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And The World's Most Powerful Person For The Second Year In A Row Is...
When it comes to the second coming of the cold war, things are not looking good for the leader of the "Free World", because for the second year in a row, at least according to Forbes editors, the person whom they have chosen as the world's most powerful in the world...
... is not the lame duck on the left.
Our annual ranking of the World’s 72 Most Powerful People (one for every 100 million people on the planet) is based on voting by a panel of FORBES editors, who consider things like financial resources, scope and use of power, and the number of people they impact. (See full methodology here.)
This is not a lineup of the most influential or an anointing of the new establishment. It is an evaluation of hard power. We insist the people on our list wield the kind of power that shapes and bends the world, and moves people, markets, armies and minds. All of this, of course, is open to debate, and we welcome it. Join the conversation and leave your comments below.
This year’s list features 17 heads of state who run nations with a combined GDP of some $48 trillion. The 39 CEOs and chairs here control over $3.6 trillion in annual revenues. Among them are 14 founders, including the newcomer billionaires to the list, Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Tencent’s Ma Huateng. Speaking of, this year’s class has 29 billionaires with a cumulative personal net worth valued in excess of $790 billion.
Below is the full list of Forbes' Most Powerful People in the World 2014:
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Putin for President in 2016! We need a man with balls!
We've already got the NSA.....we don't need the KGB.
Phil Roberts with Dr. Carson VP. We're not ready for another black president yet.
It takes special preparations to get a Black president?
I thought the US citizens voted for the best candidate irrespective for the colour of their skin.
I thought the US citizens voted for the best candidate irrespective for the colour of their skin.
You really are pretty fucking stupid then, aren't you?
Yes, I am a stupid who is fucking pretty and there are loads of men who would rather be in my shoes.
Stupid AND delusional... your typical American.
Right now about a dozen banksters and MIC execs are chuckling about this list of puppets, and how the sheeple believe they have any power. Thanks to the media this myth continues and the sheeple remain as gullible as ever.
Yes, the districts in Philly who voted 100% for the Black President, didn't notice his skin color. Sadam and Kim Jung never got O's numbers.
You're a tool. Go back to MSNBC.
At least the KGB has style.
a) KGB was abolished in 1991......time enough for you to buy a new book
b) the Russian equivalent of NSA is called SORM part of the FSB
So in conclusion:
1) KGB changed their name to FSB. Just pen it over on your book.
2) The Russian equivalent of the NSA is a KGB office in Lubyanka HQ. But it is NOT the KGB.
Real balls would be for a man who had centralized authoritarian power and decentralized and liberalized that power.
Fat chance of any balls in this crop of leaders.
Cannot up arrow you enough for that one...
You decentralize the power and then the J Mafia clique steps in grabs that decentralized power and you end up like the USA. A clown of a democracy whose strings are pulled by J Mafia dons.
It would be pretty tough to find anybody to put on that list.
Maybe Jimmy Carter, huh?
"Real balls would be for a man who had centralized authoritarian power and decentralized and liberalized that power."
Sure. And what would he get? Law of the jungle, mafias, banksters, packs of hyenas against packs of jackals, just like in good ole' America where everyone and their dog wants a bigger piece of the same cake. And down the country would go.
"Insanity: repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
(Albert Einstein)
you are 1 dumb fuck.
Its what happens when a country decides to piss away its leadership role. All hale O
I feel like a Yankees fan rooting for Boston.
Where is Soros Zbig and Kissinger on that list?...oh yeah, nevermind..
as usual, the US provides effectively half of the top ten...
Considering the US spends as much on defense as the rest of the world combined, that's a fair ratio.
Balls are fragile thing just a squeeze and you be paralyze! We need someone with vajaja who can take some pounding!!
Btw wtf is odumbass doing at #2? He should be at the bottom of the list!!
That's where the kevlar codpiece comes in. Don't leave home without it!
Cameron has about as much power as my farts.
You can push a piano back two feet?
You can upset the steerage of satellites?
Think I'd put ol'lameduck down at the bottom of the pile since he just had his wings clipped.
Not to mention the tail feathers that took one hell of a buzz cut.
Redistribute their power. Replace them with open source software.
Forbes... thanks you for relaying their prop...
Some folks at Forbes better watch out for rogue malfunctioning nail guns.
I wonder if Malcolm Forbes would have approved of this list? Obama for sure. Malcolm got motorcycles allowed on the Garden State Parkway so he really knew the meaning of Power.
How about the Q LizzY?
Giving final ego massage to Putin, before the rug is pulled from under his feet.
Checks and balances my friend. You think he would let that happen? He check mates everyone with a boomerang and a fat grin first.
You know all that by reading about it in the media? The same media which you think is deceitful?
