Posted on 06/24/2005 10:34:30 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
Bob Geldof, the fading B-class rocker formerly of the "Boomtown Rats", recently made it known that Prime Minister Paul Martin wasn’t welcome at the upcoming G-8 summit unless he was prepared to cough up .7% of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to help "fight poverty" in Africa. Geldof must have the balls of a canal horse to think that who is or is not invited to attend the summit depends on him.
Some 20 years ago Geldof’s Live Aid concert, which was held to alleviate poverty and starvation in Ethiopia, accomplished very little, if anything to that end. At least the Live Aid concert raised money, which presumably went to those in need of it, albeit I wonder how much of it found its way into secret Swiss bank accounts held by Ethiopia’s leaders at that time. As I wrote in these pages three weeks ago, you can throw all the money in the world at African poverty, but until such time as Africans themselves take control of their own destiny, throw out their corrupt and greedy leaders and commit to democracy, it won’t change a thing.
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These African concerts should be billed as "African Despot Enrichment" concerts.
Rock for Rob Mugabe!
Let's all chip in to buy him a Pacific island resort home!
Rock for Rob Mugabe!To be fair, Geldof hates Mugabe, has called him a "scar on the face of Africa" and won't let him have anything to do with anything coming out of his events.
-Eric
Vote or Die... P Diddy
Well put.
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