date:20040730

Hello Kandekye,

First I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your response.

I believe you should read more carefully and comprehend the symbolism of the speech. Dream in US political cultural parlance refers to the vision and perspective of the society..i.e, the American Dream is not meant to be understood as a dream in the sense of a sleep dream, but in the sense of the social and philosophical underpinnings of the society. This is the way it was used in Dr. King's 1963 speech also.

So when Obama makes statements such as

But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place; America which stood as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before.

And they, too, had big dreams for their daughter, a common dream, born of two continents. My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential...I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my precious daughters. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation, not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles."

He is talking about concrete phenomena and ideological underpinning of this corrupt racist treacherous society.

I have lived in Chicago all my life; I have watched my people murdered by the authorities from young girls shot down on the street by cops, to political leaders such as Fred Hampton murdered in his bed by police, to men hanged in washrooms of bars because he made the error of trying to use the public phone in a bar full of whites, to a young man stumped to death by mobs of whites because he had the audacity to seek employment in Cicero, to an alderman murdered in his office by offcials of the County because he dared opposed prostition and so on.

Obama is a lying opportunists and that is why the majority of Africans do not support him.

Thanks,.

Roy

#2 Re: ugnet_: Point of clarity on Oboma's Speech

Kandekye,

To help you understand the actual role, meaning and significance -- the connotation and denotation, of the Dream concept in American political and general society, I have inserted a typical description of a University course on the subject of the American Society and the role of the American Dream phenomena. This course is very typical of the role played by the Dream concept in disguising the true role of America, its true face and characteristics. (If you wish you can conduct the search for yourself, Click here: Google Search: significance american dream)

Amh3401x
Theories and Methods in American Studies: The American Dream(s)
Fall 2001
MW 2:40-3:55

Prof. Kathryn Jay
412 Lehman Hall
(212) 854-1935
Office hours:
T 1:30-3:30
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"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
all of my days have been misspentstuffing out the sofa and the antennas bentinside my hearts bustin out at the seamsi work for the impossible american dream-- Indigo Girls (1999)In this course we will consider American Studies as a field by examining the American Dream. We will ask ourselves through out the semester: What is the American Dream? Are there multiple interpretations of the Dream? What is its significance for American society? What elements of the American Dream have been disputed and changed over time? Who has access to the Dream? Is it simply a myth? If so, what is the power of that myth? How does the Dream help us define ourselves as Americans? How does it hold out the promise of social change, and how does it maintain the status quo? We will explore some of the foundational ideas of the American Dream, how the Dream fared in a time of crisis, and how it has been expressed in recent decades. In the process, we will think about the meaning and production of culture in America over several centuries, analyzing the significance of myth and popular culture in people's daily lives and in society at large. As we do so, we will pay close attention to how we arrive at our answers. We will look at our subject using a variety of sources, methodologies and theories, and discuss the values of the various approaches. In the end, you should have a sense of both the contested nature of the American Dream and how we imagine ourselves as Americans, as well as how you want to think about such questions. You should also be more adept at using a wide variety of primary sourcesfilm, music, plays, novels, legal documentsand be better able to examine American society and culture using a wide range of cultural theories.http://www.barnard.edu/history/faculty/jay/3401/hist3401x/overview.html

RE: ugnet_: Re: Musaka Richard is Homophobic!

2004-07-30 Thread vukoni

Rehema,

I must say, Amina, to this. And those others who massage their
prejudices by reading selectively from the Bible, Quran, Ifa, etc,
beware of the tyranny of the Book. Also beware of obsolescence
masquerading as eternal truth through the mouths of insecure men (and
sometimes unfortunately women).

vukoni
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ugnet_: Re: Musaka Richard is Homophobic!From: "Rehema
Mukooza" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Fri, July 30, 2004 4:22
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Stacy:

Mukasa isreligiously convincinghimself as a way to
stregthen the book's stories' hold on his mind. The man is
testing his belief in the end of the world and the coming of however to
take him to heaven. There is nothing I can do about that kind of
thought-control the book has on him. He alone can refuse or
accept. But apparently, acceptance is the easy way of comfort and
assurance of hisimaginations of going to heaven. His
imagination is at work. 

I will go ahead and inform the public about the nature of Gay and
Lesbians sexual activities. These people are contributing members
of society who deserve equal rights. These people are having fun
with their bodies. How do their actions affect Mukasa??
This Mukasa has already confessed to the seduction he saw in their
eyes. He is using his homophobic religious thought-control to
spread nonsense. I can not buy into his ideas for he can not
question the basis of these stories. All he is telling me is how
much he believes the stories reads in his book.

My message to you all isto use your body parts for pleasure
as much as you want. There is nothing wrong with seeking
pleasure. Gays and Lesbians are having fun! Heterosexuals
are having fun too! The goal is to expand your pleasuredom.
Awaken every nerve, passion, anddrawn in it. Redeem
yourselves intotal, consumingpleasure.


Zakoomu M.

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Mukasa Richard:
Is it possible you react to emails and not delete whatever u r
reacting to. Its really hard to shoot back asthere are
noreferences to make.

Moderator I dont know ifu got anything to say to that.

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RE: ugnet_: Counter point of clarity on Oboma's Speech

Hey,
Negative vibes or not, Obama is a winner! 
Get with the program or be left in the dust moaning and groaning ... the 'system' this , the 'system' that!
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:02:35 EDT 

In a message dated 07/29/2004 2:41:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its 
 people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can tuck in our children at 
 night and know they are fed and clothed and safe from harm. That we can say 
 what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the 
 door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe 
 or hiring somebody's son. That we can participate in the political process 
 without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted - or at least, 
 most of the time. 

This is not the opinoin of the majority of Africans who live in Chicago, 
Obama was raised by his European grandparents, and the Democrats here see him as 
the perfect harmless African that can be manipulated for the party's image.He 
has no influence whatsoever in the predominantly African electoral wards, as 
he was elected for state office from the majority European, and heavily, 
Jewish, Hyde Park area, and the bulk of his support is from what are considered to 
be white liberal sources...just a point of information. 

This crap about nothaving to worry about without hearing a sudden knock on 
the door, is just a blatant lie, as in this country there is something called 
no-knock laws, and even without the legal sanction of no-knock laws, it is a 
regular occurence in African neightborhoods, along with other forms of official 
harassment. 

