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11-11-2009, 11:58 PM
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#1 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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| The World's Most Powerful People 2009
I think Hu Jintao should be #1 on the list. 1. Barack Obama  Quote:
How powerful is he? Let's count the ways:
* Presides over world's largest, most innovative, most dynamic economy.
* Commander-in-chief of planet's richest, deadliest military.
* Finger on button of nuclear arsenal containing more than 5,000 warheads.
* Head-of-state of world's sole superpower.
* His Democrats have majorities in both U.S. House and Senate.
* Recently awarded Nobel Peace Prize, apparently for general awesomeness.
| 2. Hu Jintao  Quote:
* Paramount political leader of more people than anyone else on the planet; 1.3 billion Chinese, some 70% in their prime working years of ages 15 to 64 powering world's low-cost workshop, transforming nation.
* Biggest buyer of U.S. debt avoided Chinese meltdown during financial crisis with massive stimulus package to encourage domestic spending.
* "Coming-out party" at 2008 Beijing Olympic Games showcased young, modern, harmonious society; reality often quite different — few political, religious, press freedoms; brutal suppression of Tibet; refusal to acknowledge Taiwanese independence.
* Still, credible estimates have China poised to overtake U.S. as world's largest economy in 25 years — although, crucially, not on a per-capita basis.
| 3. Vladimir Putin  Quote:
* Prime Minister might as well be known as Czar, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russians.
* Vastly more powerful than his handpicked head-of-state, President Dmitry Medvedev.
* Presides over one-ninth of Earth's land area, vast energy and mineral resources.
* Former KGB officer unafraid to wield his power; invading Georgia, cutting off natural gas supplies to Ukraine or Western Europe (again).
* Declared nuclear power has veto on U.N.'s Security Council.
* "I'm deeply convinced that constant change is not for the better."
| 4. Ben S. Bernanke  Quote:
* Former chairman of Princeton's economics department and noted Great Depression scholar now guiding world's largest economy through Great Recession; has overseen massive growth in Fed's balance sheet, from less than $900 billion in liabilities in August 2008 to more than $2.1 trillion today.
* With federal funds rate now effectively 0%, the so-called Bernanke Doctrine calls for using monetary policy to stave off deflation.
* "The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost."
| 5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page  Quote:
* If knowledge is power, maybe information is too. Brainy duo met in Stanford computer science Ph.D. program, now trying to put all the world's information at your fingertips.
* Known for collecting best and brightest young tech talent at Mountain View, Calif., "Googleplex"; employees encouraged to spend one day a week on personal projects; company often named "Best Place To Work" in America.
* Google guys' combined net worth of $30.6 billion would place them third on the Forbes 400.
* Yet despite professed intentions to "do no evil," Google is blamed in some quarters for decimating traditional publishing, journalism. Brin: "Some say Google is God, others say Google is Satan."
| The rest here; http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work...eer-leadership | 
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11-12-2009, 12:20 AM
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#2 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Kim Jong Ill is @ 24. lol ahead for UK PM - wtf. so i guess the list takes into account people who Blackmail thr way onto the world stage.
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11-12-2009, 01:19 AM
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#3 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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Originally Posted by Jah Gekko  5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page | was totally not expecting that...and agree that Hu JinTao should be #1
or at least shared #1...(gotta admit that a black man as prez of US and A is super sweet  )
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11-12-2009, 01:27 AM
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#4 | | Unofficial Tin Foil Hat Specialist.
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Hu Jin Tao is just the face of China, that's it. Same goes for many others.  | |
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11-12-2009, 01:42 AM
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#5 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Hu Jin Tao was associated with the US Debt?? Holy crap...BALLER!!!!
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11-12-2009, 10:19 AM
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#6 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Recently awarded Nobel Peace Prize, apparently for general awesomeness.
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11-12-2009, 09:43 PM
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#7 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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I don't agree with Hu Jintao being #2, America is 10,000 billion dollars in debt and China holds most of it.
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11-12-2009, 09:52 PM
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#8 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Putin is great
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11-12-2009, 09:52 PM
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#9 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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I'm glad they acknowledged China's "coming out party" as being complete and utter bullshit.
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11-12-2009, 11:42 PM
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#10 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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welcome to the real world buddy^
only in your utopian land can every single person live beyond their means like we do in north america
but lets all point fingers while we're sitting at the top
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11-13-2009, 01:47 AM
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#11 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer Putin is great | Werd.  | |
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11-13-2009, 02:34 AM
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#12 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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I BOW TO NO ONE
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11-13-2009, 02:40 AM
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#13 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by 6chr0nic4 welcome to the real world buddy^
only in your utopian land can every single person live beyond their means like we do in north america
but lets all point fingers while we're sitting at the top | You are so fucking clueless, I don't even know what to do... My god man...
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11-13-2009, 03:13 AM
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#14 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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lol I agree with what you said. just don't see eye to eye thats all
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11-13-2009, 06:06 AM
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#15 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by 6chr0nic4 lol I agree with what you said. just don't see eye to eye thats all | I don't think you can even comprehend what was being said. You are talking about living beyond one's means, which has absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about...
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11-13-2009, 07:35 AM
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#16 | | ESKETIT
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good read
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