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Bono's ONE foundation under fire for giving little over 1% of funds to charity
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Posted on 09/23/2010 9:34:59 AM PDT by Marty62
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"ONE said it took no money from the public and that most of its funding came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"
Interesting Who is running the B& M Foundation?
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:35:03 AM PDT
by
Marty62
To: Marty62
With a record like that, Bono has the potential of being the Czar of Charitable Giving in BO’s coven.
To: Marty62
No wonder he was trying to convince Bush to give more money to Africa - Bono’s money was already committed elsewhere.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:37:55 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Marty62
Bono and the rest of U2 are the wealthiest people in Ireland yet they pay almost nothing in taxes due to offshore shell companies in tax havens.
Ireland is broke and Bono wants taxpayers in western countries to shovel more “aid” money to Africa. Europe and the USA have given trillions to Africa since after WW2 and nothing has changed.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:38:04 AM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
To: Marty62
How much did they spend on platform shoes for The Ego?
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:38:13 AM PDT
by
LadyBuck
(In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
To: Marty62
Well, it is an anti-poverty foundation; and given that 74% of the donations are going to salaries, I'd say the foundation is doing a good job of fighting poverty among its employees.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:39:09 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Marty62
makes one go HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Fraud:
1.A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
2.A piece of trickery; a trick.
3.
a.One that defrauds; a cheat.
b.One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:40:29 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(marty60)
To: GSP.FAN
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:40:29 AM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: Marty62
Bono is just a turd. One big turd. Literally.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:40:46 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: Frantzie
Funny thing is that I have seen those exact same commercials about poor starving children in Africa since 1964. I wonder if living under Communist Dictator Control has anything to do with poverty?? Nah, can’t be
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:41:21 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: Marty62
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:42:25 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29. Over 400 roll call votes missed and counting...)
To: Marty62
Another one of those slush funds.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:43:52 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Marty62
To: Marty62
Sounds like they're doing it pro Bono.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:45:08 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Marty62; kittymyrib; Flag_This; LadyBuck; r9etb
This is a typical caricature of celebrity charity. They don’t even pretend to be helping people. All their money goes to lobbying politicians to spend other people’s money and “raising awareness” rather than actually helping the poor and starving on the ground.
I’m sure it buys a lot of ad time, subway posters, plane tickets, limos and catering. I doubt if “The Statesman” and Lord Protector of Africa—Bono even knows or cares what this outfit does on a day-to-day basis. I’m betting that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become a standard unsupervised monster charity that that has been taken over by careerist staffers and is run for their benefit, while accomplishing very little of substance.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:45:46 AM PDT
by
sinanju
To: Marty62
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:48:20 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29. Over 400 roll call votes missed and counting...)
To: Marty62
Just another liberal hypocrite. A has been trying to get his fair share for his retirement.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:48:27 AM PDT
by
albie
To: eyeamok
After a half a century of starving to death one would think they would have got there by now.
To: Frantzie
Far better, he said, is finding Westerners to invest in African entrepreneurs or businesses, which would create wealth. Mwenda, like other speakers, described at length the investment opportunities in Africa. (I half expected the pitch to be directly addressed to Doerr et al.) This line of argument enraged Bono, however, who began heckling Mwenda. "Bollocks!" he shouted. "That's bullshit." Bono is a strong supporter of intelligently managed aid. When it came his turn to speak, he said that Ireland's current prosperity is explained by government investment in its people, particularly education. He said that listening to Mwenda was like listening to an African Margaret Thatcher. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/pontin/17618/
doesn't sound very intelligent to me.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:49:42 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: eyeamok
“I wonder if living under Communist Dictator Control has anything to do with poverty??”
That seems to be the case in Detroit.
America is heading down that path with the the Commie Imam from Kenya.
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posted on
09/23/2010 9:50:07 AM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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