RE: ugnet_: STOP PRESS
The answer Not in anyway whatsoever. There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Mulindwa Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; rwanda; Congo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CameroonNet; great Subject: ugnet_: STOP PRESS Netters The question is very simple, how are the results of the elections in India going to affect Uganda politics? Congratulations Ms Sonia Gandhi it is about time. Edward Mulindwa Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004
ugnet_: Are you a Professional?
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and willtellyou whether you are qualified to be a "professional". Scroll downfor Each answer. The questions are NOT thatdifficult. 1. How do you put a giraffeinto arefrigerator? Thecorrect answer is: Open the refrigerator, putin the giraffe, and Close thedoor. This question tests whether youtend to do simple Things in an overlycomplicatedway. 2. How do you put an elephant into arefrigerator? Did you say, "Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? "(Wrong Answer) Correct Answer: Open therefrigerator;take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close thedoor. This tests yourability to think through the repercussions ofyour previousactions. 3. The Lion King ishosting an animal conference. All the animals Attend except one. Which animaldoes notattend? Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You Just puthimin there. This tests your memory. OK, even if you didnot Answerthe First three questions correctly, you still haveone more chance to Show your Trueabilities. 4. There is ariver you must crossbut it is inhibited by crocodiles. How do youmanageit? Correct Answer: You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly fromyourmistakes. According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around90% of the Professionals they tested got all questions wrong. Butmany Pre-schoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says This conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have The brains of a four-year-old. Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: Are you a Professional?
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and willtellyou whether you are qualified to be a "professional". Scroll downfor Each answer. The questions are NOT thatdifficult. 1. How do you put a giraffeinto arefrigerator? Thecorrect answer is: Open the refrigerator, putin the giraffe, and Close thedoor. This question tests whether youtend to do simple Things in an overlycomplicatedway. 2. How do you put an elephant into arefrigerator? Did you say, "Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? "(Wrong Answer) Correct Answer: Open therefrigerator;take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close thedoor. This tests yourability to think through the repercussions ofyour previousactions. 3. The Lion King ishosting an animal conference. All the animals Attend except one. Which animaldoes notattend? Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You Just puthimin there. This tests your memory. OK, even if you didnot Answerthe First three questions correctly, you still haveone more chance to Show your Trueabilities. 4. There is ariver you must crossbut it is inhibited by crocodiles. How do youmanageit? Correct Answer: You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly fromyourmistakes. According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around90% of the Professionals they tested got all questions wrong. Butmany Pre-schoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says This conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have The brains of a four-year-old. Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: Ndejje University - Luwero
Greetings I am writing to you to introduce a newly started University Ndejje University in Uganda East Africa. The University is in advanced stages of developing a website and inter/intranet network for instant communication. The University has different campuses in Ugandans capital Kampala and another about 25 km away from the capital city an ideal place for academic pursuit. The university is seeking contacts with external university resource in the development of the following; - Science and Research Development programme - Student Exchange Programme - Human Resources Exchange and Development - Institutional Academic programme Development If there is wish from your university to get in touch of Vice Chancellor please find the contacts below . Contact Vice Chancellor Rt. Rev. Dr. Micheal Senyimba Ndejje Univeristy P.O . Box 7088 Kampala Tel: 256 77- 507306 256 77- 730322 __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
ugnet_: National Libraries - Uganda Crisis
Forwarded. Fellow Ugandans, Immagine a Country without a "National helitage"!. The National Library is mandated to "act as a depository for national and foreign governments publication... for purpose of promoting research... and for preservation of published national culture and intellectual out put" (The National Library act, 2003 Dated 17th January, 2003).This function has been formally performed by Makerere University Library, and Uganda Management Institute.Less than a year after enactment of the national Library, the Government comes out with a statement saying "...The Ministry has also failed to pay the rent arrears and national Library will be evicted from the current offices because the land loard has given them a notice to quit his premises at Buganda Road by 10th may 2004" (Statement of the honourable Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development to the Social Services Committee, 29th April, 2003).What do you say? Read the message below. Thanks. Elisam Magara Senior Lecturer, East African School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University Home address:Box 16217, Kampala Personal address: Box 40277, Kampala Fax: 256-41-540817, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; website: http://www.makerere.ac.ug/easlis/people/magara.html To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "charles batambuze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04 May 2004, 03:08:44 PM Subject: [Uganda_LibAssoc] Crisis hits NLU NLU IN CRISIS OVER RENT ARREARS In a period of less than a year since the enaction of the National Library Act 2003, establishing the National Library of Uganda (NLU)a looming crisis over rent threatens to sniff out the short life of the newly born institution. According to sources, NLU has an accumulated bill of Shs 127 million spanning a period of 3 1/2 years. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development under whom NLU falls has indicated that they have failed to pay the rent arrears and so the library will be evicted. A notice of eviction has been served by the land lord, Patidar Samaj giving 10 May 2004 as the date by which NLU should vacate. The Ministry is moving towards relocating the library to Mengo Kisenyi, a proposal that is unpopular with staff of NLU, Uganda Library Association and some Members of Parliament. The reason being that Kisenyi is a slum and the social centre is in a very sorry state to house an institution worth the name of a national library. In another development, the Uganda Library Association (ULA) in a petition dated 15 April 2004, petitioned Parliament through the Social Services Sessional Committee to intervene and stall the schemes of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) to kill NLU. ULA petition got a hearing last week on 29 April 2004 when the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Zoe Bakoko Bakoru and her team were appearing before the Social Services Sessional Committee over the budget for FY 2004-05. The Ministry did not budge on its determination to relocate the library to Mengo Kisenyi inspite of protests from some MPs on the Social Services Committee, NLU Director and fearless arguments advanced by ULA Chairperson Elisam Magara. The committee decided that they would visit the Social Centre in Mengo Kisenyi this week beginning 5 May before a decision to move the library is made. At the end of the meeting, the Minister and Permanent Secretary were full of rage and fury over the petition and the petitioners. They did not have kind words for ULA which they said is a small organisation that won't move them. They pointed out that our "screaming" before the Social Services Committee would not help to resolve the crisis. The above statements not withstanding, ULA remains committed to ensuring that this high profile case gets to a satisfactory end. We believe that we are a small organisation that is politically significant. An organisation whose power of mobilisation and movement must not be underestimated. An organisation whose real power resides with the resilience of our membership and their creativity. ULA is now moving towards drawing the public into the debate of eviction and the broader debate of library funding through the mass media. We trust that our membership will contribute to the debate through letters to the editor, etc. For now please watch this space for updates on the case. Charles Batambuze GENERAL SECRETARY Från: Beatrice Sekabembe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: 2004.05.07 07:35 Till: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Storlek: 2 Kopia: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rubrik: Re: Crisis hits National Library of Uganda Dear All, This being a crisis (10th May is around the corner), I suggest that two crisis teams should immediately be formed by ULA to go to both the P.M's office and to Parliament. A third team should try to plead with the land lord to give us a little more time
ugnet_: National Library of Uganda -for Land Money
--- original message --- > A suggestion to contact the Prime Minster was raised we should plan how > to > present our case to him. While we are doing that I suggest that a > committee > be formed to present the case to parliament. Parliament can respond > faster > than the PM's office. Since the NL is set up by Act its in the interest > of > parliament to see it run and not collapse. Forwarded. Fellow Ugandans, Immagine a Country without a "National heltage"!. The National Library is mandated to "act as a depository for national and foreign governments publication... for purpose of promoting research... and for preservation of published national culture and intellectual out put" (The National Library act, 2003 Dated 17th January, 2003).This function has been formally performed by Makerere University Library, and Uganda Management Institute.Less than a year after enactment of the national Library, the Government comes out with a statement saying "...The Ministry has also failed to pay the rent arrears and national Library will be evicted from the current offices because the land loard has given them a notice to quit his premises at Buganda Road by 10th may 2004" (Statement of the honourable Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development to the Social Services Committee, 29th April, 2003).What do you say? Read the message below. Thanks. Elisam Magara Senior Lecturer, East African School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University Home address:Box 16217, Kampala Personal address: Box 40277, Kampala Fax: 256-41-540817, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; website: http://www.makerere.ac.ug/easlis/people/magara.html To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "charles batambuze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04 May 2004, 03:08:44 PM Subject: [Uganda_LibAssoc] Crisis hits NLU NLU IN CRISIS OVER RENT ARREARS In a period of less than a year since the enaction of the National Library Act 2003, establishing the National Library of Uganda (NLU)a looming crisis over rent threatens to sniff out the short life of the newly born institution. According to sources, NLU has an accumulated bill of Shs 127 million spanning a period of 3 1/2 years. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development under whom NLU falls has indicated that they have failed to pay the rent arrears and so the library will be evicted. A notice of eviction has been served by the land lord, Patidar Samaj giving 10 May 2004 as the date by which NLU should vacate. The Ministry is moving towards relocating the library to Mengo Kisenyi, a proposal that is unpopular with staff of NLU, Uganda Library Association and some Members of Parliament. The reason being that Kisenyi is a slum and the social centre is in a very sorry state to house an institution worth the name of a national library. In another development, the Uganda Library Association (ULA) in a petition dated 15 April 2004, petitioned Parliament through the Social Services Sessional Committee to intervene and stall the schemes of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) to kill NLU. ULA petition got a hearing last week on 29 April 2004 when the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Zoe Bakoko Bakoru and her team were appearing before the Social Services Sessional Committee over the budget for FY 2004-05. The Ministry did not budge on its determination to relocate the library to Mengo Kisenyi inspite of protests from some MPs on the Social Services Committee, NLU Director and fearless arguments advanced by ULA Chairperson Elisam Magara. The committee decided that they would visit the Social Centre in Mengo Kisenyi this week beginning 5 May before a decision to move the library is made. At the end of the meeting, the Minister and Permanent Secretary were full of rage and fury over the petition and the petitioners. They did not have kind words for ULA which they said is a small organisation that won't move them. They pointed out that our "screaming" before the Social Services Committee would not help to resolve the crisis. The above statements not withstanding, ULA remains committed to ensuring that this high profile case gets to a satisfactory end. We believe that we are a small organisation that is politically significant. An organisation whose power of mobilisation and movement must not be underestimated. An organisation whose real power resides with the resilience of our membership and their creativity. ULA is now moving towards drawing the public into the debate of eviction and the broader debate of library funding through the mass media. We trust that our membership will contribute to the debate through letters to the editor, etc. For now please watch this space for updates on the case. Charles Batambuze GENERAL SECRETARY Från: Beatrice Sekabembe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: 2004.05.07 07:35 Till: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ugnet_: Who owns Wakyato/Ngoma Land - The Peasant's Destiny
http://www.idr.co.ug/dfwa-u/gallery.htm - Farmers are evicted from their land in wakyato and other areas in Luwero -Farmers have stayed on land for over 40 years - Who owns this land - state minister of defence or the forestry department or people claiming to be government officials. - Where were these people not paid before eviction what does the law say bwanika __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
ugnet_: [abujaNig] TOP OFFICIALS HOLD FAKE DEGREES
Top Officials Hold Fake Degrees CBS News Monday 10 May 2004 They are safety engineers at nuclear power plants and biological weapons experts. They work at NATO headquarters, at the Pentagon and at nearly every other federal agency. And, as CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, they're employees with degrees from phony schools. These degrees aren't worth the paper that they're printed on, says one insider, who asked CBS News to protect his identity. The man worked at a so-called diploma mill where students pay a lot of money to get a degree online or through the mail for little or no work. He says he's not surprised to know that there are people working at almost every level of government who have degrees from these types of operations. Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Abell has a master's from Columbus University, a diploma mill Louisiana shut down. Deputy Assistant Secretary Patricia Walker lists among her degrees, a bachelor's from Pacific Western, a diploma mill banned in Oregon and under investigation in Hawaii. CBS News requested interviews with both officials. The Pentagon turned us down, saying, We don't consider it an issue. But using such a degree is a crime in some states. Alan Contreras cracks down on diploma mills for Oregon, a state that's taken the lead on this issue. You don't want somebody with a fake degree working in Homeland Security, says Contreras. You don't want somebody with a fake degree teaching your children or designing your bridges. But we found employees with diploma mill degrees at the new Transportation Security Administration, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Departments of Treasury and Education, where Rene Drouin sits on an advisory committee. He has degrees from two diploma mills including Kensington University. Kensington was forced out of business by officials in California and Hawaii. Another Kensington alum, Florida State Rep. Jennifer Carroll, just stepped down from the National Commission on Presidential Scholars. Both Carroll and Drouin say they worked hard and thought their degrees were legitimate. The students are being sold a bill of goods that really don't help them at all, the insider says. There are slick people out there, and it's happening every day, every minute probably somewhere in America. And taxpayers have paid for bogus degrees some workers used for hiring, promotions and raises. The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/TTwplB/TM -~- **DISCOUNTED HOTELS FLIGHTS!!!