Dont hold your breath for him, hes part of the System.
I thought the same thing.
Hitler was twice Times Man of the Year and well, we know how that ended.
Even Ghaddafi was giving seminars in Italy and walking down corridors of power in the West with the leaders, and we also know how that ended?
Yep, never cross a western central banker and try making decisions of your own.
7 billion people on this planet and they put David Cockroach at number 10? It's like deja vu all over again.
Emmanuel Goldstein?
Red Shield is obviously not on that accurate list.
That's the real list they aren't allowed to publish. This is the hollywood list for all the sheeple...
Try telling that to orgasmic Putiniks. lol
If David Cameron is the 10th most powerful person in the world then I'm Shirley Temple.
Dance Shirley , dance.
I thought it would be Kim Kardashian.
I thought it would be Valerie Jarrett.
Bros before hoes!
Where's Optimus Prime?
Taken down by Samaritan.
Very deep background, hush hush stuff. Don't pass it on.
Not really. The most powerful person in the United States is unseen, unheard, and invisible to 7 billion people.
In a faux democratic republic, the men and women who are most powerful can not reveal themselves to any but the front men.
TheBamster can't take a piss without the REAL power telling him it's o.k.
This list is just another, 'trashcan on fire, down the block from the bank'.
Interesting blog by Charles Hugh Smith points out that even with the Republicans in the Senate, nothing will change with our bungled Middle East policies, or the loss of freedoms and increased spying in America, or the destructive and inequality policies of the Fed. Power indeed!
The big barrier called Putin
... and the suspension of the global economic oligarchy's plans for Russia
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/05/the-big-barrier-called-putin....
Interesting article. Thanks for the link.
Thank you.
Hey Forbes... where are the Rothschilds? Kthnxby
Check out Cameron's wiki. His German tribe family has been working for them for hundreds of years. They finance wars for them. True.
And here I was rooting for Sandra Fluke and Vox.com's editor Ezra Klein.
A girl can dream. lol
Putin is modern Russia's Ronald Reagan. He has balls, is a Christian and he stands firm for Russia's best interests. He does not, nor ever will rubber stamp what Washington wants. This is why he is demonized in the Western press. Furthermore, too much is made of his KGB past. George Bush Sr. was the head of the CIA. Nobody can tell me that the CIA isn't less evil than the KGB, yet Bush's CIA past was rarely mentioned in the media during his presidency. Putin is a real leader not a spineless Chicago political huckster!
I would guess Bush, Clinton, Bush Obama are all See Eye Aye. Clinton goes to Russia during college. Great cover as a skirt chasing hillbilly. Obama goes to pakistan as a youngster and his past is totally sealed?
One reason Putin is hated is because he is a Christian and Russia has been a Christian country for over 1,000 years.
He's also hated because he's pro-family, anti-GMO and against the gay agenda. All New Bolshevik agenda items to destabilize humanity and tighten their clutches on mankind.
Infinite QE, please don't lend more credence to the belief Americans are morons and define "Bolshevik". Thanks.
Then, tell us where, in the history of the USSR, anyone ever saw a pro-GMO, pro LGBT agenda or any of the ultra-liberal policies you Americans call 'left-wing'.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
All that to say, you're more than welcome not to use words you don't know the definition of.
Lea - The definition of the neo Bolsheviks are people like yourself. People who think they know something yet know very little you stupid mofo.
The neo Bolsheviks are the modern Bolsheviks that destroyed Russia for 75 years. Y'know those who have been known in history books as Communists. The Obola admin is full of them, Obola's own "auto" biography was written by a neo Bolsevik (amazes me that Bill Ayers is still alive).
That said to answer your idiotic low brow question regarding pro LGBT in Russia ... Night Snipers, Louna... the whole punk rock scene in Russia is largely lesbian.
So STFU you stupid mofo !
+1 for the CIA mention. I always bring that up when discussions of the Bush's arise. That and the Bin Laden family ties. Great stuff.
No way in hell I can take a 3rd Bush in office. I will take a 2nd and 3rd bush in bed though ! Just as long as one is red and one is blonde.
"The War Against Putin" M.S. King
Obama in 2nd place? What a joke. He doesn't even deserve to make the top 10.
Especially with a Republucan Senate, Obama is lame politically. bStill, he has the power to completely clear a golf course for his personal use - something few people in the world can do.
Wot it's not that fat arsed Kardashian?
These people are powerful in what way? Please define your criteria for this list...........
Confirmation bias.
Heads of organisations which are supposed to be significant in the world.
Thats how Cameron managed to got their.
Please, we won't see the faces of the most powerful people in the world.
^^^^^
Winner Winner chicken dinner!
Well Moochelle the wookie says chicken is good after you done been votin. So vote often.
