Good One

A nice prank on us, by the world leaders, the G20 Summit.
April Fools!
As if they didn't have enough fun at our expense, anyway.

How about we send 'em off for a little holiday in London.
Meet the Queen and Gordo, generate some protests or riots.




Even in this moment of epic economic up-endedness, I question the point of a $75,000,000.00 get together of world leaders.

There is nothing that they will talk about that haven't damned well been talking about for the past three months on the phone. The issues that they are in disagreement on will not be resolved with some glad-handing and photo-ops.

There will be some platitudes about collective ambition to fix problems and maybe get to the bottom of how greed drove us under.
A few thousand protestors will get to wave some banners in front of cameras.
A few hundred cops will, probably, get the chance to crack the skulls of a few dozen protestors.
Germany will continue to hold back on further stimulus spending.
Gordon Brown will go on with saying nationalist bullshit about jobs.
The EU will be forced to remind itself of the rules the EU established on trade, immigration and finance.
Russia is going to continue manipulate the energy market in Eastern Europe, in an effort to prop up it's currency.
Powerful party members in China will consolidate their grip on their global capitalist holdings, buy American debt and recess into greater secrecy.
Japan will go on with the resolute denial of it's mounting troubles.

But they will all get some face time with each other.
They will make some resolutions
We'll still be fucked.


Good one guys, you really got us with this one.

Have fun in London.