At least one thing the invention of the internet has done is make us all more aware of the existence of a completely different world that is happening out there, out of our sight, and, intentionally, out of our access and certainly out of our control. The issue is that many decisions that affect us are originated and progress at these events.
On a daily basis, America's super-rich are having cappuccinos in Martha's Vineyard or in Silicon Valley, attending high-powered dinner parties in Manhattan, and more importantly, spending less connected time with America and more time in a global "nation unto themselves". 1 In contrast to what they share with their neighbors, the "see the same people, ...eat in the same restaurants, and ...stay in the same hotels." says Glenn Hutchins, co-founder, Silver Lake.
But the more important commonality that all these plutocrats share is that without us, there would be no super-elite, no super-rich. There would be no consumer-class, no middle-class, no in-debted class, no mass of millions, hundreds of millions that are content to be there to see their children take their first step and to haul them around to practices, content to personally care for their aging or ill loved one, or content to constantly owe on a mortgage or a credit card or a student loan and to only leave the country when they go on an annual family vacation or a honeymoon, maybe. We are not the less talented lower class. We are their foundation, their primacy.
We are literally what adds the richness to their jet-setting, mega yachting, Davos life.
So let's get a better glimpse of our deliverables.
Here are some "annual" events:
BLIDERBERG
Founded in 1954 by Prince Berhnard (Netherlands).
Website: http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/
Date: Usually the first or second weekend in June
Locations:
2017 -- Chantilly, VA USA
2016 -- Dresden, Germany
2015 -- Telfs-Buchen, Austria
2014 -- Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 -- Hertfordshire, England (Watford)
2012 -- Chantilly, VA, USA (May 31 -June 3)
2011 -- St. Moritz, Switzerland
2010 -- Sitges, Spain (June 3-6)
Annual conference to foster dialogue--and dialogue only, between North America's and Europe's political leaders and experts from politics, industry, finance, academia, and media--as long as attendee promises not to disclose details (aka Chatham House Rule--free to use content but not reveal source).
ALLEN & CO'S SUN VALLEY MEDIA RETREAT
Founded in 1982 by banker Herbert Allen
Date: July (second weekend)
Sun Valley, Idaho
Hosted by boutique investment bank Allen and Co.as a retreat for media moguls, with the focus on deal-making and recreation.
Attendees inclue Barry Diller (IAC), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google), Meg Whitman (eBay), Lebron James, and, under criticism, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in 2017.
THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Founded in 1971 by
Location: Davos, Switzerland
THE BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA
Founded:
Date: Spring
Location: Hainan Island, China
JACKSON HOLE SYMPOSIUM
Founded in 1978 by Fed. Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Date: August
Location: Jackson Hole, WY, (Rocky Mountains)
Focuses on specific economic issue each year, and attended by central bankers, finance ministers, and high-profile economists, and some CEOs.
ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL
Founded in 2005 by Aspen Institute (Walter Paepcke)
Date: July
Location: Aspen, CO
A place where global leaders, thinkers, artists, and musicians gather and reflect on values.
Attendees: Walter Isaacsson (CNN), Sec. of State Madeleine Albright, John Doerr (venture capitalist), Michael Eisner (Disney), Alan Greenspan, Eli Broad (philanthropist), Eric Schmidt (Google)
CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE ANNUAL MEETING
Founded in 2005 by President Bill Clinton
Date: Sept.
Location: NYC
To address global problems with statesment, philanthropists, plutocrats, and Nobel Prize winners.
Attendees: Lloyd Blanfein (Goldman Sachs), John Chambers, Cisco Systems), James Dimon (JP Morgan), Jeffrey Immelt (GE)
POPTECH
Founded in 1996 by Bob MetCalfe (invented Ethernet) and John Sculley (Apple)
Location: Camden, Maine
Davos for cool people--to study the social impact of new technologies and more.
BOHEMIAN CLUB
Founded in 1878 by Henry "harry" Edwards when around 100 Bohemians gathered in the Redwoods in Marin County near Taylor State Park for an evening sendoff party for Edwards, who was moving to NYC to further his acting career.
Website:
Date: June for "Spring Jinks" and mid-July for encampment
Location: 20601 Bohemian Avenue, Monte Rio, CA at a 2700 acre campground
Two-week, three weekend encampment of some of the world's most prominent men, including artists,(musicians), politicians, business leaders, media executives. Club is limitedly open to spouses, women, children and can be reserved throughout the reset of the year as long as the Club is not being used otherwise.
Ray F. Coyle a member. Ray F. Coyle Company was a tenant in the Foxcroft Building, named after the settlement in Maine where owner Charles Edward Holmes' family was from.
BELIZEAN GROVE
Women's only club in NYC modeled after the Bohemian Grove
THE MILKEN INSTITUTE GLOBAL CONFERENCE
Founded in 1998 by the Milken Institute (Michael and Lowell Milken)
Date: April
Location: Los Angeles
Bring capital-market principles to bear on social and economic challenges.
Attendees: Sumner Redstone (Viacom), Vinod Khosla (venture capitalist), Steve Forbes, Arnold Schwarznegger.
THE TED CONFERENCE
Founded in 1984 by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks
Date: Feb. or March
Location: Long Beach, CA
To spread ideas among different disciplines
Bill Gates, Al Gore, Rupert Murdoch
CORPORATION HOSTED:
GOOGLE'S ZEITGEIST
Location:
Grove Hotel, England
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Date: varies, December
HOSTED DINNER PARTIES
HOST MARIE_JOSEE KRAVIS
Location: Manhattan, Upper East Side
Economist wife of private-equity billionaire Henry.
PHILANTHROPOCENTRIC
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Soros)
PETER PETERSON
BILL GATES
MARK ZUCKERBERG
ELI BROAD
JIM BALSILLIE
BILL CLINTON
VICTOR PINCHUK (Ukranian entrepreneur)
hosts a regular lunch on the fringes of Davos
Annual ideas forum in Crimean village (Yalta Conference)
Theeliteevents.com
Secret rulers of the world
Secret Honor (Robert altman)
The Manny
1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/308343/
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