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| − | '''James Gordon Brown''' is a British Labour politician and former [[UK Prime Minister]]. | + | '''James Gordon Brown''' is a [[UK Deep State]] [[Deep State functionary|functionary]], British Labour politician and former [[UK Prime Minister]]. In April 2021 he was promoting a $60 billion effort to promote vaccination in "poor countries".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/29/gordon-brown-covid-support-poor-countries</ref> He was appointed [[WHO ambassador for global health financing]] in September 2021.<ref>https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gordon-brown-recruited-who-ambassador-25022704</ref> |
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==Brown's Nuclear Stance== | ==Brown's Nuclear Stance== | ||
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One of Brown's key advisors is [[Ed Balls]], whose father-in-law [[Tony Cooper]] is a long-standing nuclear lobbyist. <ref>[http://www.yvettecooper.com/bio01_dw.htm Biography on Yvette Cooper's website], undated, accessed February 2006.</ref> <ref>[http://www.nda.gov.uk/About_the_NDA--Biographies--Biographies_(489).aspx?pg=489#Tony%20Cooper Tony Cooper's biography on Nuclear Decommissioning Authority website], undated, accessed February 2006.</ref> | One of Brown's key advisors is [[Ed Balls]], whose father-in-law [[Tony Cooper]] is a long-standing nuclear lobbyist. <ref>[http://www.yvettecooper.com/bio01_dw.htm Biography on Yvette Cooper's website], undated, accessed February 2006.</ref> <ref>[http://www.nda.gov.uk/About_the_NDA--Biographies--Biographies_(489).aspx?pg=489#Tony%20Cooper Tony Cooper's biography on Nuclear Decommissioning Authority website], undated, accessed February 2006.</ref> | ||
| − | For further information on Brown's nuclear position, see | + | For further information on Brown's nuclear position, see his [[Sourcewatch]] page. |
==Wielding great influence on British Jewry== | ==Wielding great influence on British Jewry== | ||
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Brown returned to the same theme during his meeting with [[George W. Bush]] at Camp David on 29-30 July 2007. Bush described their conversation at a press conference during the visit: | Brown returned to the same theme during his meeting with [[George W. Bush]] at Camp David on 29-30 July 2007. Bush described their conversation at a press conference during the visit: | ||
| − | ::In the long run, the way to defeat these people is through a competing ideology, see. And what's interesting about this struggle | + | ::In the long run, the way to defeat these people is through a competing ideology, see. And what's interesting about this struggle — and this is what I was paying very careful attention to when Gordon was speaking — is, does he understand it's an ideological struggle? And he does. |
| − | ::As he said to me, it's akin to the Cold War, and it is, except the difference this time is we have an enemy using asymmetrical warfare to try to affect our vision, to try to shake our will. They'll kill innocent women and children so it gets on the TV screens, so that we say it's not worth it | + | ::As he said to me, it's akin to the Cold War, and it is, except the difference this time is we have an enemy using asymmetrical warfare to try to affect our vision, to try to shake our will. They'll kill innocent women and children so it gets on the TV screens, so that we say it's not worth it — let's just back off. The death they cause makes it — maybe we just ought to let them have their way. And that's the great danger facing the world in which we live, and he gets it.<ref>[http://www.usembassy.org.uk/gb062.html "President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom"], Embassy of the United States - London, UK, 30 July 2007.</ref> |
[[Matthew D'Ancona]], one of the journalists accompanying Brown on the trip, also reported that the new Prime Minister emphasised the 'battle for hearts and minds' during the meeting. | [[Matthew D'Ancona]], one of the journalists accompanying Brown on the trip, also reported that the new Prime Minister emphasised the 'battle for hearts and minds' during the meeting. | ||
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D'Ancona added that Brown had been impressed by the work of [[David Kilcullen]], and that his approach would owe something to that of Cold War strategist [[George Kennan]].<ref name="ancona1"/> | D'Ancona added that Brown had been impressed by the work of [[David Kilcullen]], and that his approach would owe something to that of Cold War strategist [[George Kennan]].<ref name="ancona1"/> | ||
