made a deal back when deals and all rome backyard so what else has happened at the secret bohemian grove gatherings arc you want to see for ourselves we'll have the story from northern california. and shepherding a flock is a piece of the political promised land just an attendance away for politicians of the christians for israel summit. but i want to watch them for the suspect under the trees once again also. going all in just to lose big so is new green card lottery winners are chosen did the u.s. state department gamble with lives. it's monday july eighteenth good actually and it's four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and your watching r t well critics call it builder west a collection of some of the nation's most powerful men at least reportedly passed heads of state presidents such as taft who were all way up to reagan and george bush father and son have all attended along with business leaders including reportedly google c.e.o. eric schmidt just to give you a little sampling of all of the kinds of people who are gathered for a retreat in the forests shrouded in secrecy

my name is elizabeth costello, and i represent ivy grove partners. my partner is here, and david baker. we are a san francisco based development company that does market rate housing for sale. we acquired 401 grove last year with existing entitlements for 61 units and ground for commercial. this was a former freeway parcel that has been used as a parking lot for many years. this will increase the number of units and reduce the amount of commercial space, generally working within the existing building configuration. the immediate neighborhood and community has been in support of our plan, in keeping with the market octavia plan. the planning commission is pleased to see additional housing and a low parking ratio. they have written a letter of support, as has the sf and housing coalition. in may 2011, we invited the neighbors to an open house for the site. we recently heard from the owners of the adjacent property who were concerned about losing their science on the east property line. -- there -- their signage on the east property line. we will contin

from the grove. the announcement was then made on c.n.n. later that the decision for dick cheney to be george w. bush's running mate was made at lehman brothers that was that was said on c.n.n. and when i confronted david gergen at the r. and c. convention in two thousand and four in new york i was very polite but i brought up the rituals and he said listen if you were inside the grove you weren't supposed to talk about that i said no i snuck in at which point the karl rove or five previous administrations blew up at me and got in my face something david gergen has never been seen to do in the five administrations but he's worked with thousands of media interviews so this is a big deal to them they wait for decades on a waiting list to get into it and major decisions are being made there outside of the democratic process he so this is one of the main meeting houses for fifteen days i mean why would why would have a big screen well world powerful people why would why would these heavy hitters the most powerful people in the world travel and

mean they made a deal that would deal is in our very own backyard so what else happens at this secret grove gathering in large t. want to see for ourselves we have the story from northern california. and shepherding the flock is a piece of the political promise land just an attendance away for politicians of the christians for israel summit. but i want to listen for the source right under the trees but it's also. going all in just to lose big so as new green card lottery winners are chosen did the u.s. state department gamble with lives. good evening it's monday july eighteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lister in your watching our t.v. now we knew rupert murdoch was taking heat with the scandal rocking his media empire but then shocking news this afternoon that his body was found dead it was a hoax brought to the world by the hacking group. that look at this they reach a rock to the home page of murdoch's newspaper the sun to a fake story about murdoch found dead from a drug overdose and they were tweeting all the way look at what they said they said arrest us we dare you

years protesters have stood at the entrance gates our concern is not what's going on inside of the grove but what's happening outside of the growth with the people that are in here according to several reports and this is where the idea for the manhattan project was conceived back in one nine hundred forty two it's also where every republican president since the sixty's has spent time before actually becoming the nominee we know for sure that richard nixon and ronald reagan sat down and had conversation about who was going to run for president well and i mean they made a deal peter phillips wrote his dissertation on the bohemian club in one thousand nine hundred four and was invited to attend for four days he witnessed firsthand the opening of that the cremation of care where the power elite leave their cares behind in a symbolic ceremony an ether moloch the our what seen in this photo judge angel says he was a paid employee of the grove and drove the horse and buggy they carried the casket and the ceremony the casket represented careers and they would actually. burnet and there. at the

