Bono: TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africa
www.ted.com Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn...
www.ted.com Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn’t just another celebrity cause; it’s a global emergency.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 tedtalks on TED.com, at http
Bono knows about international banksters raping the (third) world economy.
But decides to shut up about that, hypocrite.
Thats the reason he is allowed to be the star he is.
Power to the people in Iceland, Greece and te rest of the world
he’s a bone head who believe’s every stupid utterance from Jeffrey Sachs pie hole.
bono pays no tax in ireland. some of our tax gets sent to africa and if bono were to pay tax it would mean an extra 4million every year. bono is two faced.
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Amazing!!
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Amazing Guy,
Bono is the shiz ! that guy is amazing,
and giving his money aint gunna change shiz, only will go in the pocket of the corrupted officials and currupted NGOs, what needs africa is good governance and tranparancy.
Yea Go Bono your the best man !
If you cant say anything nice or useful, dont say anything at all!
Normally, I wouldn’t respond to the criticism of a cretin, but I’ll make an exception in your case, sweetheart
The problem with giving money to African nations has to do with the instability and corruption of many of its regimes. Much of the time it’s a regional warlord who’s running shit over there and corruption is especially prevalent, meaning any foreign aid given will basically go down the shitter.
I have no problem with sending doctors to Africa, but I do with monetary aid.
I’m sick of this guy. . . and he got the prize??? Bill Cliton also?. . . I’m surprised fckin Gordon Brown didn’t get the TED Prize. Next thing will be a Pope gets the TED Prize and then the end of the world will come!
You can tell you’re an asshole as you have no idea what Bono is on about you fuckin moron!
WHy don’t YOU take your own money and shove it up your own ass you fuckin retard!
Bono, you fucking hypocrite, if you believe in your cause so much, why not give some of YOUR millions to it?
I WILL FOLLOW. . .
You make the best comment in this video.
I agree with you.
keep wishing.
death is natural in all, we are not equal, we have similarities, but we are not the same.
we have circunstances that make us suffer or cherish, and where we are in the world allow us to continue to be in the world.
sorry bono, what is happening is real, progress means this, some triple their life expectancy, some dont.
cheers
Oh the humanity. . . . Hard to watch this guy talk.
So your point is two wrongs make a right??? Sorry, but you don’t speak for me, and just because you would do the same thing doesn’t mean everyone else would, and certainly doesn’t make it right. . . so your point is?
Secondly, people in Asia die all the time from starvation and disease, so again, what’s your point, that people in Africa suffer more. . . pleeease! That’s like saying a Jew suffered more then a Gypsy in a concentration camp, they both suffered and died terribly, what more matters?
You need to do a little more investigating obviously. He’s asking wealthy countries to DROP THE DEBT not donate money. You’ve never “heard of him donating money” because it’s hardly something he discusses with the press. Why? Because the issue isn’t about self glorification it’s about creating a world which values human life equally. Please try and understand what you’re talking about before dropping misinformed comments with spelling mistakes no less.
google. . .
Top Scientists Ask Medical Journal Science To Retract Original AIDS Papers
December 9, 2008
a British investigative journalist has shown that Gallo’s claim was based on last-minute alterations to documents. . . includes a copy of Gallos handwritten changes to the article,a letter from an electron microscopy expert indicating that Gallos samples did not contain any virus,& a letter from Gallo to a researcher verifying that HIV could not be purified directly from human materials.
my father and i went to sierra lione in africa to build houses, schools etc etc, during summer 2007, and although poverty is thriving in latin america, north america and asia, it is nothing compared to north africa, believe me. i personally cannot critisise bono for producing his music outside of ireland, because ireland’s taxes are ridiculous at the moment, i mean regardless of what anybody says about bono on youtube, if they had as much money as him, im sure they would do the same.
once again, you are right.
that is why i believe the key is not to feed them or make them rich.
the key is to educate the population.
empower women.
if you educate for responsable breeding you might have a chance.
senegal and ivory coast are good examples of that.
i must say you are very brave to express your point of view, but just consider the education factor into your equation.
cheers
It is difficult to watch other humans suffer, but how will you stop Africans from breeding themselves into a catastrophe of overpopulation? The result of past assistance to Africa has been to increase the population, and thus the problem.
And even if you just want to make a few Africans a bit more comfortable as they propagate themselves to oblivion, soon you will be unable to do even that, as the peaking and irreversible decline of fossil fuels further undermines the modern economies.
you are right.
wel should let the course of action of “nature” take his tall in africa and elsewhere, but i myself cannot stand idle with my liberties intact, my full stomach and my phds while other humans suffer.
So what did Africa do during the tens of thousands of years before Europeans arrived to take responsibility for Africa’s problems?
Africa suffers today because of the diffusion of modern technology into Africa, which has been just enough to decrease mortality, but not enough to decrease fertility. The result has been an explosion in Africa’s population, with the result that everything we do to “help” Africa today makes tomorrow’s problem twice as big. And then four times as big. Etc.
Its a slow burn. It has been allowed to happen. The resources to stem the flow are available. The West and the Rest (China etc) revel in the chaos. Disorder is a smoke screen for the Dark Objective. Compassion? My black ass! Went out with the Holocaust.