US: STOP financing the LRA/CHILD murderers.

October 6th:Obama Administration was urged to stop funding child soldiers.
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For the second year in a row, the Obama administration has decided to override U.S. law and allow military assistance to foreign governments that use child soldiers.

The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 prohibits the U.S. government from providing military financing, training and assistance to regimes that force children under the age of fifteen into serving as soldiers. But a provision in the law allows the president to waive the restrictions for specific countries, and the administration has elected to exercise this power, just as it did last year.

Under the waivers, the countries of Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Yemen will be eligible for military help from Washington. All four were classified by the State Department in June as having used child soldiers, as were Burma and Somalia.

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Oct 14th:Obama administration sent U.S. troops to Africa to oust Joseph Kony.
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"I have witnessed firsthand the devastation caused by the LRA, and this will help end Kony's heinous acts that have created a human rights crisis in Africa," he said in a statement. "I have been fervently involved in trying to prevent further abductions and murders of Ugandan children, and today's action offers hope that the end of the LRA is in sight."

Here we go off to another state sponsored terrorist network that uses children for combat soldiers...Disgraceful

Thats pretty funny from Obama the man who financed Odinga's murder spree through Kenya with his own money. You dont hear a word now about Obama funding Odinga's child soldiers in their march to wipe out Christian factions.

We will never know how many murders are on obama's hands. How many weapons and child soldiers Obama created while he was a senator.

Thats a crime worthy of old sparky. Thats your Pres.

Originally posted by Shadowalker
Thats pretty funny from Obama the man who financed Odinga's murder spree through Kenya with his own money. You dont hear a word now about Obama funding Odinga's child soldiers in their march to wipe out Christian factions.

We will never know how many murders are on obama's hands. How many weapons and child soldiers Obama created while he was a senator.

Thats a crime worthy of old sparky. Thats your Pres.

edit on 15-10-2011 by Shadowalker because: (no reason given)

How many murders are on your hands my friend?

The source below is a collaborative effort of "Invisible Children" and "Resolve," leading activist groups engaged in helping local regions affected by the "LRA" to co-ordinate and disperse a live active map of atrocities committed and relay information to other areas in regards to tracking down Joseph Kony in near real-time.

The LRA Crisis Tracker is a real-time mapping platform and data collection system created to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to the atrocities of the Lord’s Resistance Army.This system was launched on September 28th in San Diego,California,and is a joint venture of Invisible Children,The Resolve and Digitaria,a consulting firm which is reknown in it's analysis of empirical data such as: Strategic Consulting,Web Analytics,Business Intelligence & Campaign Tracking.

The first source that I will quote is an excerpt from "Invisible Children's" network.
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We have seen first hand the need for greater action against the LRA, which is why we strongly applaud this deployment today. In 2008, Invisible Children Founder, Jason Russell, was invited into the LRA’s camp in Garamba National Forest in the D.R.C. This experience profoundly shaped our view of the LRA and our commitment to see the apprehension of the top leadership and the rehabilitation of the abducted child soldiers.

The second source I will quote is an excerpt from "The Resolve,"followed by a video of General Ham,Commander of AFRICOM,announcing the completion of the LRA Crisis Tracker.
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In 2004 and 2005 three of our co-founders traveled to Uganda as student researchers and witnessed firsthand the untold tragedy taking place in the country's northern region. Considered one of the world's worst neglected humanitarian crises, close to two million people were suffering brutal attacks by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and struggling to survive in overcrowded displacement camps. To fuel their rebel insurgency, the LRA was abducting thousands of children to use as soldiers and sex slaves. Despite these realities, the scale and gravity of the crisis was being ignored by the rest of the world, allowing it to persist for over two decades.

The third source I will quote will be validation of the project's launch in San Diego.
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SAN DIEGO, California - September 28, 2011 – As totalitarian regimes around the world fall through revolutions fueled by modern social networks like Twitter and Facebook, a pair of human rights organizations combating injustice in Central Africa, Invisible Children and Resolve, announced today the launch of the LRA Crisis Tracker – a groundbreaking crisis-mapping platform that broadcasts in real time the attacks perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which continues its 25-year campaign of violence against civilians across the most remote areas of Central Africa.

The fourth source I will quote is an excerpt from Digitaria media sponsors.
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For the past 20 years, one of the world's strangest and longest-lasting conflicts has been unfolding in Uganda. An ambitious new crisis-mapping project, the LRA Crisis Tracker, is working with African radio stations and non-governmental organizations to shed light on a bloody war that very few Americans know about.

Okay well there are some of the NGO's and affiliates who helped in advancing the LRA Crisis Tracker.

Welcome to the collaborative efforts of many,many,Human Right's groups.Below is a live view or near live view of the atrocities being committed in Africa's affected regions.
If you are interested in the methodology of the system you can view it here.(See source below)

Methodology

Also another group involved in the networking is "The Enough Project,"and their intiative,"SatSentinel,where you can view the latest satellite imagery in Sudan and around.

And finally we have "LRA Crisis Tracker..(See source below)
LRA Crisis Tracker

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I will do another piece involving Africom in this network.Apparently after the September 28th launch of the LRA Crisis Tracker,U.S. troops can now be actively/officially involved since the system is operable.