>> i have no idea. >> the night weighs heavily on billy groves as well.he's locked up in the intensive detention unit. >> this is the woman i love. this is me and her. that's me and brandy together. this is on our first visit. >> earlier in the day, groves' girlfriend, brandy, was caught attempting to smuggle tobacco and cell phones into the prison during her visit with him. >> bring him over this way. >> the following day, groves is questioned by internal affairs. >> i'm going to ask you straight up, you want to give me any statement on this or anything like that? >> no. >> no statement at all? >> no statement at all. >> now, she went home friday. i didn't send her to jail. i'm going to get a warrant for her arrest for misdemeanor trafficking. it's all on you right now. do you understand that? >> yes. >> she'll never be allowed to visit at any prison ever again. all right. anything else you want to say? >> no. >> all right. go ahead and take him back to idu then. >> but alone in his cell, groves did have something to say. he used the camera our producer

crimes against this country and also in terms of the world and i'm back with deals from the book union grove will bring you war we'll tell you what dark secrets protesters have found out about this it's dortmund the news starts now . deal or no deal that's certainly the fourteen point three trillion dollar and counting question i'm talking about the debt ceiling of course and to raise it there is the debt debate let's see there is the gang of six plan the cut cap and balance proposal and other words you have plans that have support but no fine print written on paper yet plans that passed that have no future it's confusing it's driving anger at the government to a near twenty year high if you have politics folks so why do we accept it as such here to help me figure that out is sam seder he is host of the majority report a daily political talk show sam thanks so much for being with us i want to take a step back for a second and pretend that we don't follow and analyze this is closely as we do as far as u.s. politics and just look at this as we would kind of looking in let's take the house they

would pay attention to their concerns i'm here at bohemian grove and to protest against militarism and against imperialism what's happening right behind me at this place and others like it decisions are being made that affect all of us yet the people in their answers and none of us certainly they came to the right place as far as trying to reach the rich and powerful and more than one hundred year old annual conference has been attended by everyone from dick cheney newt gingrich henry kissinger and thomas kean the man who two years after this photo was taken would head up the nine eleven commission bohemian grove is located on the outskirts of this tiny california town of nahariya and for more than thirty years protesters have also been coming through here to have their message just heard outside the gate their messages that have over the last few years changed immensely the all a dark evil arche as i call it are trying to bring about a new world order. that means the abolition of all society as we now know what the plan is to reduce the population of the planet population reduction ju

in california the members of the bahamian grub grove . grove club are meeting and bringing charges of great conspiracy theories as well as now protests we have a clip of some of the protesters gathered there yesterday morning in what seemed like an attempt with not quite enough people to rock the road let's play that on july thirteenth two thousand and eleven one hundred and thirty eight and you were in camp at the. california. place to some of the most powerful men in the world around ok that was actually a clip from the main video that was put together to promote this sort of call have the call to action can we play the clip of the protesters there yesterday do we have that as well you know all right well joining me now to discuss this and understand i hope little bit about the significance of what happens at the bill when we will human growth every year is no other than stuff on knowledge of a host of freedom in radio dot com so fun thanks so much for being with us tonight and my pleasure you know and i would stand out so you know we h

and certainly in china politically and militarily for mary moore who's been researching bohemian grove for more than three decades what happens inside is symptomatic of a much larger problem we've all grown up taking civics trying to understand how the world works and we're all told that we elect representatives they go to washington we have total influence over them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we find out that none of that is true in monterrey real california christine for sound r t. still ahead i'll respond to your comments that you left on line it's nice of you said it i read it segment and a judge stopped the federal government in their tracks of their handling of a whistleblower case that will talk about tracking your cell phone tonight as a story that everybody should hear regarding a very powerful and very secretive tracking to all the governments around the world are using i can stay with.

and circling china politically and militarily for mary moore who's been researching bohemian grove for more than three decades what happens inside is symptomatic of a much larger problem we've all grown up taking civics trying to understand how the world works and we're all told that we elect representatives they go to washington we have total influence over them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we find out that none of that is true in monterrey california christine for south r.t. . by that time the business news now here not. hello and welcome to business here nights here and we start this hour with the high tech project skulk of all which is continuing to attract new companies russia's answer to silicon valley has unveiled a further thirteen firms have signed up and the project's chief operating officer says and that's when it's come in both from big and small players. on one level we've already attracted commitments from for example cisco of one billion dollars to invest and to go to. a smaller

and circling china politically and militarily for mary moore who's been researching bohemian grove for more than three decades what happens inside is symptomatic of a much larger problem we've all grown up taking civics trying to understand how the world works and we're all told that we elect representatives they go to washington we have total influence over them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we find out that none of that is true in monterrey california christine for our team. well max and stacy threw a fist at finance in a few minutes in the kinds of reports that some dates are first on the day's business stories with. hello and welcome to business here on our team now we start this hour with hanover where they'll be fuel for thought i'd let a later when russian president dmitry medvedev meets german chancellor angela merkel to discuss about gas he's eyeing up access to consumers in the biggest market for russian energy and that's more tangible now after germany decided to support the plug on n

