Bono's Hypocrisy Betrays Third World Aid Scam

Keeping Africans in chains while herding Westerners into the same prison cell

 

Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson | August 8 2006

 

Bono's latest efforts to dodge taxes and invest in the very capitalist franchises he supposedly rallies against prove that he is one of the leading characters in a puppet show that, far from helping emaciated kids in Ethiopia, serves only to keep the third world in chains while herding Westerners into the same debtor slavery prison.

 

It's commonly acknowledged that of the estimated $500 billion that has been poured into Africa over the last 40 years, the majority has gone no further than ruling dictators who keep the money and use it to bankroll their opulent lifestyles while their disease ridden subjects starve to death and are infected with AIDS from poisoned vaccines generously donated to them by billionaire philanthropists who advocate mass population reduction and genocide.

 

The only way to truly elevate third world is to give them the tools to build the infrastructure necessary for modernization.

 

But the World Bank/IMF/Globalist doctrine is not about improving the status of third world countries, its about bleeding westerners dry in the name of fighting poverty and AIDS and then siphoning off the profits to their own dirty cronies. Bono is a figurehead for this policy and was even in contention for the World Bank crown before losing out to arch Neo-Fascist Wolfowitz..

 

World Bank and IMF documents betraying a focused agenda to deliberately foment economic turmoil, riots, and then enforced bondage to eternal debt in countries like Argentina have been leaked.

 

The plan is not to elevate the third world but to lower the living standards of Americans by guilt-tripping them into financial sacrifice in the name of humanitarian disasters created by the globalists themselves, in addition to a global tax at the fuel pump mandated by the imaginary specter of global warming.

 

Meanwhile, Bono shifts his assets to offshore tax havens to avoid paying the very taxes that he campaigns for - this is he height of hypocrisy and exposes the beast that the U2 singer fronts for.

 

No doubt Bono would also embrace the virtues of the 'global warming' orthodoxy elite who zoom from each scripted press conference in their air-conditioned luxury jets while preaching that Americans must take their SUV's to the knacker's yard.

 

 

Notable therefore it is that Bono himself once ordered his favorite hat to be flown first class via British Airways to Italy at a cost of $1700.

 

The Wall Street Journal listed ten ways Bono could have put the money towards relief for the poor instead of ensuring he achieved just the right balance of urban cool for the gig that night.

 

Bono has always fitted the mold of the elitist yuppie icon, an image that is perfectly encapsulated in Bret Easton Ellis' Novel American Psycho, a work set in the 1980s but written a decade later, that typifies the seedy underbelly of American yuppie culture.

 

The Chapter Title is "Concert". The Narrator, Patrick Bateman, is a designer-label-wearing, drug-taking, Wall Street broker, who happens to torture and kill women in his spare time. The names of the other characters are not important. They go to a U2 concert almost by default and end up in the front row. There he feels a "connection" with Bono - the connection is of course a hideous, shallow and superficial yuppie connection that reveals more about Bono and his place in culture than it does about Bateman, who we already know is a horrid human being.

 

The much vaunted Live 8 and 'Make Poverty History' campaigns last year, organized in part by Bono, were again co-opted by controlling corporate interests and did little if nothing to help worldwide suffering.

 

Smaller charities were banned from participating and after the event it emerged that establishment charities like American Red Cross, World Vision and Oxfam had secretly met and divvied up a huge slice of the booty between themselves and kept it - as happened after the OKC bombing and September 11.

 

Veteran journalist Jon Pilger summed it up better than I ever could during last year's G8 meeting in Scotland.

 

"Africa's imperial plunder and tragedy have been turned into a circus for the benefit of the so-called G8 leaders due in Scotland next month and those of us willing to be distracted by the barkers of the circus: the establishment media and their 'celebrities.' The illusion of an anti-establishment crusade led by pop stars—a cultivated, controlling image of rebellion—serves to dilute a great political movement of anger. In summit after summit, not one significant 'promise' of the G8 has been kept, and the 'victory for millions' is no different. It is a fraud—actually a setback to reducing poverty in Africa. Entirely conditional on vicious, discredited economic programmes imposed by the World Bank and the IMF, the 'package' will ensure that the 'chosen' countries slip deeper into poverty."

 

VIDEO FROM "THE DAILY SHOW with JOHN STEWART" Taking about Bush and Bono meeting

 

In his many meetings with the British Prime Minister, Bono has failed to mention the fact that Blair's £15 million ID database system, used to monitor and control the lives of the British public with no discernable benefit to anyone but government snoops and mega corporations, would cover the cost of anti-retroviral drugs in Africa for the next three years.

 

Bono and Blair were playing bosom buddies for the cameras once again last weekend as they hob-knobbed with Rupert Murdoch, while informed speculation postulated a visit to the creme de la creme of old boy networks, Bohemian Grove.

 

Whilst Bono hangs around doing business with his elite pals then occasionally sounding off at them for the media, rock stars such as Thom Yorke of Radiohead take a more modest approach at illuminating their wrong doings.

 

When Yorke's dissenting voice became more prominently public last year he declined an invitation to meet with Tony Blair because he knew it would be spun into a PR device by Blair's cronies.

 

"I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines. It's a nasty business. It's up to people with pure integrity who know what they're talking about," said Yorke.

