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Meet The Extreme Super Rich: A List Of The 80 People Who Own As Much As The World’s Poorest 3.6 Billion
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Before I get into the meat of this post, I want to make it clear that the definition of oligarch, a term I use a lot, does not center solely around money.
Late last year, in the post Inside the Mind of an Oligarch – Sheldon Adelson Proclaims “I Don’t Like Journalism,” I attempted to frame the word oligarch as I use it. I wrote the following:
In a nutshell, while many oligarchs are extremely wealthy (or have access to extreme wealth), not all people with extreme wealth are oligarchs. The term oligarch is reserved for those with extreme wealth who also want to control the political process, policy levers and most other aspects of the lives of the citizenry in a top-down tyrannical and undemocratic manner. They think they know best about pretty much everything, and believe unelected technocrats who share their worldview should be empowered so that they can unilaterally make all of society’s important decisions. The unwashed masses (plebs) in their minds are unnecessary distractions who must to be told what to do. Useless eaters who need to be brainwashed into worshipping the oligarch mindset, or turned into apathetic automatons incapable or unwilling to engage in critical thought. Either outcome is equally acceptable and equally encouraged.
With that out of the way, Five-Thirty-Eight provided the following:
Eighty people hold the same amount of wealth as the world’s 3.6 billion poorest people, according to an analysis just released from Oxfam. The report from the global anti-poverty organization finds that since 2009, the wealth of those 80 richest has doubled in nominal terms — while the wealth of the poorest 50 percent of the world’s population has fallen.
There you have it. The reason the wealth of the richest has doubled since 2009, is because “it’s not a recession, it’s a robbery.” Central bank and government policy has done this, it is no accident.
For more evidence…
Four years earlier, 388 billionaires together held as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent of the world.
Thirty-five of the 80 richest people in the world are U.S. citizens, with combined wealth of $941 billion in 2014. Together in second place are Germany and Russia, with seven mega-rich individuals apiece. The entire list is dominated by one gender, though — 70 of the 80 richest people are men. And 68 of the people on the list are 50 or older.
Oxfam notes that global wealth inequality is increasing while the rich get richer. If trends continue, the organization projects that the richest 1 percent of people will have more wealth than the remaining 99 percent by 2016.
Now here’s the list:
| 1 | Bill Gates | $76 | USA | Tech | |
| 2 | Carlos Slim Helu | $72 | Mexico | Telecom | |
| 3 | Amancio Ortega | $64 | Spain | Retail | |
| 4 | Warren Buffett | $58 | USA | Finance | |
| 5 | Larry Ellison | $48 | USA | Tech | |
| 6 | Charles Koch | $40 | USA | Diversified | |
| 7 | David Koch | $40 | USA | Diversified | |
| 8 | Sheldon Adelson | $38 | USA | Entertainment | |
| 9 | Christy Walton | $37 | USA | Retail | |
| 10 | Jim Walton | $35 | USA | Retail | |
| 11 | Liliane Bettencourt | $35 | France | Product | |
| 12 | Stefan Persson | $34 | Sweden | Retail | |
| 13 | Alice Walton | $34 | USA | Retail | |
| 14 | S. Robson Walton | $34 | USA | Retail | |
| 15 | Bernard Arnault | $34 | France | Luxury | |
| 16 | Michael Bloomberg | $33 | USA | Finance | |
| 17 | Larry Page | $32 | USA | Tech | |
| 18 | Jeff Bezos | $32 | USA | Retail | |
| 19 | Sergey Brin | $32 | USA | Tech | |
| 20 | Li Ka-shing | $31 | Hong Kong | Diversified | |
| 21 | Mark Zuckerberg | $29 | USA | Tech | |
