Invisible Children's "KONY 2012" Video

[gnaruki]

KONY 2012? Knock-Out-New-York in 2012? Obviously this was created by a group of hipster terrorists.

"pop-up" a "cop-shop" "thift-store" and see what happens.....

Remember to mark up or down everything %959595340349558109534051985415% on the 99:1 ratio. They really eat that shit up.

[gnaruki]

Updated Saturday 12:00 p.m. ET: SAN DIEGO – The maker of an Internet film gone viral that calls for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has been hospitalized in California following an "unfortunate incident" that his group and family said on Friday stemmed from the emotional toll of recent weeks.

Jason Russell, director of the 30-minute "Kony 2012" video and co-founder of the group Invisible Children, was hospitalized on Thursday for "exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition," Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey said in a statement.

"The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday," Keesey said, without providing further details.

"Jason's passion and his work have done so much to help so many, and we are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue," he said.

Russell "did some irrational things brought on by extreme exhaustion and dehydration," his wife said Friday night, a day after he was detained over reports of a man masturbating and acting strangely, NBC News reported.

Danica Russell, in a family statement obtained by NBC News, suggested sudden attention and criticism of the film may have led to her husband's behavior.

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"We thought a few thousand people would see the film, but in less than a week, millions of people around the world saw it," Danica Russell said. "While that attention was great for raising awareness about Joseph Kony, it also brought a lot of attention to Jason -- and, because of how personal the film is, many of the attacks against it were also very personal, and Jason took them very hard.

She denied her husband had substance abuse or drinking problems.

"On our end the focus remains only on his health, and protecting our family. We'll take care of Jason, you take care of the work. The message of the film remains the same: stop at nothing," she added.

Earlier, NBCSanDiego.com reported police Lt. Andra Brown as saying that Jason Russell, 33, was detained by police Thursday in the Pacific Beach neighborhood.

"The San Diego Police Department received several calls that he was acting bizarrely, running into traffic, interfering with traffic, yelling," Brown said.

She said officers detained the man, who according to witnesses was in "various stages of undress," but did not arrest him after determining that it was more appropriate to transport him to a medical facility. She declined to name him.

Brown said police responded to reports in the Pacific Beach area of a man in his underwear, running in the street and screaming. Some people reported they had seen the man masturbating, Brown told msnbc.com.

The man was detained by officers and then taken to a local medical facility for evaluation and treatment, Brown told msnbc.com.

Russell is one of the founders responsible for the "KONY 2012" video that went viral last week. He is described on the organization's website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer." Russell is also described as a Christian and father to two children who wants to have nine more children with his wife he calls his "best friend for over 23 years."

The video of alleged child atrocities by Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has been viewed more than 100 million times on the Internet. The 30-minute YouTube film aims to wake up the world to atrocities committed by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, including kidnapping children and forcing them to fight.

Invisible Children tapped 12 influential policy makers and 20 celebrities with popular Twitter accounts, including Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie, to spread the video.

The phenomenal success of the video, including the savvy media campaign with tweets about Kony, has been hailed for inspiring young people to activism, but has suffered some criticism including that it oversimplified a long-standing human rights crisis.


In an interview with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, Jason Russell discusses the Invisible Children campaign.

Russell, who narrates the video with a personal story that juxtaposes shots of his young son in San Diego with the hopelessness of Ugandan children, told Reuters last week the video was only meant as a kick-starter to a complicated issue.

"It definitely oversimplifies the issue. This video is not the answer, it's just the gateway into the conversation. And we made it quick and oversimplified on purpose," he said. "We are proud that it is simple. We like that. And we want you to keep investigating, we want you to read the history."

NBCSanDiego.com, NBC News and Reuters contributed to this story.

Emotional stress over a viral video? YOU LOVE ME, YOU REALLY LOVE ME!!!!!

Some people are always out for approval.....

Maybe he should adopt 9 Ugandan orphans.

[friendlyskies]

How soon before the inevitable conspiracy theories kick in?

Heh, you haven't been paying attention! Almost immediately, and they're everywhere. This is HUGE for the tin foil hat crowd. Not just them, either - I'm on vacation and haven't really been keeping up, but I've even seen links to mainstream sources from my facebook friends discussing this as a conspiracy. The gist is, "This is a trick to get leftists and normally anti-war people to support military intervention in Uganda, where oil was recently discovered."

Anyway, I just checked my favorite conspiracy site to see if they had posted anything, and hahaha there are THREE stories about it. Geez, Whitney Houston's death only got one! This is Lady Gaga and Homeland Security level Illuminati social control! Here is Vigilant Citizen's breakdown of the KONY2012 campaign, I'm sure you all can google a zillion more conspiracy interpretations floating around out there if you try, if Kony got three on VC then it's, erm, gone viral.

1. KONY got the cover story! Big shit for a viral video (usually s/he talks more about mainstream manipulation, eg http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantrepo ... ass-media/). Huh, and it got 405 comments, which is unheard of for a VC piece that doesn't involve a celebrity:

KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation

By VC |March 13th, 2012 | Category: Vigilant Reports | 405 comments

The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate agenda that is presented in the video in a very manipulative way. We’ll look at the agenda behind KONY 2012 and how it uses reverse psychology to not only justify a military operation in Africa, but to actually have people demand it.

KONY 2012 is a viral sensation that swept the entire world in less than 24 hours. Its main subject is the African rebel leader Joseph Kony, his war crimes and the clearly defined “movement” to stop him. Countless celebrities have endorsed the movement, news sources have reported it and social media is buzzing with it. While the problem of guerrilla warfare and child soldiers has plagued Africa for decades, and several documentaries have already been produced regarding the issue, this particular 29-minute video made managed to obtain mass exposure and support.

KONY 2012 is less of a documentary than it is a highly efficient infomercial that is tailor-made for the Facebook generation, using state-of-the-art marketing techniques to make its point. Young people like “underground movements” and want to feel like they are changing the world. KONY 2012 taps into these needs to bring about something that is not “hip” or “underground” at all: A military operation in Uganda. Not only that, it urges the participants of the movement to order stuff, to wear bracelets that are associated with an online profile and to record their actions in social media. This makes KONY 2012 the first artificially created movement that is fully track-able, monitor-able and quantifiable by those who engendered it. In other words, what appears to be a movement “from the people” is actually a new way for the elite to advance its agenda.

2.

KONY 2012 Screening in Uganda Met With Anger

The screening of KONY 2012 in Northern Uganda was not met with the appraise it got in America. Quite to the contrary, Ugandans were appalled by the “Make Him Famous” campaign that gave Joseph Kony superstar status. I perfectly understand what they mean. The definition of “famous” is having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature. Synonyms of “famous” are famed, notable, illustrious, celebrated, eminent, distinguished. One does not need to be a specialist in neurolinguistics to understand that the “Make Him Famous” campaign might be perceived by the brain in a perverse way. And the Ugandans are not fans of the merchandising. Also very understandable.

Facing this criticism, representatives of Invisible Children stated that KONY 2012 “was targeted to educate a younger Western audience”. In other words, the video was tailor-made to indoctrinate young gullible American and European kids (as we’ve seen in the article KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation) and no one else. Good comeback. Here’s an article from The Guardian about the screening.

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Co-Founder of Invisible Children Arrested for Masturbating in Public

Jason Russell was recovering in hospital suffering from malnutrition and exhaustion, Invisible Children's chief executive said.

So the guy we saw in KONY 2012 talking to his son and interacting with African kids has allegedly vandalized cars and made sexual gestures while wearing his underwear. He was then hospitalized for “exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition”. His unusual behavior is somewhat similar to the breakdowns that mind control victims sometimes suffer, at one point or another, especially when times get tough. As we know, terms such as “rehab”, “treatments” and “hospitalization” can be code words for “re-programming”. Is he another mind-controlled patsy that was used by the elite to communicate message? Was he set-up to be the fall guy of a campaign that got a whole lot of backlash? Can’t give a definite answer but there’s some fishiness going on there. Here’s an article from The Guardian.

