I do love a bit of posturing especially by those pigs snubbed at the high trough. The trough doesn't get much higher than the dinner this evening in Prague after America's historically black President Obama signs something with Russia's histrionically puppet-like President Medvedev.
Quite what this something actually is will not be discussed much beyond this evening, as it is really all a polite bun fight.
One of those refusing to be part of this horrendous narrative is the delightfully anachronistic and aristocratic Prince Karel Schwarzenberg. A man who has campaigned forcefully, if at times comically, about pigs eating at troughs. (Or localized Czech corruption as the less well-born would describe it). He was quoted in the Prague papers this morning saying he will not attend this evening's meal as he and the other non-global diners are only there to act as waiters.
What does he mean?!
This invokes the memory of one Malcolm X, the straight talking black American unfortunately airbrushed out of online histories but you can find him speak here about house niggers eating better than field niggers. Not on that clip is the statement, "I'm not a diner unless you let me dine. Then I become a diner". Brother Malcolm was referring to the rather unfortunate history of the United States when it comes to looking after its own citizens.(Though this could apply equally to Russia and elsewhere for that matter).
However, in a moment of petulance rather than intelligent irony, Schwarzenberg does remind us of Malcolm X. Obama won't be paying attention but we should. Those gathered at the baroque trough this evening are dining on the future of this planet, paid for by the suckers who let them be there.
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