Bono, Wealth-as-Power, Gaza (Give to the Rich to Help the Poor!)

Give to the Rich to Help the Poor!

As an introduction to this item, a short TikTok on the courage of the Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, recently slaughtered in his tent, trying to catch up on some sleep, among with four of his colleagues.

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This blog essay refers back to piece of polemic about Bono and his 'charidee' efforts which was written in 2009... and I decided to update it after U2 released statements on The genocide that fell far short of being honest and viable.

Bono and Label Red, a 'well meaning' scam?

Back in 2009 I had been doing a lot of reading on the American Express and Bono founded Label Red campaign.

Label red was founded in 2006. The idea was that 1% of sales of goods using the Label Red marker would go to AIDS charities working in Africa. Young people were exercised on the issue of African impoverishment. Companies were seeking young people as evolving consumers....

In 2008 American Express joined the campaign, issuing new car scheme targeting younger consumers. The business objective of their campaign was to enrol a million new young customers, hopefully as life long users of the service.

What I found as I read more and more was quite disturbing, yet not at all surprising. More about that below.

Celebrity is a weapon of Wealth-as-Power.

Seeing pop stars who are incredibly wealthy stand next to political leaders who cause great harm makes sense.

Celebrities are not really real people - they are performance theatre, actors performing for the purpose of extracting wealth, and when they join the Wealth-as-Power Class they enter the class war, because they stay silent on the causes of impoverishment, warfare, racism, misogyny that emanate from the process of Wealth-as-Power extraction of wealth from exploited populations.

Update to 2025...

Bono and the Band U2 release public statements on The Genocide, having supported Israel and America all the way these past two years and more... their statements protect Israel, lay all the blame on Netanyahu and Hamas, evade confronting USUK and EU Governments directly, they silence the voices of Palestinians by exclusion of any mention of their voices and they amplify the bands public hand wringing escapism. Bono accepted a medal from Biden, in the midst of the Genocide - he should have rejected it publicly, if he really was going to support the Palestinian people as a public voice.

Here is just one example of the kind of false, bland, unexamined narrative Bono deploys in his 'opinion piece'. clearly he has made no effort any all to understand the details of the complexity and see what is it that complicates the Western response - what complicates the Western response is that Israel is a British Empire Weapon, since 1915 and the first insertion of European Jewish refugees...

Bono is an Honoury Knight Commander of the British Empire. Bono's words ring hollow, masked propaganda most of his fans ought to see right through.

"Yahya Sinwar didn’t mind if he lost the battle or even the war if he could destroy Israel as a moral as well as an economic force. Over the next months as Israel’s revenge for the Hamas attack appeared more and more disproportionate and disinterested in the equally innocent civilian lives in Gaza… I felt as nauseous as everyone, but reminded myself Hamas had deliberately positioned themselves under civilian targets, having tunneled their way from school to mosque to hospital."

1. Bono has no idea what Yahya Sinwar 'minded'. Furthermore Sinwar was a representative of a larger body of people than himself, and was quite clearly not driven by self interests of any kind. His last moments demonstrated the courage that the 1916 Rising fighters, including who were executed by British Military order in 1916. Yahya Sinwar's writings and public utterances, which no doubt Bono has not pored over with any great interest, and his actions throughout his life, all of which are quite well documented, support that contention. A philosophy of courage, resistance and service to his people. Bono's sentence implies Sinwar was casual about all of this. As if he could't care less. Bono's self serving attitude leaks out.

2. The 'disproportionate' quality of the Israeli response was obvious within the first month of the Military assault. Israeli leaders had already publicly committed to a genocidal war, with leading politicians in the cabinet declaring their intent and espousing their view of Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) as 'human animals'. A registry of comments by leading Israeli legislators that are quite blatantly genocidal exists and can be verified. This is not a compilation of anti-Israel propaganda. It is the self incriminations of the Israeli political leadership supported by 90% of the Israeli population.