* http://affiliates.travelhero.com/index.cfm/country/NG/city/ABUJA/AID/1837/index.html ++ You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. -- Dale Carnegie --- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Internet Solution A one stop solution for your web site. It is fully Nigerian, with Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo Alphabets and so many Nigeria/African resources easy to use and a 24/7 support access. Why go further when a Nigerian has it right here, try this one you wont go elsewhere. I ve my signature to it... http://www.africaservice.com PJ Adamz Abuja Nigeria. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abujaNig/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Mengo warns non-Baganda on land
Mengo warns non- Baganda on land By Robert Mwanje May 15, 2004 - Monitor MENGO - Buganda government has warned on the rampant buying of land in central region, saying it may leave natives homeless. The Katikkiro, Joseph Ssemwogerere (eight), said on Thursday non-Baganda who buy chunks of land in Buganda region with a motive of eliminating natives should be careful since it might create land disputes in future. We welcome every tribe here, but those who buy masses of land aiming at blocking Bugandas future may cause disputes in future, he said.He was addressing members of Kiboga Development Foundation (KDF) at his office in Mengo. He said some foreign tribes (non-Baganda) buy land to fail the kingdoms development in future and ensure that the kingdoms natives are left with out land. He said a bigger part of Kiboga and other districts had been sold to non -Baganda, which will affect the environment and the kingdoms plans. Ssemwogerere also blamed the Government for excluding Kampala district from the kingdom, unlike other kingdoms. Else where, big towns are part of the kingdom unlike here. Why? he asked. He asked the Government to return Masaza (counties) headquarters and their land titles to the kingdom for ease of co-ordination of development programmes in Kabakas government. Most districts are still retaining our buildings and land, I ask the Government to return them, he added. The delegation donated Shs 100,000 to the kingdoms education fund and pledged more support to the Kingdom. The foundation coordinator is Dominick Nanyini who said, We shall always be there when you need us. The function was attended by many Baganda who pledged support to the Buganda kingdom and Kabaka Mutebi. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Do you Yahoo!?SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price.
RE: ugnet_: Acholi clergy defends fr. Rodriguez
Vukoni, the problem with your line of argument is that it cannot be supported by the facts on the groundlots of rhetoric but no substance. Firstly can you Vukoni mention one southerner who is a member of the LRA. Many ex-LRA rebels have been interviewed not only by government officials, but by foreign news media including foreign NGOs. European and American governments have all sent representatives to analyze the situation in the north of Uganda and non of them have made any southern link with Kony. Everyone has come away, uninimously acknowledging that Kony is the culprit responsible for the crimes in the north. All the major foreign stakeholders in Uganda, including UK and USA, have acknowledged that the LRA is a terrorist organization. They however advise that the government needs to do more to protect people in these conflict areas. Not one ex-rebel has ever made a southern connection with LRA. ALL ex-rebels point to one man KONY as the main engineer of all the criminality in the north; the maiming, abductions, enslavement of innocent people and wanton destruction of property. Another thing you need to know is that, unlike other parts of the world where there is similar confict, the government of Uganda is not sensoring what is going on in the north. There has been unlimited access to the conflict zone to foreign government officials and NGOs. That is why your story is so unbelivable, because if it had any truth to it, it should have been varified by foreign observers. You accuse me of tribalism for pointing out (in my former postings) that Acholis were responsible for the trouble in the north. I will acknowledge that not ALL Acholis are culpable, but let's face facts, where does Kony come from? and where do the rank and file in LRA come from?. You ask me why has the conflict persisted for 18yrs, to answer your question i ask you, why has the rebelion failed to take root in Lango, and Itesot. LRA has been kicked out of Lango and Itesot, but has persisted in Acholi, that is very telling. Kony attempted to export his madness to Lango and Itesot, because these regions are geographically closest to Acholi, but he was kicked out by the poeple (not so much UPDF). Another reason why LRA has lasted as long as it has, is because Sudan has been aiding and abating there activities. Now that Sudan is no longer supporting Kony, let us wait and see how long they will last. You should also know that Kony/LRA has never had bases in Uganda, that is also telling. Even those fighting in LRA are coarsed into fighting. Vukoni you need to educate yourself on the antics of Kony and how he runs the LRA, which have been well documented, not just by the Ugandan government, but by foreign NGOs and goverments. Don't fool yourself that Kony is fighting for anybody's freedom, the man is a pyschopathic killer. I sympathize with the innocent people in Acholi who are baring the brunt of this tragedy. I personally don't think that a tragedy of this magnitude belongs