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Title: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: katy (MJFAN7) on March 06, 2012, 07:27:41 PM
Warning: I've been crying for about an hour after seeing this. It's VERY heartbreaking.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc[/youtube]

We need to STOP Joseph Kony. The world MUST know about him.

Who is Joseph Kony you ask?

He is THE WORST LIVING CRIMINAL. He abducts children and makes them use guns to kill their own parents. He takes girls and forces them to be sex slaves. He calls his abducted children the Lord’s Resistance Army, AKA the LRA. He has abducted over 30,000 children and forced them to be child soldiers in Central Africa. He remains at large because he is INVISIBLE to the world. FEW know his name, even FEWER know his crimes. WE ARE MAKING HIM FAMOUS! Because when he is, the world will unite against him and demand his arrest.

We can help make a change. We can make a difference. SHARE THIS VIDEO PLEASE!!

This is HORRIFYING!!  :cry: :cry:
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: Shamone Jackson on March 06, 2012, 09:05:46 PM
I did and will continue to do so.  Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Everyone should read this! 

KONY 2012!!!!
Title: Re: 100 US troops dispatched to capture or kill Kony, 10/16/11
Post by: Tink on March 06, 2012, 09:59:01 PM
Ugandan Headlines in the Daily Monitor Newspaper on October 16 -2011

US troops arrive to ‘kill or capture’ Kony

The Reality: President Obama has dispatched 100 US Soldiers as Military Advisers to the Ugandan, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudanese Armies.

Presently - Joseph Kony - at least as of last week Joseph Kony was near Ndjema, in the Central African Republic, there the Ugandan who has been in a regional pursuit of Kony and the LRA (with the permission of the local governments) interrupted a bath he was taken - he was alerted by his heavy security detail and all the Ugandan Army found was a basin full of water and a towel - once again Joseph Kony had escaped.

On Wednesday - October 12 - 2011 - the first contingent of the 100 military advisory personnel arrived and were welcomed by the Ugandan Military - the headline in the Ugandan Newspaper Daily Monitor is erroneous and not in line that President Obama outlined in his letter to House Speaker -John Boehner - the authority that letter being based on the Lord’s Resistance Army and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 passed by Congress and signed into low by President Obama - Lord’s Resistance Army and Northern Uganda Recover Act of 2009 -“These forces will act as advisers to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA. Our forces will provide informative, advice and assistance [to the regional armies,”   The US Forces will be combat equipped however they will only act in self defense - their main mission being that of Advisers and not Combatants.

The Actions against Joseph Kony and the LRA will take place outside of Uganda - in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan - these are the countries that the LRA has been operating in since 2006 - since 2006 there have been no LRA activities inside of Uganda and the north of Uganda has been rebuilding since that time - some areas more than other - but it will take a few years for the infrastructure of that region to become comparable to the Central and Western areas of Uganda.

The Ugandan Acting Foreign MinisterHenry Okello Oryem (the foreign minister Mr. Kutesa has resigned over bribe accusations coming from the massive oil finds & development in Uganda)  “We welcome this gesture — it has been well overdue,”  He went on to say “For 20 years, the government of Uganda has been pleading with our American and European friends to help in the LRA problem, because these are international terrorists,” Oryem said. “We wanted our friends to help in providing technical support — such as intelligence — because they have the best.”

The mostly special operations forces could deploy in Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic
Uganda’s defence spokesman Felix Kulayigye said the first batch of US troops were already in Uganda.

“Some of the forces are already in the country,” Kulayigye said. “Their approach is regional — DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Uganda. How far they will go depends on the cooperation arrangements.”

Washington has provided more than $40 million in logistical support, equipment and training to counter-LRA operations by armies in the region since 2008, according to State Department officials.

Hopefully - from the perspective of many Ugandans and other people in the region this will not faintly resemble the failed Operation Lightning Thunder of 2008 - which was totally bungled and yes inspired and mentored by none other than the US military.

Joseph Kony has a trail of tears behind him - 20 years of havoc in Uganda in which thousands of Ugandans lost their lives, thousand were abducted and made in child soldiers and the girls into concubines and so-called wives, millions displaced from their home into squalid refugee camps were girls sold themselves for as little as 20 cents in spite of the fear of AIDS - simply wanting to eat today - education came to a stand still and life was simply in the survival mode.  That terror has been transferred the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the newest nation in Africa - South Sudan - in South Sudan vast areas of the bread basket area of West Equatoria are unfarmed due to insecurity from the LRA.

The US Military action comes as a surprise to many - here is an article from UK Independent Newspaper - October 16, 2011

While the size of the deployment is small, it is a surprising intervention. Although some US troops are based in Djibouti and small groups of soldiers have been deployed to Somalia, the US traditionally has been reluctant to commit forces to help African nations to put down insurgencies. It demonstrates the Obama administration's escalating attention to and fears about security risks in Africa, including terror networks, piracy and unstable nations.

Pentagon officials said the bulk of the deployment will be of special operations troops, who will provide security and combat training to African units. The move raises the profile of US involvement on the continent – and is an apparent victory for administration officials who have argued for more robust intervention in humanitarian crises. A number of high-ranking Obama advisers have been left scarred by the US failure in the 1990s to intervene to stop genocide in Rwanda and the belated action to halt the violence in Bosnia.

Joseph Kony - with his stealth gorilla tactics, his knowledge of lay of the land, the jungles and forests of Central Africa have allowed him to evade his captors for over 24 years - however if the US begins to use Drones and other methods that are unavailable to the military Forces of Uganda and other surrounding nations - his days may be numbered.  Joseph Kony is not a hero - but a coward - who never signed a peace agreement with the Ugandan government because of his fear of being arrested because of the outstanding ICC warrant.

Some Nations such as Pakistan have criticized the move by President Obama - still smarting from the raid inside of Pakistan that resulted in the death Osama bin Laden - they wanted a UN resolution - there is however a big difference - not only is President Obama acting on legislation given by Congress but acting upon the invitations of the various governments now suffering from the menace of the LRA.  Others are mumbling that the real reason President Obama is sending troops is because of the Oil found both in Uganda and South Sudan - the reality is that most of that oil is being snapped up by an early comer - called China. In regards to the UN - who wants the UN with the track record that they have had in the Democratic Republic of Congo - simply appalling - unable to keep the people safe - involved in smuggling of gold, diamonds, selling guns back to rebels and much more - UN - and its track record in Africa is simply dismal.

One would hope - that for once - there would be a quick resolve of the Joseph Kony and the LRA issue - young people be allowed to return to their home and be assisted on their way back to normalcy of life if that can ever be achieved after the harrowing times they have endured with the LRA...from Kampala...Uganda...jon

A Thought Provoking Article by Scott Morgan that is certainly worth reading regarding the deployment of troops and the Image of the US
http://kabiza.com/US-Troops-arrived-in-Uganda.htm (http://kabiza.com/US-Troops-arrived-in-Uganda.htm)
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: mjfansince4 on March 07, 2012, 12:24:55 AM
today, for me, i really felt the whole "God works in mysterious ways" thing. i was in lecture and the guy in front of me was watching the video. i got really invested, so in my next class i watched it. then i went on twitter and facebook and tried to spread the message the best i could. all of a sudden, this is blowing up. THANK GOD.


i'm going to a wait a few days for the site to get back up (it crashed all day today because of the traffic and support) to donate to the children's education and purchase a bracelet.

let's make this dirtbag famous for being one of the most pathetic people that ever existed on earth.

this isn't about financial gain or political interest. it's about humanity. children should never, ever, ever be subjected to this. and it's only the beginning. there are many countries in this world suffering tremendous, unthinkable tragedies. hopefully this is the start of a global awareness, because let's be real.....if we don't take care of each other, who will?
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: katy (MJFAN7) on March 07, 2012, 07:20:02 PM
Yeah, I definitely want at least a bracelet. I don't understand how people can be so cruel, how on earth can someone cause pain to an innocent child? I volunteer as a preschool teacher, and I even have a hard time just putting them in a time-out when they misbehave, especially if they cry. How someone can intentionally hurt or even kill a child is beyond me, there is so many heartless people in this world. :cry: Anyways, I really hope more people share this! We need to bring more attention to it!!
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: marumjj on March 07, 2012, 07:39:19 PM
I saw it on Twitter today, cry a bit and I felt really bad. I shared on my facebook to spread this crap. This can not happen. This video was a slap in the face for me. I have a daughter aged 14 years and I think that in Uganda many children are kidnapped, tortured and who knows what else. I'm afraid to see how the world is today, but I have Faith that we have time to make a change. To help many people to see outside. Kony do not want more!
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: Tink on March 07, 2012, 09:13:23 PM
http://kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ (http://kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/)

Don't cry - DO! Site's up & working, there you go! Get the kit, link to 20 celebs, & 20 policy makers!
Those of us who are in USA should call our Representatives, too. 25 calls & emails per day, will keep our Advisers helping the Ugandan soldiers.

I think it's brilliant, that they've been able to rebuild schools, etc.! I'm thoroughly impressed by the Lost Children early warning system!

What I'm furious, is that this has gone on too long! One year, was too long... >:(
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: MJonmind on March 08, 2012, 02:55:05 AM
The video is well-made and the little boy is so cute!  Kony should be stopped, although from comments it seems he has moved to another region and hasn't been as active since 2006. I'm glad they are actually helping the people with education, etc. and the money they're raising isn't just going towards marketing.  It's good that young people have been roused to wanting to help the people of Africa. Another commenter asked, "Who's funding this Kony?" He must be getting his support from some power (possibly for oil), and also if he is killed, will there not immediately be others to replace him.  This video certainly shows the ability of gifted individuals to rally up millions to support a cause.  However there are so many hidden silent victims all over the world, and that's just so horribly sad.
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: Tink on March 08, 2012, 03:33:00 AM
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The video is well-made and the little boy is so cute!  Kony should be stopped, although from comments it seems he has moved to another region and hasn't been as active since 2006. I'm glad they are actually helping the people with education, etc. and the money they're raising isn't just going towards marketing.  It's good that young people have been roused to wanting to help the people of Africa. Another commenter asked, "Who's funding this Kony?" He must be getting his support from some power (possibly for oil), and also if he is killed, will there not immediately be others to replace him.  This video certainly shows the ability of gifted individuals to rally up millions to support a cause.  However there are so many hidden silent victims all over the world, and that's just so horribly sad.

"Resources and power
Uganda’s reserves include copper, tungsten, cobalt, columbite-tantalite, gold, phosphate, iron ore, and limestone. Gold, cobalt, and columbite-tantalite are mined. Gold is an important export, but it is complicated by the fact that gold has been smuggled into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Exploration for petroleum, which had long showed geological potential, particularly under Lakes Albert and Edward, proceeded slowly until 2006, when oil was struck. Significant quantities of petroleum were discovered in the Lake Albertine rift basin in 2008 and 2009."

EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE! By putting families back together, reinforcing education, obliterating poverty, those are the ways to rise people up from from obscurity! Teach a village to fish, and they become self sufficient, which is what they're doing.
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: Billie_Jean13 on March 08, 2012, 05:17:37 AM
Omg i say this yesterday i balled for ages about it its soo depressing this man must be stopped!!!!!!!!!
This is a terrible person who deserves only to be brought to justice.
Michael would want us all to be a part of this and we owe it to him and to every child in the world, whether they are affected by Kony or not. The injustice has to END!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im getting an action kit because i feel responsible now and i want to make a change!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: paula-c on March 08, 2012, 05:59:55 PM
Kony 2012: Wrapping Imperialism in “Activism”

Youth Movement Promotes US Military Presence in Central Africa

Nile Bowie

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Edward Bernays believed that society could not be trusted to make rational and informed decisions on their own, and that guiding public opinion was essential within a democratic society. Bernays founded the Council on Public Relations and his 1928 book, Propaganda cites the methodology used in the application of effective emotional communication. He discovered that such communication is capable of manipulating the unconscious in an effort to produce a desired effect – namely, a capacity to manufacture mass social adherence in support of products, political candidates and social movements. Nearly a century after his heyday, Bernays’ methodology is apparent in almost every form of civic and consumer persuasion. The platform of social media is being used in unprecedented new ways, one such example is a new online documentary about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an extremist rebel group operating in Central Africa.

The documentary is unprecedented, not for its educational attributes but for its capacity to use visual branding, merchandising and highly potent emotional communication to influence the viewer to support US military operations in resource rich Central Africa under the pretext of capturing the LRA’s commander, Joseph Kony. The Lord’s Resistance Army was originally formed in 1987 in northwestern Uganda by members of the Acholi ethnic group, who were historically exploited as forced laborers by the British colonialists and later relegated by the nation’s dominant ethic groups following independence. Together with the Holy Spirit Movement, the LRA represented the armed wing of a resistance faction aiming to overthrow the government of current Ugandan President and staunch US military ally, Yoweri Museveni.

The LRA was originally formed to combat ethic marginalization, but soon became dominated by Joseph Kony, a self-proclaimed spiritual messenger of the (Christian) Holy Spirit. Kony utilized his messianic persona to lead a syncretic spiritual movement based on Acholi tribal beliefs’ and extremist Christian dogma. It is claimed that LRA seeks to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments, however its inner ideological mythology is largely unknown. In an effort to mobilize a large scale armed resistance, the LRA routinely recruited child soldiers and forced them to commit heinous acts such as cannibalism and mutilation on others who resisted to join the rebel group during their extensive twenty-five year campaign.

KONY 2012 is directed by Jason Russell and runs just thirty minutes; the video has receivedover twenty million views on YouTube and Vimeo and it’s national support group on Facebook is said to gain 4,000 members each hour. The highly produced feature is narrated from the perspective of Russell and his attempt to explain the Lord’s Resistance Army to his infant son, Gavin. The video features footage from Russell’s trip to Uganda (prior to 2006, when the LRA was still operating in the region) and introduces the viewer to Jacob, a Ugandan boy who was formally recruited by the LRA as a child soldier. Russell presents various montages of ethically diverse groups of students raising their fists in the air, sporting KONY t-shirts, and scenes of mass celebration in response to President Obama signing the S. 1067: Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009.

The bill was passed without congressional approval, and allows the US to deploy military forces in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan (at the consent of those nations) in pursuit of LRA rebels. The film further advocates the requirement of public support for US military operations in the region through forms of street activism, encouraging viewers to purchase Action Kits ($30.00) and posters ($10.00) featuring images of Joseph Kony. Russell then targets specific celebrities and US policy makers and pressures them to endorse the campaign against Kony. Perhaps most absurdly, Russell suggests that without mass public support from the American public, the US would withdraw its military presence from the region.

This is the first large-scale campaign to mobilize social medialites to aggregate public support for what would otherwise be, controversial pro-intervention US foreign policy. The production relies on highly charged and often unrelated emotional triggers, which ultimately rely on the viewers sense of compassion in tandem with a lack of prior information on the subject to produce a desired result – explicitly, the villainous mythification of Kony and the mainstream acceptance of US presence in Africa through a proposed archipelago of AFRICOM military bases in the region.


The production targets an age group between thirteen and twenty-one, and uses a level of academic vocabulary appropriate for a young adult audience with a limited attention span; the narrator at one point even insists the viewer pay attention. The viewer is encouraged to form an emotional connection to Russell, as we witness unrelated footage of his child’s birth. The viewer is then subsequently associated with Russell’s role as a nurturer to his young son, before shifting to scenes of Russell nurturing the Ugandan child soldier, Jacob. Russell is shown prophetically pledging to stop the LRA to the traumatized and crying young boy. The intimate portrayal of emotion in these scenes work to further incite an reactionary response from the viewer, towards the preordained conclusion suggested in the narrative – a mass mobilization of support for the US military in their efforts to stop Jacob’s source of trauma. Bernays’ would be beside himself.

KONY 2012 is produced like any other sleek marketing campaign – instead of stimulating elements of self-satisfaction like advertisers would do to promote a product, US military intervention is justified to end an atrocious humanitarian catastrophe. The film also plays on an underlying theme of the White Man’s Burden, a notion that persons of European descent inherit a quality of guilt for their ancestors’ inclination for slavery and colonialism, requiring an activist response to finally correct the situation by “saving Africa.” During the Nigerian civil war in 1967, western media successfully used images of starving children for the first time to strengthen public support for military aid to the secessionist Republic of Biafra before rebel forces were defeated. This film attempts to purportedly “change the conversation of our culture,” however it remains a highly sophisticated refurbishment of pro-military interventionist foreign policy propaganda, dependent on dangerous subliminal messaging.

Furthermore, the film was produced by an organization called Invisible Children, Inc., who have been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide necessary information in the Bureau’s standards assessment. Invisible Children, Inc. has failed to disclose a list of sponsors (beyond the donations of American high school students), and has also earned a low rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won’t let their financials be independently audited. In a 2011 financial statement, the organization disclosed that only 31% of all the funds they receive are used for charitable purposes, with the majority allocated toward travel expenses and employee salaries. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud and voter manipulation in a recent charity contest sponsored by Chase Bank and Facebook. The group’s Co-Founder and President, Laren Poole addressed the International Criminal Court in 2009 alongside Aryeh Neier, President of George Soros’ pro-war Open Society Institute.

Invisible Children has partnered with two other organizations, Resolve and Digitaria, to create the LRA Crisis Tracker, a digital crisis-mapping platform that broadcasts attacks allegedly committed by the LRA. On its list of corporate sponsors, Resolve lists Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee. Digitaria’s website boasts commercial clients such as CBS, FOX, MTV, ESPN, Adidas, NFL, Qualcomm, NBC, National Geographic, Hasbro and Warner Brothers. While KONY 2012 attempts to portray itself as an indigenous activist movement bent on bringing justice to African children, its parent organization is affiliated with the upper echelon of the US corporate media and a network of foundation-funded pro-war civil society groups with a long history of fomenting pro-US regime change under the banner of democratic institution building.

According to Invisible Children’s own LRA Crisis Tracker, not a single case of LRA activity has been reported in Uganda since 2006. The website records ninety eight deaths in the past year, with the vast majority taking place in the northeastern Bangadi region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a tri-border expanse sharing territory with the Central African republic and South Sudan. Since December 2009, the eastern Djemah region of CAR has seen occasional LRA activity; the western Tambura region of South Sudan has experienced even less. The LRA has been in operation for over two decades, and presently remains at an extremely weakened state, with approximately 400 soldiers. Due to the extreme instability in northern DRC after decades of rebel insurgencies and Rwandan/Ugandan military incursions into the nation, it remains highly unlikely that cases of violence in the region can be sufficiently investigated before concluding LRA involvement.

