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Putin Chosen As World's Third Most-Admired Person Behind Gates, Obama
After a banner year for the former KGB spy, who first neutralized Prince Bandar, Bibi and John Kerry (not to mention the president of the US), and subsequently reannexed the Ukraine into the Russian sphere of influence now that the second coming of the former USSR is in the works, it should come as no surprise that Russia's Vladimir Putin has been named the third most admired person in the world. Then again when one considers who is ahead of Putin in the Time poll, perhaps this distinction is nothing to write to the NSA about - third spot is located behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates and US President Barack Obama. Indicatively, this also means that Barack Obama is inexplicably still the second most respected person in the world.
The newspaper reported that Putin’s popularity among Russians helped him secure the third place on the list. The poll conducted in 13 countries around the world revealed that the Russian leader earned more admiration than Pope Francis, who came fourth.
The world’s richest man, Gates is the most admired person in China and more highly regarded than China's President Xi Jinping, Obama and Putin, who was named the fourth admired person by the Chinese citizens, according to the poll published Saturday.
In Russia, Gates was chosen as the second most admired person, ahead of famous US actress Angelina Jolie and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, was named the tenth most admired person by Russians.
The YouGov poll surveyed nearly 14,000 people from the UK, France, Germany, Russia, the US, Australia, Pakistan, Indonesia, India, China, Egypt, Nigeria and Brazil.
Putin, 61, was named International Person of the Year by The Times in late December for succeeding in his ambition of bringing Moscow back to the international top table.
Here is the full list of the Top 10 most admired people around the world:
1 Bill Gates; 2 Barack Obama; 3 Vladimir Putin; 4 Pope Francis; 5 Sachin Tendulkar; 6 Xi Jinping; 7 Narendra Modi; 8 Warren Buffett; 9 Amitabh Bachchan; 10 Abdul Kalam.
Oddly nobody from Wall Street made the list (which appears to have been overrun by Indian voters).
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You sure you're reading the right list?
Just because the nigga's half black doesn't mean he's heaven sent.
crash 3 2 1
Well shit- give him another Nobel.....
Where is Snowden?
Gates - Obama - Putin
All goblins, all spirits of satan, all doomed to Hell.
Snowden -
A man of conscience and honor, redemption shall be his.
I'm thinking, Obama is the 2nd most popular person to the readers of that liberal rag, Time mag.
....hardly the WORLD.
#6, Right behind John McAfee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3yTWkN3fI
I flushed something this morning that I admire more than Obummer.
I flush something every day that looks like Bath House Barry.
Double post, please delete.
People are growing tired of this slow progressive nanny shit, they're hungry for a decisive manly man, even if he's an ex kgb sociopath.
Would you settle for an non-ex kgb sociopath? I know a guy...
Mother always lecutured Obama..
Dont be parkin your bike up on a dirty trail. You going ta die o' uh dease don't make me shank ya!
Let's start our own list
I nominate Jim Willie, god dammit.
Tyler Durden.
Makes one hell of a lot more sense than most on that list.
I dunno. Sachin Tendulkar may be an asshole, but he certainly was a great cricketer.
I'll go with Shane Warne instead, merely because he banged Liz Hurley.
Ron Paul, Snowden, Putin, the Luttrell brothers, Breitbart......
Gary Busey
Bender Bender-bending Rodriguez FTW!
They forgot to mention that positions 1 & 2 are taken from the "Laughing Stock" category...
Snowden made tenth, a nice surprise.
are there people who still admire Obama?
"are there people who still admire Obama?"
And you thought, that all idiots already over?
Diebold?
That only applies when we don't like the outcome of an election. Legalizing weed at the ballot for example =democracy, no Diebold involved there. When things like gay marriage get voted down by the general public. Out goes democracy and in comes the constitutional defense.
Great point.
Meanwhile that list really is pretty messed up.
George Bush and Bill Clinton used to make the list. But where's Hillary this year?
This writer needs some basic history education. We are looking at a rebirth of the Russian Empire under the Tsars, not a rebirth of the USSR.
