ugnet_: note to Anyomokolo
Anyomokolo, why are you saying that I disappeared ? Just recently I gave you a lecture about your, er.. 'nomadic' sex life - didn't you see it ? But where do you get the idea that I don't like you ? Girl, I don't even know you ! So why should I be disliking you ? Kasangwawo From: Anyomokolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:28:53 -0500 (EST) Jonah, I was wondering where you were becuase since I came back you dissappeared as if you don't like me. How are you? Anyomokolo jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mw. Ssemakula, you are spot on ! When the Kabaka keeps quiet, they say he doesn't care. When he says or does something, the same people attack him for having done so. But what is most abominable are the lies they concoct along the way. The mouthpiece of the communications gang is telling us that this is the first time the Kabaka has said anything about the war in the north. Now, that is the mother of all lies. Kasangwawo From: J Ssemakula Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:23:06 + _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 From: J Ssemakula To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:23:06 + And here I was, thinking that bringing peace to Northern Uganda is more important than the political status whoever facilitates the process. I suppose, the end does not justify the means. I wonder, is there another agenda here or is it just the usual plain, garden variety, ntondo? Damned if you do, damned if you don't ... Original Message Follows From: Owor Kipenji Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:16:08 + (GMT) Why ask this question?.Has there even been a time in the History of the Kingdom,when the Kabaka was not political?. We really need a reality check here because even if Mu7 tells Ugandans that the restored Kingdoms are traditional institutions,he should know that culture per se can be used as a political tools and hence the rantings that the Kabaka is not political is a contradiction. Most of us may think the Kabaka is not political because he does not have authorities to levy taxes on his subjects and on those occupying his properties but that in itself does not mean he is apolitical because he can use his immense influence within the cultural context to cause mayhem for the pretenders to the throne like the NRM ideologues!. Remember how the Quebecors in Canada have adroitly used culture to make big political gains?. So lets' not be lulled into thinking that the Kabaka is not political.He is indeed the epitome of the political aspirations of most of his people so do not malign him. Thank you. Kipenji. === Mulindwa Edward wrote: Is the Kabaka political now? Em 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: J Ssemakula To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:57 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Likewise, I salute the Kabaka for trying to search for peace to end the misery of our suffering brethren. Ssemakula Original Message Follows From: Rehema Mukooza Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:41:40 -0800 (PST) I am pleased to see our King Ronald Mutebi extending his hand to try with other traditional leaders to get some ways of resolving this issue in the North. The war will not stop itself as the government is wishing for. I believe that all traditional leaders have always wanted to work together towards a stable Uganda but our own gov't is working tirelessly to break this corrabollation and understanding among our traditional leaders. Why? It's the work of evilness our gov't has always as usual worked on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels New Vision (Kampala)January 17, 2004 Posted to the web January 19, 2004 Josephine Maseruka Kampala Kabaka Ronald Mutebi has accepted to meet traditional leaders from southern Sudan to discuss ways of ending the17-year northern Uganda insurgency by the Joseph Kony rebels. The Kabaka made the commitment on Thursday when he received the in-charge of conflict issues in the confederation of Switzerland, Ambassador Joseph Bucher The meeting was
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
gook, we have been through this revisionist stuff many times before. This is just another attempt to divert us from the issue at hand. But just one simple question: what were you yourself doing in Luweero at the time ? Kasangwawo From: gook makanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:04:20 + _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ---BeginMessage--- Vukoni, I agree with you here, but yet again you should have been in Luwero when him and Mu7 went about preaching about the new change they would usher and the methods they would use to bring about that change. They, him and M7, hade clearly identified whom their enemies were. Hoes, pangas and runguswhere used to kill off all those perceived enemies. A lot of people including my dear old uncle lost their lives in Luwero, and later in the rest of Buganda simply because they were "Bipingamingi" -read Non Gandas! When they got to Kla, you must have seen how they went about torching any "dark" skinned person they met. In the process i again lost a very dear friend, Mutebi,. His crime? his skin complexion was dark! As they later found out they had actually torched a royal! The method? They tied a tire around his neck and torched it! Chief, it is one of the most painful and inhuman way of dying! To this day i still have night mares! Will it ever end? Shall i ever forget the things that happened to my people in Luwero and in Kla? To this day these people, those who were lucky to survive , have not got their land and other property back! Now, you tell me what the Kabaka has done to compensate these innocent Ugandans right in his kingdom. let him first settle the problem of Luwero before he can go talk to the people in Sudan.In Luwero i know he has some powers. He can order for those properties to be handed back to their rightful owners and probably also apologize for the role he played in their being treated like they were not his subjects! Failure to do this will make me see all his later attempts as nothing but cheap politicking! Rgds Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Original Message Follows From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:33:25 -0600 I'm not a monarchist but if truth be told, this Kabaka has displayed remarkable statesmanship in expressing solidarity with Ugandans and other Africans within our borders who continue to bear the brunt of the NRM's failed militarist approach to solving every problem. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.563 / Virus Database: 355 - Release Date: 1/17/2004 Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug ---End Message---
