| | excess. excess.
times.
ughhhh. seriously G8 ? you've got to be kidding.
"the leaders tucked into truffle soup and crab as they discussed zimbabwe and
aid to africa’s poorest people. the evening feast of 19 separate dishes
included diced fatty flesh of tuna fish and milk-fed lamb with aromatic
herbs. tomorrow, after working up an appetite discussing soaring food
prices, the leaders will enjoy a £200 dinner of giant crab, £50-a-kilogram
langoustine and sweet clover ice cream, prepared by michel bras, a michelin
three-star french chef..."
(more)
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go watch "the girl in the cafe" (2005).
PRIME MINISTER: Perhaps we talk about this later?
GINA: I doubt it. I imagine I'll be thrown out later so it's probably got to
be now. I don't know how much the rest of you ladies know about what's
going on but my friend here tells me that while we are eating a hundred
million children are nearly starving. There's just millions of kids
who'd kill for the amount of food that fat old me left on the side of
my plate, children who are then so weak they'll die if a mosquito bites
them. And so they do die. One every three seconds.
[snaps fingers]
GINA: There they go.
[pauses, snap fingers again]
GINA:
And another one. Anyone who has kids knows that every mother and father
in Africa must love their children as much as they do, and to watch
your kids die, to watch them die and then to die yourself in trying to
protect them, that's not right. And tomorrow eight of the men sitting
'round this table actually have the ability to sort this out by making
a few great decisions. And if they don't, some day someone else will.
And they'll look back on us lot and say - people were actually dying in
their millions unnecessarily, in front of you, on your TV screens. What
were you thinking? You knew what to do to stop it happening and you
didn't do those things. Shame on you. So that's what you have to do
tomorrow. Be great instead of being ashamed. It can't be impossible. It
must be possible.
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