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just0
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: Bono Promotes mercenary invasion of Venezuela |
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Bono's humanitarian costume is wearing thin...
| Quote: | Public campaign to stop the release of videogame "Mercenaries 2"
U2'S Bono backs insidious propaganda: Videogame with Venezuela invasion theme
BY: US Venezuela Solidarity Network
Submitted by vensol on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 8:27pm.
WASHINGTON D.C. - U2's Bono, well recognized for his campaigns to reduce poverty and treat AIDS in Africa is backing a videogame which promotes the invasion and destruction of Venezuela in order to check "a power hungry tyrant" who has "seized control of Venezuela and her oil supply." Bono has failed to respond to concerns raised by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network about his funding of this project.
"Mercenaries 2: World in Flames," created by Los Angeles based Pandemic/Bioware Studios, simulates a mercenary invasion of Venezuela in the year 2007. Pandemic is a subcontractor for the US Army and CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies, which uses Hollywood techniques to mount war simulations in California's high desert in order to conduct military training. "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames" simulates destruction in downtown Caracas, and promises to leave no part of Venezuela untouched.
Elevation Partners is an investment firm that Bono helped create in order to exploit marketing opportunities between U2 and its fans, including projects from Pandemic/Bioware Studios. Pandemic states that as a partner in Elevation Partners, Bono "has visibility into all projects at Pandemic and Bioware."
Pandemic's target market is young men of military recruitment age and indeed this is not Pandemic's first military adventure. MSNBC reported that the videogame "’Full Spectrum Warrior’ was created through the Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina Del Rey, Calif., a $45 million endeavor formed by the Army five years ago to connect academics with local entertainment and video game industries. The institute subcontracted work to Los Angeles based Pandemic Studios."
One cannot escape the irony that today, July 5, Venezuela celebrates its independence -- just one day after the US celebrated its own. The most enduring aspect of an independent country is assertion of its sovereignty and demand that the world recognize international laws protecting that sovereignty. Yet, amid relentless US threats against Venezuela, a US-based company, Pandemic, which collaborates with the US Army to promote war, plans to market a videogame which advocates a most violent violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty.
Although Bono remains silent on the matter and Pandemic insists that "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames" is "a work of fictional entertainment" and "Venezuela was chosen for the setting of Mercenaries 2 (because it) is a fascinating and colorful country full of wonderful architecture, geography and culture," members of the Venezuela Solidarity Network are appalled by the game's openly racist, interventionist attitude. Says Chuck Kaufman, of Alliance for Global Justice, "if it's 'just a game' and it's all about selecting fascinating and colorful locales, why didn't Pandemic select Dublin or Washington, D.C.? Because people would be outraged, that's why. Pandemic is simply capitalizing on negative and inaccurate U.S. press stories about Venezuela and its leader, Hugo Chavez, in order to make a quick buck. It's another piece of anti-Venezuelan propaganda that serves only the U.S. military, pure and simple."
Gunnar Gundersen of the Oregon Bolivarian Circle says, "We have family and friends in Venezuela and many of us have walked and stayed in the places featured in the war game. To us, these are not just clever abstract pictures. They are scenes of a place we consider our second home. Please try to imagine how Venezuelans must feel viewing a bulky, blonde, military man laying waste to their country, a country that is finally rising above a 500-year history of oppression and exploitation by foreign powers."
The Venezuelan Solidarity Network calls for Bono, who has appealed to the world on many occasions for peace and poverty reduction, to apply those same values to block the manufacture and distribution of this videogame.
For further details or to help with the campaign email Chuck Kaufman [email protected]
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/181
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MichaelC
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| Just how does Boner make his money these days? Is it from U2 or is it from NWO? For sure he is on the payroll of NWO. What a turd. |
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Rumpl4skn
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:35 am Post subject: |
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While not a Bono fan myself, that story is a bit over the top in editorialization. Boner hasn't commented on the game, and it's often that celebs' companies manufacture items the owner or major stockholder isn't totally aware of.
I don't think we need this item to conclude Bono is part of the globalists's play act, his previous works speak for themselves.
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Fintan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: One Degrees |
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Totally jaw-droping info on Bono. Thanks dude.
| Quote: | Pandemic is a subcontractor for the US Army and CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies, .....
Elevation Partners is an investment firm that Bono helped create in order to exploit marketing opportunities
between U2 and its fans, including projects from Pandemic/Bioware Studios.
Bono is partner in Elevation Partners and as such has visibility into all projects at Pandemic and Bioware.
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I've written about Bono and Geldof as NWO stooges before,
but this goes right to the heart of the issue.
From the quote above, we have just ONE degrees of seperation
between Bono and the CIA.
CIA's Creative Technologies --> Pandemic Studios <-- Bono's Elevation Partners
And this is on the record. In the public domain.
Nice.
