"Summits like G8, G20 bring no earth-shaking results"
Published: 08 July, 2009, 20:27
TAGS: G8, Meeting, Russia, Politics, USA
There are rarely any earth-shattering decisions that come out of summits like G8 or G20, said Chuck Hagel, chairman of the Atlantic Council of the US, but identifying the most pressing issues is nonetheless important.
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Those G-8, G-20 and summits of all kinds are just a waste of money and energy as well as the making of thousands of tonnes of CO2. Well educated, respectfull and very intelligent scientists from the CERN (near Geneva) use Video-conferences, Internet and all modern communication tools to resolve on the five continents, tremendeous problems in a minimum of time. Why could the politicians do the same and cease those stupid planetary, diplomatic furbery'shows which lead to nothing concret. They are the shame of mankind and psychologically show a very bad example to the weacker members of their societies. Who will have the courage to stop that insanity ! Sorry Future Generations ! Best Regards. Jean-Claude Meslin
After performing at the London G-20, the Normandy's beaches, the NATO summit, the Moscow meeting, the Cairo-visit, the greatest show on Earth is in Africa. A few minutes ago I saw an admirable remark from one of the best TV "collabo" on the planet (France-Televisions) concerning the power of communication. It is evident that with Sarkozy as president; after seeing how he deals with medias-critics, journalists are scared. In France, we were told that only one person in that italian G-8 had a global vision. He is the most qualified to solve the planetary financial crisis. According to one of our notorious media, our president is the World third most powerful man; just behind the USA and China's presidents. Personally, such statements make me laugh. Concerning my own country, I find them pathetic, because when riding certain medias (between the lines) I discover that France public debt has reached 1500 billions € ( If you add the private debts and lies: way above 2000). Since we have that cynical president that debt has grown twice faster... I expose the french situation but it does not seem to be much different in the other seven members of that G-8. Yesterday, I have read a comment on Al-Jazeera TV from a lady resident economist called: Laughing all the way to the banks. She explained that instead of 15 great major banks, the pretended democracies have now, only 6 which are back at exactly the same business' manners as before (irregulated credits and huge salaries and stocks-options for the boss). They just play games with the taxs-payers'money and run to an other crash. If I manage to discover how bad and crooked the western decision-makers are, I suppose that russian, chinese and many other leaders know it. Why don't they say anythig and why do they keep on going to those useless summits. As I said, many times before, the whole planetary governance is wrong. It needs changes. Sorry Future Generations. Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin