and this is the cunt swanning with blair in the red zone

Cunt?

Broke-dick is more like it.

"Listen, it would be harder for you to get a student loan than it was for President Mobutu to stream billions of dollars into his Swiss bank account while his people starved on the side of the road. Two generations later, the Congolese are still paying. The debts of the fathers are now the debts of the sons and the daughters."

This is the only worthwhile statement contained in Bono's speech. I get the impression he is being used like a tool to promote NWO agendas, like the intensive global vaccination programmes, promoted by Clinton and Wolfenson at the last UN conference, as their effort to 'assist' Africa.

Starvation and war kills more people than measles, Africans need fed not jabs. Jobs, not guns.

MMR vaccine causes, autism, Chrone's Disease, allergies, migraine, epilepsy, MBD. A.D.D and M.E. and many other undisclosed conditions in later life, like senile demetia.

International PR wanker, used by fund raising organisation
Greenpeace to publicise their stunts which are designed to keep the cash flowing in and do next to nothing to save the
environment.
Member of the Irish music mafia which has a big say in how this totally un democratic pile of bullshit is run.

mainstream corporate music is used to market a whole series of products which are the main part of our unsustainable life style .. Bono is an ambassador for capitalism.

U2, particularly Bono, has always picked up the latest political trend for what appears to be almost messianic egotism, rumerative gain and somewhere in there is some unease that their lifestyle is at odds with the vast majority of people on this planet. First it was saving the world from The Bomb - now they've nothing to say about the NMD.

Then it was Band Aid which unwittingly became a tool of the genocidal Soviet-style junta of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam thanks to rock star ignorance and NGO incompetance.

Then it was the mothers of the disappeared in Latin America and other human rights concerns in an effort to steal some of Sting's and Peter Gabriel's market on the Amnesty front.

Then it was holding hands with Trimble and Hume after the Northern Ireland, emulating Bob Marley's symbolic attempt to stop political violence in Jamaica.

Now it's the 'drop-the-debt' campaign, in which Bono loves it up with the Pope and a few dictators. He grovels with Bush and Blair to back the disgraceful Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, which forces countries to step up their neo-liberal programmes in return for mild debt cancellation. He's under this illusion that debt cancellation in itself is the cure-all, with little understanding of the whole political economy which debt is a part of. There's no broad analysis, no grass-roots activism, no complexity, just Bono at the head of a single-issue crusade which is ultimately unlikely to change anything in the developing world.

But these are all band-wagons for an ego that needs to be loved and be seen as a saviour. I don't feel I'm being unfair or bitter at all. Just look at the crap he said in that speech: "GOD writes us these lines but we have to sing them. Take them to the top of the charts but its not what the radio is playing". He believes he's on a fucking divine mission! Just string together a few prententious words that rhyme and sound 'cool', and it they become 'the oxygen of politics'.

It's as if God worked through Bono and thus the anti-globalisation movement was born. But I've never seen Bono march alongside me or my comrades through the world and suffer the blow of police batons. No - in fact he condemns us for 'violent behaviour'!

Which was:-
'Is America still a great idea as well as a great country?'

It is obviously neither and hasn't been since Truman/Acheson - America's dream has become everyone else's nightmare. Their leaders have indeed created a Rogue State (check William Blum's book of that name for the full gory monty) with a long history of squashing democracy and dreams of betterment for the poor wherever they find it.

They demonise, banalise, falsify and distort and for what? 400 people$ bottom line.

They gotta go. Preferably before there's yet another of their corporate $ponsored genocides...

Has anyone taken a look at how much of the world they've bought up on the back of WB/IMF 'policies'.

I ramble. Y'all know this shit.

Bono's latest (crap) video is promoting the Lara Croft movie, garnering millions more dollars for him and the media moguls. Bono is in bed with Capitalism, how can he oppose it?

Don't confuse the US government with the Americans. Less than a fifth of the electorate voted for Bush II and I know some of them are just as pissed off with globalisation, although their hatred is mainly directed at the UN. Most Americans, like most Europeans, are fed on a diet of highfibre bullshit which keeps them in ignorance.

However, you can motivate Americans by appealing to the positive elements of their heritage - the pioneering spirit, the idea of building a newer and better world, communities that defend and support themselves, etc, even if this original dream resulted in genocide and slavery. But there is still a sense of idealism in the US that I think anti-capitalism can tune into. I believe that even the most diehard Mormon can find socialism within their heart.

In the name of love