Welcome to the kittyradio.com forums.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. Remove these ads when you register. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us. | 
06-09-2007, 11:17 AM
|  | stratocaster | | Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 929
| |  Geldof and Bono blast G8 for betraying Africa
Geldof and Bono blast G8 for betraying Africa
By David Blair in Kühlungsborn
Last Updated: 2:20am BST 09/06/2007 Your view: Who are the better friends to Africa: Bono and Geldof or the G8? Video: Geldof's angry attack Video: Water-cannons target protesters David Blair blog: Protesters steal the show The G8 summit ended yesterday with world leaders pledging to spend £30 billion on fighting Aids, malaria and tuberculosis and stressing their determination to help Africa.  Geldof: £30bn pledge is a 'total farce'
But anti-poverty campaigners denounced this as a "betrayal" and said the headline figure was "misleading" .
Earlier announcements from President George W Bush account for half of the £30 billion and there is no sign that any new money arose from the summit in Germany.
The G8 has also "watered down" a pledge brokered by Tony Blair at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 to fund "universal access" to anti-Aids drugs, critics said.
As the G8 leaders left the Baltic town of Heiligendamm, Bob Geldof, the anti-poverty campaigner and rock star, called them "creeps" and denounced their work as a "total farce".
"The richest countries in the world, trillions of dollars swirling around that table, smiling in that stupid tent chair with the candy stripes. Do me a favour: get serious. This wasn't serious, this was a farce, a total farce," he said.
Bono, Geldof's fellow rock star and campaigner, accused the leaders of deliberate "obfuscation" and said the summit's final declaration masked their failure to reach a consensus on helping Africa.
The pair singled out the Canadian and Italian prime ministers, Stephen Harper and Romano Prodi, for blocking pledges for more aid.
But Mr Blair described the agreement on Africa as "progress".
The Gleneagles pledge to increase aid by £25 billion by 2010 - with half going to Africa -has been reaffirmed and Britain and America are on course to meet their side of this bargain.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who chaired the summit, said that everything realistically possible had been achieved. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/09/wgeight109.xml  |
06-09-2007, 11:27 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
Posts: 18,437
| | | I only tolerate Geldof because I think The Boomtown Rats fucking rule. I don't tolerate Bono at all. Grossgusting.
__________________
Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
06-09-2007, 12:18 PM
|  | ya basta | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: shallow grave
Posts: 1,533
| | | anyone who hasn't read is it just me or is everything shit? needs to refer to the entry in the book on bono |
06-09-2007, 12:20 PM
|  | #1 cunt-kicker-in | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northampton, UK:
Posts: 9,690
| | | Rich Irishmen are the new Jews. |
06-09-2007, 12:33 PM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
Posts: 18,437
| | | Does anyone else massively rate "Rat Trap"? It's fucking awesome.
__________________
Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
06-09-2007, 02:29 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 783
| | | Rich Irishmen are the new black. africans.
haha...why do the wealthy want to be poor africans?
I hate how they make Africa into some kind of trend.
And instead of creating jobs in these countries they just create
charity cases out of the people there.
All that PRODUCT RED/GAP clothing is actually made in CHINA!!!
except for a couple of shirts and jewelry that are actually made in
SOUTH AFRICA.
THAT IS PATHETIC.
FUCK THEM. |
06-09-2007, 05:18 PM
|  | thatyou didthis TOME | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Toronto
Posts: 1,894
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by SOG  Rich Irishmen are the new black. africans.
haha...why do the wealthy want to be poor africans?
I hate how they make Africa into some kind of trend.
And instead of creating jobs in these countries they just create
charity cases out of the people there.
All that PRODUCT RED/GAP clothing is actually made in CHINA!!!
except for a couple of shirts and jewelry that are actually made in
SOUTH AFRICA.
THAT IS PATHETIC.
FUCK THEM. | It seems to be a trend for a lot of people. Let's take up a cause that makes us look good. Not sure about Bono...
I love how Canada's PM Stephen Harper refused to meet with Bono. (He said it was not his "schtick" to meet with celebs, and he was at the G8 to meet with other leaders). |
06-09-2007, 08:19 PM
| | #1 cunt-kicker-in | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northampton, UK:
Posts: 9,690
| | | Does anyone else REALLY LOVE the smell of their own farts? |
06-09-2007, 08:40 PM
|  | afflicted | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: chicago
Posts: 302
| | | i wouldn't think bono was so ugh if so much money wasn't lost to corruption within african governments. i do believe in foreign aid, but i'm not sure "the west" can eliminate africa's problems like "we" started them long ago... |
06-10-2007, 12:42 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
Posts: 18,437
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci Does anyone else REALLY LOVE the smell of their own farts? | Probably. I can't say as I do. Not that I consider them to be powerfartz. Would an undernourished person's fart smell unusual? Would Bono's?
