2009 Bohemian Grove Coverage
Bohemian Grove meets July 9-26, 2009 in Monte Rio, California
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View from glass box balcony jutting out from skyscraper’s 103rd floor
Not content with having the tallest building in America, the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building’s Skydeck.
Voice to skull devices
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
Nonlethal weapon which includes (1) a neuro-electromagnetic device which uses microwave transmission of sound into the skull of persons or animals by way of pulse-modulated microwave radiation; and (2) a silent sound device which can transmit sound into the skull of person or animals. NOTE: The sound modulation may be voice or audio subliminal messages. One application of V2K is use as an electronic scarecrow to frighten birds in the vicinity of airports.
VANITY FAIR: Bohemian Grove
2008 SCHEDULE
Saturday, July 12
9:15 p.m.—Owl Shrine—Cremation of Care
“Come join us as we raise the battle banners in the name of beauty, truth, peace and fellowship. Oh, Beauty’s Vassals, let us together seek the counsel of the Great Owl of Bohemia so that we may rediscover the wisdom needed to banish Dull Care once again!
‘Hail, Fellowship’s Eternal Flame!’”
[Around 9:30 p.m., V.F. reporter Alex Shoumatoff is apprehended.]
Monday, July 14
9:15 p.m.—Campfire Circle—“Sly Fox”
“Come enjoy an evening of laughter as we reprise this Broadway hit comedy. M*A*S*H creator, Larry Gelbart, provides a laugh around every crooked corner in this witty look at the workings of greed and lust. Come see why our jubilant City Club audiences gave this talented cast a ‘Standing O!’”
Wednesday, July 16
9:15 p.m.—Campfire Circle—“Sam Cooke”
“Sam Cooke was one of the founders of Soul Music with 29 top 40 hits between 1957 and 1965, including ‘You Send Me’, ‘Chain Gang’, and ‘Bring It On Home To Me’. Join some of Bohemia’s most soulful vocal and instrumental talent as we celebrate the music of this legendary singer, songwriter, publisher and producer.”
Thursday, July 17
10:30 a.m.—Museum Talk—“The Role of Nuclear in America’s Energy Choices,” John Grossenbacher, Vice Admiral, USN, Ret., Director, Idaho National Laboratory.
Friday, July 18
12:30 p.m.—Lakeside Talk—“Always Present: The Role of Religion in American Politics,” Hunter Rawlings, Professor of Classics and History, and President Emeritus, Cornell University.
9:15 p.m.—Grove Stage—“The Little Friday Night”
“This is the night that size does matter. Our ‘Little’ show takes over the BIG stage with BIG acts from Bohemia plus some surprise BIG names and that means BIG stars from the BIG time. Don’t miss our show, it’s really, well, BIG!”
[M.C.’d by Christopher Buckley.]
Saturday, July 19
9:15 p.m.—The Low Jinks, at Field Circle—“Easy Going”
“Set in a funeral home during the final days of prohibition, ‘Easy Going’ asks that eternal Bohemian question, ‘What’s the best way to get pickled?’ Will Prentice Boxem conquer his midlife crisis, derail his shrewish wife Barbara’s political ambitions, and keep his business from going under? The Shadow knows, but he’s not telling, so you’re going to have to come to Field Circle and find out for yourself.”
Monday, July 21
4:00 p.m.—Fly Casting Demonstration at the Lake
“Bohemian expert fly-casters Ray Lewis and Ralph Osterling will demonstrate and give tips. Extra rods will be available.”
Wednesday, July 23
12:30 p.m.—Lakeside Talk—“Life in the Press Room,” Tony Snow, Bohemian, and Journalist.
[Cancelled due to Snow’s death.]
Thursday, July 24
12:30 p.m.—Lakeside Talk—“In Space,” Charles Simonyi, Chief Executive Officer, International Software Corporation.
9:15 p.m.—Jinks Band Concert at Field Circle—“The Jinks Band Has the Blues”
“The mention of the blues generally conjures up images of soulful tunes about hard times and bad women. However, the blues can also be joyful, and the idiom is the foundation for an infinite variety of musical styles, including those of Bop masters Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and the ‘sheets of sound’ of John Coltrane. Join conductor, John Capobianco, the Jinks Band and their great vocalists, Jamie Davis and Tom Liles, as they celebrate the blues.”