| − | ::Does this mean that MI5 will now be spending millions on anti-Islamist magazines and that the London Symphony Orchestra is going to be dispatched to the [[Middle East]] with bugs in their cellos? Not quite. But it does mean finding resources for moderate Muslims and cutting off funding to anyone else: Brown believes that the old left's version of "multiculturalism" led us to the insanity of financing groups precisely because they were extreme. Expect big changes. | + | ::Does this mean that [[MI5]] will now be spending millions on anti-Islamist magazines and that the London Symphony Orchestra is going to be dispatched to the [[Middle East]] with bugs in their cellos? Not quite. But it does mean finding resources for moderate Muslims and cutting off funding to anyone else: Brown believes that the old left's version of "multiculturalism" led us to the insanity of financing groups precisely because they were extreme. Expect big changes. |
| − | Brown's resort to [[Cold War]] | + | Brown's resort to [[Cold War]] precedents was criticised by [[David Clark]] in the ''[[Guardian]]'': |
::It is said that Brown has been strongly influenced by the example of the cultural and intellectual campaigns fought by the west during the cold war, and in particular the account of them given by Frances Stonor Saunders in her book Who Paid the Piper?; hopefully Brown's approach will prove to be more nuanced than that because the book is actually a warning about the perils of trying to advance democratic ideals through state-sponsored programmes, especially ones that deploy covert means.<ref>David Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/15/comment.terrorism "Muslim hearts are hard to win after years of hypocrisy"], The Guardian, 15 August 2007.</ref> | ::It is said that Brown has been strongly influenced by the example of the cultural and intellectual campaigns fought by the west during the cold war, and in particular the account of them given by Frances Stonor Saunders in her book Who Paid the Piper?; hopefully Brown's approach will prove to be more nuanced than that because the book is actually a warning about the perils of trying to advance democratic ideals through state-sponsored programmes, especially ones that deploy covert means.<ref>David Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/15/comment.terrorism "Muslim hearts are hard to win after years of hypocrisy"], The Guardian, 15 August 2007.</ref> | ||
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James Gordon Brown is a UK Deep State functionary, British Labour politician and former UK Prime Minister. In April 2021 he was promoting a $60 billion effort to promote vaccination in "poor countries".[1] He was appointed WHO ambassador for global health financing in September 2021.[2]
Contents
Brown's Nuclear Stance
Private Eye reported in February 2006 that Gordon Brown has family connections to the nuclear industry. His younger brother Andrew Brown works for EDF Energy, the UK subsidiary of EDF, which operates nuclear power stations in France. Andrew Brown was appointed as EDF Energy's Head of Press on 13 September 2004. Previously, he worked for the lobbying company Weber Shandwick.[3][4]
One of Brown's key advisors is Ed Balls, whose father-in-law Tony Cooper is a long-standing nuclear lobbyist. [5] [6]
For further information on Brown's nuclear position, see his Sourcewatch page.
Wielding great influence on British Jewry
In 2008, The Jewish Chronicle declared 'the top spots' on their second annual list of those who 'wield the greatest influence on British Jewry'. Brown is listed at number 29[7]. The criteria for being listed is described as 'those with a vision for Jewish life in this country and who did their utmost to bring it about using either money; persuasion; religion; culture; political or social leadership; or simply inspiring through word and deed'. In order for someone to be listed in the top 20, it was generally necessary to demonstrate influence in more than one of the spheres[8].
The article describes how...
- 'The Prime Minister may not have Tony Blair’s natural affinity with the Jewish community, but he has built on the good relations established by his predecessor. The government has extended its financial backing of sixth-formers’ visits to Auschwitz and Mr Brown has accepted an invitation to become a JNF patron. To rapturous applause, he told a Board of Deputies dinner last year: “Israel will always have our support. We will be a friend in good times and bad and we will never compromise our friendship for political expediency.” He is an admirer of the Chief Rabbi, whom he says he consults regularly'.[7]
Others included in the list were Lord Levy (number 9), Ron Prosor (number 10), Daniel Finkelstein (number 11), John Mann (number 17), Jonathan Freedland (number 18), Julia Neuberger (number 19), Lord Janner (number 20), Trevor Chinn (number 14) & Poju Zabludowicz (number 30).
Gertrude Himmelfarb
According to Paul Richards, Brown is a longstanding admirer of Gertrude Himmelfarb:
- Brown's admiration of Himmelfarb was fostered in the 1970s, when he was an earnest undergraduate, and remained with him as a politics lecturer at Glasgow College of Technology. In 2008 he wrote: “I have long admired Gertrude Himmelfarb's historical work, in particular her love of the history of ideas, and her work has stayed with me ever since I was a history student at Edinburgh University.”[9]
Battle for Hearts and Minds
In a September 2006 article in The Sun written while he was still Chancellor, Brown evoked the spirit of the Cultural Cold War as a precedent for the War on Terror.
- When Britain and America set out to win the Cold War, we realised victory lay both in our military power and in persuading people under Soviet control to demand their economic freedom and human rights.
- It was a battle fought though books and ideas, even music and the arts, and it helped bring Communism down from within.
- So, as well as supporting our police, security services and armed forces in the front line of the war on terror at home and abroad, we also need to mobilise the power of argument and ideas to expose and defeat the ideology of hate.[10]
He reiterated the theme in a speech to Chatham House a month later:
- We should remember from 1945 the united front against Soviet communism involved not only deterrence through large arsenals of weapons, but a cultural effort on an extraordinary scale.
- Newspapers, journals, culture, the arts and literature sought to expose the difference between moderation and extremism.
- Foundations, trusts, civil society and civic organisations - links and exchanges between schools, universities, museums, institutes, journals, books, churches, trades unions, sports clubs, societies - all formed a front line in this cultural effort.
- And it was by power of argument, by debate and by dialogue that over time we changed attitudes and then changed systems.
- And so today the isolation of the extremists - and ultimately the end to terror - depends not just upon armies and treaties alone.[11]
Brown returned to the same theme during his meeting with George W. Bush at Camp David on 29-30 July 2007. Bush described their conversation at a press conference during the visit:
- In the long run, the way to defeat these people is through a competing ideology, see. And what's interesting about this struggle — and this is what I was paying very careful attention to when Gordon was speaking — is, does he understand it's an ideological struggle? And he does.
- As he said to me, it's akin to the Cold War, and it is, except the difference this time is we have an enemy using asymmetrical warfare to try to affect our vision, to try to shake our will. They'll kill innocent women and children so it gets on the TV screens, so that we say it's not worth it — let's just back off. The death they cause makes it — maybe we just ought to let them have their way. And that's the great danger facing the world in which we live, and he gets it.[12]
Matthew D'Ancona, one of the journalists accompanying Brown on the trip, also reported that the new Prime Minister emphasised the 'battle for hearts and minds' during the meeting.
- Bush was most nervous about what Brown would say on Iraq. But the PM kept drawing the president back to the need to engage in a cultural, intellectual and counter-insurgency programme of the kind that was fought against Soviet communism.[13]
D'Ancona suggested that the attempted terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport had led Brown to the analysis that "twisted ideas, rather than poverty, were the true basis of the problem."
- In the PM's eyes, it follows that the next phase of the struggle must be more subtle, much of it completely concealed.
- In this he has recently been inspired by a 1999 book on the CIA and the cultural cold war, Who Paid the Piper? by the British journalist Frances Stonor Saunders. He was particularly intrigued by the CIA's management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as "the juggernaut of American culture". Brown cites the success of the anti-communist Congress for Cultural Freedom in harnessing the intellectual firepower of a generation of authors and artists, and funding journals such as Encounter, Transition and Partisan Review.
D'Ancona added that Brown had been impressed by the work of David Kilcullen, and that his approach would owe something to that of Cold War strategist George Kennan.[13]
- Does this mean that MI5 will now be spending millions on anti-Islamist magazines and that the London Symphony Orchestra is going to be dispatched to the Middle East with bugs in their cellos? Not quite. But it does mean finding resources for moderate Muslims and cutting off funding to anyone else: Brown believes that the old left's version of "multiculturalism" led us to the insanity of financing groups precisely because they were extreme. Expect big changes.