 

Whilst Yorke continues to use his rock status to berate Blair over his continued elitist and ignorant policies, Bono is using his to hob nob around with Blair in San Francisco on a personal business trip paid for by British taxes, a system that Bono clearly believes he is too good for.

i love bono, he's a great man.

It probably wasn't the best place to give out this info, a coldplay message board.

hahaha yeah.

haha i dont like U2 if that makes you feel any better??:cool:

dont say that....bono will find you

Well, I wouldn't count on him finding you.....he still hasn't found what he's looking for since 1987

LOL! Very funny.Can ANY of them be trusted??? I want to jump in and defend Bono here...but I can't quite do it.Certainly, he's raised awareness among the gereral public. It's too bad there are a lot of bad men on the other end. People have known for a long time now that sending money to Africa would do little good. If the war-lords who get it don't use it to finance their opulant lifestyle, they use it to stage troops and buy weapons. Even aid in the form of food and medicines is often confiscated by military and para-military groups. It's why Geldolf put so much emphasis on awareness-raising during Live 8. Awareness alone won't feed the hungry, but letting politicians know that they'll lose votes if they don't move for peace in Africa and elsewhere can make a difference!

 

Is Bono a hypocrit? I don't know. Coldplay also own an air-conditioned plane and I don't think that makes them hypocrits...lol.

Coldplay having their own Jet with the X&Y style paintwork make me feel slightly angry....they really don't need it and it takes them further and further away from the fans.....

They don't want to turn into U2.......where they put a concert on in Brazil and charge twice the average weekly wage for a ticket.......I thought if U2 cared so much then they surely wouldn't have made such a horrible blunder.

Agreed on the ticket prices...I was disgusted by that. But Coldplay are now worth an estimated $100, 000 000. It's up to them how they spend their own money, and as far as I know, they're still squirrelling away 10 percent of everything they earn for their causes. If I hear they're not doing that anymore, I'll be dissappointed.

:cry: Oh Bono.......

as far as I know' date=' they're still squirrelling away 10 percent of everything they earn for their causes. If I hear they're not doing that anymore, I'll be dissappointed.[/quote']

 

I'm glad they are giving some of their money to help good causes.....I just hope that the all money is getting used properly.

Bono is a lazy old fart who goes on about saving africa...

 

...but does he put any of his money towards the charity?

 

Nope, he will move it all to holland because the irish tax laws have changed.

Bono is a lazy old fart who goes on about saving africa...

 

...but does he put any of his money towards the charity?

 

Nope, he will move it all to holland because the irish tax laws have changed.

RIght, sadly.

 

Again I'm off-topic, but it's about Coldplay, and that's never off-topic here...Chris has actually gone to Haiti and Ganna and I think 1 or 2 others places to film Public Service announcements about his causes...These aren't safe places to be, even for a rock-star. He really seeems to put his money, and his private plane, where his mouth is!

 

It's sad to see Oxfam named as one of the charity organizations that secretly divied up a cut of the money after Live 8. I hope we don't see an article like this about Chris one day. I won't be able to believe in anything if that happens.

Did you know Oxfam shops ain't charities anymore, they are proper businesses.

Is that true.....I didn't know that.

 

It doesn't suprise me....even the so-called "respected" charities are cashing in.

I didn't know that either. I did know that World Vision used to be alot more legit...produced audits on request, spent 85percent of their money in the field, etc...those days are gone.

 

BTW, do the producers of products in the Oxfam shops at least collect the money...isn't that the point of Fair Trade??

That upsets me. Greatly. I really listened to Bono and Chris and the whole lot of 'em about the charities. I campaigned around my town and community and school and such for those charities and causes. And now BONO is a hypocrit?

Upsets me alot...I was a believer in Fair Trade before I was a Coldplay fan...still am! I doubt Chris is intentionally mis-leading ppl, and if Bono is, I doubt he started out that way. There may be corrupt ppl in high places in some of these organizations. But what they stand for is still good. Ending poverty and encouraging Fair Trade aren't the sole property of Bono and Chris. ANy compaigning you do in your school or work is still better than sitting back not caring.

bono has done more for this world THEN ANY OF YOU, yet you sit on your high horse and bash him....well i can say this, he's a better person then anyone on here. what have you done for this world? for the poor people in africa?

sponsored a child :)

Good for you, seriously that is awesome. but bono has done much more then that. im not selling what you did short, but people on here havent done nearly as much for the world as people like bono.

Well people on here havent done as much as Bono because they havent got the resources like he has.

Yeah, Nick. I know you're defending Bono... hell I didn't even attack him because I don't want to believe it... but the reason most people here don't do more for the poverished nations is the fact that we just don't have the money or the resources.

 

Bono's done a lot of good - nobody's belittling that. Just because someone's claiming he's corrupted now doesn't mean that he is corrupted, or that anything he did in the past is of no significance.

I dont think he is corrupt, this shit is coming from gareth aka captain conspiracy where everything thing in the whole world is one huge evil conspiracy theory.

 

it just pisses me off that people are attacking him when they have not done as much good as he did, for whatever the reason is...im sure there are people on here who would do more for the world if they had the funds but that does not give the right ot bash bono he's doing alot of good.