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Anyone have any thoughts on this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
If the video keeps spreading at such a vast rate this could potentially get quite interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
If the video keeps spreading at such a vast rate this could potentially get quite interesting.
It's funny how people start caring just becasuse of its popularity online.
It's like all these bimbo's on facebook popping up with a status about it.
Oh really, so how long have you cared about children in africa?
I don't really understand it tbh, did no one know this happens in africa or something ?
It's like all these bimbo's on facebook popping up with a status about it.
Oh really, so how long have you cared about children in africa?
I don't really understand it tbh, did no one know this happens in africa or something ?
It does reinforce that all of the guff about being the World' Policeman has little to do with ethics and everything to do with national interests (not necessarily wrong).
At least the campaign supports military intervention to get Kony, not just a peacenik hand-holding convention.
It may be populist, but it doesn't make the campaign unworthy.
I smile at the way they are targetting celebrities and policy makers in US election year.
At least the campaign supports military intervention to get Kony, not just a peacenik hand-holding convention.
It may be populist, but it doesn't make the campaign unworthy.
I smile at the way they are targetting celebrities and policy makers in US election year.
stevejh said:
My 12 year old daughter asked me last night to forward this video to my friends in the US so that they could share it. I just started watching it but then noticed it's 30 mins long so I won't have time this morning. Anybody care to summarise what it's about?
Joseph Kony is a Ugandan warlord who for the last 20 years has been kidnapping kids and turning them into child soldiers / sex slaves and making them commit atrocities.The campaign is designed to raise the world's awareness of Kony so that everyone knows his name which will then force populist pressure onto the US government (in the first instance) to change their foreign polcy to do something about him.
Whilst his name and what's happening isn't front page news, arguably no body really gives a f
k. They have latched onto the power of social media to get arrange those stories chosen for publication in the MSM to grow.Kony's army have now spread into other countries too.
The Invisible Children charity claim that pressure they have applied has resulted in 100 US military advisors / training team already being deployed to train the Ug Army so that they can go and get Kony.
I am not sure what the video aims to achieve.
It's hardly as if Hillary Clinton can go over and meet Kony, do they want to start a war with Uganda/DRC/Rwanda/etc?
The UN do try to keep the majority of warlords in check by using funding from the World Bank on 'projects' where they can siphon money off to their own bank accounts before they retire (allegedly, apart from the ones I know about)
The big problem is the West want to replicate their own lifestyle, democracy etc on tribal countries where everyone wants to be on top but only for a short time until they have ripped everyone off.
It's hardly as if Hillary Clinton can go over and meet Kony, do they want to start a war with Uganda/DRC/Rwanda/etc?
The UN do try to keep the majority of warlords in check by using funding from the World Bank on 'projects' where they can siphon money off to their own bank accounts before they retire (allegedly, apart from the ones I know about)
The big problem is the West want to replicate their own lifestyle, democracy etc on tribal countries where everyone wants to be on top but only for a short time until they have ripped everyone off.
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