WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - Rock singer Bono threw his weight behind legislation proposed by a group of Democrats and Republicans, including presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, that would boost funding for free basic education for some of the world’s poorest children.
The Education for All bill was announced on Tuesday by New York Democratic lawmakers Clinton and Nita Lowey, and Republicans Gordon Smith and Spencer Bachus.
The legislation would double U.S. funding for basic education to $1 billion in fiscal 2008 and then gradually increase it annually until it reached $3 billion by 2012.
“This is mind-blowing stuff and this is the real moment,” Bono, frontman for band U2, said from Dublin, where he joined a joint conference call with the U.S. lawmakers. “This is the kind of vision that we look to from America.”
U2 frontman BONO has ordered a group of travellers to move out of land he is planning to turn into luxury apartments in the Irish capital Dublin.
The rocker has tolerated the family setting up home at Britain Quay in the city’s Docklands.
According to their spokesman Martin Collins, the singer has been visiting the family for a year - even giving their children sweets - but he has now ordered them to move on.
He says, “He told us we’d have to move. He was quite nice about it, but we told him we have nowhere to move to.”
I demand he grant these poor, downtrodeen illegals full amnesty. Surely The Bono could have his innovative green architects simply build luxury around these people???
As mentioned, while The Bono is the New Age Messiah of All Millenia, Stink is considered by many to be the most manly-sensitive yoga vegan singer ever to live, alas:
An employment tribunal ruled Thursday that Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, discriminated against their chef by firing her after she became pregnant.
The couple, who face having to make a substantial compensation payment, said they were “devastated” by the ruling. The level of compensation will be decided at a June 8 hearing.
Jane Martin, 41, said she had worked for the 55-year-old pop star and Styler for eight years, cooking meals for them and guests including Madonna and Elton John. She said Styler grew unhappy after Martin became pregnant in 2005, making her work long hours and growing angry when she took time off work because of illness.
Martin, who accused Styler of having a “grandiose ego,” left her job under disputed circumstances in April 2006.
Oh, for a second I thought it was all most manly-sensitive yoga vegan singer Stink’s fault.
Nothing could be further from the truth. I know that I am lucky enough to enjoy substantial financial security, but it hasn’t always been like this.
I was born on a council estate in Birmingham. My mum was a school dinner lady and my dad packed lampshades for a living and worked as a school caretaker for his second job.
I know what it’s like to work - I’ve worked all my life. At nine I was helping my dad sweep my own school playground and clean the toilets, and when I was 15, I worked at Woolworths.
My parents instilled in me the value of hard graft from an early age.
My mother always said that it matters not what you do in life, what matters is who you are. I try to live my life like that.
I follow a strong spiritual path and I’ve learned that the more you give, the more happiness-will come to you in return.
I’ve derived a lot of satisfaction from being an advocate for the rights of citizens all around the world, including many of those in the so-called Third World who cannot always make their voices heard.
In other news Sting will cover “One” “Asimbonanga” and “Kumabya” on his next album…
We live on an organic farm and part of our ethos is to keep the food as fresh as possible. Ideally, all food would be taken from garden to table in under two hours.
But the carbon dioxide spiking due to her killing plants doesn’t bother her…
Bono urged Germany on Monday to use next month’s Group of Eight meeting as a platform to push for more aid for Africa.
Speaking after talks with Kurt Beck, the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, which make up half of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition, Bono said he was thankful the G-8 talks were being held here.
“We know that we have your support and that Germany will keep its promises,” the U2 frontman/activist said.
“We” being the world, the children, the ones who make a brighter day....
The report shows the G-8 increased aid by $2.3 billion but says the nations need to increase aid by an additional $3.1 billion to substantially help the people of Africa.
“These statistics are not just numbers on a page,” Bono said. “They are people begging for their lives, for two pills a day, a mother begging to immunize her children, a child begging not to become a mother at the age of 12.”
Last I heard sex is natural, sex is fun - not everybody does it, but everybody should, says the gay white man.
What say the straight black man?
Mama, I got that X, if you into takin’ drugs
I’m into having sex, I ain’t into making love
So come give me a hug if you into getting rubbed.
Straight black girl?
