ugnet_: Kabaka Mutebi: I'm a king Without Any Power - Wants Federal

2004-02-16 Thread Omar Kezimbira
Mutebi: I'm a king without any power By Sam Dick Kasolo Feb 16, 2004 - Monitor BANDA - Government returned structures to Buganda Kingdom but not its power, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi has said. Mutebi said this on Saturday while meeting his subjects of the Abaganda Tulimukulya nga Katonga Ajuula

ugnet_: Monitor: Lust to kill!

2004-02-16 Thread J Ssemakula
An ex-rebel's lust -- to kill By Nabusayi L. Wamboka Feb 11 - 17, 2004 KITGUM - Except for his bloodshot eyes and the occasional staring into space, Thomas Kopkulu, 31, looks just like a regular guy. But he is not. Dressed in an old white T-shirt, grey trousers and worn out slippers,

ugnet_: Fr Rodriguez no rebel ally

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Fr Rodriguez no rebel ally Maj. Shaban Bantariza's statement that security officials in northern Uganda have recommended the deportation of Fr Carlos Rodriguez for "spreading false information prejudicial to national security" is all too familiar. Fr Rodriguez is no LRA sympathiser. He is only

ugnet_: MPs Slam Govt Over Fr. Carlos Comments

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
MPs Slam Govt Over Fr. Carlos Comments   Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala)February 14, 2004 Posted to the web February 16, 2004 Milton Olupot Kampala THE Acholi Parliamentary Group (APG) has

ugnet_: Give Hard Evidence About Rebel Backers

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Give Hard Evidence About Rebel Backers   Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala)EDITORIAL February 16, 2004 Posted to the web February 16, 2004 Kampala The Chief Politcal Commissar of the army, Brig.

ugnet_: KITGUM: REBEL AMBUSH AND ABDUCTIONS

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
UGANDA16/2/200410:45 KITGUM: REBEL AMBUSH AND ABDUCTIONS General,Brief The rebels of the LRA (lords Resistance Army) ambushed a truck in the North Ugandan district of Kitgum. As referred by MISNA sources, the episode occurred last Friday at around 11:00a.m.

ugnet_: COMBONI PROVINCIAL SUPERIOR: POLITICAL WILL NEEDED TO STOP THE WAR

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
UGANDA16/2/200415:52 COMBONI PROVINCIAL SUPERIOR: POLITICAL WILL NEEDED TO STOP THE WAR Church/Religious Affairs,Standard The intervention of the international community is essential in efforts to halt the humanitarian catastrophe afflicting the districts of

ugnet_: From Omowale Clay on pro-Zimbabwe demonstration

2004-02-16 Thread RWalker949
Subj: Demo Against NY Times in Support of Zimbabwe Date: 02/15/2004 1:39:36 PM Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Omowale Clay) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

ugnet_: Gulu Boss Blasts Religious Leaders

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Gulu Boss Blasts Religious Leaders   Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala)February 14, 2004 Posted to the web February 16, 2004 Denis Ocwich Kampala ACHOLI religious leaders have come under fire for

ugnet_: Sharpton Leaves Wisconsin Debate Audience Howling over Bush's Lies

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Sharpton Leaves Wisconsin Debate Audience Howling over Bush's Lies In the Wisconsin debate, Lester Holt asked Sharpton: "Do you think that the president knowingly lied, and if so, why?" "Clearly, he lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in

ugnet_: Gulu Children in March for Peace

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
"Oboma appealed to members of Parliament, the army and religious leaders to work together for peace."Our rights have been immensely violated; we want peace so that we as children can also enjoy our rights," he said." Gulu Children in March for Peace   Email This Page Print

ugnet_: 'Ex-Paymaster Tortured in Cells'

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
"For two days I was put in a pit where I stayed without food," a tearful Musoke told this reporter.He said his captors took the list of ghosts he had compiled.Musoke's woes began in 2001. As a paymaster then in the DR Congo, he informed army headquarters that the UPDF was losing Shs 300 million

ugnet_: Re: [theafricanobserver] Sharpton Leaves Wisconsin Debate Audience Howling ov...

