The Safari Club resembles what we know today as Five Eyes (FVEY).
This was the paragraph that stuck out to me the most the first time I saw this. IMO, it applies today.
“In the end, whatever the reality of Talbot’s most sensational claims, he unquestionably makes the case that — unless you believe we’re governed by shape-shifting space lizards — your darkest suspicions about how the world operates are likely an underestimate. Yes, there is an amorphous group of unelected corporate lawyers, bankers, and intelligence and military officials who form an American “deep state,” setting real limits on the rare politicians who ever try to get out of line. They do collaborate with and nurture their deep state counterparts in other countries, to whom they feel far more loyalty than their fellow citizens. The minions of the deep state hate and fear even the mildest moves towards democracy, and fight against it by any means available to them. They’re not all-powerful and don’t get exactly what they want, but on the issues that matter most they almost always win in the end. And while all this is mostly right there in the open, discernible by anyone who’s curious and has a library card, if you don’t go looking you will never hear a single word about it.”
Yeah, pretty much the way i see it. I disagree that they fear “democracy.” They use the vote as a means to keep the public from becoming restive. The vote is an important but (to the real control elements) pointless ritual.
We say “None of this would be known if Hillary had won the election.” True. Also true if Jeb! or Rubio, or ANY of the approved alternatives was elected.
Manipulating the electorate is totally irrelevant when all the candidates are “approved.”