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Ugandans from Lira watch the premiere of "Kony 2012," a 30-minute YouTube film created by the nonprofit Invisible Children. Lira was one of the areas that was ravaged by 20 years of Joseph Kony's rebellion.
Invisible Children delayed the release of a sequel to the viral video "KONY 2012" from Tuesday to Thursday, according to the organization's Twitter account.
It was originally supposed to air on April 3, but for an unknown reason the group has pushed the release date back to April 5.
Calling it “everything we couldn’t fit into KONY 2012,” Invisible Children will once again inform audiences about the use of children soldiers in the Lord’s Revolution Army in Uganda.
The video about LRA leader Joseph Kony has been viewed more than 86 million times since it originally debuted on YouTube nearly one month ago.
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The organization’s founders and CEO went on a media blitz promoting the documentary, and depended heavily on social media to increase viewership.
But Invisible Children also came under scrutiny for the “KONY 2012” film, with many calling it an oversimplification of the complex LRA conflict in Uganda.
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Joseph Kony, former leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, answered journalists' questions at Ri-Kwamba, in Southern Sudan, in 2006. Although the Kony 2012 was much critiqued by people who found it dated and overly simplistic, a former child soldier said he supported the video.
A group of human rights activists gathered outside the headquarters of the nonprofit on March 30, calling attention to issues they claim were omitted from the documentary.
Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey released a series of video responses to the criticism, and later created a page dedicated to the widespread critiques.
The group has been trying to get back on its feet after an unusual turn of events when Invisible Children co-founder and filmmaker Jason Russell suffered a brief reactive psychosis. Russell was discovered by police in Pacific Beach on March 15 in various stages of undress and behaving in a bizarre manner.
Russell was detained and taken to a hospital. It could be months before he can return to Invisible Children, according to his wife Danica.
Brendan Mcdermid / REUTERS
Jason Russell co-founded the non-profit Invisible Children and directed "Kony 2012," a video that has 86 million views on YouTube.
Invisible Children volunteers and workers made little to no public appearances following the incident and the new video will be the group’s first major push since Russell’s hospitalization.
The new video will also include an update on its “Cover the Night” event on April 20 and will air on the Invisible Children YouTube page on Thursday.
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Nobody cares anymore. Go dance naked in the street some more.
He had a great butt.
Hello folks, they don't need the let's go get Kony ruse as an excuse to go start a war in Africa, they are now using the old stand by war on terror strawman. They say Al Qaida is regrouping in Africa near the largest inland oil find in Africa's history. They did fail to mention the oil but we know what they mean.
Fresh Uganda Oil Find ‘Africa’s Biggest’
By The Times
14 Jan 2009 "The Times" - -Heritage Oil announced details of a large oil discovery in Uganda yesterday, which the company claimed could be the largest onshore discovery in sub-Saharan Africa.
Heritage said that its latest discovery – Giraffe1 – in the Lake Albert region, could total at least 400 million barrels of oil.
However, Paul Atherton, chief financial officer, told The Times that the wider field it was developing, dubbed Buffalo-Giraffe, had several “billions of barrels of oil in place”, although it was unclear how much of this would be recoverable.
He said that the field, which is 9,000 square kilometers in size – or six times the size of Greater London – was unquestionably the largest onshore discovery made in sub-Saharan Africa in at least 20 years, possibly ever.
Mr Atherton said that of the 18 wells the company had drilled in the basin so far, all had produced oil. “Clearly the entire basin is full of oil,” he said. “It’s a world-class discovery, the most exciting new basin in Africa in decades.”
Previously, the largest onshore fields discovered in sub-Saharan Africa were at Rabi-Kounga in Gabon, where 900 million barrels were found in 1985, and at Kome in Chad, where 485 million barrels were found in 1977.
Mr Atherton said that it would take at least another three years to start commercial production. The crude could be exported by road or rail, he said, but analysts believe that the most practical solution would be to build an 806-mile pipeline to take it to Kampala, Uganda’s capital, and then the Kenyan coast. The pipeline would need to be heated and designed to traverse swampy and mountainous land. It would cost an estimated $1.5 billion (£1 billion) to complete.
Heritage and its partner Tullow Oil, which also has a 50 per cent equity stake in the project, would need to demonstrate that the field could produce at least 400 million barrels of oil to justify the cost of building such a pipeline. Richard Griffith, an Evolution Securities analyst, said the latest discovery “thrashed” this commerciality threshold.
