MIKE BENZ: [Bono] did this kind of US AID fundraiser concerts, Band-Aid and Live Aid. The BBC later reported that of the $100 million raised for Hunger Relief in Somalia at BAND AID, $95 million of it went to CIA-backed warlords to buy guns.

Bono links up with Jeffrey sacks in the 90s and actually a little bit before that doing this International Development work.  Now, Bono, of course, is U2, he's the front man, he's this international sex symbol at the time, and giant selling out stadiums.  He did this kind of US AID fundraiser concerts, Band-Aid and Live Aid.  The BBC later reported that of the $100 million raised for Hunger Relief in Somalia at BAND AID, $95 million of it went to CIA-backed warlords to buy guns.  So this is like another one of these things where you think you're raising public awareness oh there's a hunger problem in Somalia but there's also a civil war where you've got the CIA taking sides in that Civil War and these groups need weapons Logistics supplies and so when you got US AID vans coming in that are said to be carrying medical supplies or they're doing "hunger relief," but you can't open that box because then the food will expire, it's very easy to hide guns in them.  And so when you see these scandals where all this money is going not to make the world a better place and Kumbaya we're bringing food and medicine but you're bringing guns.  The money is being diverted for CIA covert action to actually kill people not save people.  So Bono was formerly knighted by the British crown and he met with the UK ambassador after he helped put down the Irish revolt against the British crown.  If you remember "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"?  "No more!  No More War!"  It's like you look at it now, and he's got the Ukraine emoji in his bio and the whole thing is "War against Russia," but "Don't . . . No War against the British crown."  And oh I'm being knighted by the British crown I'm now Sir Bono because I helped put down that war.

Because information on this seems hard to find, scrubbed, as they say, I am posting this article, "Bono, BAND AID, and the Dark Side of Humanitarianism," Conspiracy Unearthed, February 9, 2026 because it at least has a list of references at the bottom of its page.

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"Bob [Geldof], Band-Aid, and How the Rebels Bought Their Arms," Peter Horrocks, BBC, March 6, 2010.  Band-Aid, 1984, and Live-Aid, 1985.