www.forbes.com/powerful-people/list/

Organization Age
1
Barack Obama
President
United States of America 50

2
Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister
Russia 59

3
Hu Jintao
President
People's Republic of China 68

4
Angela Merkel
Chancellor
Germany 57

5
Bill Gates
Co-Chair
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 56

6
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
King
Saudi Arabia 87

7
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope
Roman Catholic Church 84

8
Ben Bernanke
Chairman of the Federal Reserve
United States of America 57

9
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder
Facebook 27

10
David Cameron
Prime Minister
United Kingdom 45

Looks like a list of the worlds top wankers to me! Do Forbes quantify what the measure of power is? I seriously doubt that anyone on that list could actually demonstrate that they are powerful people in a real world situation in their own right - with perhaps the exception of Putin. They are all very poor specimens of the human race mentally, physically, morally and spiritually. Maybe the value of power is a measure of the puppet masters pulling their strings. In which case Forbes could provide a meaningful list for once and expose the real psychos behind the devastation that effects this planet and its inhabitants..

Frog wrote:
Who exactly are these puppet masters you speak of?

Interesting! I wonder which criteria Forbes used to decide who is "powerful"? Mark Zuckerberg is certainly richer than David Cameron and Facebook has had, I would have thought, a more profound effect on our society than our PM.

It is, on the whole, a rather depressing list - it's a shame that the most powerful people seem to be so heavily involved with money and/or obscenely wealthy themselves. (The love of money is indeed the root of all evil).

I note there's only one woman in the list! We're probably far too sensible to desire world domination!

Mandy

People who don't post on facebook are more powerful than david cameron..mark zuckerberg or is that Higher Ig maybe

G'day RealAmerican.

And Forbes is an authority on who is and who isn't powerful because ... ?

These types of lists are a cock sucking competition. Believe in the premise that those on the list are in any way, shape or form 'more powerful' than any other individual and you've allowed a big greasy cock to be shoved into your mouth. It's a way to make you disempower yourself by believing that another is more powerful than you are and can only be achieved with your agreement.

I AM ALL I AM wrote:
idk, I just posted the list.

Is there a better more accurate list?

Power is always relative.
With 800 million active* users, (Sept 2011 figures), Zuckerberg has a massive reach and probably the largest database of humans, their habits, preferences, movements and life patterns ever compiled, (and certainly the largest ever voluntarily supplied).
Information is power. It would be a mistake to dismiss him imo.

Can he declare war or effect policy decisions?
Not directly, but his information resources can be used to aid those who can.
*FB measures this from users that have logged in during the past 30 days.

RealAmerican wrote:
G'day RealAmerican.

Any other list would simply be another cock sucking competition.

What criteria is used to determine whether it would be "better" or "more accurate" ?

For that matter, what criteria is used to determine who is or isn't "powerful" ?

The real question is, do you believe that those on the list are more "powerful" than you are ?

Personally, I see no one as more or less powerful than I am.

I AM ALL I AM wrote:
Yes I do think some are more powerful meaning influential than others...

"Powerful" is just another way to say influential when speaking on humans.

For instance imagine if Icke was pres­i­dent and had the same size audience as Obama.

The US Army would start fighting reptilians and stop killing terrorist

RealAmerican wrote: Not if Vice President Alex Jones had a say.

feather wrote:
Im trying to Imagine what it would be like when Icke had to address the nation with Jones as the hype man.

What would things be like on Earth if they were in charge?

RealAmerican wrote:
Easy to them. More people would join DIF, and much more people would be banned, and they would continue to say they have no idea waht goes on in THEIR forum.Daisy woudl be able to read more PMs than Nixon then. A cinch!.

Who isn't? The country is run by Asda/Tesco/Sainsburys {insert greedy bastard corporation here} for the most part anyway.