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The Brussels Forum 2009 was held March 20-22, 2009, arranged by the CIA/NATO-close German Marshall Fund of the United States[1][2]. It gathered over 400 politicians, spooks, journalists and think-tankers.[3][4] The event itself, held under Chatham House rules, received as good as no coverage in corporate media. But the agenda topics did, the gathering giving a signal to the participants on how to speak, write and act on these transatlantic subjects.
Agenda
In a speech, military-industrial complex stalwart John McCain explained why the war in Afghanistan needed "new resources". |
The sessions were a mix of on and off the record.[5]
- "Shared destiny": how relevant is Europe to the United States under Obama?
- From Blame to responsibility: Europe's new energy paradigm
- Neighbor, Partner, ally? Israel's relations with the EU and NATO
- The technological response to climate change
- Asia rising
- A conversation with Russia
- Battling the crisis: high time for transatlantic leadership
- Afghanistan and Pakistan: what will it take to get it right?
- Trends and Prospects for immigration reform in Europe and the United States
- Quo vadis Bosnia?
- Climate change — Policy instruments
- Transatlantic responses to the financial crisis
- Transatlantic responses to the financial crisis
- Competing for land — how to Balance Food and energy Security in the era of Global warming
- Is aid to Africa drying Up?
- Will the economic crisis split Europe?
- Ukraine: at a crossroads again
- Turkey Before the Obama visit
- Belarus: isolation vs. engagement
- At a crossroads: are the transatlantic economies converging or drifting apart?
- Economic multilateralism: how do we Make it work
- 20 years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Georgia-Six Months after the war: where do things Stand?
- Engaging difficult actors in the Middle east
- The intersection of law and national security: a conversation
- Companies at the cutting edge of innovation
- NATO at 60
- Fiscal Policy after the financial crisis
Known Participants
83 of the 386 of the participants already have pages here:
Participant | Description |
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Anne Applebaum | Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, didn’t think that Hunter Biden's laptop qualified as a major news story. |
José Manuel Barroso | Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission |
Robert Bennett | Mormon US Senator who attended Brussels Forums |
Carl Bildt | Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions. |
Claudio Bisogniero | Italian diplomat |
Julian Borger | In July 2015 Julian Borger was diplomatic editor for The Guardian |
Elmar Brok | lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular |
Mark Malloch Brown | George Soros-protegé |
Reinhard Bütikofer | German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs |
Robert Cooper | UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"... |
Steve Covington | DSO mentioned in the Integrity Initiative leak. "supported SACEURs in 15 NATO Summits, over 150 Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Chief of Defense Meetings, and executed high-level meetings in every country in Europe and Eurasia" |
Gregory Craig | White House Counsel 2009-2010 |
Marta Dassù | Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies... |
Étienne Davignon | Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president |
Milica Delević-Đilas | Serbian economist |
Karen Donfried | US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021 |
Lyse Doucet | Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit |
Stewart Eldon | UK DSO interested in "counter-corruption" and "National Security". Former UK/Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, Institute for Statecraft |
James Elles | A member of the European Parliament |
Oded Eran | Possibly spooky Israeli diplomat |
Steven Erlanger | Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum |
Ulrik Federspiel | Danish diplomat, Bilderberg Steering committee |
Simon Fraser | Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House. |
Nik Gowing | UK Deep state connected TV journalist |
Marc Grossman | Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs. |
Ignasi Guardans | |
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Born with silver spoon as scion of the zu Guttenberg family, but blew his political career in 2011 after academic plagiarism was discovered. Since then has stayed in spooky think-tanks. |
Ulrike Guérot | Deep state operative who was persecuted after she publicly dissented from SDS policy. |
Lindsey Hilsum | UK journalist who was at the II-backed Tackling Tools of Malign Influence meeting |
Richard Holbrooke | Bilderberg/Steering committee, deep state operative |
Bruce Jackson | US spook. His later career focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union and NATO. Member of the Henry Jackson Society. |
Robert Kagan | Co-founder of the Project for the New American Century |
Udo van Kampen | Journalist, Atlantik-Brücke member, visited the Brussels Forum 2007-2009 |
Craig Kennedy | president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014 |
Eckart von Klaeden | Triple Bilderberg German politician |
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff | Vice President and Executive Director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund, attender of a lot of deep staste events. The Alphen Group |
John Kornblum | US diplomat wo attended at least 4 Brussels Forums |
Mıroslav Lajčák | Slovak diplomat, who attended all the Munich Security Conferences from 2013 to 2020 |
Stephen Larrabee | RAND political scientist, MSC |
Sergei Lavrov | Russian diplomat and very competent Foreign Minister |
Mark Leonard | Suspected UK DSO who founded the European Council on Foreign Relations. A regular the the Brussels Forum, MSC, WEF AGM. Authored Britain™: Renewing our Identity |
Kadri Liik | Estonian journalist Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks replete with fellow IfS UK inner core members, ECFR |
Edward Llewellyn | UK Diplomat, Eton, New College Oxford, Notting Hill Set |
Jonathan Marcus | A BBC journalist whose name is on a list of journalists leaked from the Integrity Initiative in 2018. |
John McCain | Vietnam War veteran, sang about bombing Iran to voters, called the JFK assassination "the intervention". appears on a picture with Simon Elliot. |
Cesare Merlini | Italian academic, Brookings Institute |
Liz Mohn | German billionaire businesswoman friend of Angela Merkel |
Hryhoriy Nemyria | Ukranian politician with several Brussels Forum meetings |
Pauline Neville-Jones | BBC governor, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee |
Robin Niblett | Chatham House Director/Chief executive from 2007-2022... |
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References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094817/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF-Participants-List_2011_web_25mar2.pdf
- ↑ File:Brussels Forum-Participants-List 2011.pdf saved copy
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094839/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/Participants-List_10.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094902/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_PARTICIPANTS09.pdf
- ↑ https://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_agenda09_1.pdf