Thursday, February 23, 2006
Cheek..
Today turned out to be a surprise day as my ex-landlords decided that they would come to my job and ask me to pay for yet another water bill from the previous house we rented, 300% higher than normal again. Even though we had left the bill there for them to pay they didnt do anything and as a result of not lifting a finger for three months the water was cut off to the house and the new tenants have no water. Like this is my problem, we kept telling the landlords wife for over two months to get something done about the illegal connection to our house but she just laughed it off as nothing, Bet she isnt laughing so much now. They even had the fucking cheek to ask us to divide the payment with them, can you believe this crap?? How can they ask us to pay for water they know wasnt used by us in the first place? Lets hope that the new tenants learn fast about these people and move to another place. When I told them that we wanted the civil police to take over and deal with the situation they suddenly had a change of heart, I wonder why or what they don't want the civil police to find out and then ran back to their house with their tail between their legs. Sad init? How sad can people get, i wonder..
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john
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Last night saw U2 arrive and rock Sao Paulo, Brasil and bringing with them a political message that probably went into one ear and out of the other. The show rocked on for two hours and was full of messages about peace and ending poverty etc, but here in Brasil people like to keept he status quo exactly the same. Since the poor's fearless leader Lulu was voted in, he's shouted his mouth all over the place about things he's going to do and change but in reality he hasn't really done anything. Good job we have Bono and the boys to come spread the message in a way that Lulu could never do. Targeting middle class and rich people in the audience with huge messages to try to ram the point across while broadcasting it live all over the country was just the sort of touch of class you'd expect from U2. I'd like to say that U2's message would change something in Brasil, but I wouldn't hold my breath..
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
U2..
Last night saw U2 arrive and rock Sao Paulo, Brasil and bringing with them a political message that probably went into one ear and out of the other. The show rocked on for two hours and was full of messages about peace and ending poverty etc, but here in Brasil people like to keept he status quo exactly the same. Since the poor's fearless leader Lulu was voted in, he's shouted his mouth all over the place about things he's going to do and change but in reality he hasn't really done anything. Good job we have Bono and the boys to come spread the message in a way that Lulu could never do. Targeting middle class and rich people in the audience with huge messages to try to ram the point across while broadcasting it live all over the country was just the sort of touch of class you'd expect from U2. I'd like to say that U2's message would change something in Brasil, but I wouldn't hold my breath..
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john
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Bono urges Brazil fans to end poverty
Irish rock group U2 gave a lesson in human rights and urged Brazilians to help end poverty in their country in a spectacular concert on Monday night at a Sao Paulo football stadium.
About 70,000 fans packed the Morumbi Stadium for the eagerly awaited show and the band delivered with a two-hour performance that mixed hard-edged rock with high emotion.
In a sequence of songs, lead singer Bono brought a political message to the crowd of mostly middle-class and wealthy Brazilians.
During "Miss Sarajevo", a song inspired by the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, clauses of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were scrolled down in Portuguese on the huge digital screen behind the band.
They then launched into "Pride", their tribute to Martin Luther King, the slain U.S. civil rights champion of the 1960s.
Bono told the crowd: "Martin Luther King didn't just have an American dream, but an Irish dream, a Latin American dream ... sing for Peru, for Chile, for Argentina, for Brazil."
The screen then lit up with a display of the flags of all Latin American nations.
At the show's pre-encore climax with the song "One", an appeal for peace, Bono spoke over the music saying: "I love Brazil, I love Carnival, because everyone crams together -- rich and poor, young and old, left and right. But to beat poverty, all of us have to work together, to act together."
Brazil suffers from a range of human rights problems from police brutality to sexual exploitation and has one of the biggest gaps between rich and poor in the world.
President Luiz Inacio Lula, a former factory worker whose grassroots support lies with the poor, has launched programs to wipe out poverty and hunger and has promised social reform in the country of 185 million people.
How much the message of peace and brotherhood got through was open to question. Mention of Argentina brought boos from the crowd. Some also jeered when pictures of Lula and U.S. President George W. Bush appeared on the screen.
Bono ended the show with the appeal: "Pobreza Zero" (Zero Poverty), and thanked Lula for his hospitality.
The singer, a high-profile social activist who has met frequently with world leaders to plead the case of disadvantaged nations, had flown to the capital Brasilia on Sunday to talk to Lula. He praised him then as a hero for his social stands.
Bono will donate a guitar for auction to benefit Lula's Zero Hunger campaign, which aims to give all Brazilians three meals a day, the government's Agencia Brasil agency said on Monday.
U2 will play a second show at Morumbi on Tuesday night before taking the "Vertigo" tour to Santiago, Chile, on February 26 and Buenos Aires on March 1 and 2
Class..
Bono urges Brazil fans to end poverty
Irish rock group U2 gave a lesson in human rights and urged Brazilians to help end poverty in their country in a spectacular concert on Monday night at a Sao Paulo football stadium.
About 70,000 fans packed the Morumbi Stadium for the eagerly awaited show and the band delivered with a two-hour performance that mixed hard-edged rock with high emotion.
In a sequence of songs, lead singer Bono brought a political message to the crowd of mostly middle-class and wealthy Brazilians.
During "Miss Sarajevo", a song inspired by the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, clauses of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were scrolled down in Portuguese on the huge digital screen behind the band.
They then launched into "Pride", their tribute to Martin Luther King, the slain U.S. civil rights champion of the 1960s.
Bono told the crowd: "Martin Luther King didn't just have an American dream, but an Irish dream, a Latin American dream ... sing for Peru, for Chile, for Argentina, for Brazil."
The screen then lit up with a display of the flags of all Latin American nations.
At the show's pre-encore climax with the song "One", an appeal for peace, Bono spoke over the music saying: "I love Brazil, I love Carnival, because everyone crams together -- rich and poor, young and old, left and right. But to beat poverty, all of us have to work together, to act together."
Brazil suffers from a range of human rights problems from police brutality to sexual exploitation and has one of the biggest gaps between rich and poor in the world.
President Luiz Inacio Lula, a former factory worker whose grassroots support lies with the poor, has launched programs to wipe out poverty and hunger and has promised social reform in the country of 185 million people.
How much the message of peace and brotherhood got through was open to question. Mention of Argentina brought boos from the crowd. Some also jeered when pictures of Lula and U.S. President George W. Bush appeared on the screen.
Bono ended the show with the appeal: "Pobreza Zero" (Zero Poverty), and thanked Lula for his hospitality.
The singer, a high-profile social activist who has met frequently with world leaders to plead the case of disadvantaged nations, had flown to the capital Brasilia on Sunday to talk to Lula. He praised him then as a hero for his social stands.
Bono will donate a guitar for auction to benefit Lula's Zero Hunger campaign, which aims to give all Brazilians three meals a day, the government's Agencia Brasil agency said on Monday.
U2 will play a second show at Morumbi on Tuesday night before taking the "Vertigo" tour to Santiago, Chile, on February 26 and Buenos Aires on March 1 and 2
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