Originally posted by Bardock42
okieokay, seriously now...how did either France or the UK get more important than Germany....and well ok Japan maybe.....but we could still kick their asses.
I believe it is all about wealth... But I'm not sure who is richer then who.
The whole meeting is the 7 leaders of the richest countries & Russia meet up together.
There isn't an importance factor to be honest.. they all have the same power in the conference
Originally posted by Clovie
If it is the order of importance. i think Russia should have been somewhere nearer the top (unfortunatelly 🙁)
Russia are only in this meeting because it was part of the agreement after the cold war... the last meeting the G7 meeting didn't include Russia
Originally posted by Clovie
Could you this time start from France and not us? 😬
Sure thing...either way we'd win this time....well maybe not...damn communist leaders....
Originally posted by §P0oONY
I believe it is all about wealth... But I'm not sure who is richer then who.The whole meeting is the 7 leaders of the richest countries & Russia meet up together.
There isn't an importance factor to be honest.. they all have the same power in the conference
Russia are only in this meeting because it was part of the agreement after the cold war... the last meeting the G7 meeting didn't include Russia
I know, i was just kidding dude.
Originally posted by §P0oONYoh..ok 😕
I believe it is all about wealth... But I'm not sure who is richer then who.The whole meeting is the 7 leaders of the richest countries & Russia meet up together.
There isn't an importance factor to be honest.. they all have the same power in the conference
Russia are only in this meeting because it was part of the agreement after the cold war... the last meeting the G7 meeting didn't include Russia
Originally posted by Bardock42still i'd prefer you not to start from us.
Sure thing...either way we'd win this time....well maybe not...damn communist leaders....I know, i was just kidding dude.
Originally posted by Clovie
oh..ok 😕still i'd prefer you not to start from us.
They're all rich enough to pay for the drugs, don't see why they're not doing so.
thats what really gets on my nerves...look at the people involved...paul mcartney...alone he is said to have a £700 million fortune....combine him with the other rich stars involved like madonna, bono and elton john and your talking a combined total of billions...not including the wealth of all the smaller acts and other celebrities involved...then you have the "make poverty history" ads on tv...narrated by liam neeson and also including kylie minogue, 50 cent, brad pitt, tom hanks and cameron diaz
im sure if they all chipped in or gave up maybe just 1 of their several mansions each then they could do alot more than people like me who although rich in comparison to africans...are still struggling to stretch my cash to last from pay day to pay day
I was at one of the shows! I was at the one in Toronto/Barrie, I was really close to the stage I could see each performer perfectly. It was a great show and its a really good cause you chould go to www.live8live.com and send Paul Martin E-mail and put your name on the petition!
Originally posted by ~AlluNeedIsLuv~
I was at one of the shows! I was at the one in Toronto/Barrie, I was really close to the stage I could see each performer perfectly. It was a great show and its a really good cause you chould go to www.live8live.com and send Paul Martin E-mail and put your name on the petition!
I'd never do that.......
Bardock, Ive just read through all your posts, it seems to me, and I'm not tryin to start anything by saying this, but you are a nazi, any which way you say it, your veiws are very nazist.
I was at the London concert, and i truely believe that they could have made a difference, the concerts wernt in any way about money, it was all about raising awareness that someone does die every 3 seconds, and that it can be stopped very easily without really affecting economies in the west.
People may not genuinly care about the people in africa, the artists at the concerts may have just being doing it for their reputations, BUT, the fact is it was raising awareness and it is part of nature that us as a species look after one another, lions do it, elephants, dogs, most species on earth look after oneanother, and thats just what we need to do because once humanity can work as one and all be equal we can start moving on and exploring space (or something like that)
Originally posted by alcoholicjedi
Bardock, Ive just read through all your posts, it seems to me, and I'm not tryin to start anything by saying this, but you are a nazi, any which way you say it, your veiws are very nazist.I was at the London concert, and i truely believe that they could have made a difference, the concerts wernt in any way about money, it was all about raising awareness that someone does die every 3 seconds, and that it can be stopped very easily without really affecting economies in the west.
