Lords & Serfs Part 2 - The Weaving Spiders

How America's ruling class built its world in secret, and why it has never stopped

There is a forest in northern California where the most powerful men in the world have been gathering for nearly 150 years. It is called Bohemian Grove. It sits on 2,700 acres of old growth redwood in Sonoma County, about 75 miles north of San Francisco. The trees are enormous. The canopy is so dense that very little light reaches the ground. It is, by design, a place where what happens inside stays inside.

Every July, for two weeks, the members of the Bohemian Club and their guests gather here. Presidents. CEOs. Bankers. Defense contractors. Supreme Court justices. CIA directors. Cabinet secretaries. The full membership list is meant to be completely private. The proceedings are meant to be completely private. The club’s motto, carved above the entrance, is a line from Shakespeare: Weaving spiders, come not here. The implication being that business is not conducted at the Grove. That this is simply a place for powerful men to relax among their peers.

The documents say otherwise.