Bloomberg 50 – that’s 50 most influential people in the world by the publication, which merit the «applause and recognition.» In the list of «best» may include both politicians and entrepreneurs and more mysterious contenders, for example, Russian bots. We selected 50 outstanding individuals 8 who most caught our attention.
Nikki Haley
The U.S. permanent representative to the UN
Nikki Haley became the youngest Governor of the United States, having worked in this position for 6 years. After 99 votes, the Senate appointed the permanent U.S. representative to the UN. 11 Sep Haley pushed the draft resolution on toughening sanctions against North Korea, which was only a week. This step has restricted oil imports to the DPRK, and banned the export of textiles, depriving Pyongyang of 90% of its export earnings.
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Some of the statements Haley became even more rigid, than allow himself the President of the trump. For example, she condemned the «aggressive actions» of Russia in Ukraine and Syria in a very cruel manner, and even compared the RF interference in the elections of the United States with military action.
«When a country can interfere in elections in another country is a military action. This is true, because you are trying to undermine democracy, substituting the will of the people by spreading false information,» said Haley.
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski
The senators of Maine and Alaska
Murkowski and Collins are the only representatives of the Republican party, which voted against each alternative, which was offered in the Senate to replace the Law on affordable care Obama, known as Obamacare.
In July, after they faced enormous pressure from leaders of the Republican party, conservative groups and the administration of trump, they have teamed up with Arizona Senator John McCain voting with the Democrats against the bill the majority leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell.
Robert Mueller
Special Prosecutor, U.S. Department of justice
Robert Mueller – FBI Director under Bush Jr. and Obama, who in may 2017 was appointed special Prosecutor for the investigation of Russian interference in presidential elections in 2016.
It keeps under the hood of many people from the Suite of the trump, and even made some of them charges.
The most recent high-profile case was the prosecution of the most senior ally of the tramp – his former national security adviser Michael Flynn in making false statements to the FBI.
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About a dozen people who are under the control of müller, can be involved in helping Russia to manipulate the elections in the United States, money laundering and tax evasion.
In the end, the conclusions of the Muller can be devastating not only for the Empire, trump’s worth at $ 2.9 billion, but also, given the possibility of impeachment of the President.
Jeff Bezos
CEO AMAZON.COM INC
June 16, within hours after purchase Betcom supermarket chain Whole Foods, such major retailers as Wal-Mart, Costco, Target, Kroger lost a total of $ 30 billion.
While Amazon shares immediately rose by slightly more than 3.5% to $997,67. And after the last Black Friday the most profitable day of the year – Amazon income has increased so much that Bezos became the richest man in the world with a fortune of 100.3 billion dollars, sliding bill gates.
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In addition to his creation, Bezos is working on other projects such as private space tourism (Blue Origin), the Washington Post, and he once even starred in the film «star trek: Infinity» in the role of an alien.
Jerry Brown
The Governor Of California
Jerry brown – Governor of California, who replaced Arnold Schwarzenegger in office. But most of all, brown is known for his selfless fight against climate change.
Brown said the decision to trump to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement «insane step.» But even this decision of the President did not stop brown in front of his goal.
79-year-old Governor met with President of China XI Jinpingto discuss carbon emissions and alternative energy, and represented the United States at a UN conference on global warming.
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While California does not cease to demonstrate better results in economic growth and implementing more effective laws to combat emissions than any other state, proving the words of brown that business and environment go hand in hand.
Elon Musk
TESLA CEO INC. and SpaceX
Engineer, inventor, businessman, billionaire and philanthropist. In the ranking of the richest people according to Forbes his fortune is estimated at $10.7 billion
Recently, Musk made another splash presenting the car of the future – the world’s first electric van Tesla Semi supercar the Tesla Roadster.
Moreover, in December SpaceX, his rocket company, plans to demonstrate to the world its latest design – the carrier rocket of heavy class Falcon Heavy, which will have a large capacity.
This launch will be another step to the dream Mask –flight to Mars in 2022.
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Acne Buterin
Inventor, co-founder of print magazine Bitcoin Magazine
Acne Buterin 23 – year-old young entrepreneur who was born in Russia, but in childhood he moved with his parents to Canada.
In 2013 Buterin created a new cryptocurrency called Ethereum.
It has become the second largest after kritovoulos bitcoin with a market capitalization of almost $ 45 billion.
In 2017 Buterin got in several prestigious rankings. Fortune has included his name in the top 10 of «the 40 most influential young people under 40 years» in 2017. And Forbes gave place in the ranking 600 of the brightest people up to 30 years.
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Russian bots
In late October, the lawyer of Facebook Inc. reported to Congress that about 126 million Americans-about one-third of the population could become victims of Russian propaganda on Facebook until the elections of 2016.
The Russian agents were paid 100 thousand dollars for more than 3 thousands of ads to Facebook and Instagram to promote pages.
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