By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 25, 2019
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“The prelude to the G7 summit has been one of the wackiest episodes,” writes Sky’s Dominic Waghorn.The story finds Fox News in on the act again: In reporting a a story about how the U.S. and Britain will work out a “very big trade deal” once the U.K. has left the European Union, promised by President Trump, Fox added: “The president appeared to slight former Prime Minister Theresa May – who he had frequently criticized – by adding that Johnson is “a new person.” How can describing Johnson as “a new person” slight former Prime Minister Theresa May?
"It took the French president less than 24 hours to wrong foot his closest partners and toss a curve ball into the buildup to the Group of Seven summit. His fellow leaders hadn’t even landed. And all this when Macron was supposed to be shoring up the European alliance for another confrontation with Donald Trump.” “Even Macron’s close advisers had no idea about the bombshell the president (who is not a regular tweeter like Trump) was about to drop.”Even with green activists hoisting his stolen “official portraits”, meant to show up his hypocrisy about Saving the Environment in France, Macron tried to come on as the hero working to save the Amazon jungle from destruction by raging fires.
“Alarmed by the record number of fires ravaging the Amazon jungle, Macron announced that the “emergency” would be a central focus of his summit, abandoning months of careful choreography that even involves France’s most celebrated chef preparing meat for Trump and vegetarian fare for special guest Narendra Modi. (Yahoo) “Problem was he didn’t seem to have let key players in on his decision. Within two hours, his call to arms was met with a furious response from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who accused Macron of colonial posturing. Affairs relating to Brazil should not be discussed without Brazil at the table, Bolsonaro said.”
“He did not like something the Canadian prime minister said in his closing news conference, which he watched on Air Force One after leaving.” “In the tantrum that followed, he ordered his signature be scratched from that summit's ill-fated communique. “The one before that, he announced America's withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, depressing millions across the planet.” “This one is not shaping up any better.”There you have it: America’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement “depressed MILLIONS” across the planet. Were it not for the factoid that it is world ‘leaders’ in attendance at G7 gatherings, their fractious get-togethers in the world’s most luxurious settings, would be a hilarious joke.
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