Bono sinks even lower
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Saturday February 04, 2006 16:44
by Starstruck - Grassroots Dissent
The illusion of the care of the West continues-More pop concerts!!
Yes its that freedom fighter and global wristband merchant Bono again,this time at an exclusive morning prayer service with the American elite held in a Washington ballroom.
Pleas to make poverty history and buy more albums were passionately heard aswell as praise upon praise being heaped upon George W.
Bono enthralled the high-class crowd yesterday with his speech warning of the wrath of god if America were not to increase its aid by a massive 1%.
"God will not accept that," he said. "Mine won't. Will yours?"he warned..
Bono did give some never-before heard insight into the enlightened insight into the ireconcilable adverasries,the free market and global justice-
Speaking to President Bush and members of Congress at the National Prayer Breakfast, the front man said i"t's unjust to keep poor people from selling their goods while singing the virtues of the free market, to hold children to ransom for the debts of their grandparents and to withhold medicines that would save lives".
Bono's speech riveted the ballroom audience that included the president and first lady and leaders from Congress, the Cabinet, the military, the clergy and countries from around the world.
At every table, Bono had distributed white plastic bracelets from The ONE Campaign to fight AIDS and poverty, and Sen. Hillary Clinton was among those who wrapped it around her fingers while she listened
How touching.
Bono had previosly said how President Bush had single-handedly SAVED the livesof a quarter of a million people in Africa(!)
"Well, I think [President Bush has] done an incredible job, his administration, on AIDS. And 250,000 Africans are on antiviral drugs. They literally owe their lives to America.
These comment were made less than a year ago while attendng a gala dinner as the Presidents second inauguration was upcoming.-
"Yes, there's a lot of pressure on President Bush. If he, though, in his second term, is as bold in his commitments to Africa as he was in the first term, he indeed deserves a place in history in turning the fate of that continent around."
To keep this roughly within the realms of a news report I shall refrain from going berserk at the idiot.
Comments (11 of 11)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11bono's actions has raised so much more money for AIDS than you could ever in your life or with your whinning article
I knew somebody would take the bait.
I never once pertained that I could raise more money for aids than Bono although by my posting an article on Indymedia critical of Bonos hypocritical stance that does not automatically negate me from doing anything else with my life.
Bono,firstly is a multi-millionaire-OF COURSE he can raise more money than I,just by dipping into his jeans pocket probably.
The point is that a man who unfortunately has as much influence over the publics opinion as Bono stands in a position where his public persona is constantly under scrutiny for some reason and thus waht he says makes people listen.
Thus when he says he is Anti-War,people listen.When he says he is anti-Poverty,people listen.
But then when he gets up at the Labour Party conference and says he "loves" Tony Blair and then goes to an elite Prayer meeting in a ballroom and heaps praise on Bush-people listen again-but now surely theyre confused-how can he be anti-war and yet say he loves the instigators of this centuries bloodiest conflict??
If you tell a dog to sit and roll over at the same time,it won't know what to do-that exactly the message Bono is sending out-its o.k to pretend to be anti-war and anti-poverty,but when it comes down to it we in the west really should just stick together,share wristbands and attend pop-concerts in case we should ever feel bad.
Exposing the falsity of someone's apparent samaritous streak is not whining good sir,it is a warning of how deceptive our public figures can be and how short people's memories have become.Occasional internet articles are a very small part of the struggle that I and many others are involved in to highlight these issues.
you keep talkin' out yer ballbag, george, and i'll keep lipsinkin like it's me saying it
tickets for U2 concerts went on sale in Brazil last week for $88, two thirs of the average monthly wage.
Go Bono, you make poverty history ya loveable rogue ya
Starstruck - Do you think Bono does all this to increase U2 sales, increase his own personal fortune and to promote his own ego and worldwide recognition?
wow, you are just so clever with your trap for people to fall into! everyone looking at indymedia would probably say that bono is a wanker but the fact remains that he with one appearance or phone call can generate more information out there for the masses than starstuck ever could writing articles. and yes he is a rich bastard, but who the hell is gonna pay for end of world debt and AIDS research? me and you and the rest of the people on indymedia? let him hang out with the rich and famous and the politicians who are millionaires who's pocket change and influence can radically change people's lives. how much money have you donated this week starstuck?
OK wonders "who the hell is gonna pay for end of world debt "
Don't let Bono kid you OK - the people who will have to pay for world debt are the poor . That's the world order and it isn't going to change unless people start to cop-on a little .Scum-bags like George Bush have got huge nuclear arsenals to make sure that they and the billionaires they represent stay on top .
But they also like to maintain a certain amount of street-cred ,don't they? They use safe ,boring rockstars like Bono and Sir Bob Geldof (neither of whom would be anywhere unless they were on-side) to get the pro-free enterprise ,pro- market message across .Their role is to convince the easily-convinced that the handful of obscenely rich playboys who run the world really care about anything or anybody other than themselves .
The people who are in debt will have to go on paying what they legally owe until they're prepared to break the law and stop the "rich and famous" from making them poor and faceless . You can't have billionaires without ripping off billions of people . That's a simple fact -do the maths.
Michael R asks :
"Do you think Bono does all this to increase U2 sales, increase his own personal fortune and to promote his own ego and worldwide recognition?"
Well yes , or in the words of the great man himself "You got it"
Did anyone go to the comlamh debate on this back in October in Bewleys. It was Bob and bono:help or hinderance? The speaker saying that they were a hinderance was fantastic,he convinced me anyway!
Hi Lisa. Missed that debate unfortunately. I’m sure a convincing argument could be made for either side. I am swayed by the “help” argument but I stand corrected. The “hindrance” argument is obvious.
But whatever about this (which is a huge question & concerns all people doing similar things to them such as Gates etc.) – I feel his motives are genuine. He would want to be some ruthless b**tard to by doing all this just for himself. I just do not believe this to be the case. Mis-guided, maybe, but intentional, I think not.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a...1.DTL
The San Francisco Chronicle editorial today reports that Bono's firm, "Elevation Partners, is in talks to buy Take-Two Interactive, the troubled video-game company responsible for the not-so-globally-conscious game "Grand Theft Auto". The deal could be worth more than $1 billion, including debt."
it concludes:
"So is Bono a world-uniting figure whose mission is to alleviate the world of hunger, poverty and disease? Or is he a business mogul out to make a profit even if the business goes against that message?
Bono has proven he can be many things. But in this case, he can't be both. "
"no george - like churchill "
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