(A legendary ferry on the Edo-Gawa River behind the Taisyakuten Temple, Tokyo)Mr. Kim Jong-il a Superclass? Mr. Obama a 9/11 Terror Conspirator?
SECTION I: The Superclass
The expression “superclass” is very misleading.
Ordinary citizens, workers, consumers, taxpayers, and voters do not like it.
People want to be rich. People want to enjoy a bountiful life. But, they usually do not like to be controlled by malignant richer people. They do not want to wallow in evildoing, joining superrich people with an abnormal character who want to make the poor more suffer just to make themselves richer and more influential in the society.
I do not think those who are named “superclass” below have all such an abnormal character.
I do not think those who are named “superclass” below can exercise their influential power freely and successfully even if they had a dark desire to make the poor more suffer just to make themselves richer and more influential in the society.
I do not think those who are named “superclass” below are smart enough to act like the Devil against ordinary citizens, workers, consumers, taxpayers, and voters in Japan, Europe and Russia, and the U.S. in addition to China, India, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Australia, etc.
But, let’s check those superrich people named “superclass” for some commercial and political purpose.
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Who Is the Superclass?
A global elite now has unprecedented influence over world affairs.
By David Rothkopf | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Apr 7, 2008 | Updated: 3:40 p.m. ET Apr 7, 2008
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However, to give you a few illustrations from that list, here are 10 samples drawn from the roster of today's superclass, prepared exclusively for NEWSWEEK and organized according to location, age, and profession:
By Region…
Asia-Pacific (The source of 33 percent of the superclass)
Fu Chengyu – CNOOC (China)
Kim Jung Il – Leader (North Korea)
William Ding Lei – NetEase (China)
Ho Ching – Temasek (Singapore)
Lakshmi Mittal – Arcelor Mittal (India)
David Yonggi Cho – Yoido Full Gospel Church (South Korea)
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah – Hizbullah (Lebanon)
Sonia Ghandi – National Congress Party (India)
Lou Jiwei – China Investment Corp. (China)
Prince Bandar Bin Sultan – National Security Council (Saudi Arabia)
European Union (28 percent)
Mike Turner – BAE (U.K.)
Josef Ackerman – Deutsche Bank (Germany)
Alexei Miller – Gazprom (Russia)
Pascal Lamy – World Trade Organization (France)
Richard Branson – Virgin Group (U.K.)
Silvio Berlusconi – Former prime minister (Italy)
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe – Nestle (Switzerland)
Josef Joffe – Die Zeit (Germany)
Michele Alliot-Marie – Minister of the Interior (France)
Bob Geldof – Musician (Ireland)
North America (21 percent)
Arnold Schwarzenegger – State of California
Ronald Sugar – Northrop Grumman
Jeffrey Immelt – General Electric
James Dimon – JP Morgan
Robert Zoellick – World Bank
Oprah Winfrey—Television personality, producer
Indra K. Nooyi – PepsiCo
Al Gore – Former vice president, Nobel Prize winner
H. Lee Scott – Wal-Mart
Gen. Mike Mullen – Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Latin America (12 percent)
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – President (Brazil)
Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez – Empresas Polar (Venezuela)
Mario Molina – Nobel Prize winning chemist (Mexico)
Moise Safra – Banco Safra (Brazil)
Carlos Slim Helú – Telmex (Mexico)
Andronico Luksic – Banco de Chile (Chile)
Luis Alberto Moreno – Inter-American Development Bank (Colombia)
Genaro Larrea Mota Velasco – Grupo Mexico SA (Mexico)
