Wolfowitz talks to Bono re: Poverty

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Wolfowitz, whose nomination as World Bank president has stirred controversy, discussed poverty and development issues with Irish rock star Bono in two telephone conversations Thursday, an adviser said.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/18/news/newsmakers/bono_wolfowitz.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

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Good, the person Bush wants to be the head of the World Bank is discussing policy issues with someone who can't even properly count to 4 in his songs.

Someone please tell me I've been teleported to bizarro world.

[freedom_to_read]

1. Hey, lay off Bono

He's been a spokesperson for international development for a long time. He does a lot more than most rock stars to leverage his fame to help others.

http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/jubilee2000/comment/bono1512.html

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. You're missing the point.

Wolfowitz decided a friggin rock star was a better person to talk to than, say, an actual expert on the topic.

[freedom_to_read]

3. Well I agree with you on that

Wolfowitz is a creepy slimeball.

[unhappycamper]

5. I just keep seeing him licking that comb. . . .

:puke:

[peacetalksforall]

7. I think you need to study up - Bono has devoted as much time to

poverty as he has to music. And thank God someone with a following can get the attention he does. Maybe more people know what he is doing outside this country.

To start with research his work to attempt to convince the biggies to forgive the national debt of some of these debtor nations (which we have become) so that they can have a chance to move forward.

He appears to be obsessed with helping. Please refute his work if you can. I am open to being educated about Bono.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. Bullshit Bono's an expert.

There are literally organizations that devote their entire lives to this issue. He spends much more than half of his life devoted to music. I have absolutely, positively no doubt in my mind that they know more than he does on this issue.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Propaganda again. Hinting that he cares one XXXX about poverty.

He is creating poverty. I'm talking about Wolfowitz. He and his PNACing menaces of partners are destroying our country financially with lie thefts killing and propaganda.

I don't even know why Bono took the call.

What a joke.

If the World Bank is as predatory on other nations as is recorded...Bono with the backing of the countries that the big ones step on should start an alternative Bank.

Let's make this what it really is - a war between corporations who want to own us, our labor, our tax dollars, our privacy, our souls and those humans who expect more from human nature and human opportunity for equality in all its forms.

I'm for Bono.

[mike_c]

6. I suspect that Bono knows more about how to deal with poverty...

...at the human level, than Wolfowitz has ever even imagined. Wolfowitz will continue the tired and largely unsuccessful approach of addressing poverty as a matter of failed national economic policy rather than as a conspiracy of circumstances faced by individuals on the edge of survival. So while the IMF intervenes in the economies of faltering nations, millions die of starvation and disease. Wolfowitz should be talking to Jeffrey Sachs, too.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Wolfkowitz shouldn't even be in the running unless the biggie nations

have already determined that they are going to go with the P-knockers.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. More than Wolfowitz? Yeah, I'll give you that.

But not more than any number of people who've devoted their whole lives to studying the issue.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Wolfowitz talking to Bono is pure PR, nothing else.

He's reaching out to the highest publicity figure involved to give himself legitimacy. He won't talk to other experts because he's not interested in anything but PNAC world domination.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

12. Exactly.

That is my problem with this. It's nothing more than a flashy show, and Bono is willing to play the fool.

[mike_c]

13. that's a good point....

I won't hold my breath waiting for Wolfowitz to give Sachs a call.

[izzybeans]

14. or at least Amartya Sen

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385720270/102-3664532-3172902

[kodi]

15. cool, think Wolfowitz will open for U2?

propaganda. by using cultural icons, legitimacy is gained for the worst of policies