People may not genuinly care about the people in africa, the artists at the concerts may have just being doing it for their reputations, BUT, the fact is it was raising awareness and it is part of nature that us as a species look after one another, lions do it, elephants, dogs, most species on earth look after oneanother, and thats just what we need to do because once humanity can work as one and all be equal we can start moving on and exploring space (or something like that)
I wasn't talking aboot the Live 8....possibly you misread my post.....well actually you obviously did but who cares.....so maybe the live 8 can help I never doubted that but it doesn't change that its not true caring....and small groups look after each other..and why do they do it?....to be strong as a group..its the nature of most animals...we use our reasoning to do the same...but there is no real reason why to help Africans....it probably wouldn't even be a good thing for our future ....but humans dont care...they always just do what they fits them the most......and nowadays it is "cool" to be caring and all....sure if you want to ok....its just nothing "good" or "special"...not even "useful"....so don't annoy people that have better things to do....
Oh yes, in conclusion you are a communist......wtf why should someone even say something like that...stupid idiot......
Originally posted by alcoholicjedi
Bardock, Ive just read through all your posts, it seems to me, and I'm not tryin to start anything by saying this, but you are a nazi, any which way you say it, your veiws are very nazist.I was at the London concert, and i truely believe that they could have made a difference, the concerts wernt in any way about money, it was all about raising awareness that someone does die every 3 seconds, and that it can be stopped very easily without really affecting economies in the west.
People may not genuinly care about the people in africa, the artists at the concerts may have just being doing it for their reputations, BUT, the fact is it was raising awareness and it is part of nature that us as a species look after one another, lions do it, elephants, dogs, most species on earth look after oneanother, and thats just what we need to do because once humanity can work as one and all be equal we can start moving on and exploring space (or something like that)
Instead of trying to save Earth with unrealistic, unhelpful idealistic bullshit.
Try LIVING on Earth.
-AC
now would you look at that... sales of pink floyd albums are up by nearly 1400%... amazing how pretending to give a toss can make you a few bucks...stave off having to write that autobiography for a few more years
Well i think the music was really good. The london show was really good. In Canada they had a 4 hour special called Greatest hits and i say all old school people saved the show. Green day was good, London was an amazing show and it was so cool when will smith did the "the fresh prince of bel-air song" Some good talent by pink floyd even i wasn't born near thier time.
What was the point of Live 8?
So I'm wondering... who, if anyone, did Live 8 actually help?
It was a nice cause for celebrities, many of whom really don't give a crap about Africa and some of whom demanded requisite luxury goody bags to perform, to jump on the bandwagon?
It was a nice show put on by a lot of famous people that was probably enjoyed by many in warm homes on their TV's amongst relative opulence.
It was a good exercise in alleviating guilt among those who view Africa as a "scar on their conscience"?
But did it actually help (for example) the woman in Africa, raped, infected with HIV and now pregnant but unable to afford the AZT to prevent transmission to her child?
The expressed goal was to increase awareness of the African plight.
Even in that goal it failed as, while I'm not taking away from the terrible tragedy of the abhorrent London bombing, four bombs less than a week after is all it took for the "Western world" to once more focus it's collective sympathy in its entirety on itself and on the threat of the amorphous entity known as "terror" around every corner. I'm wondering if once again it's been forgotten that "every 3 seconds a child dies in Africa", that millions are dying needlessly.
So both those who already knew of the African plight and those who knew very little of it gained little if any awareness from Live 8.
Are donor nations suddenly going to start meeting the 0.7% of GDP foreign aid benchmark? Are Western nations suddenly going to remove their agricultural subsidies so that African nations at least have a chance to grow their economies? Probably not.
So then... was Live 8 just a colossal waste of time? Or am I just be a cynical bastard? (Probably the latter 😄 )