Undermining the Children:Africom, Joseph Kony, and Rare Earth Minerals

Something Smells Very Foul in Africa: Museveni, Kony and Rare Earth Minerals

Joseph Kony is a bad man.  He gives children guns and forces them to fight and die for his material wants. This is not an argued point  (whether or not Kony is still alive IS an argued point, however).

Yoweri Museveni, however, has been the Ugandan problem for over thirty years.  He is President-for-Life, newly re-elected amid voting scandal and violence. He has been a long-time ally of Western Power, but in the last year has urged African nations to deal with Chinese energy and contracts.    How has he stayed in power long enough to achieve all of this, while an evil army tramps around his country for decades?


1985: Museveni is a general in the National Resistance Army, struggling against the despotic dictatorship of one Obote II.   The conflict was bloody, hard-fought, and indiscriminate.  It can be deduced that conscription and hunger are two things Museveni had extensive experiences with. 

1989: Amnesty International publishes a report citing the hundreds of thousands of people taken from their homes and executed with no charge or trial, the burning of granaries, and even systematic torture.
  
Remember that great movie Hotel Rwanda about the horrible genocide that Don Cheadle stands up to?  Would you believe Museveni is implicated in the coup that started a racial conflict that led to nearly a million dead Rwandans, based on their appearance, "tutsi" or "Hutu".   The entire conflict (and Cheadle's Oscar)


In 1998 Museveni, cooperating with the Rwandan (Tutsi ) junta he had helped implace ordered the invasion of northern Congo.  False information was used to create the threat of a rampaging army in western Uganda, and for several YEARS Ugandad and Rwandan forces raped, pillaged, and burned through the Congo.  The United States under Clinton, in 2000 suspended foreign aid to Museveni's government.   Soon after, Ugandan and Rwandan forces began firing on one another, and all hell broke loose.

In her memoir Child Soldiers, China Keitetsi  tells her story as an 8 year old girl forced into service in the NRA.  She tells of being raped repeatedly, bearing two children by her superior officers, before escaping the country entirely.

Things got so bad, in 2005, the International Court of Justice ruled Uganda had to pay Congo back for its human rights violations.  When an International Court makes any ruling, you know some big financial names are involved.

Museveni has a long, documented history of war crimes, yet has remained in power.  He has known and has used hunger, fear and intimidation, and factionalist propaganda (like Kony2012) to justify and legitimize his actions in a very western way.   He has a dirty history and a wake almost certainly filled with child warriors and senseless death.

Joseph Kony and the LRA only exist for the grace of Western Powers.  Hunger and poverty are small problems compared to a boogeyman occupying your rural parts.

See this article.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15255357 "Where Child Sacrifice is a Business".  
  Before Invisible Children's ill-fated attempt to propagandize a just invasion of Africa, the world knew Uganda's children have been in trouble.  Under Museveni, child sacrifice has become an institutionally backed, culturally inescapable fact.  Just part of life. 

The LRA, which presents a christian front, claims to be against the practices of child sacrifice for blessings.   The practice has obviously been unhindered by Joseph Kony's conscription techniques.   In 2012 Ugandan officials estimated 200 combatants in the group, which has supposedly displaced and forced into combat over 10,000 children.  These two statistics do not add up.

Or maybe shadowy officials/agents pay small town witch doctors to sacrifice children so that Kony won't have any soldiers?    because that makes sense.



Population control is a business, and we must see Joseph Kony for what he is; a poster boy, not even an entrepreneur.  OR WAS, as he hasn't been seen in years.

Spend a little on weapons, bribes, media support, and watch a hundred thousand mouths cease to need feeding.  37th in population, 89th in size; Uganda has a slightly lower population than Canada,  in a state smaller than Ecuador.  Why feed the natives when you can stir up a little warfare?

Child armies help Museveni, and we are discovering how they help Western Powers.  OUR leaders are the people who propagate these atrocities, in the name of financial and material improvement, and sell it to you as (increasingly childish) propaganda.



Several months before the western-backed overthrow of Libyan dictator Gaddafi, the autocrat had posed in for nice pictures with Obama and Hilary Clinton.  Of course he had a famously close relationship with Bush's regime, and Condaleeza Rice in particular.  Then, inside a year, he is ousted and brutally, shamefully murdered for the world to televise.  What happened?

China happened.  Gaddafi signed a deal to sell tens of billions of dollars of oil and mining rights to China.  Africa is a veritable diamond mine of stripmining, hydrafracking and employment opportunity.  Rare earth minerals to keep producing advanced tablets and phones.  Energy to keep the lights on and the HVAC running.  Contracts for countries to be able to put people to work with.  All things the United States is willing to kill for, and already has.

 Always looking for economic growth, Museveni recently (http://allafrica.com/stories/201004290635.html )
 became a supporter of Chinese economic power himself, citing the high cost of American energy.

And in short order Invisible Children, a reputable production company, comes out with Kony2012.  The video is an obvious reach directly to the children of the United States, employing psychological warfare as if children are the individuals who must be sold on war.  Except as we can now see, the entire region of Central and East Africa is and for hundreds of years has been a political spiderweb laced with explosive tripwires.

Only days after kony 2012 supposedly hit upwards of 90 million views (yeah, right) a resolution was introduced into Congress condemning Kony and citing the need for military action to prevent him from damaging United States interests in the region.  The resolution cites nearly 500,000 displaced persons, 2400 wrongful deaths, and  abduction of 3500 children.  These numbers, while completely inconsistent with Invisible Children's account, as well as the official Ugandan account, still pale in comparison to the rap sheet Museveni has accrued.

The United States is actively engaged in a decade long cold war against the Red East, and Uganda is being staked out as the next line in the sand.  The Libyan overthrow shows us that the West cares nothing for genocide or which individual is in charge, so long as that individual can be bought off.  Selling us an invasion of Uganda:
 a)supports or swells the cosmically high military spending level 
b) allows for American construction, mining, agricultural, security, and of course oil companies to secure contracts in the region, effectively eradicating anyone who might deal with the Red East

All while doing nothing to ensure the safety or reform necessary at home to continue functioning as a country. 

War is not peace.
The Media does not tell us the news.  They tell us the story.

E.N.D. WAR


http://allafrica.com/stories/201004290635.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoweri_Kaguta_Museveni

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-signing-lords-resistance-army-disarmament-and-northern-uganda-r

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

http://www.jamati.com/online/books/china-keitetsi-liberated-child-soldier/
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=china+keitetsi&sprefix=china+kei%2Caps%2C139

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-guinzburg/kony-2012-mike-daisey_b_1358204.html

Thanks to news.bbc.uk and blackstarnews.com for images