Gustavo Cisneros – Cisneros Group (Venezuela)
Shakira – Singer (Colombia)
Africa (5 percent)
Aliko Dangote – Dangote Group (Nigeria)
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – President (Liberia)
Amr Khaled – Muslim preacher (Egypt)
Cardinal Francis Arinze – Roman Catholic Church (Nigeria)
Patrice Motsepe – African Rainbow Minerals (South Africa)
Col. Muammar Kaddafi – Leader (Libya)
Nelson Mandela – Former president (South Africa)
Wangari Maathai – Nobel Prize winner (Kenya)
Amre Moussa – Secretary-General, League of Arab States (Egypt)
Odein Ajumogobia – Minister of State for Petroleum (Nigeria)
By Age…
45 and Younger
Janus Friis, 32 – Cofounder, Skype (Finland)
Hiroshi Mikitani, 43 – Founder, Rakuten (Japan)
Kalanidhi Maran, 44 – Chairman, Sun Network (India)
Andrey Likhachev, 43 – CEO, Lenenergo (Russia)
Mark Zuckerberg, 23 – CEO, Facebook (USA)
Yang Huiyan, 26 – Majority shareholder, Country Garden (China)
Oleg Deripaska, 40 – Chairman, RUSAL (Russia)
Richard Li, 42 – Chairman, PCCW Limited and Pacific Century Group (Hong Kong)
Pierre Omidyar, 39 – Founder, eBay (USA)
Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez, 43 – CEO, Empresas Polar (Venezuela)
46-65
Mukesh Ambani, 50 – Chairman, Reliance Industries (India)
Zhou Xiaochuan, 60 – Governor, People's Bank of China (China)
Vladimir Popovkin, 51 – Commander, Russian military (Russia)
José Manuel Barroso, 52 – President, European Commission (Spain)
Kemal Dervis, 59 – Administrator, UNDP (Turkey)
Steve Case, 50 – Former chairman and CEO, AOL (USA)
Rene Obermann, 45 – CEO, Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Rana Talwar, 60 – Chairman, Sabre Capital Worldwide (India)
Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, 60 – Governor, Bank of Mexico (Mexico)
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, 51 – Chairman, Kingdom Holding (Saudi Arabia)
65 and Older
Osamu Suzuki, 78 – Chairman, Suzuki Motor Corp. (Japan)
Reinhard Mohn, 87 – Stakeholder, Bertelsmann (Germany)
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 84 – SAB Miller (Colombia)
Bernard Ecclestone, 78 – President and CEO, Formula One (UK)
Sheikh Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79 – Emir, Kuwait (Kuwait)
Michael Bloomberg, 66 – Mayor, New York City (USA)
Carlos Slim Helú, 68 – Chairman and CEO, Telmex (Mexico)
Akira Mori, 71 – CEO, Mori Trust (Japan)
KP Singh, 76 – CEO, DLF Universal Limited (India)
Sumner Redstone, 84 – Owner, CBS Corporation and Viacom (USA)
By Sector…
Political/Military:
George W. Bush
Vladimir Putin
Hu Jintao
Gordon Brown
Angela Merkel
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Nicolas Sarkozy
Ban Ki-Moon
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Sonia Gandhi
Business/Energy:
Jeffrey Immelt – CEO of General Electric
Rex Tillerson – CEO of Exxon Mobil
Ratan Tata – CEO, Tata Group
Ali Al-Naimi – Saudi Arabian oil minister
Tianpu Wang – CEO of Sinopec
Alexei Miller – CEO of Gazprom
Jeroen van der Veer – CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
H. Lee Scott – CEO of Wal-Mart
Indra K. Nooyi – CEO of PepsiCo
Lakshmi Mittal – Chairman and CEO, Arcelor Mittal
Finance:
Zhou Xiaochuan – Governor of People's Bank of China
Ben Bernanke – Head of U.S. Federal Reserve
Jean-Claude Trichet – President of EU Central Bank
Khalifa Mohammad Al-Kindi – Chairman of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Ken Lewis – Chairman, CEO of Bank of America
Stephen Green – CEO of HSBC
Jamie Dimon – Chairman, CEO of JPMorgan Chase
Lloyd Blankfein – CEO of Goldman Sachs Group
John Varley – CEO of Barclays
Baudouin Prot – CEO of BNP Paribas
Media/Academia/Religion/Celebrities/Philanthropy:
Rupert Murdoch – Chairman, CEO of New Corp.
