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Geldof, Bono and Live 8 Are Blairpoop and Bushit.

by Lloyd Hart (dadapop [at] dadapop.com)
Today the U.K. newspaper The Independent published an article by Stuart Hodkinson which finally exposes the truth about Bob Geldof and Bono
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Geldof, Bono and Live 8 Are Blairpoop and Bushit.

By Lloyd Hart
10/26/05

Today the U.K. newspaper The Independent published an article by Stuart Hodkinson which finally exposes the truth about Bob Geldof and Bono to a broader public as simply being corporate Stooges for what merely is just a debt reorganization scam by the G8 and not real debt relief after all the hype of the Live 8 concerts supposed impact on the G8 Vampire Nations.

But of course all rock stars are corporate Stooges. After all that's where their money comes from, corporate scumbags who rig the radio playlists through payola bribery. You know, prostitutes and parties in Las Vegas all disguised as a corporate junket, paying off other corporate scumbags who run the conglomerate communications companies who bought up all the radio stations to play the next piece of shit they think their conning the kids into believing is cool. And when con job isn't working anymore and the kids created the new radio paradigm that has a much more democratic process with no advertising but still promotes the artists while cutting out the whole corporate scumbag thing and is done via file sharing over the Internet the Corporate scumbags who the own record companies sue 12 year-old children for downloading a file which is no different from recording a song off the radio to a cassette but thanks to the wonders of American capitalism you can buy a U.S. Supreme Court and get them rule against the more democratc ruling of the "Fair Use" precedent set by a previous U.S. Supreme Court ruling when the Cassette was originally introduced.

I mean, it does make sense that record companies would have to bribe radio stations into playing that last piece of shit that U2 put out. I wonder how many children sexually abused by Catholic priests that grew up thanks to the abuse to become prostitutes that in turn sucked the cocks of the corporate scumbags from the communications companies in a party in Las Vegas in order to get U2s piece of crap album played on their radio stations across America and around the world.

The prostitution to get the song played however does not compare to the prostitution of all the artists who played at the Live 8 shows which were really designed to distract the kids and the folks away from protests like the previous G8 meetings where cops beat the crap out of young people killing one or two because the G8 leaders were confronted with the truth of their Vampiric selves. Not to mention the grand smokescreen the Live 8 shows effectively created endorsing what is really a common IMF and World bank practice to roll over old debt into new loans creating a whole new era of prostitution of corrupt leaders in Third World nations who are willing to do backwards somersaults through burning hoops of fire in order to sellout their own people.

You see, its not important whether a third-world nation pays back the loans it gets from the IMF and World Bank and the greater international loan shark industry. No, it's more important that the Third World nation is financially in debt. With debt leverage and a foaming at the mouth Military to back it up the psychotic white people in Europe and America can rape the resources of said third-world nation while at the same time getting that Third World nation to pay back the loan that it got to get its nation to spread its its legs and take it up the ass from transnational corporations with the no morals clause in their corporate mission statement.

So while the Third World nation is paying back the new of loans and the population of the Third World nation goes without basic human services and laws to protect them from the pollution and labor strife brought on by transnational corporations, the psychotic white people in Europe and America get to live high on the hog off all the resources that have been raped out of the said third-world nation.

I gotta hand to ya Bob and to you to Bono you really conned the shit out of all lot of people this year, but now you have been exposed and your super ego shallow rock star veneer has been punctured I'm wondering how long it'll take for the record buyers to discover what a pair of steamy piles of shite you really are.

Just as a parting shot Bono, I guess you learned nothing when you were used by the Bush regime in a photo op on a campaign stop in the 2002 midterm elections where George "Back ground noise" Bush had you prancing around on a stage in front of thousands of Bush supporters when Bush stated "heh, heh, I can't be all that bad I've got Bono with me." No you couldn't resist an invitation to have lunch last week with and provide another photo op for the most hated man on the planet who just murdered over 100,000 Iraqis in order to set up hegemonic shop on top of the strategic oil supply in the Middle East. For this, your a little bit larger of the two steamy piles of shite.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article322382.ece

Also at:

http://www.redpepper.org.uk


http://dadapop.com

§Bono and Geldoff: "We Saved Africa!"
by Counterpunch (repost)
Oh No, They Didn't!
Bono and Geldoff: "We Saved Africa!"

By STUART HODKINSON

Remember Make Poverty History, anyone? It seems a long time ago that some 200,000 people flocked to Edinburgh to rally G8 leaders as part of an unprecedented campaign for global justice. That same day, July 2, Bob Geldof organised free music concerts in nine countries under the Live8 banner.

The demands were straightforward and reasonable: rich countries should boost aid in line with their unmet 35-year-old promises; cancel the debts of the 62 poorest countries; set dates for the abolition of subsidies and other protectionist support to Western farmers, and stop forcing liberalization and privatization on poor countries, whether in trade negotiations or as conditions of aid and debt deals.

Six days later, in the shadow of the July 7 bombs that ripped through central London, the Gleneagles summit ended to rock-star cheers. "This has been the most important summit there ever has been for Africa," Bob Geldof said at the post-summit press conference. "There are no equivocations. Africa and the poor of that continent have got more from the last three days than they have ever got at any previous summit...

