The Story of Power

Power belongs to the person with the most money and the skill to use it for the ownership of more power. Barack Obama is not even close.

What a Joke of an Article this is!
These people are filling their pockets while people are dying of hunger, disease and killled everywhere.
There is no value of human life anymore.
......And not single one of the people listed will get their heads out of their butts to realize it.

A thought provoking article. One could easily add another 500 or 1000 deserving names to the list. I like the notion about the King and the philosopher. Extroverts tend to seek power and are able to move people but often are not good thinkers and are terrible at coming up with solutions to complex problems. Power very often is not awarded by merit but by connections with other people and relentless application of those connections which is why extroverts often become the CEOs and politicians of the world. In the age of televised elections this problem has become more exacerbated as elections are reduced to popularity contests where introverted thinkers who can solve problems need not apply. So is there any wonder why our current legislators have proven completely inept at solving any problems, such as say the financial meltodwn? Why is it then that we seem to have come to depend upon the executive branch to bring about real change to address crises? The answer to that is simple in that the president has a chance to appoint thinkers and philosophers to his cabinet or use them as advisers where as legislators are not able do this to any great extent. A wise person of power picks these kinds of advisers to distribute and wield the power that they have gained. From what I have seen the Obama administration is off to a good start. We all know how much of a disaster the President'Bush's cabinet/advisor picking turned out to be. Going back to my original point about what a negative influence television has been, ask yourself who would have voted for Thomas Jefferson during the television era? IF you don't believe me then you should have seen how many people told me they voted for Bush because he is the guy they would rather have a beer with at a bar. I think the point about the internet and Al Gore is valid. Through the influence of the internet, which I argue is more a medium for introverts than extroverts, more introverted people will have a chace to rise to power again, and I think the end results will be beneficial for all. Arguably the internet trend began with Howard Dean and has been passed along to Gore and Obama. One cannot help but see that Gore and Obama seem to at least have that capacity for deep thinking which the likes of Bill Clinton and president Bush lack and both of their power bases now have deep roots in the internet. With regardsto president Clinton, I think it is obvious that he did a mich better job of surrounding himself with competent advisors.

it's tragic that people reading this article are being kept in the dark about the truly sinister, 85% population reducing, cancer poisoning, child snuff porn sex slave abducting, alien invasion hoaxing, false flag terrorist 911 demolishing, real elite, the new world order. the list is misdirection. if they won't tell you, search the internet. you wont find what you're not looking for.

keywords: illuminati, bilderberg group, 911 truth, false flag terrorism, blue beam, new world order.

... and Brad Pitt ... and Madonna ... and Angolina Jolie ...

This list is a joke. No Rothschild or Rockefeller? How about the IMF? Or any member of the CFR or the Bilderberg group. By no, Oprah Winfrey made the list. I love corporate media, they're just the best.

That list is a joke. No Rothschild or Rockefeller? Obama number 1? How about the IMF as number 1 then go down through the list of CFR and Bilderberg members. Oprah Winfrey? WTF. Wake up people. Wake up please.

I did not see the list; but I do hope that the lady Judge in Las Vegas Nevada, that put O.J. Simpson where he belongs is on it !
Peace on Earth !

Looks like a very thorough investigation - but you forgot Tom Cruise & Britney Spears. And Elmo.

How can you possibly have a list like this without names like Robert Byrd & David Obey ( chairman appropriations committee), Charles Rangel & Max Bachus ( chairman of tax policy), Patrick Leahy & John Conyers ( judiciary chairman), or supreme court. Surely this list is compiled by a guy stuck in a ivory tower too long. Pope Benedict lets be serious people.

Typical left wing media bias, not a real conservative in the top 50 most powerfull people on earth. The Reagan revolution lasted almost 30 years- what did all the conservatives suddenly and mysteriously die? Dream on libs, the moral majority is still here, we just had enough of conservatism for a while, just like when we elected Clinton. We'll get our fill of Barack soon enough...

This article is misleading.

Newsweek had to know better than to name people who at most can only be considered sub-elites.

Angela Merkel Gordon Brown and the Clintons etc. are merely hood ornaments. They're order takers who act as a mask for the true powers who want to remain hidden from view.

The true power elite in the world include but are not limited to: the shareholders of the Federal Reserve banks, the Warburgs, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Queen Beatrice, the Queen of England, the inner circle of the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Carlyle Group, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas, the Morgans, Harrimans, and Carengies.

Go to Google Vidoe and watch The Money Masters to see how some of these banking families ruined the United States
http://tinyurl.com/6scy6b

What about robert byrd and richard obey chairman of appropriations in the house and senate. These men control more money than all of the people on this list combined perhaps.

Nicely written bologna but bologna even so.

My. how you do go on. Power has meant an opportunity to enrich oneself as evidenced by the Clinton spectacle and now the power of the Chicago machine has propelled Obama's climb thru the sleaze of Chicago to find that they have just brought it with them. To the White House. Of course a complicit press, as power hungry as any politician, will giive him the adultaion he demands and carefully overlook the sleaze just like they do with the Clintions.It is kind of the audacity of hope is a sleazy joke. What we have here is the Audacity of Power. For the nextfour years anyway.