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ugnet_: Fwd: Uganda's nurses saga continues

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Muhwezi welcomes new nurses school









By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe 
HEALTH minister Jim Muhwezi has hailed the Aga Khan Foundation for establishing development projects, especially empowering women by opening a nursing school in the country. We have a big need for nurses in Uganda in order to improve the health sector at the grassroots, the minister said. He said the Government would support private heath projects to ensure better delivery of health services to the people. Muhwezi was speaking at a dinner organised by the Foundation at the Grand Imperial Hotel. He, however, appealed to the Foundation to increase the intake of the nurses. Currently, they are 500 at Agha Khan University, Old Kampala. He appealed for an increase in the intake for comprehensive nursing in order to cope with the exodus to the develop nations. (for which the govt will receive pay, he did not add, neither did he add that were other unemployed nurses 'beating th
 e
 pavement'...)Earlier, the Aga Khan University board of trustees discussed ways of improving the status of the university and increasing the intake. The acting provost, David Taylor, said, By 2008, we want this to be an international, comprehensive university.
New Vision: Thursday, 29th July, 2004
Apparently the govt can only affor to employ only 40% (ca. 12,000) of those it trains. Some end up in private hospitals. The minister cann't tell you how many are unemployed -- even though they are apprently regulated.In 2002 there were 1,131 RNs, in 2002 there 1,339. Thus in 2 years only 8 RNs joined the ranks. What happened to the rest? See links to some international reaction to this snafubelow.
418 nurses left Uganda in 2003 By Martin Luther Oketch, July 9, 2004
KAMPALA- Statistics available at the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council indicate that some 418 nurses and midwives left the country for work in other countries.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Mr Ralph Ocan has said. This was in a presentation made for him by the director of Labour, Mr Claudius Olweny at Hotel Africana in a sanitation seminar for the nurses and midwives who want to work in England yesterday. 
Information available at the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council indicates that as of October 31, 2003, it had 33,831 members. Out of this 12,580 (i.e. under 40%) were serving the public in state managed institutions.
A total of 418 nurses and midwives are reported to have left for work in other countries. The rest are either employed in the private sector, self-employed or unemployed, Ocan said. He said on average 1,400 nurses and midwives qualify every year from institutions. Unfortunately, the domestic labour market cannot absorb them all. He said the Ministry is in the process of formalising migration of labour by establishing modalities through bilateral agreements and regulatory framework with other countries.© 2004 The Monitor Publications
Some International Reaction to Export of Nurses
www.workers.org.uk/features/feat_0704/nhs.html (esp. the section 'Around the world') www.rnw.nl/development/html/nurses001208.html 
Our Situation:
Uganda ranked 8th in maternal mortality
SAD SITUATION: Kuriah talking to Bundibugyo officials at the handover yesterday. UGANDA has been ranked as the eighth country with the worst maternal death rate in the world, writes Vision Reporter.
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) country representative, James Kuriah, yesterday said Uganda loses 505 women out of every 100,000 live births.
This maternal mortality rate has earned Uganda position number eight, compared to other countries that have limited social services due to civil conflict, despite the fact that it has achieved remarkable socio-economic progress over the last 17 years, Kuriah said. He was speaking at the handover of two ambulances, worth sh50m, to Bundibugyo district.
Kuriah said Bundibugyo was one of the worst hit districts in the country. He said despite Ugandas good performance in fighting AIDS and providing education, it performed poorly in reducing maternal deaths. The factors underlying high maternal mortality in Uganda is inaccessibility to health care centres, poor quality services, untrained staff, absence of referral sevices and inadequate supplies of drugs and equipment, Kuriah said. Area MP Jane Babiiha, the LC5 chairman, Jackson Bambalira and district councillors attended.
New Vision: Wednesday, 7th July, 2004
Incentive to Export Nurses:

Poor states to get brain drain pay - AU 
By Paul Udoto 
June 4, 2004 
NAIROBI  Developing countries, which lose their health professionals to rich countries, will be compensated under a new deal. Health Assistant Minister Gideon Konchella said members of the African Union won the concession from rich member states of the World Health Organisation. 
The two

Re: ugnet_: Counter point of clarity on Oboma's Speech

J Ssemakula wrote   

Negative vibes or not, Obama is a winner! Get with the program or be left in the dust moaning and groaning ... the 'system' this , the 'system' that!



I was approached by the democratic party when I was a mere eleven year old, they offered to pay my way through Universtiy, guarantee that I would get a law degree and put me in office after graduating from Law School, even as a eleven year old I had more integrity than worms like Obama. I am not interested in profiting off the blood of milliions of innocents...

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South Africa #39;Recycles#39; 
Graves for AIDS Victims

July 29, 2004
 By MICHAEL WINES 



 

DURBAN, South Africa, July 23 - At S Cemetery in Umlazi
Township, Innocent Gasa's handiwork is everywhere: endless
mounds of fresh red earth topped with headstones, unpainted
wooden crosses, or, for the most miserable, bricks bearing
a painted identifying number. Mr. Gasa has dug graves on
this lumpy, unkempt, Halloween-spooky hilltop for two years
now, five holes a week, 52 weeks a year, well over 500
holes in all. 

Which may seem peculiar, seeing as S Cemetery exhausted its
last space for new graves five years ago. City records sum
up its status succinctly, even dismissively: Full. 

But in Durban, full'' is a term of art. This city is being
battered by an AIDS pandemic so sweeping that people are
dying faster than the city can find space to bury them. And
so gravediggers like Mr. Gasa are reopening existing graves
- the city calls it recycling'' - and interring fresh
bones atop the old ones. 

The job gives Mr. Gasa nightmares. I think it is not a
good thing, to take out the bones'' for reburial, he said
during a break in his spadework. But we have no choice. 

Every time southern Africa's AIDS epidemic threatens to
exhaust its store of superlatives, some new, sobering
extreme rises to the fore. The latest is Durban, where 51
of the 53 municipal cemeteries are officially filled to
capacity, and a surging death rate threatens to overwhelm
the remaining two within a couple of years. 

Five years ago, we used to have about 120 funerals a
weekend, but this number has now jumped to 600,
Thembinkosi Ngcobo, who heads the municipal department of
parks and cemeteries, said in an interview this week. In
order to cope with the current rate of mortality - we hope
it is not going to increase - we will need to have 12.1
hectares every year of new gravesites. 

That is nearly 30 acres. That would obviously turn Durban
and the whole country into one big graveyard if we
continue, he said. 

The statistics offer little encouragement. Roughly one in
eight South Africans is H.I.V.-positive, and in Durban,
South Africa's third-largest city with about 3.5 million
people, a survey two years ago of women at pregnancy
clinics found about 35 percent were infected with H.I.V. 

The city held a conference on the cemetery problem this
month and discovered that a host of other South African
graveyards - in Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Port
Elizabeth - are also filling up at alarming rates. 

