Thanks, that stuff is disillusioning. Moore's definitely the real thing; as I said, I just hope his audience is as well. -
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, dave miller wrote: > 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 > > == 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
