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Ms. Joe:

This is deep very deep... thanx for the infor on our dear learnt friend BYN or is it BNY Ayittey... They say knowing the enermy within is the first necessay step towards total Liberation. Like Bob Marley once state "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery..non but ourselves can free our selfs...have no fear for atomic Energy!!! ..."...again thanx!
Matek[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Africans:

Boom, boom. InSource Watch, www.sourcewatch.orgdo a search on the site for "The Free Africa Foundation." The description is:an advocacy organization on African policy with close ties to conservation U.S. think tanks and foundations. George Ayittey is notan African man enough to face thetruth thata majority, foreign board cannot bean indigenous entity or reflect un-compromised African perspectives. There is absolutely nothing wrong inAyittey admitting thathe isa private contractor since his Free Africa Foundation is manifestlyafront for foreign, pecuniaryinterest in Africa.

In this email, see thebackgroundof Ayittey's board - from those destabilizing governments in Africa to ultra right wingers. If this is what inspires and informs Ayittey'sAfrican Solution, he needs native medicine for his head or other detoxificationprogram in Africa. Western tablets would only be palliative, not curative because the nearness to his handlers will cause a relapse to crawling forcrumbs. I am sure he's accustomed to being branded a lunaticby his sheer contradictionsso he takes to space to call people lunatics in a classic case of what psychologistscall " projection."

Caught under the table, where he has been salivating underthe tutelage of foreign directives, George Ayittey tries to fend off facts by boxingand kicking like a tortoise. He isevenlousy at that forit takes a real man who can stand on his feet to get in a ring; not astooge that must be propped. Read his latest tale, a laughable attemptat salvation, asking everybody to stay out as if I have anything personal with him as he tries to make people think. I don't. It is a public issue. How idiotic his claims.

I have known Ayittey's modus operandi and vivendifor a dozen years. They are none of my business and the records show I have defended his right to whatever hisassociations. Cato, Dato, or Eato, etc.,has the right to hold any kind of conference and give Ayittey breakfasts, too. That's not the issue. But whenAyittey displays hissignatory stupidity and crudeness - insulting Africans who disagree with him,enacting a divide and conquer antic to carry out hisduties like a rogue, he needs to be reminded that this is not a throwback tocolonial subjugation wherespinelessAfricans are paid to create distractions, coup d'etatsand worse, and the tricks can go undetected.

It is a known fact that I organize All Africa functions as an independent advocate for Africa not sponsored by, hence beholden to, any person, entity or government. NEVER SHALL, NEVER WILL.I will donate $5000.00 to any African cause voted by the readership of Mwananchi ifGeorge Ayittey proves any single occasion that I organized or attended forYoweri Museveni. Where was the function for starters? Not that I cannot attend, but it is yet to happen. In fact, I would like to meetMuseveni face to face for the express purpose of sayingseeking a third term by changing the constitution would be a ruin-ruin for Uganda and slippery slope for Africa. He should take the exit like Dr. Bakili Muluzi of Malawi.

Another $5000 if heproves I have ever been on thepayroll of any African government or at the mercy of an American think tank. Money is not the motivation but I will defend African governments any time against imperialistic incursions and impositions. Africa cannot be free if we do not tackleboth ends: internal accountability and external culpability. I make no bones and owe no apologies. ButGeorge Ayittey hasnever had the liberty asan independent operator to depart from his one-eyedsight seeing, blinded to western thievery. So I can understand how an emasculatedman without balls can doubt the definition of backbone.I cite verifiable facts; Ayittey gasps then grasps at straws when his slimy footwork is traced.

The question is: how can Ayittey look at Africans in the eyes and talk about African solutions when the fountain of his views aredetermined by Western purse strings? There is noAfrican in the United States who belongs to Ayittey's board of directors because he is afraid that his talking with one side of his mouth and eating with another side will be revealed. So he has three Africans in Africa who cannot question him or know where he gets his funding to betray and chain Africa. There rest are Americans, all white, conservative males, except a female with Carnegie Institute. How Africa will be liberated is anosmosis with Ayittey's fronted think tank from the West. It begs theexclamation: Wonders shall never end!!!.