3. "I felt as nauseous as everyone" awe, didums... Bono remained silent, as we who protested immediately, aware of what was being done, were turning sleepless nights, nursing broken hearts, trying to calm our outraged minds, witnessing horrors on our media streams we did not know were possible. Our hopes dashed repeatedly as the West refused to act according to international law. And what we were experiencing was a luxury compared to what the people of Gaza and West Bank and the Palestinian diaspora were living through. Bono's claim that the complexity of the situation barred him from public commentary is banal, effete and ludicrous. His claim to being emotional afflicted is gaslighting.

There was no sign of nausea as he accepted an award from Biden, who was participating in the Genocide.

4. There is no reliable evidence anywhere what Hamas military wing deliberately placed themselves behind, within or under civilian infrastructure. Bono was not reminding himself of anything other than his acceptance at face value of Israeli lies, as if they were the honest truth, so cross my heart... Yes, there were tunnels, no there is not one shred of evidence of them linking civilian or religious infrastructure to evade Israeli surveillance and its bunker busting bombs, or of using civilians as shields.

I could go on. If I am wrong here, please point it out in the comments.

Here's a link to their full statements on their own website - readers can read. Make up your own minds. I'm clear on where I stand.

Here follows the rest of the original blog posting...

Marina Hyde, writing in the Guardian 'comment is free' web pages outlines a fantastic new philantrophic concept designed by elites themselves, the super-duper rich.

"Give to the rich to help the poor? An idea worthy of Bono."

Satire? No - a genius really has concocted a tax proposal to put our aid budget in the hands of the super-rich"

"On Tuesday night, 100 billionaires will gather at London's sumptuous Dorchester hotel, to watch Mr Ted Turner in conversation with Ms Carol Vorderman. Ms Joss Stone will sing, and some model or other will be in attendance. Can you guess the aim of this evening, which I trust you would cross continents to avoid in the infinitely unlikely event that you had been invited? No? Then allow me to assist. The aim is to make the government give tax breaks to the super-rich, in order to tempt them to give the same percentage of income to charity as the poorest 20% of people in this country already do.

Feel free to be taken unwell.

Initially I assumed the Fortune Forum, for so it is named, was an elaborate living satire, designed to highlight practically everything that is wrong with contemporary life. Alas, The Fortune Forum is all too real. It was dreamt up by an heiress called Renu Mehta, as a kind of vaguely benevolent mini-Davos."

Marina continues to explore this fantastic fantasy escapist world ... I think she doesn't go far enough. Like George Monbiot, she holds back the full fury of common-sense empathy and outrage.

Nonetheless, 'It' has to be said. And both are saying it with some subtlety.

Read Full Article Here

The hubris of these immensely rich people, often from long lines of generations of wealth, has become, for the majority of people, an almost pathological issue, in that it is an attitude that informs many of the practices which we know are harming rather than assisting life, geared towards gathering and hoarding 'resources' and wealth, and often with great violence, and these super rich people know this, and they continue nonetheless, sitting on charitable boards, with all that is going on around the world, driven by their pride in their immense wealth and paranoia about their 'strategic interests'.

I have re-written the song 'streets with no name' as 'thieves with no shame', as a parody. I don't sing the song, as I find the melody irksome. I do sing 'I don't like geldof' and parody of 'I don't like Mondays'..... Goldloaf at least wrote some catchy tunes...

Both have done more harm than good.

http://www.corneilius.net/songpages/theives.htm Thieves With No Shame, a re-write of 'Streets With No Name' by Corneilius

The song - 'I don't like Geldof' by Corneilius

There's also background info on Geldof and Bono business dealings and investments, and an analysis of Label Red, sponsored by Bono, American Express and the large pharmaceutical companies who control aids medicine patents.

Article on Label Red - Bono and Africa, and the clever little scam. The information on AIDS assistance is horrifying.

I have sent this out before, it's not my own research, so blessings to all the various people and ways that info flows.

