AMERİKA BÜLTENİ (6 Haziran 2012)
Komplo teorisyenleri, protestocu aktivistler, krallar, kraliçeler, uluslararası şirket ve bankaların patronları, dünya liderleri, politikacılar… Her yıl bir otelin içinde ve dışında bir araya gelen bu sıradışı topluluk, Bilderberg olarak bilinen gizli uluslararası toplantı için bu yıl Washington DC’ye akın etti. Haftasonunda Dulles International Airport’un hemen yakınındaki Westfields Marriott hotelinde gerçekleşen Bilderberg toplantısı yine bildik görüntülere sahne oldu. Yoğun güvenlik önlemleri, otele hiçbir şkilde yaklaştırılmayan gazeteciler, otele giren çıkan arabalardakileri tespit etmeye çalışan acar fotoğrafçılar, protestocular, pek fazla kimseyi gerçeği yansıttığına ikna edemeyen katılımcılar listesi…
Örneğin, birkaç yıldır, The Guardian gazetesi için Bilderberg toplantılarını izleyen İngiliz aktör Charlie Skelton, Washington DC’de gerçekleşen Bilderberg 2012 toplantısına Cumhuriyetçi Partinin başkan adayı Mitt Romney’nin de katıldığını yazdı. Oysa, en az 4 otel çalışanının gördüklerini söyledikleri Romney resmi listede gözükmüyor. Skelton, Romney’nin, şimdi Romney’nin Bilderberg’e katıldıktan sonra iktidara ulaşan Bill Clinton, Tony Blaire ve David Cameron’un talihini mi yaşayacağını sorarak, ‘’4 yıl önce de Barack Obama, senatör olarak yine aynı oteldeki toplantıya gizlice katıldı’’ diye yazdı. Skelton, Bilderberg toplantısına katılan Indiana Valisi Mitchell Daniels’ın da Romney’nin başkan yardımcısı adayı olacağı görüşünü de aktardı.
Skelton ayrıca, içerden kaynaklarından edindiğini iddia ettiği bilgilere dayanarak, ‘’Bilderberg kalabalığının Obama’dan hoşnut olmadığını ve onu bir dönemlik başkan yapmak istedikleri’’ iddiasına da yer verdi.
Washington Post gazetesi ise toplantıya Bill Gates’in de katıldığını tespit ettiklerini yazdı.
Resmi açıklamaya göre 145 kişinin katıldığı toplantıda transatlantik ilişkiler, Avrupa’da değişen politik iklim, gelişmiş ekonomilerde tasarruf politikaları, siber güvenlik, enerji sorunları ile Rusya, Çin ve Ortadoğu’da demokrasinin geleceği masaya yatırıldı.
Resmi açıklamaya göre, Türkiye’den Ekonomiden sorumlu Başbakan Yardımcısı Ali Babacan, Koç Holding CEO’su Mustafa Koç, Hürriyet Gazetesi genel yayın yönetmeni Enis Berberoğlu, Vodafone’un CEO’su Serpil Timuray ve Sabancı Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Profesörü Fuat Keyman toplantıya katıldı.
Toplantıya katılan isimler arasında, Henry Kissinger, Dünya Bankası Başkanı Robert Zoellick, Google CEO’su Eric Schmidt, Hollanda Kraliçesi, Hollanda Başbakanı Mark Nutte, Charlie Rose, Richard Perle, Economist dergisi yayın yönetmeni John Micklethwait, Türkiye merkezli Suriye Ulusal Konseyi’nin dış ilişkiler sorumlusu Bassma Kodmani, Senatör John Kerry, Gary Kasparov, Le Monde CEO’su Erik Izraelewicz, Washington Post Company CEO’su Donald Graham’ın yanı sıra birçok bakan ve çok sayıda uluslararası şirketin CEO’su da yer aldı.
