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World leaders' low turnout hits U.N. food summit

A G8 pledge in July to spend $20 billion in farm aid in the next three years stole the thunder from the U.N. summit and scheduling it at a time when world attention is focused on climate change negotiations probably did not help.

"We had all told Diouf not to organise this summit," an EU diplomat told Reuters.

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“This is a jobs bill,” Kerry said. “This is without question a jobs bill. I’d say this is the biggest jobs bill staring us in the face, without any question, and we’ll prove that as we go down the road in the next days. So if you want to do a jobs bill, this is the bill to do. And I’d argue that with the president very, very forcefully.”

Do Kerry's repetitive "jobs bill" words above remind anyone else of the instructions for Monty Python's Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.