today on r t it's the secret of meeting that the world's elite don't want you to know about some of the world's richest and brightest are descending on bohemian grove yet again this year we'll take you deep into california's redwoods to find out a little bit about what goes on there. and speaking of secrecy one delaware based tech company is quietly leading the way in surveillance infrastructure and serving as the middleman between law enforcement officials and your personal information coming up will expose the secrets of the company that already knows yours. and speaking of secret surveillance one government agency is actually spying on its own employees heads of the f.d.a.

have been monitoring scores of e-mail correspondence between scientists and congress so this is the latest incident in the war our war on whistleblowers will question more. hello there it is monday july sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. my name is christine and you are watching our t.v. . well it's one of the longest running annual gatherings in this country and yet it's one of the least well known bohemian grove is a two week gathering for some of the most wealthy and powerful men just men in the world it takes place just outside of san francisco in a town called mon to rio those who have attended in the past say important policy decisions have been discussed political candidates are often chosen and yet even members of the media who actually get invited never breathed a word about it are to correspondent abbie martin was in one to rio and has more on

the significance of this annual event straight from the san francisco airport headed to monte to you a city with beautiful redwoods and picturesque coastlines. the perfect getaway for the world's rich and powerful and in fact every year ceos media moguls and high level politicians flock here to the bohemian grove secluded campout less than half a mile from their millionaires billionaires the people that control the world control the central banks the build nuclear weapons i mean this was their summer playground dr peter phillips spent three days on the inside now on the outside he argues that the public has a right to know what's going on and his calling for an occupation of the grove it's speaking to the the powerful of the world saying we want to have a democratic process we want to have an open transparent process and they're making business deals there they're talking policy that a lot of conversation

a claim which members deny their motto here is that weaving spiders come not here which they claim means there's no business discussions it's just the vacation from the wealthy men author and activist mark dice has a rare grove yearbook issued every decade showing everything from men in drag to high profile politicians giving speeches it's a really good way for the ruling class to get an inside perspective from another ruling class remember the book shows george w. bush and his father giving lakeside talks along with presidents jimmy carter and richard nixon others who have attended our david brooks of the new york times along with c.e.o.'s from c.n.n. and fox jimmy buffett david rockefeller and henry kissinger mark also has an official two thousand and five membership list of grove attendees your typical warmongers george bush sr colin powell richard perle and your typical

republican establishment and cider. for hundreds heeded the call to protest. the people of the growth are about to be conquered. college student kimberly is. ridged by what she sees as the top one percent excluding the rest from the discussion shows that we are really the franchise that our voice is a little muted money is speech you know so if you don't have money you don't really have a voice activist felipe in the scene or worries about dangerous policies that are drafted from within the redwoods the nuclear program was discussed here and then developed later the fact that reagan was here in eighty eight and then afterwards we had the reagan revolution where. we've done it an event with so little transparency has bred theories some of them pretty wild about what goes on on the inside especially at the creation of care ritual where grove members burn a coffin effigy to a forty foot. to counteract the crimean ceremony the protesters held

a creation of care festival. the creation care of course is opposite of cremation that peace and justice activist cindy sheehan speculates on the lack of media coverage as they are part of that you know there's there's a propaganda arm for the one percent the corporate media is the one percent i mean if you look at it that way n.b.c. m s n b c c n n fox they are of the corporate one percent they're not going to do negative stories about themselves about capitalism about global empire and war. how can someone own a two thousand year old redwood grove that's the question of the occupiers are asking about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the lair of the one percent abby martin artie mont they do you know california. so i mention

a few people in attendance at bohemian grove here's actually a direct quote from former president richard nixon he said in his memoirs if i were to choose the speech that gave me the most pleasure and satisfaction in my political career it would have been my lakeside speech at the bohemian grove in july one thousand nine hundred eighty seven because this speech traditionally was off the record it received no publicising at the time but in many ways important ways it marks the first milestone on my presidency and you know sentiments like this make people wonder how many other milestones have been marked the grove and why after so long so little has been leaked about what goes on and joining me now to talk more about this is our correspondent abbie martin and abbie i know you spent most of this weekend in monterrey rio right outside the gates of the grove what was it like. oh it was interesting and definitely different than previous. you know there was definitely a lot of secrecy going on so we couldn't really get inside but we did see a lot of people outside there was

