Das sind doch bloß Verschwörungstheorien wie aus dem Bilderbuch

Wenn sich die Bilderbücher ... äh ... -berger treffen, dann ist das doch ein harmloses Kaffeekränzchen honoriger älterer Herrschaften, die halt ein bisserl plaudern wollen ... über frühere Zeiten, und über Gott und die Welt. Nicht erwähnenswert. Wer's doch erwähnt, ist ein Verschwörungstheoretiker.

Harmlose, ältere Herrschaften? Älter ... nun ja: Jugendliche werden in Führungsetagen generell eher selten zu finden sein. Harmlos & honorig ... nun, das sollte angesichts der Teilnehmerliste doch noch hinterfragenswert bleiben:

Bilderberg 2017: Liste der Teilnehmer

Vorsitz:

• Castries, Henri de (FRA), Former Chairman and CEO, AXA; President of Institut Montaigne

Teilnehmer:

• Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
• Adonis, Andrew (GBR), Chair, National Infrastructure Commission
• Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group
• Akyol, Mustafa (TUR), Senior Visiting Fellow, Freedom Project at Wellesley College
• Alstadheim, Kjetil B. (NOR), Political Editor, Dagens Næringsliv
• Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, Evercore
• Arnaut, José Luis (PRT), Managing Partner, CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut
• Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
• Bäte, Oliver (DEU), CEO, Allianz SE
• Baumann, Werner (DEU), Chairman, Bayer AG
• Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
• Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, SIGNA Holding GmbH
• Berner, Anne-Catherine (FIN), Minister of Transport and Communications
• Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
• Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
• Brennan, John O. (USA), Senior Advisor, Kissinger Associates Inc.
• Bsirske, Frank (DEU), Chairman, United Services Union
• Buberl, Thomas (FRA), CEO, AXA
• Bunn, M. Elaine (USA), Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Çakiroglu, Levent (TUR), CEO, Koç Holding A.S.
• Çamlibel, Cansu (TUR), Washington DC Bureau Chief, Hürriyet Newspaper
• Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País
• Clemet, Kristin (NOR), CEO, Civita
• Cohen, David S. (USA), Former Deputy Director, CIA
• Collison, Patrick (USA), CEO, Stripe
• Cotton, Tom (USA), Senator
• Cui, Tiankai (CHN), Ambassador to the US
• Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE
• Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
• Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus SE
• Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S
• Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA
• Ferguson, Niall (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Gianotti, Fabiola (ITA), Director General, CERN
• Gozi, Sandro (ITA), State Secretary for European Affairs
• Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator
• Greenberg, Evan G. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Chubb Group
• Griffin, Kenneth (USA), Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group, LLC
• Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor „Otto e mezzo“, La7 TV
• Guindos, Luis de (ESP), Minister of Economy, Industry and Competiveness
• Haines, Avril D. (USA), Former Deputy National Security Advisor
• Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University
• Hamers, Ralph (NLD), Chairman, ING Group
• Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation
• Hennis-Plasschaert, Jeanine (NLD), Minister of Defence, The Netherlands
• Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investments LLC
• Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock
• Houghton, Nicholas (GBR), Former Chief of Defence
• Ischinger, Wolfgang (INT), Chairman, Munich Security Conference
• Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard
• Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
• Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
• Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies
• Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG
• Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.
• Klatten, Susanne (DEU), Managing Director, SKion GmbH
• Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Former Chairman and CEO, Arconic
• Knot, Klaas H.W. (NLD), President, De Nederlandsche Bank
• Koç, Ömer M. (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
• Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Professor in History and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR
• Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
• Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
• Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Lenglet, François (FRA), Chief Economics Commentator, France 2
• Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
• Liddell, Christopher (USA), Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives
• Lööf, Annie (SWE), Party Leader, Centre Party
• Mathews, Jessica T. (USA), Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• McAuliffe, Terence (USA), Governor of Virginia
• McKay, David I. (CAN), President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada
• McMaster, H.R. (USA), National Security Advisor
• Mexia, António Luís Guerra Nunes (PRT), President, Eurelectric and CEO, EDP Energias de Portugal
• Micklethwait, John (INT), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
• Minton Beddoes, Zanny (INT), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
• Molinari, Maurizio (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, La Stampa
• Monaco, Lisa (USA), Former Homeland Security Officer
• Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance
• Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates
• Murtagh, Gene M. (IRL), CEO, Kingspan Group plc
• Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
• Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
• O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair D.A.C.
• Osborne, George (GBR), Editor, London Evening Standard
• Papahelas, Alexis (GRC), Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper
• Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.
• Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute
• Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister for Higher Education and Science
• Puga, Benoît (FRA), Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor and Chancellor of the National Order of Merit
• Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times
• Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
• Rivera Díaz, Albert (ESP), President, Ciudadanos Party
• Rosén, Johanna (SWE), Professor in Materials Physics, Linköping University
• Ross, Wilbur L. (USA), Secretary of Commerce
• Rubenstein, David M. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
• Rubin, Robert E. (USA), Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Treasury Secretary
• Ruoff, Susanne (CHE), CEO, Swiss Post
• Rutten, Gwendolyn (BEL), Chair, Open VLD
• Sabia, Michael (CAN), CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
• Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
• Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Deputy Assistant to the President, National Security Council
• Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc.
• Schneider-Ammann, Johann N. (CHE), Federal Councillor, Swiss Confederation
• Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), President, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
• Severgnini, Beppe (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, 7-Corriere della Sera
• Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University
• Slat, Boyan (NLD), CEO and Founder, The Ocean Cleanup
• Spahn, Jens (DEU), Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Ministry of Finance
• Stephenson, Randall L. (USA), Chairman and CEO, AT&T
• Stern, Andrew (USA), President Emeritus, SEIU and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project
• Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO
• Summers, Lawrence H. (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
• Tertrais, Bruno (FRA), Deputy Director, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique
• Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital
• Topsøe, Jakob Haldor (DNK), Chairman, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S
• Ülgen, Sinan (TUR), Founding and Partner, Istanbul Economics
• Vance, J.D. (USA), Author and Partner, Mithril
• Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation
• Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chairman, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
• Walter, Amy (USA), Editor, The Cook Political Report
• Weston, Galen G. (CAN), CEO and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd and George Weston Companies
• White, Sharon (GBR), Chief Executive, Ofcom
• Wieseltier, Leon (USA), Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy, The Brookings Institution
• Wolf, Martin H. (INT), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
• Wolfensohn, James D. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn & Company
• Wunsch, Pierre (BEL), Vice-Governor, National Bank of Belgium
• Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Turner International
• Zients, Jeffrey D. (USA), Former Director, National Economic Council
• Zoellick, Robert B. (USA), Non-Executive Chairman, AllianceBernstein L.P.

Da tummelt sich viel Geld, und noch mehr Macht. Von White-Collar-Kriminalität ganz abgesehen. Von menschlich-moralischer Letztklassigkeit wollen wir erst garnicht zu reden anfangen, denn da ist der Pegel erfahrungsgemäß eng zum wirtschaftlichen und politischen Erfolg korreliert.

Nur: bloß Verschwörungstheorie, wenn man das faktisch doch "halbgeheime" Bilderbergertreffen nicht taxfrei als Kaffekränzchen einstuft ... will man uns verkohlen? Die Frage zu stellen heißt ...