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Any hopes for the G8 summit or its protests?
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One interesting relationship won't change: German leader Gerhard Schroeder, who joined Chirac in opposing the war, has been unable to speak to Bush since November and been told that the president will be too busy to meet separately with him at Evian.
Plus less developed countries have been invited to a conference of the countries that own 90% of the world's wealth.
Plus less developed countries have been invited to a conference of the countries that own 90% of the world's wealth.
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There's a new virus sweeping my homeland and it's acronym is H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.S.Y. Watch out SARS youve got big competition as epidemics go!
Going back to the topic, while I object at mindless violence, cars being burnt and all that, it is important that as many people as possible make it clear that they strongly disagree with the mindless capitalism and globalisation G8 summits often represent.
G8 meetings seem an utterly pointless and isolationist exercise anyway. Unless serious aid packages and environmental agreements are to come out of any of them (and what are the chances of that!), the whole thing appears to be a rich man's wankfest and a platform for business deals and agreements away from the other 240, poorer nations.
I said George Bush holds a grudge. And you asked how many times am I going to say that?
Much commentary has been appearing from both geo-political as well as humanitarian NGO circles that this mentality will become its own downfall when the pressure of unmet global needs and non-existent opportunity reach critical mass.
As Bob Geldoff said on a televised BBC report on the current famine in Ethiopia (paraphrased)... "...don't talk to me about your structural arrangements...just do it!"