| 22 | Michele Ferrero | $27 | Italy | Food | |
| 23 | Aliko Dangote | $25 | Nigeria | Commodities | |
| 24 | Karl Albrecht | $25 | Germany | Retail | |
| 25 | Carl Icahn | $25 | USA | Finance | |
| 26 | George Soros | $23 | USA | Finance | |
| 27 | David Thomson | $23 | Canada | Media | |
| 28 | Lui Che Woo | $22 | Hong Kong | Entertainment | |
| 29 | Dieter Schwarz | $21 | Germany | Retail | |
| 30 | Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud | $20 | Saudi Arabia | Finance | |
| 31 | Forrest Mars Jr. | $20 | USA | Food | |
| 32 | Jacqueline Mars | $20 | USA | Food | |
| 33 | John Mars | $20 | USA | Food | |
| 34 | Jorge Paulo Lemann | $20 | Brazil | Drinks | |
| 35 | Lee Shau Kee | $20 | Hong Kong | Diversified | |
| 36 | Steve Ballmer | $19 | USA | Tech | |
| 37 | Theo Albrecht Jr. | $19 | Germany | Retail | |
| 38 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | $19 | Italy | Luxury | |
| 39 | Len Blavatnik | $19 | USA | Diversified | |
| 40 | Alisher Usmanov | $19 | Russia | Extractives | |
| 41 | Mukesh Ambani | $19 | India | Extractives | |
| 42 | Masayoshi Son | $18 | Japan | Telecom | |
| 43 | Michael Otto | $18 | Germany | Retail | |
| 44 | Phil Knight | $18 | USA | Retail | |
| 45 | Tadashi Yanai | $18 | Japan | Retail | |
| 46 | Gina Rinehart | $18 | Australia | Extractives | |
| 47 | Mikhail Fridman | $18 | Russia | Extractives | |
| 48 | Michael Dell | $18 | USA | Tech | |
| 49 | Susanne Klatten | $17 | Germany | Cars | |
| 50 | Abigail Johnson | $17 | USA | Finance | |
| 51 | Viktor Vekselberg | $17 | Russia | Metals | |
| 52 | Lakshmi Mittal | $17 | India | Metals | |
| 53 | Vladimir Lisin | $17 | Russia | Transport | |
| 54 | Cheng Yu-tung | $16 | Hong Kong | Diversified | |
| 55 | Joseph Safra | $16 | Brazil | Finance | |
| 56 | Paul Allen | $16 | USA | Tech | |
| 57 | Leonid Mikhelson | $16 | Russia | Extractives | |
| 58 | Anne Cox Chambers | $16 | USA | Media | |
| 59 | Francois Pinault | $16 | France | Retail | |
| 60 | Iris Fontbona | $16 | Chile | Extractives | |
| 61 | Azim Premji | $15 | India | Tech | |
| 62 | Mohammed Al Amoudi | $15 | Saudi Arabia | Extractives | |
| 63 | Gennady Timchenko | $15 | Russia | Extractives | |
| 64 | Wang Jianlin | $15 | China | Real Estate | |
| 65 | Charles Ergen | $15 | USA | Telecom | |
| 66 | Stefan Quandt | $15 | Germany | Cars | |
| 67 | Germán Larrea Mota Velasco | $15 | Mexico | Extractives | |
| 68 | Harold Hamm | $15 | USA | Extractives | |
| 69 | Ray Dalio | $14 | USA | Finance | |
| 70 | Donald Bren | $14 | USA | Real Estate | |
| 71 | Georg Schaeffler | $14 | Germany | Product | |
| 72 | Luis Carlos Sarmiento | $14 | Colombia | Finance | |
| 73 | Ronald Perelman | $14 | USA | Finance | |
| 74 | Laurene Powell Jobs | $14 | USA | Entertainment | |
| 75 | Serge Dassault | $14 | France | Aviation | |
| 76 | John Fredriksen | $14 | Cyprus | Transport | |
| 77 | Vagit Alekperov | $14 | Russia | Extractives | |
| 78 | John Paulson | $14 | USA | Finance | |
| 79 | Rupert Murdoch | $14 | USA | Media | |
| 80 | Ma Huateng | $13 | China | Tech |
I didn’t provide this list to say whether these people are good or bad. I provide it, because whenever 80 people own as much as the poorest 50% of the globe, we sure better know who they are. We should also be cognizant of the disproportionate influence any of them can have on public affairs should they want to.
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Stop with these bullshit rich lists. If a list like this doesn't have names like Rothschild or Rockefeller at the top of it, its worthless propaganda.
The Koch brothers are richer than any one person. I wonder if they are jealous of each other.
Obama is looking out for the middle class and working class. He's a real hero of Middle Class Americans (what are left of them).
