http://seet.weebly.com/1/post/2012/03/concerning-kony-2012.htmlMillions of lives? I read that LRA has a strength of less than 3000.
yeah
Also this Video is so super overemotional it really looks like a propaganda video from the old days, litte facts much emotion. The first 5 minutes looked like a commercial for facebook and holding your own kid in the camera is imho the worst style of promoting a serious video. It looks alot like a selfpromotion video.
Sticking posters around different cities in the world is helping africa a damn shit. Facebook Sharing the "OMG THIZ MONY SO BAD !!!! STOP HIM THAN ALL GOOOD !!!!" stuff doesn´t make a difference for africa. And also why now? Just because of Facebook being this popular?
Africa is a problem on its own, you can´t demonstrate against something like that, nothing will change the good intetion of this video will be forgotten rather sooner then later. And if even if Kony is killed the attention will be gone.
What is probably pissing me off the most is, that the majority of the support only comes if you give them some sort of Emotional stuff. Most of them never cared about africa before nor will after this action. And the organistation doesn´t seem to be more honorable than other who are helping africa since a longer time in a way more efficient way.
"Kony 2012 is a scam. Only 30% of donations went to it last year. Also he ain't in Uganda. Follow blindly where the masses tell you like the sheep you are, morons."
Quoted from youtube :wink:
"Only 30% of donations went to it last year. Also he ain't in Uganda" is this true?
My Statement was meant more general for all the people crying about Kony right now.You see it fucking everywhere on Facebook and the net.Most of those people dont even know where Uganda is.
I just cant stand People who are Political commited all of a sudden when something gets more into the light of the media and such, while they dont give a shit or even know about it all the time before :D
Sticking posters around different cities in the world is helping africa a damn shit. Facebook Sharing the "OMG THIZ MONY SO BAD !!!! STOP HIM THAN ALL GOOOD !!!!" stuff doesn´t make a difference for africa. And also why now? Just because of Facebook being this popular?
Africa is a problem on its own, you can´t demonstrate against something like that, nothing will change the good intetion of this video will be forgotten rather sooner then later. And if even if Kony is killed the attention will be gone.
What is probably pissing me off the most is, that the majority of the support only comes if you give them some sort of Emotional stuff. Most of them never cared about africa before nor will after this action. And the organistation doesn´t seem to be more honorable than other who are helping africa since a longer time in a way more efficient way.
I don't understand the focus on Uganda considering this guy operates in other countries as well. Well, actually I do understand it, it's about the 5 billion barrels of oil. Why isn't this campaign focused on, say, The DRC? The LRA and the shit they do is not exactly unique in subsaharan guerilla forces. Why try to equate Kony with Uganda? GEE I WONDAH.
You're right, it's just a massive coincidence. It's not like there are charity organizations for Somalia, it's not like Ethiopia have been conducting military operations there for years. It's not like the Ugandan army has practically the same track record as the warlords like Kony that they fight. It's not like this is surging at a time when they are just beginning to exploit the 5 billion barrels of petrol that were discovered there about 6 years ago. OF COURSE no one has ever, ever abused humanitarian ideals and organizations for pragmatic, profitable goals.
Maybe if these fuckers didn't spend their entire video basically calling for military intervention, because we have to HELP the poor backwards fuckers to solve their own problems, because they're obviously incapable of doing it on their own (yey neo-white man's burden!). Maybe if the incredibly corrupt Ugandan government wasn't obviously riddled by bribes and promises to foreign oil companies (did you happen to look into that when you were learning the "basic details"? How many Ugandan politicians have been involved in such scandals before there was even 1 drop of oil pumped from the soil? How much jockeying and competition between oil companies there's been? The types of exploitation contracts that have been signed?).
Fuck, maybe they really do believe in the justness of their cause. But if any western governments, including the US, get involved, do you really think it's going to be because zomg Invis Children has opened my eyes to the horrible stuff Kony has done, we must liberate the poor opressed Ugandans! FOR ZEH CHILDREN! No, no it won't. It's going to be a way of imiscing itself even further into the pragmatic geopolitical game of resources.
