Who really runs the world

Hootanany

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

Told ya

Kasabian

Tears for Fears

MugMugs

Can you summarise that please ?

Lots of letters and not so many pretty pictures

Hootanany

Ghandee wrote: »

Forest Gump ran a good bit of it, more than most of us lot probably.

He only ran USA

Where To

Nature.

cml387

The world is run by a fibre optic globe.

The rest was TL;DR but that seems to be the gist of it.

Hootanany

cml387 wrote: »

The world is run by a fibre optic globe.

The rest was TL;DR but that seems to be the gist of it.

Wibble wibble:rolleyes:

Frank Black

I don't know, but he's doing it wrong.

Littlehorny

The Matrix?

RachaelVO

I do, so watch your fcuking mouth, BIATCH!!!

MungBean

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

Stands to reason doesnt it.

Lavezzi

Liberal Irish sheeple don't care because they're still living in their bubble by design. Once that bubble pops, oh they'll care indeed. But it'll be far too late then.

Wake up.

Hootanany

MungBean wrote: »

Stands to reason doesnt it.

Why is it not controlled

MistyCheese

According to Beyonce - girls. But Cindi Lauper thinks that girls just wanna have fun. And if you ask Rihanna she says "Ella, ella, eh, eh, eh eh." Which really just raises more questions.

Hootanany

MistyCheese wrote: »

According to Beyonce - girls. But Cindi Lauper thinks that girls just wanna have fun. And if you ask Rihanna she says "Ella, ella, eh, eh, eh eh." Which really just raises more questions.

On the Sherry again:D

starbelgrade

Lavezzi wrote: »

Liberal Irish sheeple don't care because they're still living in their bubble by design. Once that bubble pops, oh they'll care indeed. But it'll be far too late then.

Wake up.

People on soapboxes really annoy me.

Hootanany

starbelgrade wrote: »

People on soapboxes really annoy me.

Who Michael D

MistyCheese

Hootanany wrote: »

On the Sherry again:D

I'm not familiar with Sherry. I've heard of Shakira. She started yodeling at me.

Jen Pigs Fly

to quote Beyonce ...

GIRLS

Duggy747

Lavezzi wrote: »

Liberal Irish sheeple don't care because they're still living in their bubble by design. Once that bubble pops, oh they'll care indeed. But it'll be far too late then.

Wake up.

Are these the only buzzwords people know these days?

MungBean

Hootanany wrote: »

Why is it not controlled

Cant be I assume. To do so you would have to limit the involvement of certain people or companies in other companies and ventures.

Basically tell banks and such that they cant make any more money, how do you do that? .

Hootanany

MungBean wrote: »

Cant be I assume. To do so you would have to limit the involvement of certain people or companies in other companies and ventures.

Basically tell banks and such that they cant make any more money, how do you do that? .

Tax them more

My name is URL

Sure it's only a hamster wheel. If you're asking 'who runs the world?' then you've already lost control of your own life.

Hootanany

My name is URL wrote: »

Sure it's only a hamster wheel. If you're asking 'who runs the world?' then you've already lost control of your own life.

Did you look at the link

MungBean

Hootanany wrote: »

Tax them more

That wont limit their influence though just slow their growth which isnt a bad thing but it doesnt change anything in regards to the interwoven interests holding a sizeable chunk of the wealth.

Theres only so much you can tax them before they are better off moving elsewhere and that wont redistribute the wealth.

Quiet you

Duggy747 wrote: »

Are these the only buzzwords people know these days?

He spent a couple of hours on Dame street and can now see the worlds sheeple for the neo-con, capilist pigs that they are.

Probably rushed home to get on his mac to spread the word via his vodafone wifi.

My name is URL

Hootanany wrote: »

Did you look at the link

I did.. and I don't think it's a good idea to compare socio-economics to biology. Doing that led to many of the problems the world now faces and have faced in the past.

WoollyRedHat

MistyCheese wrote: »

According to Beyonce - girls. But Cindi Lauper thinks that girls just wanna have fun. And if you ask Rihanna she says "Ella, ella, eh, eh, eh eh." Which really just raises more questions.

You should really type out a critical essay in response to the New Scientist with that as your opening statement, it's a thing of beauty.

Oranage2

Those who control the money, control the world

Firefox11

So when yer man on the telly a few weeks ago said that Goldman Sachs runs the world he was right!!! Well..........they are a bit down the list.

MungBean

My name is URL wrote: »

I did.. and I don't think it's a good idea to compare socio-economics to biology. Doing that led to many of the problems the world now faces and have faced in the past.

What are you talking about ?

Genuine question and no offence meant.

ejmaztec

Oranage2 wrote: »

Those who control the money, control the world

Androids in the credit unions.

Hootanany

IOS is better

Freddie59

Goldman Sachs.

4leto

Oil producers and those who control them, are moving into controlling the world.

Temptamperu

Subterainian lizard run the world... that reminds me i should take my pills :pac:

nice_very

not sure if......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VInRVazoPws&feature=related


or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0





*still cant post youtube links properly, any mods tidy it up for me?

Chuck Stone

Monty Burnz.

The guy who posts here.

He actually runs the world from his basement with a supercomputer.

Jesus Wept

This should answer any questions you have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOuxdRMJME

Bodhisopha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGGbyZzuTg

John Doe1

GOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

LighterGuy

So bankers rule the world?

MistyCheese

John Doe1 wrote: »

GOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

...frey Jones, from the TV magazine show "Rock Bottom."

Rented Mule

Three pages and none has mentioned 'The Jews' ???

charlemont

Good magazine my son reads it.

4leto

No-one controls the world, its one great mess of unpredictable and random events. No-one knows what is going to happen next week never mind next year, but one thing can be assured it will be a surprise.

jamiecoins

in the words of beyonce
who runs the world.... squirells:eek:

Baked.noodle

Corporate financier oligarchs are fighting for control of the world. Such a tragic waste of human potential.

General General

Microbes run the world, we're just their public transport system.

voz es

The majority run the world, it just that we have delegated the decisions to the few , if they misbehave eventually we will let them know about it, always the way.