in the political arena, but some of you keep pushing it there...this should be one of those situations that should unite us as Ugandans, irrespective of ethnicity or religion to stop the carnage. Rather some of you who desperately want the present government to fail, are using this tragedy to score cheap political points at the expense of innocent human lives. None of you who claim to have the victims interest at heart, blame the LRA/Kony for there criminality. Rather you seem to be justifying LRA/Kony attrocities just apparently for the sake of making the President look bad. You say the President is obssesed with hatred for Obote, apparent you guys are obssessed with hatred for President too. Besides dislike for Obote in Uganda, is wide spread. ...yes i agree that the conflict has taken far too long to resolve, but how can it be resolved when even those calling for a peaceful resolution don't know what Kony wants. From the little that has been gathered, he talks about a pure Acholi state, which he and his thugs are breeding in the bush to rule Uganda.other times he talks about a nation ruled by the ten commandements, some ex-rebels now say he has converted to Islam, others say it's a mixture of Christianity/Islam. Even foreign NGOs have failed to establish contact with Kony. Father Rodriguez who has clandestinely been making contacts with the LRA has refused to corperate with government. How can you negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict without involving government, meanwhile you yourself (Father Rodrieguez) are a foreigner...that is madnesseven if we want to believe that Father Rodriguez had good intentions when he secretly made contact with the LRA, the question that follows, though is, on whose behalf was he negotiating peace...Kony/LRA is fighting government, you go behind the government's back to negotiate peace...for whom?...and then you refuse divulge to government what transpired
ugnet_: Good profile article on our own Dear Cynthia McKinney in May
Cynthia McKinney Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:29:13 + Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Comrades, If any of you subscribes for the electronic version of the 'New African' Magazine, could you please post on ugandanet the article profiling former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney? In the same May issue there appears Brother Franklin Okot, writing now from Cairo. Otherwise get a hard copy for what you may find interesting reading. Mitayo Potosi _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
RE: ugnet_: Ndejje University - Luwero
Correct me if I am wrong, isnt this a repeat or just dejavu? There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dbbwanika db Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Ndejje University - Luwero Greetings I am writing to you to introduce a newly started University Ndejje University in Uganda East Africa. The University is in advanced stages of developing a website and inter/intranet network for instant communication. The University has different campuses in Ugandans capital Kampala and another about 25 km away from the capital city an ideal place for academic pursuit. The university is seeking contacts with external university resource in the development of the following; - Science and Research Development programme - Student Exchange Programme - Human Resources Exchange and Development - Institutional Academic programme Development If there is wish from your university to get in touch of Vice Chancellor please find the contacts below . Contact Vice Chancellor Rt. Rev. Dr. Micheal Senyimba Ndejje Univeristy P.O . Box 7088 Kampala Tel: 256 77- 507306 256 77- 730322 __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004
Re: ugnet_: Mengo warns non-Baganda on land
What will he say after Buganda gets federalism? Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Omar Kezimbira To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:29 PM Subject: ugnet_: Mengo warns non-Baganda on land Mengo warns non- Baganda on land By Robert Mwanje May 15, 2004 - Monitor MENGO - Buganda government has warned on the rampant buying of land in central region, saying it may leave natives homeless. The Katikkiro, Joseph Ssemwogerere (eight), said on Thursday non-Baganda who buy chunks of land in Buganda region with a motive of eliminating natives should be careful since it might create land disputes in future. We welcome every tribe here, but those who buy masses of land aiming at blocking Bugandas future may cause disputes in future, he said.He was addressing members of Kiboga Development Foundation (KDF) at his office in Mengo. He said some foreign tribes (non-Baganda) buy land to fail the kingdoms development in future and ensure that the kingdoms natives are left with out land. He said a bigger part of Kiboga and other districts had been sold to non -Baganda, which will affect the environment and the kingdoms plans. Ssemwogerere also blamed the Government for excluding Kampala district from the kingdom, unlike other kingdoms. Else where, big towns are part of the kingdom unlike here. Why? he asked. He asked the Government to return Masaza (counties) headquarters and their land titles to the kingdom for ease of co-ordination of development programmes in Kabakas government. Most districts are still retaining our buildings and land, I ask the Government to return them, he added. The delegation donated Shs 100,000 to the kingdoms education fund and pledged more support to the Kingdom. The foundation coordinator is Dominick Nanyini who said, We shall always be there when you need us. The function was attended by many Baganda who pledged support to the Buganda kingdom and Kabaka Mutebi. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Do you Yahoo!?SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price.
