I have a signed copy of U2’s first album on CBS Ireland in a cupboard. I bought it before they were famous,the year after Julius Caesar invaded Gaul if memory serves. I hold onto it in the vague hope it will make me fortune when I sell it to some obsessive collector of U2 memorabilia. It’s the first and last thing by U2 I ever bought.
I started despising Bono early. It was when he shouted “this is not a rebel song” at the start of Sunday bloody Sunday that I worked that he was a gutless, self-serving attention seeker. Nothing he has done or said since has made me change my mind, not even when he spoke at Labour Party conference. This quote is from Hands Off Venezuela in the United States:
“Mercenaries 2: World in Flames,” created by Los Angeles based Pandemic/Bioware Studios, simulates a mercenary invasion of Venezuela in the year 2007. Pandemic is a subcontractor for the US Army and CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies, which uses Hollywood techniques to mount war simulations in California’s high desert in order to conduct military training. “Mercenaries 2: World in Flames” simulates destruction in downtown Caracas, and promises to leave no part of Venezuela untouched.
Elevation Partners is an investment firm that Bono helped create in order to exploit marketing opportunities between U2 and its fans, including projects from Pandemic/Bioware Studios. Pandemic states that as a partner in Elevation Partners, Bono “has visibility into all projects at Pandemic and Bioware.”
Pandemic’s target market is young men of military recruitment age and indeed this is not Pandemic’s first military adventure. MSNBC reported that the videogame “‘Full Spectrum Warrior’ was created through the Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina Del Rey, Calif., a $45 million endeavor formed by the Army five years ago to connect academics with local entertainment and video game industries. The institute subcontracted work to Los Angeles based Pandemic Studios.” (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3131181#storyContinued)”
How rock and roll is that? Not very but neither is that sanctimonious little scumbag.
Liam redux 
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