"On aid, 10 out of 10. On debt, eight out of 10. On trade ... it is quite clear that this summit, uniquely, decided that enforced liberalisation must no longer take place," he said, before finishing with a flourish. "That is a serious, excellent result on trade."

Bono, his voice cracking with emotion, concurred. "We are talking about $25bn of new money.... The world spoke and the politicians listened."

Journalists and campaigners broke into spontaneous applause; the next day's media coverage led with Geldof's "mission accomplished" verdict. But as the millions who signed up to Make Poverty History (MPH) and Live8 rejoiced, inside the upper echelons of MPH all hell was breaking loose. "They've shafted us," a press officer from a British development organization screamed down the phone.

Indeed they had. Moments earlier, Kumi Naidoo, the veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner and current chair of MPH's international umbrella, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (G-Cap), had delivered the coalition's official response. "The people have roared but the G8 has whispered. The promise to deliver [more aid] by 2010 is like waiting five years before responding to the tsunami."

MPH officials knew that the G8's announcements on aid, trade and debt were not only grossly inadequate to help poor countries reach the UN's development goals by 2015. They were also bogus - and MPH had briefed the rock stars to that effect. More than half of the promised $50bn (£28bn) in aid - which wouldn't kick in until 2010 - wasn't new money, but a dishonest amalgam of old pledges, future aid budgets and debt relief. And despite agreeing that "poor countries should be free to determine their own economic policies", only Britain had announced that it would no longer tie overseas aid to free market reforms - a promise it would break in the G8 debt deal.

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http://counterpunch.com/hodkinson10272005.html
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by Alexis Lynn Rose
It's good to see that Bono hasen't deceived everyone.
by by Lloyd Hart
This is in respose to the piece written by Lloyd Hart.

Wow, please tell me Mr. Hart is some recent high school graduate or something, and not someone over the age of 25! I could barely read the op piece without rolling my eyes at how poorly this is written. It hurts to read it. I hope this is just some blog entry or something. What, did Mr. Hart think, hmm, how many times and different ways can I use the word "shit" in my work. Why not, get yourself a thesaurus and a dictionary, re-write your blog thing, and then post it. People might take you seriously. Maybe.

Really, to add insult to injury, posting the concise and well written article from the U.K. paper.

Well, at least Bob and Bono tried to do something, rather than sit back and do nothing, and criticise those who did try to help.



by Toba (toba [at] tobaworld.co.uk)
I don't know how many billion the author of these articles has donated nor do I know how many years he/she has spent campaigning, fighting for some form of solution to poverty.

What does seem apparent is that the author is angry - whether young or old - they feel the need to lash out. Perhaps their own world has crumbled and disillusionment has set in. I'd like to give you a cuddle. All I can say is, when this happens and you can see through the plastic transparent veneer that masks our current "system" - use that angry intelligence to do something positive. Set up some form of strategy, take action for change. Then you will feel like you are doing something positive. I find this always helps when I'm in situations of starvation, torture and abuse. Many people don't realize just how demoralizing this can be to your overall nature. Maybe you're not tortured, starving abused and angry in a third world country. Maybe you are just sitting in your bedroom watching your fat capitalist world implode by an adult generation you have had no power over.
Either way, you will feel better if you strive to do something new and positive to make the change instead of staying stuck in your anger. And that's all sweet little Bono and Bobby are doing. SOMETHING POSITIVE TO BRING A BETTER WORLD IN THE BEST WAY THEY KNOW HOW. Don't blame them for the politicians who behave so badly. We as a world voted them in and elect people who make these destructive and short sighted money oriented decisions.

So come on, snap out of it, get off your backside (if you have one left) and make some positive changes with your mates. You can do it.
by has a serious problem
What are you doing for humanity and suffering alleviation in your life Lloyd?
by has a serious problem
What are you doing to support world suffering alleviation Lloyd?
by fuck 'em
I thought this rocked:

"You see, its not important whether a third-world nation pays back the loans it gets from the IMF and World Bank and the greater international loan shark industry. No, it's more important that the Third World nation is financially in debt. With debt leverage and a foaming at the mouth Military to back it up the psychotic white people in Europe and America can rape the resources of said third-world nation while at the same time getting that Third World nation to pay back the loan that it got to get its nation to spread its its legs and take it up the ass from transnational corporations with the no morals clause in their corporate mission statement."

I know that you know what you're talking about

Hey Toba, you and all the other sanctimonious gurus of do-goodness have been "saving the world" for ... how long now? It still ain't saved yet, in fact, it's more fucked up by several magnitudes than ever before. Your attempts to "save" it have in fact been instrumental in fucking it up. I believe a majority of your kind are "saving the world from hunger," for example, which is the main reason there are ten times as many people as there should be, which is the main thing fucking everything up, etc. You're a sentimental egotist whose whole motivation is to "feel good about yourself." Actual results mean little compared to stroking your mother-of-the-world complex. There's a constructive subtlety to Lloyd's disillusionment that you'll never grasp. Because of it he may actually figure out a REAL solution instead of just wallowing in sentimental do-goodness unto the planet's dying day
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