The whereabouts of Joseph Kony are completely unknown; he was last seen in crossing between Sudan and CAR in 2010, according to unverified reports. The US military currently has one hundred military officers training and overseeing the Ugandan military in anti-LRA operations. Due to the complete absence of LRA activity in Uganda, it becomes feasible that the US may be planning further operations in the resource rich DRC. Over six million Congolese nationals have been killed in war since 1996, largely with US complicity. The regimes of Paul Kagame in Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda have both received millions in military aid from the United States. Since the abhorrent failure of the 1993 US intervention in Somalia, the US has relied on the militaries of Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia to carry out US interests in proxy.

Paul Kagame of Rwanda has been given free reign by the US to conduct military operations inside DRC in the on-going ethnic conflict in that region following the 1994 Rwandan genocide. For Ugandan participation in the fight against Somalia’s al Shabaab, Museveni receives $45 million dollars in military aid. The US has contributed enormous sums to these nations and now is beginning to consolidate its presence in the region under Barack Obama and AFRICOM, the United States African Command. The LRA has contributed to less than one hundred unverified deaths in the past twelve months. Considering that the United States completely ignored events in DRC and Rwanda that collectively resulted in nearly seven million deaths, their participation against the ailing Lord’s Resistance Army is completely absurd by comparison.

Through AFRICOM, the United States is seeking a foothold in the incredibly resource rich central African block in a further maneuver to aggregate regional hegemony over China. DRC is one of the world’s largest regions without an effectively functioning government. It contains vast deposits of diamonds, cobalt, copper, uranium, magnesium, and tin while producing over $1 billion in gold each year. It is entirely feasible that the US can considerably increase its presence in DRC under the pretext of capturing Joseph Kony. The US may further mobilize group forces, in addition to the use of predator drones and targeted missile strikes, inevitably killing civilians. In a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM will further its regional presence by “operating under the principle theatre-goal of combating terrorism”.

During an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice AdmiralRobert T. Moeller openly declared AFRICOM’s guiding principle as protecting “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests.The crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been documented in the past and they are truly despicable actions. Presently, the operations of the LRA have nearly dissolved and their presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult to verify. While the pro-war filmmakers behind KONY 2012 naively call for the US military to assert its place in the conflict, an independent fact finding mission would be far more effective in assessing the seriousness of the LRA threat in the present day.

Editor’s Note: Please also read about verified Western atrocities carried out in Uganda on behalf of the same corporate neo-imperial profiteering dressed up as “feel-good” activism.

Read Neil Bowie’s articles at NileBowie.blogspot.com


http://nilebowie.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: missudi on March 08, 2012, 07:21:00 PM
Is there always an interior motive to these things,other than saving lives, especially  childrens.I never know what to believe,never. /pull hair/
Title: Re: KONY 2012
Post by: MJonmind on March 08, 2012, 08:01:30 PM
Thank you so much Paula-c,
Young people may be manipulated to supporting the very thing we all detest, military invasion and death to many more innocent people, so that USrael can get richer in gold and other resources. USrael will stop at nothing including emotional manipulation, to use and dispose of millions of people. My heart goes out to young people who really only want to help those who suffer.  That's why it's so important to dig for information from all sides before supporting a charity. Very sad... pale/


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Through AFRICOM, the United States (Israel) is seeking a foothold in the incredibly resource rich central African block in a further maneuver to aggregate regional hegemony over China. DRC is one of the world’s largest regions without an effectively functioning government. It contains vast deposits of diamonds, cobalt, copper, uranium, magnesium, and tin while producing over $1 billion in gold each year. It is entirely feasible that the US can considerably increase its presence in DRC under the pretext of capturing Joseph Kony. The US may further mobilize group forces, in addition to the use of predator drones and targeted missile strikes, inevitably killing civilians. In a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM will further its regional presence by “operating under the principle theatre-goal of combating terrorism”.


During an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice AdmiralRobert T. Moeller openly declared AFRICOM’s guiding principle as protecting “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests.The crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been documented in the past and they are truly despicable actions. Presently, the operations of the LRA have nearly dissolved and their presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult to verify. While the pro-war filmmakers behind KONY 2012 naively call for the US military to assert its place in the conflict, an independent fact finding mission would be far more effective in assessing the seriousness of the LRA threat in the present day.


Editor’s Note: Please also read about verified Western atrocities carried out in Uganda on behalf of the same corporate neo-imperial profiteering dressed up as “feel-good” activism. http://nilebowie.blogspot.com/ (http://nilebowie.blogspot.com/)
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Tink on March 08, 2012, 09:25:21 PM
It's front page news on CNN, Huffington Post today. What more could anyone want?
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: katy (MJFAN7) on March 08, 2012, 09:39:52 PM
I think everyone who's been on the internet in the past few days knows about this, thank God. But I know that there is stuff just like this, most likely even worse, going on unknown all over the world.. not just in Africa. I wish more could be done about that too. So many people are so cruel,  :evil:
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Tink on March 08, 2012, 10:38:17 PM
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I think everyone who's been on the internet in the past few days knows about this, thank God. But I know that there is stuff just like this, most likely even worse, going on unknown all over the world.. not just in Africa. I wish more could be done about that too. So many people are so cruel,  :evil:

Kony IS #1 on the most evil list! We take him down, save the Lost Children, help people.

Then, we go after #2. We make it extremely uncomfortable for these types to flourish - then, we can help even more people!!
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: MJonmind on March 09, 2012, 04:21:25 AM
http://miminuganda.com/2012/03/08/the-visible-children-in-uganda-loved-cared-for-in-school-smiling/ (http://miminuganda.com/2012/03/08/the-visible-children-in-uganda-loved-cared-for-in-school-smiling/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DCvGL_sfxOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DCvGL_sfxOM)


http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/forum/topics/the-real-reason-obama-is-sending-us-troops-to-uganda?xg_source=activity (http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/forum/topics/the-real-reason-obama-is-sending-us-troops-to-uganda?xg_source=activity)
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 09, 2012, 08:54:06 AM
When Fox News or CNN shout as " hysterical old " about a topic, something brought between hands
MJonmind,  I took the freedom to publish the contents of one of the links

From The Ramparts       

 Junious Ricardo Stanton       

 The Real Reason Obama Sent Troops To Uganda

“A DETERMINED push by Western wildcatters and big oil companies from fast-growing Asian economies such as those of China and Malaysia may change the fortunes of several countries in remoter and trickier bits of Africa once largely ignored by foreign investors. One of the most spectacular recent finds has been in Uganda. The reserves of the Albertine rift, which takes in the Ugandan and Congolese shores of Lake Albert (see map), are said to need $10 billion for development. All being well, Uganda will soon become a mid-sized producer, alongside countries such as Mexico. Foreign investment in Uganda may nearly double this year to $3 billion. The country expects to earn $2 billion a year from oil by 2015.” www.economist.com/node/15825780

 

On Friday October 14th President Obama sent a letter to Congress informing them he was sending a small contingent of US Special Ops Forces to Uganda ostensibly on another “humanitarian mission” to advise Ugandan officials tracking down Joseph Kony the newest bogey man being used to justify US intervention, imperialism and the imposition of AFRICOM on the African continent. Just like the Orwellian doublespeak Obama used when he and the NATO warmongers  attacked Libya for “humanitarian reasons” on behalf of the international bankers supposedly to prevent Col. Mormar Kadafi from killing rebels, Obama is now sending troops into Uganda to stop another “notorious bad guy” from murdering, looting and wrecking havoc in Central Africa! This song is getting old and tired: invasion is peace, massive murder of civilians is part of the program and theft of resources is liberation. George Orwell would be so proud.

 

At some point in time, the US public must stop believing the mass media’s unsubstantiated assertions and start asking pointed questions like: why after twenty-five years is Joseph Kony all of a sudden such an evil force? But beyond that, stop and think a minute and look at history. Where did Saddam Hussein and Osama bin-Laden get the weapons, military support and the knowhow the US claimed they were using to either to kill dissident Iraqis or to mastermind 9-11?  Now we are being asked to believe Joseph Kony is this monster who needs Uncle Sam to come in and bring him to justice?!  We need to ask ourselves where is Kony getting the weapons, camouflage gear, food and supplies he needed to start his reign of terror that has been going on for twenty-five years?  Did the Russians fund and supply him? Is it the Chinese or is it the West (Europeans)? Is it the US? From what the Western media says about him, and we know how reliable they are don’t we, we are supposed to believe Kony is a religious fanatic on a mission to seize power and run the country in accordance with the Ten Commandments. Hmm, except for the fighting, raping and killing he is doing, Kony could fit right in with the Christian Right in the US. He and George W. Bu$h must have a lot in common.

 

We are expected to believe via US media brainwashing this guy Kony stayed under the radar, getting guns ammunition, food and supplies from who knows where or out of thin air for twenty-five years then all of a sudden the US decides enough is enough, that US troops are a must and Joseph Kony is the target. Where was Uncle Sam when the Coltan Wars in Central Africa were being fought? What, you never heard of the Coltan Wars or the Congo wars? “Cellphones may have revolutionized the way we communicate, but in Central Africa their biggest legacy is war. Nearly 3 million people have died in Congo in a four-year war over coltan, a heat-resistant mineral ore widely used in cellphones, laptops and playstations. Eighty percent of the world's coltan reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mountainous jungle area where the coltan is mined is the battleground of what has been grimly dubbed ‘Africa's first World War,’ pitting Congolese forces against those of six neighboring countries and numerous armed factions. The victims are mostly civilians. Starvation and disease have killed hundreds of thousands and the fighting has displaced 2 million people from their homes. Often dismissed as an ethnic war, the conflict is really over natural resources sought by foreign corporations -- diamonds, tin, copper, gold, but mostly coltan” http://www.seeingisbelieving.ca/cell/kinshasa/

 

The US has been openly and clandestinely arming various ethnic groups in Africa for decades, fomenting hostilities and stoking the fires they create in order to justify selling more arms to whomever will buy them. Keep in mind the Africans  are buying the weapons on credit (with interest). This means the banksters get their cut along with the weapons manufacturers and the arms middle men and they all get paid from US tax payer dollars!! “Because many of the recipient countries remain some of the world’s poorest, the U.S. government provided around $87 million in foreign military financing loans (subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars) to cover the costs, increasing the debt burden that is already suffocating the continent. The DRC alone owes more than $150 million in outstanding DoD loans, with Liberia, Somalia, and Sudan owing another $160 million combined. These loans, accrued while corrupt dictators were serving as U.S. clients, have further contributed to the economic hardships of these nations by saddling them with unproductive military debt. In an article titled Why the U.S. Won’t Help, a Nairobi newspaper recently explained, ‘Right from the days of the Cold War, Western governments have been comfortable with a situation in which African regimes squandered meager resources on the instruments of war, borrowing from the West to finance domestic consumption. The war in the Congo and the countries involved in it are a case in point’... In 1998, the State Department licensed commercial weapons sales by U.S. manufacturers to sub-Saharan Africa worth up to $64 million, on top of the $12 million in government-to-government deliveries that year. Commercial sales to the region included 300 M16s, 236 pistols and revolvers, 3940 rifles, and 10.8 million cartridges of .22-.50 caliber ammunition. A number of the countries engaged in the Congo war were recipients of these stocks, including Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Namibia.  Congress also continues to provide only meager amounts of debt relief and development aid. Of the $370 million requested by the Clinton administration for various debt relief initiatives in FY2000, less than half – $123 million – was approved by Congress. The hypocrisy of asking Africa to develop and democratize while shrinking levels of non-military international aid and increasing weapons and training to the continent does not seem to have registered with policy-makers. To demonstrate real commitment to developing a new partnership with Africa, the U.S. needs to redirect the focus away from strengthening military capacity and toward promoting human development in Africa.”  Report: U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War - World Policy Institute - Research Project www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm#usrole 

 

On top of that the wars create instability and humanitarian crisis which gives the corporations and the Western government who serve them a pretext to come in and steal whatever it is they covet be it coltan, diamonds or in the case of Uganda, oil. Do you get the picture They are doing to Africa what they are doing in our communities here bringing in guns, and drugs fomenting strife and sitting back watching us kill each other!!!  By the way, did Obama or the mainstream media tell you oil was recently discovered in Uganda? “KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda expects to start refining crude oil from its fields in 2014 and the proceeds will help end the economy's dependence on donor aid, its president said. The east African nation discovered commercial oil deposits in 2006 in the Albertine basin along its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and reserves of about 2.5 billion barrels have been confirmed...  The country's ministry of energy estimates the basin's crude reserves could climb to 6 billion barrels when fully explored. Only 40 percent of the basin has so far been studied. In November last year, the ministry said a phased construction of the refinery would begin in 2012, starting with capacity for limited production to satisfy the domestic market whose demand ranges between 20,000-25,000 barrels per day.” http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE79H04O20111018?p...  Call me a cynic but it makes sense Obama would send troops into Uganda now that they have discovered oil there; especially as the US moves to secure all the continent’s resources and prevent the Chinese from gaining another toe hold in Africa. This is how they roll. To keep us inthe dark and make us fall for their okey-doke they tell us some cock and bull story about going after a “bad guy” who they armed and supported for twenty-five years. It’s the same ol’ same ol’ only this time its being done by a “black”  president.
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Post by: taty_2crazy on March 09, 2012, 09:19:25 AM
OMG i saw the video and i´m still in schock. Kony must be stopped of doing this atrocities to his own ppl. OMG! :'(
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Post by: bec on March 09, 2012, 10:39:15 AM
that video was too professional to be a true "grassroots" organization production. when an entity is spending that much money to appeal to emotion, one would wonder what the motive is. very slick, disturbing how easily the masses can be swayed to support violence and killing. sick.
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Post by: Aidan_81 on March 09, 2012, 11:20:21 AM
Thank you, paula-c. I read all same things because I sensed an agenda
after crying my eyes out over poor kids. Before you act, research.
Too Much Manipulation. They Do Not Care about any African children, period.
They manipulate through our best intentions.
And it's not for the first time. Future will show the real agenda behind increased military presence
in Uganda. We go pro-war without realizing that. We have to think more and control our
emotions better, I know it's very hard when you are shown imagery of abused children.
I failed for similar traps several times in my life, and I learned my lesson well.
They can't use goodness in you to increase suffering in this world. Don't let them do that
to you. Think and research, and if nothing evil shows up for you, act only after doing that.
But like this you make a well thought-out choice, and if results will be bad, you'll learn
your lesson well.
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Post by: mimi248 on March 09, 2012, 11:24:48 AM
okay very disturbing .. i'd like to know if MJ is behind this group of not? iam 80% sure that he is :s
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Post by: MJonmind on March 09, 2012, 01:58:41 PM
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Thank you, paula-c. I read all same things because I sensed an agenda
after crying my eyes out over poor kids. Before you act, research.
Too Much Manipulation. They Do Not Care about any African children, period.
They manipulate through our best intentions.
And it's not for the first time. Future will show the real agenda behind increased military presence
in Uganda. We go pro-war without realizing that. We have to think more and control our
emotions better, I know it's very hard when you are shown imagery of abused children.
I failed for similar traps several times in my life, and I learned my lesson well.
They can't use goodness in you to increase suffering in this world. Don't let them do that
to you. Think and research, and if nothing evil shows up for you, act only after doing that.
But like this you make a well thought-out choice, and if results will be bad, you'll learn
your lesson well.
/bravo/


There is no way MJ would be behind an agenda to bring in troops under the guise of humanitarianism and helping abused children, all for the purpose of further genocide to get oil and resources. MJ would want us to wake up, research and realize, "They don't really care about" those children or any of the millions of suffering/killed children around the world.  Kony2012 is a deceiving lie, using our caring emotions for evil purposes.  /scream/
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Post by: mimi248 on March 09, 2012, 02:50:02 PM
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Thank you, paula-c. I read all same things because I sensed an agenda
after crying my eyes out over poor kids. Before you act, research.
Too Much Manipulation. They Do Not Care about any African children, period.
They manipulate through our best intentions.
And it's not for the first time. Future will show the real agenda behind increased military presence
in Uganda. We go pro-war without realizing that. We have to think more and control our
emotions better, I know it's very hard when you are shown imagery of abused children.
I failed for similar traps several times in my life, and I learned my lesson well.
They can't use goodness in you to increase suffering in this world. Don't let them do that
to you. Think and research, and if nothing evil shows up for you, act only after doing that.
But like this you make a well thought-out choice, and if results will be bad, you'll learn
your lesson well.
/bravo/


There is no way MJ would be behind an agenda to bring in troops under the guise of humanitarianism and helping abused children, all for the purpose of further genocide to get oil and resources. MJ would want us to wake up, research and realize, "They don't really care about" those children or any of the millions of suffering/killed children around the world.  Kony2012 is a deceiving lie, using our caring emotions for evil purposes.  /scream/


NO! cause please take a look at when the movie ( kony 2012) came out. March 05th 2012
Now  do you remember when MJ did his press conference at 02? Yeaah you're right March 05th 2009..
So, Again  a coincidence? hard to eat it and  i can't believe that  they made this   humanitarian campain only to arrest a pathetic man ..  and be able to rise MILLIONS of people throughout the world only to stop " one bad man "who killed well about  79000 children .that's Terrible indeed BUT i don't believe that government really care about so "few" people,  ..so it must be MUCH MORE important than this (what they said in video) I know for sure that this movie is manipulated to bring us make our own conclusion usin FEELING AND EMOTIONS  . But in what Purpose?
bad or good? i would say that MJ is behind this campain to STOP THEM and  turn the triangle UPSIDE DOWN . I feel like Michael is slowly giving us the name of who the real  criminals are!! and this campain has been  made to bring them out :/ sorry for my bad english :(   
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Post by: Grace on March 09, 2012, 03:29:56 PM
1) Which news did we miss?
2) Be aware that this is activating modern mobs and lynching commandos in the streets. This can happen to anybody. Be the news true or not. Know this.
3) Which leads to: whom did they want to get out of spotlight?
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Post by: mikeyslittlehoaxer on March 09, 2012, 04:58:29 PM
Dooley in my school are sharing the message. We watched this video in school  today and more than 20 people in my class have Kony 2012 written on their hand.
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Post by: mrbigshot on March 09, 2012, 05:03:22 PM
Not sure if this has been addressed, but according to a blog, Joseph Kony, as depicted in this documentary, has apparently been driven out of Uganda for at least six years and the LRA has been non-existent for the same period of time. Apparently there have been some pretty significant misrepresentations. Plus, we again have to look at both sides of perspective here. The invisible children campaign is implementing propaganda to help promote their documentary. How do they achieve such motive? They simply use emotional manipulation and imagery to help elicit a profound response from audiences watching their films. Yes, from 1999-2004, Uganda faced persistent issues with KONY and the LRA. However,  what has become problematic has been the inability to cure Nodding Disease, which claims over 4000 children and has even baffled many world renowned doctors as to how to treat this incredibly debilitating disease. Uganda is also home to the highest amount of child prostitutes inhabiting the area. These are the issues that are plaguing the streets of Uganda, not Kony and the LRA, which have deteriorated into obscurity.