they think the suspects may be affiluated with marijuana groves in that area. cruise searched for multiple victims. they can't confirm if they were but they were just searching the area because there were multiple gun shots. police are telling people who live in the area stay in their homes till the search is over. they have concluded tonight but they will continue tomorrow. they have told people in the area and our cruise today they don't think the gunman will enter the neighborhood. >> you mentioned marijuana farms. are there farms now or this is in the past? >> reporter: in the past they found the pot farms and in that area there are marijuana groves and they believe the suspects may be affiliated with the marijuana groves. >> thank you. >>> the family of a washington state man who died during a gun battle with san francisco police teamed up with an attorney. his firm will represent kenneth harding's family to ensure a transparent investigation into ceph's death. his mother described her son who was a parolee for rape and called a person of interest in a mur

and circling china politically and militarily for mary moore who's been researching bohemian grove for more than three decades what happens inside is symptomatic of a much larger problem we've all grown up taking civics trying to understand how the world works some are all told that we elect representatives they go to washington we have total influence over them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we find out that none of that is true in monterrey real california christine for our team and i'll go out with a recap of our top stories right after the business news with marina. hello and welcome to business here at c.n.n. our germany wants russia to export more gas to the country to help cover its scrapping of nuclear power he's i know access to consumers in the biggest market for russian energy about spurs and moved in with and that's more tangible now after germany this side it support the plug on nuclear power energy minister sergei schmeichel estimates that this could increase the country's annual ga

thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can't see the music they hear it. i walked into the meadow several times and they don't even care. we do have literally events going on day and night. the concert association has kids days during the week. the performers come out for hundred 200 kids. now, the truckadero truck house gets rented out for weddings and retirement. the croquet clubs and horse shoes. 2 play grounds, tennis courts. we have from 25 to a hundred dogs here. it's like bisons going across the mid west. there are so many dogs they are covering the ground cht it's a get together. all the dog walkers know each other. if you go to pine lake day camp now, you will see 50 kids there. the r directors are wonder. >> the pine lake is natural. they take of the area around the lake. they plant natives that are drough

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in park

grove. >> good evening, my name is barbara grove, i'm a resident of san francisco. i'm quite concerned about the efforts being put forth for the psychiatric profession being -- broadening their scope around this fine city and in fact the whole country, so it's a lot of false allegations that come forth about how good they are. anybody has the ability to think normal. i put on 100 pounds in one month's time while incarcerated , and the psychiatric profession did that. the psychiatric profession, so my ex-husband doesn't have to pay al moan. we're finally at the end, my inheritance is gone and we'll see what happens to him to be able to back out so he doesn't have to payal mone out of my inheritance instead of out of his own pocket. this is legalized fraud. thank you. >> any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is now called. please call line item it. >> reports and announcements. item 2-a is the chief's report, it's a report on crime statistics and review of recent activities. >> good evening, chief. >> good evening, commissioners. >> as far as crime

this is at the intersection of center street and grove.ctually center is shut down in both directions as you can see there between grove way and b street. this is our second fire of the morning. a lot of activity for chopper 5 and fire crews in the east bay so far this morning. to our maps, let's show you what else is going on. westbound 580 slow out of livermore. we have a couple of accidents out there right now. one near the livermore truck scales, that was just chloride to the shoulder but we have another one in pleasanton, as well. so it's an extra heavy commute right now on westbound 580 coming out of the

-- themselves in the groves and there's quite a danger to them, as well as the environmental hazards, the pesticides and ferretlizers out there -- fertilizers out there. >>> today we learned details of an agreement between the city of vallejo and native american tribes to protect an ancient burial ground. the city had planned to built a restroom an park at glen coffee water -- dplen cove water -- glen cove water park. the city's plans no longer plan for a restroom and the parking lot has been downsized. >>> he was given just one week to live but tonight alphonso garcia is alive and well and he threw out the first pitch today at at&t park. new at 6, rob both voth live in san francisco with -- roth is live in san francisco with the game-changing surgery. >> reporter: for one teenage boy, at&t park isn't just a field of dreams. being here, he says is a miracle. a little more than a year ago, 17-year-old alphonso garcia was on his death bed. now estands on the pitcher's mound. he threw out the ceremonial first pitch before this afternoon's giants-dodgers game. but wait, this story is how