See Also - Uganda : Pressure Mounts To Make Public Oil Agreements:Uganda's oil discovery is already attracting major players like Italian oil giant Eni Spa, U.S. Exxon Mobil, France's Total and of recent the China National Offshore Oil Company. The country does not have the funds to finance the production of oil and instead signed agreements with oil giants spelling out how the revenue will be shared with investors willing to fund the production phase. The companies will build an oil refinery in Uganda and an oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean. This will enable the landlocked country to sell its estimated two billion barrels of crude oil internationally
Uganda's oil contracts leaked - a bad deal made worse: The repeated claims by the Ugandan government and the oil companies that Uganda has received a very good deal and the best in the region are not only a fiction, but were reliant on the real terms of the contracts being kept secret. While the contracts will deliver vast profits to Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil, the contracts will prevent the Ugandan people from receiving their due benefits.
Oil extraction and the potential for domestic instability in Uganda: The paper identifies and discusses in detail three sources of domestic volatility that may arise as a result of oil development.
Uganda: Oil could cause war : The attacks are by armed gangs suspected to be rebels of the FDLR, LRA, and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). In the ongoing campaign in DR Congo, President Joseph Kabila is being criticised for failing to restore peace in this vital area.
I CARE!
Scam, scam, scam and it has worse intentions then to profit off of donations. Our own government literally had the C.I.A. construct this organization and produce this propaganda to invoke emotion so people support sending military intervention into Africa to catch wanted war criminal Joseph Kony, who Ugandans said he and the LRA haven't been active for over 6 years and that Kony is probably dead. Invisible Children actually has the nerve to go interview Yoweri Musveni's army. When Musveni the dictator of Uganda kills massive amounts of more people and uses children as soldiers also. It's not just the fact Uganda has discovered billions of dollars worth of oil because their is also diamonds, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver, petroleum and lumber to profit off of. They'll be more and more propaganda to invoke emotion to send military to the African continent under the moniker AFRICOM. Why do you think George Clooney did that staged stunt to get help to the Sudan area? Now we get news articles about Al Qaeda forming in Africa, when they were already in Libya fighting Omar Qaddafi and we helped them according to former C.I.A. operatives and even Qaddafi himself. Before I hear the retarded joke why don't you wrap some tin foil around your head. How are paranoid schizophrenics hearing voices in their heads? You really think it's mythological creatures called demons, space aliens or their own subconscious when you have no idea what they hear or how they hear it? What I said about Kony 2012 being propaganda was what thousands of critics posted on thier YouTube video before they disabled the comment section getting top comment time and time again, not they were just lying to make a profit. Now why did Jason Russell start yelling about the devil, walking around naked and masturbating? He had a paranoid schizophrenic attack, he was hearing voices which had nothing to do with exhaustion or dehydration.
Stacey, your an @!$%#. Just because you are ignorant about the subject, does not mean that it isn't important. Why don't you read up about KONY, before you open your mouth. Hundreds of women and children have died by the hand of this madman.
Wizkid- have you got a sorce, or are you just making this up on the spot? Unlike what must have been taught at your alabama single room high school, not everything is a goverment plot. Yes, the goverment most likly only agreed when they found oil, but they weren't made by the CIA. Lots of people assume the CIA is everywhere doing everything, but I work for the CIA and we don't do anything like in Black Ops. Also, I don't think he was having a scizoid attack, as even if it did suddenly happen over night about 20 or 30 years late, scizoididation happens in stages over many years, one of them being vary anti-scocial. I don't think this is probible. Plus, Nanette- i think you mean 30,000. Also, MSNBC is vary biased, and I would congradulate them for not saying something political in this article... now I'll probobly get collapsed by the 'community'... Or I'll go so far as to 'delete' this...
KONY 2012 II:The Revenge
This time it's personal... Again.
lol!
This KONY 2012 thing is a just a big stunt to get donations. That in itself isn't a horrible thing; Invisible Children does some good work and needs funding for it. But what's wrong is that they're making money at every Ugandan's expense.
Kony is not in Uganda, he's probably in the DR Congo. I've worked in Northern Uganda and the locals aren't concerned at all with Kony or the LRA anymore. He's a thing of the past in Uganda.
Uganda needs investment, and their markets need buyers, and negative publicity like this just hurts their markets, and hence their development and well-being. For example, the CEO of Good African Coffee, a Ugandan coffee producer that now sells in the US and UK, said that KONY 2012 has made it more difficult to gain the trust of Western businesses looking to distribute his coffee and invest in his company. It also makes Western buyers weary of buying Ugandan coffee. His company employs hundreds of Ugandans who now have decent incomes to support their families as well as other businesses in their communities, which is helping the whole region pull itself from poverty. When Good African Coffee loses, Ugandans suffer; and this is just one of many examples.
If Invisible Children's intent was to help Ugandan children, they've really screwed this one up. And I think they're more intelligent than that. Simply put: most Americans don't know any better and Invisible Children is greedy and found a great way to make money.
