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"World’s top leaders meet under pressure to help Africa" is the headline.  That’s when the crazy talk started.

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso set the tone for the meeting by proposing the creation of a one-billion-euro (1.57-billion-dollar) EU fund to fight hunger and help farmers in poor countries.

The fund, if approved by the EU, would aim to boost agricultural production by providing necessities such as seeds and fertiliser and ensure a safety net for the most vulnerable, Barroso told reporters.

As for the decades long flood of money that has been given to Africa only to be stashed away in a Swiss bank account by whatever thug was in charge that day, let’s forget about that and see if the next suitcase full of money extorted out of us is "put to good use."

Screaming loudest was a charity called Oxfam who runs coffee shops and online music stores promising to deliver pennies of each sale toward lining some warlords pockets in Africa helping feed the poor.

"We can’t let them step away from their promises," Oxfam activist Max Lawson said. "For rich countries this is peanuts. For African countries this is life or death."

From the Oxfam International Strategic Plan:

Our central commitment

We are outraged by the persistent poverty and injustice in the world, which must and can be overcome. Unjust policies and practices, nationally and internationally, must be challenged and people’s rights must be respected. If we join forces and act together now we can achieve a just world without poverty.

With partners and allies, we will act in solidarity with people living in poverty, especially women, to achieve their rights and assert their dignity as full citizens.

We will support them to hold governments, corporations and international organizations (including Oxfam) to account for their responsibilities. Drawing on our development programs, we will work to change global and national rules that perpetuate poverty, insecurity and inequality.

We will support local, national and international organizations and social movements of active citizens to demand justice, particularly gender justice, and to change ideas and beliefs, policies and practices to achieve improvements in people’s lives.

For this Plan period, drawing on what we have learned through internal consultation and external analysis, we will focus our joint work in programs, advocacy and campaigns on four areas:

l Economic justice  l Essential services   l Rights in crisis   l Gender justice

Now if you don’t see wealth re-distribution in that central commitment , maybe I read it wrong because that’s what I see.  And these are the types organizations we have somehow gotten ourselves mixed up and indebted to thanks to that wonderful introducer of scumbags to American money, the United Nations.

Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon chimes in with this nugget:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he would also hold talks with African leaders on the crisis in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe secured a sixth term last month in a widely condemned election.

Ban, speaking to AFP in an interview on his way to the G8 summit, said that he did not consider the election legitimate.

He also said that he would press for action on climate change on Wednesday, when the G8 will meet with leaders of eight other major economies.

"I hope the US ultimately should take all this leadership role. This is what the whole international community expects of the United States," Ban said.

The United States is the only major industrial nation to shun the Kyoto Protocol as it pushes for more commitment from developing nations.

So again its all Americas fault, the stream of money we have been feeding Africa and the UN for years hasn’t done a single thing except show the world America is a sucker and you know what they say about a sucker and his money, right?.

So yeah, yeah we don’t approve of the Zimbabwe election and we don’t consider it legitimate.  But you know, if we just starting throwing a lot of money at this global warming wealth re-distribution scheme, everything will be better.

So I’ll leave you with this nugget of popular thought.

"The governments of the G8, heavily industrialized countries, are most responsible for climate change and the international food crisis which are raging over the world," said organiser Barry Aminata Toure of the Malian coalition on debt and development"

Global Warming made Mugabe do what he did you know.

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