Halifax International Security Forum/2016
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The 2016 Halifax International Security Forum was held November 19-21, 2014, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Agenda
The sessions were a mix of on and off the record.[1]
- Make Democracy Great Again
- Middle East Mess: Who Should Clean It Up? Who Can?
- Russia: Putin' the Bloc Back Together
- Sea, Cyber, Space: The Long Game in Asia
- The Superpower's Enduring Priorities: Trade, Justice and the American Way. During the session, moderator Gideon Rose began by reminding panelists that the familiar world of mutually beneficial cooperation is being challenged. He stated that now more than ever, the conversations that take place in Halifax will be significant in predicting what happens next within the "global operating system".[2]
- Great Continent, Great Responsibility: Finding China's Role
- Because Syria: I'm Your Friendly Neighborhood Terrorist
- NATO: Necessary
- Climate Security, Energy Security and the Politics of Slow Moving Threats
- Are We All Being Served?: Women and the Importance of Being Inclusive
- The New Battlefield: Where Is It?
- Refugees Passing Borders, Nations Passing the Buck
- Spies Love Us: Protecting Information in the Age of Openness
- Return of the Nation State
Participants
300 spooks, lobbyists, deep state actors, and military officers and bureaucrats attended[3]. "Partners include NATO, the Canadian department of defense, Foreign Affairs, Boeing and Ipsos.[4]
Known Participants
37 of the 318 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| John Allen | A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General |
| James Appathurai | NATO apparatchik who attended Bilderberg/2024 |
| James Baker | US DSO, many deep state connections from the Atlantic Council to the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce |
| John Barrasso | US physician and politician, multiple visits to the MSC |
| Christine Beerli | Swiss politician who attended her first Bilderberg in 2018 as Vice President of the Red Cross |
| Ian Brodie | Attended the 2008 Bilderberg as Chief of Staff to the Canadian Prime Minister |
| Eliot Cohen | Spooky academic labelled "the most influential neocon in academe" |
| Heather Conley | Spooky German Marshall Fund President 2022- |
| Howard Dean | US politician whose 2004 campaign was involved in the 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust. |
| Paula Dobriansky | Spookily connected US politician |
| Ralf Fücks | German politician married to Marieluise Beck of the German cluster of the Integrity Initiative |
| Yalda Hakim | Sky News world presenter, ex BBC. Selected as Young Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019. |
| François Heisbourg | Promoter of the "war on terror". He wrote a working paper for the 1989 Bilderberg. Heavy MSC habit. |
| Josef Joffe | Publisher-editor of Die Zeit |
| Tim Kaine | Hillary Clinton's running mate in 2016 presidential elections. |
| Adam Kinzinger | WEF YGL YGL neoconservative US politician; the "Quintessential American Idiot". |
| Michael Klare | US Academic writing about U.S. defense policy, oil as an instrument of national policy, the arms trade and Peak oil. |
| David Kramer | US academic with multiple deep state connections |
| Gal Luft | "Terror expert" and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition |
| David MacNaughton | Hill and Knowlton, Palantir Technologies, ambassador to the United States |
| John McCain | Vietnam War veteran, sang about bombing Iran to voters, called the JFK assassination "the intervention". appears on a picture with Simon Elliot. |
| Walter Russell Mead | US academic who attended the 2018 Bilderberg. |
| Alaa Murabit | Gates foundation health functionary |
| Pauline Neville-Jones | BBC governor, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee |
| Celina Realuyo | Goldman Sachs, "counterterrorist", national security |
| Rafal Rohozinski | Canadian expert and practitioner active in the fields of counterinsurgency, cyber warfare, and the globalization of armed violence. |
| Gideon Rose | US journalist, WEF regular |
| Nadia Schadlow | Suspected US deep state functionary. First Bilderberg in 2017 |
| Randy Scheunemann | US neocon foreign policy advisor to presidential candidate John McCain. |
| Robin Shepherd | Former Moscow Bureau Chief for The Times now working for intelligence think tanks. |
| Constanze Stelzenmüller | German editor and deep state operative of uncertain rank |
| John Vinocur | US editor/journalist who attended Bilderberg/2005 and Bilderberg/2006. |
| Kurt Volker | US deep state operative, US Permanent Representative to NATO |
| Andy Wood | UK Ambassador to Russia (1995-2000), Institute for Statecraft... |
| Moshe Yaalon | Former General in the IDF, accused of war crimes |
| Amos Yadlin | Appointed director of Israel Defence Intelligence in 2006. |
| Tomonori Yoshizaki | The only Asian member of The Alphen Group as of 2024 |
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References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161120065525/http://halifaxtheforum.org/2016-agenda
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201126122605/https://halifaxtheforum.org/forum/2016-halifax-international-security-forum/saturday-november-19/#agenda
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161204104545/http://halifaxtheforum.org/participants
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170416142429/http://halifaxtheforum.org/2016-partners