1) Larry Diamond; White, conservative male:Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. From

[Ugnet] U.S. Govt to Supply Intelligence On Kony

You can only begin to wonder: How come the US has thus far failed to provide Intelligence on "KONY"...After the article below was wirtten, "Kony" has managed to strike more then a dozen times..in Apac, Gulu, Ajumani e.t.c..each time abducting citizens!.. me think this people are deceiving us.

Matek

U.S. Govt to Supply Intelligence On Kony

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The Monitor (Kampala)
April 4, 2005 Posted to the web April 4, 2005
Moses OdokonyeroGulu
The American government will help Uganda with intelligence information in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army rebels.
Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, who sits on the Defence Committee of the US senate, said this on Friday in Gulu where he led a delegation of three American dignitaries.
They were touring and listening to testimonies of formerly abducted children at the World Vision Children of War Rehabilitation Centre.
"I had breakfast with President Yoweri Museveni this morning. He is very much committed to see peace returning to the north. We too are very much committed to offer him support including on intelligence," Inhofe said.
Recently the American government donated 20 pick-up trucks to the UPDF's 4th and 5th Divisions in northern Uganda.
The trucks will be used in the fight against the LRA rebels.
The others who travelled with Inhofe included Senator Michael Benzi, a Republican from Wyoming and Congressman John Boozman from Arkansas.
The American embassy, Usaid and World Vision Uganda invited them.
"They came to learn about efforts to reintegrate former captives,"said Mr Julius Mucunguzi, a senior communication officer of the World Vision Uganda.
Luis Bois, the World Vision official, said the children who pass through the centre have a 90 percent recovery rate.

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He said most parents reject the children that are brought back from the bush by their daughters.
Bois said the centre had received 10,500 former captives since it was established in 1994.
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[Ugnet] UPDF disarm Kjong





Another one of those NRM noise..sometime one can only wonder as to what this NRM FOOLS are talking about!!!
Matek



UPDF disarm Kjong

By Victor Karamagi

KAMPALA - The UPDF has re-started disarmament of the Karimojong warriors to remove illegal guns from the region, almost four years after the plan was suspended. Army Spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said on Friday the army would establish permanent presence in Karamoja to ensure that all illegal arms are handed over. "We shall not withdraw. Some Karimojong hid guns in the mountains the last time we attempted disarmament by force. The guns that will be buried will rot this time," he said.The army is implementing the second phase of the Karamoja Disarmament Programme that started in December 2001. The first phase expired in February 2002. President Yoweri Museveni re-launched it in September last year at a rally in Moroto where he said after the disarmament exercise in Karamoja, the Uganda armed forces would concentrate on protecting the people from armed rustlers from
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[Ugnet] Re:Ofwono Opondo!

2005-04-12 Thread Kelo Kelo

Hallo comrades,
The news about Ofwono's scandal, got me asking whether he suffers from Kleptomania, a Psychological defect. Ofwono being Director of Media at the NRM secretariat earning a good renumeration according to Ugandan standards. One wonders why he should engage in petty theft. My verdict therefore is that the man has kleptomania, 'itchy fingers' in simpler words.
Kelo

Matek Opoko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Another one of those NRM noise..sometime one can only wonder as to what this NRM FOOLS are talking about!!!

Matek

UPDF disarm Kjong

By Victor Karamagi

KAMPALA - The UPDF has re-started disarmament of the Karimojong warriors to remove illegal guns from the region, almost four years after the plan was suspended. Army Spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said on Friday the army would establish permanent presence in Karamoja to ensure that all illegal arms are handed over. "We shall not withdraw. Some Karimojong hid guns in the mountains the last time we attempted disarmament by force. The guns that will be buried will rot this time," he said.The army is implementing the second phase of the Karamoja Disarmament Programme that started in December 2001. The first phase expired in February 2002. President Yoweri Museveni re-launched it in September last year at a rally in Moroto where he said after the disarmament exercise in Karamoja, the Uganda armed forces would concentrate on protecting the people from armed rustlers from
Kenya.

