{"id":4201,"date":"2013-06-21T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2013-06-21T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T10:56:26","slug":"25-most-powerful-and-influential-people-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"25 Most Powerful and Influential People on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are the top 25 people who rule our world. So, how many of these global power brokers are you familiar with? \u00a0<\/span>
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  1. Barack Obama<\/span>, USA<\/span> President<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Angela Merkel, German Chancellor <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Vladimir<\/span> Putin, Russia President <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Bill Gates, USA businessman (Microsoft) <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Pop Benedict XVI, Head of Roman Catholic Church <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Ben Bernanke, USA Federal Reserve Chair <\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, Saudi Arabia King <\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Mario Draghi, European Central Bank President <\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Xi Jinping, China General Secretary, Communist Party<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. David Cameron, U.K. Prime Minister <\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Carlos Slim Helu & family, Mexican businessman (America Mobil) <\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Sonia Gandhi, India President <\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Li Keqiang, China Vice Premier <\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Francois Hollande, France President <\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Warren Buffet, USA businessman (investor) <\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Michael Bloomberg, USA Mayor of NY<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Michael<\/span> Duke, USA<\/span> businessman (Wal-Mart) <\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Dilma Rousseff<\/span>, Brazil<\/span> President <\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Manmohan Singh<\/span>, India<\/span> Prime Minister <\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Sergey Brin, USA businessman (Google)<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Larry Page, USA businessman (Google) <\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, Iran Grand Ayatollah<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Rex Tillerson, USA businessman (Exxon Mobil) <\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Prime Minister <\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Jeffrey Immelt, USA businessman (GE) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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    SOURCE:\u00a0 <\/span>See the full list and Forbes commentary @ the Forbes website<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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    Here are the top 25 people who rule our world. So, how many of these global power brokers are you familiar with? \u00a0 Barack Obama, USA President Angela Merkel, German Chancellor Vladimir Putin, Russia President Bill Gates, USA businessman (Microsoft) Pop Benedict XVI, Head of Roman Catholic Church Ben Bernanke, USA Federal Reserve Chair Abdullah…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}