Posts Tagged ‘G20’
Barack Obama requests visit West Ham’s stadium
AS if he didn’t already a busy enough G20 schedule, Barack Obama has set aside a couple of hours to pay a visit to Upton Park, home of West Ham United.
Obama is a self-confessed West Ham fan, since a visit to Britain six years ago – some of his English relatives are Hammers, prompting the U.S. President to adopt the club as his go-to Premier League team.
This afternoon, after French leader Nicolas Sarkozy and Germanys’ Angela Merkel have held a press conference, Obama will be whisked by helicopter to east London, where he will be given a half-hour tour of Upton Park by manager Gianfranco Zola. Obama will then return for his meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, at 5.30pm.
Good to see he has his priorities straight.
Posted: 1st, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
The G20 In Numbers
THE G20 in numbers…
1 – Rule for them and not for us
G19 – Major economic powers
G20 – 19 plus the EU, and Thailand and Ethiopia
Education, education, education…
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Posted: 31st, March 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Police Stop G20 Plot To Kill Barack Obama
ALL over the media is the news that five have been arrested in a G20 “bomb plot”.
Police in Plymouth are said to have uncovered a cache of weapons and “material relating to political ideology”. (The south-west is a hotbed of terror!)
The Tory Blue Book is dangerous reading?
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Posted: 30th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Mayhem At G20 March
TO the Big G20 Potest March in wet London. The media reports are mayhem:
London Protest Draws More Than 12,000 Before G-20 – Bloomberg
Up to 15,000 protesters gathered in Hyde Park after marching through central London ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders – Daily Telegraph
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G20 Leaders Get Loaded For Poverty
HATS off to Gordon Brown who is half way to fulfilling his pledge to end boom and bust.
Boom is well and truly over. And once we are all poor, bust will only be a historical relative, an arcane term of yesteryear.
So to the White House, where Gordon is at table to discuss matters of great import: when George Bush goes, will he be the most unpopular leader in the world?
The talk turns to the economic crisis,. With dinner keeping their tongue sharp and loose with beverages that cost almost $500 a bottle.
The G-20 summit kicks off with “Fruitwood-smoked Quail,” “Thyme-roasted Rack of Lamb,” and “Tomato, Fennel and Eggplant Fondue Chanterelle Jus.”
All washed down the gizzard with doses of Shafer Cabernet “Hillside Select” 2003, a wine that sells at $499 on Wine.com.
Posted: 16th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