Psst, I heard Kanye West is number one. He said so. Hey wait, I always thought he was number two.
I question the insight of that list.
#3 should be #2
WTF Cameron doing there.
And here I thought that Biggus Dickus and Incontinentia Buttocks would be one and two. There goes the Roman empire.
Grandma Yellen. World's most powerful Grandma.
No Saudi prince?
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Farage is going to be pissed. (no pun intended)
Putin/Ventura 2016. Delouse ZOG. It's our last chance.
This list consists of the foreground sales personnel who think they are important. If being told what to do and what to say by your hidden bosses makes you the most powerful person. Then society has lost its marbles.
There is a group of people this grand list reports to. That power list will be revealed shortly. Don't be fooled.
An interesting contrast between Mr. Putin and Mr. Obama.
The latter struts and postures arrogantly as if he possesses no power at all, while the former is smooth, calm, collected and confident in the power he wields.
I'm no fan of Mr. Putin but Mr. Obama is clearly outclassed.
10 Avatars of The Royal Scam
Give them nothing.
Shouldn't Obola be off the list after yesterdays election ?
You suckers gave him a 4-year lease on the White House
Putin is on a roll and as time goes by he has continued to rack up more points in Ukraine as the conflict drags on. Things may have quieted down and the eyes of the world have moved to more pressing issues, as Putin is playing the long game by grinding away at the resolve of both bankrupt Kiev and the EU. A recently signed deal for gas supplies to Ukraine only highlights the fact the devil of any agreement is in the details.
The Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said any resumed supplies could be halted again on Jan. 1 if Ukraine doesn’t pay $3.1 billion in debt prepay for future deliveries. It appears this deal is tenuous and the guarantees of it being fulfilled are weak .Don't hold your breath for Putin to back-off or back-down, he has put down his marker and is now playing both Obama and Kerry for fools in a contest that may cost Russia little. If Putin doesn't get his way next week he will next month or next year at the latest. The article below delves into why this conflict won't be over until Putin says its over.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/11/putin-scores-more-points-in-ukraine.html
http://dilbert.com/2014-11-06/
Obama reparing to do Rush Hour 5 with Jackie
A more accurate statement would be the person (Putin) most willing to use force ie: power to do what he wants.
Bi-Polar bullshit that hasn't existed in 25 years.
This recurring proposition, that there is the US on one side, Russia on the other, with most all countries aligned with one or the other is bullshit.
It is totally measurable, totally visible, and anyone who has two eyes to see and ears to hear already knows.
The rest of humanity will know when they pull their heads out of their nationalistic asses and quit letting tv personalities tell them what 'Dear Leader' wants them to think.
The Saudi's (and the Arabs generally) are not on the US pole of a bi-polar world. They are on the Arab pole. They are worried about huge numbers of youths who do not work and have never worked, but only lived on oil-sale subsidies.
Europe doesn't know which way it will lean, but will certainly lean toward Europe's own interests. They lean East, then West, but their feet are (and should be) grounded in Europe.
China likes to pretend many things: Pretend to be capitalists (but keep the oligarch-communists), pretend to be Russia's friend...so long as the gas is cheap and it is too much trouble to take the gas fields, pretend to be the US's friend - or more accurately WalMart's friend. But at the end of the day, China is for China and is only on China's side.
Q: How can people honestly imagine otherwise?
A: They can't imagine anything. They let others do the thinking for them. Anything on US or Russian media Info-Tainment is a perfect example.
The US is on the US's side, generally. But the elite in the US seem to have signed a suicide pact in their hubris and belief in their own invincibility. And they simply believe it is their birthright to be micro-managers of society while being MARKEDLY more incompetent than any set of their predecessors for the last 250 years.
Enough with the bi-polar "US wants to cut Russia to pieces - and everything that heppens in the world is related to that". It is bullshit. Almost nothing is related to that.
A five-year old could see through it immediately.
Adults, apparently, - and especially those in the Pentagon and Kremlin basements - are too "trained" to see anything.
you are right about it being a bipolar world ! DSM-IV-style
The US is on Israel's side. AIPAC made sure of that...
But is Israel on America's side? Reminds me of my wife's marriage vow "what's your is mine....... And what's mine in mine'.
What a great fucking "hit list"!!!!!!
When it comes to the second coming of the cold war, things are not looking good for the leader of the "Free World", because for the second year in a row, at least according to Forbes editors, the person whom they have chosen as the world's most powerful in the world...
...is not the one who currently presides in the White House
Well Jesus H. Christ!
Hats off to the dumbest fuckers on the planet that use to be part of one of the greatest economic engines in all the world because of it's "laws" or "freedoms" whichever works best for you -that put this joker in office twice for doing the opposite of everything he said he would do before his first term!...
