11/03/2012
KONY 2012 CIA/ILLUMINATI SCAM TO GET UGANDA'S OIL RESERVES AND KEEP PEOPLE DISTRACTED ONCE AGAIN....(by Margerat Donovan)
DID YOU FALL FOR IT? I was fortunate to have seen the video of the Invisible Children about 10 years ago. The story was slightly different though... its focus was on the children who were gathering in great numbers in the city centre at night to avoid being abducted. The war w...as to blame. Joseph Kony was not mentioned. There were no cute shots of sweet little blue eyed blond haired boy feeling sad and there was no count down to Dec 2012 create a sense of urgency. But my biggest red flag was at the beginning of the clip when he said... 'this is an experiment.' As this article makes very clear, Joseph Kony may well be a 'bad man' and he may well be the leader responsible for some horrendous crimes but should we all start a virtual lynch mob, without any real evidence and off the back of a video that clearly sets out to manipulate you emotionally to fund its organisation.
10 Facts You Need to Know
1. The footage of children in the streets are from 10 years ago and from a conflict that has long since subsided. Uganda is portrayed as a worn torn country... it is not. 2. The man [Kony] hasn't been in the country, Uganda for over six years. His so called army operates in small groups of 2-3 soldiers spread across a wide area of northern Uganda. 3. The LRA is estimated to be around 250-300 strong. Not the terrifying force they used to be. 4. Only 31% of the funds raised by The Invisible Children Inc are actually spent of services the rest 69% goes to its founders to fund their film making and expensive lifestyles. The accounts suggest nearly 25% of its $8.8m income last year was spent on travel and film-making with only around 30% going toward programes on the ground. The great majority of the money raised has been spent in the US. $1.7 million went on US employee salaries, $357,000 in film costs, $850,000 in film production costs, $244,000 in "professional services" -thought to be Washington lobbyists - and $1.07 million in travel expenses . Nearly $400,000 was spent on office rent in San Diego. 5. The Ugandan Army supported by Invisible Children Inc. has alongside the LRA been accused of abducting children into its ranks. 6. Most of the people working for Invisible Children are media professionals not development professionals. 7. The current situation in northern Uganda is that most children and women are sleeping at home. 8. The video promotes outside intervention as the solution to the conflict, something that those currently in the region are opposed to. 9. The video is a very slick marketing and fund-raising tool for their charity. 10. The conflict between the LRA and the Ugandan Army is about land and resources, oil reserves a fact not mentioned in the film.See More
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On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember “change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse”?), but you clearly won’t stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:
