Brussels Forum/2010
The Brussels Forum 2010 was held March 25-27, 2010, 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] 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
The sessions were held over 3 days, some were off the record.[4][5]
- Afghanistan: a winnable war?
- The transatlantic relationship in a multipolar world: does it matter?
- From rescue to recovery: efforts to promote strong, sustainable, and balanced growth
- Pakistan: partner or problem?
- Euroatlantic security: reading from different scripts?
- Transatlantic approaches to innovation: what's on the agenda?
- Overcoming unemployment: the counterpunch of the economic crisis
- An ocean apart? transatlantic approaches to re-regulating finance
- Remarks by the co- chairmen of the u.s. congressional delegation and by the president of the European Parliament
- Introductory remarks—building a security architecture in Europe, by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO.
- Geostrategic consequences of the economic crisis
- Can we live on services alone? the future of manufacturing in the United States and Europe
- The Balkans 2010
- The rise of nuclear Iran
- Networking dinner
- Missile defense: are the differences irreconcilable?
- The Asian elephant in the transatlantic room
- A changing Turkey
- Eliminating hunger: transatlantic action for global food security
- Redesigning the western partnership with india
- Climate change: what will it take?
- The committee to save the world? the G20 and the future of global economic governance
Themes
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO, was lobbying for expensive new weapons systems:
A true joint Euro Atlantic missile defense would demonstrate our collective will, not only to defend ourselves against the new threats of today and tomorrow, but also to shoulder the responsibility...And it would be an opportunity for Europe to demonstrate, again, to the United States that the allies are ready and willing to invest in the capabilities we need to defend ourselves....But I believe there is yet another reason for developing missile defense. And that is to create a new dynamic in European and Euro Atlantic security....But we also need a decision from Russia, a decision to view missile defense as an opportunity rather than a threat.[6]
President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso wanted to "share" as much information as possible with the United States:
“In the modern world internal and external security are indivisible. So a vital aspect of improving security cooperation counterterrorism is a sharing of information. We have been working hard in the U.S. to develop effective procedures to that end and we are fully committed to this. But it is essential to take into account the particular concerns of Europe on fundamental rights and privacy that is lesson of the recent vote by the European Parliament on the so-called SWIFT agreement.”
José Manuel Barroso (March 2010) [7]
The spooky Craig Kennedy remembered an obscure period in Barroso's CV:
“Some of us think of José Manuel Barroso as a former scholar at Georgetown University in Washington.”
Craig Kennedy, German Marshall Fund (March 2010) [7]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels Forum/2014 | “The ultimate soft power instrument in the world is the Brussels Forum” | Carl Bildt | 2014 |
Known Participants
95 of the 405 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Madeleine Albright | Ruthless politician, acquired and beloved by everyone named Clinton in the 1990s. Hero of Kosovo. Most powerful woman of all time according to ISGP's superclass index. When asked about half a million dead Iraqi children because of the sanctions she enforced, she replied "We think the price is worth it." |
| João Vale de Almeida | Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit |
| James Appathurai | NATO apparatchik who attended Bilderberg/2024 |
| Catherine Ashton | A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair |
| Ronald Asmus | Expanded NATO eastwards |
| Ehud Barak | Israeli spook who was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1999 to March 2001. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein. |
| José Manuel Barroso | Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission |
| Carl Bildt | Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions. |
| Hans Binnendijk | Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO. |
| 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 |
| Arne Olav Brundtland | Single Bilderberger spooky "security" academic married to Norwegian PM and big pharma lobbyist Gro Harlem Brundtland. |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech" |
| R. Nicholas Burns | US Ambassador to NATO 2001-2005, plenty of other deep state connected roles |
| Reinhard Bütikofer | German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs |
| 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" |
| Patrick Cronin | Cronin has worked in a number of think tanks connected to the US military-industrial complex. |
| Ghislain D'hoop | High ranking Belgian diplomat with connections to the Royal Household and UN drug commission |
| Ivo Daalder | USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11 |
| 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... |
| Paula Dobriansky | Spookily connected US politician |
| Karen Donfried | US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021 |
| Lyse Doucet | Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit |
| 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 |
| Simon Fraser | Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House. |
| David Frost | British adviser and politician |
| Amos Gilad | Former head of the research division of Israel's military intelligence organisation, Aman |
| Nik Gowing | UK Deep state connected TV journalist |
| Sandro Gozi | Italian politician/MEP. Attended the 2017 Bilderberg |
| Jeremy Greenstock | UK diplomat who held a number of influential posts such as UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Chairman of the UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Brussels Forum |
| Marc Grossman | Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs. |
| Sasha Havlicek | CEO/Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue |
| Connie Hedegaard | Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger |
| Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert | Dutch Defence Minister, connected to the 2015 Hawija bombing, lied about knowledge of any deaths and covered-up any juridical complicity with Mark Rutte & Bert Koenders. |
| Fiona Hill | Russophobic UK-born US foreign affairs specialist who has spent her whole career working to expand US influence in Eurasia |
| Robert D. Hormats | Deep state connected vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. |
| David Ignatius | Attender of spooky "security" conferences |
| Toomas Ilves | President of Estonia with a lot of Deep State connections, including membership of the Munich Security Conference Advisory Council. |
| Wolfgang Ischinger | Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference |
| 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. |
| Craig Kennedy | president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014 |
| Gilles de Kerchove | "EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator" since 2007 |
| 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 |
| David Kramer | US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed. |
| Ivan Krastev | George Soros protegé |
| François Bujon de L'Estang | Diplomatic and defense adviser to Prime Minister Jacques Chirac.Trilateral Commission. French-American Foundation. |
| ... further results | |
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://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/agenda_10.pdf
- ↑ https://www.gmfus.org/transcripts-2010
- ↑ https://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/327introandNATOsFuture%20%282%29.doc.pdf
- ↑ a b https://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/transcript_Barroso.pdf
