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| Dinner of cold rice a diplomatic reminder |
| 2004-11-26 |
| Via Lucianne. My, my, we are getting bold, aren't we???? London: Distinguished diplomats were reduced to eating handfuls of cold rice when an American ambassador in Rome threw a Thanksgiving reception designed to remind the corps diplomatique of the scale of world hunger. Guests of Tony Hall, the US ambassador to the United Nations food agencies in Rome, were confronted on Thursday with the reality of living off cups of rice. When they arrived for his party, they were asked to draw raffle tickets, placing them in three categories of wealth. The richest were served with the customary gourmet meal. Others were handed portions of rice and beans. But there were strained smiles among those who drew the "poorest" tickets. They found themselves shut out of Mr Hall's spacious residence in the elite suburb of Caracalla and left in the darkness to pace the garden. These diplomats were then presented with their meal - a few handfuls of cold rice. A leaflet informed them that they were representing the 60 per cent of the world's 6 billion people who struggle to find each meal. SNIP |
| Posted by:anonymous2u |
| #6 I wounder if you have any idea of the way a US ambassador lives at government expense, complete with cook. Yeah how appropriate. |
| Posted by: Thomas J. Jackson 2004-11-26 11:59:10 PM |
| #5 I wouldn't if you have any idea of the way this man lives at government expense complete with cook. Yeah how appropriate. |
| Posted by: Thomas J. Jackson 2004-11-26 11:56:39 PM |
| #4 Hell, I think it's hysterically funny, lol! Of course Tony Hall can expect several of his "poor" guests to devise some sort of comeuppance... I can't picture anyone, anywhere, in the diplo or NGO crowd who gives a rat's ass about the poorest people they supposedly represent. He'll pay for this, I'm sure. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-26 11:16:52 PM |
| #3 I don't know, man. On the one hand, diplomat and NGO abuse is always a hoot; on the other hand, the message is so fucking PC I could piss a textbook. Maybe if they had thrown in a fillip of "this is what your alleged beneficiaries actually get, while you live high on the proverbial hog off of NGO adminstrative lard"... |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-11-26 10:51:15 PM |
| #2 cool, chic, trendy - so real- it's art, I tell you, art. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-11-26 10:26:08 PM |
| #1 "Don't you know who I am?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-26 10:01:19 PM |