Phony Jokes 2.0

Excuses, backpedaling, more lies, and the truth behind Invisible Children's mission.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

The sequel to the mega-viral disaster that was Kony 2012 may only be 20 minutes long, but financier-turned-humanitarian Ben Keesey still manages to gravely insult the intelligence of an audience clearly more awake and aware than he and the corporate-financiers behind Invisible Children would like to admit. Surely though, they are more than aware of the real revolution they've scratched the surface of -- a population no longer swayed by slick marketing campaigns and who are more than ready to confront such deception. That is why Invisible Children has not only disabled comments on their latest piece of propaganda, but have also disabled the rating system for their video.


Image: Kony 2012: Part II (video can be found here). Ratings and comments have been disabled exposing "activism 2.0" as the one way predetermined, monolithic, corporate-funded agenda it was all along. (click image to enlarge)

Just like traditional corporate propaganda, Invisible Children has become a one-way marketing operation -- while posing as an "activism 2.0" exercise, it denies activists any opportunity to express their views, influence the debate, or sway the agenda in any shape form or way -- much like Soros-funded infiltrators did to the Occupy Wall Street movement right before it petered out. You are given the illusion of being a part of something bigger than yourself when in reality you are simply being used by a monolithic unilateral predetermined agenda.

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KONY 2012: a “Trojan Horse” To Get Into Schools, Said Invisible Children Cofounder Russell

Posted by B. E. Wilson on @ 7:03 am

Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy

URL to article: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/04/06/kony-2012-a-trojan-horse-to-get-into-schools-said-invisible-children-cofounder-russell/

What’s a ‘Trojan Horse’? See footnote

[below: in audio obtained by Truth Wins Out, from 2005 San Antonio conference, Jason Russell states that Invisible Children is a "Trojan Horse".]

As the LGBT rights watchdog group Truth Wins Out reported yesterday, in an April 5th, 2012 press release, the Invisible Children nonprofit behind the viral video hit KONY 2012, and its video sequel “Beyond Famous”, appears to have an invisible agenda – which TWO’s Executive Director Wayne Besen calls “stealth evangelism”:

“In audio TWO discovered from a 2005 Christian conference in San Antonio, Invisible Children’s co-founder Jason Russell called his organization a “Trojan Horse” designed to infiltrate secular institutions and surreptitiously promote his group’s version of Christian fundamentalism. The audiotape reveals that that his organization is particularly focused on targeting youth in public schools. According to Russell’s remarks (0:44):

“Coming in January we are trying to hit as many high schools, churches, and colleges as possible with this movie. We are able to be the Trojan Horse in a sense, going into a secular realm and saying, guess what life is about orphans, and it’s about the widow. It’s about the oppressed. That’s God’s heart. And to sit in a public high school and tell them about that has been life-changing. Because they get so excited. And it’s not driven by guilt, it’s driven by an adventure and the adventure is God’s.”

“This vividly reveals Invisible Children’s invisible agenda,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “This group is not simply about exposing LRA leader Joseph Kony, but engaging in stealth evangelism.

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School Children Forced to Participate in Kony 2012 Activism

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 2, 2012

An Infowars.com reader from Colorado writes to tell us the Cherry Creek Public School district in western Arapahoe County is forcing students to watch Kony 2012. According to the father of a student attending school in the district, students were instructed to write “a letter to Senator Mark Udall in support of Invisible Children’s effort to capture Joseph Kony.”

“This is incredibly disturbing that this assignment’s goal was to force students into some level of political activism in support of a potentially violent conflict (war). Schools are not to be utilized for any activist purposes or those viewpoints forced upon the students outside of the will of the parents,” the father writes.

“I plan on consulting a lawyer to find out if there is any legal action I can take against the school district.”

The Invisible Children project used viral video as a delivery vehicle for Africom propaganda. It faced a landslide of criticism within hours of the video’s release on YouTube. The criticism was so intense that the film’s director, Jason Russell, experienced a mental breakdown. He was hospitalized after he was found running through streets in his underwear, screaming incoherently and banging his fists on the pavement, according to The Telegraph.

As we have documented, Invisible Children is a “USAID centric” front group run out of the State Department. On March 17, soon after the Kony 2012 video surfaced, Tony Cartalucci wrote that in addition to the State Department, the group is supported by “Wall Street speculator George Soros and his Open Society Institute, and a myriad of corporate-funded foundations.”

