Hi, just curious, why is Bono a fraud? I didn't read him like that.
Moore is great but what really needs to happen - people have to act, have to strike, and whether that will happen, I don't know. I think the governor's waiting for the ranks to break from hunger, exhaustion, just plain attrition. If that happens, everything's lost, - Alan On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, dave miller wrote: > I agree Alan, it gives me hope. > > I dont know why we are so apathetic in the UK - generally speaking - > of all this. What Moore says applies here -equally so, especially in > the City. If we dont stand up for ourselves soon it will be too late, > game over for us little people. Even Mervyn King, the governor of the > Bank of England, said he's amazed there hasn't been major unrest. > > I'm really glad someone with a high profile, a celebrity figure, is > speaking out loudly. People will listen to him. I hope we see a lot > more of this. But I've been trying to think of a similar figure in the > UK who could do what Moore is doing in the video, and I cant really > imagine anyone who has big-time celebrity "fame" status, and who would > be likely to speak up spontaneously. > > Do we have any famous people who people really respect who is likely to do > this? > > We've had Bono and geldof but they were always a bunch of frauds in my > mind at least. People love Richard Branson, but he's part of the > problem (even though he pretends he's not). > > Who do we have? Alan Sugar? Bruce Forsyth? > > > dave > > On 7 March 2011 17:48, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you so much for sending this - it's amazing. I'm surprised the fury >> hasn't gone farther - that there's not a general strike in this country. >> Everyone should watch this - Alan >> >> >> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, dave miller wrote: >> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNuSEZ8CDw&feature=player_embedded >>> >>> Is there someone in the UK who can do this here? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
