BBC Newsnight on the outcome of the G8 conference. Both Bono and Bob Geldof comment. Geldof summarises eloquently: ‘What happened over the last few days is bollocks.’
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BBC Newsnight on the outcome of the G8 conference. Both Bono and Bob Geldof comment. Geldof summarises eloquently: ‘What happened over the last few days is bollocks.’
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Agree wholeheartedly with Bernhard. Thanks for posting this link.
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I am Canadian, and not at all proud of Stephen Harper. Quite embarassed, actually.
I agree – thanks for posting this!
I am Canadian, and not at all proud of Stephen Harper. Quite embarassed, actually.
As a Canadian, here are my thoughts.
It doesn’t surprise me that Stephen Harper refused to meet up with Bono at the summit. Apparently they already spoke on the phone regarding AIDS, etc.
Also, Canada keeps cutting back on social welfare programs such as public health and education for Canadians so it’s understandable that Harper is not that interested in helping out the poor in Africa.
Getting the G8 leaders to care for Africa is absolutely futile, because those leaders don’t give a toss about their OWN poor & taxpayers.
This shouldn’t only be an issue for the taxpayers living in the G8 countries (when governments pledge millions or billions of dollars for Africa, they use tax payers money).
Ideally, getting the leaders and upperclasses of those African countries involved in helping out their poor people’s AIDS & poverty problem would be more productive.
But history does repeat itself, and I think the African upper class are using AIDS as a tool to keep the poor from gaining any power by keeping them sick, too sick to become productive members of their society and to protect the upper class’ status in their society. This is social Darwinism in the 21st century.
This theory was used in Victorian England, when the Aristocrats were concerned about the poor’s rising population would menace their position in society. They did this by cutting the poor’s working wages, etc.
Even in the United States, the government ordered First Nations and Hispanic people to be castrated so they can stop pro-creating, for the same reasons as mentionned above: so they wouldn’t outnumber the upper class of American society.
The Nazis used this theory to give an excuse for them “cleanse” their society; to eradicate the uneducated poor, physically and mentally handicapped, the alcoholics, over-sexed persons, Christians, gypsies, homosexuals and the Jews.
What is going on in Africa with AIDS, has been and STILL is going on all over the world using various techniques such as psychosomatic drugs prescribed to orphaned children and the poorest of the poor in the G8 countries. Russia and China are known to torture people by performing lobotomies on drug addicts.
Please read the article on the following link regarding England’s seriously shocking problem with illiteracy, obesity, drug use, crime & STDs:
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070611_106150_106150
Poverty & AIDS is not just an Africa issue, it’s a global issue. World governments are playing with people’s lives every day, taking advantage of people’s ignorance and raping their freedoms. It’s got to stop.
As a Canadian, here are my thoughts.
It doesn’t surprise me that Stephen Harper refused to meet up with Bono at the summit. Apparently they already spoke on the phone regarding AIDS, etc.
Also, Canada keeps cutting back on social welfare programs such as public health and education for Canadians so it’s understandable that Harper is not that interested in helping out the poor in Africa.
Getting the G8 leaders to care for Africa is absolutely futile, because those leaders don’t give a toss about their OWN poor & taxpayers.
This shouldn’t only be an issue for the taxpayers living in the G8 countries (when governments pledge millions or billions of dollars for Africa, they use tax payers money).
Ideally, getting the leaders and upperclasses of those African countries involved in helping out their poor people’s AIDS & poverty problem would be more productive.
But history does repeat itself, and I think the African upper class are using AIDS as a tool to keep the poor from gaining any power by keeping them sick, too sick to become productive members of their society and to protect the upper class’ status in their society. This is social Darwinism in the 21st century.
This theory was used in Victorian England, when the Aristocrats were concerned about the poor’s rising population would menace their position in society. They did this by cutting the poor’s working wages, etc.
Even in the United States, the government ordered First Nations and Hispanic people to be castrated so they can stop pro-creating, for the same reasons as mentionned above: so they wouldn’t outnumber the upper class of American society.
The Nazis used this theory to give an excuse for them “cleanse” their society; to eradicate the uneducated poor, physically and mentally handicapped, the alcoholics, over-sexed persons, Christians, gypsies, homosexuals and the Jews.
What is going on in Africa with AIDS, has been and STILL is going on all over the world using various techniques such as psychosomatic drugs prescribed to orphaned children and the poorest of the poor in the G8 countries. Russia and China are known to torture people by performing lobotomies on drug addicts.
Please read the article on the following link regarding England’s seriously shocking problem with illiteracy, obesity, drug use, crime & STDs:
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070611_106150_106150
Poverty & AIDS is not just an Africa issue, it’s a global issue. World governments are playing with people’s lives every day, taking advantage of people’s ignorance and raping their freedoms. It’s got to stop.
U2Log.com: How Americans Get Thier G8 News
Take us over, China.
We won’t notice until you lock up Paris Hilton, anyway.
U2Log.com: How Americans Get Thier G8 News
Take us over, China.
We won’t notice until you lock up Paris Hilton, anyway.