ugnet_: It's all written in the loos
It's all written in the loos By Robert Adam Kasozi Jan 24 - 30, 2004 Brussels - Back in the day in continental Europe, there was a job you dared not touch with a longstick. That job, with the unsexy title of night soilman, was left for drunks and never-do-wells who hadn't figured out what to do with themselves in life. You see, even after the Romans built a wonderful sewerage system that still stands today, these proud Anglo-Saxons just couldn't come round to using it. So they continued taking a crap in an open pot and hiring the night soilman to carry it away and dispose of it wherever he saw fit -- which was usually the next alley behind your house. Forget the public Roman baths and spas. Continental Europeans (and you may laugh now) are just about as new to the toilet as we are, only accepting it fully in the last one hundred years. Which probably explains why a lot of chicanery goes on in the public conveniences about here. Back in Uganda, getting into a public toilet is a one-two-three go experience. Two minutes to do your business and you dare not even breathe in there. Here? It's the time to get kinky and dirty. And nothing illustrates this better than the toilet grafitti. The doors are usually a metre away from the pot where you do your business but that hasn't stopped the grafitti artistes from writing on them. One common theme seems to run through all of them. These are very very angry and bitter men. Well, sometimes they are also gay and very horny. On the wall to the public convenience in the library, for instance, one fellah who got spiritual while doing the dirty wrote "Jesus loves you. He died for your sins." Nice try. Just below him is another fellah who cared nothing for Mary's boy and had a bone to pick with the Iraqis. So he wrote: "Fight the [Iraq] war, f*ck the norm." This F-word business continues directly below with another angry user who rants: "F*ck Belgium (and I thought I was the only one with that dark thought). F*ck Europe. F*ck the world. F*ck people." Well another guy thinking about his last date with death muses philosophically: "sometimes it ain't easy to die. She didn't even kill me." Well back to the horny gays. About here it isn't just fashionable to be gay, it's also something to bait people with. That's how this classified ad ended up on the toilet door: "If you are homosexual and you have a beautiful girlfriend, I can f*ck you, provided you let me [sleep] with your girlfriend. Leave e-mail. P.S I am 1m 87, penis 16cm. I am not a nigger nor a f*cking Albanian." It probably didn't take very long for another fellah to answer the ad, because just below is this script: "I am a homosexual and I have a beautiful girlfriend but you can't f*ck neither of us because only a guy who has a really small penis would write this bullsh*t. It really sucks to have a small dick, doesn't it, you poor heterosexual idiot." [emphasis not mine]. You would think people would stop at the sex wars and insulting each other, but no sir. The ads keep coming and this guy definitely hadn't had any for a long time. His solution? Advertise in the loo. So he wrote: "I need a f*ck. Free girls everyday. Call me please." For good measure he drew a heart, but forgot one important detail. There was no phone number to call him on. Not so this fella. Feeling the urges of nature taking over, he wrote: "You wanna suck? Service de baser." I dare not translate the French, but this fella left a number. It's 0494 143237. It seems like a genuine number and if you've got the guts, just put a 32 in front of it and find out what type of cojones this guy has got. It would be kind to suggest that most of the people who get into these conveniences and get literary urges are fairly drunk and there is evidence. Like writing on the wall that says: "Drink Vodka. Everyday." But that can't be the whole story. The famous French mathematician Rene Descartes may have declared a universal truth when he said "I think therefore I am" but some guy here would have none of it. So he crossed it out the word 'think' and wrote: "I hurt therefore I am." Hardly a drunk fellow. When the lads are not getting terribly xenophobic, they are ranting about the boys in red (Man U, silly). One fellah must have been so peeved after the Red Devils took the premiership crown last year that he wrote: "Who the f*ck is Man U?" To be honest, they were last year's English premiership champions, winning this trophy for the 8th time in 11 years, but how did that escape this fella? Anyway, a sober voice intervenes in pencil nearby asking: "How can you love/hate a team? Do you guys have no lives?" But a despondent writer in this rest room seems to sum up the bile boiling in men's breasts here. Referring to recent events in the Middle East, he makes this doomsday call. "[President George] Bush rules the world and that is very good. And he will soon be ruling hell too along with Saddam [Hussein], Osama bin Laden and all the other ass holes that
ugnet_: Do you act your profession?