Saturday, July 26
9:15 p.m.—Field Circle Show—“Hitsville USA: the Motown Review”
“Founded in a Detroit row house named ‘Hitsville USA’, by Berry Gordy, Motown records created hit after hit after hit. In this show, we have assembled a band worthy of the Funk Brothers and a list of singers, including some surprise guests. From the opening piano lick in ‘Money’ to the smooth sax of Jr. Walker there Ain’t No Mountain High Enough to keep us from bringing you a great show!”
Supplemental Law Enforcement Services for Bohemian Grove
Approve and Authorize the Sheriff to execute the Agreement for Supplemental Law Enforcement Services
with Bohemian Grove for July 9, 2009, through July 26, 2009, in the amount of $38,731.90.
For the past several years, the Sheriff’s Department has provided supplemental law enforcement
services to Bohemian Grove (Grove). Services are provided on numerous occasions for different
events held at the Grove each year. The majority of these events require supplemental law
enforcement services with a total cost of less than $25,000. As permitted by Resolution 93-1720, the
Sheriff signs these contracts on behalf of the County without obtaining separate Board approval. In
recent years, the requested level of services at certain Grove events has exceeded the $25,000 limit.
The Sheriff’s Department has received Board authorization to execute these agreements for the past
seven years
Top Australia firefighter criticised over wildfires
MELBOURNE (AFP) – An inquiry into Australia’s worst bush blazes heard that a top firefighter did not warn residents properly as flames bore down on their homes, engulfing entire towns and killing 173.
Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA) head Russell Rees failed to perform basic tasks during February’s disaster and was “divorced from fundamental aspects” his job, the chief lawyer assisting the judicial commission said.
Counsel Jack Rush questioned Rees’ actions during the February firestorms, which were caused by record high temperatures, strong winds and drought-parched countryside.
Rush said protecting lives was a core part of Rees’ job but the CFA chief had not issued accurate and timely warnings about the devastating fires that ravaged large parts of rural Victoria.
“It is a core responsibility (of the CFA chief) to warn communities of the risk of fire,” Rush said, dismissing Rees’s statement that his role did not involve direct control of firefighting.
Rush is the senior lawyer assisting the royal commission into the fires and the inquiry chief, retired judge Bernard Teague, must now decide whether to include the damning assessment of Rees in an interim report due August 17.
The inquiry was set up in the aftermath of the bushfires to examine how the seasonal blazes raced out of control to become Australia’s worst peace-time disaster.
The number of deaths eclipsed the previous record bushfire toll of 75 in 1983, destroying more than 2,000 homes, forcing 10,000 to evacuate and scorching huge swathes of Victoria.
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Obama to meet China’s dictator Hu at Group of Eight summit
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will meet China’s President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Italy next week, a senior White House official said on Wednesday.
The US leader will hold a bilateral meeting with Hu at the talks, at which China will be present as a member of the G8 plus Five grouping of developed and developing economies, Obama advisor Denis McDonough told reporters.
Obama and Hu met for the first time since the US president took office in London, on April 1, ahead of the G20 economic crisis summit.
6.2 million North Koreans in need of food?
North Korea is facing a “critical” food shortage, especially for children, the UN’s food agency has said.
The World Food Programme’s director for North Korea said the agency was unable to reach millions of North Koreans due to a shortfall in funding.
The director, Torben Due, said the WFP had received no new donations for North Korea since Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in May.
He also said Pyongyang had barred the WFP from using Korean-speaking staff.
North Korea had given no reason for that decision, he added.
Mr Due told reporters in Beijing that the WFP had received only 15% of an international appeal for $504m (£306m) and had to cut back plans to provide food aid to 6.2 million North Koreans to 2.27 million.
1,500 National Guard Troops To Border
1,500 National Guard volunteers will be used to support the existing counter-drug program on the border with Mexico.
That includes in Texas and New mexico. The plan’s being worked out between the Defense Department and Homeland Security.
The program would use guardsmen for surveillance, intelligence analysis, and aviation support.
They would also supply ground troops who help at border crossings.
Without President Obama’s insistence, this plan would not happen. The Defense Department is worried the use of national guard troops will be seen as militarizing the region.
Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has been reluctant about the use of guardsmen on the border.
PITT STUDY: Accidental release blamed in swine flu outbreak
Sick pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa and scientists’ accidental release of an “extinct” flu virus in 1977 played key roles in creating a strain that has swept the globe and sparked fear of a more deadly flu season this winter.
University of Pittsburgh infectious disease experts reviewed nearly a century of epidemiology reports to trace the origins of swine flu, the H1N1 virus, that emerged in Mexico this spring. It has sickened at least 27,000 people and killed more than 100 in the United States.
“Our review is the perfect combination of history, public health, science and politics, really,” said Dr. Shanta Zimmer, an assistant professor at Pitt’s School of Medicine and lead author of the research paper, which will be published in the July 16 issue of New England Journal of Medicine.
“Hopefully during this pandemic, global scientists and public health communities will work together and everybody will communicate openly,” she said. “Just like in politics, we learn from what works and what doesn’t in medicine.”
Her paper, co-authored by Dr. Don Burke, dean of Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, gives clues as to why this strain of swine flu predominantly infects children and young adults, while older people seem to have immunity.
In 1918, while a flu virus from birds was infecting humans with deadly results, that same virus infected pigs. For nearly the next 40 years, the virus evolved, sporadically infecting humans. Then, in 1957, the virus vanished when another virus emerged, outcompeting it.
As abruptly as it disappeared, the original virus emerged again to infect people in the former Soviet Union, Hong Kong and northeastern China in 1977.
Since the virus had not evolved since 1950 — which is unusual — and because scientists were examining swine flu viruses in light of a small, confined outbreak in Fort Dix, N.J., the previous year, Zimmer believes the infection was caused by an accidental release of a frozen sample preserved for study.
“It was literally frozen in time,” she said.
Since then, the virus has continued to circulate with other influenza viruses during flu seasons.
Flu viruses also were evolving in pigs, combining and mutating to become more genetically complex. Occasionally, those viruses would infect people who worked with pigs, but they lacked the ability to spread from human-to-human.
The swine flu virus infecting people has traits of those viruses from pigs, as well as from the 1918 virus that died out in 1957 and re-emerged in 1977.
Because people older than 52 likely would have been sickened with the human strain before it disappeared in 1957, they appear to have some immunity.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average age of swine flu victims is 12; the average age of hospitalized patients is 20; and of those who died, 37.
Earlier this month, the Allegheny County Health Department stopped testing every likely case of swine flu, instead concentrating on select groups of concern. Before it stopped testing, nobody older than 55 tested positive for swine flu, and 71 percent were 18 or younger.
The National Institutes of Health, which paid for the Pitt research, will use it to learn more about how to write computer programs that predict the emergence of diseases and the best ways to head off their spread, said James Anderson, program director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of NIH.
“This work on understanding … the time sequence in which the virus emerged is important background information in creating models,” Anderson said. “We are constantly learning, all the time. This is really unknown territory here, and all the data we can gather helps.”
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FEMA Administrator Fugate Meets Top Israeli Official To Discuss Emergency Management Issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate met today with Maj. Gen. Yair Golan of the Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command (IDF/HFC), continuing to foster a working relationship with Israel and bolstering the exchange of information on common emergency management practices.
Administrator Fugate and Maj. General Golan will serve as co-chairs of an emergency management work group designed to discuss problems and issues and to exchange information on a variety of topics such as long-term community recovery, exercise programs, policies and procedures.
“I look forward to working with my Israeli counterpart as co-chair of an emergency management work group to improve emergency management practices in both countries,” said Fugate. “These partnerships are critical in ensuring that we are incorporating best practices and also working towards greater public preparedness.”
The IDF/HFC partners with the Israeli National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) on emergency management issues. IDF/HFC and NEMA work with FEMA under an emergency management work stream workgroup established under a 2007 Memorandum of Understanding with DHS.
FEMA and Israel have had several exchanges of information over the past year. FEMA representatives attended the national preparedness exercise Turning Point 3 in Israel on June 1, 2009. In the past, Israel sent observers to the TOPOFF 4 national exercise in the United States, as well as personnel to participate in FEMA emergency management training.
FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
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World News Quanto A Nova Ordem Mundial, o complexo militar-industrial e da globalização
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North Korean heirs top-secret visit to China
The son and heir apparent to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il joined a delegation of senior military officials for a top-secret, week-long visit to China in mid-June in spite of Beijing’s claims that no such trip occurred.
The visit was intended to shore up support for the inexperienced Kim Jong-woon, Mr Kim’s 26-year old son, and reassure North Korea’s closest ally that a smooth leadership transition was already under way, military, intelligence and diplomatic sources have told the Financial Times.
The Swiss-educated Mr Kim has apparently been given the title “bright leader”, following a tradition in which his father is known as the “dear leader” and his grandfather Kim Il-sung, late founder of the totalitarian Stalinist state, is referred to as the “great leader”.
The younger Mr Kim accompanied Jo Myong-rok, first vice-chairman of North Korea’s National Defence Commission, which is regarded as the country’s top governing body, and Jang Song-taek, a member of the Defence commission and Kim Jong-il’s brother-in-law.
Mr Jang, who is a powerful political figure in his own right, has been put in charge of establishing Kim Jong-woon’s legitimacy, analysts say. The North Korean military delegation arrived by air in Beijing on June 10 and met senior Chinese officials during a clandestine visit that took them to Guangzhou, Shanghai and Dalian.
They returned to Pyongyang on June 17.
The itinerary closely matched that followed by Kim Jong-il on his last official visit to China in January 2006, although this latest trip was conducted far more discreetly and the delegation was housed in secure military hotels.
This month, China’s foreign ministry denied any knowledge of such a visit.
The ministry’s official spokesman said at a subsequent press conference that the report was totally false and compared it to something out of a spy novel.
It is not clear whether Kim Jong-woon met Hu Jintao, China’s president, but a person involved in aspects of the visit said that Mr Kim did meet Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping, the man expected eventually to succeed Mr Hu, as well as former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.
The talks focused on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and its testing of a nuclear weapon as well as the North’s requests for China to forgive some bilateral debt and provide more energy aid.
But the main purpose of the visit was to establish Kim Jong-woon’s legitimacy as successor and give him some valuable experience in dealing with his country’s giant neighbour, analysts said. “Kim Jong-woon is too young and it is too early for him to meet world leaders on his own so that’s why he had to travel with his uncle and other senior figures,” said one analyst, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject.
The elder Mr Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke last year and has looked frail and sick on the few official occasions where he has been shown on North Korean state media recently.
At a bilateral summit in Tokyo on Sunday, Taro Aso, Japan’s prime minister, and Lee Myung-bak, South Korea’s president, said they “can never accept” North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons.
June 30th, 2009 in
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Indian scientists seed clouds in quest to bring on the monsoon rains
Indian scientists are flying through storm clouds as part of a new plan to seed them with rain-inducing chemicals to try to control the timing of the annual monsoon, whose late arrival is causing havoc this year.
As Britain sweltered in temperatures of up to 32C (90F), the late monsoon means that India is suffering temperatures as high as 49C, which have caused severe crop damage, water and power shortages, and at least 100 deaths.
In Delhi some residents have been sleeping in their air-conditioned cars — with engines running — during power cuts of up to 12 hours a day. The government of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh has ordered all churches, mosques and Hindu temples to pray for rain.
The crisis illustrates how vulnerable India remains to the elements, especially the monsoon, which dominates the lives of the estimated 740 million people living in the countryside.
The S1 Committee at Bohemian Grove
Title
S-1 Committee at Bohemian Grove
Description
S-1 Committee at Bohemian Grove, September 13, 1942. From left to right are Harold C. Urey, Ernest O. Lawrence, James B. Conant, Lyman J. Briggs, E. V. Murphree and A. H. Compton. The “S- 1″ committee that oversaw the uranium project for OSRD recommended expending $12 million to create a plant with 25 times that capacity before the fall of 1943. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.)
Citation Caption
LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1981, p. 32 | S-1 Committee at Bohemian Grove, September 13, 1942. Left to right: Harold C. Urey, Lawrence, James B. Conant, Lyman J. Briggs, E.V. Murphee, and A. H. Compton.
Date
September 13, 1997
People
Harold C. Urey, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, James B. Conant, Lyman J. Briggs, E. V. Murphee, A. H. Compton