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
In a message dated 2/16/2004 2:09:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (LAUGHTER) Because, absolutely, it was a lie. They said they knew the weapons were there. He had members of the administration say they knew where the weapons were. Yup that is about correct, who can forget

ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Damn..Dd! It is like the Kabaka just realized this fact. Like I said in the game of politics, ( which is a chess game really) you can be pretty much out maneuvered ..and before you know it you have pretty much hit an ANTHILL! head on!! Matek Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

ugnet_: Museveni to Build Security Roads in Northern Uganda..thanx to KONY

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Security Road to Cost Sh1.7b   Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala)February 14, 2004 Posted to the web February 16, 2004 Kampala PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has directed the construction of a sh1.7b

ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: ’The Working Poor’: Can’t Win for Losing

2004-02-16 Thread J Ssemakula
The reality of kyeyo / advertisement ---\ From the warped minds behind SUPER TROOPERS... Fox Searchlight Pictures is proud to present BROKEN LIZARD'S CLUB DREAD in theaters everywhere FEBRUARY 27.Surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked

ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] 'Ex-Paymaster Tortured in Cells'

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
In a message dated 2/16/2004 2:41:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "For two days I was put in a pit where I stayed without food," a tearful Musoke told this reporter.He said his captors took the list of ghosts he had compiled. Musoke's woes began in 2001. As a paymaster then

ugnet_: FW: The Thief of Baghdad

2004-02-16 Thread J Ssemakula
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ugnet_: What a joke!

2004-02-16 Thread J Ssemakula
/ advertisement ---\ From the warped minds behind SUPER TROOPERS... Fox Searchlight Pictures is proud to present BROKEN LIZARD'S CLUB DREAD in theaters everywhere FEBRUARY 27.Surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned

ugnet_: ARCHBISHOP OF GULU EXPLAINS DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE PATH TO PEACE

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
UGANDA16/2/200420:14 ARCHBISHOP OF GULU EXPLAINS DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE PATH TO PEACE Church/Religious Affairs,Standard Stop to the war in North Uganda! After nearly twenty years of torment, the idea of resolving the crisis with a war option would mean a

RE: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Ed Kironde
Kabaka Mutebi has known this all along thanks to Obote. There has been many debates of Byoya by nswa and all that. The question is, to be king or not to be? There is much more being King of Buganda than being king of Uganda. Forget the political power and preserve Buganda (for now)

ugnet_: Hormone Transforms Fat Cells from Foes to Friends

2004-02-16 Thread J Ssemakula
February 10, 2004 Hormone Transforms Fat Cells from Foes to Friends, Rat Study Suggests Set against the backdrop of an increasingly overweight population, the 1994 discovery of the fat-regulating protein leptin was widely heralded as a boon for obesity research. The hormone continues to be a

RE: ugnet_: What a joke!

2004-02-16 Thread vukoni
Omwami Ssemakula, I concur. But the joke is on us800 million Africans who allowour leaders and their godfathers get away with murder, lies, and grand theftevery waking day.Take this Angolan joke of volunteering for peer review. Whats' so magical about March 2006, more than two years into the

ugnet_: Majority Kampalans Poor

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Fellow Citizens: Think of yet another "third term"for Museveni! Yup the man with Vision.nbsp; This, already bad situation in Kampala will be made worse. Museveni with his NRM, in case you have not yet noticed, are obsessed with "wining the fight against "KONY REBELS". ..no matter the cost

Re: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
In a message dated 2/16/2004 4:36:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forget the political power and preserve Buganda (for now) embark on development projects in Buganda, provide education and health for the people of Buganda, and teach them their cultural values. Eddi: As

ugnet_: UGANDA: Advocacy and peace groups raise concerns over LRA prosecution

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
UGANDA: Advocacy and peace groups raise concerns over LRA prosecution KAMPALA, 16 Feb 2004 (IRIN) - The child rights group, Save the Children, has warned that the children in northern Uganda may suffer most if the International Criminal Court (ICC) decides to prosecute Lord's Resistance Army

ugnet_: DEADLINE FOR REBELS EXPIRED, GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR NEW REGIONAL SUMMIT

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
BURUNDI16/2/200419:31 DEADLINE FOR REBELS EXPIRED, GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR NEW REGIONAL SUMMIT Politics/Economy,Brief The deadline launched three months ago by the Heads of State of the African Great Lakes Region to the rebels of the FNL (National Liberation

RE: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Ed Kironde
Matek Even I Edriss Kironde, a commoner, can have fundraising (harambee as is in Kenya) events and send Buganda kids to institutions of higher learning both in Uganda and abroad. With Buganda King as a patron, he can have fundraisings in different parts of

Re: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Matekopoko
Agreed! But such efforts, as you so eloquently pointed out below, must be used as means to provide SUPPLEMENTARY funds to the Kings effortssupplementary in the sense to it supplements funds from the Buganda treasury (if the Kabaka was allowed to levy taxes subjects) earmarked to finance

