# What is the (supposed) hierarchy of the people who run the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 17, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896 "2001-02-17T17:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/1 "2001-02-17T17:34:21Z")
This might sound a little frivolous, but I’ve often wondered about this. You have the CFR, the Bilderbergers (sp?), the Freemasons, the Rockefellers, the UN, etc. Just how is this all supposed to fit together? Who is telling whom what to do? Who is supposed to be the “top” organization? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/2 "2001-02-17T17:38:06Z")
You forgot the big one…the ILLUMINATI! ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/3 "2001-02-17T17:38:19Z")
As Paul Simon wrote in “the Baby in a Bubble” A loose affiliation of millionairs and billionairs. ---
**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/4 "2001-02-17T17:40:31Z")
I am starting to think MS, GE, AT&T, P&G, GM, and th elikes are getting closer to having the last word in any affair by the day ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/5 "2001-02-17T17:57:06Z")
You also forgot the “trilateral commission” Personally, I think it’s the Hanseatic League. They only CLAIM to have disappeared by the fifteenth century … ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/6 "2001-02-17T18:04:59Z")
It’s the Oil Companies. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/7 "2001-02-17T20:59:08Z")
Here’s the basic heirarchy: CECIL | | | ME | | | COCA-COLA, LTD. | | | EVERYBODY ELSE ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/8 "2001-02-17T21:59:23Z")
If you want an “expert” opinion, read _Rule by Secret_ by Jim Marrs. In short, the Bilderbergers and the Rockefellers control all the money in the world. It makes for some interesting reading at least. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/9 "2001-02-17T22:56:41Z")
I thought everyone was blaming the bankers, the media and the Jews. I had a friend who thought the Mormon Church was about to tie up with the Mafia to rule the world. But he also drank a mixture of scotch and root beer, so I never took him too seriously. Having just returned from a family reunion, I’m inclined to say my wife’s family thinks they’re in charge of it all. …and that would explain why it is so messed up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/10 "2001-02-17T23:16:02Z")
Illumanti by SJgames Excellent card game of conspiracies, where various rival grand conspiracies work to accomplish their goals and so you can have the Society of Assains controling the Pentagon who in turn control the Biker Gangs and the Republicans. Also GURPS Illumanti and the Suppressed Transmission books, also publised by SJgames (whose website is [http://www.sjgames.com](http://www.sjgames.com)). Both of these deal a lot with conspiracies, bizare theories and the like. Just flipping through the biblography of the first Supressed Transmission book will give you tons of things to read by crack pots plotting out who controls the world. Personally I think the secret bloodline of shape shifting reptoids, one branch of which is the royal family of England, is the most plausable. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/11 "2001-02-18T00:23:59Z")
Dr. Clayton Forrestor and TV’s Frank. ---
**Author:** ![Philbuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@Philbuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philbuck)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-supposed-hierarchy-of-the-people-who-run-the-world/54896/12 "2001-02-18T02:58:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thedoorsrule1045 \* > \*\*You forgot the big one…the ILLUMINATI! \*\* From what I can tell, the [Illuminati](http://www.io.com/) aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.