Sunday May 27, 2012

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Oxfam activists pose as G-8 leaders during a photo opportunity ahead of the G-8/G-20 summits which start Friday in Huntsville, Ontario. Oxfam urged the leaders to deliver their promises made in past G-8 meetings. Left to right: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British PM David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian PM Stephen Harper, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese PM Naoto Kan.

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    fishy

    lol

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    smartacus

    Why is Kan's face mask black?

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    islandview

    Why is Japanese PM Naoto Kan (on the far right) portrayed in BLACKFACE with a white skinned body?

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    combinibento

    Rather than dress up in ludicrous costumes year after year, perhaps the activists could actually take action and explain the issues to the general populaces governed by these leaders such that the populaces hold them to account by not voting them into office. That would seem to send a stronger message to leaders, and actually result in promises being kept. But alas, year after year the activists simply come up with a stupid, poorly executed gimmick to attract a few cameras.

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    paulinusa

    Maybe that's someone's(white anglo) perception of the Japanese people. Many Japanese think of themselves as more western than asian, but that might not be the way they're thought of in some western quarters.

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    whiskeysour

    very funny !!!! Hahahahah !!!! Ohh nooo Kan, they didn't have enough time to design his face.

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    GW

    yeah looks like they had to quickly mod a diff mask for kan, maybe they shud just keep a Jackie Chan & Bruce Lee mask around to use for whoever is the Jpn PM, too expensive to make masks as they chg so fast only small quantities cud be made assuming they have time to even make them LOL

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    paulinusa

    Don't you people get it? Maybe the way it looks wasn't an accident.

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    IronBeard

    Obama only has one nipple

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    islandview

    @IronBeard

    Obama only has one nipple

    and his maple leaf should be much bigger and longer.

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    IronBeard

    @ islandview,

    How would you know, you lucky boy? ;"P

    Definitely shouldn't be the same size as Kan's...

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    seggahme

    funny

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    Zenny11

    "Happatai" Canadian style. :D

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    cactusJack

    and this display is supposed to accomplish...?

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    McC72

    Obama look fatter than real

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    mokgohan

    Funny, but I doubt Berlusconi would be scrambling to cover up in that situation. He seems like the type to try and flaunt whatever little he has.

    Insert joke here about Kan being conflicted about wanting Obama to pull out of his Southern region.

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    Badge213

    Obama only has one nipple?

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    some14some

    Leaders of 'rich' nations !

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    guguweng

    why got one black colour?

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    BurakuminDes

    Kan looks like some species of chimpanzee...

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    Mark_McCracken

    Misplaced drama.

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    fanofjapan2005

    International affairs are hard to bare ...

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    roughneck

    Is this how oxfam is wasting the charity money from trailwalker? I am not running from next year!

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    mrhog1234

    Obama also looks like a chimpanzee. Can't wait for his term to be over.

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    DenDon

    where am dat wartymelon?

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    amerijap

    I couldn't recognize Kan(the one in far right).

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    TokyoLurker

    Naoto Kan is also Black? OMG

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