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[Ugnet] The Child Who Would Not Speak a Word

April 12, 2005
The Child Who Would Not Speak a WordBy HARRIET BROWN

hristine Stanley will never forget the call. Two weeks after her daughter Emily started kindergarten, the teacher phoned in a panic. Emily would not color, sing or participate in any classroom activities; in fact, she would not say a word to anyone.
It was not the first time Christine had received such a call. Emily had not talked at preschool, either. She did not make eye contact with store clerks or talk to nurses at the pediatrician's office. She ran off the playground if another child approached.
Mrs. Stanley asked her sister, a special education teacher, what she thought. Mrs. Stanley had to explain the problem because at home and with family Emily's behavior was perfectly normal. Her sister mentioned something called selective mutism, but quickly said that couldn't apply to Emily.
"She told me, 'Those children are emotionally disturbed and have been abused,' " Mrs. Stanley recalled. But once she started reading about the condition, she said, "I knew it really was selective mutism."
Experts say that Emily's story is typical of children with selective mutism. At home, they behave like typical children, but in social situations, especially at school, they are silent and withdrawn. They might talk to grandparents but not to other relatives; they might whisper to one other child, or talk to no one. Some do not point, nod or communicate in any other way.
Fifteen years ago, these children were known as elective mutes, and their silence was seen as willful and manipulative. "If you look at psychiatry textbooks from around 1994," said Dr. Bruce Black, a psychiatrist in Wellesley, Mass., and an early researcher on selective mutism, "you'll see stated as a fact that these were stubborn, oppositional kids, and their refusal to speak was a manifestation of that."
Another popular belief was that selective mutism was a form of post-traumatic stress disorder - what Dr. E. Steven Dummit, a staff psychiatrist at the Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., calls the "Tommy rock opera" theory of the disorder.
"It's an appealing story, that these kids are keeping some secret about something terrible that's happened," he says. "None of the children I've seen became silent as a result of trauma. But I can't tell you how many families have told me they were suspected of abuse because their child was not talking in school."
The diagnosis was changed to selective mutism in the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual. The semantic change reveals a fundamental shift in how these children are perceived and treated.
Most researchers now agree that selective mutism is more a result of temperament than of environmental influences. In the early 1990's two studies, one by Dr. Dummit and one by Dr. Black, showed that children with the disorder were not just shy; they were actively anxious. "We ended up concluding that the kids had social anxiety disorder, and the selective mutism was a manifestation of that," Dr. Black said.
Everyone has some level of social anxiety, he noted. "I'm quite comfortable in front of a group," Dr. Black said. "But if I went into a party full of famous older psychiatrists, I might stare at my feet for five minutes before I started talking. It might look like I had selective mutism."
Until recently, the disorder was thought to be extremely rare, affecting about 1 child in 1,000. But a 2002 study in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry put the incidence of selective mutism closer to 7 children in 1,000, making it almost twice as common as autism.
Selective mutism, experts say, probably represents one end of a spectrum of social anxieties that includes everything from a fear of eating in public to stage fright and agoraphobia, a fear of open spaces.
Despite its prevalence, selective mutism is still widely misunderstood and often ignored. Even after realizing that Emily had the disorder, Mrs. Stanley was not able to get her daughter help. Before Emily started kindergarten, she asked the principal what to do, and was told, "A lot of kids are shy; she'll grow out of it."
Mrs. Stanley recalled, "We figured, O.K., maybe it's not as bad as we think." But two weeks into the year, Emily's kindergarten teacher phoned. "She said, 'Emily can't color or do anything; she just sits there and reads a book,' " Mrs. Stanley said. "She had no clue what to do. And neither did we."
One of the most puzzling aspects of selective mutism is the fact that children stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism or even punishment. This paradox may be explained by the fact that at the heart of the disorder is the instinct for self-preservation, the natural urge to avoid frightening situations.
"They become very avoidant of social interactions," said Dr. Elisa Shipon-Blum of Philadelphia, a physician who has treated hundreds of children with

[Ugnet] Why do cops tell lies in court?