Do you act your profession? By Agnes Asiimwe Jan 24 - 30, 2004 The best masseurs have never had a massage, and some cosmetologists rarely wear make up KAMPALA - Revelation that a local pastor was accused of devil worship, witchcraft, adultery and murder was horrifying. Could the same person who preaches about the Omniscient God, love thy neighbour as thy self, everlasting life...do that? Impossible. But then again, maybe it was possible. A hairdresser attends to a customer. Sometimes, people fail to act their profession (File photo).Looking at most professions, people offer the best of what they know to others but leave themselves out. The best masseurs have never got a massage, most cosmetologists never get time to wear make up, photographers don't own albums (they don't have photographs), a bank teller will walk home for lack of transport fare, while the leading fashion designers top the worst dressed people's charts worldwide. Annet Nalugya works in a massage parlour in town. She has been massaging people for as long as she can remember, but has never got one. "There is no one to do it...and there is no time...I really don't need a massage," she said. The realisation that she has never had a massage surprised her as well. For one to brush their teeth after every meal as dentists tell us, one would have to practically move around with a toothbrush. How do the dentists manage? Dr Tugaineyo Emmanuel, a dentist with Nyondo Clinic says he doesn't move around with a toothbrush, but brushes his teeth twice a day, after breakfast and before going to sleep. Of keeping strong healthy teeth he says, "To keep good oral hygiene, avoid sugary stuff or minimise them and regularly visit the dentist, at least every after six months," he said. Does he do all that? "Doctors are poor at doing what they preach," he says. "I know when I have a bad tooth so I don't have to go to see a dentist exactly after six months..." he does brush his teeth twice a day. There is a hotel in Bukoto, which will not be named here, where workers are fired if found eating anything. They are not even allowed to take a glass of water while on duty. When it clocks lunchtime, workers stroll out to neighbouring restaurants to buy food. Of course they know how to beat the system. The trick is to take a glass of juice in one gulp and swallow a hot sausage in the shortest time possible.We all know of a local or international pastor who doesn't emulate what Jesus said in Mark 10:17-27 "...you lack one thing, go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, then come, follow me... It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." So what's with the mansions, airplanes, sleek cars and designer clothes in the lifestyles of our preachers? The work of the police is to keep law and order, right? However they are a true testimony that man eats where he works. It's a fact that most traffic offences, like over speeding, drunk driving, lack of driving permit, are settled with a bribe, anything from Shs10, 000 to Shs 50,000. But the bribes aren't always in cash. The police are the prostitutes' biggest threat; out of the way, those girls claim they would make a lot of money. There are reports that at times, when a prostitute has been cornered, they are known to bribe their captors, and this is not in cash. More times than not, it is said, our dear law and order managers eagerly accept the "bribe". But then, not all have fallen short of the glory. There are some professionals who practise what they preach. Indeed some people must mirror the quality of their works if they are to win their clients' confidence. A beautician should look well groomed, a barber must have well-trimmed hair, a fitness instructor should be fit or at least look it. While re-launching her design line in October last year, House of Kaine designer, Natasha Karugire revealed that she dresses her family. Olivia Birungi is a decorator and interior designer and her artistic touch in people's homes and weddings leaves her clients smiling. But most importantly, she has not forgotten her own home. Everything in her house blends well with the other, especially the maroon and green. "Colour", she says, "should be the first choice of a decorator as it is easier to mix and match furniture when your basic wall colours are in place." Birungi says she chose maroon and green for her home because they easily blend together especially with a white floor and white ceiling. Indeed with curtains matching the side cushions, Olivia's home tells of an interior designer who has not left herself out. Ruth Okwanga is a counsellor at Mulago Hospital. She counsels people with problems at work - the married and the sick. Does she encounter the same problems? "I am married and problems come up, we sit at a round table with my husband and come up with options. "In case they fail, I involve
ugnet_: Referendum and 100,000 children dead
On The Mark With Alan Tacca Referendum and 100,000 children dead Jan 25 - 31, 2004 In my article "Is it a Nyabushozi Vision?" a number of omissions were committed because the editor 'chopped off' some information which put it a little out of context. The word "descending" for example was used in place of "descended".Anyway, that week, we gazed at the wonders of Nyabushozi and the glory of the president's outfit, his own account making the notion of "a national cake for all" look more mythical than ever. But the rest of our people do not only lose out because the distribution of state and donor-sourced resources may have been tilted in favour of Nyabushozi's people. In the pursuit of unlimited power and the desire to justify phoney ideologies, there are positions that the NRM government takes, which so dramatically reflect an indifference to the order of priorities that you would think the country was bewitched. For