The 50 most powerful people in the world

Tyr

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There are some that surprised me. Oprah??? Oprah is more powerful than Stevie Harpoon (he's not even on there)?

Where the Bush's (I know, I know, beside the house), Cheney and the rest of the bumbling thugs?

Osama bin Laden is more powerful than the Dalai Lama?

Barack Obama's buddies more powerful than the Pope?
COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE

http://www.newsweek.com/id/176300

The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating..


1: Barack Obama


2: Hu Jintao


3: Nicolas Sarkozy


4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate


7: Gordon Brown


8: Angela Merkel


9: Vladimir Putin


10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud


11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei


12: Kim Jong Il


13-14: The Clintons


15: Timothy Geithner


16: Gen. David Petraeus


17: Sonia Gandhi


18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva


19: Warren Buffett


20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani


21: Nuri al-Maliki


22-23: The Philanthropists


24: Nancy Pelosi


25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan


26: Mike Duke


27: Rahm Emanuel


28: Eric Schmidt


29: Jamie Dimon


30-31: Friends of Barack


32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn


33: Rex Tillerson


34: Steve Jobs


35: John Lasseter


36: Michael Bloomberg


37: Pope Benedict XVI


38: Katsuaki Watanabe


39: Rupert Murdoch


40: Jeff Bezos


41: Shahrukh Khan


42: Osama bin Laden


43: Hassan Nasrallah


44: Dr. Margaret Chan


45: Carlos Slim Helú


46: The Dalai Lama


47: Oprah Winfrey


48: Amr Khaled


49: E. A. Adeboye


50: Jim Rogers
 
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I don't think they classified them as good or bad, just influential. Kim's psychotic but does get his name in the press (more than he should)
 
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They probably could have included Research in Motion (Jim Balsillie-co founder)--- Corporate communication pretty much relied upon the blackberry.
 
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GroundWater

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They include the Clinton's but not the Rockefeller's ,Rothschilds, Warburgs or the Krupp's, hell not even Bill Gates.
 
Tyr

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GroundWater said:
They include the Clinton's but not the Rockefeller's ,Rothschilds, Warburgs or the Krupp's, hell not even Bill Gates.
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It's from Newsweek. Not known to be the most impartial (or for that matter, even factual sometimes) publication in the world. Pretty much up to par with any Washington Post Company publication
 
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Tyr said:
There are some that surprised me. Oprah??? Oprah is more powerful than Stevie Harpoon (he's not even on there)?

Where the Bush's (I know, I know, beside the house), Cheney and the rest of the bumbling thugs?

Osama bin Laden is more powerful than the Dalai Lama?

Barack Obama's buddies more powerful than the Pope?
COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE



The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating..


1: Barack Obama


2: Hu Jintao


3: Nicolas Sarkozy


4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate


7: Gordon Brown


8: Angela Merkel


9: Vladimir Putin


10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud


11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei


12: Kim Jong Il


13-14: The Clintons


15: Timothy Geithner


16: Gen. David Petraeus


17: Sonia Gandhi


18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva


19: Warren Buffett


20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani


21: Nuri al-Maliki


22-23: The Philanthropists


24: Nancy Pelosi


25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan


26: Mike Duke


27: Rahm Emanuel


28: Eric Schmidt


29: Jamie Dimon


30-31: Friends of Barack


32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn


33: Rex Tillerson


34: Steve Jobs


35: John Lasseter


36: Michael Bloomberg


37: Pope Benedict XVI


38: Katsuaki Watanabe


39: Rupert Murdoch


40: Jeff Bezos


41: Shahrukh Khan


42: Osama bin Laden


43: Hassan Nasrallah


44: Dr. Margaret Chan


45: Carlos Slim Helú


46: The Dalai Lama


47: Oprah Winfrey


48: Amr Khaled


49: E. A. Adeboye


50: Jim Rogers
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Interesting- I wouldn't know 80% of them from Adam's off ox.
 
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Tyr said:
There are some that surprised me. Oprah??? Oprah is more powerful than Stevie Harpoon (he's not even on there)?

Where the Bush's (I know, I know, beside the house), Cheney and the rest of the bumbling thugs?

Osama bin Laden is more powerful than the Dalai Lama?

Barack Obama's buddies more powerful than the Pope?
COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE



The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating..
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Osama bin Laden probably isn't even alive, lol

The only thing powerful about Bush is his stench...
 
Tyr

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The list is somewhat suspect. I mean they have Petreaus on there. Wasn't he relegated to counting bullets in a depot somewhere or does he have a "hidden" agenda

 
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50 most powerfull people to the western media maybe... the real people in power are the ones you dont see. Anyone who thinks Obama has any control or say over his presidency is a completely blind.
 
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sensfan said:
50 most powerfull people to the western media maybe... the real people in power are the ones you dont see. Anyone who thinks Obama has any control or say over his presidency is a completely blind.
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Are you referring to the invisible jews that lead up the New World Order?
 
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