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I saw this after my son mentioned it on twitter, with the message:

This is incredibly important. RT like it was your last day with fingers please http://vimeo.com/invisible/kony2012


Only the most heartless could fail to be moved by the story.
Only the heartless should ignore the message
Only the penniless should be unable to provide some support.

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Make KONY (in) FAMOUS!!!

I should add that there are also people who say that this is not the best way to tackle the problem, that 'Invisible Children' spends too much of it's income on staff and promotions, but then giving money direct to the children isn't the way to solve the problem either.

Watch, read others, digest and make up your own minds.

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This story was here on TV yesterday.

It appears the Ugandan Government is one of the largest recipients of the donations. I don't even like to think that it's remotely possible given the seriousness of the issue but what if the whole thing is one almighty Ugandan scam. These people are experts at fooling journalists, TV reporters, etc.

And it certainly doesn't hurt the Invisible Children organisation coffers nor their reason for existence.

You would think that it wouldn't be too difficult to catch this guy. Police, special forces, even UN troops could be used to catch him fairly quickly.

Some alternative viewpoints here:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/uganda-kony-2012-reaction.html

Why doesn't someone put a price on his head? or mail him a gun and tell him "do god and the world a favor blow your brains out" Since he's not gonna leave his hidey hole someone is going to have to go in and get him.

Or make the UN actually do something like go get some balls and go get him.

Regretfully nothing will happen at UN level etc. because the West has no interests in Uganda, South Sudan and Congo to protect.

When governments, magnates, captains of industry etc. finally decide to so something that won't put a cent in their pockets, then the world will change.

Such is the very sad state of the world in the early 21st century.

Interesting article on Kony by Andrew Bolt in this morning's Daily Telegraph. As I alluded to in my post above, there are two sides to every story:

"Click go the tears for a warlord's victims"


Sorry for the hard to read print but it's worth a read.

The important section is "Contrary to the impression the movie gives, Kony was chased out of Uganda 6 years ago, probably to the Central African Republic, and is down to a few hundred fighters. Most of the 30,000 children actually taken over nearly 30 years are no longer with him."

And if you think there's a remote possibility that the two highly photogenic people at the top right of the image are doing this for purely altruistic reasons, you may be wrong.

I can see a movie deal in the making with them as the two stars, possibly called "Invisible Children", can't you

To me, making money out of this whole sickening thing is almost as bad as Kony's atrocities.

The Invisible Children group actually came to my school a few times. I was on the verge of tears....

Make Kony "World Enemy #1"!

And the usual cliched headline from the Daily Terrorgraph, what a comic of a newspaper.

Evangelistic propaganda. The USA military has been involved since 2008, not mentioned in the film. Why does the USA want this resolved? Guess what; Uganda found heaps of oil in 2006...

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-po ... -kony-2012 for an interesting review.

Can always rely on Jack to come up with something controversial. Not worried about the oil, Jack, that was ages ago, but can you provide any references to the 2008 ?

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Ian Billings - Norvic Philatelics GB stamps info: http://www.norphil.co.uk - also /catalog for our ecommerce site, blog.norphil.co.uk, shop.norphil.co.uk and Ian_norvic on twitter