Congratulations, America. You have given recognition to a video about events that have already been neutralized, and although Kony may still pose as a substantial threat, he has been driven out of Uganda for years now and The goal of the video was to attend to such notion. Can't say i'm surprised, and unfortunately, this is a harsh reminder that Americans yet again have failed to look beyond the detail and not get easily drawn  in by compassionate images and heart wrenching stories. We need to be mindful of what the media portrays, even social media such as Youtube. remember to keep an open-mindset and before you make any donationsa nd support this documentaries efforts, try your best to look validity and try to be informed on what is presently presiding in that area of the world.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/07/guest_post_joseph_kony_is_not_in_uganda_and_other_complicated_things


"To call the campaign a misrepresentation is an understatement. While it draws attention to the fact that Kony, indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005, is still on the loose, its portrayal of his alleged crimes in Northern Uganda are from a bygone era. At the height of the war between especially 1999 and 2004, large hordes of children took refuge on the streets of Gulu town to escape the horrors of abduction and brutal conscription to the ranks of the LRA. Today most of these children are semi-adults. Many are still on the streets unemployed. Gulu has the highest numbers of child prostitutes in Uganda. It also has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis.

If six years ago children in Uganda would have feared the hell of being part of the LRA, a well documented reality already, today the real invisible children are those suffering from "Nodding Disease". Over 4000 children are victims of this incurable debilitating condition. It's a neurological disease that has baffled world scientists and attacks mainly children from the most war affected districts of Kitgum, Pader and Gulu."
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Post by: everlastinglove_MJ on March 09, 2012, 05:44:35 PM

"KONY 2012" is certainly getting world attention because the message with its heartbreaking images and film reports has that effect on our emotions. When I saw this film I was wondering what the mission of Invisible Children is and if there is more behind their motives. I do not want to be skeptical about this movie because it is a fact that it reached public awareness about these horrible crimes, which is VERY important!
In the next video some research about KONY 2012 has been discussed and they came up with interesting arguments. It is a complicated matter because although only 31% of the donations is spent on charity, the biggest amount is spent on film production and publicity for this movie with the purpose to create high public awareness. Still, the question is: has charity money reached the right hands or the wrong hands? Probably we will never know.. my question is: should I keep believing in good intentions...? Because if I should not and everyone should not, being skeptical and suspicious, this will bring us not any further either....to change, to make this a better world :?.

with L.O.V.E.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fenpDAZ01KU [/youtube]
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Post by: Tink on March 09, 2012, 07:11:33 PM
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"KONY 2012" is certainly getting world attention because the message with its heartbreaking images and film reports has that effect on our emotions. When I saw this film I was wondering what the mission of Invisible Children is and if there is more behind their motives. I do not want to be skeptical about this movie because it is a fact that it reached public awareness about these horrible crimes, which is VERY important!
In the next video some research about KONY 2012 has been discussed and they came up with interesting arguments. It is a complicated matter because although only 31% of the donations is spent on charity, the biggest amount is spent on film production and publicity for this movie with the purpose to create high public awareness. Still, the question is: has charity money reached the right hands or the wrong hands? Probably we will never know.. my question is: should I keep believing in good intentions...? Because if I should not and everyone should not, being skeptical and suspicious, this will bring us not any further either....to change, to make this a better world :?.

with L.O.V.E.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fenpDAZ01KU [/youtube]

He's in the Congo now.

Look at it this way: something is better than nothing. If 33% of monies gathered reach the area, it's better than some charities which only have to give 10%!

Also, you need to be aware that it's about EMPOWERMENT for the PEOPLE who live there! Education is #1, so they don't become victims in the first place.
#2, is that they are able to create sustainable economies, so working for Kony isn't desirable on any level.

It's about economics. Just be careful that doesn't become "Whitey saves the day, with their idealism." Of course you've got some morons being jerks! They'd rather ignore the entire situation, like they've been doing for decades.

We need to capture or kill Kony, then educate and teach his ex-soldiers, and re-integrate them. Teach them it's wrong to abuse women. Not all can be saved,
but I bet you, 90% can be!

Believe in the best of humanity - for these people need help. But remember, they need advisors who understand the area. Kony is a wolverine hiding in sheeps clothing, and is abusing the Lord's word! He's a False Prophet, and is trying to keep his followers ignorant - just like the Mullahs in the Middle East.
His Charisma and weapons have gotten him far - but once you cut his financial source off, which from what I can see is HUMAN trafficking, prostitution,
& weapons dealing, possibly drugs, then he's undone.

Don't listen to the propaganda - for he wants you to. Take a stand, help the Lost Children! For though many are adults, they carry the souls of children,
locked in the agony of being kidnapped and forced to do atrocities. They need help with PTSD, and only God knows what else.

I strongly believe, THIS is one of the goals we all should meet this year - WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE!
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Post by: anewfan on March 10, 2012, 12:46:33 AM
I'm predicting Obama will miraculously capture and kill this guy right before election time.......... :roll:
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Post by: AKHTONI on March 10, 2012, 05:28:40 AM
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I'm predicting Obama will miraculously capture and kill this guy right before election time.......... :roll:

Te way he did it miraculously with OSAMA BINLADEN!!!!! but how about this??

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Crol6EgYGjU[/youtube]
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Post by: gwynned on March 10, 2012, 05:51:43 AM
Sorry, but this all seems like a hoax.  Someone who NEVER reads anything about conspiracies or politics asked me about this today, so somehow this message has come from out of nowhere overnight and gone viral.  But who is behind it?  There are so many problems in the world and ANYone can identify one particularly aggregious one, make a video and appeal to people's natural concerns for their fellow men. 

And we have been defrauded repeatedly.  Here's just one example.  I live in a small rural area and the local university managed to get Greg Mortenson to appear at both the university and the high school to talk about his book Three Cups of Tea.  Both venues were sold out which speaks to his popularity and people's innate concern for their fellow man.  In a subsequent expose on 60 Minutes, it was revealed that much of what he wrote about was fiction and there was a question as to how the contributions were used.

And how often have stories like these been used by the US government to justify 'humanitarian intervention.'  Most people are not aware, but the shocking photo of a seemingly starving man behind barbed wire in an alleged concentration camp Bosnia used to justify humanitarian intervention was a FAKE!  The photo made him appear to be behind the barbed wire when in fact he was starving and was seeking help and trying to get IN the facility!  People are easily manipulated.  Who knows that the money given to 'stop KONY' might not.  be going directly into the hands of his supporters. 

Good intentions and a generous heart need the guidance of a discriminating mind to be effective.  There's a reason 'bleeding heart liberals' are thought of with such disdain. 

On the other hand, it's easy to become so cynical that one does nothing!



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Post by: 2good2btrue on March 10, 2012, 06:52:19 AM
http://gawker.com/5891610/how-you-should-feel-about-kony-2012-the-campaign-thats-taking-over-the-internet-a-guide

How You Should Feel About Kony 2012, the Campaign That’s Taking Over the Internet: A Guide
If you have been on the internet in the last 48 hours (you have), you've probably heard something about "Kony 2012," a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of Ugandan guerilla leader and war criminal Joseph Kony. And if you're anything like me, you've probably avoided thinking about it too much. But the time has come to form an opinion. And we're here to help. Below, all the opinions it's possible to have about Joseph Kony and Invisible Children's campaign to stop him.
Opinion 1: Joseph Kony is a horrible human being and war criminal

Who believes this: everyone, basically, except Rush Limbaugh and, we assume, Joseph Kony.
What it entails: There's almost no dispute that Kony is a very bad dude. As the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, a violent syncretic Christian guerilla group, he's conscripted somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 children to fight as soldiers over the last 20-plus years, and his army committed unbelievable atrocities in northern Uganda before being forced out of the country. He's now believed to be in the Central African Republic — on the run from the Ugandan army — where (a greatly reduced) LRA continues to inflict harm and sow chaos.
The problem with this opinion: Actually, there's no problem with the opinion that Joseph Kony sucks. The problem is figuring out the next step: given that Joseph Kony sucks, what's the best thing that the U.S. can do to help Ugandans and other Africans affected by him?
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Opinion 2: the U.S. military should intervene to find and arrest Kony

Who believes this: Invisible Children, the charity behind the "Kony 2012" campaign
What it entails: Currently, there are 100 military advisors deployed to Uganda to assist the country's army in hunting down Kony. Invisible Children, a charity that's been agitating around the issue of child soldiers and the LRA through totally hip/cool/gnarly/extreme filmmaking and social media campaigns, appears to believe that the U.S. government is wavering on its commitment to the mission. Kony 2012, with its, you guessed it, 30-minute film and extensive social-media component, is designed to not just raise awareness about Kony — to "make him famous" — but also to ensure that the government knows that "people care about Kony." Not, like, his mom, or whatever — care about capturing him.
The problem with this opinion: Well, it's at best a gross oversimplification of a really complicated situation, and, at worst, an actively unhelpful misuse of resources and attention. Also, guys, that video? Was there not a black kid available?
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Opinion 3: the U.S. military should not intervene

Who believes this: Writers in Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs
What it entails: Not only are U.S. troops deployed in Uganda right now, but the U.S. military has assisted with operations to capture — or, failing that, kill — Kony in the past. They've never succeeded (duh), and in many cases have made the situation worse, prompting vicious retaliatory strikes by the LRA and killing whatever small chance at peace talks might be left. Oh, and the Ugandan government and its army have a good human rights record only in comparison to Kony — they've been accused of rape and looting, and their efforts to stamp out the LRA have involved forced relocation of civilians to terrible living conditions in poorly-protected camps.
The problem with this opinion: Invisible Children argues that the Ugandan government and military — not to mention the governments and militaries of the other countries affected by the LRA — can't effectively deal with Kony without the equipment, training and coordination that the U.S. could provide.
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Opinion 4: Invisible Children is misusing funds, misrepresenting facts and possibly making the situation in Uganda worse

Who believes this: A number of journalists, NGO workers, African activists and academics — most prominently the blog "Visible Children"
What it entails: Invisible Children is more like a hip social media filmmaking company than a charity — last year just under a third of the money it spent was on "direct services." The video is misleading and simple — it glosses over the fact that Kony left Uganda years ago, and that his army has been reduced to a few hundred people. There's a whiff of the "change your profile picture to a cartoon character to protest child abuse" about the whole campaign ("share this video and you've done all you need to do to help Africa") especially because Uganda faces more pressing issues and problems than Kony. Plus, there's that nagging sense of weird racial and colonial politics: the fact that Invisible Children's film centers around a white kid, the way its main objective is to guarantee U.S. involvement (no matter the cost), the picture that's been circulating (see it above) of the founders posing with the not-exactly-the-good-guys of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army while holding heavy-duty weaponry and putting on their best gangster grills. All of which adds up to the unfortunate message of "well-meaning westerners will save Africa," when history has generally proven the opposite to be true.
The problem with this opinion: Not to gloss over the complexity of the situation, but: What could possibly be the problem with raising awareness? How on earth can it be a bad thing to call attention to the fact that a horrible war criminal is still at large?
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Post by: gwynned on March 10, 2012, 11:12:37 AM
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Not to gloss over the complexity of the situation, but: What could possibly be the problem with raising awareness? How on earth can it be a bad thing to call attention to the fact that a horrible war criminal is still at large?

People get very cynical and lacking in generosity when they discover these efforts are misleading.  Such hoaxes cast doubt on genuinely helpful charities. 
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Post by: hesouttamylife on March 11, 2012, 12:39:33 PM
http://www.andersoncooper.com/episodes/jason-russell-kony-viral-video-plus-a-new-website-listing-people-with-stds-without-proof/?adid=031012_newsletter_jason-russell-kony-viral-video-plus-a-new-website-listing-people-with-stds-without-proof (http://www.andersoncooper.com/episodes/jason-russell-kony-viral-video-plus-a-new-website-listing-people-with-stds-without-proof/?adid=031012_newsletter_jason-russell-kony-viral-video-plus-a-new-website-listing-people-with-stds-without-proof)

The person who authored the 30 minute video will appear on Anderson Cooper tomorrow, 3/12/2012
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Post by: Grace on March 11, 2012, 03:09:09 PM
The world is a village. The web is a billboard. Opinion is a target.
Power belongs to those who design the next maps.


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Post by: gwynned on March 11, 2012, 05:00:21 PM
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Power belongs to those who design the next maps.




VERY insightful.  Let's just hope Michael is as good a cartographer as he is a dancer! 
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Post by: everlastinglove_MJ on March 11, 2012, 06:38:12 PM
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"KONY 2012" is certainly getting world attention because the message with its heartbreaking images and film reports has that effect on our emotions. When I saw this film I was wondering what the mission of Invisible Children is and if there is more behind their motives. I do not want to be skeptical about this movie because it is a fact that it reached public awareness about these horrible crimes, which is VERY important!
In the next video some research about KONY 2012 has been discussed and they came up with interesting arguments. It is a complicated matter because although only 31% of the donations is spent on charity, the biggest amount is spent on film production and publicity for this movie with the purpose to create high public awareness. Still, the question is: has charity money reached the right hands or the wrong hands? Probably we will never know.. my question is: should I keep believing in good intentions...? Because if I should not and everyone should not, being skeptical and suspicious, this will bring us not any further either....to change, to make this a better world :?.

with L.O.V.E.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fenpDAZ01KU [/youtube]

He's in the Congo now.

Look at it this way: something is better than nothing. If 33% of monies gathered reach the area, it's better than some charities which only have to give 10%!

Also, you need to be aware that it's about EMPOWERMENT for the PEOPLE who live there! Education is #1, so they don't become victims in the first place.
#2, is that they are able to create sustainable economies, so working for Kony isn't desirable on any level.

It's about economics. Just be careful that doesn't become "Whitey saves the day, with their idealism." Of course you've got some morons being jerks! They'd rather ignore the entire situation, like they've been doing for decades.

We need to capture or kill Kony, then educate and teach his ex-soldiers, and re-integrate them. Teach them it's wrong to abuse women. Not all can be saved,
but I bet you, 90% can be!

Believe in the best of humanity - for these people need help. But remember, they need advisors who understand the area. Kony is a wolverine hiding in sheeps clothing, and is abusing the Lord's word! He's a False Prophet, and is trying to keep his followers ignorant - just like the Mullahs in the Middle East.
His Charisma and weapons have gotten him far - but once you cut his financial source off, which from what I can see is HUMAN trafficking, prostitution,
& weapons dealing, possibly drugs, then he's undone.

Don't listen to the propaganda - for he wants you to. Take a stand, help the Lost Children! For though many are adults, they carry the souls of children,
locked in the agony of being kidnapped and forced to do atrocities. They need help with PTSD, and only God knows what else.

I strongly believe, THIS is one of the goals we all should meet this year - WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE!


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I strongly believe, THIS is one of the goals we all should meet this year - WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE!
 
Absolutely Tink beerchug

and I believe in the best of humanity and that is not gonna change either. I believe that people can make a change to believe strongly in the best of humanity. I've done fundraising for charity organizations for almost a decade now and it has struck me that people are having more and more doubts whether their money reach the charity goal (because they've read "negative news about that charity organization"), so many have decided not to donate. Although I respect their choice I hope people will not loose their faith, in good purposes and best of humanity.

L.O.V.E.
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: 2good2btrue on March 11, 2012, 11:56:16 PM
I've been hearing that this has illuminati written all over it..(not my opinion though).  The fact that the film maker uses the word "New World" constantly..and the symbolism of a triangle turned upside down.

The Americans don't need another reason to go the war either....they are fed up.

Did you know that UGANDA is OIL rich??  Richer than Saudi Arabia.

Is this another way of trying to gain control over the oil, by sending military troupes to fight another non-existant war, for no reason other than control?  Does this not sound like the work of the NWO trying to take over the world financial market??  Lots of money to be made with OIL..

Just keep an open mind, and certainly, I agree that KONY is an evil man that needs to pay for what he has done...but is this really the way to acheive it?  We don't want another reason for WAR...I'm personally over it in a big way. 

I feel relieved to see just how many people are willing to stand up and be heard...and this is what keeps me fighting for justice...POWER TO THE PEOPLE....Alot can be done if we raise our voice as one.....
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Tink on March 12, 2012, 12:40:02 PM
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I've been hearing that this has illuminati written all over it..(not my opinion though).  The fact that the film maker uses the word "New World" constantly..and the symbolism of a triangle turned upside down.

The Americans don't need another reason to go the war either....they are fed up.

Did you know that UGANDA is OIL rich??  Richer than Saudi Arabia.

Is this another way of trying to gain control over the oil, by sending military troupes to fight another non-existant war, for no reason other than control?  Does this not sound like the work of the NWO trying to take over the world financial market??  Lots of money to be made with OIL..

Just keep an open mind, and certainly, I agree that KONY is an evil man that needs to pay for what he has done...but is this really the way to acheive it?  We don't want another reason for WAR...I'm personally over it in a big way. 

I feel relieved to see just how many people are willing to stand up and be heard...and this is what keeps me fighting for justice...POWER TO THE PEOPLE....Alot can be done if we raise our voice as one.....

2good2btrue: Here's the TRUTH on Uganda's Resources, which in NO WAY match what you said about oil:

"UGANDA
Natural Resources and the Environment

Mineral resources
Small deposits of copper, cobalt, iron-ore, limestone, and salt as well as less viable fields of tungsten, beryl, columbo-tantalite, gold, bismuth, tin, limestone and phosphates.

Water resources
Annual internal renewable water resources: 1,829 cu m Per Capita (1998); Sector withdrawals - domestic 32%; Industrial 8%; Agricultural 60%

Land
Conditions for the cultivation of food and cash crops are favourable in most areas. More than 75% of the land is available for cultivation or pasture and large areas are under-utilized, including up to three-quarters of the arable potential.


Key Environmental Concerns:
Draining of wetlands for agricultural use; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; widespread poaching"

They are truly, truly a poor country - but cultivating land is their prize! If they were able to utilize properlyeven 3/4s of their good land, they'd be in the money. But instead, they're doing "Hack & slash" of the Rain Forests, which is tragic all around! Soil erosion, the soil is bad for anything else BUT the Rain Forest! Education matters here.

There's no Illuminati going on there; it's lack of education, and being taught how to be proper farmers, and be better caretakers of our wild animals - instead of friggin' poaching!

Teach the people to become part of the solution, such as arts & crafts - instead of part of the Global problem, which poverty always does - out of desperation.