And it's worth repeating, it's worth all the effort to expose these fools to their own folly, and show them how they can help, if they seriously want to help, if it is to do with their experience of their common humanity, common soul, common nature and common sense!

We'll show them how by doing it ourselves, as many are already doing. Ask Jane Goddall....

Ask the lovley people, voluteers all, who facilitated The Spike community centre evicted by Southwark Council from their home in Peckham! A home the Council are selling to property developers, handing it over to the private sector for profit.... wealth is transferred, from poor to rich yet again, another drop in the constant flow.

One the one hand the rich have charidees, and on the other hand their ideology keeps shutting these grass roots initiatives down.....!

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Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Ronald Storrs, Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, David Lammy and the Continuity of British Colonial Asset Management

2025 "The Palestinians, being drowned in a sea of violently hostile Zionism."

In Palestine in 1915 Palestinian Arab Jews, Palestinian Arab, Palestinian Arab Christians, Palestinian Arab Muslims, Palestinian Arab Sufi, Palestinian Arab Orthodox, Palestinian Arab Christians and Palestinian Arab Secular people lived side by side, at ease with each other for centuries, they intermingled, intermarried, they lived and worked together. The British Empire intent on breaking the Ottoman Empire during WWI and assuming the rule over those areas, seeking to encourage internal warfare against the Ottomans, had promised Arab Warlords and Zionists land that was not theirs to promise.

The Palestine Mandate and the Sykes-Picot Agreement carved up the region into compliant monarchies and dictatorships, to prevent the emergence of independent pan-Arab political and economic solidarity assuming its right to control the resources and assets of their own lands. The British armed the monarchies, trained their leaders in English Universities, their military commanders at Sandhurst.

The Black and Tans were sent to Palestine after the Irish War of Independence. There was 'work to be done' in suppressing the Arab peoples, and in arming and training the Zionist colonists. Long before the atrocity of the Nazi Holocaust.

1920s Colonial Office files CO/733/12 and /58 contain detailed discussions by British officials as to the purpose of these policies, a long term strategic plan.

In 1937 Sir Ronald Storrs, a Governor of The Palestine Mandate describes the Zionist enclave as a 'loyal little Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism', hostile to being ruled over by another European Colonial Power. Arabism meant Arab political and economic independence, and did not refer to Islam.

Ulster was a 400 year old plantation at this time, and had recently been partitioned from the rest of Ireland, an act that caused a civil war and later one gave rise the 'The Troubles'. Peace as achieved in 1999.

Continuity

The continuity of British Wealth as Power Empire Asset Management is the subject of Adam Curtis' documentary 'The Mayfair Set'.

The Mayfair Set Episode 1

'The Mayfair Set' which how British Oligarchs deployed private warfare (to mask British State sponsorship) to undermine African and Eastern Mediterranean countries seeking to gain independent democratic political control of the resources of their own lands which had been under the control of the British Colonial Office and it's oligarchy sponsors.

That continuity remains intact, and is why Sir Keir Starmer is a committed Zionist.

Israel is a weapon of the British Wealth-as-Power grouping, the anglophone oligarchy formerly known as The British Empire - America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand et al, and of course the European powers of France and Germany and their vassal states

Their participation in the genocide underway is well beyond complicity, they are the driving energy behind it, hiding behind Israel and various anti-Semitic tropes so that they own peoples believe Israel is the driver.

Tell me it is not a famine again?

In the 1840s, whilst food was being exported from Ireland to England to fill its markets, British troops guarded the shipments of livestock, cheese, butter, grains and other food stuff, as Irish Catholics were starving to death, their 'famine' induced by potato blight, also known as late blight, which was caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. This organism thrived in the damp, cool conditions of Irelands climate and it spread through the air and water, infecting potato plants and causing decay in both foliage and tubers. Potatoes were the staple food crop of Catholic Irish peasants, most of whom were impoverished tenants of Protestant English landlords, tenants whose work was providing the labour for the English Landlords farms and industries.

