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BridgeTheGap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:22 AM
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World Leaders Eat 18-Course Meal While Discussing Solutions To Global Food Crisis
(Jeesh. If this doesn't illustrate the REAL problem, I don't know what does!)

Just two days ago, Gordon Brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat rising prices and a global shortage of provisions.

But yesterday the Prime Minister and other world leaders sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis.

The dinner, and a six-course lunch, at the summit of leading industrialised nations on the island of Hokkaido, included delicacies such as caviar, milkfed lamb, sea urchin and tuna, with champagne and wines flown in from Europe and the U.S.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1032909/Summit-thats-hard-swallow--world-leaders-enjoy-18-course-banquet-discuss-solve-global-food-crisis.html
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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:23 AM
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1. So much for Broon's image...
...as a parsimonious son of the manse.
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Waya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:30 AM
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2. Nice.......
...... parasites...
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:59 AM
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3. Sites like Onion and SatiricalPolitical
are having stiff competition from real news items like this.
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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 11:41 AM
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4. "Let them eat cake!" n.t
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