A young gal appeared on Alex Jones Show., Her parents live in Uganda. Her father told her that Knoy has been dead for 5 years and has not been heard from 6 years. While watching the videos of Uganda one can see a big oil rig in the background. Uganda has stuck oil. The gal also stated that very little of the money collected by "The Invisible Children" rarely goes to the children. As a survivor I refuse to buy the Ideology and Propaganda. There is always greedy people who will steal from others and try to play gullible people as fools.
You lost me at Alex Jones. But yes, the whole 'Kony' thing is very suspicious.
Yeah, I'm gonna take some advice from a guy who masturbates in front of my children.
There is not a dime’s worth of difference between Joseph Kony and the current teleprompter-reader in-chief of the USA. They both profit from war and pursue war when peace would better serve their people. They are both Marxists. They even look similar. They both send other people’s children off to die without good reason for the “war.”
Hahahah how does Obama profit from Afghanistan? How does he look like Kony, in that he is black? I don't see the resemblance. One advocates for women's right to contraception and health care for the public, the other captures children and turns them into his personal soldiers. I really don't see how you compare the two as similar. Obama does not send other people's children to die, they enlist themselves. There is no official draft. Please write intelligent comments.
Also the fact remains that Obama didn't start the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet, as he tries to bring the troops out, the ones that did start the wars are crying foul and want to continue and escalate the wars because, as they put it, they can still win.
Really Redherring? Obama profits from war? You mean the war that Bush started, and the same one that our President has the troops coming home (finally) from? Listen to HateRadio much? Don't worry, it happens to lots of good folks. Try watching/listening to some unbiased news for a change such as PBS or BBC, but only if you want to pull your blinders off and your head outta the sand that is.
It appears that Redherring's head is about to pop as he/she can not handle the pressure of rational comments or critique; something a typical Infowar sheeple can not tolerate. What proof do you have besides Mr Jones rambling his bull@!$%#? Are you Obama's accountant? I cracks me up when you conspiracy theorist think you have proof but don't . But you want to run around calling others sheeple while you're the real sheeple. If KONY 2012 had a Ron Paul Republican style pitch, you'll support it blindly like the rest of the silly Obamabots.
how about someone making a video about children that are sold into slavery (yes it still exists) and into sex slavery---right here in the USA!!!!
Good idea esbee!
Though Kony is no longer in Uganda, the fact is that the Ugandan army (UPDF), with some help from U.S. military intelligence, was only able “to sweep out” Kony from northern Uganda, but he now wreaks havoc in eastern DRC and the Central African Republic. Thus to pretend Kony is no longer a problem is very “Ugandan-centric” when he continues his murderous and savage ways in neighboring countries.
Much of the negative response to Kony 2012 from Ugandans comes from the predominate tribe in the south of the country, the Baganda, and those from Western Uganda from where President Museveni and much of the current political and military power base comes from. It is no secret that there is a “north-south” divide in Uganda, which pre-dated Joseph Kony and his predecessor, Alice Lakwena, which for the most part has resulted in the marginalization of the northern part of the country and its population. Of course, neither the Baganda nor the Westerners should take all the blame. In no small part, Idi Amin exacerbated north-south tribal animosities. Idi Amin, who inflicted his own havoc on the Ugandan population, came from “the North,” but not the same tribe as Kony or most of the people that suffered because of Kony. In short, the predominate tribe in Uganda, as well as the current Western Uganda power base, neither of whom ever fully embraced the north and the tribes that suffered the most from Kony (Acholi and Langi), dissociate themselves from the portrayal of Kony as a “Ugandan Warlord” as they secretly harbor reservations or animosity that the people of the north are even Ugandans. The fact remains, Kony came from northern Uganda, whether significant parts of the Uganda population like northerners or Acholi (Kony’s tribe) or not.
Those Acholi that object to Kony 2012, are also a victim of the north-south divide and these long-standing tribal animosities. Many Acholi want Kony brought to justice – but to Acholi traditional justice, not the justice of the ICC, and most certainly not the justice of the current Ugandan government that they see as dominated by people and tribes that do not like them.
I'm going fishing. There are bigger fish to catch.
The best way to get rich these days is to find the saddest topic you can think of and start a charity for it.
If you want to read something interesting, look at how little money "invisible children" gives from its charity and how much it squanders for itself. Charities are the new way to make a quick buck. Always look at the charities tax for to see how charity like they really are.
“everything we couldn’t fit into KONY 2012” ...
Yeah, okay... in 30 minutes they could have fit in everything they could possibly have needed to say, but instead they chose to spend 5 minutes talking about Kony, and then waste the other 25 minutes talking about themselves and their stupid movement.
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