and managed them, and vice versa. But the bailout broke this virtuous circle, signaling that the bond market would stay safe even when bond buyers were wildly reckless, pouring billions of dollars, for example, into risky subprime-mortgage bonds. The bailout represented a transfer of wealth from the rest of the economy into the bond market — precisely the opposite of what is supposed to happen. Now, in the moral hand-wringing over Greece and its failure to pay, we see that bondholders expect to be bailed out constantly, even when they were obviously culpable in failing to manage their own risk. The various European Union plans for Greece involve what is essentially a transfer of wealth from poor Greek people to wealthy German bondholding institutions.

To be fair, the people who owned GR0133004177 did see its value fall by nearly half in 2012, when the Greek government negotiated its second bailout package with the European Union and the I.M.F. But by most estimates, those bondholders should have lost far more, even the full amount of their investment. Instead, the bailout effectively transferred billions of euros from Greek citizens to unwise bond investors.  There is an unsentimental logic to markets. If you make a bad investment, you are supposed to pay the full price — because if you don’t pay the full price, you will keep making bad investments. The only way to get the bond market back to its historic role is to make bondholders feel real fear that they might lose money if they make bad decisions. We need the market to reward bets that are economically wise, instead of those that are politically savvy.

In the modern global banking system, all banks need a credit line with the central bank in order to be part of the payments system. Choking off that credit line was a form of blackmail the Greek government couldn’t refuse.  Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is now being charged with treason for exploring the possibility of an alternative payment system in the event of a Greek exit from the euro. So how was that coup pulled off? The answer seems to be through extortion. The European Central Bank threatened to turn off the liquidity that all banks – even solvent ones – need to maintain their day-to-day accounting balances. ~ Ellen Brown

Gross BBC dishonesty on Greece. It's because of this:

IMF: austerity measures would still leave Greece with unsustainable debt Secret documents show creditors’ baseline estimate puts debt at 118% of GDP in 2030, even if it signs up to all tax and spending reforms demanded by troika
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/30/greek-debt-troika-analysis-says-significant-concessions-still-needed?CMP=share_btn_tw

There it is. IMF debt sustainability analysis of greece is out. Here's the conclusion

ECB has forced the government to either leave the euro or accept Europe's terms.
'No' supporters flood Syntagma Square after 62% of Greeks reject further EU imposed austerity. Europe is destroying Greece’s economy for no reason at all; via
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/23/europe-is-destroying-greeces-economy-for-no-reason-at-all/?postshare=161435086211133

How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt  By Beat Balzli  
Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis-how-goldman-sachs-helped-greece-to-mask-its-true-debt-a-676634.html

US Federal Reserve investigated GoldmanSachs role in hiding Greece's debt. It never released any findings
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/feb/25/markets-pressure-greece-cut-spending?

A German company was found to be the biggest tax evader in Greece
http://www.globalresearch.ca/german-company-is-top-tax-evader-in-greece/5462497

Germany, the worst debt transgressor of the past century, must show more forebearance to Greece
during the 20th century, Germany was responsible for what were the biggest national bankruptcies in recent history. It is only thanks to the United States, which sacrificed vast amounts of money after both World War I and World War II, that Germany is financially stable today and holds the status of Europe's headmaster.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/economic-historian-germany-was-biggest-debt-transgressor-of-20th-century-a-769703.html

LANGUAGE: HAIR CUT IS THE [ BAIL IN ] WHICH THEY NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER CALL IT

It's unfortunate that you need a license to cut hair but anyone can be a member of the House Financial Services Committee.

There it is. IMF debt sustainability analysis of greece is out. Here's the conclusion