"Rock Star" Boomtown Rat vs. "Rock Star" DemocRat. You can't make this stuff up...
Posted on 05/12/2007 7:26:50 PM PDT by melt
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Bob Geldof, who organized the Live Aid and Live 8 benefit concerts, criticized the Live Earth music events Al Gore is putting together this summer, saying they lack a specific goal, according to a Dutch newspaper report Saturday.
The Live Earth concerts will be held in cities around the world on July 7, with proceeds funding a yet-to-be-named foundation to combat climate change, under Gore's direction.
The shows will take place in London; New York; Tokyo; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Organizers have also promised an event in Antarctica.
"I hope they're a success," De Volkskrant newspaper quoted Geldof as saying in an interview.
"But why is (Gore) actually organizing them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all (expletive) conscious of global warming," he said.
Geldof, former front-man of The Boomtown Rats, organized the mammoth Live Aid concerts in 1985 to benefit victims of famine in Ethiopia and the Live 8 concerts in 2005 for African debt relief. He has dedicated much of his career to advocating on behalf of humanitarian causes.
"I would only organize (Live Earth) if I could go on stage and announce concrete environmental measures from the American presidential candidates, Congress or major corporations," he told the newspaper. "They haven't got those guarantees, so it's just an enormous pop concert or the umpteenth time that, say, Madonna or Coldplay get up on stage."
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"Rock Star" Boomtown Rat vs. "Rock Star" DemocRat. You can't make this stuff up...
the event will do more harm to the environment than it help
Organizers have also promised an event in Antarctica.
Great for the environment.
If it’s anything like previous Earth Day concerts, it will take at least two days to pick up all the trash from the concertgoers.
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... with proceeds funding a yet-to-be-named foundation to combat climate change, under Gore's direction.
The goal seems perfectly clear to me, Bob.
He is most certainly just THAT anal. ;o)
Lol, good to see you DC!!
Deldof knows algore is just setting up a huge scam for perpetual fund raising to be run and to be a lockbox for algore
No actual practical goals set or solutions
Just “Tell the world in song!”
“We need your money - and we want to extort and blackmail and sell our own fakeroo carbon credits!”
GOOD to “see” you, too!
You are always correct on the facts.
The overblown criticizing the inane.
Wait and see, AlGore will make it snow in July.
Bob, Bob, Bob... AIDS, famine, and African debt relief are so....yesterday. Get with the program! Global warming is the panic du jour. (And I think you’re just jealous that Al found a way to pocket all the proceeds under the guise of a yet-to-be-founded foundation.)
Karbon Kredits, anyone?
I’ll be watching the Antarctica show if they promise to club some baby seals for Tipper’s fur coat.
“We Are The World”
Where is Michael Jackson & The Muzzie Molestors?
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