My bitches is smooth my bitches is real
My bitches my bitches that take care of they kids
My bitches my bitches that you don’t respect
My bitches my bitches that you always neglect
Yall niggas ain’t real yall niggas ain’t shit
WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Anti-poverty activist and rocker Bono on Tuesday said the world’s industrial nations are badly off track
So unlike megagrich rockstars preaching from the comfort of their privatly-owned city blocks about poverty and redemption.
In an interview with Reuters, the U2 lead singer said the G8—the United States, Japan, Canada, Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia and France—faced “a crisis of credibility” two years after a summit at Gleneagles, Scotland where they committed to deliver more aid, trade, debt relief, and health and education services to Africa’s poor.
Go see the film “Sicko” - it proves we don’t have free health care either, pal.
Also:
NEW YORK — Bono is grappling with a new version of the unforgettable fire, and it has nothing to do with his band’s 1984 album: The rocker-activist is embroiled in a flap over fireplaces at his Manhattan apartment building.
The U2 frontman has told co-op board members at the stately San Remo that smoke from other residents’ fireplaces is wafting into the penthouse duplex he shares with his family, The New York Times reported.
The building’s fireplaces have long-standing problems, said Leni May, the wife of board member Peter May.
“Bono was so nice,” she said. “He said, ‘Listen, whatever I can do to get these things working, but it’s emptying into my apartment and I can’t have smoke like that.’” The singer told the board that one of his four children has asthma, Leni May said
If Africans can live with a little smoke in their huts so can The Bono? I suggest The Bono hire some illegal immigrants to fan the smoke away until The Bono gets around to lobbying for permanent visas and/or Al Gore stops the Madness of CO2 altogether.
The co-op board is studying the issue and has banned the use of fireplaces in the building while the investigation is underway, and that’s bothered some of the residents, including Billy Squier, who lives on the third floor. Squier’s tour manager said, “It was just assumed that because they could see the exhaust, that would present a problem to their children,” and that there’s no evidence the smoke is actually getting into Bono’s apartment and affecting his family.
This proves beyond all doubt that Billy Squier is not gay.
According to their spokesman Martin Collins, the singer has been visiting the family for a year - even giving their children sweets - but he has now ordered them to move on.
He says, “He told us we’d have to move. He was quite nice about it, but we told him we have nowhere to move to.”
What an evil benefactor. He’s “quite nice” whilst he forces teeth-rotting, fat-producing sweets down the gullets of poor children; quite possibly to feed the starving in Darfur. If not, maybe he can persuade Madonna to “adopt” the couple’s children before they get the boot.
Why do visions of “Hansel Undt Gretal” come to mind?
I still think BONO and Robin Williams are twin sons of different mothers. (Sorry, I had no way to edit Mel out of there, or is that Saddam?)
My god, he DOES look like Saddam. I’ll bet Dubya is waiting for the right time to capture him. At least this time we might get a better “trial” and a more professional execution!
What see my tired eyes yon? Bono critcized at the Huffington Post?? Sure, author LeVine tongue-sucks The Bono’s ass so mightily in the name of love, gushing over The Bono’s “incredible talent moving the earth” as to almost lose his tonsils in The Bonos appendix, yet he still comes to the same conclusion that I have in much less flowery prose and without his astounding pedigree:
If Bono and Gore and their famous friends really want to change the world, they need to be willing to put their bodies on the line, or at least their careers, the way John Lennon did with the Vietnam War. That means they will need to connect the dots, and use their incredible artistic talents to help the rest of us understand that the war in Iraq is intimately related to the problems facing Africa, and the ozone layer as well; that today the same system and interests are behind global war, poverty and environmental degradation. And that we—Bono, Gore, and all of us fortunate enough to be living in the advanced industrialized countries—are the main beneficiaries of this system. Only if people see them really risking something to fight a battle that most people fear is impossible to win, will they get off their ass and join the fight. It’s time for Bono to get off the stage and hit the barricades, and for the rest of us to follow him.
In the ‘90s Ali began her work related to the Sellafield nuclear plant, a British plant that sends waste water into the Irish Sea, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. To protest the building of THORP, a Sellafield site where nuclear waste from all over the world would be collected, Ali organized a publicity stunt where U2, with Greenpeace, donned radiation suits as they delivered drums of contaminated mud from the Irish Sea.
Biting critique via activism. Always witty, always works.
“Anyone who lives 600 kilometers around a nuclear installation should be concerned. If it happened at Chernobyl, it could happen anywhere,” Ali told Hot Press.
