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Bono, Corporation man of the Year
Digery Cohen. - 19.12.2005 11:22
More dead.
Hungry for Food and Hungry for Ego
December 19, 2005 -- A rock-solid Irish musician has been named 2005 "Person of the Year" by Time magazine.
U2 lead singer Bono was tapped for the prestigious honour because of his efforts toward covering for Blair and Bush, the robbers and killers of Africa.
Bono, through his campaign to increase debt in poor countries and lock them into unfair trade deals and exploitation, has shown how unselfish deeds can feed his ego and starve the poorer world all the more and for the better because they just don’t have ipods, the magazine said.
"Bono charmed, bullied and morally blackmailed the gullible youth of the world and got the corporations off the hook while making the problem worse for Africa.
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| aanvullingen | | Waar slaat dit op? | Sojo - 19.12.2005 12:42
Waar slaat dit op? Kan dit artikel verwijderd worden?
Het is bovendien incompleet, de auteur heeft voor het gemak maar even weggelaten dat ook Bill & Melinda Gates de prijs hebben ontvangen voor het werk wat hun gelijknamige foundation doet.
Quote wikipedia:
"The foundation's grants have provided funds for underrepresented minority college scholarships, AIDS prevention, diseases that strike mainly in the Third World, and other causes. The Foundation currently provides 90% of the world budget for the attempted eradication of poliomyelitis (polio), the World Health Organization having "moved on" to other diseases. In June 1999, Gates and his wife donated US$5 billion to their foundation. They have donated more than US$100 million to help children suffering from AIDS. On January 26, 2005, it was announced that the Foundation had made a further contribution of US$750 million to the international Vaccine Fund to help fight diseases such as diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, poliomyelitis and yellow fever. As of 2005, the foundation has an endowment of approximately US$28 billion. To maintain its status as a charitable foundation, it must donate at least 5 percent of its assets each year. Thus the donations from the foundation each year would at least amount to over $1 billion."
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
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