Sheik Al-Thani – Chairman of Al Jazeera
Pope Benedict XVI
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Supreme Leader, Iran
Sergei Brin and Larry Page – Co-founders of Google
Bill Gates – Gates Foundation, Microsoft
Warren Buffet – Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire philanthropist
Jerry Yang – CEO of Yahoo!
Mark Thompson – Director-General of BBC
Tenzin Gyatso – Dalai Llama
http://www.newsweek.com/id/130932/page/1
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I repeat that I do not think those who are named “superclass” above are smart enough to act like the Devil against ordinary citizens, workers, consumers, taxpayers, and voters in Japan, Europe and Russia, and the U.S. in addition to China, India, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Australia, etc.
SECTION II: New Wealth
I suspect that as more and more wealth is being created and produced in other regions than Japan, Europe, and the U.S. nowadays, some quasi-smart guys in certain think tanks, media organizations, academic circles, and intelligent communities, who are financially supported by superrich people, are diffusing such an idea or a conspiracy that the Bilderberg Group and the superclass are now controlling the world so effectively that people must be afraid of them, respect them, stop to attack them, and obey them rather than neglect them.
It is because huge new wealth is now being created, produced, and accumulated in Asia, Latin American, Eastern Europe and Africa.
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January 15, 2008, 3:36 pm
McKinsey: A Shift in Global Financial Power
Increasing liquidity in foreign financial markets is contributing to a shift in global power, especially as foreign investors step in to recapitalize the slumped U.S. economy, according to a global economics report.
Global financial assets rose to $167 trillion in 2006, up from $70.2 trillion a decade ago, before adjusting for inflation, a 137% increase, according to the McKinsey Global Institute’s report on world financial markets. Global nominal gross domestic product climbed to $48.3 trillion from $30.2 trillion in the same period, a 60% increase.
The increase was perpetuated by markets such as China and Russia, which continued to grow and achieve financial depth.…
Emerging markets have rebounded from the financial crises that rocked many of their economies a decade ago. China is the heavyweight, but the group also includes Russia and other rapidly developing nations in Asia, Latin American, Eastern Europe and Africa. Altogether their financial assets grew $5.3 trillion in 2006 in constant exchange rates, or 29%, to a total of $23.6 trillion. That increase accounted for one-quarter of the global growth in financial assets. Since 1990, the total value of financial assets in emerging markets has grown at more than twice the rate of those in developed countries, or 21% and 8% respectively.” –Sara Murray
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/01/15/mckinsey-a-shift-in-global-financial-power/
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Faced with the new phase of global wealth distribution, some conventional superrich people in the U.S. and Europe seem to be concocting a new scheme, leveraging every conspiracy such as the myth of the Bliderberger and the formation of the superclass.
They seem to be doing so to have the elites in the governments in Asia, Latin American, Eastern Europe and Africa to respect them and invest money from new wealth into their business whose headquarters are positioned in New York and London.
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In Japan, traditionally, the most influential group consists of leaders of the most powerful faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, top leaders of the Federation of Economic Organizations, and top bureaucrats of the central government in addition to those in various sectors with a strong tie with the US Government including US CIA at a very high level.
But, it is Japanese voters and consumers that have discretion.
So, if there is such superclass in the world, it would be a long and winding path for them to control Japanese voters.
For example, Mr. Rothkopf named Mr. Kim Jong-il of North Korea as one of the superclass.
(It is tantamount to believing the 9/11 Terror conspiracy theory and regarding all the US Senators as conspirators of the US Government who must have demolished the WTC.)
Indeed, who would listen to Mr. Kim Jong-il in Asia except North Koreans?
All the Asian citizens would take it as a joke to regard Mr. Kim Jong-il of North Korea as superclass.
It is because they all know that Japan is the superclass in Asia and the world.
(It is hot today in Japan. The weather forecast is always right in Japan, especially when a humble Japanese female announcer delivers it. But, as a Sunday night has no interesting TV programs in Japan nowadays, we had better plan non-nonsense business on Sunday, tomorrow, though it must be hot again.)
Rev 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Rev 7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
Rev 7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Rev 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.