Top
10 World's Most Powerful Women of 2006
Written and Compiled by Ahreeman X
February 22, 2007
From Forbes
2006 Top 100 Most Powerful Women of the world List
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Female
Power Generators of The World
Angela Merkel and Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Now I am sure
that many would love to see bimbos like Pamela Anderson or Britney
Spears' face on this list, what can I say, "Simple Minds, Simple
Pleasures"! I am sorry folks; this is not the list of "Top
Global Sluts"! This is the list of most powerful and relevant
women in global politics, business, and finance. These are the women
who build the world and control the world. These are my kind of
women. Don't get me wrong, I do not believe in discrimination, yet
I believe in banging "All" including but not limited to:
desperate housewives, homemakers with no education, T&A illiterate
bimbos, and young girl toys! Bimbos, Bimbettes (small size and young
bimbos) are good to bang here or there, but you can't live with
them, you can't steadily date them, and you surely can't take them
to formal receptions or Mom's house! How can you stand them more
than few hours of rough sex? Bimbos are good for few hours of Yah
Bah Youh Bah, here and there, but these power women are the ones
whom you would like to associate with, consort with, have discussions
with, and take them to official banquets and night receptions.
I enjoy the
company of highly sophisticated, highly educated (not only schooled)
and extremely beautiful and sexy powerful career women. Now some
of these ladies on the list are too old for my taste and some do
not make it in the looks department, but hey, whatever that they
lack, I am sure they make it in brains department! As you know I
am an Iranian Redneck, so In other words, back in South we say:
These women ain't no Daisy but I'm their Huckleberry!
You see knowledgeable
powerful career women are my beef. Desperate housewives, homemakers
with no education, T&A bimbos, and young bimbettes simply will
not do! I just love powerful women. Do you know what I mean jellybean?
So without further due, let's dig in, shall we?

Tough
Choice between the Giants!
Who would you choose?
Angie or Condy?
Say Cheese?
Smile Girls!
Top 10 of Top
100:
Top
Power Women of 2006

1. Angela Merkel
Germany - Chancellor
Tired of battling disgruntled government officials and voters, former
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder called for early elections last
year. Big mistake. It bounced him out of his position and brought
pro-market Merkel, the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
party, to power. The first female chancellor in Germany's history,
and the first woman to lead Germany since it became a nation-state
in 1871, Merkel is a favorite of German business. From humble beginnings
as a Lutheran pastor's daughter in Hamburg, she graduated with a
doctorate of physics from the University of Leipzig. Unassuming
and diplomatically astute, Merkel was later named secretary-general
of the Christian Democratic Union, Germany's largest conservative
political party, after the Kohl government fell in 1998. Along with
her pro-free-market reform agenda, Merkel advocates a strong German-American
relationship, evidenced by her support of the proposals to bring
Iran to the nuclear negotiating table. Merkel has been overhauling
the government's health care system and cumbersome corporate tax
policies. She has also put her strict budgetary imprint on the sprawling
European Union budget debates. With her conciliatory powers, Merkel
has managed to maintain impressive approval ratings both home and
abroad.

2. Condoleezza Rice
US - Secretary of State
As his ratings collapse largely due to the progress of the Iraq
war, U.S. President George W. Bush increasingly seeks counsel from
one of his closest advisers, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
51. A pragmatist now quite familiar with the halls of power, Rice
is America's top diplomat and has demonstrated growing influence
over U.S. foreign policy in Bush's second term, defending Bush's
policies around the globe. A foreign policy realist who favors face-to-face
negotiations, Rice made a surprise visit to Beirut in an attempt
to hammer out a cease-fire agreement in the recent fighting in the
Middle East, and she is working to defang Iran and North Korea,
both intent on stepping up their nuclear programs. In fact, Rice
is an inveterate globetrotter, racking up nearly a half million
miles so far this year visiting dozens of countries, including Iraq
and Afghanistan. Rice's message is one of "transformational
democracy," a political philosophy she laid out in a speech
at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in January.
It states that the U.S. will "work with our many partners around
the world to build and sustain democratic, well-governed states
that will respond to the needs of their people." Rice won rave
reviews recently for her piano performance at Asian security talks
in Kuala Lumpur. She has hinted that her next career move may be
in music, rather than a rumored presidential run.