a creation of care festivals the first time that the occupy movement had really come into full force and you know it's calling now the power structure is pretty much all of the world first we have to build a bird group or the occupy movement and emerged with those protesters and now we see them here protesting the bohemian grove and it's secrecy you talked of you in your piece about you know people wonder why the redwoods are only for the one percent but you know let's break this that this down i mean this is private property the owner has the right to do what he wants invite who he wants to his property and talk about why some of these critics and protesters are most angry about what goes on inside. that's a good point christine and i think people are upset yes it is private property and he does have a right to invite whoever he wants but when we know for sure that certain all of us have come out of the grove we know that nixon and reagan sat under a tree and reagan agreed to have nixon way to run we know that the manhattan

project was originated in the grope and those are just what we know you know when you have two thousand of the world's top echelon of media moguls the oaths and high profile politicians getting together of course business deals are going to be made politics are going to be discussed and who else who else knows what is really going on there so i think people are just really outraged about it just another closed door meeting that the public has no say at all in what goes on or are no say in any really discussions that happen there yeah and abbie as you know i was there last year and there are some really interesting stories when you mention nixon and reagan spoke and reagan agreed to to hold off on running for president it is you know certain policy decisions that you come out that affect a lot of people you touched a little bit upon this but go into a little detail i mean things are different this year than when i was there last year because two months after last year's bohemian grove took place the occupy wall street movement began i guess talk a little bit about the role this has played you know the one percent versus the

ninety nine percent and how that's playing outside the walls of the grove. sure i think people are recognizing that this is the one percent of people in the world we have millionaires billionaires i mean you cannot you have to be pretty pretty rich to get in there and there are one hundred twenty eight camps twenty to fifty people in these camps each one has a full barn. very rich wealthy elite going in there from all ends of the society and what really happened this year was the first time that the occupy movement recognized hey the bohemian grove is really something that we should be calling now and occupy and so they made an event occupy bohemian grove just as they have before just dug telling all this whole movement of the ninety nine percent versus the one percent and they had an event a month later ampitheater which is about a mile of the gates of the grove and all day they had a beakers. band they had a woman from the mothers of fukushima that was there just because she knew that you know the nuclear program was basically started here decades ago so she was calling

out nuclear radiation the radiation and everything to happen in fukushima and just kind of tying it back to the policies that were originated in these redwoods christine and a lot of the occupiers were just saying we want a voice we want to be heard just because we don't have money doesn't mean that we should not have a say in the democratic process that the society should be built on and that was built on and then you had a big march from everyone that was there at the creation of care festival which was which of course was to counteract the cremation of care ritual all the these people do in the bohemian which is very interesting it's fifty people and monk robes walking around and they create a coffin effigy to a giant forty foot i will name mullick so these people were having their own you know create this and say we want to care we don't want to burn our way and pretend like nothing's happening you know when there's so much starvation and war and all

these these things that are happening pretty much at the hands of what they say are the people who are inside the group kind of celebrating. their own power that we saw march the gates of the grove where of course they were met with riot police and and a pretty tense stand off there there was one arrest of a seventy five year old man across the police line so if you talk about all these protesters who have come sort of as part of the occupy movement which is new this here what about inside you know on the other side of those walls abbie i mean is there any evidence that those who attend this you know retreat have changed their tune or at least are a little more sympathetic to the ninety nine percent cause. i don't know kristie yeah you know i haven't talked to anyone except of course peter phillips the professor and former director of project censored who did attend three days to do this or titian on the grow where he he did the business deals being made first and he did the a lot of business discussion and policy discussion but of course after he did that they did close that off to two journalists and everyone who is invited who is

a media mogul like you said in your intro kind of sworn to secrecy about what happened there but you know as far as them changing their tune i think it's just that power structure that we're that people are battling in the world right now which is the whole nine percent ninety nine percent versus percent yeah i remember this is heard i remember abbey when i was outside standing outside the gates a lot of the people sort of driving in on their cars their very nice cars i should mention as sort of waving at the protestors and kind of thinking it was a little circus let me ask you real quick i'm in terms of people who have attended i know you mentioned a few weeks on this audio recording of president nixon i want to play it really quick and then we can talk about it. so the president there referring to these rumors of

a homosexual acts of grown men running around naked i mean is this something that people still talk about that happens today well i mean of course there are many rumors with an event was so little coverage of course a lot of wild speculation is going to come out of it but there has been confirmed you know there is a gay camp there. are camps and with so many bizarre things coming out that we do know about i mean we saw mark days he was an author who had a a rare and now your book that's released every decade from the grove and there were many photos of men in drag i mean it's basically a big celebration of the. club they do have multiple members forming plays and whatnot but there have been reports during the seventy's and eighty's primarily of of homo sexual activity but you know a lot of speculation really but that is an interesting quote from there especially

