Music/Politics: LIVE 8: Philly does it best! Alltime record for Parkway / Philadelphia Art Museum music venue, blogstorm

G8 WATCH

Live8's blogstorm, originally uploaded by Anaximaximumphotographics.

The politics of an 8-country concert of concerts for

Africa's starving:

now comes a mega-blogstorm to put heat on G8

Philly's the best, Barrie (northa'Toronto) real good, too ... London's concert looked great, aproppriate to Great Britain, fab! ... of France, I didn't get a glance ... saw a little bit from Japan, but only 10,000 people showed for the concert there, probably Americans mostly, over there to teach English. You see, Africa ain't so pop'lar in Far Out East, I hear. China didn't even bother with a concernt; but will be at the G8 Summit where it's gonna' get !#@/*&?\! for artificially holding-down to super-low exchange rates, its yuan on the world currency markets. Thus has China undersod the Asian poor countries that otherwise could compete with the Communists, especially in textiles. Even New York City's Chinatown has lost jobs because of the fake-priced yuan, whacking the NYC textile industry. Many Americans would prefere the cheap stuff, but would turn to other Asian countries' products were China playing fair free trade.

Bush and Blair have to unite to help Africa bigtime, because otherwise China will push its way into Africa as it has already into Sudan seeking oil, with a string of new forts/ports from Southern China west toward Africa. Maybe there's something similar being Communi-cated and planned along the West African Coast, because the Sinoplanners want to ship oil to Mugabe-run Zimbabwe to hold him in power and set up their own shop there (besides the politics of it - why? - cheap labour? no free labour unions as in China itself?), and then on to Mandela's South Africa. But, possibly, if US and UK favour Africa's poor over Asia's poor, most of Asia's poor countries will indeed look to China - unless. again, China's destruction of the textile industries counts for more to them does Sino-luv in the other Asian countries' GNP. Don't be surprised if South Africa's Mandela sides with China against Britain and USA, as he did in the case of Saddam Hussein. He's getting old. Africa needs new leadership, zero corruption (ha!ha! ... with all this new money flowing in?), and more democracy, employment, infrastructure, less AIDSs, less sex, less population, more condoms ... rockin' in a dreamworld? - Owlb

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