Durban's space crunch, says Mr. Ngcobo, defies a quick or
simple solution. 

Cremation, cheaper and space-saving, is an obvious option -
and an untenable one for many of the ethnic Zulus who make
up seven in 10 Durbanites. It is not good to burn the
bones in Zulu culture, Mr. Gasa, the gravedigger,
explained. Your ancestors are unhappy. 

Mr. Ngcobo's office is campaigning to change the cultural
bias against cremation, even visiting schools to argue that
it can coexist with the Zulus' complex funeral rituals and
their deep reverence for the dead. But success so far is
limited; in five years, the share of Zulu burials by
cremation has doubled - to 2 percent. 

Recycling is but a temporary solution: many apartheid-era
graveyards once set aside for blacks are in poor or boggy
soil and are unsuited for their existing burials, much less
additions. No grave can be recycled for at least 10 years,
the span needed to reduce a corpse to bones, and survivors
can prevent a grave from being reused at all by renewing
their lease on the burial site. 

In practice, Mr. Ngcobo said, most families consent to
recycling only under financial duress: using someone else's
grave costs 320 rand, or about $53, while acquiring a new
gravesite at Red Hill Cemetery, one of the two still open,
costs about $250. Families also resist interring a loved
one with anyone except a close relative. 

Even then, he said, there are problems: some survivors
claim that the departed speak to them in dreams,
complaining, for instance, that their bunkmates have pushed
them so close to the surface that they get wet when it
rains. 

Durban could also build new

ugnet_: Federo talks flop - Monitor - 31/7/2004

Federo talks flop By Richard M. Kavuma David Kibirige July 31, 2004 - Monitor

KAMPALA The much-awaited federo talks between President Yoweri Museveni and Buganda Kingdom officials did not take place on Thursday evening. The eight-member Mengo delegation was instead treated to a sumptuous supper. They stayed for two hours at State House Nakasero.
Sources who attended the meeting said Museveni told them he could not have talks with them because he was coordinating a major offensive against Joseph Konys Lords Resistance Army rebels in southern Sudan.
According to sources the President said he was busy preparing to travel to Zambia on Friday morning. We didnt discuss anything. The President had all his energies focused on the war in the north, Bugandas Minister for Youth Mr Charles Peter Mayiga said.
He said Museveni talked to the Buganda delegation for about 10 minutes and explained why the talks could not proceed.
The delegation was led by the Katikkiro Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere. The two parties agreed to meet on Tuesday. The acting Presidential Press Secretary, Mr Onapito Ekomoloit, could not be reached for a comment.
But a source close to the President said Museveni asked for the adjournment of the talks because he was tired and he had to travel. The Thursday talks were supposed to be a follow up of the first round held last Sunday. On that occasion Buganda presented its position on the demand for federalism, Kampala to be part of Buganda, and the return of 9,000 square miles of land to the kingdom.
Buganda rejected the government proposal of a regional tier system, which brings together districts willing to federate. Buganda kingdom decided to mourn what they called loss of an opportunity to get federo following the Cabinets proposed regional tier system.
Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom and Busoga Kingdom are among traditional institutions which want federo. Buganda kingdom yesterday held a seminar at Mengo to sensitise people about the importance of federo.
© 2004 The Monitor Publications
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ugnet_: World court to try 5 Kony commanders - Monitor - 31/7/2004

World court to try 5 Kony commanders By Frank Nyakairu July 31, 2004 - Monitor

KAMPALA The International Criminal Court will prosecute five top LRA commanders, sources in the Defence Ministry have said. The Monitor has learnt that the Cabinet is working around the clock to amend the Amnesty Law to exclude the suspects including rebel boss Joseph Kony and his deputy Vincent Otti from amnesty.

Defence spokesman Major Shaban Bantariz
The Amnesty Act 2000 provides a blanket pardon for all in armed rebellion. Defence spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said, They are working on a number of people who should be excluded from the amnesty.
He said he would not name the five for fear of subverting the legal process. The ICC, which started investigations on Thursday, will not prosecute children below the age of 18. It will investigate crimes starting July 1 2002 regardless of who committed them.
LRAs Brig. Kenneth Banyas capture two weeks ago saved him from trial by the ICC based in The Hague, Netherlands. Banya, a flight engineer, was LRA number four (LO-004) and has fought in the LRA since 1988 when it started rebellion.
If Banya wants he can apply for the blanket amnesty and be forgiven, said the chairman of the Amnesty Commission, Justice Peter Onega in an interview last week.
Onega said he was aware of the list being compiled by the government but it had not yet been forwarded to his offices. The Minister of Internal affairs, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda last week told The Monitor that the list of top LRA men was still under discussion. The list is changing. Some LRA commanders are being killed others are being captured, he said.
© 2004 The Monitor Publications

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OK, now we are getting somewhere. 
Per your statement, the Democratic Party (DP) offered to pay for your college education and law school. They even offered to help empower you politically.
In your infinite wisdom, you turned them down. 
What did you want them to do: just hand you a degree right there on the spot, show you to hold it the right way up, open your mouth for you and stuff food in it, and hand you the keys to a cadillac or what?How is Obama a 'worm', whose innocent blood is profiting off, and how?

Go Obama, go!
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J Ssemakula wrote 

Negative vibes or not, Obama is a winner! Get with the program or be left in 
the dust moaning and groaning ... the 'system' this , the 'system' that! 



I was approached by the democratic party when I was a mere eleven year old, 
they offered to pay my way through Universtiy,guarantee that I would get a 
law degree and put me in office after graduating from Law School, even as a 
eleven year old I had more integrity than worms like Obama.I am not interested 
in profiting off the blood of milliions of innocents... 



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Re: ugnet_: Counter point of clarity on Oboma's Speech

J Ssemakula you know what I think of you and your approach to life; we have covered this before. Again you are playing the same counterproductive games -- I wanted nothing from the Democrats, or Republicans then, and I want nothing from them now.

In point of fact, just in case you did not nderstand what I said in my response to you initally, the things you listed were precisely the kinds of things, precisely the kind of deal, they were offering...in case you can't understand that them let me try it this way, not everyone wants to sell their soul to the devil and I am one of those millions who WILL, I REPEAT, WILL NEVER SELL OUT...now maybe if you were to try a little harder, they would offer you something, keep working at it...with your determination to be recognized by these kinds of forces, I am sure you will be noticed some day, think of it this was some day your Great White Capitalist prince will come and add you to his harem, you can always hope...and just try harder so they will hear you

As for the innocents who were killed by the millions so Uncle Toms like Obama and Colin Powell and Condi RIce could buy a cadillac, to use your term, if you don't know then I would suggest you go and read some history before you address such topics.