You know thats exactly what I was thinking when I read Iran was resuming uranium enrichment. The world thought so too, judging by the massive global protests.
To mark the 16th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in 2002, Ali fronted a campaign to get households across Ireland to send postcards to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles and Norman Askew, chairman of British Nuclear Fuels, to shut Sellafield. “Britain is experimenting with our lives and we’re not even allowed in the debate,” Ali told The Guardian.
Unlike Iran which has courted and followed world opinion with its uranium enrichment.
In 2002, she and Adi Roche, founder of the Chernobyl Children’s project, were conferred with honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from University of Ireland, Galway. The Irish Labour Party approached Ali to run for president of Ireland in 2004, but she declined.
The Bono looks far more careworn and wan, oft borderline lugubrrious, than Dr. Gupta. Maybe thats cuz Gupta grew up in Michigan and doesn’t know shit about India and Africa like The Bono, his fans and New Zealanders.
But then its said that Michiganders have a keener sense of nobility and social justice based on their proximity to Canada alone.
I see that the vast reich-wing conspiracy has once again tried to suppress our sharing the news involving His Most Noblest, The Bono(PBUH). Surely by now, even you vile, hate-filled rednecks would realize that we peacefull, loving, Progressives will not tolerate such evil! I hope that all your children get sick and die! Or that Gaia manages to overcom the Shrubco weather machine and send hurricanes and tornadoes into every red state(natural retribution for * trying to kill black people!).
Adults in Canada find the claims of a singer and activist more credible than the words of their own prime minister, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 48 per cent of respondents think Bono was truthful when he accused Stephen Harper of “blocking progress” in the fight against global poverty.
Conversely, 28 per cent of respondents think Harper—who has said the allegations are “completely false"—is telling the truth, and 25 per cent are undecided.
I bet that if any of the righty-dominated Amerikkkan news groups could stop their BusHitler worship for a second, they too might think to ask the same question. Of course, we all know that the Progressives are the true majority, so Emperor Chimpy McHitlerBurton probably wouldn’t break 5% against The Bono.
JUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on “Madonna’s Malawi.” At the same time, the memoirs of an African child soldier are on sale at your local Starbucks, and celebrity activist Bob Geldof is touring Africa yet again, followed by TV cameras, to document that ”War, Famine, Plague & Death are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and these days they’re riding hard through the back roads of Africa.”
It’s a dark and scary picture of a helpless, backward continent that’s being offered up to TV watchers and coffee drinkers. But in fact, the real Africa is quite a bit different. And the problem with all this Western stereotyping is that it manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of some current victories, fueling support for patronizing Western policies designed to rescue the allegedly helpless African people while often discouraging those policies that might actually help.
We mean well so what if it kills even more people.
The real Africa also has seen cellphone and Internet use double every year for the last seven years. Foreign private capital inflows into Africa hit $38 billion in 2006 — more than foreign aid. Africans are saving a higher percentage of their incomes than Americans are (so much for the “poverty trap” of being “too poor to save” endlessly repeated in aid reports). I agree that it’s too soon to conclude that Africa is on a stable growth track, but why not celebrate what Africans have already achieved?
Excuse moi - What The Bono has made possible for Africans to achieve.
In truth, Africans are and will be escaping poverty the same way everybody else did: through the efforts of resourceful entrepreneurs, democratic reformers and ordinary citizens at home, not through PR extravaganzas of ill-informed outsiders.
The real Africa needs increased trade from the West more than it needs more aid handouts. A respected Ugandan journalist, Andrew Mwenda, made this point at a recent African conference despite the fact that the world’s most famous celebrity activist — Bono — was attempting to shout him down. Mwenda was suffering from too much reality for Bono’s taste: “What man or nation has ever become rich by holding out a begging bowl?” asked Mwenda.
Mwenda means “Bush” in Ogbo. I think.
Perhaps Bono was grouchy because his celebrity-laden “Red” campaign to promote Western brands to finance begging bowls for Africa has spent $100 million on marketing and generated sales of only $18 million, according to a recent report
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But He means well. So what if 80 mio are wasted if it makes The Bono feel good?
Mwendi also criticized Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, calling him a failure, a coward and a “villager”, and said the president’s days were numbered if he “goes on a collision course with me”.
There it is: The Ugandan Bushitler calling adversaries “peasants” and threatening their lives.