Bilderberg’in resmi sitesinin yayınladığı ‘resmi’ katılımcı listesi şöyle:
| FRA | Castries, Henri de | Chairman and CEO, AXA Group |
| DEU | Ackermann, Josef | Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG |
| GBR | Agius, Marcus | Chairman, Barclays plc |
| USA | Ajami, Fouad | Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| USA | Alexander, Keith B. | Commander, US Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency |
| INT | Almunia, Joaquín | Vice-President – Commissioner for Competition, European Commission |
| USA | Altman, Roger C. | Chairman, Evercore Partners |
| PRT | Amado, Luís | Chairman, Banco Internacional do Funchal (BANIF) |
| NOR | Andresen, Johan H. | Owner and CEO, FERD |
| FIN | Apunen, Matti | Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA |
| TUR | Babacan, Ali | Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs |
| PRT | Balsemão, Francisco Pinto | President and CEO, Impresa; Former Prime Minister |
| FRA | Baverez, Nicolas | Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| FRA | Béchu, Christophe | Senator, and Chairman, General Council of Maine-et-Loire |
| BEL | Belgium, H.R.H. Prince Philippe of | |
| TUR | Berberoğlu, Enis | Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet Newspaper |
| ITA | Bernabè, Franco | Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia |
| GBR | Boles, Nick | Member of Parliament |
| SWE | Bonnier, Jonas | President and CEO, Bonnier AB |
| NOR | Brandtzæg, Svein Richard | President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA |
| AUT | Bronner, Oscar | Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt |
| SWE | Carlsson, Gunilla | Minister for International Development Cooperation |
| CAN | Carney, Mark J. | Governor, Bank of Canada |
| ESP | Cebrián, Juan Luis | CEO, PRISA; Chairman, El País |
| AUT | Cernko, Willibald | CEO, UniCredit Bank Austria AG |
| FRA | Chalendar, Pierre André de | Chairman and CEO, Saint-Gobain |
| DNK | Christiansen, Jeppe | CEO, Maj Invest |
| RUS | Chubais, Anatoly B. | CEO, OJSC RUSNANO |
| CAN | Clark, W. Edmund | Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group |
| GBR | Clarke, Kenneth | Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Justice |
| USA | Collins, Timothy C. | CEO and Senior Managing Director, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC |
| ITA | Conti, Fulvio | CEO and General Manager, Enel S.p.A. |
| USA | Daniels, Jr., Mitchell E. | Governor of Indiana |
| USA | DeMuth, Christopher | Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute |
| USA | Donilon, Thomas E. | National Security Advisor, The White House |
| GBR | Dudley, Robert | Group Chief Executive, BP plc |
| ITA | Elkann, John | Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
| DEU | Enders, Thomas | CEO, Airbus |
| USA | Evans, J. Michael | Vice Chairman, Global Head of Growth Markets, Goldman Sachs & Co. |
| AUT | Faymann, Werner | Federal Chancellor |
| DNK | Federspiel, Ulrik | Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S |
| USA | Ferguson, Niall | Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University |
| GBR | Flint, Douglas J. | Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc |
| CHN | Fu, Ying | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| IRL | Gallagher, Paul | Former Attorney General; Senior Counsel |
| USA | Gephardt, Richard A. | President and CEO, Gephardt Group |
| GRC | Giannitsis, Anastasios | Former Minister of Interior; Professor of Development and International Economics, University of Athens |
| USA | Goolsbee, Austan D. | Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| USA | Graham, Donald E. | Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company |
| ITA | Gruber, Lilli | Journalist – Anchorwoman, La 7 TV |
| INT | Gucht, Karel de | Commissioner for Trade, European Commission |
| NLD | Halberstadt, Victor | Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings |
| USA | Harris, Britt | CIO, Teacher Retirement System of Texas |
| USA | Hoffman, Reid | Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn |
| CHN | Huang, Yiping | Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University |
| USA | Huntsman, Jr., Jon M. | Chairman, Huntsman Cancer Foundation |
| DEU | Ischinger, Wolfgang | Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head Government Relations, Allianz SE |
| RUS | Ivanov, Igor S. | Associate member, Russian Academy of Science; President, Russian International Affairs Council |
| FRA | Izraelewicz, Erik | CEO, Le Monde |
| USA | Jacobs, Kenneth M. | Chairman and CEO, Lazard |
| USA | Johnson, James A. | Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC |
| USA | Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. | Senior Managing Director, Lazard |
| USA | Karp, Alexander | CEO, Palantir Technologies |
| USA | Karsner, Alexander | Executive Chairman, Manifest Energy, Inc |
| FRA | Karvar, Anousheh | Inspector, Inter-ministerial Audit and Evaluation Office for Social, Health, Employment and Labor Policies |
| RUS | Kasparov, Garry | Chairman, United Civil Front (of Russia) |
| GBR | Kerr, John | Independent Member, House of Lords |
| USA | Kerry, John | Senator for Massachusetts |
| TUR | Keyman, E. Fuat | Director, Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University |
| USA | Kissinger, Henry A. | Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. |
| USA | Kleinfeld, Klaus | Chairman and CEO, Alcoa |
| TUR | Koç, Mustafa | Chairman, Koç Holding A.Ş. |
| DEU | Koch, Roland | CEO, Bilfinger Berger SE |