3. Wu Yi
China - Vice Premier
China's resource-starved and fast-paced economy has kept Vice Premier
and Minister of Health Wu Yi busy this year. Among the issues on
her very full plate: Addressing intellectual copyright concerns
and trade imbalances while nurturing new markets. She placated the
European Union when she declared "bilateral trade cooperation
is in the common interests of both sides." To prove the point,
she announced more than $18 billion worth of government contracts,
including an estimated $5 billion order of Boeing aircraft, while
visiting the U.S. in April. A long-time Communist party member,
Wu, 67, also traveled to North Korea on an "official goodwill"
visit, part of the six-party talks to end the nuclear stand-off,
an effort Beijing has been leading as regional dealmaker.

4. Indra Nooyi
US - Chief Executive-Designate, PepsiCola
Few people could handle either the presidential or the chief financial
officer job at a company worth $100 billion. But not only has Nooyi
held both offices since 2001, she was recently hand-picked to become
Pepsi's new chief executive, effective Oct. 1. Nooyi has a string
of career successes that helped her land the corner office at the
food and beverage giant. She was the lead negotiator on Pepsi's
$13.8 billion purchase of Quaker Oats and worked on its acquisition
of Tropicana, as well as the spin-offs of its restaurant and bottling
businesses. Lately, Nooyi has had to contend with a Pepsi Challenge
of another sort-allegations from a research organization in India
that Pepsi soda is laced with pesticides, charges that were also
leveled at Pepsico's rival Coca-Cola. (India's health ministry recently
said it found no evidence to back the claim.) Previously, Nooyi
was an executive at Asea Brown Boveri, Motorola and Boston Consulting
Group. Before emigrating to the U.S. from India in 1978, Nooyi was
a product manager at Johnson & Johnson and Mettur Beardsell,
a textile outfit, in India. Nooyi, who fronted an all-female rock
band in college, is on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York
City.

5. Anne Mulcahy
US - Chairman and Chief Executive, Xerox
One of the few women to run a top publicly traded company, Mulcahy
is a Xerox veteran who started as a sales rep 30 years ago. She
assumed the company's top post in 2002, when she helped pull Xerox
out of a near-fatal slump. Today, Mulcahy battles to reinvigorate
Xerox while fending off competition from Hewlett-Packard, Eastman
Kodak and Dell. Her weapons of choice: consulting services and color
printing, specifically the commercial-strength iGen3 digital printer.
Working at Xerox is a family affair for Mulcahy. Her husband is
a retired Xerox exec, and her older brother now runs its global
services group.

6. Sallie Krawcheck
US - Chief Financial Officer, Citigroup
Having landed one of the most prestigious finance jobs on Wall Street
before her 40th birthday, Krawcheck still manages to be self-effacing.
When asked recently in front of an audience how it feels to be such
a high-profile woman in capitalism's biggest boys' club, Krawcheck
first said she has always been an outsider, and then confessed she
was an awkward teen. The one-time chief of research outfit Sanford
C. Bernstein, Krawcheck became Citigroup's highest-ranking female
after Marjorie Magner left her job as head of Citi's global consumer
business. Krawcheck now has to contend with plateauing revenue growth
and a lethargic stock price. Late last year, she helped oversee
Citi's move to swap its asset management business for Legg Mason's
broker network in a $3.7 billion deal. She's also responsible for
Citi's investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic
planning.

7. Patricia Woertz
US - Chief Executive and President of Archer Daniels Midland Agriculture
It's probably
the shortest retirement in corporate history. A few months after
Woertz retired as executive vice president at Chevron, Archer Daniels
Midland came knocking, offering her the chance to run the $35.9
billion agribusiness giant. On May 1, she replaced G. Allen Andreas,
who is still chairman, and became the first person outside the Andreas
clan to lead the company since 1970. The changes go beyond her last
name and gender. Under Woertz, ADM-a company that processes soybeans,
corn, wheat and cocoa into food-is becoming an alternative energy
play, turning crops into fuel alternatives like ethanol and biodiesel.
Woertz, who is also ADM's president, is drawing on her experience
in the petroleum industry, where she worked until this year, first
at Gulf Oil, then at Chevron when the two companies merged. Outside
ADM, Woertz sits on the board of trustees of University of San Diego
and the board of visitors at her alma mater, Penn State. She has
three children.