Here's a picture of him toasting them:
http://jackbaruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-Tech-Supper.png
<----Where are the Rothschilds?
<----Where are the Rockafellers?
It's not about who's on the list, but who's not...
Indeed..
The mark of success is to have the wealth but avoid that type of list.
Perhaps "staying rich" is what makes them act so special.
"I'll say it again--it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"
3 things struck me about that list:
1) I lol'd seeing Zuckerberg ahead of Soros-stein.
2) American names are getting fewer and fewer from the lists I've seen previously.
3) And yes, no Rothies or Rockies....
And yet my tax rate is higher than all of them...
????
Something for them to think about and ponder the meaning of their lives and actions and their legacies, from Kansas :
"And all your money won't another minute buy"
And then it's dust in the wind for ya
The End of The Article:
If trends continue, the organization projects that the richest 1 percent of people will have more wealth than the remaining 99 percent by 2016.
So, the perfect conditions of making entire populations of slaves…. Contrary to what I was taught that slaves (victims) were supposed to be (only) minorities.
80/7000000000=.0000014%. Yes, the Rothschild's are missing from the list but fuck me? Why has EVERYONE latched on to this "1%" bullshit? So many writers have been sucked into this 1% meme. 1%. Pffft, covers small biz owners and doctors. Not exactly who we need to be taking out.
Also covers retired police chiefs, fire chiefs, and city managers.
Yeah but nobody with a guillotine has your name on a list, which is nice.
We can kill them all....and then the next richest eighty, and then those after that! Sounds a lot like the French revolution. One can't help but wonder how long it takes to run out of someone to blame.
Until the people at the top of the list stop trying to control other human beings. I'd say that's as long as it should take.
That is a major cause of most that ails us.
...Uhmmm who controls the R C Church?
What does Queen of England own?
and
Who owns the Fed?
Don't ask questions peasant. Obey your communist overlords and eat these rich people when you're tired of being poor. Ignore the real poverty peddlers.
so it stands to reason then if this list is incomplete yet this partial list still owns more than half the planet then the real list probably in combination with these clowns own probably close to 90% of the planet???????
Unfuckingbelievable...
Just the other day I was watching a well researched PBS Frontline documentary where the CIA stated Putin was worth $40 billion yet for some reason they left him off this list.
The man gets no respect...
I think I saw that same one. Came off as a bunch of propaganda blaming Putin for everything that happened in Russia after the SU fell apart. I think he's a bad guy but c'mon.
The reason Putin was left off the list is there is no evidence; PBS rumor is not evidence and neither is guessing. I can’t believe that someone on ZH is referencing a PBS “documentary” quoting the CIA. Have we learned nothing about the banker-empire and its media?
Banker financial information travels faster than truth in America. Never mind that the major part of the PBS operation is Zionist.
Maybe you and PBS can "document" why the NY Times also is claiming Vladimir Putin has a “fortune of between $40 billion and $70 billion” but no one can find it.
Forbes Columnist Paul Roderick Gregory made the same claim in March of 2014 but at least admitted Forbes had no proof. At the same time, he directed President Obama to “act and act now!... “ against Russia, because, what the heck, “there is no need to establish Russian violations of international treaties.”
Gregory wrote in his Follow His Money column even though he couldn’t find the trail: “Among these [Russian] kleptocrats, Vladimir Putin could well be the richest, but his wealth is carefully hidden. It is taboo and dangerous even to talk about. Forbes has not been able to estimate his fortune.”
It’s the “kleptocrats” in Russia, the USA and Israel who hate Putin. It’s because Putin has refused to sell Russia out from underneath his people; he has established limits, unlike in the U.S. where the US Congress has sold out Americans’ and America’s sovereignty to the international banking cartel, the Fed.
IOW, claiming Putin’s wealthy but not able to substantiate it. This pretty much summarizes the US media: all claim but unable to establish.
i actually watched it. all of you miss the point. the best propaganda always has an element of truth to it. what amazed me was evidently it is ok for frontline to use 'lone nutter' journalists whose youtube videos are constantly deleted as viable sources. i just kept thinking- i sure wish they'd use a couple of u.s. based youtube journalists to do a special on the bush family crimes (ok ok bush/clinton family crimes) ....
which leads me to my last point, all you guys are squealing rothschilds! the queen! you mean to tell me you don't think that poppy george doesn't think his lineage is gonna be safe livin' above their aquifer in argentina for generations on the loot they've stolen?