__________________
Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
06-10-2007, 12:57 AM
|  | in a strange way, hch > u | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: THAWNG ISLAND
Posts: 6,311
| | | bono istheantichrist |
06-10-2007, 02:09 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
Posts: 18,437
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by fagarielina bono istheantichrist | Annoying. I was intending to go to hell rather than heaven. But I have just changed my mind!
__________________
Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
06-10-2007, 11:45 AM
| | in a strange way, hch > u | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: THAWNG ISLAND
Posts: 6,311
| | u2 scares me
their humble beginings story was fabricated they were groomed at tavistock 
and theyre just so boring
and bad
and bonos a douche
just cos
so yeah hes the antichrist or an agent of such |
06-10-2007, 01:16 PM
|  | We Can Do It! | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: crow's nest
Posts: 21
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by SOG Rich Irishmen are the new black. africans.
haha...why do the wealthy want to be poor africans?
I hate how they make Africa into some kind of trend. | Its called 'full circle,' the Irish over a century ago were known as the "niggers of Europe." (literary reference)
Trend? Well to be fair, Geldof has been interested in Africa for the last 20 years and Bono's wife has been doing aid/charity type work for Africans for just as long. Its just a hot topic right now seeing that the first world is at its economic best. |
06-10-2007, 02:28 PM
| | #1 cunt-kicker-in | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northampton, UK:
Posts: 9,690
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by bort Probably. I can't say as I do. Not that I consider them to be powerfartz. Would an undernourished person's fart smell unusual? Would Bono's? | Rumours are swirling around the Bono's farts smell like George W Bush Jnr and Paris Hilton! |
06-10-2007, 02:32 PM
| | in a strange way, hch > u | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: THAWNG ISLAND
Posts: 6,311
| | the first world is at its economic best."
at the expense of so much more
all the aids in mah butt wont help because those corrupt govts are just doing their part in the network
and ultimately itall just kinda strengthens the economic/survival control factor by supporting their controlled and issued currencies only serving to propogate? the whole problem for further generations for as long as they so decide
but i cant talk shit i dont help anyone personally either
so im a douche
its all so weird
jerks!
the west is being set up for genocide anyway
hence our "economic best" to promote stagnant comfort and docility |
06-10-2007, 02:42 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 783
| | 
Instead of protesting against Blair and Bush they should be talking shit about China. Quote:
China desperately needs oil to sustain its nine per cent-plus economic growth rate. This is driving Beijing's efforts to gain ground on the African continent, which now supplies 25 per cent of its oil imports. China became the second largest oil consumer in the world in 2004, with imports totalling more than 100 million tonnes (approximately 800 million barrels). China's requirements will continue to expand and this could lead it into direct competition with the US over access to the world's oil supplies.
China is able to expand its influence in Africa partly because it is viewed with more credibility than Western states with imperialist legacies. "Its policy of emphasising non-interference in other states' internal affairs means that aid is not submitted to political conditionality as it is for Western states," Dr Dominique Jacquin-Berdal, an expert on the Horn of Africa at the London School of Economics, told JIR. Beijing is also freer to operate in areas such as Sudan, where issues such as human rights limit the range of actions available to Western governments and companies. On the other hand, it is only in these problem areas that Western oil companies have left an opening for the Asian newcomers.
|
Also there is a middle class in these African countries, NOT EVERYONE IS A FUCKING CHARITY CASE.
AT LEAST PROMOTE some real jobs, make some PRODUCTS IN AFRICA and buy it.
Like a FUCKING T SHIRT. ..how INSPI-RED..that would be or whatever shit slogan they use.
I am pissed. |
06-10-2007, 02:45 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 783
| | | When Everything In The World Is Manufactured In China...how Do They Expect These 3 World Countries To Grow Their Fucking Economies? |
06-10-2007, 05:11 PM
| | stratocaster | | Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 929
| |
Quote:
Originally Posted by SOG Rich Irishmen are the new black. africans. | | |