Go Obama, go straight to the hell you are making for yourself and all those like you...

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Weekly Observer:
29th July 2004.

The day Obote banned parties

FOOTNOTE
On January 25, 1971, Gen. Idi Amin overthrew Milton Obotes government in a military coup. Obote, who was then attending a Commonwealth summit in Singapore, fled into exile in Tanzania.
Idi Amin was himself overthrown on April 11, 1979 by a combined force of the Tanzania army and Ugandan exiles (under the Uganda National Liberation Army UNLA).Obote returned from exile on May 27, 1980 and his UPC was declared the winner of the controversial general elections held on December 10, 1980. Obote was sworn in as president for the second time in January 1981, but his UPC government was again overthrown by the UNLA led by Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara Okello and Gen. Tito Okello on May 27, 1985. Obote fled via Kenya into exile in Zambia, where he still lives today...

Dr. Milton Obote
On December 19, 1969, the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) adopted a resolution establishing a one party state in Uganda during a Delegates Conference at Lugogo Indoor Stadium. Then President Milton Obote, who was also UPC president, closed the conference and thanked delegates for the work well done. Obote was to survive an assassination attempt later that night. Below is the edited version of the speech he delivered:- Introduction: Comrades, I have no resolution to propose, and I have no motion to debate. I stand before you just as I stood at the beginning of this conference. This time I am before you to express deep satisfaction with the work which all of us have done at this conference. (Uproar).
Comrades, we cannot doubt the fact that the goals of society are worthy of critical examination from time to time, and that in the process of examination, adjustments have to be made. This is something, which is not only applicable to Uganda but is one, which is recognised throughout the world.
A growing society cannot live only by the past performances or by the policies of the past. New policies have to be framed, discussed, adopted and implemented
In the life of UPC we produced what I have termed a comprehensive manifesto in 1962. Some aspects of that manifesto do not these days apply for the simple reason that some have already been implemented and some have been overtaken by time.
Elections: Talking about elections, there may be persons who still feel that in a general election the ugly head of feudalism may still be shown. I want to indicate to you that if there are such people we can afford to laugh at their dreams.
We shall examine most critically the type of person who should stand in an election, in urban authorities, in the district councils and to the national Parliament.
Some of the very, very dangerous rich people, we shall examine whether it is good that they stand as candidates. (Uproar). Or I can see a problem arising in a country where the majority are poor, having dangerous rich people in Parliament.
We shall examine most critically whether persons who are directors of 10, 15, 50 companies should stand as candidates to Parliament. We shall examine whether those who before 1966 or before 1967, used to receive income from official estates are suitable to represent the people.
We shall also examine whether [those] who in broad daylight refused to swear [by] the Republican Constitution should ever see the inside of Parliament again.
Comrades, I am here to say goodbye to you. I want to tell you that what I have just now been saying represents a very tiny aspect of what the Executive and Cabinet will be doing in order to implement the common mans charter in a revolutionary manner.
Army free to participate in politics: This conference has also made history. This morning we had a moving speech from Maj. Gen. Idi Amin. A speech I hope you delegates will take back home and repeat to the people who sent you here.
This afternoon, we had a message from the Police. Unfortunately the Inspector General was unable to come because he is not feeling well, and he is indisposed. In that message we were told clearly how the Police Force is working. Again this afternoon many of you, I believe, had your first lesson over a very important aspect of nation building, which is being carried out by the Commissioner of the Prisons, his officers and men under him. That speech that he gave to you this afternoon, I would not like you to forget.From tonight, or as from tomorrow you will hear a lot of nonsense, a lot of stupidity you will hear. There will be people to say how can a person in uniform go and address a political meeting.
I am satisfied in my own mind that the system which the British left with us whereby leaders of this kind are not allowed into meetings of this kind was a system to make us waste talent and leaders.
One of the things we lack in Africa is leaders, to say that some leaders should be in civil service but should not

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Mr Walker: 
IAll this just begs the question:
How is Obama a 'worm', whose innocent blood is profiting off, and how?
ssemakula
ps: are those the sounds of donkey being ridden as far as it'll go? 
Winners never quit  but loserstend do so: giving up even before the race gets started, complaining how hot it is, how tight their shoes are, etc etc.
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J Ssemakula you know what I think of you and your approach to life; we have 
covered this before.Again you are playing the same counterproductive games -- 
I wanted nothing from the Democrats, or Republicans then, and I want nothing 
from them now. 

In point of fact, just in case you did not nderstand what I said in my 
response to you initally, the things you listed were precisely the kinds of things, 
precisely the kind of deal, they were offering...in case you can't understand 
that them let me try it this way, not everyone wants to sell their soul to the 
devil and I am one of those millions who WILL, I REPEAT, WILL NEVER SELL 
OUT...now maybe if you were to try a little harder, they would offer you 
something, keep working at it...with your determination to be recognized by these kinds 
of forces, I am sure you will be noticed some day, think of it this was some 
day your Great White Capitalist prince will come and add you to his harem, you 
can always hope...and just try harder so they will hear you 

As for the innocents who were killed by the millions so Uncle Toms like Obama 
and Colin Powell and Condi RIce could buy a cadillac, to use your term, if 
you don't know then I would suggest you go and read some history before you 
address such topics. 

Go Obama, go straight to the hell you are making for yourself and all those 
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RE: ugnet_: Counter point of clarity on Oboma's Speech

2004-07-30 Thread Ed Kironde









Watch out for
Obamarama

There is an
older generation, educated African-Americans, still bearing anger and signs of
civil liberty activities. Barack Obama
is from another generation, unperturbed by such anger but ready to improve his
quality of life and with both hands, grasp the American dream with both hands. 

It is
understandable that in his desire to grapple an opportunity when he sees one,
he leaves a lot of frustrations to many and I wish Barack
Obama all the successes he can get.







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





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OK, now
we are getting somewhere. 

Per your
statement, the Democratic Party (DP) offered
to pay for your
college education and law school. They even offered to help empower you politically.

In your
infinite wisdom, you
turned them down. 

What did
you want them to do: just hand you a degree right there on the spot, show you
to hold it the right way up, open your mouth for you and stuff food in it,
and hand you the keys to a cadillac or what?

How is Obama a 'worm', whose innocent blood is profiting off, and how?



Go Obama,
go!



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J Ssemakula wrote 

Negative vibes or not, Obama is a winner! Get with the program or be
left in 

the dust moaning and groaning ... the 'system' this , the 'system'
that! 

