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Top legislators, including United States House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), met secretly with corporate heads, neoconservative Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, political strategist Karl Christian Rove, and several billionaire GOP donors off the Georgia coast on March 3-6. The chief focus of the strategy session: how to stop billionaire candidate Donald J. Trump from getting the GOP presidential nomination.

And a tip from an alert AMERICAN FREE PRESS reader and a leaked account that appeared on the Global Research news website revealed that this particular “World Forum,” as the annual meeting is called, was even closed to reporters.

The forum was held on Sea Island by the neoconservative, pro-war American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Sea Island is part of a group of islands, formally called the Golden Isles, which includes Jekyll Island, where in 1910 Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island conspired with bankers, dressed as duck hunters, to lay the groundwork for what became the privately owned and controlled Federal Reserve System.

Several leaders in the technology industry, such as Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook, were on the island, which is curious since Cook is reportedly fencing with the federal government on whether to unlock Apple users’ private data for the government in its so-called war on terror. Trump did call for a boycott of Apple, recently, for its refusal to provide the feds with the key to accessing data on its iPhone.

Senate Majority Leader Addison Mitchell “Mitch” McConnell Jr.(Ky.) was also present. And along with Ryan, the House was represented on the island by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frederick Stephen “Fred” Upton (R-Mich.), Budget Committee Chairman Thomas Edmunds Price, M.D. (R-Ga.) and Banking Committee Chairman Thomas “Jeb” Hensarling (R-Texas), among other Republican legislators who hold key positions.

Liberal New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. was reportedly there as well, cavorting with a bunch of self-proclaimed “conservatives.” Sulzberger took part without arranging to report about the island getaway, reminiscent of the media’s role at the super-secret annual Bilderberg meetings.

So, leading members of Congress colluded with corporate entities and with the head of the nation’s “newspaper of record,” offering them an opportunity to lobby behind closed doors. One question on people’s minds is: Are they trying to sidestep the will of the voters?

Also, will the Republican Party really have an honest and open election system under the Constitution, or is this more evidence of a shadow government where closed-door conferences override the people and advance the goals of the wealthy elites?