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Thursday, June 30, 2005 SauerkrautsBob Geldof gets radiant attention from the BBC, but his Live8 road show hasn't won over the German press. First the Berliner Zeitung kvetched about the list of bands coming to Berlin -- "A-Ha, you're just sending us the B-stars, Sir Bob?" -- and now the Tageszeitung wonders if the spectacle will help Africa at all:Cui bono? Africans? Bob Geldof and his buddy Bono from U2 are serious about "speaking truth to power." But Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown are even more serious about braking Labour's plummeting popularity. That cause is beautifully served when Bono, for example, hails the two British politicians as "the new Lennon and McCartney of international development" -- as he did in 2004.posted by Michael Scott Moore | 11:22 AM
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Want to hear something sad? PBS is now showing Live Aid highlights for fundraising. These people performed for famine relief in Africa and now they're being used to raise funds for more This Old House and Antiques Roadshow.
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If you consider the contribution to popular music that Germany has made in the last.... well theres probably nothing since Kraftwerk.... Germany shpould be happy to get whatever they are given.
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As for the actual concerts well I dont know. Part of me wants to take it in good faith as a noble and worthy cause and part of me just wants it to rain because I am not at all convinced that this isnt a self-promoting load of... oh well there is a silver lining somewhere. You wouldnt mind giving this worthy cause a bit of attention though would you? http://de.indymedia.org/2005/06/121847.shtml http://de.indymedia.org/2005/06/121882.shtml Youve probably read it on Michelles blog anyways: http://icanblog2.blogspot.com/ | |
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