I was approached by the democratic party when I was a mere eleven year
old, 

they offered to pay my way through Universtiy,guarantee
that I would get a 

law degree and put me in office after graduating from Law School, even
as a 

eleven year old I had more integrity than worms like
Obama.I am not interested 

in profiting off the blood of milliions of innocents... 












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ugnet_: Obama's twist: how are great speeches made? Ask Clinton

July 30, 2004OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Show and TellBy ANNA DEAVERE SMITH

oston Between going panel to panel, speech to speech, party to party at the Democratic National Convention this week, I called Kenneth Feld, chief executive of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus. "What are your criteria for a terrific act?'' I asked. "How do you make 'The Greatest Show on Earth' "? His answer: You get the audience to ask, "How did you do that?" He offered another, crucial element for creating a riveting show; to deliver the unexpected. This year I am tied, gavel to gavel, to the convention and have come to see the show up close, live and in person.
Unlike the circus, the convention hall has no welcoming barker saying "Step right up!" or "This way, folks." The FleetCenter is barricaded. It's a little like a fun house. The floors are not insulated, so you hear the pounding of thousands of footsteps moving fast. Wires are exposed along the walls. Hallways seem temporary. Escalators suddenly won't go up, stairwell doors lock, guards gaze off into space as we ask how to get upstairs. But all of these obstructions melt in the importance of watching the show.
Four years ago, I would have pooh-poohed the notion of politics as theatrical. If theater is anything, it is life made urgent. We don't waste words, gestures or time on stage. But politicians can learn from us and we can learn technique from them. In this election year, none of us can waste a moment. The theater could afford to be more political and politics needs to be a lot more theatrical.
When Bill Clinton spoke, and dropped the first "Send me" in reference to John Kerry's decision to go to Vietnam, I was less interested in the comparison between Mr. Kerry and President Bush than in Mr. Clinton's laying of the groundwork to set the audience on fire with those words. And he did. Yet as I left the FleetCenter (there were barkers shouting instructions on how to get out), my mind was twirling with the words, "How did he do that?"
Jack O'Brien, artistic director of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, gave me a clue when I asked if there was any classical actor in America who could have done what Mr. Clinton did that night. "No," he said. "He is Shavian.
"There is a line from Bill Clinton that extends back through the work of Stoppard and then Shaw and then Shakespeare. One of the things we don't do is 'ideate,' which is how Shakespeare's characters speak. They don't go from moment to moment on a rosary, bead to bead. They get the entire idea and then they exhale it." Got it.
We 20th and 21st century American actors are smitten with the natural, invested in intimacy. We are not trained to grab the hearts and minds of our audience, just the hearts. And speaking of grabbing hearts and minds, we found a new model in Barack Obama. "You think to yourself, 'Oh, we will all be measured from here on by this. Obama is Brando in 'Streetcar,' '' Mr. O'Brien said to me with finality. Mr. Brando did change acting forever with his performance of Stanley, because he was mind, body and heart in a way we hadn't seen before.
Will Mr. Obama change black political oratory? His speech did not, for example, elicit the traditional call and response we associate with powerful black speech. The speech instead evoked speechlessness. "That guy's amazing," said the blond model sitting next to me in the hall. Mr. Obama comes out of a mixed tradition, and I'm not talking about his racial mix. He is mixing traditions of communication. As he himself explained to me: "I tap into the tradition that a lot of African-Americans tap into and that's the church. It's the church blended with a smattering of Hawaii and Indonesia and maybe Kansas, and I've learned a lot of the most important things in life from literature. I've been a professor of law. I'm accustomed to making an argument. When I am effective, it's coming from my gut."
If Mr. Clinton goes from Stoppard to Shaw to Shakespeare, does Mr. Obama go from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Langston Hughes, to preachers, to slavery? No, wait. It's not that simple. Mr. Clinton takes a road that stops off at the black church. Mr. Obama stops off in a literary tradition that we do not immediately associate with black oratory. Is this what Dr. King's dream was all about? Was it about more than schools and laws? Was it about irresistible fusions, irresistible mixed oratories? Was it about all of us talking to one another and as one another?
Put Mr. Obama's oratory aside for a moment. What about his magnetism? I asked Tom Freston, the former MTV chief who is now co-president of Viacom: "What makes a real rock star? How do they do that?" He told me, "They have to have a unique attitude, they have to put a twist on a well-worn theme." Got it.
Mr. Obama's twist is a twist on the theme of a real, profound desire to get close to the audience, to reach out and seem to be right next to them. It's so real and so deep that it cannot be taught.

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2004-07-30 Thread Ed Kironde









R Walker

This sounds
interesting. At eleven you turned
down an offer from the Democratic Party (I am assuming this is true) because
you could see yourself profiteering from the blood of the innocent. 


 Who had the Democrats killed to pass
 on the booty to an eleven year old kid?
 Part of my schooling here was paid for
 by the federal government (very grateful), can it be said that I too
 profited from the blood of the innocent?
 If bullet number is true, must we now
 encourage young black kids to abandon education if such education is sponsored
 by the federal government, lest years later they accused of profiting from
 the blood of the innocent?
 It is my hope that I missed something
 here 






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





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Negative vibes or not, Obama is a winner!
Get with the program or be left in the dust moaning and groaning ... the
'system' this , the 'system' that! 



I was approached by the democratic party when I was a mere eleven year old,
they offered to pay my way through Universtiy, guarantee that I would get
a law degree and put me in office after graduating from Law School, even as a
eleven year old I had more integrity than worms like Obama. I am not
interested in profiting off the blood of milliions of innocents... 










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ugnet_: Congolese Refugees Enter Uganda Through Kisoro District

2004-07-30 Thread Matekopoko

Congolese Refugees Enter Uganda Through Kisoro District



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Refugees from DR Congo are entering Uganda through Bunagana border in Kisoro district 
and are settling at Kibati, Nakivale in Mbarara district.

Mbarara resident district commissioner Clement Kandole recently told a press 
conference at his Kamukuzi office that refugees who were repatriated from Uganda to 
Rwanda early this year were also coming back under disguised names.

He said some displaced Tutsi from Rwanda were also coming to Uganda from DR Congo.

