Global Elite See below for: Top Dictators 2008 – Parade Magazine (annual list) Financial Elite (current crisis) – www.goldworld.com Newsweek – Top 50 1: Barack Obama 2: Hu Jintao 3: Nicolas Sarkozy President, USA President, China President, France 4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate/central bankers 4. Ben Bernanke 5. Jean-Claude Trichet 6. Masaaki Shirakawa Federal Reserve, USA European Central Bank Bank of Japan 7: Gordon Brown PM, United Kingdom 8: Angela Merkel President, Germany 9: Vladimir Putin Premier, Russia 10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Kin,g Saudi Arabia 11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Ldr., Iran 12: Kim Jong Il President, North Korea 13: Bill Clinton Fmr President, USA 14: Hillary Clinton Fmr Senator (D-NY) Sec. State (designate) 15: Timothy Geithner Treasury Secr. (designate) Fmr NY Fed chief (For info on the expected new powers of the Treasury Secr. see the following link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/176301 16: Gen. David Petraeus Commander/Iraq 17: Sonia Gandhi President,India’s Congress Party (widow-Fmr. PM Rajiv Ghandi) 18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President,Brazil (he has restored Brazil’s economy from deficits to currently $207B in reserves) 19: Warren Buffett Billionaire Member of Washington Post Board Dir. 20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan 21: Nuri al-Maliki PM, Iraq 22-23: Bill and Melinda Gates Billionaire/philanthropists 24: Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Speaker, US House Repr. 25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan President, UAE 26: Mike Duke CEO-designate, Walmart 27: Rahm Emanuel Obama chief of Staff (designate) 28: Eric Schmidt CEO, Google 29: Jamie Dimon CEO, JPMorgan Chase 30: David Axelrod Obama’s Senior advisor (Jewish) Company -ASK Public Strategies Axelrod operates a second business, ASK Public Strategies, that discreetly plots strategy and advertising campaigns for corporate clients to tilt public opinion their way. He and his partners consider virtually everything about ASK to be top secret. BUSINESSWEEK Obama’s Senior advisor Co-chairperson of the Obama-Biden Transition Project 31: Valerie Jarrett 32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Managing Dir., IMF 33: Rex Tillerson CEO, ExxonMobil 34: Steve Jobs CEO/founder of Apple Inc. (currently suffering from pancreatic cancer) 35: John Lasseter 36: Michael Bloomberg 37: Pope Benedict XVI 38: Katsuaki Watanabe 39: Rupert Murdoch 40: Jeff Bezos 41: Shahrukh Khan Chief Creative Officer,Pixar and Disney Mayor, New York City President, Toyota Chairman and CEO, News Corp. CEO, Amazon.com “king of Bollywood”, (moslem) 42: Osama bin Laden 43: Hassan Nasrallah – Ldr. Lebanese Hizbullah (shiite muslim) 44: Dr. Margaret Chan - Director-General, World Health Org. 45: Carlos Slim Helú Mexican (Lebanese descent) Billionaire – world’s 2nd richest 46: The Dalai Lama 47: Oprah Winfrey 48: Amr Khaled Egyptian (Muslim) televangelist Described as the “anti-Bin laden”, advocates dialogue over destruction. 49: E. A. Adeboye Gen. Overseer, RCCG (Pentecostal/Nigeria) Redeemed Christian Church of God Described as “World’s most successful pastor”, 110 countries, 14,000 branches, 5 million mbrs. including approx. 360 each in USA and UK. 50: Jim Rogers CEO of Duke Energy Corp. COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE http://www.newsweek.com/id/176286/page/2 Published Dec 20, 2008 From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009 Democratic Party- Wealthy Activists George Soros Peter Lewis Herb and Marion Sandler Billionaire hedge fund manager Insurance magnate Founders - Golden West Financial (sold to Wachovia) http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_soros_connection_in_the_mi.html Financial Elite – (current crisis) From www.goldworld.com article: “The Architects of Destruction” 12/01/08- Angel Publishing Research Report The following individuals have been connected with the current crisis and/or involved in huge losses and bankruptcies, as outlined in the article: Angelo Mozilo Fmr CEO, Countrywide Financial In 2006-1 in 5 US mortgages financed by Countrywide James Cayne Fmr CEO, Bear Sterns Dick Fuld Fmr CEO Lehman Bros. Erin Callan Fmr. CFO Lehman Bros. Martin Sullivan CEO, AIG (world’s largest insurance company) David Lereah Fmr. Chief Economist NAR Natl Assoc Realtors President, Reecon Advisors Franklin Raines Fmr CEO, Fannie Mae Chuck Prince Fmr CEO, Citigroup Top Dictators - 2008 Alexander Lukashenko Than Shwe Idriss Deby Hu Jintao Raoul Castro Fidel Castro Hosni Mubarak Teodoro Obiang Nguema Belarus Burma (Myanmar). Chad China. Cuba Cuba. Egypt Equatorial Guinea. Isayas Afewerki Eritrea Meles Zenawi Ethiopia Seyed Ali Khamane’i Iran Choummaly Sayasonne Laos Muammar al-Qaddafi Libya Kim Jong-il, North Korea. Pervez Musharraf Pakistan Dmitriy Medvedev Russia President Vladimir Putin Russia Premier King Fahd Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Abdullah Saudi Arabia Omar al-Bashir Sudan King Mswati III Swaziland Bashar al-Assad Syria Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenistan. Islam Karimov Uzbekistan. Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Source”www.parade.com/news/dictators Parade Magazine – annual list