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Rumpl4skn
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Inst. for Creative Tech.:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3131181/
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just0
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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There was some good stuff on the now archived website for the book "Bono the Puppet."
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"I have a problem when acts of "humanitarian activism" are, with no exception, followed by bombing. That precisely was the case in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Iraq (concert for Kurds), and in Afghanistan. Bono's activism preceded in each of those 'hot spots'. His acts were just part of the PR that paved the way to those wars. They had nothing to do with "humanitarian activism". |
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hawkwind
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: Jealous?? |
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You are all just jealeous because Bozo can afford the 10 grand to fly his dumb-ass hat to his next gig!! What next? Taking pot shots at Sir/Lord Geldof?? Jeez, don't you know the G8 rules dude? Just ask the folks on the trains in Mumbai, London, Madrid ... nevermind! 
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MichaelC
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| The more I stay here the more it all becomes more clear..... |
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Rumpl4skn
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But on the plus side...... now we know why he wears those dark shades all the time. It's the dress code.
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Jerry Fletcher
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Pretty nauseating...
| Quote: | A testimony to Bono’s influence in Washington are words by George Bush, expressed in Bono’s company: "I’m traveling in some pretty good company today, Bono. Here’s what I know about him: first he’s a good musician, secondly, he is willing to use his position in a responsible way. He is willing to lead to achieve what his heart tells him, and that is nobody – nobody – should be living in poverty and hopelessness in the world. Bono, I appreciate your heart and to tell you what an influence you have had, Dick Cheney walked in the Oval Office, he said "Jesse Helms wants us to listen to Bono’s ideas". The US president then pledged $5 billion dollars to aid the fight against world poverty. Bono has established a particular contact with two crucial Washington policymakers, the arch-conservative Jesse Helms and U.S. Finance secretary Paul O’Neill.
From: Bono The Puppet
http://www.bonothepuppet.com/why.htm |
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atm
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:54 am Post subject: |
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Astonishing, but 'Bono' fits no numerolgical-alphabetical pattern. So that's alright then!
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Rumpl4skn
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Atm, I like the new avatar, and more specific location.
Btw, are you anywhere near Dr. Evil's summer house? 
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Three words: FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE
Let's define (all definitions courtesy of Oxford Dictionary)
FULL- not lacking or omitting anything; complete
SPECTRUM- the entire range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
DOMINANCE- power and influence over others
Now, let's journey back and to the left a little. Remember the lessons learned in Vietnam? No, you say? Perhaps the lessons of Vietnam learned by the American people and the lessons learned by those in power were completely different. For example, the people learned that war was pointless, especially when conducted entirely for the profit and power of the "military industrial complex". They learned this lesson so well that their collective machinations managed to make those in power squirm.
Remember this guy?
Those in power sure do. He wrote a couple of songs which made life difficult for them. Imagine giving peace a chance. How terrible.
He also wised up to their tried and true techniques for keeping the people down. He knew that COINTELPRO, say, would have a hard time putting an agent into his own bedroom. So he staged this kind of protest:
Ah, now this is truly the powerful people's worst nightmare. What if everybody decided to stay at home to boycot the entire system?
So that gentleman had to go, and on December 8, 1980, he did. Whew. Just in the nick of time too, because less than two months later, on January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan (and George Bush Sr.) entered the White House.
1980 also saw the release of the first album by a new rock group named after a spy plane. U2 was led by a charismatic young rocker (under an alias) who would eventually fill the same cultural role as Mr. Lennon did.
In U2's first two albums (Boy and October), the only song that hinted at the future political path the music might take was perhaps "I Threw a Brick Through a Window". But then suddenly, in 1983, came this:
Since then, the man with the alias who sings for the band named after the spy plane, has become one of the most famous 'protestors' in the world. He's so famous at protesting that he hangs out in these circles now:
Why is this a surprise to anyone? |
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As a mildly-related anecdote:
I played in a melodic rock band in the early 80's (name withheld), and we were signed to Columbia Records through a 'sweetheart' deal with our producer, who was in the multi-platinum band Chicago. The record turned out excellent, but languished upon release, because Chicago was tryng to leave the label, there were hard feelings, and in typical record label high-school logic, we were guilty by association.
As the band played the club scene in upstate NY, our manager got a late night call - they needed the band in New Orleans the next day, to jump on Queen's "The Game" tour. Apparently, Columbia had gotten a phone call from Brian May, that the opening band was "so bloody awful we can't stand them anymore." The opening band was U2. The story was, they'd literally learned how to play their instruments approximately a year before, and had no business being onstage with the likes of Queen.
Not that a swift rise to fame is uncommon in the rock world, but I thought this was an interesting tidbit to add to the.... discussion.
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just0
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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On the subject of John Lennon, It'll be interseting
to see how the film "The U.S. vs. John Lennon"
turns out.....since its from the studio that brought us
"Fahrenheit 9/11".
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