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Boycott Sir Bob and saint Bono's gig

category international | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Thursday June 02, 2005 01:36author by paul o toole Report this post to the editors

Controlling dissent.

Bono's answer to a question about his friend Tony Blairs attack and murder of 100,000 Iraqi people at the Meteor awards in dublin last year...anyone can make a mistake....

You could not pick two better people to divert the gullable public away from the real issues,and soothe everyones concience at the same time-that is those few with a concience, by getting them to part with a few euro and go home, back to their overfed lives for another 20 years.
These two intelligent men know exactly where the problem lies with 'poor' Africa.

Firstly- Africa is the second ritchest nation in the world per capita of population-it is by no means poor and these liars (b'n'b)know it but continnually refer to the problems in Africa as one of poverty.
Secondly-supporting this gig is not going to end world poverty or even go one inch twoards cancelling the crippling debts that the white world has against impoverished nations such as Africa - the debts were part of a system deliberately put there by our 'democracies' to achieve the result it has attained.
The horrible truth is that in their respective positions so much could have been achieved by our two Irish boys. But if Michael Powell (son of Colon) controls the invisible strings on Bono's career through the FAA,clear-channel,MCD, and controlled ownership of most of the major amphitheatres across the USA , Its easy to see why he (Bono) wont speak out against the policies which cause this deliberately inflicted state of impoverishment because his carreer might be damaged..
Any artist(s) who spoke out against Bush's war was dropped from the playlists of clearchannels 14,000 fm.major hub stations in the USA.
Enjoy the propaganda gig if you go, but know one thing-your efforts would be better served if you went to the g8 summit to protest, instead of being lullabyed back to sleep again for twenty more years.














Dont be surprised if Tony Bliar shows up and makes an appearance at the gig, hell, he might even play bono's guitar.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Africa is a nation now?     confused    Thu Jun 02, 2005 01:54 
   why should non catholics know its christmas     men in the sahara dont throw snowballs    Thu Jun 02, 2005 02:10 
   they should have a referendum.     %    Thu Jun 02, 2005 02:29 
   Easy to Knock hard to build     PFJ    Thu Jun 02, 2005 14:00 
   To PFJ     >?>?    Thu Jun 02, 2005 15:58 
   Fact re tax     toneore    Thu Jun 02, 2005 17:24 
   Fact re tax (2)     o n e t o r e    Thu Jun 02, 2005 17:36 
   Your still wrong     PFJ    Thu Jun 02, 2005 18:08 
   Ch 4 news tonight     Manuva    Thu Jun 02, 2005 18:20 
 10   OPERATION ELTON JOHN UPDATE     mc cavity    Thu Jun 02, 2005 19:18 
 11   re Manuva     jsr    Thu Jun 02, 2005 21:51 
 12   wake up     skeptomaniac    Thu Jun 02, 2005 21:53 
 13   they are very annoying people alright     Barry    Thu Jun 02, 2005 23:13 
 14   Debate     Spelling    Fri Jun 03, 2005 03:10 
 15   ...and another thing     Davros    Fri Jun 03, 2005 17:28 
 16   Pretty cynical     Not sure    Fri Jun 03, 2005 18:16 
 17   'But what if you're a bit more black in your musical tastes'     village idiot    Sat Jun 04, 2005 04:17 
 18   Not Sure     Davros    Sat Jun 04, 2005 18:05 
 19   Onward Christian Soldiers     Hilaal    Tue Jun 07, 2005 21:43 
 20   Poor Africa     skeptomaniac    Wed Jun 08, 2005 02:51 


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