He was actually refering to the late US of A.
That list is total ass.
Sums it up about perfectly.
I think it could be summed up maybe just a LITTLE better than that:
IF that list is accurate, we're all fucked.
I am sure Obama bought of bunch of his votes..like he does on his Facebook likes...all bought and fake
Who gives a shit?
I would like to vote for Vlad for President of the USA, sheep. Do you think whoever shopped Bathhouse Barry's BC could do one for Vlad proving he was born in, say, Brighton Beach, or maybe San Francisco?
Where the fuck do they get this shit? Nobody asked me who I most admired
Cough up a buck you cheap bastard!
It's all bogus. Most of those who admire Obama do not even know who Gates is.
Rigged
Rigged. It's all rigged...i finally understand.
Yes, Neo, now you have taken the Red Pill.
We must fight The Matrix.
Well O does have the FSA backing him, and Gates has the 2 billion Chinese that thank him for the holes in his OS so they can steal every single bit of IP they can get their hands on.
pods
I think he is losing it...if true this is bizarre.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russia-revisits-its-role-in-world-war-i-a-942500.html
A Metaphor for Putin
"Forgive us, Sovereign," it reads on large panels that recently commemorated the 400th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Back in 2008, there was a television broadcast of the film, "Nikolai II: The Stolen Triumph." It brings together leading politicians, clergymen and historians "to show a fair picture of the reign of Czar Nicholas, one of the most successful in our history."
The czar can also be seen as a metaphor for the reigning leader of the Kremlin. Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has praised Putin as the "first ruler since Nicholas Romanov" who came to power legally. And Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Orthodox Church, honored him in November for "preserving Russia as a great power."
Or in other words, the world gives a rat's ass if America is fuckup.
Gates cooperated fully in NSA spying on everyone in this world for decades and is still the most admired man in the world? The world is fucked.
Obama drones children and wedding parties, lied about the Sarin gas attack in Syria to almost start a major war, signed NDAA, and sold out US sovereignty to a foreign power in March 2009. He is traitor to the US and the human race, and he is admired? WTF, the human race is even more screwed.
A secret memo provided by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden to the British Guardian newspaper reveals that the US spy agency is funneling raw intelligence data, including information from intercepted communications of US citizens, to Israeli intelligence.
While insisting that the Israelis operate with deference to the US Constitution and law, the memo adds, “This agreement is not intended to create any legally enforceable rights and shall not be construed to be either an international agreement or a legally binding instrument according to international law.” In other words, in practice ISNU and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad are free to do as they please.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html
I swear you are consistently one of the best sources of pertinent information ever. If you start your own news agency, you'd find plenty of people to back you. I would.
Just doing my share to shine a light on the corruption and cruelty in this world. Luckily, I do not need money (have PhD in Engineering) so I do virtually all my work for free - free of any pressure to alter the facts or bias the truth.
Thank you for your kind words and support. The very fact that you appreciate my posts also makes you a warrior for truth, justice and liberty.
I am drinking to your health and happiness. Cheers.
Who would really admire to be some old rich fucker past his erection prime. I'd much rather admire being a Mark Z, stealing from the masses at a ripe age to plow through the Victoria's Secrect line.
Bro you've got to read the list from the top down not from the dung heap up.
Suprised you didn't write ChairSatan Ben Bernanke was the most loved person in the world.
A list in which tyrants and oligarchs are the "most admired" is a VERY BAD OMEN!
So even with all the shit Obama has thrown out, Putin comes third?
He must be super pissed, that is one shitty year. And to top it all, he's behind the genocidic (if that's a word) Gates.
Fuckin' hell this blows.
This survey is shit. Where's Miley Cyrus for fucks sake.
I call bullshit...Where's Hillary, the next potus? Certainly she is admired by EVERYONE
dup
That is one strange-a@@ list...so much for r-e-s-p-e-c-t...tells me what it means....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0
who the fuck ''admires'' obama?
the guy is a fucking douchebag who is ruining the united states of america, a country in which he was not even born in to begin with.
fuck this guy, the only lists he should be on the top of are
1. biggest douchebags.
2. biggest liars
3. worst presidents of all time.
4.top excuse makers.
"who the fuck ''admires'' obama?"
The FSA. And there's a lot more of them than there are of us.
What would happen if a class action law suit was not only filed against japan's govt and tepco, but also the states, county govts, and US govt for the negligence in reporting the truth about fukushima? Would THAT lawyer be the most admired person in the world?
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/01/11/fukushima-debris-peaks-on-west-c...
http://disasterpastor45.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/shocking-plane-radiation-...
Not really. If it proceeded as other class action lawsuits, they would settle for $100 billion with no admission of wrongdoing. The lawyer would get $50 billion and the masses would receive a check for $23.66 each to cover the pain and suffering of cancer.
Did I miss something? I'm pretty sure Gates is dead. We're now admiring the dead more than Obama? That's oging to drop him into the billions position.
Belay that. It's that other annoying tech nerd, Jobs, who kicked.
On the other hand, I'm more surprised that a pain in the ass like Gates would get any votes.
Gates owns the computers which tabulated the 'votes'.
How in the fuck are any of these dirtbags the most admired people in the world? Gawd people are fricking stupid.
Lots of stupid fucking people in this world.
Putin is a communist pig and can go fuck himself.
With Gates, Obozo, Buffet and the Pope on the list, you are upset about Putin?!
Putin's the only one in the top 5, that actually deserved to be there!
Good thing the bar is set so low. /sarc
This is the shit you get when you pander to the lowest common denominator.
Putin: Strong, honest, to the point LEADER who cares about his country, grew Russia's economy 100% and raised life expectancy by 5 years!
Gates: Weak, dishonest racist who happens to be rich and does not care about the communities which raised him and provided a foundation for his busines.
Obama: Weak not-a-leader, uber racist who does not care about 'his' country and actively discriminates against the majority.
One little, two little, three little fascists...
The World is a ghetto. Jesus still my go to. If it's a flesh being and I don't care who it is. Tough shit if one does not partake.
When people vote Bill Gates as the most admired person in the world and Obama as second, it's time to give up on mankind. We deserve everything we get.
I had no idea Putin could lace em up and play.
Fucking eh. The guy is ok with me. Keeps on impressing with Manlieness.
Go Vlad.
This is regrettable insight into the admirers.
The pole questions were obviously translated using Google Translate.
Tip of the day, WSGI
Putin shouldn't be celebrating until after the Olympics...
Got that right. Long time no see, good to see you post.
I've been watching... Thanks for the shoutout
Putin's popularity inside Russia has deep historical roots. Russians admire and want a strong leader, for obvious reasons. They sit in a bad place, they have been wide open to invasions since the begining of Russian society and nationhood. Only a strong leader has ever been able to secure the borders and peace of their existence. Their Muslim neighbors to the south preyed upon Ukraine and Russia for centuries, till defeated. The Mongols before conquered most all of Russia and they lived as vassels of their over lordship. This carrys through to Hitlers attempt to conquer the western Russian nation and to expunge the Russian people. This last effort failed. Many people do not know that in World War two a Russian person was treated much like the Jews of Russia. The jews were killed first, but an avergae Russian was made a slave, and many millions killed outright. Plans were for their total elimination after the war was won. This is in the Nazi's own economic plans, captured and studied after the war.
Today Putin took over for the Western Puppet Yeltsin who was a drunkard and a fucking fool, it was Yeltsin who used western economic advisors to give away the USSR's assets to a select group of people, many of them of a particular group well know for financial dealings.
Russians want as much democracy as they can get, but only inside the zone of a stable and protected Russian border system. American neo-cons, if you read their writings on Russia, take the view that Russia should be conquered by the west and split up into western run mini nations. They dream of taking the Russian Far East for one.
