«An archive search indicates that the Associated Press, or ‘the essential global news network’ as it likes to call itself, has included the word Bilderberg in five articles since 1998. The phrase ‘Trilateral Commission’ appeared 15 times over the same period. The words ‘Bohemian Grove’ are found next to one another a total of ten times. ‘Britney Spears’ appears in 1,835 articles in the AP archive. 24 This is not to say that the world is governed by a shadowy cabal that somehow holds the visible world of politics and business in its thrall. Organizations like the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group are not omnipotent, but they are important. As Bertram Gross has pointed out: ‘for imperial straight talk to mature, communication must be thoroughly protected from public scrutiny. Top elites must not only meet together frequently; they must have opportunities to work, play, and relax together for long periods of time.’ 25 The debates between those who control much of the world’s wealth, and who exercise enormous power as a consequence, remain for the most part unpublicized. Their power allows them to act in secret and the secrecy enhances their power. A network of institutions and more informal gatherings exists in which investors confer with politicians, opinion-formers and experts» .
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