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Make Bono History!

riotact | 12.07.2006 09:07 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Ageing rock star Bono has shown his true colours by backing a video game which depicts an invasion of Venezuela. Multi-millionaire Bono is taking a break from his tireless work to end global poverty by promoting multi-national companies and making a bit of much needed cash for himself.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames depicts a fictional invasion of Venezuela to counter a 'power-hungry tyrant' who has seized control of the country's oil, a fairly crude shot at Chavez, who is increasingly becoming a thorn in the side of the US. Some cynical commentators have dubbed the game cheap propaganda.

Bono's private equity firm Elevation Partners paid $300 million dollars to bring the games makers Pandemic and software company Bioware together to create a new holding company called Bioware/Pandemic. Bono will therefore profit direct from the games sales.

Bono was recently called on to ask a question on yahoo. Impressed by yahoo's recent unethical activities Bono was keen to be associated with the company and asked the question 'What can we do to make poverty history?' ...

... err .. ignore Bono

Meanwhile if you do one thing to make 'poverty history' don't do this ... Sportrelief (we won't link if you don't mind). This over-hyped publicity stunt for Sainsburys is yet another patronising charade to allow over-developed egos to gain yet more inflated fantasies of their worth to the planet.

Already failed PM Blair has grabbed some column inches by showing his support for this dismal affair by running a mile at a recent photo-op. You heard right folks, a mile (though we'd like to see Prescott try it).

Should anyone ask the void for sponsorship to run a mile we've pledged to push them in a canal. This lame event as ever is aimed at maintaining the staus quo and allowing the likes of Sainsburys and Blair to attempt to score some 'ethical' brownie points.

Whilst liberals salve their conscience with a quick trot round the park before driving home in their SUVs, Sainsburys will continue to force producers in the Southern hemisphere and elsewhere to receive unfair compensation for their goods and labour.

If you truly want to do something to make poverty history boycott Sainsburys! (or move straight to sabotage of course ..)


U2's BONO BACKS INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/08/18286475.php

riotact
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Really ?

12.07.2006 10:16

So much easier to sit back and slag off others isn't it ?

I wonder if we made a calculation, who has done the most for eliminating world poverty Bono or you ?

As for the stupid video game there are at least seven or eight others in a similar vein that talk about invading countries, including Spain, New Zealand, Cuba, Canada and France. Grow up and chill out

DT


double standards

12.07.2006 12:49

It's still okay for liberals to salve their conscience by supporting Chavez then?

apathetic nihilist


make racism history! make imperialism history! make poverty history!

12.07.2006 16:12

with reactionaries such as bono, are profiting of off the suffuring of those who are suffering from what britian, the us, france etc having been doing in africa, etc.

what needs to be made aware is what imperialist countries such as britian are doing in africa, etc, with the stealing of resources, such as oil. at the same what the reactionaries such as bono and bob galdof are doing is hiding what is happening, with live aid and live 8. this simply hides what britian, etc are doing, by saying buy a white band will change everything.

as we know, this will not. until african fight back against imperialism, and have full control of their natural resources, their oil, their gold, etc, poverty will contine to exist in africa. the same is true with latin america, where changes are starting to happen, with venezula who has nationalise thier resources, and bolivia who has starting to nationalise their resources. along with cuba, their are fighting back against the evils of imperialism. these countries are showing not only that another world is possible, it is already here and that is socialism

we in britian need to support those that are fighting back against imperialism, until imperialism is made history!

TipoBarra


Trolls, and the showbiz pals of the monster Blair

12.07.2006 16:52

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It's still okay for liberals to salve their conscience by supporting Chavez then?
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Once again, Indymedia UK illustrates its unerring skill in attracting comments from the most extreme-rightwing ghouls. Why is it that the comments here tend to be 60% at least from people more at hope on a BNP, KKK, Free Republic, or New Labour site. Usually, the rule is that a forum would attract comment from the kind of person aligned with the supposed purpose of the site they are visiting.

The truth, of course, is that Blair's New Reich scum put an extraordinary amount of effort into trolling locations like this for one good reason. Because unstopped (and notice, the censors here NEVER target the trolls), ordinary people are very very easily discouraged from participation by such activity.

Across the net, the pattern is familiar. If you have an extreme pro-Israeli, pro-mass-murder-of-muslims opinion, you can find tens of thousands of forums across the net, ESPECIALLY linked to major news organisations, where censorship of this type of comment is about non-existent. On the other side, anti-depravity boards, few as they are, rapidly censor the strongest anti-war comments, and usually allow the trolls to flourish.