Here's a link where you can purchase things made by people around the world, artisans making a living and now their work is for sale online: http://www.overstock.com/Worldstock-Fair-Trade/6/store.html (http://www.overstock.com/Worldstock-Fair-Trade/6/store.html)
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 12, 2012, 03:06:27 PM
Uganda turns Into oil-producing country

October 10, 2006 - after years of careful work of exploration, Ugandans Heard What They Have Been Wanting to hear: the discovery of oil in Their Country. The President of the country, Yoweri Museveni, made ​​the official announcement to the nation this weekend in the capital of the country, Kampala. Commercial production will start in 2009, said President Museveni.
Museveni Explained That the search in Uganda's oil, Which cost at least $ 70 million, the companies Began in the western regions of the country, With The blocks of Waranga 1, Waranga 2 and Mputa in 1989. An Australian company of petroleum exploration, Hardman Resources Ltd, discoveries made ​​in June This Year, But The Appropriate Government Waited a day to make public the news to STI Citizens

Hardman is operator and has 50 percent of block 2, which is located in the northwest and covers the northern part of Lake Albert and the surrounding land area. The most recent discovery, Waraga, is similar to the place of discovery, Mputa, the company said.


Hardman believes that Waraga oil in all areas of good quality, indicating that the warnings of President Museveni are consistent with the predictions of the oil company.


Museveni said his government would begin production soon and begin to build an oil refinery. Describing oil as a blessing to Uganda, President Museveni promised to use the new resource to finance the country's development. President of Uganda said he hoped production began in 2009 with an initial production of 6,000 to 10,000 barrels a day. This Uganda will be among the oil producing nations in Africa, led by Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Libya.


But the speech of President Museveni did not report on how the oil will be produced if the oil fields will lead bids or if the government itself will take over the work of exploration. Museveni said that Uganda has simply studied various oil production contracts around the world. And he denied criticism from some opposition politicians to predict that oil will become a curse and lead wars, as has happened in other African countries.


President Museveni thanked God first blessed with a good quality oil. "Secondly, we thank God who has given us wisdom and foresight to develop the ability to discover this oil while all previous efforts had failed," told the nation.

Museveni explained that shortly after taking control of the government in 1986, a group of representatives of Shell BP and Exxon wanted to obtain the rights to oil exploration around Lake Albert.


"I called mine first scientists, led by Janet Opio, the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Water and Earth. these officials wanted to know if there were people on the spectrum of the system of Uganda, who were well informed about oil. She said there was an 'expert' in oil at the Bank of Uganda, "said Museveni.


"I asked him for bringing me to this 'expert'. The 'expert' came one afternoon. First, he was not Ugandan, he was Ghanaian, and, most amazingly, he was not scientific! He was an economist who worked at the Bank of Uganda on everything related to the importation of petroleum products, "Museveni told his astonished countrymen.


Therefore, the President refused to sign an agreement with Shell BP and Exxon because "there was no one in Uganda oil well informed on issues and did not want to sell the interest of ugandanses." President Museveni acknowledged that his government was forced to send two young Ugandans to study geology, physics and chemistry, to build toward his specialty in oil industry.


"Today, it has a team of 25 professionals," said the president, noting that 20 of them have the highest training in these fields. After an initial period of five years of training and improving the capacity, the unit Oil has become a department of oil exploration and production with sophisticated equipment, Museveni said. President of Uganda found that, after fifteen years of hard work, his government has now discovered the "oil of good quality."


Thomas Male, Energy Ministry official in Uganda, reported the findings in the three fields have reserves of between 100 and 300 million barrels. According to "Associated Press', just the news of the discovery, rumor has it that wealthy Ugandans have taken to the struggle for the purchase of the land on which oil exploration takes place.




By staff writer

http://www.afrol.com/es/articulos/21848
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Grace on March 12, 2012, 03:50:08 PM

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November 25, 2011
Uganda’s Oil Could Be Gift That Becomes a Curse
By JOSH KRON  KAMPALA, Uganda

— When billions of barrels of oil (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/oil-petroleum-and-gasoline/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) reserves were found in Uganda five years ago, the discovery seemed like a gift from heaven to many in this poor, landlocked country.       
 Despite Ugandans’ dreams of industrialization, the country’s most lucrative export is coffee, and fish is second. Nearly 40 percent of the population survives on less than $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. But when oil starts pumping within the next several years, the expected revenue of up to $2 billion a year could propel Uganda into the strata of middle-income countries, where few sub-Saharan African countries rank. A refinery will be built; infrastructure is promised.
 Yet there are growing worries that the oil may prove to be more of a curse than a gift, similar to the fates of other countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have joined the petroleum bonanza. Uganda is considered by international experts to be among the most corrupt nations in the world (http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results), and even before oil production has begun, several senior government officials, including the prime minister, have been accused of pocketing millions of dollars in bribes from oil companies, forcing at least one of the politicians to resign.       
 The web of scandals may delay the much-anticipated starting date of oil production, adding to the already volatile politics in Uganda, which has recently been the scene of one of the most active protest movements (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/world/africa/30uganda.html) in sub-Saharan Africa. Uganda’s Parliament voted in an emergency session in mid-October to freeze all oil contracts and begin investigations (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/world/africa/three-officials-quit-in-uganda-over-scandals.html) of the country’s prime minister, internal affairs minister and foreign minister, all of whom are close to the president and have been accused of taking money from Tullow Oil, a British company in Uganda that was scheduled to complete a $2.9 billion deal with the Ugandan government and two other companies to produce Uganda’s oil. Tullow has denied the accusations.       
 Despite governing for nearly 26 years and handily winning re-election (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/world/africa/21uganda.html) again this year, President Yoweri Museveni now finds that his popularity seems to be waning (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/world/africa/13uganda.html), along with his grip on the economy (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/world/africa/as-ugandas-economy-sags-discontent-simmers-in-a-market.html) and his own party. Many here say that the bribery allegations are part of a campaign by some politicians to determine who comes next.       
 “Most obviously, the jockeying is for positions,” said Mahmood Mamdani, an anthropology professor at Columbia and Makerere University in Uganda, “especially given the expectation that Museveni will not run the next time.”       
 Mr. Museveni’s rise, from rebel to leader of a regional power (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/world/africa/07sudan.html), has paralleled Uganda’s. In the capital, Kampala, vendors sell posters of the president’s image edited into Terminator outfits, next to dictionaries and Bibles. He is prickly about criticism and refers to himself at times in the third person.       
 “Museveni can never be given money by anybody,” the president said at an impromptu news conference he held last month in Kampala, lashing out when the bribery allegations were publicized. “General Yoweri Museveni. To get money from a Muzungu, or anybody, for my personal use, is contempt of the highest order,” he said, using Ugandan slang for Westerner.       
 What could happen in Uganda has happened before in Angola (http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/angola0104.pdf), Gabon (http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/FIW09Gabon.pdf) and Nigeria (http://www.ifra-nigeria.org/IMG/pdf/David_U-_ENWEREMADU_-_Ending_the_Vicious_Circle_Oil_Corruption_and_Violent_conflict_in_the_Niger_Delta.pdf), all countries with deep corruption where oil intensified class disparities.       
 “The next generation of Ugandans could grow up in a very different country to that of their parents and grandparents,” the advocacy organization Global Witness (http://www.globalwitness.org/) said in a 2010 report. “But the risk of the resource curse phenomenon taking hold in Uganda cannot be ignored.”       
 Uganda has been rocked by a series of demonstrations over surging commodity prices — particularly petroleum — as inflation has hit 30 percent. Protesters say they are inspired by the Arab Spring revolts.
 It is not just the decreasing value of Uganda’s currency that critics are complaining about; it is the way the money is being spent. The government was criticized in April for buying fighter jets from Russia (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704013604576248094099823846.html) for approximately $740 million, which some analysts saw as being costly status symbols rather than useful weaponry. According to the director of the Bank of Uganda, Mr. Museveni ordered the bank to release millions of dollars to pay for the fighter jets, which Mr. Museveni promised would be reimbursed with oil money, a prominent Ugandan newspaper (http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1273874/-/bgtewwz/-/index.html) reported.       
 Uganda’s oil lies underneath the forests and lakes lining the border with its troubled neighbor Congo. Oil industry and government officials estimate that Uganda will be able to pump about 200,000 barrels a day. But Uganda’s oil is waxy, difficult to pump and expensive to refine.
 Still, the country has stated its intention to build a pipeline through Kenya to the port of Mombasa, and lawmakers have already accused Mr. Museveni of secretly selling off some crude oil to foreign nations.
 As private investors come and go from Uganda, there are worries that hundreds of millions of dollars are up for grabs in kickbacks and secret deals.       
 According to American diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks (http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10KAMPALA19.html), Tullow Oil accused the Italian company ENI of trying to bribe Ugandan politicians, including Mr. Museveni and the prime minister, with more than $200 million to secure oil rights held by Tullow’s onetime partner, Heritage Oil, a British company. One cable cites a Ugandan intelligence report given to the American Embassy by Tullow. But Tullow Oil itself helped write the intelligence report, the cable said.       
 As for the new bribery allegations, there are questions about their veracity, and some analysts believe that the politicians singled out — all close to Mr. Museveni (the foreign minister is an in-law) — are victims of a smear campaign to hurt their chances of succeeding Mr. Museveni.       
“I have never let Uganda down,” Mr. Museveni said during the news conference. “Uganda will not lose, and cannot lose under my leadership. O.K.?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/world/africa/uganda-welcomes-oil-but-fears-graft-it-attracts.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/world/africa/uganda-welcomes-oil-but-fears-graft-it-attracts.html)


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  21 Feb 2012
$2.9bn Farm-down of Uganda licences completed

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is pleased to announce that it has completed the farm-down of 66.6666% of its Ugandan licences to CNOOC Limited and Total for a consideration of $2.9 billion. The farm-down follows the recent signing of Production Sharing Agreements (“PSAs”) and the Kingfisher production licence with the Government of Uganda.
 
 Tullow, CNOOC Limitedand Total (“the Partners”) have been working closely since March 2011 on development options for the Lake Albert Basin and are looking forward to discussing them with the Government of Uganda later this year. It is currently expected that small-scale oil and gas production for the local power market will commence in 2013 from the Kaiso-Tonya area.  Major production from the Lake Albert Basin is anticipated to commence approximately 36 months after a basin-wide plan of development is approved by the Government of Uganda. Based on this timetable, ramp-up to major production would commence in 2016.
In accordance with the Government of Uganda farm-down consents, operatorship responsibilities within the basin will be divided between the Partners. Total will operate Exploration Area-1 (EA-1) and Tullow will operate Exploration Area-2 (EA-2). In the former Exploration Area-3A, CNOOC Limitedwill operate the new Kanywataba licence and the Kingfisher production licence.
The Partners are now re-commencing drilling activities in the area to undertake a wide-ranging exploration and appraisal programme in 2012. Immediate exploration priorities include drilling the Kanywataba prospect, a series of prospects west of the Nile starting with the Omuka well in EA-1 and further appraisal work in both EA-1 and EA-2.
Aidan Heavey, Chief Executive Officer of Tullow, commented today:
“I am delighted that we have completed this farm-down with CNOOC Limitedand Total, two experienced partners with whom we have already built a strong working relationship. The Lake Albert Rift Basin is one of Africa’s most exciting oil discoveries and I look forward to working with our new Partners and the Government of Uganda in driving this project towards major production.”

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tullow Oil plc
 (+44 20 3249 9000)
Chris Perry – Investor Relations
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 (+44 207 638 9571)
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 Tullow Group Overview
Tullow is a leading independent oil & gas, exploration and production group, quoted on the London, Irish and Ghanaian (symbol: TLW) stock exchanges and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The Group has interests in over 90 exploration and production licences across 22 countries and focuses on four core areas: Africa, Europe, South Asia and South America.
In Africa, Tullow has production in Ghana, Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Congo (Brazzaville) and Equatorial Guinea with two large appraisal and development programmes in Ghana and Uganda. Tullow also has exploration interests in Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Senegal, Tanzania, Madagascar, Namibia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Tullow’s European interests are focused on gas in the UK Southern North Sea where it has significant interests in the Caister-Murdoch System and the Thames area and in the Netherlands where it has offshore gas production, development and exploration opportunities.
In South Asia, Tullow has exploration and production in Bangladesh and exploration interests in Pakistan. In South America, Tullow has exploration interests in Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname.
For further information please refer to our website at www.tullowoil.com (http://www.tullowoil.com).
http://www.tullowoil.com/index.asp?pageid=137&newsid=737 (http://www.tullowoil.com/index.asp?pageid=137&newsid=737)
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: BeTheChange on March 12, 2012, 04:20:42 PM
Rinse. (Brain)Wash. Repeat. 

It's like deja-vu all over again...the only thing that changes is the 'boogey-man'.  And the masses gobble it up and ask for a second heaping.  Speak of the need for education!  'Their' game plan couldn't be any more clear....the 'dots' are there for anyone to connect.  Yet, people keep falling for the tried-and-true heartstings pull.

Kony IS a bad person, no doubt about that.  But who nominated the US government to be God?  I must have missed the press conference where they were handed the title(s) of worldwide 'educators', 'liberators', and/or 'saviors'.  And somehow, in the course of their 'humanitarian aid'....they always manage to end up occupying countries.  Is that supposed to be their 'just' reward?  I, personally, have a hard time trusting anyone that quotes God and/or Bible scripture in one breath...and in the very next, condones breaking God's commandments.

I wonder how many children....both in the US and abroad....have suffered or died due to the direct actions of the US government in the past 25 years?  Who should the world 'hunt down and kill' because of that...'shock and awe' style?  The hypocrisy is getting old...and it stinks.  People should educate themselves before claiming to have the 'solution' for anyone else.

The face of 'terrorism' is vastly different depending on which end of the bomb you're on....and the face of 'manipulation' is one that the world has had plenty of examples to recognize.

'They' aren't even creative or imaginative, for God's sake.  It's the SAME 'game plan', over and over again.  But then again, why change it?  It works every time.

With L.O.V.E. always.
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: beLIEving101 on March 12, 2012, 04:47:35 PM
I agree that this kind of manipulation is quite sick. The public gets swayed and falls for the same tactics every time. Kony hasn't been seen in over 5 years and this is an easy way to invade Africa. Uganda is first, def. won't be last to be invaded in Africa, we know Africa is the richest in resources. An absolute goldmine compared to all the other continents. The elite need to invade Africa, and now they have the peoples support
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Aidan_81 on March 12, 2012, 07:26:42 PM
Now just watch history repeat itself, the future targets will be shown
to us in the same way.
All to enrich a bunch of men. Thousands will die, children and women
and whoever will be there. They will die because of others' GREED and desire to
control the world. I have no idea what can be done to shake humanity
and wake them up, so they realize NO WAR should be supported. Especially
if we speak of foreign military intervention! We approve
Mass Murder. And do not even "get" it. Aren't everyone dead TIRED of war?
No idea if this all gonna end some day. Minority woke up, majority plays deaf.
Title: joseph kony
Post by: missudi on March 13, 2012, 06:24:28 PM
sorry but i couldnt find the joseph kony thread,so please feel free to move this one,I just thought it was a coincidence that I have been on jury service this week,and just happened to be talking to a lady,and she mentioned she used to travel to africa alot when she was younger,she used to do charity work with her church,and she mentioned uganda,I said i was reading something on the net,and before i could mention his name,she said,Joseph Kony,and I said yes.I was so suprised to think that all the people that were there and i ended up chatting to her,why I was suprised is because noone i know has heard of kony,so it was good to be able to talk to someone about him,and had seen the video,and knew about what he had done,apart from people on this site.She has helped alot in africa and her church has sent people over to help build orphanages and schools,just as she was talking about Kony though our names were called and they told us we could go home,so maybe I will get to talk to her again another day.
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 13, 2012, 07:24:20 PM
KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation

The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate agenda that is presented in the video in a very manipulative way. We’ll look at the agenda behind KONY 2012 and how it uses reverse psychology to not only justify a military operation in Africa, but to actually have people demand it.

(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/leadkony.jpg)















KONY 2012 is a viral sensation that swept the entire world in less than 24 hours. Its main subject is the African rebel leader Joseph Kony, his war crimes and the clearly defined “movement” to stop him.  Countless celebrities have endorsed the movement, news sources have reported it and social media is buzzing with it. While the problem of guerrilla warfare and child soldiers has plagued Africa for decades, and several documentaries have already been produced regarding the issue, this particular 29-minute video made managed to obtain mass exposure and support.

KONY 2012 is less of a documentary than it is a highly efficient infomercial that is tailor-made for the Facebook generation, using state-of-the-art marketing techniques to make its point. Young people like “underground movements” and want to feel like they are changing the world. KONY 2012 taps into these needs to bring about something that is not “hip” or “underground” at all: A military operation in Uganda. Not only that, it urges the participants of the movement to order stuff, to wear bracelets that are associated with an online profile and to record their actions in social media. This makes KONY 2012 the first artificially created movement that is fully track-able, monitor-able and quantifiable by those who engendered it. In other words, what appears to be a movement “from the people” is actually a new way for the elite to advance its agenda.



A Propaganda Experiment



The video begins with an interesting statement: “The next 27 minutes are an experiment. But in order for it to work, you have to pay attention”. It is an experiment as it tests a new, groundbreaking way to get an agenda accepted by the Facebook generation. In the past, when the government needed to justify the invasion of a country, the President would sit in front of the camera and tell the public why war should be declared in this area of the world. In the case of KONY, the military agenda is disguised as grassroots activism, where the US army entering Uganda would be perceived as a “victory of the people”, effectively reversing the communications model.


Towards the end of the video, an image is displayed explaining how decisions (and messages) start from the top of the pyramid (the elite) and are communicated to the masses through mass media and such
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony1-)











Due to the advent of social media, the above diagram has become a lot less effective to get a message across to the young generation. It is not CNN reports and the President addressing the nation anymore, it is about “liking” Facebook pages and viral YouTube videos. This is where messages now come across. Always studying, analyzing and exploiting the most effective ways to persuade public opinion, KONY 2012 appears to be an attempt to test out the effectiveness of a “viral” propaganda campaign. By creating this “movement” and making young people actually DEMAND the U.S. government intervene in Africa, the masterminds behind this campaign would manage the impossible: Reversing the propaganda model in order to make it emanate from the people. By doing so, the elite’s agenda is not only accepted by the masses, it is perceived as a victory by them.



"We are living in a new world" indeed. The KONY 2012 logo aptly represents how a viral video and social media can reverse the propaganda model. Don't be fooled however. Power is still not in the hands of the base of the pyramid ... far from it. It is all about appearances.
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When the war on Iraq was declared, a great portion of young Americans opposed the war. How is it they are now begging the government to send troops to Africa? A simple video, specifically conceived for the Facebook generation did the trick. As it is the case in most campaigns to justify a war, the first goal was to identify a bad guy.