considering that he said best speech had come from the group yeah no interesting stuff and certainly we you know we should say for so many years you know there were there were you know there was chatter about bohemian grove and it was thought of as a conspiracy theory even though the mainstream media still doesn't talk about this at all you know you're there abbi a lot of alternative publications are there we have the internet now so it is becoming more mainstream in terms of people at least acknowledging that that it happens that it exists appreciate you weighing in today r.t. correspondent abbie martin thanks christine well speaking of things the mainstream media well another thing not being spoken about is a vast movement in the works for twenty years really to connect to the various communication and to taste from cell phone to e-mail to online shopping and to draw some straight lines between them one of the companies leading the way in this effort is called new star here's a commercial for that company. help get this customer to your website start by

knowing where she is through ip geolocation we know she's in miami which means she might very well be interested in your product so using a local display had moved far away from dreary winter coats and instead of thinking about something that would show off her turn so a little snippet from a commercial for a new star so how exactly does this work our viewers want to live while break this down for us to give us a look at what the really going on here and why it very well may be affecting you. well neustar is a massive telecommunications company the delaware based company was founded back in one thousand nine hundred eighty as part of lockheed martin one of the world's largest defense contractors now the company has grown to provide a wide range of services providing information for internet and taman and marketing industries now what alarm security experts is just how much information this company has about consumers anyone that uses the internet or cell phones that is

news starr has info on just about every cell phone in the country in its database they also manage telephone area codes and numbers and with this vast amount of data hundreds of companies turn to neustar to handle law enforcement surveillance requests now since new star isn't a wireless carrier they've been able to work under the radar their role is to provide this invisible network store and streamline communications information now let's take a look now at how this network operates so you set out to get a cell phone you had on over to a wireless carrier team mobile risin wireless cricket whatever it is that you decide on and they have course they assign you an area code and a telephone number and it's actually new star that decides on this information and since a new star was there from the very beginning they can claim to have the responsibility of providing you with cyber protection now let's take a look at the flip side here of the government wants to get information about you

they can go directly to new star since they have this vast database or they can head on over to the cellular provider and which case that provider will outsource that government surveillance of request to neustar so as you can see neustar is the middleman in all of this and when the government or a company requests this information neustar is likely to have it now if you take a look at new stars website it goes that the government is one of its biggest partners the site status quo. over three thousand government agencies major industry associations regulatory bodies and others rely on a new star to help navigate the complex world of cyber security now new stars coziness with the government could be alarming to internet privacy advocates especially in the wake of a recent new york times article the times reports that cell phone surveillance requests from law enforcement has skyrocketed they're reportedly one point five million requests for text messages cell phone locations and wire taps and

washington live all. all right so companies like this are no doubt part of a future that is already on track to include more cameras more action taken in the name of cyber security and much more surveillance overall over the week in the new york times unveiled some pretty astonishing findings involving a major surveillance operation by the food and drug administration of its own employees the times paints an in-depth picture of the lengths the f.d.a. officials went to monitor its employees communication on just about every level the f.d.a. said this was in response to employees suspected of leaking confidential information about the safety and design of medical devices employees though have filed a lawsuit over the issue and just to give you a little bit of light an idea of the extent of this the f.d.a. quote used software which tracked their keystrokes intercepted their personal e-mails copied the documents on their personal thumb drive and even followed their

messages line by line as they were being drafted the documents show so i want to talk a lot more about this with jesselyn radack the director of national security and human rights for the government accountability project just one is also the author of traitor the whistleblower and the american taliban first off thanks for being on the show thank you for having me what do you make of all this wow it is definitely a blockbuster article that stood out to me for three different reasons first we're not talking about surveillance of national security or intelligence agencies which do handle classified information and time we're talking about mass surveillance of the f.d.a. second the surveillance itself cover such a wide range including journalists including members of congress including president obama. so that was striking to me that we should mention some of the

e-mails that were sent from people within the f.d.a. sentiment people like chuck. people you know democrats republicans everyone involved here a lot of people who work for the f.d.a. simply concerned about some things that were taking place in their jobs in their agency and felt that if they spoke up that they would be terminated so they wanted to sort of bring light of this right to members of congress and they did it which is exactly right the first amendment is that you can petition congress for redress of grievances and as it was so blowers they were doing exactly that going through a proper channel by going to congress and strangely congressman van hollen ends up on an enemy's list of sort of yeah they created an enemy of the number fourteen i think and his staff or was thirteen and then a bunch of grassley staffers are on the enemies list so these people are doing

