World Peace

29.01.2007

copied from a post on U2's Official Website: http://www.u2.com

'Africa - An Opportunity Not A Burden'
Bono has challenged the governments of the richest countries to deliver on their promises to fight poverty and disease in the poorest countries.

Speaking to political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said he remained optimistic that the rich world would deliver on its 2005 commitments to cancel the debts of poor countries and double aid to African countries by 2010.

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I spend at least an hour a day randomly flipping through people's MySpace profiles. Just invading their lives for a minute or two, acknowledging their existence and moving on.

If I were the President I would cancel the War on Terror, the War on Drugs and the War on Poverty... I'd start the MySpace initiative instead.

I'd make sure there was a one computer to person ratio in all public places all around the world. I'd hook everyone up with a MySpace account and watch their souls get sucked onto the net.

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