meanwhile - for about half a million Euros:
3 Jul: International Meetings Review: Portugal: Obama Heads Climate Change Conference in Porto
The 44th President of the United States will land in Portugal on Friday, to help companies handle environment issues.
Barack Obama will headline a major event in Porto, Portugal, the “Climate Change Leadership Porto”, which will focus on climate change and solutions to tackle this problem. The 44th President of the United States is giving a talk in the city’s Coliseu, on the 6th of July, in a highly anticipated speech, moderated by Advanced Leadership Foundation’s Juan Verde, called “A Conversation with Barack Obama: The impacts and challenges of climate changes in the World”...
The organisation is a partnership between several entities, including Taylor’s Port, Porto City Hall, Associação Comercial do Porto (a local trade association), Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho (an entity that oversees wine production), the American College in Spain, and also the Advanced Leadership Foundation, that was responsible for bringing Obama to the event. Many other companies have also joined as organisers or sponsors...
***The event’s costs with the star speaker are around one million euros (US$164million), half of which for Obama’s fee, according the Portuguese newspaper Expresso...
http://www.internationalmeetingsreview.com/portugal/portugal-obama-heads-climate-change-conference-porto-104552
Missing a decimal place.
Oh Barack is gonna make out like a bandit. I’m surprised that he wasn’t elected the closest thing to King of the World — like Secretary General of the UN — but this will have to do, oh the poor guy living on scraps.
Obama’s getting $80 million to attend and speak at a global warming orgy in Portugal, eh?
The world can be a stupid place sometimes.
http://www.advancedleadershipfoundation.org/home-2/
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The Advanced Leadership Foundation’s goal is to create a network of global future leaders who will gain the skills and experiences needed to benefit their economies, companies, communities and their countries.
The Foundation accomplishes this in the following ways:
We connect governments wanting to send their best and brightest to the United States...
Obama taking the reins of global warming from Algore is like the Rosatto brothers muscling in on Frankie Five Angels. It will not end well, methinks.
1,000,000 Euros = $1,164,000, per http://www.wolframalpha.com