instance, the assumed drive to secure for President Museveni an extension of his rule has already got one outrage on the regime's agenda: a referendum on political systems and the lifting of term limits for the president. The idea of this particular referendum is so ridiculous that I genuinely salute those who find the composure to debate the subject at length without insulting anyone. The Movement (the "correct line" wing) has already registered itself as a party. All the other political organisations have been advocating a return to pluralism. And, as recent opinion polls show, the electorate is looking forward to that move. Why then would the regime want a referendum on the subject, except as a process through which to distort the rules of play and to delay the engagement of opposition politicians with the masses? That leaves the issue of the "third term". Lawyers who have been reading the constitution are still arguing whether the matter even falls in the ambit of a referendum. However, the NRM-O's parrots do not want to hear any logic beyond the cliché that "Power belongs to the people; let the people decide." Former Local Government minister, Bidandi Ssali - a wily politician who probably knows a lot about manipulation - has said that "the easiest thing a politician can do is to manipulate a population through a referendum".(The Monitor, January 16). Significantly, he adds, what matters are the repercussions after the referendum.That is obvious to everybody; except to the praise-singers of the chief. But if common sense should fail to prevail and there is a referendum, what is the opportunity cost? The exercise is projected to cost around Shs 29 billion (US$15 million). If we include the whole range of indirect expenditure by the president's entourage and other government officials on the 3rd term project, the cost could soar by some more billions. In almost any direction we look, there are glaring sores on which a poor country could spend this money. Let us look at malaria. A couple of weeks ago, the respected British medical journal, the Lancet, was reported to have attacked the World Heath Organisation (WHO) for recommending drugs that were no longer effective in the treatment of malaria. Chloroquine, which cures only about 20% of the patients who use it, was one of those drugs. In effect, WHO was being accused of bending under the powerful drug manufacturers that reaped profits, and the Western "donor" political establishments that saved money, through this immorality. There are effective alternatives in the artemisinin-class combination therapy (ACT) group, but these drugs were said to cost ten times as much as chloroquine.I cite this case, not because the implied cynicism of Western establishments is shocking. It is not. Rather, because Zambia - another poor country - has been able to incorporate these new drugs in its public medical care system, free of charge. I cite this case for another reason. One of the most bubbly advocates of the third term, Vice President Gilbert Bukenya - and who indeed at one time offered to take the muck for starting the hullabaloo - is a medic and former don; while another over-the-top enthusiast, Mike Mukula, is the minister of State for Health. Perhaps being a Scout and now an Arrow Boy militiaman as well, Mukula is enjoying delusions of saving Museveni from military coups. (See "Nobody can Topple Museveni," The Monitor, January 15). But Mukula can be assured that no sensible Ugandan wants military coups. And by the same token, no sensible Ugandan wants Museveni to hang on until toppling him becomes the only option. If it wasn't for the obsession with his new role and combat clothes, the Health minister could sit down with the vice president and look at the following picture: At a rough estimate of Shs. 20,000 (US $ 10) per doze of ACT drugs, 29 billion shillings could be used to successfully treat 1.5 million Ugandan children afflicted with chloroquine-resistant malaria. Just like in Zambia. Between now and the 2005 referendum,
ugnet_: Film on Aids poised to become a big global success
Film on Aids poised to become a big global success A touching movie about an HIV/Aids sufferer could easily become a major box-office hit this year. Directed by Carl Seaton, the movie, One Week, is about a soon-to-be groom who takes an HIV test a week before the wedding. After a seven-day wait, he turns out to be HIV-positive, showing how a reckless night can change a person's life. Critics and film-makers have called it "the most important movie" made in a while. It is also among the few HIV/Aids movies to be released for public screening. Most of them are issued for awareness programmes for educators in the health sector. The first Aids-themed movie for theatrical release was Philadelphia, which won an Oscar award for Tom Hanks and critical acclaim for Denzel Washington, who played the supporting role. At the acceptance, Hanks stirred controversy when he paid tribute to his high school teacher who was gay and, in a clear reference to homosexuals who had succumbed to the infection, he used the moment to pay homage to all those other angels in heaven at a time when HIV/Aids was largely linked to homosexuality. Another production based on Aids was the TV series, Life Goes On, about a teenage high schoolgirl and her HIV- infected lover. But, on the whole, the subject of Aids is not a hot seller in the film circles and Seaton's production has filled a vacuum that is commercially risky in a world dominated by action. Meanwhile, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King carried the top honours at last weekend's 15th annual Producers Guild of America awards, placing it on course for a possible Academy award in March. Traditionally, the winners of this award have gone on to win the Oscar and only