Bono’s neighbors have been banned from using their fireplaces after he complained about smoke in the building.
The U2 singer, who owns The San Remo penthouse on New York’s highly desirable Central Park West street, was unhappy with the smoke coming from his neighbours’ apartments and formally requested all open fires be stopped.
A source told the New York Post newspaper, “Bono recently complained of smoke from neighbouring apartments and now there has been in a ban on fireplace use in the whole building.”
But the ‘With or Without You’ singer is rumoured to be moving downtown.
Bono and bandmate The Edge were recently spotted in the hot-pink Julian Schnabel tower at 360 West 11th Street with clipboards and brokers and sources say Bono is planning to buy the top two floors there.
I’ll bet Africans everywhere are rejoicing this newest Symbol of Bononian Hope.
United in their desire to make the world a better place, Bono and Cherie bravely travel to the depths of the Cote D’Azur to unveil a fountain
By Victoria Ward 04/09/2007
It’s truly astonishing the sacrifices some celebrities make to help mankind…
Here’s Bono and Cherie Blair giving up their time to make the long slog to the Cote D’Azur in the south of France to unveil a fountain dedicated to religious harmony.
They even managed to cosy up and share a joke at yesterday’s gruelling event in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, one of Europe’s most exclusive resorts and home to the rich and famous.
They braved the sun and sea air to attend the unveiling of the fountain, which bears the word Coexist and carries lettering made up of different religious symbols.
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It was donated by Saudi businessman Mohammed Jameel. Antipoverty campaigner Bono and Cherie’s visit came just days after the pair were snapped soaking up the Mediterranean sun with her husband Tony and daughter Kathryn on a yacht owned by France’s richest man Bernard Arnault.
After the ceremony, human rights lawyer Cherie pointed to her watch and muttered something to the U2 frontman.
Perhaps she was reminding him he had a driver picking him up to take him to his plush villa in Eze - just around the corner from Cap Ferrat - so that they could endure drinks on the terrace.
After being lobbied by rock stars to “make poverty history” in Africa, G8 countries doubled foreign aid to Africa from US$25 billion to $50 billion in 2005. But as advocacy for increased aid grows ever stronger, what do we have to show for it?
I couldn’t guess. I’m American. Tell us.
Take bednets, for example: development economist Jeffrey Sachs, along with celebrities such as Bono and Bill Clinton, has often lobbied for free bednets to protect against malaria. But a study of a free-bednet programme in Zambia showed that 40 per cent of recipients didn’t use them. By contrast, a project to sell nets for 50 cents to mothers in Malawi by the non-profit organisation Population Services International increased the national average of the number of children under five using nets from eight per cent in 2000 to 55 per cent in 2004, and a comparable rise in use by pregnant women. The nets were bought by those who valued and needed them most.
Liar.
Although the West’s ambitious plans to end poverty are well intended, they are doomed to failure by an apparent refusal to learn from previous mistakes, their unaccountability and because they try to solve everything at once. It’s time for a re-think.
More lies.
Western aid has been plagued by a utopian mindset that poverty can be eradicated simply by money. This mentality has persisted since the 1950s, influencing the way the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund work, but has not yet solved the problem. ‘Big plans’ set admirable goals without taking full responsibility for implementing them. There are no real consequences to the planners for failure.
Shut up
Western aid has been plagued by a utopian mindset that poverty can be eradicated simply by money. This mentality has persisted since the 1950s, influencing the way the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund work, but has not yet solved the problem. ‘Big plans’ set admirable goals without taking full responsibility for implementing them. There are no real consequences to the planners for failure.
SOMEBODY TASE THIS LIAR!!!
One approach would be to use development vouchers for the extremely poor, which could be redeemed at any aid agency for benefits such as vaccinations, textbooks or seeds.
China, India and Japan have achieved staggering economic growth, largely under their own steam. Their example should surely convince the aid community to re-think their role as saviour of the poor.
They make cheap stuff from oil, is all. Oil can’t last. Hemp can.
I am shocked! SHOCKED I say! I just watched the latest South Park, and was delighted when The Bono(PBUH) was featured. My delight turned to mild distaste as the creators of South Park(obvious Bush worshippers) created a fictitious “Biggest Crap” award, and claimed that The Bono was the current record holder. They went furhter, and by the end were insinuating that The Noblest of Nobles was in fact, a living, breathing piece of poo.