Mbarara refugee desk officer Titus Jogo said Kibati is home to 12,000 Rwandans, 20 
Ethiopians, 100 Somalis, 600 Burundians, 500 Congolese, 30 Sudanese and one Eritrean 
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ugnet_: Barack Obama rules, OK

Barack Obama rules, OK By Pepe Escobar On Tuesday night in Boston, the United States was hit by a weapon of mass enlightenment. The name of the weapon is Barack Obama. He's not even a US senator - yet: but he will almost certainly be one in November. Not a uniter, not a divider: the ultimate transcender. Some day, some say, he may become the first black president of the United States. Democrats in Illinois - where he is a widely admired state legislator - already know a lot about "the skinny guy with the funny name", in his own words, as he is a state legislator. The best in the blogosphere, such as The Daily Kos website, have been praising him for months. As the keynote speaker on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, he was to be introduced in prime time to the national stage. But transcending already high expectations, he did not just deliver a speech praisi
ng presidential candidate John Kerry. He made history, his oratorical mastery drawing instant comparisons with Dr Martin Luther King's legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. Most Americans didn't see it. In a graphic display of their concern for the public good, US television networks - ABC, NBC, CBS - did not broadcast the 15-minute speech, opting for deep slumber in sitcom hell. On Fox, it was as though the speech never happened. It was up to those Americans who saw it on cable - and felt chills down their spine and were moved to tears - to spread the word frantically by phone, e-mail or text messaging. Rapture soon took over the blogosphere, instant Obamania leading to all manners of Democratic ticket configurations after Kerry/Edwards 2004: Edwards/Obama in 2012; Clinton(Chelsea)/Obama in 2016 (or vice-versa); Obama for president in 2016 or 2020 (if he has not had a bullet in the head by then). Obama's speech, delivered with an almost immaculate balance of pa
ssion and restraint, was a masterpiece of all-inclusiveness. He characterized the United States as "a magical place", with its people's "insistence on small miracles", a place where everyone should be "my brother's keeper" and "my sister's keeper", where "the politics of hope" triumphs over "the politics of cynicism" (the "politics of hope" is vice presidential candidate John Edwards' key theme). As a transcender, he was careful not to insert the slightest hint of criticism of racism and imperialism. Obama also did his best to bridge the false gap between Red (Republican) and Blue (Democratic) states, insisting on common values. All of this with splendid touches, such as "Blue States Worship an Awesome God": this is the name of a favorite Christian pop song of the Bush-voting evangelical right. He started very low key, unfolding his extraordinary family story - father from Kenya, mother from Kansas, the meeting of immigrant and Middle America - to include it in the m
aster theme of union and hope, in a delicate but relentless crescendo. He evoked "the audacity of hope". The tone and the deliverance were resolute and at the same time extremely uplifting - almost like a pop-song version of a psalm. No wonder the end of the speech swiftly connected to a pop version of a psalm, the ultra-cool "Keep on Pushing" by the legendary Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions ("Maybe someday/ I'll reach that higher goal/ I know I can make it/ with just a little bit of soul"). One AmericaObama's mix of Clintonian third way, Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King all rolled into an all-inclusive package cannot but be radioactive material. In Obama, the Democratic Party may finally have found its own bridge to a multi-ethnic, socially just 21st-century America. The Kerry campaign would just need to release Obama on the campaign trail to have both the black votes and the white suburban votes pouring in. Edwards, in his acceptance spee
ch on Wednesday night, once again developed his trademark campaign trail theme of "the two Americas" - the corporate and the working family's. Obama praised "one America". Former Vermont governor Howard Dean was the trailblazer (articulating what he defined as the "democratic wing of the Democratic Party"). Obama, one step ahead, is the unifier. Significantly, someone who worked with both candidates wrote on the Daily Kos weblog: "Obama is Howard Dean at the next level up. That is, Obama articulates the same positions and pragmatisms of Dean ... only better. More eloquently, more convincingly and with an ability to avoid the divisiveness that Dean generated ... But they are different ... In some ways, Barack Obama was the beneficiary of the energy Dean created in Illinois. I can tell you that many of the people I worked with in Illinois (and Iowa) for Dean transitioned their energies to working for Obama." One of the key questions now is how US mainstream media will
spin the new political superstar. Pundits were caught deer-facing-the-headlights style, as Obama sharply enhanced their "slicing and dicing" of the US. Some cable talking-heads, such as

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2004-07-30 Thread LilQT4851

Time running out in SudanPublished July 30, 2004While most of the world dithers and debates, the slaughter continues in the western Sudanese province of Darfur.This week African Union monitors reported that on July 3 the Darfurian town of Suleia was attacked by government-supported militias that shackled villagers and burned them alive.On the same day of the atrocities in Suleia, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan exacted a promise from the Sudanese government to rein in the killer Janjaweed militias and facilitate access of humanitarian aid to the estimated 1 million people forced into refugee camps and others displaced in Darfur.Annan also convened a summit in Ghana on Thursday to seek "African solutions" to the various humanitarian crises in the continent, including the one in Sudan. Annan also made an urgent appeal to donor countries to increase their aid for humanitarian efforts in Darfur.Sudan has issued defiant statements against international intervention.Yet that is precisely what is needed--a series of steps by the world community to compel Sudan to abide by the Annan agreement, disarm the Janjaweed and prosecute its leaders.There is not great reason to be optimistic that that will happen.In the last week, the U.S. has proposed three UN resolutions to place sanctions and arms embargoes against Sudan. Russia and China, among other Security Council members, have balked at the threat of military or economic sanctions. Russia reportedly wants to protect its profitable sale of warplanes to Sudan, while China fears risking its access to Sudanese oil.The latest resolution, presented Thursday, softens the language to a warning that Sudan would face unspecified measures if it does not follow the Annan plan within 30 days. The European Union backs the U.S. initiative. But Russia and China, joined by Pakistan, want to give Sudan more time to comply.More time for what? The 18-month conflict has killed 30,000 people, forced 1 million people into refugee camps and left 2.2 million others in dire need of food and medical attention.Waiting only promises to deliver more death and misery. As the rainy season approaches, and it becomes more difficult to bring in humanitarian supplies, the death toll could reach 350,000, according to relief agencies.Thus far, Sudan has not moved to comply with international demands to stop the killing in Darfur. The world must impose economic sanctions and an arms embargo, with the implicit threat that military intervention could be in the offing.Military action against the largest country in Africa would be difficult. It would have to be an international effort, with African support. Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell has said such action is premature. But the makings are there for such an effort. Britain, Australia and New Zealand have said they'd be willing to contribute to a force to protect Darfurian refugees from the Janjaweed marauders. EU nations might be persuaded to participate. The African Union could increase the 300 troops it has deployed to protect its observers.The situation in Darfur grows only more extreme. Without forceful international action, dreadful results seem certain.
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Malawi clerics caught canoodling







By Raphael Tenthani BBC correspondent in Blantyre 




 
The nun was allowed to put on her habit after being arrestedA Catholic priest and nun have been convicted in Malawi for making love in an airport car park. 
The 43-year-old priest and 26-year-old nun were caught "in the act" in a tinted saloon car parked at Lilongwe International Airport. 
"It was a bizarre spectacle, the public alerted airport police after noticing the car shaking in a funny way," police spokesman Kelvin Maigwa told the BBC. 
The pair received a suspended six-month jail sentence with hard labour. 
Remorse 
In a packed and giggling court-room, both the priest and the nun pleaded guilty to the charge of indecent behaviour in a public place and disorderly conduct. 
The nun tearfully told the magistrate she regretted her brief lapse in judgement, while the priest said that as a man of God he accepted Satan had tempted him. 