in four times have the results differed. The US-based Screen Actors Guild Awards nominated Clint Eastwood's movie, Mystic River, and also its main actors Tim Robbins and Sean Penn for this year's awards. The movie is also nominated by film critics as the year's best film with Eastwood being cited in an unusual role as composer. The battle for Oscars will most likely be fought between Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and Cold Mountain. Cold Mountain, which is about a lovelorn army deserter, took 13 nominations one more than its rival at the Orange British Academy Film awards. On producers, the next of the Harry Potter movies becomes the costliest movie production so far with a budget of $170 million. The movie, to be produced by Mike Newell, will be shot in Paris later in the year. Explaining the high budget, Newell told the Scottish newspaper Sunday Mail: " These things are not like ordinary movies, they are events. I have millions of 10-year-olds who cannot be disappointed." It will be the fourth from the Harry Potter series. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments\Views about this article Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: The BBC at the African Cup Of Nations
This year's African Cup of Nations promises to be most exciting yet and the BBC will be there all the way to bring you unrivalled coverage. BBC Three will be showing full games 'as live' with BBC Two providing extensive highlights of the day's action. Meanwhile, BBC Three are devoting two special programmes to football in Africa - African Footballers' Wives and Football Magic . Make sure you also stay tuned to BBC World Service's Fast Track programme (Monday and Friday 16:32 GMT) for news on the latest developments in Tunisia and to also have a chance to air your views by texting ++44 77 86 20 2008 . Saturday 24 January Group A: Tunisia v Rwanda BBC Two, 0010-0050 (highlights) Sunday 25 January Group C: Cameroon v Algeria BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2300- (highlights) Monday 26 January Group B: Senegal v Burkina Faso BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Tuesday 27 January Group D: Nigeria v Morocco BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Wednesday 28 January Group A: Tunisia v DR Congo BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Thursday 29 January Group C: Cameroon v Zimbabwe BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Friday 30 January Group B: Senegal v Kenya BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2335-0015 GMT (highlights) Saturday 31 January Group D: Nigeria v South Africa BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC One Grandstand, 1555-1630 BBC Two, 2350-0030 GMT (highlights) Sunday 1 February Group A: Tunisia v Guinea BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0040 GMT (highlights) Monday 2 February Group B: Senegal v Mali BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 0020-0100 GMT (highlights) Tuesday 3 February Group C: Cameroon v Egypt BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 0020-0100 GMT (highlights) Wednesday 4 February Group D: Morocco v South Africa BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0040 GMT (highlights) Saturday 7 February QF1: Winner Group A v Runner-up Group B BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0050 GMT (highlights) Sunday 8 February QF4: Winner Group D v Runner-up Group C BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0050 GMT (highlights) Wednesday 11 February Semi-finals: Winner QF1 v Winner QF3 or Winner QF2 v Winner QF4 BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320-0010 GMT (highlights) Friday 13 February Third place play-off BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT Saturday 14 February Final BBC One, 1550-1630 GMT (highlights) BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, TBC (highlights) The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Remembering a great man of words-Charles Dana
Remembering a great man of words Charles Dana By NDIRANGU WACHANGA With our world continuously becoming incredibly unsafe, threatening the very human existence, despite unprecedented technological inventions and prosperity, human institutions are desperately searching for stable guidelines to steer them against excessive modern absurdities. But there is one institution the media whose services, perhaps more than ever before, will be depended upon if only to save the world from total devastation. On its part, and in order to play its role in a meaningful way, a way that should not allow for mistakes, the media will have to be guided by the wisdom, vision and philosophy of one of its chief architects, Charles Anderson Dana, whose 185th birthday we celebrate this year. Dana lived when America was in turmoil and faced devastating challenges: Economic depression, leading to, though not entirely responsible for, political instability; civil war, political animosity, and racial antagonism. But Dana refused to succumb to these challenges. Instead, he offered crisp accounts and meticulous analyses of what was happening in his writings, popularised a limpid writing style that continues to be admired in modern-day journalism and, above all, never fell victim of political patronage. His contemporaries defined him as the greatest innovator in the 19th Century American journalism. Born in 1819 in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, Dana attended public schools and later Harvard College but poverty and humble background forced him to leave college after only one year. He lost his mother when he was barely nine after she was claimed by an epidemic which swept through Western New York in 1828. Reluctant to meet his parental responsibility, Danas father scattered his children to his relatives. Dana