8. Anne Lauvergeon
France - Chairman of Areva Nuclear-Engineering Company
Lauvergeon has managed to keep revenue soaring at Areva, the French
nuclear-engineering company, despite its government ownership. Lately,
Lauvergeon argues that nuclear reactors don't emit the nasty greenhouse
gases associated with coal- and gas-fired plants, which churn out
most of the world's electricity. As oil prices soar and power failures
seem to increase at electric utilities, the world is giving nuclear
another look. In terms of sales, Areva is the leading player in
the U.S.'s burgeoning nuclear power sector. Once it gets a license
from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Areva could soon install
the first new nuclear reactors on U.S. soil in 30 years, thanks
to a recently signed deal with Baltimore-based Constellation Energy.
A former aide to the late socialist President Francois Mitterrand,
Lauvergeon once held jobs at Lazard Freres and Alcatel. She now
is expanding Areva's reach globally.

9. Brenda Barnes
US - Chairman and Chief Executive, Sara Lee
Barnes took over the helm of struggling Sara Lee in February 2005
and immediately announced major overhauls aimed at making the company
a more focused branded food maker. That meant unloading businesses
that accounted for up to 40% of sales, including Sara Lee's European
nuts, snacks and apparel businesses. Hanes, Champion and Playtex,
all Sara Lee units, will soon spin off into a new publicly traded
outfit called Hanesbrands. Folksy ads-Jimmy Dean sausage, for example-have
been modernized. But Sara Lee investors are still waiting for Barnes'
efforts to pay off. The stock is off 25% since she became chief
executive. Barnes, 52, spent 22 years at PepsiCo. She left in 1998
to spend more time with her family, and she has since been the most
oft-cited example in the business press of a woman who exited the
corporate suite, then returned only to regain executive power.

10. Zoe Cruz
US - Co-President, Morgan Stanley
Co-president with Robert Scully since early 2006, Cruz survived
the Morgan Stanley power struggle that saw the ouster of Philip
Purcell and the arrival of John Mack as chief executive in 2005.
In her corner: the profitable bonds, commodities and currencies
businesses. A 24-year veteran of the firm, Cruz now oversees the
institutional securities business, investment banking and retail
brokerage operations after running one of the largest trading desks
on Wall Street from 2000 to 2005. Sitting on more than $60 million
in restricted stock and over $5 million in stock options that will
vest within three years, Cruz has solidified her position as a powerhouse
on Wall Street. She joined the firm in 1982 in the investment banking
division, becoming a managing director in 1990. Cruz served as co-head
of Morgan Stanley's foreign exchange department from 1993 to 2000.
Now let's take
a look at some interesting characters ranked below Top 10:
Other
Power Women

12. Melinda Gates
US - Co-Founder, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Co-founder and director of a foundation with more assets than the
GDP of over 100 nations, Gates, 42, has devoted her energies since
the foundation's founding in 1994 to targeting the world's three
biggest killer diseases-AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria-among other
scourges. The foundation has bankrolled scores of causes, giving
grants to groups for health and disease eradication, as well as
those that fight to eliminate human sex trafficking, improve education
and groups that champion microfinancing. The foundation's roughly
$30 billion endowment is set to double in size in the coming years,
thanks to billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who plans to donate
$30 billion of his fortune to the Gates Foundation. Melinda Gates
was named by Time magazine as one of its three Persons of the Year
in 2005, along with U2 front man Bono and her husband Bill, who
recently made headlines with his decision to quit Microsoft to do
more charity work. She is focusing on African and Asian sub-continent
countries. She serves on the boards of Drugstore.com and The Washington
Post Company.

13. Sonia Gandhi
India - President, National Congress Party
Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of India's most powerful political
party, the Indian National Congress, has traveled far since she
tentatively entered India's political maelstrom in the 1990s. The
daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi, she won a general election victory
in May 2004 but then took a pass on the prime minister job, giving
it to pro-business Manmohan Singh. Though critics used the move
to call into question her power, Gandhi is still widely revered,
especially among the country's poor millions. Gandhi heads the left-leaning
party of Jawaharlal Nehru. She frequently expresses concern that
India's astounding economic growth is leaving the poor behind, and
that her country is not doing enough to help its farmers. After
July's bombings in the Mumbai train system killed nearly 200, Gandhi
flew in to visit the injured in local hospitals. Her mother-in-law,
Indira, served as prime minister before being assassinated by her
bodyguards in 1984. Sonia Gandhi's husband, Rajiv, took the prime
minister's post following his mother's death, and was killed himself
by Tamil Tiger rebels in 1991. After Rajiv's death, Sonia became
reclusive, but she later returned to public life ready to serve.