Re: ugnet_: Hormone Transforms Fat Cells from Foes to Friends

2004-02-16 Thread Rehema Mukooza
Ssemakula: This sounds very promissing for the treatment of obesity. However, for now people will have to take their Xenical to flush undigested eaten fat out of their digestive canals. Iwonder how good it would be for the obese to keep on eating their high calorie foods, only to take leptin

ugnet_: Castro exposes Bush's grammatical blunders

2004-02-16 Thread Owor Kipenji
Castro exposes Bush’s grammatical blunders Monday, February 16, 2004 http://www.nigerian-tribune.com/ CUBAN leader, Fidel Castro, resorted to humour on Saturday to defend himself from U.S. hostility, ridiculing President George W. Bush for his gaffes. “Bush could not debate with a Cuban

ugnet_: Briefcase parties bad for Democracy

2004-02-16 Thread Owor Kipenji
TUESDAY REFLECTIONS With Kintu Nyago Briefcase parties bad for democracyFeb 17, 2004 Now that Uganda has in the excess of 60 political parties, is this an indicator that we are considerably more democratic as a society? Caution is called for when responding to this question,

ugnet_: Wife tricks hubby in sex-for-tax scam

2004-02-16 Thread Owor Kipenji
Wife tricks hubby in sex-for-tax scamBy Jonathan AkweteirehoFeb 17, 2004 HOIMA – A woman who wanted to spend a night with her lover told her husband that graduated tax collectors were going to raid their neighbourhood that night. Reluctant to face the wrath of the tax collectors, the resident

Re: ugnet_: Lado Kingdom? - A Northern Solution

2004-02-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Dear Zakoomu, The Lado Enclave, as a cohesive cultural-political entity in the past or currently, exists only in the imagination of Captain John Agami and his followers. Originating in the period of European Scramble for Africa, this phrase doesn't really feature in the power calculus of Mr.

ugnet_: Lado Kingdom? - A Northern Solution

2004-02-16 Thread Rehema Mukooza
Try more of this and check it out. Very interesting. http://www.npi-news.dk/page37.htm and http://asp.african-institute.org/articles.asp?Indeks=23Rehema Mukooza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Members: The Kingdom of Lado: http://www.npi-news.dk/pages37.htm?? About the Luo, Luu, Lui, Lue, Lendu,

ugnet_: Beloved Haiti: A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial

2004-02-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Beloved Haiti A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial By STAN GOFF February 9, 2004. As I write this there is an attempt to start a civil war in Haiti, engineered in the United States of America and supported by its lapdogs in Caricom and the Organization of American States. Former Haitian

RE: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Ed Kironde
I gave you this to show you that my King, the one call a pauper, can raise money if he so wanted without any other source of income, just going on harambee or ggwanga mujje projects. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

Re: ugnet_: Lado Kingdom? - A Northern Solution

2004-02-16 Thread Rehema Mukooza
Vukoni: If you know that Lado enclave is not in the power calculus of Kony then, What is Kony fighting for?? Five years ago, folks discussed about the Lado Kingdom and here we are now and the war is still going. Is it really Kony who is killing civilians?? Does 'fighting the gov't' really mean

Re: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Edward Mulindwa
What an illusionalist. Em - Original Message - From: Ed Kironde To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 4:29 PM Subject: RE: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power Kabaka Mutebi has known this all along thanks to Obote. There

RE: ugnet_: Mutebi: I'm a King Without Any Power

2004-02-16 Thread Ed Kironde
MULINDWA, Edward, good to hear from again, last had about you before mydoom struck. You wrote illusionalist and I was at a loss for a minute, but figured it was a typo and what you really wanted to say was a person with unusual power of foresight - an illusionist. You got that right!

ugnet_: Re: Reality check for Kyeyo

2004-02-16 Thread Rehema Mukooza
Ssemakula: The value of the dollar falling is all going according to US plan to control the world economies.You haven't seen anything yet! Job outsourcing is there to create more trade deficiet for the US. 1st, - Foreigners in US will have to send more money back home. A plan to kulemesa the

ugnet_: Re: Lado Kingdom? - A Northern Solution

2004-02-16 Thread Rehema Mukooza
Ms. Luzinda: I don't believe what you have said, i.e "Uganda is using Kony to build the northern region". That is the most ridiculous and insensitive thing I've ever heard in the history of Uganda! Just take sometime please, and explain how Uganda is building the north with the economic,

ugnet_: Re: The Preacher who was cut down to size by a little kid

2004-02-16 Thread Rehema Mukooza
Owor: This is a very tricky joke! Now, explain your point in this story. Are you trying to convert people to Christianity or what?? What's your aim?? Yeah, God bless us because this is a real joke. Zakoomu R.Robert Owor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now this is a great Preacher! He brings many to

Re: ugnet_: Lado Kingdom? - A Northern Solution

2004-02-16 Thread okello
Rehema Mukooza, I do not think secession from the rest of Uganda is the answer to the war Museveni engineered in North Uganda. The war in North Uganda is going to come to an end. Museveni can not maintain that war for long; not even for another 17 years. What I believe the people of Northern