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An “Unknown Delegate”?!?!?

It’s Bilderberg season again, which normally has all the conspiracy theorists this side of Roswell up in a flurry. This year, however, the organisers have cheated by having a website and even a press release concerning the proceedings. The Guardian has a photo gallery of the various guests arriving, mostly attired in the tiresome suit-but-no-tie combination which has become all too prevalent of late.

The super-trendy left-wing newspaper, however, demonstrates its typically Euro-centric mindset through its caption for this photo: “Francisco Pinto Balsemão, a former prime minister of Portugal and the CEO of Impresa, says goodbye to an unknown delegate.” An “unknown delegate”?!?!? That’s no less than Dambisa Moyo, the most famous Zambian in the world (referred to as “our girl” in Zambian newspapers), not to mention author of a New York Times bestseller and African star-of-the-hour for over a year now. Honestly, Mr. Guardian!

Published at 8:11 pm on Monday 14 June 2010. Categories: Errant Thoughts World Tags: .
Comments

Andrew Cusack… complaining of Eurocentrism?! South Africa has clearly done you a world of good.

— K. Dontoh 14 Jun 2010 9:35 pm

Actually Cusack is one of those people who has always been IRRITATINGLY non-Eurocentric. As soon as you hear of some little hobbit-hole in Asia or Africa or where ever and mention it to him thinking you finally found something he hasn’t heard of, he effortlessly produces a short verbal history of the place and weaves it into some larger web.

I’m going to get the better of him some day though.

— Liz S. 15 Jun 2010 8:01 am

“I’m going to get the better of him some day though.”

I look forward to the day.

— Andrew Cusack 15 Jun 2010 9:42 am

Oh, I remember when you decried the South African motto, “!ke e: ǀxarra ǁke” as being “clickspeak for ‘kill whitey’.” and called Mbeki an “of aloof halfwit”.

Regardless, I stand by my prior statement.

“As soon as you hear of some little hobbit-hole in Asia or Africa or where ever and mention it to him thinking you finally found something he hasn’t heard of, he effortlessly produces a short verbal history of the place and weaves it into some larger web.”

Well isn’t he like that for anything and everything? Case in point; Andrew tell us about the former coat of arms of Siam.

— K. Dontoh 15 Jun 2010 12:10 pm

Sure there’s nothing euro-centric about callin Mbeki an aloof halfwit. Most of his own party would agree by the looks of how he was turned out of office.

— Grainne in Joburg 16 Jun 2010 12:32 am

“Andrew tell us about the former coat of arms of Siam.”

I’m afraid we do not give command performances.

— Andrew Cusack 16 Jun 2010 8:19 am

“I’m afraid we do not give command performances.”

I see.

— K. Dontoh 16 Jun 2010 11:20 am

Do you at all have fondness for Japanese history, Samurai et cetera?

— J. George Archer 21 Jun 2010 7:55 am
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