“Research makes clear that Kony is a sophisticated psy-op to muster popular support for what is, in reality, nothing more than a geostrategic positioning vis-a-vis China for oil and mineral resources, as well as an effort to legitimize the U.S. military’s AFRICOM unit in the region through newly-branded ‘humanitarian’ interventions,” Alex Jones and Aaron Dykes reported on March 15.

It is particularly disturbing that students interned at public schools are now being forced to participate in the Kony 2012 scam that will ultimately result in mass murder on the African content under the cover of “humanitarian intervention.”

Joseph Kony & other Phony Jokes

....UPDATE - latest phony joke "you couldn't make this shit up department -

“Kony 2012” Director Arrested For Public Masturbation - Jason Russell, star and co-creator of viral phenomenon Kony 2012, was arrested in San Diego for public masturbation and vandalizing cars. NBC San Diego is reporting Russell was detained last night, with police describing his behavior as “very strange.”...

Why the Kony Video Could be a Hoax (But It's Not) ... The astounding success of Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video has all the earmarks of a huge hoax, most likely perpetrated by Banksy, the artist who produced Exit Through the Gift Shop. That, at least, was Rob Frankel's response to me, via email, when I asked about this particular video that is making internet history. Kony 2012, of course, is not a hoax, although Frankel makes his "what if" case well (among his arguments the viral velocity is too fast to be real and, in the how-weird-is-that category, Joseph Kony is an anagram for Phony Jokes.) – Erika Morphy, Forbes

Dominant Social Theme: This guy, Kony, the one who eats the hearts of children – get 'im! And when he's gotten, send in NATO to make sure these abuses do not continue.

Free-Market Analysis: Gee, it's getting harder and harder to be the Internet's leading analyst of elite dominant social themes. Take Kony 2012. (Please, TAKE it!)

We saw an article about the Kony 2012 "viral video" probably on Wednesday, the day it was posted. We were shocked and angered at the obviousness of the meme. But BEFORE we could write a word, everybody else had started to!

We've never seen anything like it. It bears out our contention regarding what we call the Internet Reformation – and how it is reaching a kind of critical mass.

The entire alternative media, for all its internecine quarrels, seems perched on a knife-edge now – watching carefully to see what new false-flag the "non-existent" power elite has up its sleeve. And as soon as it senses, aggregately ... even a whiff of a new ploy or gambit ... boy, does it pounce!

This must be debilitating to the powers-that-be. They haven't had this much pushback since the Gutenberg Press began threatening the Catholic Church – apparently causing them to intervene putatively by funding Luther and Calvin.

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David Childerly - KONY 2012 SCAM - Bankers Outsmarted by Millions of Young Activists?

It took most people YEARS to suss out that 9/11 was a BAG OF SHIT, and nothing like the 'official verdict'.

It's taken less than a week for people to see that the KONY 2012 scam is just that. Maybe the next 'scam' or 'false flag' will be spotted 'as it's happening'.

Are the kids (this planet's future parents) really seeing past all the Fony Propaganda so that Corporate War can ruin more countries for profit and asset?

KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation

By VC | March 13th, 2012 | Category: Vigilant Reports | 201 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.

A Propaganda Experiment

The video begins with an interesting statement: “The next 27 minutes are an experiment. But in order for it to work, you have to pay attention”. It is an experiment as it tests a new, groundbreaking way to get an agenda accepted by the Facebook generation. In the past, when the government needed to justify the invasion of a country, the President would sit in front of the camera and tell the public why war should be declared in this area of the world. In the case of KONY, the military agenda is disguised as grassroots activism, where the US army entering Uganda would be perceived as a “victory of the people”, effectively reversing the communications model.

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KONY 2012 Psy-Op Collapsing

Invisible Children disables comments on viral propaganda video + meet the real Joseph Kony.

by Tony Cartalucci

March 14, 2012 – As the US State Department, USAID centric Invisible Children psy-op KONY 2012 collapses, Invisible Children has disabled comments on their viral YouTube video.

When last checked, negative comments were voted to the top and a cascading effect of skepticism as well as damning facts began drowning out the initial confusion, sympathy, and emotional knee-jerk support the propaganda video purposefully created and preyed upon.

Image: A screenshot of Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 video on YouTube. Comments have been disabled. (click image to enlarge)

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As comments are now being censored – it is suggested that people simply go to the video and click the “dislike” button to voice their opposition to this stunt. Most likely, even that feature will be disabled, and the video KONY 2012 will become the one-way Wall Street infomercial it really is, rather than the faux-participatory “social media” “activism 2.0″ experience it masquerades as being.