grew up in Buffalo under the care of his uncle, David Dennison. Fifty years later, Dana traumatically described these events as the " saddest and most shocking" part of his life. Yet these events shaped his personality, making him to seek recognition, strive for financial independence and, arguably, became dangerously ambitious. When Transcendentalist George Ripley founded Brook Farm, a radical economic community based on Christian principles, at West Roxbury in 1841, Dana became its trustee. Danas first newspaper work was with the Brook Farms newspaper, The Harbinger. His articles, exhibiting no element of mediocrity, showed his love for the poor, and prepared him for greater responsibilities as an assistant editor of the New York Tribune in 1847. He popularised the Tribune, making it the most vocal and trusted anti-slavery newspaper of its day. He was later to recruit Karl Marx, the German economist and philosopher, as the Tribunes European correspondent. In addition to his demanding duties at the Tribune, he began two literary projects, putting together an enormous Book of Poetry in 1857 and followed it one year later with the first volume of American Cyclopedia. , which has been described as a "popular dictionary of knowledge''. Dana was to later serve as an assistant to Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War during President Abraham Lincolns reign. David Mindich in his book, Just the Facts: How Objectivity came to Define American Journalism, argues that the earliest inverted pyramid style can be traced in the letters that changed hands between Stanton and Lincoln. President Lincoln often consulted Dana on several issues and one significant matter is the amendment of the constitution regarding slavery. In his Recollection of the Civil War, Dana not only describes Lincoln as a "leader of men who knew human nature" but incisively portrays how he chose to deal with a difficult vote on admission of Nevada as a state in 1864. But Dana made a mark in journalism in 1867 when he bought New York Sun. He immediately announced that the "Sun will study condensation, clearness, point, and will endeavour to present its daily photograph of the worlds doing in the most luminous and lively manners." The Sun became lively without being sleazy, entertained without being graphic, informed without being partisan, educated without being patronising, provided facts without spurning propaganda. In her book, Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles Dana, Janet Steele avers that it is Dana who pioneered modern newspaper editing and a new kind of journalism, which stresses human interest. That Dana was an exceptionally gifted journalist is not in question. But his ability to combine sympathy for the wretched, independence from political patronage, and an aesthetic sense of humour, all culminating in a unique editorial voice, contributed to the Suns success. During the American civil war, readers became accustomed to a heavy journalistic style, editorial discussions permeated with propaganda, reports on deaths, blood, and misery. There was a need to cultivate another style. Dana is credited as one of the chief priests of an
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
Lasanga: You wrote below, "It's just that demographically and geographically Buganda looms large in our politics." Have you ever thought of how to put a balance to the demographic dominance of Buganda in Uganda politics?? My resolution to this demographic dominance is FEDERALISM to all regions of Uganda. What do you think, Lasanga?? Have you ever thought of how to put a balance to the geographic dominance of Buganda in Ugandan politics?? FEDERALISM is the solution. With each region holding power to decide its future, geographic dominance's impact will be reduced. Equal federal representation on the talking table will over look geographic dominance. What has caused this demographic and geographic dominance of Buganda in our politics?? Unitarism is the driving force behind this unfairness. Unitarism centralizes most of gov't resources towards its center (Buganda). We should not blame Buganda for Uganda's bloody past, we should put the blame on our gov'ts that have over and over again refused a federal arrangement for Uganda. Federalism will make sure that even if one region (Buganda) is wooed by false leaders like Obote and Museveni, the rest of the federation (Acholi, Lango, Bunyoro, Tooro, Ankole, Busoga, Kigezi, etc...) are not affected to the maximum they were when these false leaders make/made their woo-wooings. Zakoomu R.Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gook,There are at least two other ways to look at the blood-soaked chapters of our history:1. Both Obote and Museveni wooed the Baganda and the Buganda monarchy to seize power -each time with disastrous consequences for most of us.2. On at least two critical times in our history, the monarchy in Buganda committed royal follies by allying with forces that gave them the donkey's thanks. Even when it became clear each time that they were being suckered.Of course the same can be said of other ethno-political alliances in our dear land. So, I don't see these myopic weaknesses as peculiar to the Buganda monarchy or the Baganda. It's just that demographically and geographically Buganda looms large in our politics. That's why I give the devil (including Obote) his due when recounting our history. v Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels - Vukoni