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Dancing Alone
Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Dancing Alone Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:31:23 -0400 (EDT) The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ Dancing Alone May 13, 2004 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN It is time to ask this question: Do we have any chance of succeeding at regime change in Iraq without regime change here at home? "Hey, Friedman, why are you bringing politics into this all of a sudden? You're the guy who always said that producing a decent outcome in Iraq was of such overriding importance to the country that it had to be kept above politics." Yes, that's true. I still believe that. My mistake was thinking that the Bush team believed it, too. I thought the administration would have to do the right things in Iraq - from prewar planning and putting in enough troops to dismissing the secretary of defense for incompetence - because surely this was the most important thing for the president and the country. But I was wrong. There is something even more important to the Bush crowd than getting Iraq right, and that's getting re-elected and staying loyal to the conservative base to do so. It has always been more important for the Bush folks to defeat liberals at home than Baathists abroad. That's why they spent more time studying U.S. polls than Iraqi history. That is why, I'll bet, Karl Rove has had more sway over this war than Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Bill Burns. Mr. Burns knew only what would play in the Middle East. Mr. Rove knew what would play in the Middle West. I admit, I'm a little slow. Because I tried to think about something as deadly serious as Iraq, and the post- 9/11 world, in a nonpartisan fashion - as Joe Biden, John McCain and Dick Lugar did - I assumed the Bush officials were doing the same. I was wrong. They were always so slow to change course because confronting their mistakes didn't just involve confronting reality, but their own politics. Why, in the face of rampant looting in the war's aftermath, which dug us into such a deep and costly hole, wouldn't Mr. Rumsfeld put more troops into Iraq? Politics. First of all, Rummy wanted to crush once and for all the Powell doctrine, which says you fight a war like this only with overwhelming force. I know this is hard to believe, but the Pentagon crew hated Colin Powell, and wanted to see him humiliated 10 times more than Saddam. Second, Rummy wanted to prove to all those U.S. generals whose Army he was intent on downsizing that a small, mobile, high-tech force was all you needed today to take over a country. Third, the White House always knew this was a war of choice - its choice - so it made sure that average Americans never had to pay any price or bear any burden. Thus, it couldn't call up too many reservists, let alone have a draft. Yes, there was a contradiction between the Bush war on taxes and the Bush war on terrorism. But it was resolved: the Bush team decided to lower taxes rather than raise troop levels. Why, in the face of the Abu Ghraib travesty, wouldn't the administration make some uniquely American gesture? Because these folks have no clue how to export hope. They would never think of saying, "Let's close this prison immediately and reopen it in a month as the Abu Ghraib Technical College for Computer Training - with all the equipment donated by Dell, H.P. and Microsoft." Why didn't the administration ever use 9/11 as a spur to launch a Manhattan project for energy independence and conservation, so we could break out of our addiction to crude oil, slowly disengage from this region and speak truth to fundamentalist regimes, such as Saudi Arabia? (Addicts never tell the truth to their pushers.) Because that might have required a gas tax or a confrontation with the administration's oil moneymen. Why did the administration always - rightly - bash Yasir Arafat, but never lift a finger or utter a word to stop Ariel Sharon's massive building of illegal settlements in the West Bank? Because while that might have earned America credibility in
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Clash of Civilizations
Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Clash of Civilizations Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:29:44 -0400 (EDT) The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ Clash of Civilizations May 13, 2004 By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON Testifying before the Senate yesterday, General Richard Myers admitted that we're checkmated in Iraq. "There is no way to militarily lose in Iraq," he said, describing the generals' consensus. "There is also no way to militarily win in Iraq." Talk about the sound of one hand clapping. And they say John Kerry is on both sides of issues. Sounding like Mr. Kerry, General Myers summed up: "This process has to be internationalized. The U.N. has to play the governance role. That's how we're, in my view, eventually going to win." The administration's demented quest to conquer Arab hearts and minds has dissolved in a torrent of pornography denigrating other parts of the Arab anatomy. George Bush, who swept into office on a cloud of moral umbrage, now has his own sex scandal - one with far greater implications than titillating cigar jokes. The Bush hawks, so fixated on making the Middle East look more like America, have made America look un-American. Should we really be reduced to defending ourselves by saying at least we don't