The Establishment-Funded “Anti-Establishment” Charity

It has been revealed that indeed Invisible Children has been working with USAID, a US government agency that helps lay the groundwork for what could best be described as a modern-day imperial administrative network. It is now also revealed that Invisible Children attended the 2010 US State Department and Fortune 500 sponsored Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) summit in London.

AYM (also called Movements.org) it was reported, played a central role in preparing armies of US State Department funded, trained, and equipped activists to carry out the so-called “Arab Spring” years in advance. Much like KONY 2012, the Arab Spring took many by surprise and in the wave of confusion, entire nations were upturned and US proxy regimes installed. Tunisia and Libya are now full fledged client states of Wall Street and London, while the fates of nations like Egypt and Syria still hang in the balance.

Unlike the “Arab Spring” however, the KONY 2012 scam has collapsed almost as fast as it first swept the globe. And as it falls, it is taking with it the credibility of all who participated in it and promoted it, including the deceitful International Criminal Court (ICC) and its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, as well as Hollywood and the corporate-media who did all in their power to lie, manipulate and make fools out of millions once more in the pursuit of perpetuating the imperial ambitions of Wall Street and London.

KONY 2012 is Casus Belli for Emptying Out Africa

It was reported in “Libyan Rebels Inspired by Globalization” that US-proxy rebel leader, Gibril (Jabril) Elwarfally before the Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution, would claim Libya’s role in the future was to transition to a service economy, focus on education, and turn Libya into “a lake” to develop the skills of Africans to serve the needs of the European Union. If Africa is a treasure trove of resources, Libya will be the doorway through which the West loots it.

And as the West breaks down the door in North Africa, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has been concurrently deploying military assets throughout Africa, from Nigeria, across Central and East Africa and southward toward Kenya and even as far as to menace the former British holding of Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe.

It has been reported already that in Uganda British firms have participated in land grabs violently displacing up to 30,000 people in single transactions in direct cooperation with Ugandan dictator-for-life Yoweri Museveni. In fact, it is troops under Museveni’s command, who helped displace these people, and who stand to receive additional weapons and funds from Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign.

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The kony Scam, the Bigger Picture, It is about AFRICOM and more wars we cannot afford.

This "Stop Kony" campaign is now being rammed down the kid’s throats in the public schools. I have to undue the Kony lie from my children's minds sharing from my own personal experience. My kids are well meaning and impressionable. They can be naive and gullible because propagandist will exploit children's good intentions to advance an agenda. I just wonder was this campaign thought out in the White House so they can have an excuse to invade Uganda. They are using are kids to influence the parents to think we have to invade a sovereign country?

Many parents did not want the kids to see Obama on the big screen in the Public schools when he was addressing the kids. They see that Obama was trying to use the kids to get to the parents to sell his agenda. Many dictators in the past used the children for their purpose. Since Obama cannot use the school big screen anymore to get kids to sell the President's agenda to mom and dad using the children. Can this be a well-crafted public relations stunt to form a public outcry to invade Uganda to stop Kony? The truth will come out if it was a planned agenda coming out of the White House to justify invading an African country. The agenda to invade Uganda under AFRICOM was already planned way before Kony sob story gone viral all over YouTube.

It sounds very familiar when almost twenty years ago. President H.W. Bush invaded Somalia because the reason the warlords were stealing the relief food. They were using food as a weapon starving the children. When we left the country months later, it was because we messed that up imposing our will on them. It was a quagmire because we invaded a country that was not a national security risk. Seeing George H. W Bush's globalist leanings for his New World Order he always talked about. There was a different reason why we invaded Somalia. I do not trust humanitarian reasons to invade a country anymore. It has not worked in Libya and it is not going to work in Syria. We can see there is always an ulterior motive why we invade sovereign nations.

Where I was really deceived was in my teens watching MTV. In late 1984 and 1985, a campaign was started to stop the hunger in Ethiopia. Bob Geldoff of the Boomtown Rats releasing a song with Britain's famous musicians and celebrities Called Band Aid singing "Do they Know it is Christmas time" and the American version with Producer Quincy Jones and American entertainment celebrities singing "We are the World". Later that year in Philadelphia and London, a big even was planned as a major fundraiser. They had a big concert called "Live Aid". This really tugged at my heartstrings. I purchased both 45-RPM records thinking I was feeding Starving Africans children. When Live Aid came that following summer of 1985 with satellite up-link between the UK and the US broadcasted on MTV. I donated $25 thinking I was helping people.