Here you go, but it takes a wile to get to the Bush's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
Any and all statements of the CIA are intended to deceive. Which can mean only one thing, they have paid Putin a lot more than that just to give the MIC, CIA, NSA and NATO a reason to scam us.
lol.
These lists are just lists of men who have the highest score in the casino. They're not the house.
The most enlightened post of the day.
+10
How do you know? I've never seen any list of the welath of any of the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, etc. If their data isn't avaliable, isn't it all specualtion?
Have you ever seen the video of the Rothchild's vault? Do you think that's their only one?
I have not seen the video... do you have a link?
The implication is that the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Pope, QEII etc. ARE "the house."
Pfft...billionaires.
Strictly 2nd and 3rd tier ass-and-ring kissers
..bush league illuminati
the Rothschilds & Rockafellers owned the other 50% of the world wealth
I'm 81
You don't look a day over 39 darling...
that's a picture of his girlfriend
Dibs when he kicks the bucket.
Her Girlfriend
Pinch me... I'm dreaming again...
Trillion! Not Billion.
Where do the princes of Saudi Arabia stand in the list ?
And the Russian oligarchs ?
They don't stand, they kneel...
These TOP 80 combined couldn't even lick the boots of the TOP 2.
It's nice to have a franchise on counterfeitting money and a Toucan nose.
They FUCKED up , there's now 428 of them , all billionaires though , including the one with 2 heads.
Where do the princes of Saudi Arabia stand in the list ?
And the Russian oligarchs ?
Abrahmovich is probably off the list as he's spending too much money on Chelsea FC.
Wednesday humor or ZH hacked?
Nice picture of Obama and his friends. The blonde in the foreground is likely to be Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo.
The Walton clan is the richest...
Yeah, the lumber business set them up good. But then John Boy had that awesome acting career, cashed it big. And who can forget Mary Ellen's spread in Playboy? Man, needed a goddamn weed eater to get into that jungle!
Cant be worse than Demi Moore.
That wasn't a bush. It was a hedge.
So Zero hedge = a Brazilian?
The Walmart heirs are worth more than 40% of the rest of ALL Americans.... they make $8 million a DAY from their Walmart holdings. Yet Walmart deliberately keeps as many people as possible on part-time status - without benefits. All the government benefits paid to 'working poor' Walmart employees are DIRECT subsidies to Walmart owners.
Capitalism is fine BUT how about sharing profits with the people working for you? And how about paying your fair share in taxes? The Walton family saved billions in estate taxes and continue to game the system - Alice opened a Fine Art Museum in Bentonville - a nice tax write off for her collection. Want ot 'give back'? Try contributing to the Walmart Foundation or try boosting employee wages. That would really help.
"And how about paying your fair share in taxes? "
everyone's fair share of taxes is zero.
The lowest person on the list has 10 times the wealth of the Koch brothers. MSNBC kills.
Well, if one slays the other, he can always claim that either his god made him do it or that God showed some unjust favoritism to the offerings of the other.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Divide and Conquer !
And the Walton Family has come a long way since John-boy.
"The Koch brothers are richer than any one person."
Did you add up the Walmart bunch? And what about buddies Bill Gates and Buffett, who plans on leaving most of his money to the Gates Foundation? If you combine their wealth, plus the $80+billion in the Gates' Foundation and Foundation Trust, then you are up over $200 billion controlled by these two guys who have similar agendas and designs on reshaping the world.
What!!??
Only ONE Swede!?
Life isn't fair..
But there's only one Canadian..
How come ugly Jack Ma isnt on this list? is this an outdated list?
He might not be human.
That motherfucker moved back to Talos 4, to check up on captain Pike.
Yeah, me too. I thought both of the Albrecht brothers (Aldi) died within the past year or so (unless heirs were listed).
And I also wondered about Putin not being on the list.
Was just going to say the same thing. There are several names that are blatantly missing. The real puppet masters are better at hiding their wealth I guess.
