World leaders meet at 10 Downing Street, 2009 - Part 1

1 April 2009, 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom. The Browns welcome their guests to Downing Street for two highly exclusive dinner parties. As G20 leaders begin their official business over a working dinner, Sarah Brown hosted her own separate meal for their spouses next door at No 11.

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with Sarah Brown
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, with Yoo Soon-taek
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, with Anne Sinclair
Mario Draghi, Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Mirek Topolánek, President of the European Council
Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand, with Pimpen Sakuntabhai
Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, with Michelle Obama
Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan, with Chikako Aso
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, with Thérèse Rein
Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, with Laureen Harper
Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Maria Margarida Pinto Ribeiro de Sousa Uva
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, with Gursharan Kaur
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain

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[flickzkid123]

FUCK U ILLUMINATI !

[Jesusizjdoe]

This is just a front when will the press GROW UP and not just nod

[Marly61]

In a Democracy Now interview

PL the WTO is not a secret society of corporate plot-hatchers.

PASCAL LAMY: It wasnt created as some dark cabal of multinationals secretly cooking plots against the people. We do things in the openlook at our websitegovernments negotiate in the open.

[Marly61]

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GREG PALAST: But we got our hands on a document you certainly wont find on the WTO website; something very confidential: a secret demand of the European Union and USA, leaning on emerging nations to open their borders to trade in financial derivatives and exotic, even toxic, financial products.

[Marly61]

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I read to Lamy, the confidential document which begins with praise for free markets in derivatives and more, what the WTO calls liberalization.

GREG PALAST: Liberalization, is of benefit for all members, including developing and least developing countries. Given whats just happened after the financial crisis, isnt that kind of insane?"

PASCAL LAMY: All depends what you mean by liberalization; which by the way, a very ambiguous English word.

[ifonlyeyeknew]

I don't understand what you have said. Sorry. Can you put a comma here and there, please.

Our P.M., makes us look like fools, honestly.