i wonder if this is why kony is big news
Pepe Silvia
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don't get me wrong, what he has done and does is horrible....but i kept thinking why is he the sudden poster child for bad people? at first i thought it was to have someone everyone could focus on, someone who, if they were removed, wouldn't cause any fallout or repercussions so instead of focusing on people who do similar things and receive our tax dollars and we sell weapons to or support someone no one really cares about....
but then i did some reading and now i think it's all about oil, again.
according to this article a lot of oil was discovered in uganda
'Energy companies have found more than 700m barrels of commercially viable oil in the Albertine Graben region'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/au ... -companies
one of the companies trying to get their foot and pipelines in there is a company named tullow oil
http://www.tullowoil.com/index.asp?pageid=62
one of the major investors in tullow oil is jp morgan chase, which has given over $1 million to this 'invisible children' fund
http://investor.shareholder.com/jpmorga ... eid=515878
but then i did some reading and now i think it's all about oil, again.
according to this article a lot of oil was discovered in uganda
'Energy companies have found more than 700m barrels of commercially viable oil in the Albertine Graben region'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/au ... -companies
one of the companies trying to get their foot and pipelines in there is a company named tullow oil
http://www.tullowoil.com/index.asp?pageid=62
one of the major investors in tullow oil is jp morgan chase, which has given over $1 million to this 'invisible children' fund
http://investor.shareholder.com/jpmorga ... eid=515878
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what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
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Yep, especially when you consider the following:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/real ... NTCMP=SRCH
The Ugandan government put out this response via Fred Opolot, a government spokesman:
'Misinterpretations of media content may lead some people to believe that the LRA is currently active in Uganda. It must be clarified that at present the LRA is not active in any part of Uganda. Successfully expelled by the Ugandan Peoples Defence Forces in mid-2006, the LRA has retreated to dense terrain within bordering countries in the Central African area. They are a diminished and weakened group with numbers not exceeding 300. The threat posed by the LRA in our neighbouring countries is considerably reduced...'
Nikita Bernardi wrote:
'I do not consider myself an expert on the LRA but I have lived in East Africa all my life and these are issues that we were all brought up with...
I have read the response that the film-makers posted on their site and they seem to think that it does not matter if Mr. Kony has left Uganda or not and that he is still a mad killer who recruits children to fight for him. Yes, he is mad, but he is nowhere near as strong as he was in the early to mid-2000s. He is no longer terrorising northern Uganda and the region is now relatively stable. If I lived in northern Uganda I would be furious that my region was being portrayed in such a negative and outdated way.
This also makes me question why it is that everyone in the western world seems to think that they can solve all of Africa's problems in a western way. If this campaign had been targeted at stopping problems within the US such as the Guantanamo abuses (when that was going on) then maybe it would have been relevant as social media and democracy seem have a bigger impact than they do in northern Uganda.'