They hold potluck dinners.

Indeed, they sell books about potluck dinners.

Narrator The pyramids, the Colosseum, the New York subway system and TV dinners, ancient and modern wonders of the man made world all.

Yet we can ask an even simpler question. Why are those same bankers still fêted by President Barack Obama, invited to glittering state dinners, and reverently interviewed by the media?

You know, I have told this story close to 550 times, in audiences in 40 countries, to school students, to black tie dinners at the Smithsonian, and so on and so forth, and every time it hits something.

The headscarf that Gül s wife wears for religious reasons was seen as an assault on Turkey s sacrosanct principle of secularism. Indeed, outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer refused to invite the wives of AKP deputies who covered their hair to state dinners and Republic Day receptions.

So, Jamie Oliver and school dinners Bush and Blair having difficulty getting alongside Muslim culture the whole of the hunting issue, and the royal family refusing to stop hunting and the tsunami issues and obviously Harry Blair's views on Gordon Brown, which I find very interesting Condi and Bush.

The ability of those who wield great public and private power to flout the law and ethical norms for personal gain is one of the more glaring manifestations of inequality. The poor get life sentences for petty crimes, while bankers who fleece the public of billions get invitations to White House state dinners.

A campaign spearheaded by the United States based organization Wild Aid has contributed to a major decline in demand for shark fin across Asia. China, for example, has banned shark fin soup, a traditional delicacy, at official government dinners and functions a move that contributed to a 30 drop in shark fin sales from last December to April.