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Make Poverty History!

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ianl said:
I am quite interested about the call to stop dumping cheap food on africa. It was only 20 years ago that the same pop stars were calling everyone to dump free food on africa.

indeed. and they actually made life worse for the people of Ethiopa, they gave the food to the Marxist government. the govt used the food to feed the military and to depopulate the north of the country. but why should I let a little thing like facts, truth and reality intrude into the nice warm, fuzzy live8/MPH bubble?
 
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Coorperate controled media doesn't find this news appropriate.

CJ.23 said:
Hi John, I was atounded that no one seems to be mentioning the Make Poverty History Live 8 Concerts. 250,000 people in London, 1.5 million in Philadelphia, concerts in all the G8 nations and Pink Floyd reform and play a live set. That is news! Huge marches will follow all week. Is this not headline news akll over the States?


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Robbie_James_Francis said:
Your anger perplexes me...:confused:

firstly, it derives from my opposition to Live8.
secondly, the BBC is not there to broadcast explicitly political messages in such a neutral and unchallenged way.
 
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rebel_conservative said:
secondly, the BBC is not there to broadcast explicitly political messages in such a neutral and unchallenged way.

Political messages like "make poverty history"? I fail to see why anyone would disagree with that ideal...:scratch: I don't think you are disagreeing with this, but I don't see what other "political messages" are being sent...

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Robbie_James_Francis said:
Political messages like "make poverty history"? I fail to see why anyone would disagree with that ideal...:scratch: I don't think you are disagreeing with this, but I don't see what other "political messages" are being sent...

I don't want to go into that here, check out the 'make liberalism history' thread, it is all there
 
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The whole thing is a sham. The world bank makes loans to dictators. Half goes to a swiss bank and the other half to international construction companies. The working people will pay off the bank so that the cycle can start over again. More money to Swiss banks and to international corps.
 
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rebel_conservative said:
lol, 30 million Britons could sign a petition calling for the G8 Conference to end the gravity now, that doesn't mean that it is within their power to rid the world of Newton's shackles.



no, it is just yet more proof of the falling standards in British education

I hope you're just having a bad day, and aren't really the insensitive jerk this post makes you out to be.
 
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fanatiquefou said:
I hope you're just having a bad day, and aren't really the insensitive jerk this post makes you out to be.

what is insensitive about it? or perhaps you think I am insensitive for pointing out a harsh truth?
 
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billwald said:
Second, half the hunger in Africa is intentionally caused by the local govt to kill off traditional enemy tribes. Rhodesia, whatever it is called, was a food exporting nation until the govt eliminated the white people.

yes, Rhodesia, once the largest food exporter in Southern Africa, now called Zimbabwe, is dependent upon food aid after the govt stole the white-owned farms.
 
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What a nice way to justify suffering. I know you didn't mean it like that, but that kind of "it's out of our hands" thinking leads to inaction. We can't solve all of the world's problems, but we can make huge strides in getting everyone on the planet proper food, water, medicine, housing, and education.
 
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platzapS said:
What a nice way to justify suffering. I know you didn't mean it like that, but that kind of "it's out of our hands" thinking leads to inaction. We can't solve all of the world's problems, but we can make huge strides in getting everyone on the planet proper food, water, medicine, housing, and education.

yes, but none of these strides will come until we sort out the political situation in Africa. until that time, ChristianAid and Oxfam and other groups that work on the ground can alleviate suffering to a degree, but this is a sticking plaster, it is not a solution.
 
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platzapS said:
What a nice way to justify suffering. I know you didn't mean it like that, but that kind of "it's out of our hands" thinking leads to inaction. We can't solve all of the world's problems, but we can make huge strides in getting everyone on the planet proper food, water, medicine, housing, and education.

Exactly. Why even get up and go to work everyday? 'The Lord will come back' so I'll sit in my pyjamas and wait. Saving for retirement, pah....run up those credit cards.... :eek:
 
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rebel_conservative said:
yes, Rhodesia, once the largest food exporter in Southern Africa, now called Zimbabwe, is dependent upon food aid after the govt stole the white-owned farms.
Yes Zimbabwe, also known as that African country held out by missions organizations as one of the greatest success stories of evangelism, while at the same time being now considered one of the most corrupt countries in Africa. Go figure.
 
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