Word to your mother! Going to have to dig deeper to find the "real" oligarchs.
exactly. the real richest aren't even on the list... lets see the real top ten who own same as bottom 7 bil
If we just killed a few billion POOR people, then the average wealth of everyone left would increase substantially.
These lists are important - they serve as a 'no kill' list so we don't mess up the stats.
a side effect of the Black Death in the Middle Ages was an increase in the wealth of the survivors (who inherited from the dead) and a scarcity of labor - driving up wages.....
Re: just kill the poor" everyone left is rich.
Yes, that is the plan, Agenda 21.
Just the list of the ones with an overwhelming narcissistic disorder.
Layered on top of their psychopathy.
Just a list of the MSM whores iow.
That smarmy Saudi Prince for instance, is on Charlie Rose like once a week.
They keep their money in shell trust accounts as stocks. Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kennedy Foundation, etc. They keep it hidden without their names being on it.
Here are a few:
http://www.fundsforngos.org/foundation-funds-for-ngos/worlds-top-ten-wea...
According to this, The Clinton Foundation was worth about 74 Billion awhile back.
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/23/clinton-global-initiative-is-mark...
Why not create an annual event that harnessed the desire of wealthy celebrities to get close to Clinton to advance the aims of his foundation? Thus, in 2005, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) was born.
CGI is not a traditional charity—unlike Clinton’s foundation, it does not dispense money of its own. Instead, it is a series of collaborations with corporations or individuals to solve global problems, anchored by an annual conference that costs $20,000 to attend. In the past eight years, CGI has secured pledges worth $74 billion. (By comparison, the Gates Foundation has given away $28 billion since its inception in 1994.) As conceived by Band, CGI was the perfect vehicle for Clinton. It allowed him to train his intellect on wonky dilemmas—improving China’s power grid, bolstering Mali’s market for locally produced rice. And it placed him at thecenter of a matrix of the ultra-wealthy and the ultra-powerful, the kinds of people Clinton has always taken a special pleasure in surrounding himself with.
More to come.
I agree. Even if you do a search on The Richest.com Eveyln still shows up at $20 billion and should be on this.
http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/men/sir-evely...
It would be very interesting to see a list of the top 10 richest foundations. If one exists!
Lucifer trust and some Jesuit thingy.
And let's not forget the English monarchs and the eurotrash monarchs who make up the black nobility.
There is a Rockefeller on that list.
Yep or Queen of England, or Dutch Royalty etc.
Real power is hidden.
Queenie had her land and properties removed in 1688. They were moved to "The Crown", which became an indpendent position, distinct from the royal family.
That's the "legalese" way of saying, "You can't touch this!" Que MC Hammer pants.
Really?! Is "independent" really an accurate description?
They're all pedophile murdering satanists too..as well as being rich beyond belief
"This may come as a bit of a surprise, as you can browse through Forbes’ extensive rich list and not find a single mention of the name ‘Rothschild’ in their list of the 500 wealthiest people on Earth. This is because the Rothschild’s wealth has been distributed amongst hundreds of heirs throughout the years, and has therefore diluted each individual’s personal fortune. With this being said, it is estimated that the Rothschild Family as a whole still possess in the region of $350 billion USD in assets throughout the world. Bear in mind that this is a low estimation. Due to their great secrecy, the sheer amount of assets they hold, and the scale of their operations, it is difficult to estimate exactly how much the Rothschild Family are worth. Higher estimates have placed it in the region of $1 trillion USD, making them by far the wealthiest family on Earth."
How much does the US owe the Federal Reserve? That debt is an asset to someone right? Who? Them there is your #1.
At the turn of the 20th century the Rothschild clan were seriously estimated to own half of the wealth of the planet. Since then, they have used this wealth to create even more wealth.
You seriously think they only possess $350 billion??! Try at least $350 Trillion!
hey AJ fan - there isn't 350 trillion....
Or the Queen of England....
"Stop with these bullshit rich lists. If a list like this doesn't have names like Rothschild or Rockefeller at the top of it, its worthless propaganda."
I came to make a similar comment. None of the FED/ECB/BIS/IMF founding families [the ones who own everything] are on the list. The Fucked up Old Hag didn't even make the list.
Go figure.
Maybe the list is about individuals and not famlies.
the aldobrandinis, the maximus family?