When the truth came out years later, I was appalled. All that money raised was diverted away from were it was supposed to go. It went to feed the Ethiopian communist rebels instead. The money was not for the starving people. What a waste. I was suckered exploiting my good intentions thinking I was helping people; instead, I was funding the communist. When I was younger in elementary school who did not know any better. I would go out, stand in front of the supermarket, and ask people to donate to UNICEF. It was after the fact I leaned years later, these UNICEF funds were used to fund Communist takeovers in other countries. They use to send these UNICEF boxes home with my kids. I would not allow them to go out and raise money for the UN, if the money is going to be used to enslave people. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The Kony campaign exploiting the good intentions of the young children could be a White House ploy to get the children to influence the parents and public opinion. Why are they using the public schools to sell this? Why are they not selling this to the adults like us? It is because we would see right through it. Kony is Uganda's problem. It is not an American problem. We have enough trouble here on American soil to be really outraged about. Kony is not the only war Lord to recruit children as soldiers. Africa is full of these War Lords using these children for their armies. They are pickling on Uganda, It is because the White House and the Pentagon already has plans to invade the African nations. They are just selling Kony as an excuse as they used Saddam's weapons of mass destruction that never existed and Iran's nuclear program they cannot prove exist as a reason to start a war.

Beware of the Kony fraud, this man with child soldiers is a Uganda problem and not our problem. We have enough Americans here in distress that needs our attention right here. Besides, we do not need any more enemies. When it seems like we are going to invade because of moral reasons because it pulls at our heartstrings. We only make things worse for them and us. Do you agree? to the young kids, Charity starts at home and in our communities. Beware of the Kony scam, Do not get burned.

I seen this type of scam they use to pull at our hearts before using different people and situations. As Americans we are decent people, we are generous when the world has a need. We always responded in mass We just have to know be aware not to be scammed one more time by a tear jerking story. Kony sounds like a scam from the get go.

Posted by realman2020

The Truth: Kony 2012 Exposed

Uploaded by LimamyFilms on 8 Mar 2012

I made this video because i was tired of people supporting something that is a fraud and has two faces.Made by Zyad Limamy

Arrest Angelina Jolie For War Crimes: Kony 2012

Infowars.com
March 11, 2012

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Angelia Jolie openly works for the UN and CFR pushing globalist wars under the cover of humanitarian intervention.

Drunk on the blood of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and scores of other nations Jolie is now pushing military invasion to “help” Africa. She and her masters know full well that they are carrying out destabilization operations in the 3rd world so population can be reduced and resources stolen.

We need to call a spade a spade, this is part of a new branding rollout to launch a AFRICOM take over of Africa. This constitutes a crime against humanity and Jolie is a party to it and needs to be arrested along with other globalist that are using left cover to widen globalist empire.

The problem is you can’t go to the UN because it is at the center of the corporate global government takeover, the people are asleep and wars are being launched against innocents in the name of a bleeding heat liberal agenda. THEY COME IN PEACE!

Kony 2012 - Just Another Government Program

Uploaded by stefbot on 9 Mar 2012

Five ways your government can help Africa, pretty much by staying home. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

KONY 2012

Uploaded by invisiblechildreninc on 5 Mar 2012

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

HOW TO HELP:
Visit: http://kony2012.com
Donate to Invisible Children: https://stayclassy.org/checkout/set-donation?eid=14711
For info on Invisible Children: http://invisiblechildren.com

For official MEDIA and artist REPRESENTATION ONLY: Christina Cattarini cattarini@sunshinesachs.com

DIRECTOR: Jason Russell LEAD EDITOR: Kathryn Lang EDITORS: Kevin Trout, Jay Salbert, Jesse Eslinger LEAD ANIMATOR: Chad Clendinen ANIMATOR: Jesse Eslinger 3-D MODELING: Victor Soto VISUAL EFFECTS: Chris Hop WRITERS: Jason Russell, Jedidiah Jenkins, Kathryn Lang, Danica Russell, Ben Keesey, Azy Groth PRODUCERS: Kimmy Vandivort, Heather Longerbeam, Chad Clendinen, Noelle Jouglet ORIGINAL SCORES: Joel P. West SOUND MIX: Stephen Grubbs, Mark Friedgen, Smart Post Sound COLOR: Damian Pelphrey, Company 3 CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, Laren Poole, Gavin Kelly, Chad Clendinen, Kevin Trout, Jay Salbert, Shannon Lynch PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Jaime Landsverk LEAD DESIGNER: Tyler Fordham DESIGNERS: Chadwick Gantes, Stephen Witmer

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