In 2025 hundreds of thousands of tons of food, medicine and other goods deemed necessary for the basic needs of the people of Gaza are blockaded, by Israeli civilians and by Israeli Occupation Forces.

This is not famine, this is the deliberate intentional starvation of a population by withholding readily available food guarded by a well organised, well armed, motivated military machine operating a colonial strategy.

The continuity of the willingness of British Wealth-as-Power to inflict mass harm upon targeted populations is largely obscured to British students in British schools, purposefully.

That must end in order to build the peoples political solidarity which is necessary to bring about accountability and justice. Education is always political.

continuity

this particular continuity must be broken, and at pace.

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We, the people, need to take direct immediate action.

The Fruit of Western Democratic Corruption

Today, starvation as a weapon threatens 2 million Gazans.

I am Irish, so this does have some meaning for me. I am also humane.

GHF - Gaza Hunting Fields - bait the trap, lure the prey, kill the prey

Preamble

There is nothing original or novel in what I am presenting here.

So, you might not have noticed that the Western 'democracy' model is rooted in oppositional dynamics. A government and an opposition. This is purposeful. It generates a struggle, a power struggle and everything I and others who study the matter know about power psychologies says that power struggles corrupt everyone who participates.

Wealth-as-Power as a societal force absolutely and purposefully prevent mutual aid and honest co-operation emerging to challenge it, confront it and hold it accountable..

Imagine, if you will, a family in chaos between two warring parents, or between parents and grand parents, each set struggling for power. Will they ever meet the needs of their children whilst engaged in power plays? No. They cannot meet their own needs, let alone the needs of others who are more vulnerable. They are concerned with meeting the needs of power. The urge to power is always dysfunctional unless it is mediated by whole and healthy communities.

As a result their children of such a household will be forced by circumstance beyond their capacity to redress to try their best to survive with their many un-met needs by adopting coping strategies. They may not be consciously aware of the precise needs, they may be coping as a reaction rather than a thoughtful response. They will become habituated to that situation. In war time, the children living in war zones begin, soon enough, to experience life in a war zone as every day business.

That is because we learn so much by experience, wordlessly.

Christianity/Capitalism/Monarchies and Wealth-as-Power inheritance lineages deem the Nuclear Family as part of the 'natural order' precisely because a nuclear family is incapable of meeting the needs of its constituents - only a whole, healthy community can do that. A healthy community shares its resources. The nuclear serves the needs of inheritance, concentration of wealth, suppression of women and children so that they meet the needs of lineage.

Hierarchy structures extract resources, they amass wealth-as-power. They do that by leveraging violence and by exploitation. That is their basic operation dynamic. That is what they do. Extraction requires exploitation, exploitation causes harm, the harmed dissent and sometimes they rebel. Those rebellions must be crushed for the structure of power to continue.

So, as I an laying it out, we can see that most of us are coping with a living situation that is determined by people who engage in power struggles, at some distance to us in our day to day lives. Their main concern is preserving their power. Anything that weakens, undermines, dilutes or devolves that power is understood and experienced as a threat, and treated accordingly. Palestine Action is not a terrorist entity.

"Unconditional Love without Accountability is Submission."

"Democracy without Accountability is Subversion."

We have been appealing, demonstrating, writing, wailing and crying. We are not yet exhausted.

Most of us in Europe, England, America are sitting in quite privileged situations.

The Palestinians have been, and continue to suffer intolerably. Gaza is an Intentional Hell.

The Zionist Colonisers have always intended to do this.

The Western Political Ruling Class have always denied this, and they now show us who and what they are.

Aroused by their Power.

Aroused by impunity.

Aroused by Cruelty.

Deliberate, intentional cruelty at scale.

Who are we?

What are we?

What must we do?

Please understand this : those who exercise Power over others who cause harm experience their impunity as an arousal, a cascade of hormones and a sordid existential pleasure that floods their minds.

This is what the Epstein story is all about.