behead people? Gripped in a "I can't look at them - I've got to look at them" state of mind, lawmakers grimly filed into private screening rooms on the Hill to check out the 1,800 grotesque images of sex, humiliation and torture. "They're disgusting," Senator Dianne Feinstein told me. "If somebody wanted to plan a clash of civilizations, this is how they'd do it. These pictures play into every stereotype of America that Arabs have: America as debauched, America as hypocrites. "Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz act like they know all the answers, almost like a divine right," she said. "They don't have a divine right, and they are wrong." After 9/11, America had the support and sympathy of the world. Now, awash in digital evidence of uncivilized behavior, America has careered into a war of civilizations. The pictures were clearly meant to use the codebook of Muslim anxieties about nudity and sexual and gender humiliation to break down the prisoners. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell said some photographs seemed to show Iraqi women being commanded to expose their breasts - such debasement, after a war that President Bush partly based on women's rights. The problem, of course, is that the war in Iraq started with lies - that Saddam's W.M.D. were endangering our security and that Saddam was linked to Al Qaeda and 9/11. In a public relations move that cheapens the heroism of soldiers, the Pentagon merged the medals for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, giving the G.W.O.T. medal, for Global War on Terrorism, in both wars to reinforce the idea that we had to invade Iraq to quell terrorism. The truth is that our invasion of Iraq spurred terrorism there and around the world. That initial deception - and headlong rush to throw off international conventions and old alliances, and namby-pamby institutions like the U.N. and the Red Cross - led straight to the abuse of Abu Ghraib. Now the question is whether the C.I.A. tortured Al Qaeda operatives. Officials blurred the lines to justify ideological decisions, calling every Iraqi who opposed us a "terrorist"; conducting rough interrogations, perhaps to find the nonexistent W.M.D. so they would not look foolish; rolling all opposition into one scary terrorist ball that did not require sensitivity to the Geneva Conventions or "humanitarian do-gooders," to use the phrase of Senator James Inhofe, a Republican. Senator Fritz Hollings made it clear yesterday that Rummy has left us undermanned and undertrained in Iraq - another factor in the torture scandal. "Now, in a country of 25 million, you're trying to secure it with 135,000," he scolded Mr. Rumsfeld, adding: "We're trying to win the hearts and minds as we're killing them and torturing them." At least, he said
ugnet_: What the G7 of Uganda can learn from The G7 of Malawi
Malawi court orders poll delay By Raphael Tenthani BBC, Malawi Voters are due to elect a successor to President Muluzi A High Court in Malawi has ordered the government to postpone elections, which had been set for next Tuesday. The judge said the elections must now be held before 25 May. A seven-party opposition coalition had argued that the poll would not be free or fair because of serious anomalies in the new electoral roll. Lawyer Charles Mhango said up to one million voters had been excluded from the revised electoral roll and there had not been time to scrutinise it. 'Too costly' Under the constitution, voters should have 21 days to review the roll, which was published last Friday. He also said there were two rolls in circulation, which could lead to vote-rigging. The number of eligible voters was recently reduced from 6.6 million, to 5.7 million. A convenient blackout of three minutes is adequate time for the convenient switching of ballot boxes Malawi church President Bakili Muluzi of the United Democratic Front is not standing after serving two five-year terms. Before the ruling, the Malawi Electoral Commission said it could not delay the elections. Any postponement would be extremely costly and the constitution requires that 18 May be the election date, spokesman Fegus Lipenga said. Mr Lipenga said the number of registered voters had dropped because some people had registered twice and others had died. 'Fictitious' One of Malawi's churches was among those who called for the elections to be postponed until June. Our anxiety is centred on the inaction on the part of the Electoral Commission to address the serious offence of the ruling party in recording voter registration certificates which runs to counter the principle of a secret ballot, said a statement from the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian's Blantyre Synod Church and Society Programme. We regard this tactic as intimidation of the highest order, because it is deliberately being used to serve as gauge to know who will vote for the ruling party or otherwise. The church also wants the state-run Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) to refrain from broadcasting fictitious election news and results of fake opinion polls aimed at confusing voters. It asked for assurances from electricity and communication providers that that their services would not be interrupted while polling stations were open. We know that a convenient blackout of three minutes is adequate time for the convenient switching of ballot boxes, the statement said. There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 image001.gifimage002.gifimage003.jpgimage004.gifimage005.gifimage006.gif