 We thought they could be rushing for a plane... but they never got out of the car 

Taxi driver Magistrate Arthur Mtalimanja accepted their pleas in mitigation, but admonished them saying that as servants of God they were the last to be expected to misbehave in public. 
"I therefore sentence you to six months imprisonment with hard labour, but I will suspend it... because you have shown remorse," he said. 
The two were first noticed at the airport by eyewitnesses as they parked the car and wound up the tinted windows. 
"We thought they could be rushing for a plane that was about to take off but we were surprised that they never got out of the car," said a taxi driver. 
After being arrested, the nun was allowed to put on her habit, Mr Maigwa said. 
The priest was dressed in civilian clothes, he said. 
If the couple repeat the offence in the next 18 months they will go to jail, the magistrate said.

Re: ugnet_: One of DNA's 'fathers' dies

2004-07-30 Thread Ochan Otim


A few of them fathers died lately.  E.g. Caltech Prof. Emiritus Arnold 
Beckman, the father of the pH meter [whose generosity touched me 
professionally].  Any chemist or biologist working right now is probably 
using a Beckman Instrument, be it a pH meter, centrifuge, UV 
spectrophotometer, etc.  You chemists should visit his museum in the 
Beckman Institute, one level below my lab; it is amazing what he did.  Then 
there is Caltech Prof. Emiritus Ed Lewis who, until last weekend was down 
the hall from me, a Nobel Laureate, the father of the Hox genes; he is the 
dude who gave some fruit flies an extra pair of wings in the '60 using the 
genes).  Next, Caltech Prof. Emiritus Norman Davidson, etc, etc.

BTW, I have never excused Watson and Crick for never officially admitting 
that their discovery was based in part on illegally obtained data from 
Rosalind Franklin's notebook.  This wonderful lady should have been the 
third person in the Nobel citation, i.e. two fathers and a mother of DNA: 
Watson, Crick and Rosalin.

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ugnet_: WHAT JOHN KERRY MUST FACE

2004-07-30 Thread Edward Mulindwa




Terrorism: What John Kerry Must Face 
By Terrell E. 
Arnold7-30-4





  
  

  
Last night John Kerry resoundingly threw his hat into 
the ring to become President of the United States. In the same ringing 
tones, he committed himself and his running mate, John Edwards, to 
making America safe, combating world terrorism, restoring the reputation 
of the United States, and bringing the United States back into the 
family of nations. In short, John Kerry launched himself and, if 
elected, his presidency into an urgent confrontation of the greatest 
moral, ethical and human rights dilemma facing the American President 
and the American people: The plight of the Palestinian people. If he 
does not recognize this from the beginning, his presidency and our 
future will both be in jeopardy. 
 
We have had five Presidents in a row confront the 
problem of world terrorism and leave it unsolved for his successor. 
Carter launched the right moves with the Camp David accords, but the 
problem of American hostages in Iran stole the momentum of his 
presidency. Reagan allowed his core team in the White House to get 
involved in a deal to retrieve hostages in the Middle East while 
promoting terrorism in Central America. Bush 1 put the problem on a back 
burner while he disciplined Saddam Hussein. Clinton attempted to make 
peace in Palestine with a second Camp David accord that failed to 
guarantee Palestinian rights. Bush 2 not only has muddied world 
terrorism waters with an unprovoked attack on Iraq but also has put the 
United States completely in opposition to any rights for the Palestinian 
people. 
 
If he becomes the next President, Kerry faces the 
Palestine problem in the worst condition it has ever been. Why? Bush 2 
has erased any pretense of White House interest in the rights of the 
Palestinian people. Kerry will face a tough road back from that debacle, 
even if he applies himself from the beginning. 
 
To get beyond this point, John Kerry has to approach 
forthrightly and connect with that largely unmentioned "third rail of 
American politics: Relations with Israel. Politicians generally won,t 
touch it, because Jewish/Zionist media, financial, and voting clout 
represent formidable obstacles. 
 
Through his actions to date, Kerry has indicated he 
intends to follow basically the line followed by Bush 2: Go blindly down 
the path of support for Israel. Undoubtedly being pressed by Israelis 
and supporters to do so, in a March 2004 meeting with Jewish leaders in 
New York, Kerry committed himself whole-heartedly to support Israel. In 
the week before the Democratic Convention, he sent his brother to 
reaffirm that commitment directly to Israeli leadership. 
 
It may be that realities of the campaign make it 
impossible to correct this posture before being elected. Not only are 
the Zionist extremists and their supporters behaving as if they have the 
American presidency in their pockets, but also Christian conservatives 
are backing Israeli moves. In a close election, as this one is shaping, 
those pro-Zionist votes can be decisive. But if he stays on that course, 
if he refuses to touch that third rail, the Kerry Middle East policy 
train will never leave the station. 
 
At the same time, Arabs and indeed Muslims worldwide 
grow increasingly restive under an insensitive, aggressive American 
official refusal to recognize that anything is wrong in Palestine or 
amiss in US behavior toward the Islamic peoples. For a small number of 
Muslims, especially for Osama bin Laden and al Qaida, those persistent 
policy blind spots are at once terrorism generators and recruitment 
posters. 
 
There is no way a Kerry administration can avoid 
coming to grips with this situation. Bush 2 will have left it in an 
acutely abscessed state. But success on all the core objectives of 
Kerry,s announced foreign policy will require that he not only address 
this situation but succeed in fixing it. There simply is no solution to 
the Middle East problem that does not recognize and respond to fifty 
years of repression for the Palestinian people. 
 