No, it only takes very little good will for the leaders to do what they wanted to do anyways but have the opportunity to cloak it in a seeming of legitimacy by tying it to humanitarian concerns. They're not going to "act in a good way". Has anyone here even tried looking into what experts of the region say arresting Kony is going to accomplish? Does anyone truly believe that obliterating the LRA is somehow going to change anything about Uganda? They've been pushed out of the country since 2006. Is anyone familiar with the other groups in Uganda, or the stuff the official military gets up to? Does anyone know Obama has already dispatched soldiers in OCTOBER of last year to hunt down Kony?
If you choose to believe that political leaders only choose to act based upon self-enrichment schemes, I won't be able to change your mind.
I can post a wall of text tooI think we are all fully aware of your capability to post a great wall of
Any lasting interference by NATO or a developed country in this conflict (whether that's driven by the emotional response of the public, economic interests, both, and everything in between) can only end with a dead warlord. Either deals are made or people are killed. I don't see the United States (for one) going into a region embroiled in the kind of conflict we're talking about and capturing this guy in order to drag him before an international tribunal.
I'm not saying this is good or bad, it's just how it is. To be honest, it's time for China to step up and lead some international policing. Especially since Netanyahu essentially has us (Americans) in a political vice. Whether it's a Republican or Obama, they can't help but agree with anything Israel does this year. That's not counting other issues like Syria, either. We're really not in a position to do anything about it at the moment.
What we can do is remember and act accordingly for the future. That, and individual efforts, of course.
Yes, political actors always act according to self-interest.
Jason Russell, the 33-year-old co-founder of Invisible Children, has been reportedly been arrested by San Diego Police Department for bring drunk in public and masturbating, according to NBC San Diego.
KICUCULA, Uganda According to the companys proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a peaceful and voluntary manner.
People here remember it quite differently.
I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside, said Emmanuel Cyicyima, 33. The houses were being burnt down.
Other villagers described gun-toting soldiers and an 8-year-old child burning to death when his home was set ablaze by security officers.
They said if we hesitated they would shoot us, said William Bakeshisha, adding that he hid in his coffee plantation, watching his house burn down. Smoke and fire.
According to a report released by the aid group Oxfam on Wednesday, more than 20,000 people say they were evicted from their homes here in recent years to make way for a tree plantation run by a British forestry company, emblematic of a global scramble for arable land.
A Ugandan government spokesman said residents in Namwasa were illegal encroachers, but he acknowledged and deplored the use of violence to remove them, saying it was done by corrupt politicians and police officers operating outside the law.
Tensions brewed. The company and government said the residents were living illegally in a forest. Residents said they had rights. Community members took the company to court in 2009 and a temporary injunction was issued, barring evictions. Nevertheless, Oxfam and residents say, evictions continued.
Residents were given until Feb. 28, 2010, to vacate company premises while soldiers and the police kept surveillance. Company officials visited, too. From time to time a house would be burnt down, villagers said. Then came Feb. 28, a Sunday.
We were in church, recalled Jean-Marie Tushabe, 26, a father of two. I heard bullets being shot into the air.
Cars were coming with police, Mr. Tushabe said, sitting among the ruins of his old home. They headed straight to the houses. They took our plates, cups, mattresses, bed, pillows. Then we saw them getting a matchbox out of their pockets.
Homeless and hopeless, Mr. Tushabe said he took a job with the company that pushed him out. He was promised more than $100 each month, he said, but received only about $30
Obang Metho, a member of the Solidarity Movement for New Ethiopia, said these deals look more like business models than philanthropy, reports CBS:
"No one should believe that these investors are there to feed starving Africans, create jobs or improve food security. These land grab agreements -- many of which could be in place for 99 years -- do not mean progress for local people and will not lead to food in their stomachs. These deals lead only to dollars in the pockets of corrupt leaders and foreign investors."
In a special two-part segment on Thursday nights The Daily Show, correspondent John Oliver took an in-depth look at the U.S. governments decision to block funding to the relief group UNESCO.
First, Oliver meets with former Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), who informs him that under 1990′s Public Law 103-236, the United States is forbidden to provide funding to any agencies who deal with Palestine directly. As a result, a UNESCO spokesperson says, programs like fresh water for 950,000 people, literacy programs for the Afghan police force, and programs to strengthen the Iraqi judiciary are all going to have to be scrapped.