Bush on Africa : his pre-G8 speech.

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Thursday June 30, 2005 21:21

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"is it getting better? or is it just the same?"

"this is a very modest step forward which is being spun as a colossal leap"
P. Watt of Action Aid
"President Bush's pledge today will mean an extra nine hundred million dollars each year for Africa and this is a welcome first step. Hoewver it is widely calculated that $25 billion is needed annually for Africa so we hope the announcement today is just the beginning of a much bigger US commitment to fighting poverty." - Oxfam

the USA will double its aid to Africa in the next five years to those states which are "reforming" on the basis of trade and support the "war on malaria".
It will not cancel debt, it will not cancel US drug patents, it will not increase US corporation tax donations on african mining or commidities.

Let me put it this way, you are on the street, because your home was lost due to restructuring or divorce or something like that, and you've got used to it, you now sit there with your dog on a rope, and the nice man who put you there, who reformed your former workplace or perhaps seduced your former wife, says
"i will give you fifty rather than twenty pence (or cents) if you let me shag your dog".

The G8 is not about "8 men". And only a moron would think to distort a decades work in understanding poverty and exploitation by being so facile. the G8 is about pre-arranged agreements which for the sake of cohesion are offered in a joint manner on an annual basis. No-one ought think it is as simple as "changing the minds of eight men".

Africa has been robbed, raped and pillaged in every political guise that imperialism and exploitation can wear.

You can not offer them aid based on free trade, for this is precious little left for them to sell.

But this is not about trade, it is not about liberty, it is not about wealth.

If you want to make a difference, then make "power" history. If you want to make a difference, then "get poor".

Africa needs medicine that it is capable of making, but the profits of those who hold the patents, are the pension funds of those who have lived twice the life expectancy of an average African in the USA and the EU.

If Africa has drugs tomorrow for aids, Irish pensioners have less money in their nest-egg.

If Africa is paid a fair price for its agricultural produce tomorrow, Ireland finds its dinner and tea and breakfast less exotic, less tasty & to be truthful, a bit more "poor" in taste.

If Africa is to have peace tomorrow, then the USA and Europe and Russia will have stopped selling it weapons more than a decade ago.

If Africa is to have development tomorrow, it means a lot more than states which number a mere few thousand of beurocrats in countries that count millions of people, reforming.

If African Poverty is to End
then Europe and the USA are less Rich.

BASTA = DINERO GRATIS.
are you going to let that man shag your dog?
are you going to think "you know my first gold disc was cool, but by the time I got my fifth I couldn't get a better seat at the swimming pool".
are you going to think, "I can be richer than any of my ancestors ever were, and they can be poorer than ever they were, and a pop concert will end it".

the Bush Speech-
note how it is reported first in "Business news" then afterwards it gets the moronic treatment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4638323.stm
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Jul2005_news22.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=andnFvrjPi6I&refer=top_world_news
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22649-1675372,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/30/news/malaria.php
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/8747/

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Comments (4 of 4)

"gimme 20 quid and the dog's yours".

Thu Jun 30, 2005 21:40

The president told an audience at the Hudson Institute in Washington that US aid to Africa has tripled during his presidency and that he proposed to double it again.
However, he said what was needed was 'partnership not paternalism.' He said economic development was 'not something we do for countries, it is something they achieve with us'.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0630/g8.html

((that's how it works, you "achieve it with them", or you sit in a prison cell, get scared shitless, and then you eventually "work with them", they reward you with a lunch as well as breakfast and maybe even let you go home, and they get all the attention, for wanting to dialogue with you with all their bleedng rightous hearts, coz they gave you 20p every week, and you probably were alcoholic, but heck, its just business, and the richer you are, the more cds you can buy, the richer we all are, the more pop groups we have with different styles, hip hop, hard techno, garage and easy listening, something for everyone. poverty thus will be history when Africa is rich enough to have as wide a variety of pop groups as we do))

the dog ought always be trained to bite.
go dog go! mawl that groin!
= Make Wealth History!

Shrub is ...

by joseppi bleuinski - jeff thomason society

Tue Jul 05, 2005 03:00

j.bleuinski at yahoo dot com

512-312-0917

... a moron

Is Bush on 'bush'?

by kev

Wed Jul 06, 2005 14:41

To get your kids off marijuana
And to try to give them hope
Tell them they could end up
Like George Bush
If they carry on smoking dope

Vacant looks, bewildered, confused
And so nonplussed
George must have had smoked some wicked shit
Cos he scares the shit out of us!

His face is clearly puzzled
His mind is just the same
Is it he's just plain stupid
Or is sensimillia to blame?

One finger on the button the other on a joint
His out of his box and stoned man
He just don't get the point !

Americans are lovely people
I really wish them well
But George on bush is trouble
He doesn't look so well

He forgets the names of place's
His mind is really blown
Regan was a sick man
But George is always stoned

What happens to your country
If it comes under attack
When your leader is out of his box
Will he start to get flashbacks?

Put him in a programme
Get his system clear
Something will have to be done quite soon
Or he'll start snorting gear!

Why is he so out of it?
Its now become a joke
In times of great dilemma
He dives out for a toke!

His persona is of arrogance
Stupidy and greed
Do your kids need any more reasons
To stop puffing that dreaded weed?

So come on George be honest
Don't be such a wuss
Tell the kids out there your wasted
Cos you smoke some wicked bush!!!

Be honest with our children tell them its okay
That being stoned can't be condoned
Its just the George Bush way!!!

I wish you George all happiness
I wish you love and peace
Do you wanna score some acid man
Or maybe try some E's?

peace man!!!

kev copyright 2005

Honor Soldier

by Larry Aniel - Communist

Thu Jul 14, 2005 19:32

larya at comcast dot net

13 rosshire

2484511559

I agree if Africa is to improve the west must get poor the west has been chasing the almighty dollar long enough, the west is rich enough how many millionaire celebrities do we need? 0. And common folks in this country all whine about thier wages and the price of gas. Or theres still poor in this country, hell if you havent made it by now in this country you have a drug problem.

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