Sarah Palin is going to India next month to speak at the 10th annual India Today Conclave](Registration - INDIA TODAY CONCLAVE 2011: The Changing Balance of Power), a high profile talk shop of “global thought leaders” hosted in the Indian capital by one of the country’s leading magazines (its cover design is conspicuously similar to another newsweekly with a red border). Palin will be speaking alongside heavyweights such as Mohammed ElBaradei — at one stage, the figurehead of Egypt’s pro-democracy movement — feminist firebrand Germaine Greer, and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Her speech, according to reports, is tentatively titled “My Vision for America.”
Televised adventures in Alaska notwithstanding, Palin is not known to be much of a traveler. I was on the scene in September 2009 when she delivered her first speech abroad, in Hong Kong, at a packed conference of bankers and fund managers. Those in attendance represented, according to that conference’s PR flaks, some $10 trillion in assets, and though no official figure came out, it’s safe to assume Palin commanded a six-figures speaker’s fee. Moreover, her address was strictly off-limits to the press, and so we grubby servants of the fourth estate had to chase desperately around the lobby of Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt, seeking comments from pinstriped Masters of the Universe who had heard Palin speak. What we pieced together was… interesting.
Here are some highlights, from my report of the event.
Mushraff also attended same conclave few years back, on the thing that India deserves, last year, all premiers of permanent five of Security Council visited India.
Mushraff also attended same conclave few years back, on the thing that India deserves, last year, all premiers of permanent five of Security Council visited India.
We invite one joker every year to the India Today conclave - just for laughs. It was Mush a few years ago, its Palin this year :D
They might as well flush their money down the toilet.
As I said in my previous post, they will decide what the best use of their $$ is. They have been a pretty successful media conglomerate for quite a few decades, so I would trust their judgement more than yours ;)
As I said in my previous post, they will decide what the best use of their $$ is. They have been a pretty successful media conglomerate for quite a few decades, so I would trust their judgement more than yours ;)
LOL... I get it. Anything Indian your support regradless.
You know, there are MANY MANY examples of MULTI BILLION dollar companies that make HUGE blunders.
Just as a recent example, Boeing screwed itself over by Out sourcing Plane construction...
You have to be stupid to assume that just because a company can make money, it always makes good decision.
But I digress.
I dont really care where they waste their money. Indians generally flock to hear any WHITE bread American that chooses to speak on any subject in India.. :) Next on the list.. Glen Beck!