My outrage was intense.
This cannot and must not go unpunished! A jihad of Peace and Love must go forth! Our Noble Number must don the Love vests, find the creators of this filth, and give them explosive assisted hugs! The Bono’s good name must be avenged In the Name of Love! One! Vertigo!
I am shocked! SHOCKED I say! I just watched the latest South Park, and was delighted when The Bono(PBUH) was featured. My delight turned to mild distaste as the creators of South Park(obvious Bush worshippers) created a fictitious “Biggest Crap” award, and claimed that The Bono was the current record holder. They went furhter, and by the end were insinuating that The Noblest of Nobles was in fact, a living, breathing piece of poo.
My outrage was intense.
This cannot and must not go unpunished! A jihad of Peace and Love must go forth! Our Noble Number must don the Love vests, find the creators of this filth, and give them explosive assisted hugs! The Bono’s good name must be avenged In the Name of Love! One! Vertigo!
Wicked, I’ll have to try and find that episode - sounds great.
Was ‘biafra’ or ‘jabba’ mentioned in the writing credits?
Wicked, I’ll have to try and find that episode - sounds great.
Was ‘biafra’ or ‘jabba’ mentioned in the writing credits?
Obviously, Good and Noble Jabba had nothing to do with such filth. He is, after all, a Critical Thinker of the highest caliber, and his devotion to The Bono(PBUH) knows no bounds. Unlike you, you shrub-worshipping ReThug! Why, perhaps some little African child(starving, with AIDS, no less) should give you an explosive-assisted hug, courtesy of a Peace Vest! It would be one less acolyte of BusHitler around! Why, the very idea that someone would laugh at the idea of The Bono(PBUH) be a living, breathing piece of shit is almost as repulsive as the original idea!
Due to my fascist rightwing neocon tendencies and membership in the VRWC, I’m worried about the possibility of The Bono (PBUH) confiscating it to give to some needy (and infinitely more noble and deserving) prole. Do you guys think this will happen, or will he (In The Name Of Love) show mercy upon me for donating to the cause?
Think if I say three Hail Bonos and download Achtung Baby off iTunes I’ll be safe?
Due to my fascist rightwing neocon tendencies and membership in the VRWC, I’m worried about the possibility of The Bono (PBUH) confiscating it to give to some needy (and infinitely more noble and deserving) prole. Do you guys think this will happen, or will he (In The Name Of Love) show mercy upon me for donating to the cause?
Think if I say three Hail Bonos and download Achtung Baby off iTunes I’ll be safe?
You shut your infidel mouth! The duck has been one of us for some time now.
I’m thinking of buying a red iPod.
Due to my fascist rightwing neocon tendencies and membership in the VRWC, I’m worried about the possibility of The Bono (PBUH) confiscating it to give to some needy (and infinitely more noble and deserving) prole. Do you guys think this will happen, or will he (In The Name Of Love) show mercy upon me for donating to the cause?
Think if I say three Hail Bonos and download Achtung Baby off iTunes I’ll be safe?
So long as it’s red, combined with the “Hail (The) Bono"s, even BusHitler himself could keep his iPod. Besides, your previous postings show your tru colors as a follower of The Bonoism. His soul(ha) would be sent to an even lower plane of Hell for his blasphemy, but his iPod could keep playing what I’m sure is White Supremecist music. Rest assured dear deceased fowl, your IPod will be safe. So long as it’s an inspi(red) purchase.
I am shocked! SHOCKED I say! I just watched the latest South Park, and was delighted when The Bono(PBUH) was featured. My delight turned to mild distaste as the creators of South Park(obvious Bush worshippers) created a fictitious “Biggest Crap” award, and claimed that The Bono was the current record holder. They went furhter, and by the end were insinuating that The Noblest of Nobles was in fact, a living, breathing piece of poo.
My outrage was intense.
This cannot and must not go unpunished! A jihad of Peace and Love must go forth! Our Noble Number must don the Love vests, find the creators of this filth, and give them explosive assisted hugs! The Bono’s good name must be avenged In the Name of Love! One! Vertigo!
