hi Alan I always felt that Bono was a figleaf for Blair's dodgy dealings. Bono has been also criticised for tax avoidance, keeping his money off shore, and recently he started a hedge fund. It's disappointing I know, I always want rock stars to have integrity.
dave On 7 March 2011 20:53, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
