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Bono on gaining the whole world

By Geoff | Published 21 April, 2009 4:49 pm

The preacher said, “What good does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” Hearing this, every one of the pilgrims gathered in the room asked, “Is it me, Lord?” In America, in Europe, people are asking, “Is it us?”
Well, yes. It is us.
Bono at Op-Ed Guest Columnist – [...]

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Bono says what needed to be said

By Geoff | Published 26 September, 2008 1:20 pm

“It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger,” the U2 lead singer told Clinton’s fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. “That’s mad, that is mad.”
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Can we really consider canning consumerism?

By Geoff | Published 27 November, 2006 11:33 pm

For those of you who have an adverse reaction to clicking on the “Comments” links, I wanted to quote a little bit of the exchange that I’ve been having with “Deri” (not Gerry’s real name…. oops) on my “The Greatest Show I’ve Ever Seen” post.
Deri said:
Since Bono is an anti-poverty campaigner, why does he get [...]

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The Greatest Show I’ve Ever Seen

By Geoff | Published 20 November, 2006 11:24 pm

Not a hint of exaggeration. I might not have seen that many, but those Irish boys certainly do know how to put on a show. I was going to wait until I had my photos ready to put up, but it’s late and I can’t be bothered doing all that when I could be sleeping. [...]

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Underlying Motivations

By Geoff | Published 28 October, 2006 12:29 pm

I’ve said it before, but when you start contemplating an idea, it seems to pop up just about everywhere. And after posting over at advoc8 on the (RED) project, and thinking about how much the motivation behind some of those benevolent actions actually matters, there are a number of issues that have hit home surrounding [...]

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