But for the bankers and loan brokers in attendance, the glum mood was broken somewhat by U2 singer Bono, the featured speaker at the association’s gathering at the Hynes Convention Center. Bono is on the lecture circuit, using his rock superstar status to advocate for aid for the poor and disease-wracked of Africa.
“You’re sitting there thinking you’re having a bad day, and he’s talking about millions of people in Africa - the poverty,” said Maureen Ostrom, one of thousands who caught Bono’s speech at 8:30 a.m.
“It was just so inspirational,” she said, as co-worker Sal Mazzocca, seated next to her, sang a few bars of the U2 hit “Running to Stand Still.”
The thousands who crowded into the auditorium sat in rapt attention as Bono told a story of an Ethiopian father who once begged the singer to take his son home to Ireland with him so the boy would not die of starvation or AIDS.
I’m sure that the boy is in a paradise, unable to be described in words, as he is surely living so near to The Bono(PBUH) in Ireland. After all, His Nobleness could surely not refuse such a request. A child in danger of both starvation and AIDS? A mere mortal would tote such a child around to show how caring they are. The Bono needs no such displays. I’m sure that He only mentioned it because He did something about it, and to show the bankers how true Critical Thinking is done!
The article was nearly ruined by one section:
“We were bummed we missed it,” said Mary Pirello, who heard a rumor that Bono - said to be just 5 feet 6 inches tall - wore platform shoes on the podium. His outsized image was projected on two giant video screens flanking the stage in the hall.
Lies, lies, lies! Obviously the Reich Wing Smear machine is in full overdrive, starting rumors about The Bono(pbuh)! Were I any angrier, I might issue forth a good old fashioned Progressive War Cry. For you shrub-worshippers, it starts with a “Y” and ends with an “EEEEEEEEEAAARRRGGGHHH!!!”
So long as it’s red, combined with the “Hail (The) Bono"s, even BusHitler himself could keep his iPod. Besides, your previous postings show your tru colors as a follower of The Bonoism. His soul(ha) would be sent to an even lower plane of Hell for his blasphemy, but his iPod could keep playing what I’m sure is White Supremecist music. Rest assured dear deceased fowl, your IPod will be safe. So long as it’s an inspi(red) purchase.
Oh thank The Bono (PBUH)! I’m so happy! I haven’t had a chance to make my purchase yet, but I’m glad to know all will be well.
I know I shouldn’t be so concerned — after all, not only do I deserve to have my ipod confiscated to atone for my sins against the countless noble souls that have been further trampled underfoot as a result of my beliefs and opinions, but it should warm my heart to think of the joy my red ipod could give to a downtrodden prole. Especially if I were to fill it with 8 holy gigabytes of The Bono’s (PBUH) heavenly tunes!
But what can I say, I have to be honest — I am concerned. I have yet to reach the level where I am truly selfless and at one with the proletariat. Thankfully, The Bono is perfect in his understanding and will not smite me for my selfish ways. In The Name of Love.
But anyway, I better get with the atonement....
Hail The Bono, full of nobility. The Edge is with the. Blessed art thou among proles...
Oh thank The Bono (PBUH)! I’m so happy! I haven’t had a chance to make my purchase yet, but I’m glad to know all will be well.
I know I shouldn’t be so concerned — after all, not only do I deserve to have my ipod confiscated to atone for my sins against the countless noble souls that have been further trampled underfoot as a result of my beliefs and opinions, but it should warm my heart to think of the joy my red ipod could give to a downtrodden prole. Especially if I were to fill it with 8 holy gigabytes of The Bono’s (PBUH) heavenly tunes!
8 gigs of The Bono’s(PBUH) tunes… makes me feel all a-tingle just thinking about it.
But what can I say, I have to be honest — I am concerned. I have yet to reach the level where I am truly selfless and at one with the proletariat. Thankfully, The Bono is perfect in his understanding and will not smite me for my selfish ways. In The Name of Love.
But anyway, I better get with the atonement....
Hail The Bono, full of nobility. The Edge is with the. Blessed art thou among proles…
You go girl! The Noblility is clearly deep in your soul. Don’t be so hard on yourself. After all, nobody’s The Bono. Other than His Nobleness, obviously.
Bono will present Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with the Outstanding Achievement Award at YouthAIDS’ upcoming annual fundraising gala.
The event, taking place at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean, Virginia, on Nov. 2, will also include guests Ashley Judd and Emmy Rossum.