There is no way that problem can be resolved while 
catering exclusively to the demands of Zionist extremists. Kerry has no 
choice, therefore, but to confront the Israeli extremists with an 
imperative need for real balance in American policy toward Palestine. 
Phony

ugnet_: SEX CHANGES NOT EFFECTIVE

2004-07-30 Thread Edward Mulindwa




Sex Changes Not Effective, Say Researchers 
By David Batty 
The Guardian - UK 7-30-4





  
  

  
There is no conclusive evidence that sex change 
operations improve the lives of transsexuals, with many people remaining 
severely distressed and even suicidal after the operation, according to 
a medical review conducted exclusively for Guardian Weekend 
tomorrow. 
 
The review of more than 100 international medical 
studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of Birmingham's 
aggressive research intelligence facility (Arif) found no robust 
scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically 
effective. 
 
The Guardian asked Arif to conduct the review after 
speaking to several people who regret changing gender or believe that 
the medical care they received failed to prepare them for their new 
lives. They explain why they are unhappy with their sex change and how 
they cope with the consequences in the Weekend magazine tomorrow (July 
31). 
 
Chris Hyde, the director of Arif, said: "There is a 
huge uncertainty over whether changing someone's sex is a good or a bad 
thing. While no doubt great care is taken to ensure that appropriate 
patients undergo gender reassignment, there's still a large number of 
people who have the surgery but remain traumatised - often to the point 
of committing suicide." 
 
Arif, which advises the NHS in the West Midlands about 
the evidence base of healthcare treatments, found that most of the 
medical research on gender reassignment was poorly designed, which 
skewed the results to suggest that sex change operations are 
beneficial. 
 
Its review warns that the results of many gender 
reassignment studies are unsound because researchers lost track of more 
than half of the participants. For example, in a five-year study of 727 
post-operative transsexuals published last year, 495 people dropped out 
for unknown reasons. Dr Hyde said the high drop out rate could reflect 
high levels of dissatisfaction or even suicide among post-operative 
transsexuals. He called for the causes of their deaths to be tracked to 
provide more evidence. 
 
Dr Hyde said: "The bottom line is that although it's 
clear that some people do well with gender reassignment surgery, the 
available research does little to reassure about how many patients do 
badly and, if so, how badly." 
 
There are around 5,000 post-operative transsexuals in 
the UK, according to the transgender pressure group Press for Change 
(PFC). It is estimated that up to 400 sex changes will be performed this 
year on the NHS and privately. Each operation costs the NHS around 
£3,000, while private patients pay upwards of £8,000 for surgery. 

 
Christine Burns, of PFC, said the campaign group's 
research suggested that the vast majority of transsexual people enjoyed 
much happier lives following surgery. 
 
Ms Burns added that the greatest flaws in medical 
literature about gender reassignment were in those studies unsympathetic 
to transsexual people. For example, one study was based on a survey of 
seven transsexual prostitutes interviewed in one gay bar in 
Chicago. 
 
She said: "The fact that research is badly constructed 
isn't a poor reflection on transpeople, but on the people we should be 
able to trust for our care. If they "lose" half the patients they ought 
to be able to track the question is why? As we've repeatedly pointed out 
ourselves there is really no difficulty in getting transpeople to come 
forward and cooperate in research that is properly constructed and 
conceived with people's true well-being in mind." 
 
Research from the US and Holland suggests that up to a 
fifth of patients regret changing sex. A 1998 review by the Research and 
Development Directorate of the NHS Executive found attempted suicide 
rates of up to 18% noted in some medical studies of gender 
reassignment. 
 
Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health 
Foundation, has written to the mental health minister, Rosie Winterton, 
requesting a "thorough assessment" of the long-term effects of sex 
change operations. He wants the National Institute for Clinical 
Excellence, which decides what treatments should be available on the 
NHS, to draw up guidelines on gender reassignment. 
 
 
Transgender psychiatrists, who assess

ugnet_: Kabaka wants a mighty Buganda - New Vision 31/7/2004

Kabaka wants a mighty Buganda

FIRM STAND: Mutebi waves to his people as he arrives at Lubiri
By Josephine Maseruka and Henry Mukasa The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Mutebi, yesterday called for a mighty Buganda based on the pillars and property the kingdoms ancestors handed over to the present generation. While opening a one-day workshop on federalism organised by Buganda clan leaders, Mutebi said the kingdom would continue making its demands peacefully and patiently. The workshop comes amid talks between the Government and Mengo over its demand for a federal status, the inclusion of Kampala city in Buganda and the return of 9,000 square miles of land. President Yoweri Museveni will on Tuesday meet Bugandas delegation for more talks, after a scheduled meeting on Thursday flopped. Mutebi, who usually speaks from his throne, stood at the rostrum and in a firm tone said, We want Buganda to be as mighty as it was in the past, based on the pillars handed to us by our ancestors, and all the properties they left for us with our abi
lities,
wisdom and strength. The statement was greeted with prolonged applause and chants from the mammoth crowd that had waited for him from as early as 8:00am. During this period you have heard much and you will hear much more but our intention is to see that we develop Buganda and Uganda as a whole and deliver our people from the throes of poverty and disease, the Kabaka said to chants of federo, federo. We ask our partners in other parts of Uganda to join us in this struggle. We have requested and we shall continue to ask patiently because we like this nation, in which we all have vested interests. We want to see that our voice is heard, the Kabaka added in a four-minute address. Thousands of Baganda thronged Lubiri Palace for the workshop on federalism and a critical analysis of Buganda, lessons from the 1966 crisis, the present and the future. It took security personnel over 10 minutes to clear a crowd that swarmed Mutebis convoy when he
entered
the palace at 12:20pm. Mutebi hailed clan leaders for convening the workshop and said getting knowledge never ends. Participants were bedecked in white tunics (kanzu) while others wore animal skins. Ladies dressed in gomesi and tied small pieces of barkcloth around their waists to express their displeasure with government. They donned barkcloth caps and hats with inscriptions twagala federo (we want federo). The Katikkiro, Joseph Ssemwogerere, hailed Mutebi for opening the workshop and said his subjects would never desert him in good or bad times. Retired Bishop Michael Ssenyimba presented a paper on poverty in Buganda. He said with federo, Buganda would stop depending on charity and hand-outs from the Central Government. Emmanuel Kayita Musoke presented a paper on the 1966 crisis and its effect on Buganda traditions. He said the moral decay in society was a result of the abolition of kingdoms. He said Bugandas existence hinged on the p
illars
of traditions, norms and clans, the basis of the kingdoms demands. Former president Lukongwa Binaisa was jeered by the crowd for being part of past governments which destabilised Buganda.
Published on: Saturday, 31st July, 2004

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ugnet_: Federo talks deferred to Tuesday next week - New Vision 31/7/2004