Comment: I watched the (old) video

Is this not the same deal as burning man but it's the elite and incredibly wealthy and hatched much earlier?

If there were backroom deals they should take place somewhere backroom not outdoors.

Being libertarian I don't object to rich people taking entheogens and swimming naked in the russian river and burning an effigy so long as they do no harm.

I honestly do not think this retreat (which is public and protested) would make any deals other than "if you scratch my back I will scratch yours." I think they main thing is getting away from DC and having a good time.

Of course that's not good with crony capitalism.

I'm all for transparency. I would like to have my own private burning man or similar without any intervention; if I could; had the cash, I think it would be awesome. I'd love to go out in the woods and have a fire and freak out with my other rich friends. If I were rich.