Lasanga: The King has not (to my knowledge) traveled to the refugee camps in northern Uganda to show solidarity with the residents who were and are being looted and killed by armed groups as our own UPDF looked the other way. My question to you is: If the residents in refugee camps are not safe with the UPDF looking the other way when armed groups loot and killed them, what makes you sure our King will not be looted and killed as our UPDF is looking the other way?? Due to security reasons, I don't think the King will travel to the refugee camps! It's sad but true. The King has no Kabakaship Guard Brigade (like Mu7) to beep up security on his visits to the refugee. If you have been following the events, you would have found out by now that the King is given limited security by the UPDF. If it is the same UPDF that is looking the other way when civilians are attacked by armed groups, and it is the same arm 'guarding' the King, I suppose that same UPDF will look the other way as the King will be attacked by armed groups. I personally would advise the King not to dare go to the refugee camps with this same UPDF as his security guardsif he wants his life. The King is not a fool, he can see through all this UPDF mess! The King should communicate with civilians in refugee camps and help with deplomatic peace talks to end the war, as He (King) is doing now. I salute him for his goodwill to all Ugandans. There is alot the King can contribute to help end the war and this suffering without physically visiting the unprotected refugee camps in the north. What do you think?? Do you think everything has to be physical in order to make an impact?? Wake up to reality. Zakoomu R. Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zakoomu,If I may add other another instance of the Kabaka's goodwill: He traveled more than once to the refugee camps in northern Uganda to show solidarity with residents who were being looted and killed by armed groups as our own UPDF looked the other way.At 10:11 AM 1/23/2004 -0800, you wrote:Mulindwa:You said: "Today Ssabasajja for the first time has come out and become involved." This is a total lie and you know it. This is not the first time the King has extended his hand into trying to solve the Northern war. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels - Nagadya
Sister Nagadya: I understand your point that no matter what we do some people will never outgrow their childish misfeelings of us being responsible for their misery. But I'll continue to educate them on several issues about how we are not the causes of their misery. Uganda has never had a Muganda brutal dictator. They should name one. Most of all these dictators who have lead Uganda into bloodshed, political decay, economic chaos, etc for all these years are non-Baganda. The blame should go to its rightful owners; Obote (Lango), Amin (W. Nile), Mu7 (Ankole), Okello (?). I bet people from all these mentioned regions are still blamming Buganda for the miseries Uganda has been through, and sparing their blood thrust sons out of the equation. These people are quite very much not thinking realitically but thinking out of their lie-based emotions. Our King is doing a good job and we salute him. Now, let's find out what the Bunyoro, Busoga, Ankole, Tooro Kings, and other Chiefs have done so far about the northern war. Zakoomu R.Mary Nagadya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sister Rehema,Don't waste your breath and time on these sour-pusses.Not too long ago there was an article in Monitorfollowed by responses and topic was the Baganda andthe Northern war.There have also been a lot of discussion on thesubject on this forum.To a malcontent, no matter what you do, you are alwayssomehow responsible for his or her misery.Our Kabaka is doing a job, and that's all there is toit.--- Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Mulindwa: You said: "Today Ssabasajja for the first time has come out and become involved." This is a total lie and you know it. This is not the first time the King has extended his hand into trying to solve the Northern war. 1). The King's foundation scholarship fund has given scholarsh ips to particularly Northern students from war torn areas to continue with their dream of having an education. 2). The King has talked several times before about the war and the suffering of people. 3). He has stayed in contact with Northern traditional chiefs to discuss the issue. 4). One time he wanted to talk to the redels but the gov't 'advised' him not to try it. Actually they stepped in and stopped him just as they have always done to stop 3rd party people from talking peace. I'll make it clear for you again. Ssabasajja is not a formal political leader. You will not see him on the ballot box. Zakoomu R. Mulindwa Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Zakoomu I do not know what hole you have popped from, the fact of the matter is that if you were sober enough to follow t he discussion which has been very long. Many of us have been complaining of the refusal of Buganda king to make a war from Northern Uganda a part of their concern. We have been wondering why Ssabasajja has decided to keep quite when Ugandans in the North are dying, and when his men are being sent to die from both DRC and Northern Uganda. The infidels in this forum have continuously responded that the Sabasajja can not be involved in these matters for he is a cultural leader not a political leader. Today Sabasajja for the first time has come out and become involved. And I am asking those same infidels as to whether not this Sabasajja is getting involved for he is a political leader? But before they answered me then a an informed and an individual who know no where this discussion came from, decided to rant. That is why I some times log off and just watch. Em 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: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:05 AM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Mulindwa: The Kabaka is informally political if you didn't know, in the same way Mengo gov't is an informal gov't. Where have you been, Mulindwa?? He is a traditional