More evidence of U.S. involvement in supporting African governments that utilize children as soldiers in Somalia.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Awil Salah Osman prowls the streets of this shattered city, looking like so many other boys, with ripped-up clothes, thin limbs and eyes eager for attention and affection.
But Awil is different in two notable ways: he is shouldering a fully automatic, fully loaded Kalashnikov assault rifle; and he is working for a military that is substantially armed and financed by the United States.

Originally posted by mileysubet

Originally posted by Shadowalker
Thats pretty funny from Obama the man who financed Odinga's murder spree through Kenya with his own money. You dont hear a word now about Obama funding Odinga's child soldiers in their march to wipe out Christian factions.

We will never know how many murders are on obama's hands. How many weapons and child soldiers Obama created while he was a senator.

Thats a crime worthy of old sparky. Thats your Pres.

edit on 15-10-2011 by Shadowalker because: (no reason given)

How many murders are on your hands my friend?

Just as many as you my friend. Killing by proxy through the govt is no different than doing it yourself. Unless you speak up against it, then the blood transfers to your hands too. Guilt by association at the karmic level.

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Since the launch of the LRA Crisis Tracker I have been looking for other initiatives that have been started on or around that time frame of September 28th 2011 to present,and different affiliated groups in relation.

Below is another initiative started on October 7th 2011,soon after the Crisis Tracker went live,and Obama's announcement of troops being sent to Africa on Oct. 14th 2011.

Channel16 is a network of eyewitness bloggers which can utilize the functions within ch16's "On The Ground" tools to help disperse information to the network,which includes a detailed map,and three tools one can use to inform the collective network of any humanitarian crisis on the ground in real-time or near real-time..Now a word from Channel16.
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Often, global crises are met by too little, too late. News of events on the ground become lost and we are left learning lessons for the future rather than tackling the causes of the crisis. The rights of those in the centre of crisis and conflicts are often pushed aside and innocent people are killed or left with long terms physical or mental trauma.

Channel16 will help change that.

Named after the broadcast frequency of an international distress signal, Channel 16 creates a new frontline for responding to global crises. Via Channel 16, people can see reports from the epicentre of humanitarian emergencies and long term crises and learn what actions they can take to help.

Also a list of other groups involved..(See below)
1.Demotix

2.IECAH

3.Peace Direct

4.War Child

5.Global Witness

6.Oxfam

7.MERLIN

There are seven more named in the about me section of the homepage if you are interested in seeing who's involved.

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S. 1067: Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 was signed into law on May 24th,2010.A statement on the signing of the Recovery Act can be seen here by the President.(See source below)
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Also a brief description of the Act can be seen here which highlights key areas of interest in the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act:..(See source below)

Following introduction in May 2009 by Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA), Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) and Representative Brad Miller (D-NC), the bill gained an average of 20 cosponsors a month until passage the next year. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on March 11th, 2010 with 65 Senators as cosponsors, then passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on May 13th, 2010 with 202 Representatives as cosponsors. These 267 Members of Congress helped bring to the President's desk the most widely cosponsored bill Africa-related piece of legislation in the last 37 years, or as far back as electronic records document.

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It also appears that not only does the NFC have investments in the DRC but the World Bank has heavy investments that come from the Carbon Funds & Facilities at the World Bank.
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest country in Africa and hosts the third largest population. Forests cover about sixty percent of the country including the vast majority of the Congo Basin rainforest. DRC’s wealth in natural resources stands in stark contrast with the poverty of its population.

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This source below verifies the Carbon Funds & Facilities at the World Bank:
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The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit (CFU) uses money contributed by governments and companies in OECD countries to purchase project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The emission reductions are purchased through one of the CFU's carbon funds on behalf of the contributor, and within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) or Joint Implementation (JI).

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The World Bank and Monetary Fund have also contributed to the industrial logging of Cameroon,which was passed in 1994 and as reported in 2007 the alleviation from poverty in the area is negligible.It appears now that they have moved their logging efforts upto the DRC in the recent land grab by the NFC in Uganda.
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This is the 5 step plan put forth by Invisible Children to end the conflict with the LRA permanently.

1.Protection of communities

By extending the Early Warning Radio Network,launching Mobile Response Teams, and creating the LRA Crisis Tracker, Invisible Children is giving the most vulnerable communities the ability to receive warnings of LRA activity and alert local security forces to LRA violence.This network will also give humanitarians the information necessary to best deploy services.

2.Encouraging LRA defection

Through FM radio broadcasts and community based defection fliers, Invisible Children will be sending “Come Home” messages directly to LRA members.These messages will inform the LRA how to safely defect and return home.

The rest can be seen at the source below:
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Also here is another assessment from the Enough Project which works in tandem with Invisible Children.

Now is the time to bring an end to the predatory militia known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. Despite years of counterinsurgency operations, numerous peace initiatives, and the passage in 2010 of historic legislation with unprecedented bipartisan support for the U.S. government to lead international action to apprehend the LRA leadership, the LRA continues to terrorize civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic, while maintaining the possibility of a return to northern Uganda.

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The Citizen Journalists on the Frontline in Sudan hosted by " Enough Project . " Which is a project of the " Center for American progress . "

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For months, Ryan Boyette’s name and his presence in the Nuba Mountains remained a closely-held detail, never mentioned in public reporting about the atrocities that have been unfolding in the area since June. But as Enough’s Jonathan Hutson noted to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof for his Sunday column, Boyette is “irreplaceable” through his role as a rare foreign witness to the Sudanese government’s aerial bombardments and ground attacks. “There is no substitute for someone on the ground,” Hutson said.