[Note: This website is particularly concerned with people being "programmed" or "brainwashed" by a variety of entities - usually national governments or the Illuminati - into doing several things. The usual suspects are performers who promote the Illuminati agenda (such as, say, sexualizing children, eg "Tiaras and Toddlers" producers or Vogue magazine editors), newscasters, soldiers and other military types who freak out, and politicians. They have a link to an entire book on the subject, detailing the methods used (a really amazing read, with lots of S&M), and sometimes suggest that people with strong Christian or Muslim beliefs are less able to be brainwashed, hence Whitney Houston's breakdown and the need for her subsequent [Satanic] sacrifice at some pre-party for the Grammies, since she couldn't be reprogrammed after assorted breakdowns.]

[gnaruki]

AFRIKA!!!!!!!!


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRZq3J0uz4[/youtube]

[vagabond]

via LAist:

The family of "Kony 2012" filmmaker Jason Russell has issued a statement on his health, explaining his recent public meltdown.
Russell's family says he was diagnosed with "brief reactive psychosis" following his naked rant on the streets of a Pacific Beach neighborhood last Thursday and will remain hospitalized for several weeks, according to TMZ.

The publication posted a portion of the statement as follows:

We would, again, like to make it clear that Jason's incident was in no way the result of drugs or alcohol in his body. The preliminary diagnosis he received is called brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration. Though new to us, the doctors say this is a common experience given the great mental, emotional and physical shock his body has gone through in these last two weeks. Even for us, it's hard to understand the sudden transition from relative anonymity to worldwide attention - both raves and ridicules, in a matter of days.
Russell, who reacted wildly to the criticism of his recently released film, "will get better," says the family, adding, "He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months before he is fully able to step back into his role with Invisible Children."
Russell had been detained on a "5150" psychiatric hold following his fit, where he maniacally banged on the cement and cars, gesticulated sexually and cursed incoherently. His family pledges to focus on a "thorough" recovery, not a "speedy" one.

[WillyBlues]

"He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months

Sounds like detox and psych evaluation followed by rehab. Looks like a "bender" incident. Day's start melting into each other, you get no REM sleep, forget to eat, drink beer instead of whiskey for dehydration. You try and climb out of that and this is one of the possible results.

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

[gnaruki]

do i drink the rubbing alcohol or the gasoline or the hydrogen peroxide!!?!?!??!?!

[gnaruki]

Nkunda for warlord of the year 2012

[friendlyskies]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68GbzIkYdc8[/youtube]

The KONY 2012 conspiracy presented in Rap News format.

[gnaruki]

Nkunda is awesome. He beat the old colonialists at their game. Fucking brilliant.

[pmgaido]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/320252/ ... -drunk.htm

[WillyBlues]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/320252/20120327/kony-2012-invisible-children-executive-video-drunk.htm

He's come out and said the handle was water and he was joking, verbatim was, "can't a guy make a joke for his friends".

I'd tell him to find a new line of business if he wants to joke about embezzlement while wasted.

[Kurt]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/320252/20120327/kony-2012-invisible-children-executive-video-drunk.htm

He's come out and said the handle was water and he was joking, verbatim was, "can't a guy make a joke for his friends".

I'd tell him to find a new line of business if he wants to joke about embezzlement while wasted.

I didn't take it seriously either but if I was the kind of person who could throw $1 million at a charity I would chose the one that did not make the joke video about embezzlement.

[vagabond]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/320252/20120327/kony-2012-invisible-children-executive-video-drunk.htm

He's come out and said the handle was water and he was joking, verbatim was, "can't a guy make a joke for his friends".

I'd tell him to find a new line of business if he wants to joke about embezzlement while wasted.

I didn't take it seriously either but if I was the kind of person who could throw $1 million at a charity I would chose the one that did not make the joke video about embezzlement.

At least Wyclef kept it to himself.

[gnaruki]

I was reading on AL-jazeera earlier that 'KONY' attempted a second video recently. Apparently a flop.

That 'water' in a handle of vodka was clearly oily, which suggests it contained alcohol (If I know anything I know booze). Stupid hipsters, tricks are for kids.