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Photographer: Annie Leibovitz

Clothes: Bono and Ali’s ethical clothing company Edun (49 per cent owned by Louis Vuitton parent company, LMVH). Ali carries a handbag co-designed by Edun and Vuitton.

Location: South Africa

Previous Adverts Have Featured: Mikhail Gorbachev, Keith Richards, John Glenn,  Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pele and Catherine Denueve.

Proceeds: TechnoServe, a nongovernmental organization that fosters enterprise in the developing world; Conservation Cotton Initiative, which supports sustainable farming in Africa and the Chernobyl Children’s Project:

A Word From Louis Vuitton That May Make You Ill: “When they [Bono & Ali] go to Africa, they don’t go to see the beautiful landscapes: They’re there to help people,”

Annoyance factor: Off. The. Scale.

Bono-Hewson To Appear In Ad For LVMH (WWD)

OK. Deep breath…

A report in February 2009 outlined new levels of reduced pay for bankers in exchange for the Government’s €440 billion guarantee.

But an analysis by the Irish Examiner this very morning shows 37 of 44 non-executive members on five of the banks’ boards were paid more last year than recommended in the report.

It also emerged that the banks’ chief executives, whose salaries were capped at €500,000, are receiving benefits including cars and club memberships ranging from €33,000 to €66,000.

One waffer thin mint?

Sorry Nat, are you trying to equate Stalin with Medvedev? 

Oh yeah because…

What? Because he met him before a U2 concert. In which a few Amnesty volunteers were arrested and manhandled by Russian secret police. How was he to know that?

They’re killing civilians and journalists. It’s becoming a police state. And…

And yes he hung with Putin and Blair while G8 protesters were being clubbed on the streets of Genoa. That was 10 years ago. Build a bridge, Nat-tard.

But…why?

Why does he keep meeting these creeps? Maybe he’s lonely. Maybe he likes shooting the shit with shitheads. The truth is we don’t know. Nobody really knows. You forget one thing, Nat. He’s not like us, the Bonster. He’s a little bit rock ‘n’ roll, a little bit hedge fund, a little bit Sister Stan and a little bit Barry Egan.  The guy lives with these contradictions. Why can’t you, Nat? Why?

Well at least I pay…

Your taxes? Number one, you sign on. Number two, If it was Nick Cave you’d be like ‘Go On Nick. Fuck the system.’  Who’s the hypocrite now, eh? Eh? Eh? Eh, Nat?

Put Churchill’s face back in. Go on.

Thanks.

No, thank you. I’m sorry.

U2 Concert Hits Sour Note (Guardian).

Bono And Medvedev Talk Rock Music, Fight Against Aids (Wall Street Journal – Slide Show)