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To: ECM

I hope Gates conveyed the truth about starvation in Africa to Bono.

African nations starve because of inter-tribal warfare and brutal dictatorships. Raising money won’t feed Africans unless someone can stop the warlords from stealing the food and money.

If Bono can see the truth in that, then maybe he can make a difference in the way aid is raised and distributed.


9 posted on 01/23/2008 4:25:09 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Raising money won’t feed Africans unless someone can stop the warlords from stealing the food and money.

Well, like Duh. What do you think the U.N. is for?!?!!

/sarc

17 posted on 01/23/2008 4:29:35 PM PST by workerbee (Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

No, African nations starve because of the continued inertia of 19th century imperialism/colonialism and globalist mega corporations who build infrastructure only to serve the needs of raw materials and food commodity extraction, paying fire sale prices to tin horn dictators they put into power. Read a freaking history book. Start with Carrol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope”. Oh, and find out what sort of globalist monopolist power the following foodstuffs companies wield- Cargil, Bunge, Continental, Dreyfus, Nestles.


24 posted on 01/23/2008 4:48:31 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui (Starvation)
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