| INT | Kodmani, Bassma | Member of the Executive Bureau and Head of Foreign Affairs, Syrian National Council |
| USA | Kravis, Henry R. | Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
| USA | Kravis, Marie-Josée | Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute |
| INT | Kroes, Neelie | Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda |
| USA | Krupp, Fred | President, Environmental Defense Fund |
| INT | Lamy, Pascal | Director-General, World Trade Organization |
| ITA | Letta, Enrico | Deputy Leader, Democratic Party (PD) |
| ISR | Levite, Ariel E. | Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| USA | Li, Cheng | Director of Research and Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution |
| USA | Lipsky, John | Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University |
| USA | Liveris, Andrew N. | President, Chairman and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company |
| DEU | Löscher, Peter | President and CEO, Siemens AG |
| USA | Lynn, William J. | Chairman and CEO, DRS Technologies, Inc. |
| GBR | Mandelson, Peter | Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel |
| USA | Mathews, Jessica T. | President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| DEN | Mchangama, Jacob | Director of Legal Affairs, Center for Political Studies (CEPOS) |
| CAN | McKenna, Frank | Deputy Chair, TD Bank Group |
| USA | Mehlman, Kenneth B. | Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
| GBR | Micklethwait, John | Editor-in-Chief, The Economist |
| FRA | Montbrial, Thierry de | President, French Institute for International Relations |
| PRT | Moreira da Silva, Jorge | First Vice-President, Partido Social Democrata (PSD) |
| USA | Mundie, Craig J. | Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation |
| DEU | Nass, Matthias | Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit |
| NLD | Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of the | |
| ESP | Nin Génova, Juan María | Deputy Chairman and CEO, Caixabank |
| IRL | Noonan, Michael | Minister for Finance |
| USA | Noonan, Peggy | Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal |
| FIN | Ollila, Jorma | Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc |
| USA | Orszag, Peter R. | Vice Chairman, Citigroup |
| GRC | Papalexopoulos, Dimitri | Managing Director, Titan Cement Co. |
| NLD | Pechtold, Alexander | Parliamentary Leader, Democrats ’66 (D66) |
| USA | Perle, Richard N. | Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
| NLD | Polman, Paul | CEO, Unilever PLC |
| CAN | Prichard, J. Robert S. | Chair, Torys LLP |
| ISR | Rabinovich, Itamar | Global Distinguished Professor, New York University |
| GBR | Rachman, Gideon | Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times |
| USA | Rattner, Steven | Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC |
| CAN | Redford, Alison M. | Premier of Alberta |
| CAN | Reisman, Heather M. | CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. |
| DEU | Reitzle, Wolfgang | CEO & President, Linde AG |
| USA | Rogoff, Kenneth S. | Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| USA | Rose, Charlie | Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose |
| USA | Ross, Dennis B. | Counselor, Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
| POL | Rostowski, Jacek | Minister of Finance |
| USA | Rubin, Robert E. | Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury |
| NLD | Rutte, Mark | Prime Minister |
| ESP | Sáenz de Santamaría Antón, Soraya | Vice President and Minister for the Presidency |
| NLD | Scheffer, Paul | Professor of European Studies, Tilburg University |
| USA | Schmidt, Eric E. | Executive Chairman, Google Inc. |
| AUT | Scholten, Rudolf | Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG |
| FRA | Senard, Jean-Dominique | CEO, Michelin Group |
| USA | Shambaugh, David | Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University |
| INT | Sheeran, Josette | Vice Chairman, World Economic Forum |
| FIN | Siilasmaa, Risto | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nokia Corporation |
| USA | Speyer, Jerry I. | Chairman and Co-CEO, Tishman Speyer |
| CHE | Supino, Pietro | Chairman and Publisher, Tamedia AG |
| IRL | Sutherland, Peter D. | Chairman, Goldman Sachs International |
| USA | Thiel, Peter A. | President, Clarium Capital / Thiel Capital |
| TUR | Timuray, Serpil | CEO, Vodafone Turkey |
| DEU | Trittin, Jürgen | Parliamentary Leader, Alliance 90/The Greens |
| GRC | Tsoukalis, Loukas | President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy |
| FIN | Urpilainen, Jutta | Minister of Finance |
| CHE | Vasella, Daniel L. | Chairman, Novartis AG |
| INT | Vimont, Pierre | Executive Secretary General, European External Action Service |
| GBR | Voser, Peter | CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc |
| SWE | Wallenberg, Jacob | Chairman, Investor AB |
| USA | Warsh, Kevin | Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| GBR | Wolf, Martin H. | Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times |
| USA | Wolfensohn, James D. | Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company |
| CAN | Wright, Nigel S. | Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister |
| USA | Yergin, Daniel | Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates |
| INT | Zoellick, Robert B. | President, The World Bank Group |
| Rapporteurs | ||
| GBR | Bredow, Vendeline von | Business Correspondent, The Economist |
| GBR | Wooldridge, Adrian D. | Foreign Correspondent, The Economist |