Thanks, this will be a handy cheat sheet in the days ahead.
This list has been forwarded to Project Mayhem.
totally disgusting the way Bloomerg talking heads kiss "Your Royal Asswipe" Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud's ass
What, no addresses for these piker front men ? How about a phone number so I can cold call them? Maybe pitch them a stock idea ? ;->
Fuck that shit!
I want there daughters' numbers you dope!
yeah, I want to meet Iris Fontbona's daughter.
mmmm,...Chilean girls!
Looks like a tasty menu to me. Broiled, baked, bar-b-qued......I can hardly wait.
They are not people, they are gods. Now bow down peasants!
and not a single one can get an erection without some sort of medical intervention.
So how did Bill Gates make his money from the Fed???
His riches weren't earned by the Fed, rather by regulatory capture and the copyright cartel.
i would think that would be obvious. the fed guarantees that stocks only go up.
He didn't, neither did the Waltons or all the rest marked "retail". The banking mafia aren't on the list.
Lots of good entrepreneurs and businesspeople on this list. Such positives should be in focus rather than the crony negatives, IMO.
WHERE ARE THE ROTHSCHILDS AND ROCKEFELLERS?
Exempt from that list, they are trillionaires.
What is a 'state' secret?
have you hear the one about 3.6 billion poor people who ganged up on 80 rich people and .... and .... and lived happily ever after ?
Should have happened already.
Teevee and iPads, movies and "social" media, plastic food and toxic drink. Y'all lookin to get "entertained"?
if you gave me my choice of bill gates or Fergussan.... I'd choose bill gates. in a heartbeat. microsoft actually produces stuff people use, and that make life nice.
Fergussan just burns down the stuff people worked hard to build. I may not be in the 1% wealth-wise, but I could sure do without 99% of the people on this planet.
So if Bill gates mailed everyone $20, after postage, he'd be about even with the rest of us.
Good point.
so,Where is the Putin? i can't find him, seems he is poor.
so,Where is the Putin? ....
...especially after Western MSM claimed he was worth $70 Billion.
This neverending recession was created in the early 90's by Alan Greenspan, the purpose of which was to end global growth, to stifle demand for crude oil and to continue the redistribution of wealth globally.
Only two jews in the top 10, are you sure this is correct?
That's most impressive, when you do the math:
If you assume there are about 16 million of them in the world, and divide by 8 billion people, you get 0.2% odds for EACH of the 10 that I see in the list. The odds of seeing 10... Wow!
Rich and connected people leave nothing to chance though. Especially if they share other common bonds.
its more than 2 and when you've had 4+ centuries of being "court jews" - private bankers leveraging other people's money, and combine it with hyperethnocentric religion and ethnonepotism [Hollywood is not only run by Jews, more or less, they've kept it that way for 70+ years - diversity for thee but not for them] - you have kinda a head start...
Is this Forbes list? Because "a group of international investors" bought a huge chunk of Forbes and the trillionaire-trust families Rothschilds/Rockafellers/Sassoons get to stay off of the list.
Who's going to be the first Trillionaire? ... and when? (Excluding Zimbabweans)
Gundlach says if the FED raises rates it will be a mistake.
Buffet says he isn't taxed enough.
Sheeple are excited about 2016.
No bankers jailed.
New Rome 2015.
Many of these people actually provide REAL products. Where are the fucking financiers? Where are the ROTHSCHILDS etc.
I CALL BULLSHIT.
I believe two of the Rothchilds in UK are worth and estimate $70 billion alone. They are so secretive and spread out so many ways who knows where they are and they are secret because they probably fear for their lives. I believe both the Rothchilds and the Rockefellers are well into the Trillionaire status and exempt from existance.
I agree with you.
You might know soybeans, but you don’t know the Rothschilds. Be careful using the internet as your data source. It is often about as useful as the National Enquirer. The absurd claims about this family, their wealth and influence, are indicative of a gross naivete. This is no longer the 19th Century.
Time and procreation kills all fortunes (as does commodity price tumbles). The Rothschilds wish they had even a fraction of what the internet claims they have. They are not poor, but not even close to “trillionaires”. Even the most senior members of the family still work for a living, though obviously they do not have to do so. They schlep for HNW individuals to place funds in their bank. Nice houses, to be sure, but not the all-controlling power brokers the Internet Gurus claim. That is pulp fiction, not reality.