Vlad is not Jesus and he isn't a liberal democrat, but in an historical sense he is one of Russia's best leaders in centuries, hands down!
gOOD POST, BUT i BELIEVE YOU OVERSTATE hITLER'S plams for both jews and ordinary Russians. I believe he once privatelt said the only education Russians need was to be able count to 25 - but he had no intention of kiling them -nor of killin most Russian jews -though operation barbarosa was clearly designed o kill most local comisars and resisiters -most of whom were jews. Hitler is the gift that keeps on giving for zionists and the ruling elites.
The government documents of Germany's economics ministy contain all the plans for Russia west of the Urals. The destrution of most Russians is in balck and white in the planning documents for the occupation. The debate was how fast to kill the Russians, and how many to keep as slaves. Ukraine faced the same central planning by the economic ministy. I can recommend a book called "The Wages of Destrcution". This is an economic history of the Third Reich using all available government documents.
.....and, he likes chicks, unlike some others we know!
chicks with big russian titties!!
Let's also remember that invading emperor of funny hats who was finally brought to heel at Waterloo, in addition to, as you said: the khans, the muslims, der fuhrer, et al.
We can really ask ourselves why the Russians prefer a certain type of leader?
I'll take Vlad over this tool in the oval office anyday..
Yes
No
Putin has just been put in the cross-hairs as an independent thinker. I'll gamble with betting the folks creating tensions will not live to collect their Government pension allotment. Vote above.
So the most "respected" people in the world are:
1) A globalist minion who pushes vaccines on people regardless if they want them, who got his money through a monopoly that ran most of his early competitors out of business with questional business tactics
2) A warmonger tryrant that is dragging down the entire western world
3) the best of the lot, a KGB strongman.
What, Charles Manson wasn't eligbile for the list? We are so fucked...
Well that is clearly a meaningful poll. 14k people from a whopping 13 countries out of a world of 7+ billion people and supposedly around 200 countries. You can't get more scientific and accurate than that!
In other news, I was just voted the world's most awesome person to have as a friend. The poll was conducted between my 4 closest friends in 3 countries.
Looks like the Pope is going to have to try a little harder next year. What a farce!
Hey, given al this anti-Putin and pro-Obomba propaganda in MSM this is Vlads hattrick.
But Bill Gates? What? Did they ever heard about Windows TM? (soon to be called widows)
this is an outrage putin
putin.
bill gates is a god
obama is a god
these 2 great amerigans have done more for population control greed accumilation of wealth than any commie kgb agent.
we need you useless eaters to die.
if putin wants to get with the rothschild fabian society programme he needs to start upping the body count.
vaccines and depleted uranium are a good place for putin to start
WTF! WHO LISTED THIS SHIT!
LIST FULL OF DOUCHE BAGZ
How to lie with Statistics 101
Sort of like lying with dogs, you get fleas on you?
If Yoda looked at this list, he would say "That is why you fail...."
Hey, Hitler made the cover of Time and look how that worked out.
And where's Corzine?
They loaded the poll with queers and nerds.
The 10% honest votes all went to Vlad.
Uh,
No mention of the people who read Time magazine? There's a 7 word vocabulary jump from people who read comic books.
I read one in the Dr.s office and I couldn't keep from laughing out loud because the writing was so pitiful. By comparison, It made Huff Po bloggers look like literary geniuses.
Wet dream time for the ZH Putin fan-boy club.
They probably don't like that Obama is ahead of him but in the Putin fan-boy club, today is celebration day....
Whenever Obama and Putin are mentioned in the same sentence I feel compelled to post this timeless classic: http://www.tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html
OMG, Bath House is soooo gay.
That is disgusting.
Vlad vs. Reagan would be a better comparison.
http://rolexblog.blogspot.de/2011/01/president-ronald-reagan-rolex.html
Yeh...while there see the Truth about Pussy Riot
Everyone loves KGB brass, billionaire egenicists, and double talking frontmen who are gay as a whistle. What's not to love about that?
How did Corzine place?
Lock the three in a room, turn on the closed circuit, grab the popcorn, and don't blink.
Their severed testicles would be decorating Vlad's belt.