[Originally published in 2019]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The annual Bohemian Grove event, north of San Francisco, is underway. The 2025 Bohemian Grove events are expected to run from July 13-28.
Back in 2015, Project Censored’s Peter Phillips commemorated the event with a column, Global One Percent Celebrate at the Bohemian Grove.
When I wrote about the Bohemian Grove event at Solari in 2019, I speculated that there were numerous likely topics, most of which are clearly still pertinent in 2025. The potential topics I listed at the time included: open issues to resolve in the federal budget before finalization of appropriations in September; how to manage the secret budgets with FASAB 56 in place; the DOD’s JEDI contract, which was expected to be announced in August 2019 (in 2022, JEDI morphed into the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability [JWCC] contract); how to get to regime change in Iran; the goal and nature of trade wars; planning for the next round of piratization after the election; and the build-out of Silicon Valley North. I also noted the likelihood of discussions about next steps on new technology—everything from evolving the governance of the tech giants to the energy model to the integration of robotics and AI and weather warfare. Last but not least, there was the question of what the Epstein prosecution would achieve after the Department of Justice finished asserting control of all aspects of the case and the resulting evidence. In short—there were lots of opportunities to allocate and spend all that money going missing.
Many of these items are still part of discussions today. At the top of the list for 2025 is reconciling the legislative packages in Congress to be passed by the fall and the application of stablecoins (think private CBDC), social credit systems, and Bitcoin as well as asset tokenization to the implementation of a control grid in the West and an expansion of the dollar currency and credit globally.
To invent the future, you have to finance the conditions precedent that create that future. That means lots of discussion and consensus about sources and uses of funds across many industries, regions, and investors.
It’s hard work, but someone’s gotta do it.
When I became a partner of a Wall Street firm, I attended the partners’ annual strategic planning conference. The Chairman of our firm attended the Grove faithfully every year. He started his remarks at our annual conference with the following:
“Let me tell you what is going to happen this year…“