The Rockefellers, in turn, are a quantum step down from the Rothschilds. Reality just doesn’t make for good blogging, however. This audience wants more, so it can feed the voracious hate that seems to sustain it. Believe the bogeyman tales if you wish, but it makes you look foolish.
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...except when the bogeyman tales are about Putin, because those are all True Facts®, right Mr. Psaki?
Wok calling the cooking marmit black.
Big ups Chindit13
This is a truer picture of wealth and better, POWER;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688#t=4875
Time and time again, when these billionaires kick the bucket, it's shown that their fortunes were not even a tenth their own.... they were just agents for a far bigger money power that pulled even their strings, and that was the Rothschilds!
Why Putin Will Lose
http://20committee.com/2015/01/28/why-putin-will-lose/
You have a serious case of Putinitis of the visual cortex - you see Putin everywhere. You haven't been to Ukraine recently, have you?
putin envy. it's like penis envy, only worse.
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/distortions-lies-and-omissions-the-new-...
Am I really supposed to care about who is richer than I, or poorer?
Sorry, but I fucking don't. I care about covering my own ass and making sure my ass is covered and safe for as long as it is crapping on this planet, be that with money, PMs, or bullets. If Bill fucking Gates is worth 50 trillion I don't care, and as for those 3.6 billion people who dont have a pot to pee in, if you took all the money from the list above and split it amongst them today, 3.598 billion of those still would not have a pot to pee in tomorrow.
If the bottom 50% had the wealth of these guys they'd be spending it creating jobs, this money just sits in mostly-useless financial instruments offshore.
Exactly!
Honestly I don't care about who has more money than who, though I'm human and have days I too wish I was a billionaire. But you are completely right. This money is sitting in nothing no mans land, if that was given back to all the small business owners / medium business owners things in this world would be different.
Of course a GIANT portion of that rests with the MIC which is a whole other story. Between the MIC and financial institutions this world is fucked.
No one will march on these people, but every one of us could just say no. Dump you money and walk away from the game. Passing Go anymore mean you are just directly going to some type of jail. This game is rigged....in the words of Cartman "fuck you guys I'm going home"
My bet is the bulk of this money is in investments (perhaps thru funds) in companies that are employing people and providing jobs. The bulk of the remainder is in properties. Both of these these have gone up a ton, yes, but it is not like most of it is sitting in bank accounts and mattresses all over the fucking planet.
And I agree with walking away from the game. Fuck buying all their shit. You wanna help the 3.6 billion? Buy from local farmers only, and dont buy mass produced shit. Those fuckers above will go down, and the little people all over the planet will get something, but worrying about the rich assholes above and what they have is a fool's game.
Oh yeah, I don't believe that all that fiat money is hidden in Bill Gates walls.
I think the money is in companies, artifacts, materials, and other things. I would like to know the amounts of lands, animals, and resources these folks own and no one knows about too.
Do the math RR. The 3.6 bil people would only get 515.xx ea. How many jobs can you creat with 500 bucks?
Exactly and with the direction things are going that deflationary process is getting worse. The more wealth is concentrated the less it circulates.
Multi-billionaires are sick in the head.
Not a "class" statement nor jealousy, a statement of fact.
As in, Bill Gates can take his foundation, his common core tm and shove 'em up his ass.
I have never enjoyed people pissing down my neck and telling me its raining...
Why on this very extensive list is the Queem of England, Elizabeth II, not mentioned? And I aint in no mood to either debate or add to this list list of the 'Unseen'.
Dont take the fucking piss out of the sensibilities of those you purport to inform. These 80 are nothing more than minions, and you know that.
A fucking shite, untrue, pile of bollocks article.
;-(
Brenda is US$2.5tn overdrawn, shes waiting for USS John C Stennis to come to town so she can work it off.
Yeah it's a bad list, no "royals", no Gore, very few Chinese, mostly minions and high level face men.
Krieger, you misspelled my name.
Note how much is retail? Now you know why textiles (clothing) can't be allowed to be made in USA or other countries, only 3rd world sweatshop countries.