Their greatest fear is being held accountable and being rendered equal, normal, human, not special - it is an existential, irrational addiction fear and it lacks any empathy or resonance with any healthy adult humane being.
They who behave in this way are the greatest danger to Humanity. They must be held accountable and segregated from all society, as a matter of imminent health and safety for all of us, for all our children and their children to come.
We are the many, they are the few. They deploy bigotry to divide us.
Misogyny divides men and women. Racism divides working peoples. Poverty divides working people.
United, we can take the upper position in all our legislatures and we can then use the existing tools of our State and Taxes to hold those of the Ruling Class and Oligarchy that controls them accountable, to prevent further abuse of Power.
Only when we act in solidarity.
This has always been true.

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My Philosophy is informed by Alloparenting, Child Development, Egalitarian Culture Lived Experience

My Philosophy is informed by Alloparenting, Child Development, Egalitarian Culture Lived Experience and my own lived experience.

Solidarity emerges from the psychology of Alloparenting as at the primary behavioural separation of Hominins from Primates. Shared parenting it is believed drove and was supported through the evolutionary enlargement of our forebrains over millions of years. We now understand that the forebrain is critical in how we learn, especially how we learn to self regulate our emotional states, what ever they might be, in any given moment. We understand how trauma and chronic stress in early life undermines this process. Co-operation demands a cognitive capacity for emotional state self regulation that builds mutual aid communities.

Allan Schore's work on the development of the emotional self in infancy as a lived experience learning before language is acquired, through carer to infant interactions, is substantive.

Robert Sapolsky too has done really fine work on human behaviour as product of millions of years of evolution as must as what happens in the milliseconds, seconds, minutes, days, weeks, years before any given action is taken.

Both are adept, well respected expert neuroscientists with a special interest in human behaviour. Both demonstrate the behaviour is not necessarily driven by genetics, as much as it is driven by lived experiential learning and circumstance.

Emotional Intelligence is something we all know something about, some more than others, most often through no fault or flaw of their own.

A metric for healthy Governance : I think of Healthy Governance as being focused on the practical realities of administering a communities shared resources for the equal benefit of all members of that community.

Healthy governance sets the context of governance as operating within as a shared responsibility of duty of care for one another. In that regards healthy governance has to be evidence led at all times.

Opinion and belief are insufficient to meet the responsibility of duty of care. Healthy governance sets the global context of governance as nurturing, caring for and stewarding of the habitat within which the community lives and from which that community draws living materials and other resources.

We have ample evidence of healthy long standing sustainable egalitarian ways of living, egalitarian cultures, from 19th, 20th and 21st Century Anthropology but also including first contact accounts by the first colonial 'explorers' from European Powers who met many, many older cultures as they ranged across Earth seeking conquest and colonisation.

Some have written of what they call 'pre-conquest consciousness'. Can you imagine what it might like to be part of a human community that knows nothing of conquest? Where there is no memory of that scale of violence, where friendship and affiliation is the primary modality of social organisation?

Our children all deserve a future shared environment that is healthy, that they can look forwards to, rather than what most of our children now fear - an entire generation is growing up worried about their futures, and we are the ones who ought to be stewarding that space for them to grow into.

What are we doing?

"You're going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet"

Helen Caldicott

"It helps if you become your own best friend and find out what is true about all this for yourself."

Stephen Harrod Buhner

"When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life then we will see social change in ways that matter."

Ina May Gaskin

"The psychology of any given family, community or society is both revealed and perpetuated in how that family, community or society relates to and treats the children and the most vulnerable people. Change that and you can change everything. Liberation is all about how we relate towards one another."

Corneilius Crowley

A Call for a General Strike - The Gaza Hunting Fields - What does it take to organise this via GHF?

Gaza Hunting Fields.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?

CEO quits, replaced with Evangelical Ideologue.

"GHF's founding CEO, Jake Wood, resigned last week, saying the foundation could not operate while maintaining the core humanitarian principles of independence, impartiality, and integrity.