Identifying the Bad Guy

By associating Kony with Bin Laden and Hitler in this poster, KONY 2012 is promoting war.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony3.jpg)
















I have absolutely no intention of defending Joseph Kony or to say “he’s not that bad”. He, along with many other guerrilla factions across Africa, has committed despicable atrocities. However, the problem of child soldiers has existed for decades and there are literally hundreds of Joseph Konys across the African continent. In some cases, some of the armies are actually funded by Western countries. If we would truly go to the root of the issue, we’d discover that Africa has been plagued with the problem of warring factions and rebel guerrillas ever since Western forces “liberated” their colonies and divided the continent of Africa according to Western interests. Indeed, instead of setting the boundaries of each country according to the geographic location of the ethnic groups and tribes that live there, countries were created according to the economic needs of colonizing forces such as Great Britain, France and others. The net result is: A bunch of artificial countries that each contain several tribes, ethnic groups, languages and religions. When one group takes power, the others are repressed, which leads to violence and rebellion. Add to the mix extreme poverty due to resources being siphoned out of Africa by Western countries and you’ve got a breeding ground for merciless warlords. As long as this problem exists, Joseph Konys will continue to emerge in Africa.

But the video mentions none of this. All it says is that arresting Kony would “make the world better”. KONY 2012 is all about identifying a bad guy, “making him famous” and have people demand his death by U.S. forces. Fixing the true cause of problems in the third world has never been on the Agenda. But picking out a “bad guy” to justify military action has always been part of it. If in the case of Saddam Hussein, “facts” (that ultimately proved false) were given to justify the invasion of Iraq. A different technique is being used with Kony, one that originates from advertising.

Any marketing specialist will tell you: “Facts don’t sell, emotions do”.  The first part of KONY 2012 solely addresses emotions. It is about making the filmmaker likeable, showing gut-wrenching images of African kids in pain, in misery and in despair. Then, the turning point: Joseph Kony is the cause of all of this. Not centuries of exploitation and devastation by Western forces in Africa that lead to chaos, lawlessness and poverty. No, it’s Kony. That bastard. George Clooney is really mad at him right now. He even tweeted about it.

Another marketing strategy is to appeal to the lowest common denominator. In other words, to get a message across, one must address the audience as if it was made of kids. KONY 2012 does exactly this by ridiculously oversimplifying the problem and explaining it to an actual child – who represents the viewers.  This is not surprising though, as this is how the masses are perceived by the higher ups.


Here's what this scene implies: "Look, dumb-ass, even this little kid gets it. So you better get it."
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony4.jpg)














Once the viewers had their emotions stirred, got infantilized and had the problem spelled out to them as if they were in kindergarten, the table is set for the true goal of the video: Defining the agenda.


Defining the Agenda


KONY 2012 is a movement backed by some of the world’s most powerful entities and has precise goals. As the movie’s intro states, it is an experiment. It is an opportunity to create a movement that can be fully trackable, quantifiable and manageable through social media whose culmination is a U.S. military intervention in Uganda. The carrying out of this mission will not only be perceived as a victory, it will restore young people’s faith in democracy. What the members of this movement might not realize is that they are helping the advancement of the elite’s agenda towards a New World Order.

This poster aptly summarizes how the Illuminati works. Political parties are irrelevant as both work towards the same Agenda.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony5.jpg)















The second part of the movie let’s go of emotions and describes to the viewers what the elite expects from them. U.S. troops are already in Uganda, but, according to the movie, Kony “changed his tactics”… Damnit Kony, you and your sneaky tactics. Apparently, high tech satellites, unmanned drones and all kinds of radars are not enough to catch this guy. Nope, in order to catch him, a complicated plan, involving the purchase of an “Action Kit” and the registering an ID bracelet on a website is required. Makes sense.


Those who want to "Stop Kony" are required to wear a bracelet bearing a unique code which needs to be registered at a website. Of course, personal information is requested.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony61.jpg)
















Once the bracelet is registered, members can associate it with their Facebook account, which will keep track of all KONY-related actions. The end result is: every single member of KONY 2012 will be known, identified and easily tracked – with constantly updated information. All of this data will of course be collected, scrutinized and stored by those in charge.

Furthermore, members are asked to contribute a “few dollars a month” to TRI, an organization whose ultimate goal is American military intervention in Uganda.



TRI's logo is an inverted "Peace" sign. In symbolism, an inverted sign means that it stands for the opposite of the regular sign. In other words, TRI is about war. Peace does not involve "equipping" and "training" government forces to fight rebel factions. As the novel 1984 states, WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony7.jpg)















To support the cause and to make it popular, a bunch of elite-sponsored artists and politicians have been enlisted, including Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Oprah, George Clooney, Bono, etc. Don’t be fooled, they are not there because they give a damn about child soldiers in Africa. They are pawns of the elite and used to promote its agenda. Basically, they are there to promote what the NWO wants.



Am I seeing warmongering George W. Bush in here? The dude that lied to the whole country in order to attack Iraq for its oil and stuff? Hmm. Weird.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony8.jpg)

















After going past the celebrities and the emotions, the end result of this campaign is simple and steeped in real politik: Since the fall of rival superpower USSR, Western forces have sought to bring down and to control regional powers around the world, mostly in third countries. Uganda is part of that plan. The same way the spectre of Bin Laden was used to invade Afghanistan, Kony is being used to enter Uganda.



The video clearly shows what is the goal of this "movement": U.S. troops taking charge of the Ugandan army, the same way it took charge of the Iraqi, Libyan and other armies in the past few years.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony9.jpg)













In Conclusion


KONY 2012 is a cleverly orchestrated campaign specifically aimed at today’s youth, the future citizens of the world. Using state-of-the-art techniques and new technologies, the campaign is a first attempt at “reverse propaganda”, where the agenda APPEARS to emanate from the people. By using emotions, irrational thoughts and superficial explanations, KONY 2012 attempts to trick well-meaning people, who desire to make a positive change in the world, to instead fuel a gigantic war machine that is controlled by the world’s elite.

Is KONY 2012 trying to eradicate child-soldiers or is it attempting to create a new kind of child-soldiers?

(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony10-e1331592955251.jpg)












…Right.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/kony-2012-state-propaganda-for-a-new-generation/
Title: Re: joseph kony
Post by: paula-c on March 13, 2012, 07:27:22 PM
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sorry but i couldnt find the joseph kony thread,so please feel free to move this one,I just thought it was a coincidence that I have been on jury service this week,and just happened to be talking to a lady,and she mentioned she used to travel to africa alot when she was younger,she used to do charity work with her church,and she mentioned uganda,I said i was reading something on the net,and before i could mention his name,she said,Joseph Kony,and I said yes.I was so suprised to think that all the people that were there and i ended up chatting to her,why I was suprised is because noone i know has heard of kony,so it was good to be able to talk to someone about him,and had seen the video,and knew about what he had done,apart from people on this site.She has helped alot in africa and her church has sent people over to help build orphanages and schools,just as she was talking about Kony though our names were called and they told us we could go home,so maybe I will get to talk to her again another day.






http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?topic=22331.msg394252;topicseen#new
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: MJonmind on March 14, 2012, 01:27:53 AM
Wow, Paula-c, that's the best Kony 2012 expose yet! Thanks!  I made a copy for my friend at work who has 2 teen girls really into the blitz.
TPTB, Illuminati, NWO, whatever you want to call them--have been strategizing for a long time, since long before WWI.


Speaking of Sadam Hussein (and Osama Bin Laden), I'm reminded of 1991 and Desert Storm with its "shock and awe".  I remember being glued to our TV in horror thinking this could be the start of WW3. Previously we had seen the clips of babies in incubators in Kuwait and were told his soldiers had put them on the floor to die.  Now we find out this was a total lie.  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/incubatorlie.html (http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/incubatorlie.html)
We saw Saddam Hussein with the group of children he had held hostage, and were thinking what a horrible horrible man, just like we think now of Kuny. Some estimate nearly 1 million died as a result of USreal invasion of Iraq.

I remember my strong emotions at the time, and then again 10 years later with 911 and Osama Bin Ladin. So my guess Uganda's going to be experiencing increased suffering in the next few years. :x  http://www.oilempire.us/warcrime.html (http://www.oilempire.us/warcrime.html) 


(http://www.oilempire.us/oil-jpg/leaflet-heretohelp.jpg)


The Kony video shows Louis Morano Ocampo of The International Criminal Court. The number one on their list is Kony, and the others are also African. Hmm...  When there are so many troubled areas around the world, why is Kony number 1? Therefore this Kony media phenomena must be from TPTB or NWO, not grassroots. http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Structure+of+the+Court/Office+of+the+Prosecutor/ (http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Structure+of+the+Court/Office+of+the+Prosecutor/)


 So who is really in charge of this court?
"The International Criminal Court itself claims to be (http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/DCBD3E2C-C592-4FB8-B7CB-E18E67F692D1.htm), “an independent, permanent court that investigates and prosecutes persons accused of the most serious crimes of international concern, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.” A visit to the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) (http://www.iccnow.org/?mod=supporters) site reveals just who is behind the ICC, who is actively promoting it and networking with the ICC’s various NGO partners, and the fact that all involved boast the same financial and political supporters.

The CICC claims to include (http://www.iccnow.org/?mod=coalition), “2,500 civil society organizations in 150 different countries working in partnership to strengthen international cooperation with the ICC; ensure that the Court is fair, effective and independent; make justice both visible and
!important universal; and advance stronger national laws that deliver justice to victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.” The CICC however, also is “deeply appreciative of the generous support (http://www.iccnow.org/?mod=supporters)” provided by the European Union, the Ford Foundation, the Fortune 500-lined (http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.855259/k.B257/Board_of_Directors.htm) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Institute, and Humanity United.

Humanity United in turn boast partnerships (http://www.humanityunited.org/all/partners) with the globalist co-conspirators (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/20/bbc-world-service-us-funding) of BBC World Service Trust, NED/Open Society/US State Department-funded Benetech (http://www.benetech.org/about/strategic_partners.shtml), George Soros’ Open Society Institute (http://www.humanityunited.org/all/partners/page:7), and the NED-funded (http://www.ned.org/where-we-work/middle-east-and-northern-africa/mena-regional) Solidarity Center (http://www.humanityunited.org/all/partners/page:8) which mobilized Egypt’s labor unions (http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-are-egypts-protesters_09.html) just as the US-stoked unrest began to falter. These “generous supporters” are literally the same organizations that have built up the very “civil society organizations (http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/04/exposing-international-arbiters.html)” the CICC is “working in partnership” with, and the same disingenuous organizations supplying the fake, contrived ICC with “evidence” to issue its “arrest warrants” with."

http://endthelie.com/2011/07/07/its-official-international-criminal-court-has-zero-mandate/#axzz1p4NKFe58 (http://endthelie.com/2011/07/07/its-official-international-criminal-court-has-zero-mandate/#axzz1p4NKFe58)
Possible link to Zionism:http://hamsayeh.net/archive/1079-issue-a-warrant-of-arrest-against-the-zionist-jews.html (http://hamsayeh.net/archive/1079-issue-a-warrant-of-arrest-against-the-zionist-jews.html)
So this ICC decides on who is good and who is bad, who deserves to live or die around the world.  This is too much power in their hands.
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: 2good2btrue on March 14, 2012, 02:08:57 AM
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KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation

The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate agenda that is presented in the video in a very manipulative way. We’ll look at the agenda behind KONY 2012 and how it uses reverse psychology to not only justify a military operation in Africa, but to actually have people demand it.

(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/leadkony.jpg)















KONY 2012 is a viral sensation that swept the entire world in less than 24 hours. Its main subject is the African rebel leader Joseph Kony, his war crimes and the clearly defined “movement” to stop him.  Countless celebrities have endorsed the movement, news sources have reported it and social media is buzzing with it. While the problem of guerrilla warfare and child soldiers has plagued Africa for decades, and several documentaries have already been produced regarding the issue, this particular 29-minute video made managed to obtain mass exposure and support.

KONY 2012 is less of a documentary than it is a highly efficient infomercial that is tailor-made for the Facebook generation, using state-of-the-art marketing techniques to make its point. Young people like “underground movements” and want to feel like they are changing the world. KONY 2012 taps into these needs to bring about something that is not “hip” or “underground” at all: A military operation in Uganda. Not only that, it urges the participants of the movement to order stuff, to wear bracelets that are associated with an online profile and to record their actions in social media. This makes KONY 2012 the first artificially created movement that is fully track-able, monitor-able and quantifiable by those who engendered it. In other words, what appears to be a movement “from the people” is actually a new way for the elite to advance its agenda.



A Propaganda Experiment



The video begins with an interesting statement: “The next 27 minutes are an experiment. But in order for it to work, you have to pay attention”. It is an experiment as it tests a new, groundbreaking way to get an agenda accepted by the Facebook generation. In the past, when the government needed to justify the invasion of a country, the President would sit in front of the camera and tell the public why war should be declared in this area of the world. In the case of KONY, the military agenda is disguised as grassroots activism, where the US army entering Uganda would be perceived as a “victory of the people”, effectively reversing the communications model.


Towards the end of the video, an image is displayed explaining how decisions (and messages) start from the top of the pyramid (the elite) and are communicated to the masses through mass media and such
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony1-)











Due to the advent of social media, the above diagram has become a lot less effective to get a message across to the young generation. It is not CNN reports and the President addressing the nation anymore, it is about “liking” Facebook pages and viral YouTube videos. This is where messages now come across. Always studying, analyzing and exploiting the most effective ways to persuade public opinion, KONY 2012 appears to be an attempt to test out the effectiveness of a “viral” propaganda campaign. By creating this “movement” and making young people actually DEMAND the U.S. government intervene in Africa, the masterminds behind this campaign would manage the impossible: Reversing the propaganda model in order to make it emanate from the people. By doing so, the elite’s agenda is not only accepted by the masses, it is perceived as a victory by them.



"We are living in a new world" indeed. The KONY 2012 logo aptly represents how a viral video and social media can reverse the propaganda model. Don't be fooled however. Power is still not in the hands of the base of the pyramid ... far from it. It is all about appearances.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony2.jpg)












When the war on Iraq was declared, a great portion of young Americans opposed the war. How is it they are now begging the government to send troops to Africa? A simple video, specifically conceived for the Facebook generation did the trick. As it is the case in most campaigns to justify a war, the first goal was to identify a bad guy.


Identifying the Bad Guy

By associating Kony with Bin Laden and Hitler in this poster, KONY 2012 is promoting war.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony3.jpg)
















I have absolutely no intention of defending Joseph Kony or to say “he’s not that bad”. He, along with many other guerrilla factions across Africa, has committed despicable atrocities. However, the problem of child soldiers has existed for decades and there are literally hundreds of Joseph Konys across the African continent. In some cases, some of the armies are actually funded by Western countries. If we would truly go to the root of the issue, we’d discover that Africa has been plagued with the problem of warring factions and rebel guerrillas ever since Western forces “liberated” their colonies and divided the continent of Africa according to Western interests. Indeed, instead of setting the boundaries of each country according to the geographic location of the ethnic groups and tribes that live there, countries were created according to the economic needs of colonizing forces such as Great Britain, France and others. The net result is: A bunch of artificial countries that each contain several tribes, ethnic groups, languages and religions. When one group takes power, the others are repressed, which leads to violence and rebellion. Add to the mix extreme poverty due to resources being siphoned out of Africa by Western countries and you’ve got a breeding ground for merciless warlords. As long as this problem exists, Joseph Konys will continue to emerge in Africa.

But the video mentions none of this. All it says is that arresting Kony would “make the world better”. KONY 2012 is all about identifying a bad guy, “making him famous” and have people demand his death by U.S. forces. Fixing the true cause of problems in the third world has never been on the Agenda. But picking out a “bad guy” to justify military action has always been part of it. If in the case of Saddam Hussein, “facts” (that ultimately proved false) were given to justify the invasion of Iraq. A different technique is being used with Kony, one that originates from advertising.

Any marketing specialist will tell you: “Facts don’t sell, emotions do”.  The first part of KONY 2012 solely addresses emotions. It is about making the filmmaker likeable, showing gut-wrenching images of African kids in pain, in misery and in despair. Then, the turning point: Joseph Kony is the cause of all of this. Not centuries of exploitation and devastation by Western forces in Africa that lead to chaos, lawlessness and poverty. No, it’s Kony. That bastard. George Clooney is really mad at him right now. He even tweeted about it.

Another marketing strategy is to appeal to the lowest common denominator. In other words, to get a message across, one must address the audience as if it was made of kids. KONY 2012 does exactly this by ridiculously oversimplifying the problem and explaining it to an actual child – who represents the viewers.  This is not surprising though, as this is how the masses are perceived by the higher ups.


Here's what this scene implies: "Look, dumb-ass, even this little kid gets it. So you better get it."
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony4.jpg)














Once the viewers had their emotions stirred, got infantilized and had the problem spelled out to them as if they were in kindergarten, the table is set for the true goal of the video: Defining the agenda.


Defining the Agenda


KONY 2012 is a movement backed by some of the world’s most powerful entities and has precise goals. As the movie’s intro states, it is an experiment. It is an opportunity to create a movement that can be fully trackable, quantifiable and manageable through social media whose culmination is a U.S. military intervention in Uganda. The carrying out of this mission will not only be perceived as a victory, it will restore young people’s faith in democracy. What the members of this movement might not realize is that they are helping the advancement of the elite’s agenda towards a New World Order.

This poster aptly summarizes how the Illuminati works. Political parties are irrelevant as both work towards the same Agenda.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony5.jpg)















The second part of the movie let’s go of emotions and describes to the viewers what the elite expects from them. U.S. troops are already in Uganda, but, according to the movie, Kony “changed his tactics”… Damnit Kony, you and your sneaky tactics. Apparently, high tech satellites, unmanned drones and all kinds of radars are not enough to catch this guy. Nope, in order to catch him, a complicated plan, involving the purchase of an “Action Kit” and the registering an ID bracelet on a website is required. Makes sense.


Those who want to "Stop Kony" are required to wear a bracelet bearing a unique code which needs to be registered at a website. Of course, personal information is requested.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony61.jpg)
















Once the bracelet is registered, members can associate it with their Facebook account, which will keep track of all KONY-related actions. The end result is: every single member of KONY 2012 will be known, identified and easily tracked – with constantly updated information. All of this data will of course be collected, scrutinized and stored by those in charge.