Co-incidence? Hardly. So called liberal sites are rarely as genuine as you may like to think (I stopped going to Commondreams, when they decided to ERASE all anti-Israel articles). When they are genuine, higher level supporters of Blair's and Israel's crimes against humanity put relentless pressure on the forum managers to take offense at every kind of powerful anti-Blair/Israel comment. For instance, using the word 'jew' becomes illegal despite the overwhelming use of the words 'muslim' 'islam' and 'islamist' by every news organisation and pro-Israeli site (I have had many of my comments here censored for using the word 'jew' when discussing Israel).

George Orwell understood this tactic well, and described it in the concept of 'newspeak', where the State controls the words you are allowed to use, thus destroying the ability to describe certain concepts in ordinary argument.

Anyway, back to the topic of the article. Many of us have made it clear for a long time that Bono, and Bob Geldof are the very best friends, and major supporters of Blair, and all of his works, especially his genocide in Afghanistan and Iraq. They no more seek to hide this, than did the showbiz pals of Adolf Hitler all those years back.

It is easy to spot a showbiz opponent of Blair. They are the ones being falsely raided for 'child-porn' on the very eve of launching a song against Blair's (then) coming invasion of Iraq. The historic protest by many millions against Blair's war in Iraq would have gained unstoppable momentum with a 'band-aid' style record (yes, that may seem sad to many of us, but understanding the truth about the psychology of the masses is more important). Blair was prepared to do whatever it took to stop such record appearing, include 'suiciding' key performers that couldn't take a hint, and punishing any organisation that help produce, publish, or promote such a record. Of course, it shouldn't shock any of you that a depraved monster looking forward to being the direct cause of the very worst kind of suffering for millions of Humans had no problem setting his attack dogs on a hand full of people in the music biz.

To understand the mind of Blair, you have only to understand the mind of Rose West (who raped, tortured and murdered the innocent for decades). What's that you say? There is no understanding the mind of a monster like West? That's right. BUT EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY, OR HOW, YOU ***KNOW*** THAT SUCH MONSTERS EXIST, AND EXIST SOLELY TO INFLICT UNTHINKABLE PAIN ON THE INNOCENT. Who is it that tells you that such monsters are never found in No. 10, or the Whitehouse? The greater the evil, the greater the power it seeks to accumulate, so that it may inflict pain to the maximum of its potential.

BLAIR HAD THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER A 'BAND-AID' STYLE RECORD AGAINST BLAIR'S INVASION OF IRAQ FALSELY RAIDED OVER 'CHILD-PORN'.

This is not my opinion, this is not my imagination, this is not my speculation, or calculation, this is a cold hard fact of history.

Fred and Rose West had neighbours to who, like you, bent over backwards to imagine them as good and reasonable people. The did not carry out the most depraved crimes for decades because those ordinary people that encounted them accepted that they were monsters, but did nothing. Instead, the West's were protected by the standard dellusion that monsters, no matter how well recorded in Human History, are actually some sort of fairy-tale of the past, or of distant lands.

We are sane, we say, and therefore every aspect of our immediate world must be sane. The monsters know how their victims think. And by victim, I include the people that live with monsters, but engage in the kind of self-delusions that allow the monsters to do growing evil untroubled.

Blair and his wife have minds that make the West's look like new-born babes. The Blair's live for depravity. Not the petty depravity that means you have corpses under the floorboards, and your latest victim screaming out her last words in your cellar. No, for the Blair's, we are talking about the depravity of slowing murdering a whole nation in front of the eyes of every person on the planet, with the promise that each and every one of us will live to envy the fate of the sorriest Iraqi victim, when Blair extends his aggressive wars all the way to China, with full blown use of every machine of destruction Man has ever invented, including nuclear and genetic weapons.

BLAIR INTENDS THAT THE WHOLE OF PLANET EARTH BECOMES ONE GIANT 'FRED AND ROSE WEST TORTURE-CELLAR". Bono and Bob Geldof will do their best to help him achieve this, just like the 'Bono' and 'Bob Geldof's of decades past helped create the torture factories called 'Magdeline Laundries' in Ireland. But then, what would you expect from such a nasty, misogynistic culture.

twilight


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is twilight still here

13.07.2006 01:54

I heard that the new reich issued a death warrant on twilight a few days ago.

i was hoping he would be on his way to guantanamo by now!

for fucks sake


Long live Bono

26.07.2006 18:42

You all are retarded if you want to get rid of bono. Look how much he hase done for Africa and cancer patients. You should all rot in f%#$ing hell.

shane


Mercs2

26.07.2006 18:49

Who give a rat's ass if there is a video game that lets you be violent. Why not get rid of the makers of GTA, or Americas army or better yet we should just allow our kids to play games like blues clue's and frikin' hello kitty. The people on this site suck massive balls and should choak and die on them. Honestly I think you are just a bunch of kids with nothing better to do than suck on cocks all day long and then complain to your gay ass mommies that you hate Bono because he is a success in life and you are just a failure.

shane


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