Will Ugandan LRA Leader, Joseph Kony, Sign A Peace Deal That Will End A 20 Year Rebellion?

Will the leader of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army,Joseph Kony, actually sign the peace deal to end Uganda's 20-yr. rebellion or will he be a no-show? Because he feared for his safety, he neglected to appear at previous signing ceremonies. Joseph Kony is accused of being a war criminal & he must first sign this deal before he faces the International Criminal Court to deal with those accusations. Here's more from BBC:

"Earlier, Uganda's government said it would ask for arrest warrants for Mr Kony to be lifted if he signed.

But Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa made it clear that Mr Kony must sign the deal first before the issue of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was addressed.

"We were only prepared to talk to the ICC about an alternative method of resolving that dispute, and also of justice in the country, only if peace is going to come to the people of northern Uganda," he told the BBC's World Today programme." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7756218.stm

This first video shows a press conference that Joseph Kony held about a year ago.Some of the very young members of the army are questioned & you can see Joseph Kony up close & personal. He blames not himself, but the Ugandan government, for all of Uganda's woes.The second video talks about the 20-year conflict & how it has affected Northern Uganda. It is very edifying.

Opec Isn't Happy With The Steady Decline In The Price Of Oil! Cartel Members Hold Meeting In Cairo To Discuss!

Opec has already tried to cut the output of barrels just last month,but that did nothing to stop the steady decline in the price of oil. Venezuela,an Opec member, wants to cut the amount of oil that is produced by a million barrels per day to increase the price of oil. Right now, the price of oil is below $55 a barrel. Here's more from BBC:

"Opec ministers are meeting in Cairo to discuss the recent steep fall in the price of oil.

Falls in demand in the US, the world's top energy consumer, and other industrialised countries, have helped drive prices down from a record peak of more than $147 a barrel.

Opec, which accounts for 40% of global oil production, cut output by 1.5 million barrels a day last month, but the move failed to stop prices from declining.

While cartel members have not ruled out making another output cut, some say the impact of the existing cuts still have to be felt.

"Combined with weakening non-Opec supplies, the projected...output curtailment suggests that the oil market could actually tighten moving into 2009," Barclays Capital said in a research note."(END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7756168.stm

It pains me that the United States consumes more oil than any other industrialised country. Hopefully under Barack Obama,that will change also.

Books About Issues:" Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal"!

Right now, one of my reads is the book "Sellout:The Politics of Racial Betrayal" by Randall Kennedy. He is a black author that deals with race issues in a prolific way.Here's the description of his work from Amazon.com:

"From Publishers Weekly
Accusations of selling out—of betraying or neglecting the interests of blacks to curry favor with whites—are among the most damaging that African-Americans level at each other, according to Harvard law professor Kennedy. Called a sellout himself after his book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word appeared, Kennedy here explores the charge's potency. He recounts the centuries-long history of sellout rhetoric—sometimes rooted in real betrayals by blacks who echoed white supremacist ideology or informed on slave rebellions or civil rights organizations—and examines its role both in uniting the black community against racism and in stifling debate within the community. A long chapter analyzes conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom Kennedy acquits of sellout charges, and a fascinating discussion of racial categories and White Negroes—blacks who pass as white—shows how murky the concept of racial loyalty is. Kennedy finds sellout rhetoric to be overblown—often aimed at blacks guilty only of success—but won't entirely repudiate it. African-Americans should be subject to having citizenship in Black America revoked if they repudiate even a minimal communal allegiance (although Kennedy is hard-pressed to think of plausible instances where this might apply). His is a lively, thoughtful, provocative commentary on a centerpiece of black identity politics. (Jan. 8)
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http://www.amazon.com/Sellout-Politics-Racial-Betrayal-Vintage/dp/0307388425/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227946290&sr=1-1