Furthermore, members are asked to contribute a “few dollars a month” to TRI, an organization whose ultimate goal is American military intervention in Uganda.



TRI's logo is an inverted "Peace" sign. In symbolism, an inverted sign means that it stands for the opposite of the regular sign. In other words, TRI is about war. Peace does not involve "equipping" and "training" government forces to fight rebel factions. As the novel 1984 states, WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony7.jpg)















To support the cause and to make it popular, a bunch of elite-sponsored artists and politicians have been enlisted, including Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Oprah, George Clooney, Bono, etc. Don’t be fooled, they are not there because they give a damn about child soldiers in Africa. They are pawns of the elite and used to promote its agenda. Basically, they are there to promote what the NWO wants.



Am I seeing warmongering George W. Bush in here? The dude that lied to the whole country in order to attack Iraq for its oil and stuff? Hmm. Weird.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony8.jpg)

















After going past the celebrities and the emotions, the end result of this campaign is simple and steeped in real politik: Since the fall of rival superpower USSR, Western forces have sought to bring down and to control regional powers around the world, mostly in third countries. Uganda is part of that plan. The same way the spectre of Bin Laden was used to invade Afghanistan, Kony is being used to enter Uganda.



The video clearly shows what is the goal of this "movement": U.S. troops taking charge of the Ugandan army, the same way it took charge of the Iraqi, Libyan and other armies in the past few years.
(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony9.jpg)













In Conclusion


KONY 2012 is a cleverly orchestrated campaign specifically aimed at today’s youth, the future citizens of the world. Using state-of-the-art techniques and new technologies, the campaign is a first attempt at “reverse propaganda”, where the agenda APPEARS to emanate from the people. By using emotions, irrational thoughts and superficial explanations, KONY 2012 attempts to trick well-meaning people, who desire to make a positive change in the world, to instead fuel a gigantic war machine that is controlled by the world’s elite.

Is KONY 2012 trying to eradicate child-soldiers or is it attempting to create a new kind of child-soldiers?

(http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony10-e1331592955251.jpg)












…Right.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/kony-2012-state-propaganda-for-a-new-generation/


Thank god Paula C...you have hit the nail on the head...this is what I was talking about.......

Thank God this forum has taught us to be open-minded and always question everything. 

That's what I mean't when I said it had "Illuminati all over it" the campaign that is...

Lets "boycott" KONY2012....just like  the non-believers are doing.......this is a pathetic attempt of control by the masses..in the good name of a NEW WORLD ORDER..........

Thank god we can stop this before it gets out of hand.......Its time for the ARMY of LOVE to take action..!!!
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Grace on March 14, 2012, 02:11:04 AM
Quote
“Facts don’t sell, emotions do”.

If only we could remind ourselves of this each time another "OMG it's so terrible" campaign is washed ahore.

The fact that I heard first about this video in TV news sealed it for me.

Plant a new key word and then search the web for it - cluster the results and put them into context.
Millions are still falling each day into the spider's claws and truly believe it is meant for the better.
If they only would READ first and KNOW and then WRITE.

Child soldiers are paid by Western interests since decades.
Worldwide Child labor serves our "cheap, cheaper, the cheapest - I made a deal" interests.
Konys will be rebuilt each generation as long as this serves Western money making interests.
That's the truth nobody wants to hear. Start with the one in the mirror.


Paula, are there any chances we could clone you?


Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: 2good2btrue on March 14, 2012, 02:41:57 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPjxOg5Uy0&feature=related
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPjxOg5Uy0&feature=related[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uct3dyDVgts&feature=related
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uct3dyDVgts&feature=related[/youtube]
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 14, 2012, 09:37:23 AM
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Quote
“Facts don’t sell, emotions do”.

If only we could remind ourselves of this each time another "OMG it's so terrible" campaign is washed ahore.

The fact that I heard first about this video in TV news sealed it for me.

Plant a new key word and then search the web for it - cluster the results and put them into context.
Millions are still falling each day into the spider's claws and truly believe it is meant for the better.
If they only would READ first and KNOW and then WRITE.

Child soldiers are paid by Western interests since decades.
Worldwide Child labor serves our "cheap, cheaper, the cheapest - I made a deal" interests.
Konys will be rebuilt each generation as long as this serves Western money making interests.
That's the truth nobody wants to hear. Start with the one in the mirror.


Paula, are there any chances we could clone you?



:lol:
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Grace on March 14, 2012, 11:13:41 AM
Invisible Children's goals initially may have been to publicize the plight of children caught in Uganda's decades-long conflicts; lately, IC has been acting as apologists for General Yoweri K. Museveni's dictatorship and the U.S. goal to impose AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Military Command) on Africa.

IC has produced a brilliant film that's making the global rounds on Facebook

It's a classic as propaganda pieces come. The short but overwhelmingly powerful film uses all the best tear-jerk techniques. In the end, the film denounces Joseph Kony, the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army, while giving the impression that Museveni's dictatorship and his brutal military, which was found liable for war crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo by the International Court of Justice, has nothing to do with the atrocities committed against children in Uganda. It also doesn't inform viewers that Museveni abducted thousands of child soldiers to win his insurgency in Uganda in 1986, launching the pattern of child soldier recruitment all over Africa.

In fact, Kony's insurgency against Museveni was launched later, meaning he too learned child soldier-abductions from Museveni.

Look at the way Invisible Children exploits American children in the beginning of their documentary; they then transplant the audience to Uganda, where again they take advantage of Ugandan children, who are the victims of both the LRA and the Ugandan government's army.

The imagery are powerful. Dr. Joseph Goebbels' and Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud of this cinematic coup by Invisible Children.

If Invisible Children was in fact a serious organization that has not been co-opted by the Museveni regime and the U.S. foreign policy agenda, the organization would inform the world that General Museveni, who has now stolen three elections in a row in Uganda is the first person who deserves to be arrested.

This Ugandan and East African nightmare gets a blank check from Washington simply because he has deployed Ugandan soldiers to Somalia at the behest of the United States. So democracy, human rights abuses, and genocide, become minor nuisances as far as U.S. foreign policy goes and as far as Invisible Children cares. This is beyond hypocrisy. Those members of Invisible Children who may have supported this misguided project to send more U.S. troops to Africa because they were unwittingly deceived, should do some serious soul searching.

Museveni does not care for the plight of children in Uganda's Acholi region. How else would he have herded 2 million Acholis in concentration camps for 20 years where, according to the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,000 children, women and men died of planned neglect--lack of medical facilities; lack of adequate food; dehydration, and; lack of sanitation and toilet facilities. Does this sound like a person who cares about children?

His colleagues have denounced Acholis as "backwards" and as "biological substances." General Museveni himself revealed an interesting pathology, as a first class racist African when he told Atlantic Monthly Magazine, in September 1994: “I have never blamed the whites for colonizing Africa: I have never blamed these whites for taking slaves. If you are stupid, you should be taken a slave.” Ironically --or perhaps not-- the general was even more embraced by Washington after those remarks. Gen. Museveni has been a U.S. ally since the days of Ronald Reagan.

So why does Invisible Children only go after Kony while leaving Museveni alone when in fact they are two sides of the same coin?

These young folks who run Invisible Children are extremely dangerous to the welfare of Ugandans and other Africans should they succeed in broadening U.S. military presence in Africa. If the United States were truly interested purely in eliminating Kony why deploy now when Kony abandoned Uganda in 2006 when he was negotiating a peace deal that ultimately collapsed, with Museveni.

While Kony and his fighters were camped at Garamba in Congo, as agreed upon during peace negotiations, who was it that launched a military attack with planes and helicopters in December 2008? It was Gen. Museveni, with U.S. assistance. The peace negotiations, which had been embraced by traditional and religious leaders in Acholi region, collapsed. According to Jan Egeland, the former U.N Under-Secretary General for humanitarian affairs, Museveni also wanted to pursue a military approach and even ridiculed his own attempts to negotiate peace.

Immediately more killings ensued --this time in Congo; and since Museveni and Kony are two sides of the same coin, it's unclear who committed the atrocities in Garamba after the abortive attack.

After the attacks the LRA scattered into the Central African Republic. One would imagine that if the U.S. and Invisible Children were really interested in Kony, the deployment would have been to Central African Republic.

The young folks behind Invisible Children don't understand the conflict in Uganda; yet they have made themselves the spokespersons. They have campaigned and convinced some celebrities, including Rihana and P. Diddy, to tweet their half-truth propaganda film. This is a way to have one-sided or impartial information become the "dominant truth" globally, and drown out critical analyses.

It's like a group of impressionable White youngsters coming to Harlem and saying: we see you have major crises, let us tell you what's the solution. Who would accept such misguided and destructive arrogance? If it's unacceptable in Harlem, it must also be rejected in Uganda's Acholi region.

Acholi traditional leaders, religious leaders, and members of Parliament in Uganda, have all opposed further militarization. But they are not in a position to express their views on CNN or in The New York Times, or to make a slick documentary, such as Invisible Children's. What's more, they're not accorded the presumptive credibility that are often bestowed to White analysts when compared to native Ugandans.

Yet, rather than listen to the cries of Uganda's traditional and religious leaders who live in the war-devastated regions, Invisible Children has decided to produce a beautiful documentary with an ugly agenda that only escalates conflict and endorses Gen. Museveni. Who really believes it's a good thing for the United States to be sending troops to Uganda or anywhere in Africa? Why would these troops act any differently than those sent to Iraq and Afghanistan?

The U.S. government and Invisible Children are using the brutal Joseph Kony as a bogeyman to justify the U.S. long-term plan, which is to impose AFRICOM on Africa. Since everyone knows about Kony's atrocities, who would object if the U.S. sends 100 U.S. "advisers" to help Uganda, after all? Brilliantly devious. Of course it never stops at 100 "advisers." That was the announced deployment; there are probably more U.S. troops in the region. Even before the deployment some had already been training Museveni's soldiers. And more will come; unannounced.

AFRICOM, the ultimate objective, would allow the U.S. to be able to counter resource-hungry China by having boots on the ground near the oil-rich northern part of Uganda, South Sudan, Congo's region bordering Lake Albert, and the Central African Republic. The troops would also be near by in case a decision is made to support regime-change in Khartoum, Sudan. After all, the U.S. foreign policy reasoning is that since Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his defense minister have both been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), few would shed tears for them.

The U.S. is aware that African countries oppose AFRICOM. So what does the U.S. do? Go after a "devil" and in this case it's Kony. Tell the world --with the help of Invisible Children--that our mission is to help rid Uganda of this "devil"; who by the way is hiding somewhere in Central African Republic, while the dictator who most recently stole elections last February, sits in Kampala and meets with U.S. officials and leaders of Invisible Children.

If the real target was simply Joseph Kony, the U.S. would have used an armed predator drone; this is how the U.S. has eliminated several suspected leaders of Al-qaeda and the Taleban, after all.

It doesn't seem that Invisible Children is an independent do-good save-the-children outfit. They are paving the way --with Kony, brutal as he is, as the bogeyman-- for AFRICOM.

Kony is a nightmare, but Museveni has caused the deaths of millions of people in Rwanda, Uganda and Congo. In 2005 the International Court of Justice found Uganda liable for what amounts to war crimes in Congo: mass rapes of both women and men; disemboweling pregnant women; burning people inside their homes alive; massacres and; plunder of resources. Congo lost six million people after Uganda's occupation of parts of Congo. The Court awarded Congo $10 billion in reparations; not a dime has been paid.

Congo then referred the same crimes to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague for war crimes charges. On June 8, 2006, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gen. Museveni personally contacted Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary General and asked him to block the criminal investigation.

It seems that the U.S. and ICC Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo might have indeed obliged. Gen. Museveni and senior Ugandan military commanders remain un-indicted for the alleged crimes that the ICJ already found Uganda liable; only one side of the same coin, Kony was indicted. Prosecutor Ocampo is also totally discredited; readers should Google "Ocampo and South African journalist case."

There is another documentary that tries to explain the Ugandan tragedy, in a more sober manner, unlike Invisible Children's slick propaganda piece.

Hopefully this commentary will motivate people to do their research and demand that the international community deal with both Kony and Museveni.

Hopefully more people will also do their own research and not be vulnerable to slick propaganda such as Invisible Children's.

For example, readers can Google terms such as "Yoweri Museveni and Congo genocide," "Museveni and Kony," "Museveni and and Rwanda genocide," "Museveni and Acholi genocide," and "U.S. support for dictator Museveni."



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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09I-GRBf3Cw&feature=related[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09I-GRBf3Cw&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09I-GRBf3Cw&feature=related)


[...] Invisible Children Charity
Kony 2012 is the creation of filmmaker Jason Russell. Russell, along with other filmmakers Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole, founded the Invisible Children charity in 2004, after spending a year creating a documentary in war-torn Uganda, titled Invisible Children. The movie told the plight of “Night Commuters,” children of northern Uganda who would leave their homes at night to avoid LRA abduction. The charity has been under scrutiny since its inception. Its critics decry a lack of financial accountability and transparency, centering on the amount of donation dollars spent on awareness. The underlying accusation is that the Invisible Children charity is a fraudulent means to fund a group of filmmakers. The unspoken retort is that social awareness is the new currency.[...]
http://emergingcritic.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/kony-2012-dont-wag-the-dog/ (http://emergingcritic.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/kony-2012-dont-wag-the-dog/)


The 2006 movie of Invisible Children:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643)


A 2011 film review and case study on the movie and the Invisible Children organization:
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In 2009, Invisible Children began a movement called “We Want Obama.” The organization created a Citizens Arrest Warrant for Joseph Kony, which was subsequently signed by 259,472 people. This warrant called on President Obama to take action against the LRA. Invisible Children came up with the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009. The purpose of this law is:

“Stopping the LRA, by mandating President Obama to devise an interagency strategy to     prevent LRA violence, which should include a multilateral plan to apprehend top LRA leaders, encourage defections of rebel commanders, demobilize child soldiers, and protect civilians from rebel attacks; and investing in sustainable peace, by targeting US assistance to recovery and reconciliation efforts in northern Uganda, which are essential to rebuilding and healing war-affected communities and preventing future conflicts” (“LRA”).

There were three separate campaigns involved in the movement. The first was called “How it Ends.” On June 22 and 23, 2009, nearly two thousand people traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with their elected officials. They joined over four hundred lobbying meetings to request that Congress pass the bill. As a result of this campaign, sixty-six Representatives and seventeen Senators co-sponsored the bill. The next phase was called “Hometown Shakedown.” On November 18, 2009, thousands of activists made phone calls to their Senators and Representatives, again attempting to persuade them to pass the bill. As a result, seven Senators and six Representatives co-sponsored, including Majority Leader Harry Reid and Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry. The support of these two men led to the Senate’s first vote on the bill in December 2009. The fight for the bill went on for the next six months (“LRA”).

The third step of the movement was called “Dr. Coburn: Please Say Yes.” On December 19, 2009, Senator Coburn blocked the bill from passing in the Senate; his reasoning was that he had concerns about the source of funding for recovery and rehabilitation of Uganda. Over fifty activists pledged to stand outside Coburn’s office for twenty-four hours a day until the block was lifted. Eleven days later, Coburn finally pledged his support. The next day, the bill passed unanimously in the Senate. By the end of the “We Want Obama” movement, the bill had a record-breaking amount of support from Congress: two hundred sixty-seven members of Congress cosponsored the bill. Due to the incredible amount of public support, President Obama held a public signing ceremony for the bill and released the first statement by any administration outlining the United States government’s commitment to ending the threat of the LRA (“LRA”).

Invisible Children, Inc. publicized the “We Want Obama” campaign through their blog and through online videos imploring supporters to help. The success of this campaign is a great example of how the organization operates through films and videos. The videos are shorter, more commercialized, and focus on whatever specific campaign is happening at the moment, or advertising for upcoming tours and events. The films are about bigger issues; Rough Cut is about exposing the plight of the children and raising awareness about the atrocities of the LRA. One form of media is not more or less effective than the other; both have specific purposes and both carry out their purposes quite successfully. The organization does not have huge distribution deals for their films; they have to rely almost exclusively on their own resources, and their success in promoting themselves has earned Bobby, Laren, and Jason appearances on popular television talk shows like Oprah and Larry King Live, in magazines like Rolling Stone and GQ, and endorsements by celebrities such as Pete Wentz and Kristen Bell (invisiblechildren.com). Invisible Children, Inc.’s goal is not to make as much money as they can, or become famous. Their purpose is to expose the situation in northern Uganda to as many people as possible and provoke a reaction from their audiences.

http://stephensfilm.blogspot.com/2011/03/invisible-children-case-study.html (http://stephensfilm.blogspot.com/2011/03/invisible-children-case-study.html)


Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film 

There is growing outrage in Uganda over a viral internet film viewed by more than 32 million people in four days that suggests Africa’s longest-running conflict is still raging in the country’s north.

 The 30-minute video (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9129085/Joseph-Kony-2012-online-video-campaign-to-bring-Uganda-war-criminal-to-justice-goes-viral.html), Kony2012, was produced by three American videographers campaigning for greater efforts to capture Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).   But Kony and his diminishing troops, many of them kidnapped child soldiers, fled northern Uganda (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda) six years ago and are now spread across the jungles of neighbouring countries.   

“What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than help us,” said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels’ activities. 

“There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with.” 

Joseph Kony, a former church altarboy, has spread terror through eastern and central Africa for almost three decades, as he has pursued an aimless war that has killed thousands of people and at one point forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html)


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Invisible Voices [typo?] has faced criticism over its finances. Of more than £6 million it spent in 2001, less than £2.3 million was for activities helping people on the ground. The rest went on “awareness programmes and products”, management, media and others.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html)
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Post by: applehead250609 on March 14, 2012, 11:42:09 AM
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“Facts don’t sell, emotions do”.

If only we could remind ourselves of this each time another "OMG it's so terrible" campaign is washed ahore.

The fact that I heard first about this video in TV news sealed it for me.

Plant a new key word and then search the web for it - cluster the results and put them into context.
Millions are still falling each day into the spider's claws and truly believe it is meant for the better.
If they only would READ first and KNOW and then WRITE.

Child soldiers are paid by Western interests since decades.
Worldwide Child labor serves our "cheap, cheaper, the cheapest - I made a deal" interests.
Konys will be rebuilt each generation as long as this serves Western money making interests.
That's the truth nobody wants to hear. Start with the one in the mirror.


Paula, are there any chances we could clone you?


Let the MIND GAMES begin !!!!

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyy937W8yE1r5usj2o1_400.png)

Why I have the sad feeling that this is going on for ages  :idea: ????
"Peace Was Never An Option"......at least not on this Planet Earth,lol  :(  ::)  :-X .


