Comments on: Live 8: Final Thoughts http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/07/04/live-8-final-thoughts/ like balloons, only with dancing Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:17:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Lynsey http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/07/04/live-8-final-thoughts/#comment-1953 Lynsey Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:06:53 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=1001#comment-1953 Please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you're gonna be like Bob Geldof, don't adopt his fashion sense! He looks so DIRTY all the time, with that mop of yucky hair (Geldof? More like Gandalf) and yesterday I saw him getting off the train in Scotland and his suit was all creased! Urgh... Please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you’re gonna be like Bob Geldof, don’t adopt his fashion sense! He looks so DIRTY all the time, with that mop of yucky hair (Geldof? More like Gandalf) and yesterday I saw him getting off the train in Scotland and his suit was all creased! Urgh…

]]> By: Lil http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/07/04/live-8-final-thoughts/#comment-1952 Lil Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:18:06 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=1001#comment-1952 Okay Andrew when I have money I'm going to hire you as my interpreter - you can construct clear, reasoned, interesting arguments like that so that I can get my point of view across coherantly (as opposed to my normal attempts of "yes but...the thingy! Argh!") XD Okay Andrew when I have money I’m going to hire you as my interpreter - you can construct clear, reasoned, interesting arguments like that so that I can get my point of view across coherantly (as opposed to my normal attempts of “yes but…the thingy! Argh!”) XD

]]> By: Andrew http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/07/04/live-8-final-thoughts/#comment-1951 Andrew Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:37:30 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=1001#comment-1951 There's a rather large straw man in that article. Nobody's claiming that the goals of Live 8 can fix poverty for good. Of course there's corruption - Bob Geldof has said that the African governments are as much to blame as everybody else. The trade policies of the G8 are currently biased in favour of the richer countries. Geldof and Bono studied for nearly a year under Jeffrey Sachs - a US economics professor with 20years of experience helping poor countries to get their economies going - in order to get at least a passable understanding of the issues involved. The article loses all credibility for me at this point: "Indeed, Bono seems to be comfortable in the company of fundamentalists. Jesse Helms, the racist, homophobic former senator who helped engineer the switch to faith-based government, is, according to his aides 'very much a fan of Bono.'(8) This is testament to the singer There’s a rather large straw man in that article. Nobody’s claiming that the goals of Live 8 can fix poverty for good. Of course there’s corruption - Bob Geldof has said that the African governments are as much to blame as everybody else. The trade policies of the G8 are currently biased in favour of the richer countries. Geldof and Bono studied for nearly a year under Jeffrey Sachs - a US economics professor with 20years of experience helping poor countries to get their economies going - in order to get at least a passable understanding of the issues involved.

The article loses all credibility for me at this point:

“Indeed, Bono seems to be comfortable in the company of fundamentalists. Jesse Helms, the racist, homophobic former senator who helped engineer the switch to faith-based government, is, according to his aides ‘very much a fan of Bono.’(8) This is testament to the singer

]]> By: Neil http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/07/04/live-8-final-thoughts/#comment-1950 Neil Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:14:28 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=1001#comment-1950 Before you let your hero worship go too far, have a look at this article by George Monbiot in the Guardian. The politicains may be taking Geldof, the other musicians and millions of well-intentioned people for a ride. http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/06/21/bards-of-the-powerful-/ Before you let your hero worship go too far, have a look at this article by George Monbiot in the Guardian. The politicains may be taking Geldof, the other musicians and millions of well-intentioned people for a ride.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/06/21/bards-of-the-powerful-/

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