Cui Bono?
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self, letter to my neice | 3/28/20 | Crusher
Recently my niece wrote and asked about my observations relating to the Wuhan Virus pandemic. After
much thought I wrote this reply. You may find agreement, disagreement, or simply smack your forehead for any number of reasons. Crusher **************************************** Dear H Thank you for your note and update on y'all's situation and we join you in prayer. We are just hunkered down in the hinterlands where "social isolation" has been the status for any day ending in "Y" just about forever. It is early gardening season for your aunt and I have a never ending menu of projects in the...
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Cui bono?
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A market manipulator looking for blue light specials. Who
made large buys after hours?
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Cui Bono?
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Townhall.com ^
| February 13, 2015 | Mona Charen
"Cui bono?" Who benefits? It was the question ancient Romans asked when hoping to cut through a fog of possible causes for a problem. As
of this morning, U.S. Marines were evacuating Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. We've seen this movie before: the bonfires of documents, the hammer blows to equipment, the disabling of weapons, the rush to the helicopters. Think Saigon 1973 or Tehran 1979. Only five months ago, President Obama touted his policy toward Yemen as a success: "This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we...
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Bono Won’t Work With Trump: ‘You Can’t Believe’ What He Says
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newsbusters.org ^
| 12/28/2017 | Corinne Weaver
Hollywood and the media are willing to swallow any and all negativity geared towards President Trump and his administration. U2’s
lead singer Bono decided to gripe about Trump in his latest interview with Rolling Stone. His complaint? The president and the vice-president did nothing to stop cuts to PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). But Bono went a step further, saying: “I realized I couldn’t work with this president whether he wanted to or not, because you can’t believe what he says.” Even though the proposed cuts to PEPFAR were never made, Bono, a self-described activist, didn’t thank either...
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The hypocrisy of Bono and his ‘One’ charity
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NY Post ^
| November 11, 2017 | Paula Froelich
In January 2012, Bono arrived in Timbuktu on a private jet with “ONE” emblazoned on the side, accompanied by his wife, daughters, the designer Renzo Rossi and several others. He
had come to the historic city in Mali for a festival celebrating the music of the famous Tuareg tribe. On the night of the event, Bono and his entourage were placed on a small bleacher surrounded by, yet separated from, the thousands of local people via metal traffic barricades and a dozen heavily armed men. Toward the end of the evening, a woman announced that “BONE-no from Youtube” was in...
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Whoever persuaded Bono he could sing?
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Spectator UK ^
| 17 Dec 2022 | Julie Burchill
There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that is. I’d
be happy never to see the faces or hear the voices of Mick Hucknall or Chris Martin again, but the moment ‘Stars’ or ‘Trouble’ starts, I’m mesmerised – only to wonder crossly the minute the song ends: ‘Why couldn’t they have given it to someone with a decent voice?’ Think about it: dancers have choreographers and actors have scriptwriters, so why should we assume songwriters can sing? Bono’s another. I love some of his songs (‘One’, as performed...
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DWANE(ROCK) JOHNSON/BONO: To BE taken Seriously?
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I don't think so. Johnson attended the GOP convention raising antennas, putting out hope he's one of us. Kept
us at arms length and his options open. He'll never run for a lower office to get any experience. He wants to be POTUS, as if Trump won only on celebrity, not accomplished executive experience. He seems to be threading the needle on positions-impossible. Doesn't like Trump-taking the easy way out. Bono did the same, praising W for the $15 million in the aids fight in Africa. Hung out with Jesse Hems, Rick Santorum, and the Treasury Secretary whose name I...
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Cui Bono? Who Benefits From the Afghanistan Withdrawal?
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Townhall.com ^
| August 31, 2021 | Dennis Prager
How does a leader decide what to do? The
most logical response is: "Cui bono?" -- "Who benefits?" -- from the decision. If some policy benefits your country most, you should, within moral bounds, pursue it. If your enemies benefit most, you should avoid it. I'd be curious to learn what answer proponents of America leaving Afghanistan -- conservative or liberal -- would give to the question, "Cui bono?" I can say that until this moment, I have not read or heard a single cogent argument from proponents of American withdrawal as to how exactly it benefits America. "Twenty years...
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Bono on Grace, Karma & Forgiveness
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The Clarksvillian ^
| March 25, 2021 | Dave McGuire
As the leader of one of the world’s most visible bands, U2’s Bono is an extremely polarizing figure. On
one side, he’s the source for some of the greatest, most popular music of a generation. He has also been one of the most charity minded celebrities covering a cause in ways not seen since the days of Harry Chapin. And that crossing between entertainer and activist has pushed people into either loving or hating him.
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Bono Thinks Music “Has Gotten Very Girly”
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NME ^
| Dec 28, 2017 | Sam Moore
<p>Bono has said that music “has gotten very girly” in recent years, with hip-hop serving as “the only place for young male anger at the moment”.</p> <p>The U2 frontman voiced the opinion during a new interview, with the 57-year-old lamenting the lack of “young male anger” in rock music in 2017.</p>
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Bono at Davos: ‘Capitalism is Not Immoral — It’s Amoral’
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newsbusters.org ^
| 1/23/2019 | Julia A. Seymour
U2 frontman Bono at least partly defended capitalism at the 2019 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. His remarks came just days after outspoken Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. attacked the “system” and ranted against the coexistence of billionaires and poverty. In
contrast to her Democratic-socialist views that such coexistence isn’t a moral result, the liberal Bono credited capitalism with bringing many people out of poverty — but still claimed capitalism “requires our instruction” and called it a “wild beast.” “We have to just ask ourselves deeper questions about where we are with the project called capitalism. Capitalism is not...
