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It is not conspiracy theory, are facts: an analysis of relations between multinational corporations around 43,000 made by the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland found that 174 companies (mostly banks) have a disproportionate power over the rest of the world. These 174 projects are considered “super-entity” who control 40% of the world economy. This does not necessarily mean money, but concentration of power (companies that have shares in other companies or that run). They are so interconnected, so intrinsic, that is a destabilizing impact on every other chain.
It has also become alarmed? So, you can now join the movement Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro Occupy finally: Occupy the whole world) to try to change the governance of this powerful 1% on 99% of “other people”. Or simply understand why this movement has become easy matter in social networks in recent weeks.
Get to know the top 10 owners of the world and know who really controls our economy.
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc – USA
It is a U.S. investment bank now part of Bank Of America. It is the largest stock brokerage firm in the world.
9. UBS AG – Switzerland
Swiss financial services company. Acts as a private bank and investment bank and is the second largest private wealth manager in the world (ie the money they take care of billionaires on the planet).
8. Vanguard Group Inc – USA
One of the largest investment funds in the world. It provides immediate funds for private investors or to companies and manages approximately 1.6 trillion dollars. Trillions.
7. Legal & General Group PLC – United Kingdom
Insurance, pension and investment, with operations in the UK, Holland, France, Germany, USA, Egypt, India and UAE.
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co – USA
One of the largest U.S. banking institutions, is a holding company (holding company social), ie it manages business conglomerates. It is considered by Forbes the world’s largest company.
5. State Street Corporation – USA
It is also a holding company. Administers two financial institutions: the bank State Street Bank and Trust Company and investment advisory State Street Global Advisors.
4. AXA – France
Company that acts as both insurer and as investment manager. It is the ninth largest multinational in the world, according to Fortune Global 500.
3. FMR Corporation – USA
Fidelity Investments is (guess?) A financial institution that acts as a fund manager familiar (rich people!) And mutual funds (companies that collect money from several investors to invest).
2. Capital Group Companies Inc – USA
Grouping of several investment management companies. Some of the “small” group members: Bayer (German pharmaceutical and chemical company), Volkswagen (German sports car manufacturer), Telekom Austria Group (Austrian provider of internet and fixed and mobile) and BYD (Chinese manufacturer of cars and rechargeable batteries ).
1. Barclays PLC – United Kingdom

Financial services institution with operations in over 50 countries around the world and more than 48 million customers. Was involved in several controversial episodes, such as apartheid in South Africa and the financing of the government of President Robert Mugabe, in power in Zimbabwe since 1980, and has suffered accusations of money laundering.
In: Interesting|News|brazil
12 May 2011
The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, was illuminated with yellow late on Wednesday for a campaign of the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN) to warn of traffic violence and reduce the number deaths. According to the UN, the yellow light means a warning sign for motorists.Each day, satellite captures the equivalent of 1.5 terabyte of data on the Sun
The U.S. space agency NASA released new images of the Suncaptured by its satellite called Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO,in English).
NASA is working closely with the University of Central Lancashire(UCLan), in Britain, to monitor unprecedented detail the star’s magnetic field and solar corona.
The images have ten times the quality of a high-definitiontelevision. See the gallery.
The UCLan is one of the European centers studying data collectedby the SDO. In Britain, it is the only institute that provides pictureswith studies of the Sun
The telescope is 80 satellite images of the sun every minute,generating the equivalent of 1.5 terabytes of data per day, equivalent to half a million songs downloaded from iTunes.
Besides the scientific interest, the images are also used asinspiration for a work of digital artist Chris Meigh-Andrews, a professor at the same university.
The captured images are being projected on a screen in a Britishcity streets of Preston by the end of this week.
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