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Ah here.
Andy writes:
Spotted in Rotorua New Zealand…
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Bono
U2 were rehearsing in Paris when that city was beset last November, and now, according to The Mirror, the U2 singer,who owns a house in the nearby town of Eze, was eating at a restaurant with friends, including the former mayor of Nice, when blocks away an armed terrorist drove a truck into a crowd, killing 84 people.
According to the New York Daily News Bono was eating on the terrace of La Petite Maison restaurant with chef Alain Ducasse and others when the 18-ton refrigeration truck sent the crowd streaming toward the restaurant.
Bono was ushered into the dining room and left the eatery “with his hands on his head” a half-hour later, after police had given the all-clear.
Geldof must have been too busy.
You couldn’t make it up.
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From top: A still from mobile phone footage obtained by The Times of a Syrian man carrying his son, who was shot in both legs, by Turkish border police; Bono with Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu
You may recall reports in The Times yesterday detailing how eight Syrians were shot at the Syrian-Turkey border by Turkish border police, as they attempted to reach Turkey on Sunday.
The newspaper reported:
Abdmunem Kashkash, a lawyer from Aleppo who was with the group but managed to cross into Turkey unharmed, said that they had been waiting in the border area for several days while trying to cross and had come under fire from the Turks every day.
“They are killing unarmed people,” Mr Kashkash said. “There was one little girl who was shot and we could not do more for her for four hours, until nightfall. An old man and woman are missing — they have probably been killed too.”
The wounded have been taken to a hospital in Azaz, a rebel-held Syrian town next to the Turkish border that is sheltering 100,000 displaced people who have fled the regime and Isis advances since February. Isis is closing in on the town from the east, but despite calls from aid agencies the Turkish government is refusing to open the border gate.
Readers may also recall how earlier this month – before the deportations from Greece to Turkey began on April 4 – Bono and a delegation of US senators and congressmen visited a Syrian refugee camp in Gaziantep province, in southeast Turkey.
After the visit, Bono paid to tribute to Turkey for hosting 2.7million Syrian refugees, telling Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu:
“I am very humbled by the generosity of the Turkish people. It is extraordinary. It is a lesson in grace.”
Bono’s comments came just a week after Amnesty International reported that, hours after the EU-Turkey deal on Friday, March 18, Turkey forcibly returned around 30 Afghan asylum seekers to Afghanistan – without giving them the opportunity to seek asylum.
Further to this…
Harry Browne writes:
Bono’s concern for the plight of refugees, while undoubtedly genuine, would be more credible if he weren’t simultaneously offering cover to European leaders who deny asylum-seekers their basic legal rights.
Recently Turkey was rightly criticized for taking payments to accept refugees who should have been in the hands of the EU asylum system.
The same week, Bono was photographed with Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and called the Turkish role “a lesson in grace,” even while Amnesty International was accusing Turkey of forcing other refugees back into Syria.
It’s getting to be a habit with Bono, who warmly embraced George W. Bush and Tony Blair while they waged an illegal, immoral war on Iraq.
Bono has quite a voice: what a shame he so often uses it to sing the praises of powerful, disingenuous leaders.
Harry Browne is a lecturer at the School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology and is the author of The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power)
Syrian children shot dead by Turkish border guards (The Times, April 20, 2016)
Related: Bono: Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis (New York Times)
Previously: Return To Sender
Electric Co.
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This afternoon.
Bono arriving in his Tesla Model S at the Howth Presbyterian Church, Howth Road, Howth, Co Dublin for the funeral of John Garvin Evans, father of U2’s The Edge.
Lowest road tax.
‘sayin.
Rollingnews
(Him Again)
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Bono speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this afternoon
Kevin Baron tweetz:
“It’s not just the money. It’s not just cold cash. It’s political heat.” – Bono marks 10th ann of @RED #WEF16 #Davos
The charity, officially called Product Red, is a brand that gets licensed to global companies, from Starbucks to Apple. A part of the profits generated by the sale of the products with the brand is donated to a fund that fights diseases such as AIDS and malaria.
It all goes around, in fairness.
FIGHT!
The Latest: Bono Takes Davos Stage to Celebrate Red Charity (ABC News)
Previously: Far From The Tree
Bono during U2’s Innocence + Experience show in Berlin, Germany last night
“Boko Haram, in northern Nigeria, is well known now in the rest of the world, by virtue of its being horrific and violent, but it’s hardly the only group of extremists that’s active in the Sahel; Al Shabaab, The Lord’s Resistance Army, and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb are as well.
CIA analysts – who are not, as a rule, dewy-eyed development types – have looked at northern Nigeria and said that the best way to stop the militants in the long run is to end extreme poverty in the area and create a better, more inclusive education system, one that Muslims feel they have some stake in. When the CIA and anti-poverty activists agree, things must be very right or very wrong!”
U2 singer Bono
Spooks, dude.
*cough*
Marshall plan needed to make sustainable development a reality (Bono, Irish Times)
Pic: David Sven Darner
So Ghetto
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Jay Z started his career dealing crack in the Brooklyn ghetto before he broke through as a musician. Bono’s family struggled under religious segregation in Ireland. Depp grew up in and out of Kentucky motels, scared, learning the meaning of hard work by sitting up with his waitress mother to count her tips.
Lost in Showbiz, The Guardian
Hmm.
Bono’s Struggle In The Ghetto (GuardianLetters)
FIGHT!
Thanks Ruadhain
Bono and Noel Gallagher
“I don’t like reading interviews with people and they explain their songs to you line by line. For instance, I was hanging out with our dear friend Bono in the summer, and he was playing me the U2 album before it came out. With him being a lyricist and a singer, he will explain to you what every fucking sentence is about.
“I said to him, ‘Don’t tell me what it’s about. I’ll tell you what it’s about when it’s finished.’ He was like, ‘Ohhh yeah, man.’ It’s like when I first heard Martha, My Dear on the White album, and then I found out he had a dog called Martha. It fucking ruined it, d’ya know what I mean? It’s about a dog? Fuck off! I don’t wanna hear that.”
Noel Gallagher.
Pic: Oasismania
For the week that’s in it.
Annie West’s Venn diagram whatsit on Bono.
Yikes.
Earlier: Double Irish
Previously: Until Next Year
Thanks Annie