leader, and I'll tell that all traditional leaders are informal political leaders of the peoples they lead. Mulindwa, you once criticized the King of Ugandan Kings and Mengo for being reluctant towards peace in the Nor th. Now, are you turning on your words?? You criticized Buganda and Baganda for "sleeping/kasita twebaka otulo" while fellow Ugandans are dying and suffering in the North. Are you dillusional or what?? Being informally political especially when the leading King of Ugandan Kings is taking peace is something we should be proud of. All informal political/traditional leaders should help bring peace to our motherland. If the formal political leaders have failed to keep up with their duty, let the informal political/traditional leaders try it out and see what they can accomplish. Our formal political leaders have failed as over and over again, we need to wake up and shift our support towards our informal leaders. I have no trust and faith in formal
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President Mugabe collapsed at his house and air lifted to South African hospital Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
Zakoomu, Now, I do happen to have expressed in various fora the view that I see a lot of merit in federalism. So, really, you're not telling me anything new. The crucial question is, what is the best strategy for bringing about federalism in Uganda? vukoni BTW, the bad news for those who are so obsessed with limiting Buganda's role in Ugandan politics, federalism may not be the magic wand they seek. In any case, I don't see how Buganda's demographic and geographic preponderance in national politics will go away under federalism. For the foreseeable future, (whether under a federal or unitary government) the Baganda will remain the single most populous nationality in Uganda. That reality will continue to be reflected in Uganda's political and cultural life. And I'd really really appreciate it if you took the time to spell my name correctly. At 07:34 PM 1/24/2004 -0800, you wrote: Lasanga: You wrote below, It's just that demographically and geographically Buganda looms large in our politics. Have you ever thought of how to put a balance to the demographic dominance of Buganda in Uganda politics?? My resolution to this demographic dominance is FEDERALISM to all regions of Uganda. What do you think, Lasanga?? Have you ever thought of how to put a balance to the geographic dominance of Buganda in Ugandan politics?? FEDERALISM is the solution. With each region holding power to decide its future, geographic dominance's impact will be reduced. Equal federal representation on the talking table will over look geographic dominance. What has caused this demographic and geographic dominance of Buganda in our politics?? Unitarism is the driving force behind this unfairness. Unitarism centralizes most of gov't resources towards its center (Buganda). We should not blame Buganda for Uganda's bloody past, we should put the blame on our gov'ts that have over and over again refused a federal arrangement for Uganda. Federalism will make sure that even if one region (Buganda) is wooed by false leaders like Obote and Museveni, the rest of the federation (Acholi, Lango, Bunyoro, Tooro, Ankole, Busoga, Kigezi, etc...) are not affected to the maximum they were when these false leaders make/made their woo-wooings. Zakoomu R. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.563 / Virus Database: 355 - Release Date: 1/17/2004
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels - Vukoni
Zakoomu, What do I gain from making this up? Ask those who know and they will tell you (e.g. the Kabaka's press secretary). The Kabaka traveled to West Nile twice (if my memory serves me right) in the mid-90's to help draw attention to the plight of Sudanese refugees. Newspaper or TV accounts must still exist. vukoni ps. Please try to at least spell my name correctly. It doesn't reflect very well on your grasp of facts or courtesy. At 07:54 PM 1/24/2004 -0800, you wrote: Lasanga: The King has not (to my knowledge) traveled to the refugee camps in northern Uganda to show solidarity with the residents who were and are being looted and killed by armed groups as our own UPDF looked the other way. My question to you is: If the residents in refugee camps are not safe with the UPDF looking the other way when armed groups loot and killed them, what makes you sure our King will not be looted and killed as our UPDF is looking the other way?? Due to security reasons, I don't think the King will travel to the refugee camps! It's sad but true. The King has no Kabakaship Guard Brigade (like Mu7) to beep up security on his visits to the refugee. If you have been following the events, you would have found out by now that the King is given limited security by the UPDF. If it is the same UPDF that is looking the other way when civilians are attacked by armed groups, and it is the same arm 'guarding' the King, I suppose that same UPDF will look the other way as the King will be attacked by armed groups. I personally would advise the King not to dare go to the refugee camps with this same UPDF as his security guards if he wants his life. The King is not a fool, he can see through all this UPDF mess! The King should communicate with civilians in refugee camps and help with deplomatic peace talks to end the war, as He (King) is doing now. I salute him for his goodwill to all Ugandans. There is alot the King can contribute to help end the war and this suffering without physically visiting the unprotected refugee camps in the north. What do you think?? Do you think everything has to be physical in order to make an impact?? Wake up to reality. Zakoomu R. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.563 / Virus Database: 355 - Release Date: 1/17/2004
