Posted on 09/22/2015 1:04:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you are allergic to fanfare you’d better bolt your doors and shutter your windows on September 25, because there is going to be a lot of it that day in the vicinity of the United Nations, when world leaders ratify the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. This is a genuinely big deal, of large consequence — let’s hope — especially for the poorest people on the planet, but you will be forgiven if some of you are rolling your eyes, or yawning, or worse.
At a time when Europe and the rest of the world are flailing in response to the massive refugee crisis in the Middle East, this hardly seems a time for grand commitments of any kind, unless it’s a commitment to stop stumbling over our own two feet.
It’s a fair and pressing question. If we can’t handle what’s happening in Syria — if we can’t even get the nomenclature right, insisting on calling these desperate refugees “migrants,” as if they had just packed their suitcases and moved north for a change of scene — how can we possibly handle the more chronic, endemic humanitarian crises of extreme poverty and hunger and sickness? Who, exactly, do we think we are, launching another fanciful campaign?
But pause for a second before you projectile vomit, and consider that the emergency in Syria shows exactly why we need to pursue — and achieve — these Global Goals....
(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...
At least Bob Geldof worried about shipping food to people who actually WERE starving.
This is a crappy birthday present...
When he has to go to school in the morning...his mother comes in his room and says “Get up Boner...Get UP!”!
Global Goals.....Inter planetary Soccer??
Two articles which illustrate the seriousness of the threat posed by this latest UN scheme:
No poverty, hunger in 15 years? UN sets sweeping new goals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3339301/posts
Global partnership needs ‘rejuvenation’ to achieve new sustainable development agenda – UN report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3339191/posts
ok. I read the article.
let me say this: it is not where we are, and it is not a solution.
But, it is an improvement over some things that he has said in the past. I do think Bono has matured. Not enough...but he’s going in the right direction (comparatively).
Yes, I’m partial to U2. So I like to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But at least he’s acknowledging that aid is not a solution, and that solutions only ultimately come from private sector.
that’s a big leap for someone as ideologically socialist from a very socialist country......
(I know. flame way...I don’t mind).
You’ve got quite a bit of money Boner.
Let us know when you run out.
There's one big difference between post war Europeans and Africans though. Europeans were capable of building stable societies before the war and wanted to rebuild the same afterwards. Africans have no experience of it and are comprised of so many tribal and feudal factions it is unlikely that the unity required to establish stable, self-governing modern societies is possible in the foreseeable future.
On that crucial point he is not being realistic.
LMAO!
Forbes estimate that Bono saved himself $25,000,000 in taxes by grabbing every tax dodge available to him on a global scale. Ireland, and the Isle of Man mostly. A real generous man with everybody’s money.....BUT HIS !
Yes, I’ve noticed that also.
It angers me when Leftist assholes start trashing the nation that has given more around the world than the rest of the world combined.
Someone should take this POS out behind the woodshed and give him a lesson in humility.
He is a well-informed capitalist when it comes to managing his own assets.
Bush finds another (faux) socialist to hug & kiss.
What a dip $#!+.
He flies around in a four engined jet ripping huge holes in the ozone.
He lives in palatial mansions with heated pools that consume more energy than an African village.
He has drivers in limousines that burn more fuel per hour than a family of four uses in a year.
Another idiot, sanctimonious hypocrite.
Right????!
And isn’t that frustrating?
He also (well, technically, his VC/PE firm Elevation partners) owns 46% of Forbes magazine.
So...in several other contexts, he is a real friend of and practitioner of capitalism!
Excellent and thoughtful post.
So I saw them in MSG in NYC in July. He praised America as being a land of innovation and in particular praised private companies putting money into AIDS research. He openly said that it is innovation which produces cures, and of course, he is right. But he does fail to fully grasp that only capitalism produces innovation.....
In another show in MSG, he praised Rick Santorum (whose daughter was in attendance) for his work that they did together with regards to Africa. In other shows that week he praised liberal Senators in attendance. But the point being, he is not afraid to praise a true pro life hero, Santorum, even though that will tick off libs who loathe him. All in all, he’s not “just a liberal”. It’s more nuanced than that.....
Si. Es verdad.
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