Mandela is Dylan, Kofi is George Harrison, Tutu is Tom Petty, and Jimmeh of course is Orbison.

Or is it the Springfield Retirement Castle road show? Carter is Abe Simpson, Mandela is Hans Moleman, Kofi is the guy with the long beard, and Desmond Tutu makes a special guest appearance as Gladys Skinner.

Hmm…I wonder if these Anti-Zion Elders have any Protocols that they follow.

He wasn’t invited.

BTW: You can give the Elders your thoughts at this location.

Should we start arranging care packages and candlelight vigils for them?

Anyone arrogant enough to appoint himself “an elder” should be immediately taken out and horsewhipped. This is nothing more than a haven for washed-up left wing politicans who have nothing better to do than to try to tell people who still have jobs h…

From WaPo:
OHANNESBURG, July 17 — Former South African president Nelson Mandela plans to announce on Wednesday the creation of “the Elders,” a group composed mostly of retired global leaders that will seek to tackle urgent world probl…

Shashi Ruia is in business with his brother:

Brothers’ $5 billion (assets) Essar group with interests in steel, shipping, telecom, construction, power and oil and gas is benefiting from India’s economic boom. Biggest asset: one-third stake in cellular operator Hutchison Essar worth $2 billion. Shashi’s sons Prashant & Anshuman work in the group; Ravi’s daughter Smiti publishes Time Out in Mumbai.

Well, that’s all for tonight. It appears to be a group of the super-rich bankrolling this thing.

They make me think of Warwick the Kingmaker. Plots and power.

One of the group’s founders and principal sponsors, the British tycoon Sir Richard Branson, said that those leaders whom he had briefed – including Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and the South African president, Thabo Mbeki – “very much support the initiative.”

“There will always be skeptics of any positive initiatives, but these are people giving up their time for nothing,” he said of The Elders. “Most individuals in the world would welcome a group of people who are above ego, who, in the last 12 or 15 years of their lives, are above partisan politics.”

How do you like that? Jimmy Carter is a man above ego and partisan politics?

The article goes on to say:

Later, after working on a concert for one of Mandela’s charities, Branson flew home with Peter Gabriel, the British rock musician and human-rights activist. “I was talking about the need for a group of global elders to be there to rally around in times of conflict,” he said, “and Peter said he’d had a similar idea, but using the global Internet to help elders relate to the world community.”

My only thought:

The Eskimos were right.

And where’s Roger Water’s name in the “supporters”?

Ten “elders” eh? Or the Ten Horns on the beast???

ScottG on July 19, 2007 at 7:36 PM

An apt question!

They have a website that manages to be creepy and absurd at the same time.

I say it’s time to declare Jimmy Carter a man without a country.

BTW, in the interest of following the money, I noticed these names listed as their supporters.

Richard Branson
Bridgeway Foundation
Michael Chambers
Ray Chambers
Peter Gabriel
Pam Omidyar (Humanity United)
Amy Robbins
Shashi Ruia
Dick Tarlow
The United Nations Foundation

This list apparently does not include them all. Underneath the names, it says:

The Elders is supported by Founders who will provide financial and other resources to ensure they can focus fully upon their mission. The Elders will also have a team advising them as they work together to create unique approaches to global issues.

Anyone know anything about these people?

Captain Ignorance and the Korruption Kommandos.

(The “K”s make them seem more bad-ass while simultaniously referencing Kofi Annan.)

Not to mention the good vocal effect the Hard C’s and K’s give you when you say it with an “Announcer voice”. Go ahead, give it a try.

problem-solving supergroup

But can they play Free Bird and Stairway To Heaven?