G8 Summit: Looks great from the limo
Obama, Merkel and all the other G8 illuminati are coming to Eniskillen for a G8 meeting. They will see a thriving prosperous small town in the heart of the rolling Northern Irish countryside:
What they’ve done is they have filled the shop front window with a picture of what was the business before it went bankrupt or closed. In other words, grocery shops, butcher shops, pharmacies, you name it, they have placed large photographs in the windows that if you were driving past and glanced out the window, it would look as if this was a thriving business...
This being postmodern potemkinism, the local peasantry hope that the coverage all this is getting will be such that the news gets through to the leaders, so as they whizz through the town they will know the real story; and their hearts will be touched. My bet is they go another route, except Putin, who'll sit there laughing like a drain..."very funny, Mr Cameron...may I call you Grigory?"
Well, we've got the village. Will we ever have the mutiny?
http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2013/05/looks-great-from-the-limo.html
