Live8 - Discuss (rich demanding an end to poverty!)

Let's face it. We're billionaires compared to billion+ living on less than a dollar a day. But I hear what you're saying and whilst it may seem incroguous, as ColHol says they have influenfence and power and if it makes the G8 leaders think that little bit harder well it's a job well done.

Its all just another Rock Show and a walk in the park.

OLDYELLAR wrote:

sO WHAT if the people organising it have money and wealth , their doing their bit , at least their doing something , jesus christ this is whinge nation , people aernt doing anything whinge , then when people try to do something people whinge about them too , ffs .

I think we Irish think we're the whingeist nation on earth - we're no different than the British, French, German, American....As a discussion topic this iss as relevant as anything else and I didn't see it as a whinge. Chap was just asking a qeustion.

To all the cynics: What have you done to make the world an even slightly better place today? :mad:

The fact of the matter is that a bunch of (celebrity) musicians can sway people's opinions more than any other group - whether or not they are credible and whether or not they can afford a nice car is hardly relevant... (they're pop/rock stars, FFS).

It's easy to take them down, especially when you do nothing yourself.

Oh yeah. People are dying on another continent. Again. Still. *yawn*

:mad:

It's amazing to think 10 years ago you would have been considered a communist loony to be so crazy as to call for debt cancellation, fair trade and more aid. Now it's all gone mainstream.

Seems like those so-called do-nothing, D4 crusties were on to something.

I just hope people's passion doesn't evaporate after the Live8 event and the G8 leaders, once again, trick people into thinking positive steps have been made to develop Africa.

The scale of corruption and chaos in Africa almost beggars belief. Slavery is rampant on the Saharan fringe of Sub-Saharan (Arabs have never stopped enslaving Black Africans). Almost all African governments and their officials are corrupt and/or deranged. Even the so called success stories like post-apartheid South Africa are myths. I detested apartheid, but the idea that so kind of rainbow nation has emerged is ludicrous. Its become the most violent country on earth (and that includes insurgent Iraq). Interpol have estimated that there are between 50,000 and 54,000 murders PER ANNUM in South Africa. Yet, because of some kind of myopic naivety, they are awarded the World Cup.

Like the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/Aid’s is rampant. Its health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, is deranged. She’s a believer in the writings of William Cooper. In case you don’t know Cooper was killed in a shootout with police 2001 when they turned up at his bunker/compound in Arizona. He wrote a book called “Behold a Pale Horse” where he accused the West of having introduced Aid’s into Africa via the smallpox vaccine. Tshabalala-Msimang distributed his book around the South Africa health ministry. Apparently, she believes that antiretroviral Aid’s drugs are being used for the same purpose.

Aid’s is rampant in Africa for four reasons.

1. VD has never been tackled in Africa, so people are more prone to having sores and lesions on their genitals.
2. Africans are wildly promiscuous.
3. Anal sex is central to African male sexuality.
4. Africans are in total denial.

Yes, aid and trade justice are important. However, unless there is a complete and total transformation in Africa, it will achieve little more than creating a tiny rural elite. Who will promptly oppress and crush their African brothers and sisters.