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahdutbfoa88[/youtube]



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Post by: paula-c on March 14, 2012, 01:45:51 PM
words of a former Commandant of the Marine Corps, major general Smedley D. Butler, during a statement made in the United States Congress in 1935. On that occasion and mode of personal balance sheet for their participation in invasions of Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Republica Dominicana and Honduras, said the military:


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"I served for thirty years and four months in one of the most combative units of the American armed forces: Marine Corps." I have the feeling of having acted during this time of highly qualified Bandit in the service of the big business of Wall Street and its bankers. In a Word, I have been a rakeeter in the service of capitalism. [...] I was rewarded with honors, medals and promotions. But when I look back I think that he could have given some advice to Al Capone. He, like gangster, operated in three districts of a city. "I, as a marine, operé on three continents [...] the flag following the dollar, and soldiers follow the flag."





http://www.todopormexico.com/t4738-las-invasiones-de-estados-unidos-en-el-mundo
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Post by: paula-c on March 14, 2012, 07:30:02 PM
The sadness and despair invade it one when ve as economic powers armed with nuclear bombs elites launch "humanitarian" attacks against countries that do not have nor even the most minimum weapons to deal with them.One wonders in that world we live? in hands of who we are? do we play someday to us as people feel the terror and horror that produce passing these beasts?. (I am referring to my country).
Best Hollywood filmmakers have produced films on the ghettos Jews and the Holocaust, very well, but one of them has deigned to produce a film about the great ghetto of Gaza?, do someone good in war films can imitate a burn with a special effect of phosphorous ignition on the skin and muscle of a child, or the impressive scene of helicopters released these bombs on a population without arms.?
We saw the sad spectacle of the destruction of Libya and now its sharing and dismembered, as if a newly-benefit beef is involved.Now we see the repetition in Siria.Ni even make a minimal effort to hide repetitive invasion model.Is almost a slap in the face to the civilized world.Meanwhile, the tragedy of the Libyan people is repeated in Syria before the eyes of all the Nations of the planet, who see it as an empire move if anyone stop.

Which will be the limits of these Imperial beasts,... maybe do not
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Post by: MJonmind on March 15, 2012, 01:07:15 AM
"Young Turks" in newsroom background.  Why were they announcing/promoting (or chosen to) Kony 2012?


http://www.rense.com/general64/genoc.htm (http://www.rense.com/general64/genoc.htm)
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=95 (http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=95)
Read about the Armenian Holocaust, 1 and a half million mostly Christian.


In fact ALL the internet, google, wikipedia, facebook, and much is run by Israel, Jews. They control what the world reads and thinks.
http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm (http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm)
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Post by: 2good2btrue on March 15, 2012, 01:46:56 AM
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"Young Turks" in newsroom background.  Why were they announcing/promoting (or chosen to) Kony 2012?


http://www.rense.com/general64/genoc.htm (http://www.rense.com/general64/genoc.htm)
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=95 (http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=95)
Read about the Armenian Holocaust, 1 and a half million mostly Christian.


In fact ALL the internet, google, wikipedia, facebook, and much is run by Israel, Jews. They control what the world reads and thinks.
http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm (http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm)

And were responsible for the 911 tragedy..(IMO)
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Post by: paula-c on March 15, 2012, 09:31:57 AM
Through recorded history the conquerors have carried out the domain of the known world of his time. Sometimes the empires that created died with them, sometimes lasted.
The aim remains the same, only the means of achieving this have changed. If it has been a time to ask that she is happening in the world, and the world is now.
Freedom of the press, once a guarantee of a society healthy, does not exist. Neither his honesty.
Control of media and the economy around the world has slipped into the hands of some conglomerates that dictate politics, destroy the central structure of the society, the unity of the family, and attack any belief that hold a people, a race together in a unity of culture and tradition. As a parasite growth they work from within
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Post by: hesouttamylife on March 16, 2012, 03:49:42 PM
Looks like Kony 2012 got some splaining to do.  Thanks to The Michael Zone once again  /white flag/  (That is the maker of the viral video)


'KONY 2012' HONCHO JASON RUSSELL
Arrested for Allegedly
Masturbating in Public

The mastermind behind the now-famous "Kony 2012" video was arrested last night in San Diego for allegedly being drunk in public and masturbating ... this according to NBC7 in San Diego.

Jason Russell was taken into custody by San Diego cops.  In addition to allegedly masturbating, cops say he vandalized cars.

According to NBC7, cops said they received several calls around 11:30 AM yesterday ... reporting a man in "various stages of undress."

Sources tell us ... Russell was dancing around the Intersection of Ingraham and Riviera wearing "speedo-like underwear" ... and eventually removed the underwear and began to make sexual gestures.

We're told ... it appeared Russell was under the influence of some kind of substance.

Russell is the father of two, and says he wants to have 9 more kids. 

Russell is the co-founder of Invisible Children as well as the filmmaker of the ultra-viral video which has set records on the Internet -- with more than 80 million views (below).

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/kony-honcho-arrested-for-allegedly-masturbating-in-public/#.T2OmJZgqM00 (http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/kony-honcho-arrested-for-allegedly-masturbating-in-public/#.T2OmJZgqM00)
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Post by: 2good2btrue on March 16, 2012, 07:50:56 PM
Yeh, I just saw that too....Well, well well...pressure too much for him because of the negative attention..........or just another way to keep his name in the news...bring attention to the campaign.

I think he has just lost alot of credibilty......
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Post by: Andrea on March 16, 2012, 08:20:35 PM
For some reason my first thought about the above incident was some sort of mind control.  Or he was hypnotized.  He was triggered right before it happened and did it, beyond his own control and perhaps he will have no memory of it.

Or he cracked under the pressure.
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Post by: gwynned on March 16, 2012, 11:00:18 PM
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For some reason my first thought about the above incident was some sort of mind control.  Or he was hypnotized.  He was triggered right before it happened and did it, beyond his own control and perhaps he will have no memory of it.

Or he cracked under the pressure.

Or the story is complete bullocks, just like the phony kony story.
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Post by: Andrea on March 16, 2012, 11:11:05 PM
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For some reason my first thought about the above incident was some sort of mind control.  Or he was hypnotized.  He was triggered right before it happened and did it, beyond his own control and perhaps he will have no memory of it.

Or he cracked under the pressure.

Or the story is complete bullocks, just like the phony kony story.

Or that, yes.  I saw the short little video of this alleged incident and you can't tell who the person is at all, or if it was even filmed recently.
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Post by: Sarahli on March 17, 2012, 04:31:28 PM
Makes me think of what happened to the guy of Wikileaks.
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Post by: Grace on March 18, 2012, 05:49:30 AM
Going public means potentially stepping on somebody's toes. If these toes are to be found below big pants, one might get an "affair" douche of whatever kind in return that makes sure reputation in the public eye is being ruined. Sex, drugs & crimes are favorites not only after prime time news.

This video has not only created awareness for crimes in Africa but also for potential involvement of some governments in them. I wonder who the puppet master is in this case.
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Post by: gwynned on March 18, 2012, 08:16:50 AM
Up close and personal on the 'meltdown' from our friends at TMZ.....who else?

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2Xfldnvxc4

lol
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Post by: Grace on March 18, 2012, 04:44:33 PM
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Up close and personal on the 'meltdown' from our friends at TMZ.....who else?

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2Xfldnvxc4

lol


 :shock: OMG!
Is there any exit out of this movie?

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Post by: Katie2 on March 18, 2012, 04:58:06 PM
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Yeh, I just saw that too....Well, well well...pressure too much for him because of the negative attention..........or just another way to keep his name in the news...bring attention to the campaign.

I think he has just lost alot of credibilty......


"Alot of credibility?" He looks like a mental now O.o
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Post by: gwynned on March 18, 2012, 05:28:27 PM
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Up close and personal on the 'meltdown' from our friends at TMZ.....who else?

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2Xfldnvxc4

lol


 :shock: OMG!
Is there any exit out of this movie?



I'm beginning to wonder. ;)
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Post by: Adi on March 19, 2012, 09:06:46 AM
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For some reason my first thought about the above incident was some sort of mind control.  Or he was hypnotized.  He was triggered right before it happened and did it, beyond his own control and perhaps he will have no memory of it.

Or he cracked under the pressure.

Or the story is complete bullocks, just like the phony kony story.

Or that, yes.  I saw the short little video of this alleged incident and you can't tell who the person is at all, or if it was even filmed recently.

Ask (TMZ) and Ye Shall Receive .........  up close and personal.

Something is fishy big time.

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2c6zcVOCAg
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Post by: gwynned on March 19, 2012, 12:53:14 PM
Something fishy?  I would agree!  My guess is that TMZ has a vast network of psychic savants who intuit where the next big story is going to be and they beam someone there with their zero gravity device.   :)
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Post by: LoveNeedsExpression on March 19, 2012, 01:42:56 PM
FYI, Kony hasn't been in power since 2006. Dont take my word for it.
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Post by: MJonmind on March 19, 2012, 04:09:18 PM
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http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2Xfldnvxc4 (http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2Xfldnvxc4)
1 day ago
j: Could this be African Voodoo/curse causing this guy to freak out. Kony had an aunt who was a Voodoo priestess and who wanted to build an Acholi nation once. That's where Kony learned it all?
 What do you think. There is an 8 minute video that looks like he is possesed.

some say this too:
 
 JB: about an hour ago
 One mystery Americans or white people do not understand about Africa, is the power of the occult and voodoo. When I look at this video, I see nothing more than a man who has been thrown a curse by Kony and his supporters so that he can turn into a crazy person. This happens everyday in Africa; people throwing curse on their enemies through voodoo and other matters. You go to Africa, there are crazy people walking the street and doing the exact same thing this man is doing - and most of them are not because they are mentally unstable but because a voodoo curse has been thrown on them by someone who hates them or is jealous of their success. The motive for any of the Kony folks to do this to him is apparent to all: for exposing Kony to the world and the only way they can make him pay for what he did is to shame him. I feel bad for the guy. His organization has nothing intelligent to say about his behavior because it's incomprehensible and unexplainable to them - Maybe he will expose next one of the ills of Africa. Voodoo curse and voodoo killings kill more people in Africa than diseases. I will pray that this man regains his sanity

Danny: 4 hours ago
 This bizarre behaviour is the classic symptoms of MK ULTRA breakdown.The CIA perfected mind control in the late 60's and called the experiment MK-ULTRA. Other famous mind control stooges who managed to break their conditioning is Julian Assange. MK-ULTRA is now on the public record under FOI.

Or:
justin : 4 hours ago
 MK-Ultra mind control. Another fool used and discarded by the tyrannical government/NWO to push a war in Africa. No more war!! You are all fools if you bought in to Kony 2012. The UN troops kill, rape, and destroy everything they touch. Get the UN worse then Hitler worse then Bin Laden.

I would be curious what your take on this is.

 What do you think Rhianna thinks...considering she brought this whole KONY 2012 to the masses...doesn't her home of Barbados practice voodoo. Someone should ask her if she thinks it is at all possible Kony and his followers cursed him?

The bible tells us this demonic /witchcraft stuff is totally real...whether you choose to believe it or not. Evil exists and some know how to get those demons on people.
real stuff and damn scary, that is why you say you don't believe in it...don't want to go there.


or
could he be an impersonator?
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 19, 2012, 07:17:36 PM
KONY Producer: This is Literally the Best Piece of Propaganda We've Ever Made  :?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xpjk98KFk&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xpjk98KFk&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: MJonmind on March 20, 2012, 03:15:38 PM
To really understand the Kony 2012 and the subtle beginnings of so many of this century's conficts, wars, and major causes of death and suffering, one must look at the stated plans before all this began. Yes, it was all pre-planned from 1905 and before, and is happening exactly the way they forsaw:

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – frauds or real?  Depends how deep you look…
http://overlordsofchaos.com/html/illuminati_conspiracy__the_pro.html (http://overlordsofchaos.com/html/illuminati_conspiracy__the_pro.html)


Many Jewish people have bravely spoken out, exposing the truth, and here is one of them, Henry Makow:
Quote
CONCLUSION

 One hundred million people were slaughtered in the last century but no one considers the possibility that the human race might have been subverted.

 War is hell but no one thinks Satan worshipers might be behind it.


 I suspect the Second World War was a battle for racial superiority between Jewish and Aryan wings of
the Illuminati (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_illuminati.htm)
who in fact are united at the top. The private central bankers of England, the U.S. and Nazi Germany made the war possible. They worked as one at the Bank of International Settlements (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalbanking04.htm) in Switzerland. (See Charles Higham, Trading With the Enemy.)

 The purpose of the war was to degrade, defraud and demoralize humanity. The Holocaust provided a rationale for the establishment of Israel as headquarters of the New World Order. Aryans, Jews and many others were sacrificed and exploited.


 In my opinion, the outlawing of Protocols on pain of death in Bolshevik Russia and its execration in the West today proves its authenticity.


 Mankind is in the grip of a diabolical conspiracy. In order to make good people do bad things, truth must be tailored to fit the political purpose. This is Communist and feminist teaching.


 I would like to be proven wrong, but in the case of Protocols,
the "forgery" argument is propaganda.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_zion32.htm (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_zion32.htm)


List of articles to read if you have extra time:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_zion.htm (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_zion.htm)


Important background to read:
Quote
In 1905, professor Sergyei Nilus, an official of the Dept. of Foreign Religions at Moscow, published a book containing what was purported to be THE PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION. A copy of the original Nilus publication sits in the British Museum in London, bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. These Protocols are said to give the substance of addresses delivered in Switzerland in 1897 to the innermost circle of the rulers of International Jewry. They are said to reveal the secret plan for world domination as concocted by the Jewish Nation for centuries, as developed through the ages and edited by their Elders up to that date.
The Jews, of course, have vehemently denied that such a meeting of "Learned Elders" ever took place, or that any kind of secret Jewish international organisation or conspiracy exists. And though they claim that the Protocols are forgeries (the definition of forgery is an unauthorised copy of the original! In this respect, and since the Jews didn't want their existence known to the world, they probably ARE forgeries!), and have spent a fortune to suppress and discredit them, even making it illegal to possess them in some countries, they have never attempted to address or answer the real question that the existence of such a document raises: Have they fulfilled the Protocols while claiming they did not write them? Yes.

Many scholars have noted the correspondence between the prophecies of the Protocols and their fulfillment. We can see the Protocols being carried out word-by-word in the world-power the Jews at the top have achieved. These are the incredibly motivated schemers who were involved in the worldwide conspiracy to create Israel. They controlled the media to accomplish that, and they still own all of it.
When the Protocols were first published, they were the typescript of a drama which had not yet been performed. But today it has been running for over eighty years, and its title is "The Twentieth Century."
The ideas of power development depicted in it move on our contemporary stage, play the parts foretold and produce the events foreseen. So even if you don't believe in the authenticity of this remarkable document, one thing you can't deny is their fulfillment. You can toss the Protocols out the window if you want, but you can't deny the fact that everything they plotted, planned and predicted has either already happened, or is happening now.
This is the greatest proof of their authenticity: That they are now fulfilled. The Protocols describe what the "Learned Elders of Zion" planned to do almost 100 years ago and have accomplished.


(Now most importantly, here is the list of the 24 protocols or plans, that I believe every human should read to grasp a better over-all picture of particularly this last 100 years and our future on planet earth.)
http://revolution2012.org/zion_protocols.html (http://revolution2012.org/zion_protocols.html)


These are the protagonists and villians in God's overall stage production of HIStory, but the Good will ultimately prevail.  Yeah!

Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 20, 2012, 03:23:56 PM
Quote
(Now most importantly, here is the list of the 24 protocols or plans, that I believe every human should read[/size] to grasp a better over-all picture of particularly this last 100 years and our future on planet earth.)
[/size]http://revolution2012.org/zion_protocols.html





Thank you for publishing this MJonmind, very interesting  I'm going to read when this in my house
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: paula-c on March 20, 2012, 07:24:28 PM
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To really understand the Kony 2012 and the subtle beginnings of so many of this century's conficts, wars, and major causes of death and suffering, one must look at the stated plans before all this began. Yes, it was all pre-planned from 1905 and before, and is happening exactly the way they forsaw:

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – frauds or real?  Depends how deep you look…
http://overlordsofchaos.com/html/illuminati_conspiracy__the_pro.html (http://overlordsofchaos.com/html/illuminati_conspiracy__the_pro.html)


Many Jewish people have bravely spoken out, exposing the truth, and here is one of them, Henry Makow:
Quote
CONCLUSION

 One hundred million people were slaughtered in the last century but no one considers the possibility that the human race might have been subverted.

 War is hell but no one thinks Satan worshipers might be behind it.


 I suspect the Second World War was a battle for racial superiority between Jewish and Aryan wings of
the Illuminati (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_illuminati.htm)
who in fact are united at the top. The private central bankers of England, the U.S. and Nazi Germany made the war possible. They worked as one at the Bank of International Settlements (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalbanking04.htm) in Switzerland. (See Charles Higham, Trading With the Enemy.)

 The purpose of the war was to degrade, defraud and demoralize humanity. The Holocaust provided a rationale for the establishment of Israel as headquarters of the New World Order. Aryans, Jews and many others were sacrificed and exploited.


 In my opinion, the outlawing of Protocols on pain of death in Bolshevik Russia and its execration in the West today proves its authenticity.


 Mankind is in the grip of a diabolical conspiracy. In order to make good people do bad things, truth must be tailored to fit the political purpose. This is Communist and feminist teaching.


 I would like to be proven wrong, but in the case of Protocols,
the "forgery" argument is propaganda.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_zion32.htm (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_zion32.htm)


List of articles to read if you have extra time:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_zion.htm (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_zion.htm)


Important background to read:
Quote
In 1905, professor Sergyei Nilus, an official of the Dept. of Foreign Religions at Moscow, published a book containing what was purported to be THE PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION. A copy of the original Nilus publication sits in the British Museum in London, bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. These Protocols are said to give the substance of addresses delivered in Switzerland in 1897 to the innermost circle of the rulers of International Jewry. They are said to reveal the secret plan for world domination as concocted by the Jewish Nation for centuries, as developed through the ages and edited by their Elders up to that date.
The Jews, of course, have vehemently denied that such a meeting of "Learned Elders" ever took place, or that any kind of secret Jewish international organisation or conspiracy exists. And though they claim that the Protocols are forgeries (the definition of forgery is an unauthorised copy of the original! In this respect, and since the Jews didn't want their existence known to the world, they probably ARE forgeries!), and have spent a fortune to suppress and discredit them, even making it illegal to possess them in some countries, they have never attempted to address or answer the real question that the existence of such a document raises: Have they fulfilled the Protocols while claiming they did not write them? Yes.