In all fairness he certainly didn't do it alone especially with the endorsement and approval of Congress in committing collective treason 3 years ago with the NDAA and prior to that the Patriot Act(s)!
I happen to believe that Putin is the Leader for his Country at the right time and right place in it's history and for the rest of the World as well. But oh how we're certainly making it easy for him in placing that distinction at his feet!
Tyler needs to try harder .. not on the list .. yet
I like politicians the way bad dogs like cats. Having said that I would also say it is may personal observation that Putin is the best politician I have seen in my adult life. As long as he impedes these Rothschild club members I approve of him.
he just gets it
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the cornhole brothers...
Awww, you're just mad that you don't get invited to their group gropes!
Tim Cook just came out from under the Apple tree
The only reason the teleprompter is up there is because he is the head of the military and can start war anytime his heart desires and no one can really stop him as it would be "unpatriotic" to stop a war criminal. Just like Adolf and the Germans, They were the Master Race, remember?
Bill gates? He is just a man with money. There are cartel leaders that scare me a lot more than Gates.
There are a lot who shouldn't be on that list. The list is as phony and USA pandering as the news media.
Don't underestimate Bill Gates. Sum up all the anguish and life force which his Windows products have sucked out of humanity and he is up there will Pol Pot and Charles Manson.
Beside, he is working hard on curbing overpopulation in Sierra Leone, so he is on course to be every bit as evil as Soros...
That China man should have been top for my money.
How many divisions has the Pope?
Pope Francis is hell bent on appeasing those groups who felt most threatened by the -once upon a time- cohesiveness of the Roman Catholic Church, and its "straight and narrow morality: Jews and Communists. You can also identify homosexuals, feminists, and hedonists as groups separate from the main two, if you like.
Is that why he ranked so high?
This is true, and the irony is that the more he appeases the weaker the Church will get. All the 'liberal' religions (CoE, Episcopalians) are disappearing down the plughole while those red in tooth and claw like Islam are strongly growing.
You each PERSONALLY haven't lost a thing because of Obama...quit yer crying...stock market is up.
We lost dignity and liberty.
We lost all that in 2001.
MrT - you PERSONALLY have lost the ability to think critically.... if you PERSONALLY ever had that ability
Where's François Hollande?
Is that some kind of frou frou salad dressing?
Where is TOTUS, that fucker works overtime spewing daily propaganda.
Kim Kardashian
as much as I hate communism, I vote for Putin, as imo Obola is a choom smoking, red diaper baby
Good thing he isn't a communist, then. The Russian communists hate him because he got rid of their national holiday.
Putin does have a lot of power
And I dont think he is powerless in this economic war
He does have weapons and he will use them
He will take back what is lost and more
Obama may be a whimp, but he can also be very cruel
This political setback may expidite what he has planned
I have some reason to believe there will not be another presidential election
That means there will be alot of economic chaos
The predictins you have been tossing around here will probably happen by the end of next year
God is about to turn the tables of the money changers of the world
It won't be pretty
OMG, LOL. The dude is presiding over a corrupt, and dying empire. He can barely project power into the Ukraine. Oil at $70-80 for a year bankrupts him. In two years Europe has alternative gas sources.
Actually, the new LNG terminal in Lithuania provides the most vulnerable Baltic States with a facility that can supply Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia - the three "most Russian hatingest" of all the EU - with a storage that can supply all three for a year at a time.
Of course, if Putin were to cut off the gas to the rest of the EU, how cold would Kaliningrad have to get before they took to the streets, as ALL of their gas goes through Lithuania, an EU country, right now.... not to mention all rail lines for military supplies, consumer goods, EVERYTHING. A TRUE "Achilles Heel."
And Putin knows it... but has no plan or answer for it.
Have you all even been paying attention to the legislation Putinski and his grand ole Duma have been passing?
Russia is becoming extremely dictatorial in its legislative actions less press freedom, more individual restrictions, citizen travel bans and more
Russia will become an isolated failed state unless BRICS and associates don't get punked by U.S and go all in with the new Sino Russo alliance but you know if the U.S falls China might just say fuk the guard dog is gone now we are going to eat all of You!
Putinski is extremely reactionary and is fighting off his back foot he knows one wrong move and its WW3! wether he wants it or not! so for not causing the world to become a fiery hellhole is bout the only thing you can thank him for.
Another debil in the row.
The man and country express character, poise and intelligence. Something long gone in the u.s.and the west in general.
More importantly Mr. Putin is able to recognise a babbling idiot when he is confronted with one which explains Russia's diplomatic successes.
Hm, wonder what Cameron is doing in that list. There is another leader position reserved to him in "the most ridiculous in the world" (the first 100 positions firmly occupied by the limes),
Mr Putin
meet
Mr Obola