The Indian-themed gala will highlight Faces of India, a documentary about Judd and YouthAIDS founder Kate Roberts’ three-week visit earlier this year to the Asian country. The documentary airs on the National Geographic Channel Dec. 1, which is World AIDS Day.
If anyone else did this I’d call them circle-jerking, ass-sucking, self-serving, self-congratulatory, vain moral inbreeders… but this is The Bono.
U2 star Bono has revealed how it took him over 20 years to finish a song he originally wanted to include on their classic 1987 album The Joshua Tree.
The singer penned Wave Of Sorrow about his experiences in Ethiopia, where he went as a charity worker with wife Ali after the band appeared at Live Aid in Wembley Stadium.
Well, how could He have finished it in any less than twenty years? What with the starving children with AIDS in Africa, the Katrina disaster, and BusHitler, it makes perfect sense. The Bono(PBUH) has more to say on the subject however, and all should heed His Noblest’s’s words.
“Myself and Ali saw all these sights that you really shouldn’t ever have to see. People would walk through the night, all night, to these feeding stations. They would lay their children down, and sometimes they would be dead. Or they wanted to give them away.
“And I was struck by the fact that Ethiopia is such a mythic country. It was never colonised the way the rest of Africa was. It was the land of the Queen of Sheba and all these emperors. These were all huge figures.
“It was said that Solomon and Sheba had this relationship, we hear about it in the scriptures. And she brought gold and sandalwood and spices to him. I was contrasting it in my head with this parched land we were in at the time,” revealed Bono.
I know the feeling all too well. I have no children at this time, but if I did, I’d give them to The Bono in a second.
I’m sure that the parched land is all due to the Shrubco Weather machine, or Global Warming, or chemtrails, or some other rethug plot. Damn that boosh and his hatred of black people! Good thing that The Bono was there to put a stop to the suffering! I’m sure that Ethiopia is a thriving bastion of hope, what with it having twenty years to implement The Bono’s lessons.
Bob Geldof And Bono Criticized For Worsening African Plight
The head of a leading African AIDS charity has blasted philanthropic efforts by the likes of Bob Geldof and Bono for helping to increase problems in the continent instead of relieve them.
No need to read any further. This guy is an Uncle Tom firmly in George W. Bush’s pocket. So is this dirty Jew:
A massive 2,800-word article in Monday’s Washington Post (web site) paying homage to Bono quotes the rock star as saying he puts “flesh and blood on statistics” about AIDS. The problem is that, only six days earlier, the paper noted that the U.N.’s estimate of AIDS cases has been vastly overblown by millions. Which raises the question: The U.S. Government has spent $200 billion on AIDS, based on the figures supplied by the U.N. and other agencies. Where has all the money gone? Does anybody in the media care? Does Bono?
Auschwitz should be re-opened for a day to anyone saying something like this:
President Bush, of course, adopted the cause as his own and even became a collaborator with Bono.
The Bono (PBUH) has been wandering the streets of Omaha again!
Sunday morning, he was spotted having breakfast at the Dundee Dell. Sunday evening he was spotted having dinner at another Dundee restaurant with Susie Buffett (Warren’s daughter). Evidently he’d come to Omaha for a meeting of some charitable organization that Susie heads up, and he’s on the board of.
No, I did not personally set eyes on him, but there were pictures in the local rag last evening.
I’ll just bet the balmy evening air was rife with the fragrance of patchoulie and myrrh…
Tonight Bono will receive the NAACP’s Chairman’s Award at the 38th NAACP
Image Awards.
Watch live on Fox at 8 PM EST/PST
Established in 1967, the NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice.
The Chairman’s Award will be given to Bono “in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service.”
Thats right, of all the serious TV stations out there foxynews is airing this.
U2 frontman Bono has partnered with Hard Rock International to release a customized T-shirt for Hard Rock’s Signature Series. Proceeds from the sale of the T-shirt, designed by Bono and available at Hard Rock locations worldwide, will benefit the Wildlife Conservation Cotton Initiative, which aims to educate African farmers on land management and growing technique. Bono is the 25th musician to design a T-shirt for the series, joining such acts as Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Green Day and Ozzy Osbourne.
I thought humans originated in Africa? Why don’t they know how to grow stuff there the right way?