April 12, 2005
Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention UnrestBy JIM DWYER

ennis Kyne put up such a fight at a political protest last summer, the arresting officer recalled, it took four police officers to haul him down the steps of the New York Public Library and across Fifth Avenue.
"We picked him up and we carried him while he squirmed and screamed," the officer, Matthew Wohl, testified in December. "I had one of his legs because he was kicking and refusing to walk on his own."
Accused of inciting a riot and resisting arrest, Mr. Kyne was the first of the 1,806 people arrested in New York last summer during the Republican National Convention to take his case to a jury. But one day after Officer Wohl testified, and before the defense called a single witness, the prosecutor abruptly dropped all charges.
During a recess, the defense had brought new information to the prosecutor. A videotape shot by a documentary filmmaker showed Mr. Kyne agitated but plainly walking under his own power down the library steps, contradicting the vivid account of Officer Wohl, who was nowhere to be seen in the pictures. Nor was the officer seen taking part in the arrests of four other people at the library against whom he signed complaints.
A sprawling body of visual evidence, made possible by inexpensive, lightweight cameras in the hands of private citizens, volunteer observers and the police themselves, has shifted the debate over precisely what happened on the streets during the week of the convention.
For Mr. Kyne and 400 others arrested that week, video recordings provided evidence that they had not committed a crime or that the charges against them could not be proved, according to defense lawyers and prosecutors.
Among them was Alexander Dunlop, who said he was arrested while going to pick up sushi.
Last week, he discovered that there were two versions of the same police tape: the one that was to be used as evidence in his trial had been edited at two spots, removing images that showed Mr. Dunlop behaving peacefully. When a volunteer film archivist found a more complete version of the tape and gave it to Mr. Dunlop's lawyer, prosecutors immediately dropped the charges and said that a technician had cut the material by mistake.
Seven months after the convention at Madison Square Garden, criminal charges have fallen against all but a handful of people arrested that week. Of the 1,670 cases that have run their full course, 91 percent ended with the charges dismissed or with a verdict of not guilty after trial. Many were dropped without any finding of wrongdoing, but also without any serious inquiry into the circumstances of the arrests, with the Manhattan district attorney's office agreeing that the cases should be "adjourned in contemplation of dismissal."
So far, 162 defendants have either pleaded guilty or were convicted after trial, and videotapes that bolstered the prosecution's case played a role in at least some of those cases, although prosecutors could not provide details.
Besides offering little support or actually undercutting the prosecution of most of the people arrested, the videotapes also highlight another substantial piece of the historical record: the Police Department's tactics in controlling the demonstrations, parades and rallies of hundreds of thousands of people were largely free of explicit violence.
Throughout the convention week and afterward, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that the police issued clear warnings about blocking streets or sidewalks, and that officers moved to arrest only those who defied them. In the view of many activists - and of many people who maintain that they were passers-by and were swept into dragnets indiscriminately thrown over large groups - the police strategy appeared to be designed to sweep them off the streets on technical grounds as a show of force.
"The police develop a narrative, the defendant has a different story, and the question becomes, how do you resolve it?" said Eileen Clancy, a member of I-Witness Video, a project that assembled hundreds of videotapes shot during the convention by volunteers for use by defense lawyers.
Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said that videotapes often do not show the full sequence of events, and that the public should not rush to criticize officers simply because their recollections of events are not consistent with a single videotape. The Manhattan district attorney's office is reviewing the testimony of Officer Wohl at the request of Lewis B. Oliver Jr., the lawyer who represented Mr. Kyne in his arrest at the library.
The Police Department maintains that much of the videotape that has surfaced since the convention captured what Mr. Browne called the department's professional handling of the protests and parades. "My guess is that people who saw the police restraint admired it," he said.
Video is a useful source of evidence, but not an easy one to manage, because of the difficulties in finding a fleeting

