{"id":5336,"date":"2005-10-03T05:01:52","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2005-10-03T05:01:52","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:01:52","slug":"mandela-wins-bbcs-global-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5336","title":{"rendered":"“Mandela wins BBC’s ‘global election‘“"},"content":{"rendered":"

From BBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government.\n<\/p>\n

\nMore than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game, in which players were invited to choose a team of 11 to run the world from a list of around 100 of the most powerful leaders, thinkers and other high-profile people on the planet.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe second choice was former US President Bill Clinton.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe winning 11 were exclusively male, with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the highest-ranking woman at 13th. Hillary Clinton was the next most popular woman at 16th.\n<\/p>\n

\n[…] Perhaps the biggest surprise was the success of the American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, who came fourth. Another outspoken American, Michael Moore, was 15th.\n<\/p>\n

\nOther placings included Osama bin Laden, at 70th, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who was 49th.<\/p>\n

Serving politicians were generally absent from the winning list. British Prime Minister Tony Blair narrowly missed out, coming 12th.\n<\/p>\n

\nUS President George W Bush was placed 43, ranking below two of his fiercest adversaries on the world stage, Fidel Castro – 36th – and Hugo Chavez, 33rd.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd UN General-Secretary Kofi Annan just made the fantasy world elite in 11th place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[my emphasis]<\/p>\n

\nHere’s how the fantasy world government voted on by BBC readers breaks down:  1) Nelson Mandela 2) Bill Clinton 3) Dalai Lama 4) Noam Chomsky 5) Alan Greenspan 6) Bill Gates 7) Steve Jobs 8) Archbishop Desmond Tutu 9) Richard Branson 10) George Soros 11) Kofi Annan.\n<\/p>\n

\nFascinating.\n<\/p>\n

\nMe, I give this world exactly two months before all that’s left are Gates, Soros, and an army of trained fire ants—all of them fighting over the last of the Clinton thigh meat.\n<\/p>\n

\n(h\/t LGF<\/a>; see also WWR<\/a>)
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From BBC News: Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government. More than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game, in which players were invited to choose a team of 11 to run the world from a list of around 100 of the most powerful leaders, thinkers and other<\/p>\n

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