Money Raised for Africa ‘Goes to Civil Wars’
May 14th, 2008Imagine my shock.
Do you really think that anyone who’s ever made a loan or grant to any dictator, anywhere in the world, has any doubt about what is going to happen with the money?
Sure, Bono is an idiot, people will say. Woops. Silly Bono.
While there are lots of idiots in the world, not many of them just happen to be A) responsible for genocide, directly, indirectly or otherwise and B) an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
It’s all a coincidence, of course. As usual.
Via: New Zealand Herald:
Billions of dollars raised for African famine relief by celebrities Bono and Bob Geldof have instead funded civil war across the continent, says terrorism expert Dr Loretta Napoleoni.
London-based Napoleoni, in Auckland to appear at the Writers & Readers Festival, has written two books, Terror Inc: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism and Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation, on the economics of terrorism.
Her latest book, Rogue Economics, studies the destabilising effect of economic globalisation, focusing in part on why more than half a trillion dollars worth of aid sent to Africa since the 1960s failed to reach the intended destination – developing the nations’ economies.
That huge amount of aid, which includes money from the United Nations and donations generated by Live Aid for Ethiopia, organised by Geldof, and the Live 8 concert in 2005, organised by Bono, has instead “served as a rogue force, notably as an important form of terrorist financing” in countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Kenya. Ethiopia, for example, received $1.8 billion in foreign aid between 1982-85, including a large contribution from Live Aid; $1.6 billion of that, she points out, was spent on buying military equipment.
Research Credit: samadhisoft.com
Bono – or “Boneo”, as I prefer to call him – is a 100% shill of the NWO.
Don’t anyone say he is Christian – he despises Christ. His hatred for Christ surfaces in many of his lyrics, which is unsurprising as he clearly views himself as a much finer mediator betweeen God and man than the Jesus he loathes. As the joke goes, “What’s the difference between Bono and Christ? Christ doesn’t walk around Dublin pretending to be Bono”.
As much as I still enjoy U2’s early catalog, and the rest to some degree or another, I have had a problem with Bono at some level or another from the get-go. I could never really put my finger on it, until South Park’s recent expose of his true origins…
…actually, it was about the time that he started receiving attention in the press for his political views. Then there’s the gazillions and the holding company and the investments and those f**king stupid sunglasses and that god**mned peace sign, as if aping Nixon getting on Air Force One was ever a good idea.
He’s a real tool alright.
I am a previously loving fan of Bono. “in the name of love, wars fought in the name of love,” to a catchy tune once sent me sighing.
eh, @Miraculix – It was when Bono put on his “shades” that some part of my being decided he was hiding something.
Hey Bono, if you’ve got an eye problem, I can understand.
But if you have to wear tinted lenses to cover your eyes all the time, you ARE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING.
Give me a freakin break. Bono, you have become a farking travesty. And by the way, your music since you put on the shades, also SUCKS.