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 saying incredibly that "unfair rules of trade shackle poor people"; 
 and Paul Wolfowitz, beaming next to the Archbishop of Canterbury: 
 this is the man who, before he was handed control of the World Bank, 
 devised much of Bush's so-called neo-conservative putsch, the 
 mendacious justification for the bloodfest in Iraq and the notion 
 of "endless war". 
  
 And if you missed all that, there is a downloadable PDF kit from a 
 "one Campaign" e-mail to "help you organise your very own ongoing 
 Live8 party". The suppression of African singers and bands, parked 
 where Geldoff decreed, in an environmental theme park in Cornwall, 
 in front of an audience of less than 50 people, was described 
 correctly by Andy Kershaw as "musical apartheid". 
  
 Has there ever been a censorship as complete and insidious and 
 ingenious as this? Even when Stalin airbrushed his purged comrades 
 from the annual photograph on top of Lenin's mausoleum, the Russian 
 people could fill in the gaps. Media and cultural hype provide 
 infinitely more powerful propaganda weapons in the age of Blair. 
 With Diana, there was grief by media. With Iraq, there was war by 
 media. Now there is mass distraction by media, a normalising of the 
 unmentionable that "the  state has lost its mind and is punishing 
 so many innocent people", wrote the playwright Arthur Miller, "and 
 so the evidence has to be internally denied." 
  
 Deploying the unction of Bono, Madonna, Paul McCartney and of course 
 Geldoff, whose Live Aid 21 years ago achieved nothing for the people 
 of Africa, the contemporary plunderers and pawnbrokers of  that 
 continent have pulled off an unprecedented scam: the antithesis of 
 15 February 2003 when two million people brought both their hearts 
 and brains to the streets of London. 
  
 "(Ours) is not a march in the sense of a demonstration, but more 
 of a walk, " said Make Poverty History's Bruce Whitehead. "The 
 emphasis is on fun in the sun. The intention is to welcome the G8 
 leaders to Scotland and ask them to deliver trade justice, debt 
 cancellation and increased aid to developing countries." 
  
 Really? 
  
 In Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice asked the Cheshire Cat and the 
 Mad Hatter to show her the way out of wonderland. They did, over 
 and again, this way, that way, until she lost her temper and brought 
 down her dream world, waking her up. The people killed and maimed 
 in Iraq and the people wilfully impoverished in Africa by our 
 governments and our institutions in our name, demand that we wake 
 up. 
  
  
  
  
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