nothing wrong by going to congress about concerns they have about a danger of a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety and medical imaging devices that we use for mammograms and colonoscopies and the idea that these devices or emit in too much radiation. we should say i mean i think it's fair to point out that you know any job that i've ever taken when you first begin a job and i can imagine this is not the case for government workers your employer tells you that you know the work you do on work computers the emails you sent through your work e-mail your work has the right to from time to time perhaps check in on you and monitor this that when you sign on you sort of agree to this so i mean is this simply what was going on the f.d.a. says you know the people who were doing the surveillance say they were concerned about secrets being leaked. you know yes you're you have a limited expectation of privacy at work and they can monitor your e-mails but they

can't pick five scientists who happen to be complaining about the safety of medical devices and monitor them and only them and outsource it to some company who knows where. which is how this whole thing became public in the first place is that they outsourced it to some group that accidentally put it on a public website and that sal the one doing a little research he had one ever made i would say is being monitored was googling his own name to find out if there was anything bad about him and came across the information in this way wow so it's really outrageous on so many different levels i mean it's bad enough when you have the n.s.a. monitoring its own people but here they are that's a little more you know easier to swallow i think people it's an effect to expect exactly but the f.d.a. and especially when it's concerns about safety that will affect people and these

people are sort of trying to be quieted down talk about the bigger picture here i mean critics of this say this is you know get another example of the government waging a war on whistleblowers well it's very interesting because suddenly suddenly it's funny how congress gets very upset when they're the ones that get surveilled or when information they have they think is in their purview gets leaked and then they can i have a grassley said as a fed this was like the gestapo that's exactly what grassley said and so i hope this will subsidize congress to the fact that. this information yet that this happened they were being surveilled which is completely outrageous but this is happening on a vast scale to employees in particular those who more often than not are was. no blowers and it's to tamp down any kind of criticism or dissent now if an employer

wants to brand only monitor employee emails to see how many people are playing facebook or are on facebook or playing games fine but not drilling down on five people who specifically have complaints and here i should mention the complaints are not about national security they're about industry they're about g.e. which is enjoyed a very favorable relationship with the f.d.a. and that's why we've seen so many lawsuits over faulty devices heart stints. there and there there. other items that i gave as you know you make i want to talk also about some other stuff just little i have you here this is also speaking of whistle blowers of course the court martial proceedings for private first class bradley manning resume today i guess i'm wondering you know he is of course for people that don't know i think most people who watch us know that he is accused of

leaking classified information to the web site wiki leaks but how are you feeling about the way these proceedings are going i mean are you optimistic at all that manning and his lawyer are making any headway here i have confidence in manning's lawyers but i'm not optimistic about the outcome i'd like to see more outrage from people about what happened here and what is being done to this twenty four year old that could put him away for the rest of his life because as he said at legibly said in his own words i felt like i was watching war crimes. and the proceedings themselves again but the court has refused to release any kind of transcript so one time to move the detainees have more transparency in the proceedings in the kangaroo commission military commissions we have set up down there and then private manning is getting even his lawyer wrote about that and said

you know even if it was a terrorist in custody you don't use need to prove you know that you know the government we need to show that you know that terrorist was aiding the enemy or causing harm to the security of the united states this is not happening with an american soldier exactly and jeffrey dahmer at a cannibal cannibal got more due process and fair treatment wasn't torture and you know bradley manning is been already subjected to torture and already declared without having a trial first declared by so many people to be guilty reversing the usual prose. innocent until proven guilty well just when you said you expect to see and hoped that you would see more outrage hard for that to happen when so few media outlets are even covering it are making it a story hopefully this will pick up as the trial continues appreciate having you on the show just thank you very much christine just lose the director of national security and human rights for the government accountability project. well the

capital account is up next on our let's check in with laura lister to see what is on the agenda laura and what you got cooking for us today hi christine well before i get to the full rundown of the show i have to tell you i just had a really interesting interview with charles ferguson you may recall he's this filmmaker of inside job which won the oscar for best documentary took a look at wall street's role in the financial crisis he's also out with a new book so i had the opportunity to talk to him and i asked him how just trying to get interviews for his book and what the reaction has been since coming out with inside job which of course had interviews with a lot of high level members of i guess what you could call the establishment who clearly it seemed to me at least weren't expecting a tough interview you may be really surprised to hear what dr ferguson had to say we'll play it for you hopefully at the top of our show and have much more on lie bourse a don't miss it. certainly was a movie that was really important i think brought

a lot of things to the attention of the american people about the financial scandal that's going to do it for us for now we will be back in a half hour thanks for watching i'm christine. culture is that so much different each musician has the power to find the mark with egypt and its interrupted revolution intensifying stand up getting a democratically elected president against entrenched military is polarizing. wealthy british style. sometimes violent.

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