Brown's resort to Cold War precedents was criticised by David Clark in the Guardian:
- It is said that Brown has been strongly influenced by the example of the cultural and intellectual campaigns fought by the west during the cold war, and in particular the account of them given by Frances Stonor Saunders in her book Who Paid the Piper?; hopefully Brown's approach will prove to be more nuanced than that because the book is actually a warning about the perils of trying to advance democratic ideals through state-sponsored programmes, especially ones that deploy covert means.[14]
Stonor Saunders herself took a similar view according to Private Eye.
- Stonor Saunders told the Eye she was "dumbfounded" at Gordon Brown's apparent use of her book. She added, "If it is a sign he believes that some kind of dialogue is better than strafing and bombing, then good - but to look to my book for that is a complete contradiction. It tries to deliver a polemic about how ideas can be mismanaged and abused."[15]
Affiliations
A Document by Gordon Brown
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 | open letter | 14 May 2020 | "COVID-19/Vaccine" | A number of deep state operatives, including 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world. |
Appointments by Gordon Brown
| Appointee | Job | Appointed | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ara Darzi | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health | 29 June 2007 | 21 July 2009 |
| Helen Goodman | Deputy Leader of the House of Commons | 28 June 2007 | 9 June 2009 |
| Helen Goodman | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | 9 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 |
| Jim Murphy | Minister/State for Europe | 28 June 2007 | 3 October 2008 |
| Jim Murphy | Secretary of State for Scotland | 3 October 2008 | 11 May 2010 |
| Shaun Woodward | Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | 28 June 2007 | 11 May 2010 |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1991 | 6 June 1991 | 9 June 1991 | Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof | The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests |
| Brussels Forum/2011 | 25 March 2011 | 27 March 2011 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2006 | 25 January 2006 | 29 January 2006 | Switzerland | Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2008 | 23 January 2008 | 27 January 2008 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2009 | 23 January 2009 | 27 January 2009 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2016 | 20 January 2016 | 23 January 2016 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Peak Kinnock | Article | 19 September 2016 | Craig Murray | "11,000 people saving £2 a month might not save a dying little baby, but would exactly pay the £264,000 per year salary of Neil Kinnock’s daughter-in-law Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Chief Executive of Save the Children and wife of MP Stephen Kinnock. Misery for some is a goldmine for others." |
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References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/29/gordon-brown-covid-support-poor-countries
- ↑ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gordon-brown-recruited-who-ambassador-25022704
- ↑ No named author, Private Eye issue 1151, p.8, February 2006
- ↑ EDF Energy press release 'Andrew Brown to head media team at EDF Energy', September 13, 2004.
- ↑ Biography on Yvette Cooper's website, undated, accessed February 2006.
- ↑ Tony Cooper's biography on Nuclear Decommissioning Authority website, undated, accessed February 2006.
- ↑ a b The Jewish Chronicle JC Power 100: Sacks stays on top, as new names emerge. 9th May 2008. Accessed 16th August 2008
- ↑ The Jewish Chronicle How we made our selection 9th May 2008. Accessed 16th August 2008
- ↑ Paul Richards, Brown: Enlightenement politician in age of emotion, Next Left, 30 July 2009.
- ↑ Gordon Brown, "Chancellor Writes for The Sun", The Sun 8 September 2006.
- ↑ Gordon Brown, "Full text of Gordon Brown's speech on terrorism: part two", guardian.co.uk, 10 October 2006.
- ↑ "President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom", Embassy of the United States - London, UK, 30 July 2007.
- ↑ a b Matthew D'Ancona, "Brown is leading the way in counter-terrorist thinking", Guardian, 2 August 2007.
- ↑ David Clark, "Muslim hearts are hard to win after years of hypocrisy", The Guardian, 15 August 2007.
- ↑ HP Sauce, Private Eye, No. 1191, 17 August - 30 August 2007, p6.