[Ugnet] Grandmaster





 


April 12, 2005
Chalkboards? Try Using ChessboardsBy SUSAN SAULNY 




he games drew about 15 chess enthusiasts to a windowless conference room at City College in Harlem, where pawns and rooks were moved with such intensity of purpose that the scene could have passed for yet another high-stakes tournament.
The grandmaster and bona fide chess luminary Maurice Ashley was there, calling out commentary as he often does when championship matches are broadcast around the world. He is known to use lines like, "Pawns are attacking mercilessly!" and "The bishop is slicing and dicing!"
But what Mr. Ashley had to say about chess on this night was more academic. Literally. "A lot of times in education we try to teach kids the one right answer and that leads, in my opinion, to robotic thinking," he told the players, encouraging them to think of multiple possible moves before choosing the best play. "Real life isn't like that. Is there ever one right answer? Generating alternatives for the sake of alternatives is a good thing."
The players, mostly New York City public school teachers, nodded. This routine, the playing of chess followed by deep thoughts on education, happens every Wednesday night during a new class Mr. Ashley is teaching called "Introduction to Logical Thinking Through Chess" for the mathematics department at City College. Mr. Ashley and the dean of the college's school of education, Alfred S. Posamentier, organized the class with a lofty goal: improve teaching by guiding a group of teachers through the problem-solving strategies that are part of a good chess player's arsenal. 
The seminar, an elective class worth two graduate credits, meets once a week for two and a half hours. Mr. Ashley tries to get the teachers to do what he does in chess and in life: think backward with a desired outcome in view, generate multiple options as possible solutions to any question, consider the perspectives of others, and give respect to the least powerful, the pawns of the game.
"Over the years, we have tried many different approaches to developing the most effective teachers," Dr. Posamentier said. "We have regulated the size of the class, the material the teacher uses, the kind of content background that is most desirable, and the philosophy that should work best. However, it seems we have not concentrated enough on the general thinking strategies that a teacher should master to maximize his effectiveness."
Now the educators are thinking about their thinking.
Before class on Wednesday night, Mr. Ashley explained a personal distaste for memorization and facts, and laid out his education philosophy, the one he hopes the teachers will take from the class: "Knowledge flips every day. What we know becomes wrong tomorrow. We need kids who know how to think."
The class seems a natural fit for Mr. Ashley. Unlike many of the country's top players who spend a lot of time preparing for tournaments, Mr. Ashley, a native of Jamaica who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and lives in Queens, has been teaching children chess for years. He had never taught teachers before, but was willing to try.
"My method has always been not just to teach chess moves, but to better accelerate thinking and concentration skills," Mr. Ashley said. "These ideas have been a part of my technique for so long, I said, 'Of course!' "
The United States Chess Federation named Mr. Ashley Grandmaster of the Year in 2003, but other proud moments in his career involve lesser known titles. Mr. Ashley was coaching the Raging Rooks of Junior High School 43 in Harlem when they won the National Junior High School Championship in 1991. He also coached the Harlem-based Dark Knights, two-time national champions in the junior varsity division.
"What's he doing on campus? That was my first thought when I heard about the class," said Josh Weiner, a senior at City College who intends to be a math teacher.
Mr. Weiner was playing a tight match on Wednesday night against Eliza Kuberska, a Hunter College High School math teacher, and Levon Cooper, a City College administrator.
Ms. Kuberska said the class was the best she had ever taken. Just a novice chess player when she began several weeks ago, Ms. Kuberska has learned enough strategy to be a formidable opponent. She intends to tell her class about her transformation for inspiration.
"I want them to see that it's not magic," she said, speaking of problem-solving. "I want them to challenge their own presumptions about their capabilities. A lot of kids think if they weren't born a genius, they can't get it. But I want them to see that intuition can be learned; it can be taught."
Caridad Guerrero, who teaches seventh-grade math at Intermediate School 528 in Washington Heights, said she had learned that "one bad move doesn't end the game" and "to think beyond the moment."
She related that to her classroom this way: "Sometimes lessons don't go the way you planned. You had great ideas and it plays out another way. But that