Many scholars have noted the correspondence between the prophecies of the Protocols and their fulfillment. We can see the Protocols being carried out word-by-word in the world-power the Jews at the top have achieved. These are the incredibly motivated schemers who were involved in the worldwide conspiracy to create Israel. They controlled the media to accomplish that, and they still own all of it.
When the Protocols were first published, they were the typescript of a drama which had not yet been performed. But today it has been running for over eighty years, and its title is "The Twentieth Century."
The ideas of power development depicted in it move on our contemporary stage, play the parts foretold and produce the events foreseen. So even if you don't believe in the authenticity of this remarkable document, one thing you can't deny is their fulfillment. You can toss the Protocols out the window if you want, but you can't deny the fact that everything they plotted, planned and predicted has either already happened, or is happening now.
This is the greatest proof of their authenticity: That they are now fulfilled. The Protocols describe what the "Learned Elders of Zion" planned to do almost 100 years ago and have accomplished.


(Now most importantly, here is the list of the 24 protocols or plans, that I believe every human should read to grasp a better over-all picture of particularly this last 100 years and our future on planet earth.)
http://revolution2012.org/zion_protocols.html (http://revolution2012.org/zion_protocols.html)


These are the protagonists and villians in God's overall stage production of HIStory, but the Good will ultimately prevail.  Yeah!










Quote
WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A HINDRANCE THERETO.(The Biblical "Anti-Christ?")




Really quite this happening before our noses. The previous quote I am called the attention for which we have been discussing this in the last days and it is worrying enough, million persons ignore all that
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: 2good2btrue on March 21, 2012, 03:50:45 AM
I know this has probably been discussed before, but since the Zions have been brought up again, I beLIEve this is really relevant........4 years to get it right....see you in July !!!

London Olympics 2012 : Zion (The New Jerusalem) part 1

When the logo for the London Olympics was unveiled in June 2007 at the cost of £400,000 there was significant public uproar due to both the cost and how terrible it looked.

Despite public pressure, the International Olympic Committee stood fast on keeping the logo, with no flexibility. In other words, this particular logo was very important. Why?

There are many interpretations spread about the net, all intended to dissolve the true symbolic meaning behind the logo. It has been claimed to look like a swastika, a runner and even Lisa Simpson but these are all ridiculous diversions.

On first glance you can easily make out the numbers 2012, but why the random 'dot'?

Here's why (image credit: Ian Crane):

Are we to believe that the London 2012 Olympics are going to facilitate the implementation of Zion - the 'New Jerusalem'?

To recite William Blake's poem 'Jerusalem':

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.


An 18th century writer, artist and esotericist, William Blake had connections with Freemasonry. Was this early work a declaration of the esoteric agenda, for all to see? After all he was 'involved'.


The 1972 Munich Olympics Connection
The Wikipedia page for the 2012 London Olympics draws a strange comparison between the 2012 logo and the logo used for the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.

"BBC Sport acknowledged that 'London 2012’s new logo has got the country talking', and compared the innovative design to that of the logos of Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972"

The 1972 Munich Olympics were host to the first 'official' global terrorist attack, in which 11 Israelis were killed by Black September (the 9th month - 9/11), a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization. The Olympics were host to 121 countries.

Returning to pyramid numerology and the significance of the number 11:

1234321 = 11:11 x 11:11
121 countries = 11:11
11 fatalities

In essence, the 1972 Munich Olympics provided the first world stage for global terrorism and the inclusion of the significant number '11' was anything but a coincidence.


The 2012 Stadium Design Video
Hypothetically speaking, if 2012 is to see London established as the 'New Jerusalem' for a New World Order (a global government under a one world religion)... how could this be achieved?

We can safely assume that a stereotypical terrorist attack is no longer sufficient to implement a global unification strategy. In essence an event is required with the magnitude of a biblical second coming, a threat from outer-space - or even both? An event with the capacity to create all as 'one'.

In the film Fight Club, a scene depicts Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) inserting a frame of pornography into a movie whilst the audience in the cinema watch. Most of them don't notice it on a conscious level, but they did see it and it did enter their brains. This demonstrates how subliminal programming works on the subconscious, and it happens to all of us - everyday.

A video released by the 2012 Olympic Committee depicts the construction phases of the new Olympic stadium. Talk about provocative imagery...



Since when was the London Olympics affiliated with small flying saucers, projected "blue energy" beams, a big 'Independence Day' style mothership and huge robotic street walkers? Who came up with this concept?

Time stamps of note:

0.40 minutes = 11:11 symbology with the 4 chimneys
1.00 minutes = UFO's flying around the London "All Seeing Eye"
1.40 minutes = Independence Day style mothership
2.00 minutes = Robotic street walkers in the streets of London

This video serves one purpose - to plant a seed in your mind.


The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Video
The year '1984' has become synonymous with the George Orwell book of the same name.

"1984 is about life in a dictatorship as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania."


This famous novel introduced the concept of 'Big Brother', symbolised by an "All Seeing Eye", and in recent years has been the basis for the reality TV show. At its core, '1984' represented life under the New World Order:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

'1984' has become a talisman of fear for the people of England, Europe and the rest of the world. It makes sense that, today, those deliberately disseminating fear around the globe would use that talisman against us.

The '1984' Los Angeles Olympics marked an opportunity for such a symbolic event.



The closing ceremony for the 1984 Olympics involved a UFO flying over the Olympic stadium and communicating with the audience. The UFO eventually lands, amid smoke and lights, at which point an alien steps out and greets the public.

Considering the 1984 Olympics had no other connections to UFO and alien phenomena, the only logical reasoning as to why this happened was again to plant a seed in the public's mind and to judge our reaction.


Olympics 2008
At 8.08pm on 8th August 2008 (08/08/08 - an illuminated number for sure), the Beijing Olympics will commence.

Shortly after the 2012 Logo and Stadium video were released, the 2008 Beijing Olympics committee revealed the motto for their games:

"One World, One Dream"

Now you could argue that this fits the mission statement for the Olympic Games, but it also fits the mission statement for a New World Order with only one more 'games' to go before 2012.


The Olympic Rings
Given the connections with the year 2012 and the Mayan calendar, it's possible to view the 'Olympic Rings' under a new light.


The 5 rings 'officially' represent the 5 continents, but as with all things occult, is there a duality?

The logo was designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French Freemason and founder of the 'modern Olympics'.

His statue at the Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta is very revealing. Notice the 'step pyramid', surrounded by the 'Two Towers' with the Olympic rings flocked by doves above.

The ancient Mayan calendar incorporates a 25,765 year cycle known to us as the 'Great Year'. This cycle is composed of 5 lesser cycles of around 5,125 years each. The current cycle is due to end on 21st December 2012 at 11:11am UST.

Do the 'Olympic Rings' signify the 5 cycles of the Earth's death and rebirth, with each of the cycles connected like a chain? Who has been in control of the Earth through these cycles? Who is the 'Lord Of The Rings'?


The 2012 Games
Without doubt there is imagery and word play at work connecting a significant event to the 2012 Olympics:

* The 2012 logo which spells 'Zion'
* A movie which could insinuate an alien visitation
* A 1984 Olympics ceremony which stages an alien visitation
* A slogan which spells out the plans for a 'New World Order'
* The Olympic Rings and their connotations of cyclical time


The rabbit hole deepens...

Part 2: The Logo's Creator

Part 3: The Zion Street Plan

Part 4: Beijing Olympics 2008 : Zion & The Fifth World

Part 5: The Olympic Torch Relay & The Religion Of The NWO


Part 2) London Olympics 2012 : The Logo's Creator

Monday, 19 May 2008
London Olympics 2012 : The Logo's Creator
Posted by Rik at 19:41


To further my coverage of the Olympics 2012 and the plans for a 'false flag' alien invasion (or an event on the scale of biblical second coming), we have to go back to the very roots of the Olympics 2012 brand and logo.

The brand was designed by Wolff Olins - a brand consultancy based in London and New York. They have been responsible for the brand design work behind GE Capital, Sony Ericsson, Unilever and (RED).

The company was founded in Camden Town, London, in 1965 by designer Michael Wolff and advertising executive Wally Olins. Wolff left the business in 1983, and Olins in 2001, though both are still active in the field of branding.

From 1965 to the early 1990s, Wolff Olins played a central part in developing the craft of corporate identity in Europe.

This design agency is a force not to be reckoned with - providing corporate identity to the who's who of Europe since the 1960's.

A quick glance at the Wolf Ollins web page shows yet more imagery related to 'Sion':

sion

Is it a coincidence that the Olympics logo can resemble the word 'Zion', and that, on the website of the agency who created the logo, you can find the word 'Sion'? No. This can't happen by chance.

Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, tziyyon; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn; transliterated Zion or Sion

Of the two founders, Wally Olins became the real success story.

Wally Olins is generally recognised to be the world’s most experienced practitioner of Corporate identity and branding.

Given this, I felt a few Googles were required to see what else could be found on Wally Olins.

Take a trip to the British Library Archival Sound Recordings, and you will find an audio interview with the man himself.

Wally Olins [WO] born London 19 December 1930. Father Alfred Olins; Mother Rachel Muskowicz, both born in London in 1896 into Jewish immigrant families escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe in the 1880's and 90's. Talks about parents' European origins. Briefly describes mother's family background through memories of grandmother living with them. Father second son of large family who developed a road transport business. WO talks of mother having mental health problems and the impact this had on his parents' marriage and the family in general as well as on himself. Describes his father's successful role in family business. Talks about father persuading him to become a Freemason and its triggering a recognition of insider/outsider issues and their relationship to his drives and ambitions.

It just so turns out that Wally's father was a Freemason and, more than likely, he's one too. And you wonder why it is, that many of the corporate logos you see plastered around our cities, contain the 'All Seeing Eye' and hidden occult symbolism - well here is your answer. Everything is connected so to speak.

The designers behind some of Europe's major corporate brands have been and still are, educated in esoteric and occult philosophies. Wally Olins may have left the Wolff Olins brand consultancy in 2001, ruling him out as the designer of the 2012 logo, but ask yourself this - would he leave the company which bears his name in such un-educated hands? Or is it more than likely that he found the perfect replacements to continue his legacy?

So to summarise, the man behind the company responsible for the Olympics 2012 logo was involved in Freemasonry.

Do you believe that the logo for the 2012 Olympics Games is still so innocent?
     

You can read alot more here........


http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=28891
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: MJonmind on March 21, 2012, 04:50:24 AM
The Christian Identity group (British Israelism) identifies with William Blake. This group believes they are the lost tribes of Israel, not the Jews.  Blacks have no souls, according to them—so they are obviously racist.  It would be understandable if they saw London as the new Jerusalem. Possibly Prince William as future king to lead them in Zion.
http://www.seekgod.ca/identity.htm (http://www.seekgod.ca/identity.htm)


Here’s my post in the religious forum on the Christian Identity group.
http://www.michaelsarmyoflove.com/forum/index.php?topic=73.msg318#msg318 (http://www.michaelsarmyoflove.com/forum/index.php?topic=73.msg318#msg318)


On another thread we discussed the video with the 2 mascots, one with an M and the other with a W. It is supposed to stand for  "Much Wenlock", but it could also be cryptic for William and Michael, perhaps representing the 2 bloodlines to King David.
This whole thread is on the London 2012 Olympics, the mascots and symbolism, where I’ve also posted pics of the M and W on the mascots.  I especially love Mimi248’s post there, but I’ve also posted my thoughts there as well. She has tied to the Ark of the Covenant (The Sign #1, Michael Archangel is Jesus).

http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?topic=20800.msg361584#msg361584 (http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?topic=20800.msg361584#msg361584)


Mimi248
Quote
yes of course . So when I saw the video for the first time I didn't notice anything . But now, I think I got almost the whole message. This trailer is totally about michael Jackson Prince William and even the ark of the covenant .
  I'm going to explain.

 So first, I'd like to attract you attention on the 2  letters on the top of Mascot's head.
 On the blue mascot the letter is a M : So as me you know what i mean :p
 On the grey mascot the letter is a W

 i'll explain what all does really mean .
 So the 2 mascot represent in fact 2 person .
 The M you already know it, it represents the Archangel Michael or Michael Jackson ^^ whereas the other represents Prince William. So many coincidences about his life and weird signs lead me to think that this guy is the antichrist AND I'm totally sure that MJ knew for a very long time !!Before he born MJ knew who he would be. Because Diana died on the sae day as the come out of the  album bad. And I men it exactly the same day !!! but 10 years before. anyway..

 Now i'm going to tell you about the really meaning of this 2 mascots.
 As you can see, The blue mascot is always trying to make  his "friend" fall !! And notice that William fall in a bin !!! Also,  William is wearing the united kindgom  with a ame colour used fo all country  . it is related to the New World Order. William is the fall guy that will lead the whole world into the New age of illuminati .

 On the contrary the Blue mascot is wearing the united kingdom 2 BUT  with all different colours !!!
 So, in fact, this video lead me to the conclusion that there are 2 ark of the covenant . One is related to the NWO whearas the other is  related to GOD AND LOVE!!! And also the 2 rainbows symbolise EXACTLY these 2 arks:!!!!!!
 So, Do you understand  now why michael said "we have 4 years to get it right " ??? thee is a realy meaning about all what happened since 2009, we are here for a reason !! and THIS reason is to CHANGE THE WORLD.

 The bible said there will be a time of desolation and tribulation and after jesus will back and all christians saved.
 Do you really believe in that? I don't. There is no 2 direction but only one !

 there is one TRUE ark, if the world follow the William Ark then the whole humanity would be destroyed and IT  WOULD BE THE END OF THE WORLD. stop believing that jesus would be back to the sky !!! we are NOT in a Movieland!! It is the time to make a change, Jesus  the christ or whatever you call him is already HERE. and this person is Michael Jackson . Yes it is difficult to admit this fact .but stop thinking, we have no more time !! the time has come NOW, not tomorrow . I tell you again there is ONE and ONLY one ark that lead to the true. Onl one way. You can't imagine how much our decision is crucial . remember we are the world wa can make a change and it starts with US. 


2good2btrue quoted
Quote
The Olympic Rings
 Given the connections with the year 2012 and the Mayan calendar, it's possible to view the 'Olympic Rings' under a new light.
 
 
 The 5 rings 'officially' represent the 5 continents, but as with all things occult, is there a duality?
 
 The logo was designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French Freemason and founder of the 'modern Olympics'.
 
 His statue at the Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta is very revealing. Notice the 'step pyramid', surrounded by the 'Two Towers' with the Olympic rings flocked by doves above.
 
 The ancient Mayan calendar incorporates a 25,765 year cycle known to us as the 'Great Year'. This cycle is composed of 5 lesser cycles of around 5,125 years each. The current cycle is due to end on 21st December 2012 at 11:11am UST.
 
 Do the 'Olympic Rings' signify the 5 cycles of the Earth's death and rebirth, with each of the cycles connected like a chain? Who has been in control of the Earth through these cycles? Who is the 'Lord Of The Rings'?

I find the 5 cycles interesting, because I believe from what I’ve studied that earth’s history and Bible teaching is that there have been 5 eons or ages.
1-between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2
2 –between re-creation and the great flood
3- between the flood and Christ’s future return
4-the 1000 year reign of Christ
5-after the reign of Christ into eternity
Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: Ijustcantstoplovingu on March 21, 2012, 10:18:59 AM
just reading TMZ and came across this article on the guy who started the Kony 2012 campaign, is it a coincidence that he is now ill? who will now take the reins of this campaign, or will it be stopped in its tracks?

Jason Russell Naked Meltdown Blamed on 'Brief Reactive Psychosis'

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Jason Russell's family has a statement on the "Kony 2012" founder's health ... claiming Russell was diagnosed with "brief reactive psychosis" following his naked meltdown ... and will remain hospitalized for several weeks.

The statement reads, "We would, again, like to make it clear that Jason's incident was in no way the result of drugs or alcohol in his body. The preliminary diagnosis he received is called brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration."

The statement continues, "Though new to us, the doctors say this is a common experience given the great mental, emotional and physical shock his body has gone through in these last two weeks. Even for us, it's hard to understand the sudden transition from relative anonymity to worldwide attention - both raves and ridicules, in a matter of days."

TMZ posted the video last week ... showing a naked Russell ranting maniacally and slapping the pavement before cops detained him on a 5150 psychiatric hold last week.

Jason's family insists ... Russell "will get better" ... saying, "He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months before he is fully able to step back into his role with Invisible Children."

"During that time, we will focus not on a speedy recovery, but a thorough one."

See also

    TMZ Live: 'Kony 2012' Director Jason Russell -- Naked Meltdown More Than 'Dehydration'
    'Kony 2012' Honcho Jason Russell -- Detained for Allegedly Masturbating in Public [UPDATES]
    Jason Russell's Wife -- He Does Not Have a Substance Abuse Problem



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Title: Re: KONY 2012 (Please watch/read & share!!)
Post by: 2good2btrue on March 22, 2012, 02:29:13 AM
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just reading TMZ and came across this article on the guy who started the Kony 2012 campaign, is it a coincidence that he is now ill? who will now take the reins of this campaign, or will it be stopped in its tracks?

Jason Russell Naked Meltdown Blamed on 'Brief Reactive Psychosis'

0321_jason_russell_BN_01
Jason Russell's family has a statement on the "Kony 2012" founder's health ... claiming Russell was diagnosed with "brief reactive psychosis" following his naked meltdown ... and will remain hospitalized for several weeks.

The statement reads, "We would, again, like to make it clear that Jason's incident was in no way the result of drugs or alcohol in his body. The preliminary diagnosis he received is called brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration."

The statement continues, "Though new to us, the doctors say this is a common experience given the great mental, emotional and physical shock his body has gone through in these last two weeks. Even for us, it's hard to understand the sudden transition from relative anonymity to worldwide attention - both raves and ridicules, in a matter of days."

TMZ posted the video last week ... showing a naked Russell ranting maniacally and slapping the pavement before cops detained him on a 5150 psychiatric hold last week.

Jason's family insists ... Russell "will get better" ... saying, "He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months before he is fully able to step back into his role with Invisible Children."

"During that time, we will focus not on a speedy recovery, but a thorough one."

See also

    TMZ Live: 'Kony 2012' Director Jason Russell -- Naked Meltdown More Than 'Dehydration'
    'Kony 2012' Honcho Jason Russell -- Detained for Allegedly Masturbating in Public [UPDATES]
    Jason Russell's Wife -- He Does Not Have a Substance Abuse Problem



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I must agree, the timing is not a co-incidence....

Do you think he was set up....Given a hypnotic drug without him knowing it???  A way to bring him down....Michael always said he suffered from dehydration and exhaustion when training for concerts, but he didn't act in that same way....food for thought.
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