15. Anne Sweeney
US - Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks
The gentle, self-effacing Sweeney, who is also president of the
Disney-ABC Television Group, oversees a powerful array of some of
the most important media properties on the planet. Sweeney is responsible
for ABC, the Touchstone TV studio, Disney Channel, Toon Disney,
Soapnet and ABC Family. The company has scored big successes with
shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost. Prior to Disney, Sweeney
had successful careers at Nickelodeon and FX, where she oversaw
the largest basic-cable launch in history. Disney-ABC desperately
needs that experience, as competition from broadband and wireless
technologies bears down on it, and as the company figures out how
to leverage its content across different platforms. To wit, Disney
struck a deal with Apple last October to sell downloadable television
shows on Apple's iTunes music store.

17. Michelle Bachelet
Chile - President
Bachelet, 54, Chile's first female president (and only the second
woman elected to lead a South American nation) was sworn in last
March. A coterie of Forbes' Most Powerful Women attended the inauguration,
from New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark to U.S. Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice. Bachelet got the star treatment again
when she traveled to the U.S. for a dinner in June, where she met
Forbes' Women's listers Sen. Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Bachelet's path to the top was not easy. Her
father, Air Force Brigadier Gen. Alberto Bachelet Martinez, was
imprisoned for working with former Chilean president Salvador Allende
after Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup in 1973; he later died
in prison. Bachelet herself was arrested and later exiled. She returned
to Chile in 1979 to pursue her medical studies, joining the Health
Ministry as a consultant in 1994. She held various ministerial posts,
including health and defense, before resigning in 2004 to pursue
a formal run for the presidency. She won in a run-off election last
January.

20. Helen Clark
New Zealand - Prime Minister
After an election squeaker last year, Clark kept power only to face
trade imbalance challenges after a long Kiwi boom. A cabinet minister's
resignation in a scandal earlier this year also rocked the boat.
Clark wasn't distracted, though, from continuing to promote trade
ties from China to Chile for one of the world's most globalized
economies. With a 30-year career in the Labor Party, her success
at forging coalitions has made her popular both inside and outside
her party. Under her stewardship, New Zealand has enjoyed a resurgent
economy and low unemployment. Clark continues to encourage New Zealand
businesses to look to markets abroad.

22. Margaret Whitman
US - Chief Executive, President, eBay
Whitman runs eBay, the world's biggest online auctioneer and one
of the biggest Internet success stories. But eBay has hit turbulence
lately. The San Jose, Calif., titan has suffered a brain drain lately;
the president of its PayPal online-payment unit (hailed as Whitman's
successor), its chief operating officer, two senior vice presidents
and a regional manager have all left the company. Ebay also faces
an increasing barrage of questions from Wall Street on how the company
will accelerate sales as it matures and as competing Internet auctioneers
intrude on its turf. To bolster its position, eBay inked a deal
to let Google exclusively display text ads on its auction Web sites
outside the U.S. and to cooperate in finding ways to let consumers
call merchants and advertisers directly. Whitman's company reached
a similar pact with Yahoo! earlier this year. eBay also shelled
out over $1 billion to acquire seven companies. Whitman hopes to
parlay eBay's $2.5 billion stock-and-cash purchase of Skype, the
Internet phone provider, into a major asset. Whitman, who has taken
a pay cut of about 60%, is still one of the wealthiest people on
earth. She serves on the boards of eBay, DreamWorks Animation and
Procter & Gamble.
And that's all
folks. We will see what happens in 2007. See ya this time next year!
I just love them powerful women!
Girls, always
remember that shaking your butts at the Rave will get you so far,
so try developing your brains. If you are looking for role models,
then stop looking in tabloids to seek the gossip about the latest
bimbo in pop music and start looking up to these ladies and see
how they done it!
Dr. X
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