On Tuesday, the foundation named his replacement, Rev. Johnnie Moore - a staunchly pro-Zionist evangelical pastor and former Donald Trump appointee to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom."

Detailed report from Al Jazeera on how the GHF system is operating.

“It was chaos - a real struggle. Men, women, children, all crammed together, pushing to grab whatever they could. No queues, no system - just hunger and disorder,” al-Assar added. From a distance, plumes of dust could be seen as people rushed to grab whatever they could. Israel has not allowed food into the Strip for nearly three months, adding to people's desperation.Shots were then heard as Palestinians ducked for cover. Israeli forces say they opened fire into the air to control the crowds, however, injuries sustained by Palestinians on the ground suggest gunshots were fired into the crowd."

In the one month of operations, at least 1 thousand have been shot and killed, many more maimed. Many shot in the back as they fled from the violence. The vast majority of people arriving to these sites leave empty handed. How desperate does one have to be to take this kind of risk, just to get a small portion of food for one's children?
A Siege, a medieval practice, in the 21st Century. Backed by almost every Western Government.
'Israel does have that right' according to Sir Keir Starmer.
So.

What does it take to plan design, resource, build and populate the Gaza Hunting Fields?

People crammed into feeder lanes to be allowed run to the platform tables where aid is stacked, to grab what they can. No organised system of handing food packs to people, no organised functional filtering of what goods people might need. A person might grab a box and find no food, only diapers and soaps. What is this?

Planning Meetings

Some people sat in a boardroom and discussed a problem, brain storming ideas, setting out objectives.

They assessed desired outcomes, undesired outcomes, unforeseen and foreseeable consequences, they spoke about and wrote about strategic planning and tactical operations.

Another team made detailed architectural plans based on land surveys. Quantity surveyors thought through the logistics of building supplies, someone planned the works, estimating how many workers would be required to get the project in on time and within budget.

Yeah, someone spent time on the budget for all of this.

Then the Military and Security Services sat in boardrooms and operations command posts and worked out their part of the scheme, fully aware of the intentional cruelty they were about to embark upon.

They and others in the PMC (private military contractor) industry discussed hiring mercenaries to work front line delivery, they looked at the support those hired helpers would need.

Someone discussed toilets, cooking and serving facilities for frontline staff, accomodation, communications, shift rotas, medical support, wages and management.

No cooked food would be provided, to be distributed, this is no food kitchen.

It is a trap laden with bait, packages of random aid, laid out for starving men from starving families who are forced to take immense risk just to grab a small pack of what they hope is food, for their watery eyed, translucent skinned wasting away slowly children, many already too skinny from siege-famine, already a war crime.

Crime upon crime upon crime, calculated layered depravity, amidst international participation and complicity, the bodies, more than 75k ( Professor Michael Spagat of Royal Holloway, University of London, June 2025) and likely up to 186k (Lancet June 2024) and more, as recently estimated by their respective teams of analysts.

The Gaza Health Ministry is unable to provide accurate numbers of deaths, and records only those it sees. Tens of thousands are missing, or buried under rubble, and so the harm to Gazans continues, unabated.

The maimed and traumatised, and the still able bodied try to live on in the Israeli USUK created hellscape that is Gaza today - where children are starving to death, their mothers are under total blockade, all faced daily bombings by Jets, shootings by soldiers and quad copters, shelling by tanks and artillery.

Grown men and women sat down and planned all of this.

Politicians worked through their publicity approach. They had to sell this to the people as a good thing.

Hundreds of millions of dollars/shekels/pounds/Deutsch Euros have been and are being deployed, most of it from State taxes, paid by workers and shoppers and corporations, and State borrowings, which future tax payers will pay off.

Irish Central Bank sells Israeli War Bonds. The buyers will want to ensure the Israeli State is protected, if only to insure their investment.

When will the Western populations of workers call a general strike to impede Western support for this abject behaviour?

A general Strike aimed at every element of Government and Industry that supports the Israeli Occupation State, every element that is refusing to uphold International Law at pace.

What are we waiting for?