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U2’s Bono Blasts Trump for Enforcing Immigration Law
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breitbart ^
| JOHN NOLTE
U2’s Bono quoted scripture to attack President Trump’s refusal to release illegal aliens into America during a Monday night concert in Washington DC. According to the verified ONE In America Twitter account, while onstage Bono said, “For those who would use the Holy Scripture to justify tearing children from the arms of
their mother… we put the record straight.” Bono added, “Jesus said ‘Suffer the little children, forbid them NOT to come onto me’… Not make the little children suffer!”
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Cui bono? The Romans had a phrase for what is happening in the House
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coachisright.com ^
| Oct. 11, 2015 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
By Kevin “Coach” Collins A recent political cartoon showed a group of “Republican” elephants standing around a body marked, “Boehner” with multiple arrows in its back. One
asks, “What now?” A second responds, “Maybe we should have thought this through first.” In just eight words, without realizing it, the propagandist who created the cartoon has epitomized the problem with the Uniparty rule of government. These enemies of freedom just don’t get it. When John Boehner resigned as Speaker he did not do so willingly. As an apparatchik for the Uniparty’s control of our lives, his job was to bludgeon Americans...
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Bono on Paris attacks: Nothing's stopping us from going back
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AP News via Townhall.com ^
| December 1, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) Bono says despite the deadly attacks in Paris last month, he believes Paris will remain strong and he is hoping U2's concert there this week moves the audience. U2
was set to perform in Paris on Nov. 14 and was in a middle of rehearsing when 130 people were killed in suicide bombings and shootings the day before in what has become the worst attack on French soil in more than a half-century. "Well, knowing our French audience and having a sense of them by now, I would say joy as an act of defiance," he said...
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Edge Says Bono Was Right to Start Playing Politics
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Ultimate Classic Rock ^
| April 1, 2023 | Martin Kielty
U2 guitarist the Edge said bandmate Bono had been right to become a high-profile political activist, even though it sometimes caused problems for the Irish group. In
a recent interview with Mojo, Edge said the two aspects of U2’s reputation had become “so intermingled” that it would be “very hard to imagine one without the other.” He continued: “There’s obviously been challenging moments, particularly when Bono was making great strides in America and realized his superpower was being able to work both sides of the aisle and persuade politicians from different parts of the spectrum to work together. “But that...
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Sotomayor Urges Mandatory Pro Bono for All Lawyers
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National Law Journal ^
| May 17, 2016 | Tony Mauro
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Monday that all lawyers should be required to provide pro bono legal services. "I
believe in forced labor" when it comes to improving access to justice for the poor, she said during an appearance at the American Law Institute's annual meeting in Washington. "If I had my way, I would make pro bono service a requirement."
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Timing of TheThing release, and Cui Bono Analysis at -6, -3, -1 and +6 Months
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vanity ^
| 3/27/16 | self
Consider the primary map and calendar for those who have been fruitlessly trying to get Cruz' second family with Amanda Carter exposed. Who
benefits most based on when it broke Friday? Answer: Trump and Cruz. The matter won't nearly harm Cruz as much as the NEastern states as it would have 25 days ago in the South. The blogosphere has been frantically shopping it for six months, and nobody but but the National Enquirer, where Trump holds some sway, ran with it. Only Trump could backchannel manage the controlled release cover the NE can provide, with its bevy of libel...
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What Elementary Bit of Wisdom Is Shared by Donald Trump and Bono?
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Townhall.com ^
| August 5, 2015 | Daniel J. Mitchell
If I asked you what Donald Trump and Bono have in common, the easy and accurate answer is that they both have lots of money. But
if I asked you to identify a shared perspective by the two men, at first glance that would seem to be a much harder question. After all, it seems like a rock star and a real-estate tycoon are about as different as two people could possibly be. Yet the answer should be obvious. At least if you answer “no” to the first question and “yes” to the second question. I’ll give you a big...
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Bono Dedicates U2 Song ‘All I Want Is You’ to First Lady Jill Biden
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Breitbart ^
| 03/04/2024 | ALANA MASTRANGELO
U2 frontman Bono dedicated the song “All I Want Is You” to First Lady Jill Biden while wrapping up the band’s inaugural residency at Las Vegas’ $2.3 billion Sphere arena over the weekend. Before
performing the band’s 1988 hit, “All I Want Is You,” Bono said that he was dedicating the song to “one woman in particular,” which was Jill Biden. SOME NEWS: Bono takes U2 on a break from Achtung Baby to perform “All I Want is You” and dedicates song to all women in world, on their crew, women experiencing hardship in world. Then he dedicates it to...
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Roger Waters Calls U2’s Bono “Disgusting” and “a (Expletive)”
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NME ^
| 19th February 2024 | Liberty Dunworth
“Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him… until he stops being an enormous (Expletive)” Roger Waters has lashed out at U2 frontman Bono, describing him as “disgusting” and “a (Expletive)”. The comments against the Irish rock singer arose in a new interview with
Waters, and saw the Pink Floyd musician criticise the former for his previous comments on the Israel-Hamas war. Speaking during one of their Sphere residency shows in Las Vegas, Bono used the performance to pay his respects to those killed during the October 7 attack at the Israeli...
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