“A bold global charity initiative from U2 icon Bono could see the introduction of a special edition red iPod from Apple,” T3 reports.
“Late last week rumours surfaced that a red iPod is in the pipeline. This began following a post on Popbitch which claimed that U2 front man Bono was overheard ‘in Dublin’s Michelin-starred Patrick Guilbaud restaurant discussing a new charity red Amex card and red iPod,’” T3 reports.
“Bono today unveiled the aforementioned red Amex card as part of Product Red – a new brand of red merchandise created to help fight the global battle against HIV,” T3 reports. “Although Apple hasn’t officially been named as one of the partners in this new charity scheme, we’ve heard that an announcement could soon be on the cards.”
Full article here.
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That’s cool.
Not sure Apple will get this much into politics, but hey, if AMEX does it, why not?
Scott
Great cause, and great color!
Wheel could be white, black, or red. If it was a nano I might have to get one.
And U2 has done stuff with Apple before.
If stopping AIDS is politics to you, maybe you are the one too much into politics
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SB, this isn’t about politics, this is about people.
Hats off to Bono for getting Red mobilised and for getting major multinationals on board. Product Red is the best way to raise awareness on a global scale to the plague of HIV in southern Africa, and keep it in people’s minds. Every time you go shopping, you’ll see something branded as Red. It’s powerful and it’s in your face. Brilliant.
I’ll be very glad if Apple are buying into this. How about a Red iMac too?
doesn’t really look as nice as the other U2 iPod…it’s a bit too red for me, but maybe something the ladies would buy?
At least it’s for a good cause.
Sounds good to me, but why not yellow? There’s lots of Livestrong bracelets out there in yellow all over the world. It seems that yellow would be the first color to think of when thinking about charity for a health cause.
now all I need is a red rag and I can claim XIV!! — stupid.
But wait a minute.. I want, …no make that -need- a blue one.
That rendering is way too cherry red for comfort.
HIV doesn’t cause AIDS anyway.
Ah, SB what is “political” about saving lives from a deadly disease?
Just wondering?
If you don’t think AIDS is political, you’re high.
I suggest getting your heads outta the sand…
If it didn’t affect mostly poor, gay, and minority victims, it would have likely been cured by now.
And, as long as you’re talking out of your a$$e$, my wife and I donated $10k this year on our aunt’s behalf to AIDS research.
Dumbasses.
SB
Apple isn’t going to do this of course because that would be a good thing for Mr Jobs to do, and according to Leander Kahney at Wired, Jobs is an evil overlord who wants nothing to do with charity.
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70072-0.html?tw=wn_index_22
“If you don’t think AIDS is political, you’re high. […] If it didn’t affect mostly poor, gay, and minority victims, it would have likely been cured by now.”
You obviously know nothing. Do you even know what causes AIDS? Do you know medicine’s track record against curing viruses? If you think it hasn’t been cured because of politics, you’re just revealing you’re stupidity to the world.
Stamp it out in one generation.
AIDS Cure exsist
Blood-Electrification
In recent years, different electro-medicine units have been promoted at health expos and through magazine articles, interviews, books, etc.. One of the more interesting devices is the blood electrifier of Dr Bob Beck. I’ve seen laboratory reports and Institutional Review Board studies that seem to clearly support claims made by Dr BobBeck that his blood electrification device has caused ‘complete spontaneous remission’ in literally thousands of AIDS patients, cancer patients, and chronic fatigue sufferers among others. Dr Beck discovered the possibilities offered by blood electrification after reading a short article in 1991 in a journal called Science News.
The Discovery
In the Fall of 1990, two researchers, Drs William Lyman and Steven Kaali, working at Albert Einstein Medical College in New York City made an important discovery. They found that they could inactivate the HIV virus by applying a low voltage direct current electrical potential with an extremely small current flow to AIDS infected blood in a test tube. Initially, they discovered this in the lab by inserting two platinum electrodes into a glass tube filled with HIV-1 (type 1) infected blood. They applied a direct current to the electrodes and found that a current flow in the range of 50-100 microamperes (uA) produced the most effective results. Practically all of the HIV viral particles were adversely affected while normal blood cells remained unharmed. The viral particles were not directly destroyed by the electric current, but rather the outer protein coating of the virus was affected in such a way as to prevent the virus from producing reverse transcriptase, a necessary enzyme needed by the virus to invade human cells. Reverse transcriptase allows the virus to enter a human T cell line (called CEM-SS) and commandeer the DNA reproduction machinery. After using the host cell to reproduce itself into thousands of new virii, the swollen host cell (now called syncytia or giant cell) will burst and spew the contents into the bloodstream or lymph system. This is how the virus spreads, but lacking reverse transcriptase, the HIV virus can’t invade the host cell and it becomes vulnerable to destruction by the body’s immune system. (The details of this experiment can be read from Kaali’s patent application.)
Getting the Word Out?
http://educate-yourself.org/fc/
“And, as long as you’re talking out of your a$$e$, my wife and I donated $10k this year on our aunt’s behalf to AIDS research.”
It’s classy people like this that keep me coming back to this retarded web page.
The reason that Bono is considered to be political is that he is a human rights activist. Often times in politics, issues boil down to human rights vs profit. In order to champion human rights, one always runs into opponents who are more concerned with money, and these opponents tend to have political ties.
To label Bono as being “political” is to say that you prioritize personal wealth over human rights. Pretty much.
You know, if you are raising awareness, raising money or raising hell, and you do it on anything other than a one-to-one basis then you are doing it for yourself. Bono could raise more money out of his own pocket and among his peers than from his grandstanding public profile if raising money were his only objective.
And anyone with a Ferrari will buy one too!
Please check Duesberg’s website, if he is right…
Which begs the question…
What’s Black and White and Red all over?
Three iPods in a blender.
your turn…
I want one in ‘Granny Smith’ green…
From the Congressional Report on Aides Spending:
“Federal government AIDS spending is estimated at $18.5 billion in FY2004. The Bush Administration request for FY2005 is $19.8 billion. Of the total
amount spent by the federal government on HIV/AIDS in FY2004, the majority (63%) of funding is for treatment programs; funding for research receives 16% of the total (see Figure 1 and Table 3). The remaining amounts are for prevention programs (12%) and income support for persons with AIDS (9%).”
$38 BILLION in the last two years alone. How much is enough before people stop accusing others of hating poor, gay and minorities. Answer: there is never enough for some.
“Which begs the question…”
No it doesn’t. Begging the question has a specific meaning in logic, and this is not it. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Love Bono. Noble cause. Bloody awful color.
To many right-wing politicians and religious evangelists, HIV/AIDS is god’s punishment against those with more liberal sexual philosophies than their own. They promote this view in order to use the epidemic as a political tool to unite the fundamentalist christian base in fear of those scary homosexuals. Once they have their people united in fear, they can get them to do pretty much anything.
And I don’t think too many people will want a red iPod. Too gaudy, makes it look cheap. Red shiny plastic makes me think of 1986.