[Ugnet] SELECTIVE JUSTICE: Is Museveni next?

April 10, 2005SELECTIVE JUSTICE
Tough on Togo, Letting Zimbabwe SlideBy MICHAEL WINES

OHANNESBURG Even the heads of state who were its members called the old Organization for African Unity a dictators' club, one reason why it was replaced three years ago by a new African Union that was modeled, in name and purpose, on Europe's own union. The old O.A.U. fulminated about colonialism and liberation, but was often silent on human rights and the consent of the governed. The new group, bowing to a democratic breeze blowing from Mali to Mauritius, stood for the premise that the rule of law is in, and despotism out.
Take it from Nigeria's president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a thoroughgoing democrat. "Anybody who comes to power unconstitutionally," he said at the union's first meeting in 2002, "cannot sit with us."
So when Robert G. Mugabe attends the next meeting of the African Union, will he have to stand?
Democratic Africa has lately stifled a coup in Togo, sent peacekeepers to Burundi and Darfur and ended civil war in the Ivory Coast, achievements that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago. Yet it is curiously dumbstruck when dealing with Mr. Mugabe's draconian rule in Zimbabwe.
The latest example is Zimbabwe's March 31 parliamentary elections, in which Mr. Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Party thrashed its democratic opponents using electoral tactics that were less Queensbury Rules than those of professional wrestling.
Starving voters were told to support the Mugabe party or lose access to food. Village leaders warned that opposition supporters could lose their homes. In 30 races surveyed by the opposition, roughly 180,000 votes appeared after the polls had closed and the official turnout had been reported.
Nonpartisan election monitors and Western nations called the election grievously flawed. Not so the African Union: Zimbabwe's election was free and fair, it said. Far from declaring "This will not stand!," the group commended Zimbabwe's government for "making efforts towards creating an even playing field."
Why do African leaders who no longer tolerate a Togo coup blanch at denouncing Mr. Mugabe's strongman tactics? The question seems almost nonsensical, given that Zimbabwe's political and social implosion has flooded its neighbors with unwanted refugees and made the nation a potential vector for regional instability.
The answer, however, is deceptively complex. It begins with the overriding fact that Zimbabwe, once southern Africa's crown jewel, is not a backwater state like Togo. And that Mr. Mugabe, who, at 81, is the surviving patriarch of Africa's liberation struggle, cannot be criticized or made to submit as easily as some anonymous colonel behind a military putsch.
Political forces are at work behind the scenes as well. Mr. Mugabe's brand of race-baiting demagoguery plays well in parts of Africa's vast underclass, and to challenge him is to risk being branded a pawn of white colonialists.
Foremost, perhaps, African leaders fear that the defeat of a serious ruler like Mr. Mugabe may help spread the notion that any entrenched leadership can be unseated by a committed opposition. In Africa, where most democracies are effectively one-party affairs, such a notion can be dangerous.
Maybe that helps explain why South Africa endorsed the Zimbabwe vote even more warmly than did the African Union, and why its president, Thabo Mbeki, has emerged as Mr. Mugabe's most powerful ally.
Coincidentally, perhaps, Mr. Mugabe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change, enjoys strong support from South Africa's labor movement and from its Communist Party. Both groups are part of Mr. Mbeki's ruling African National Congress, but are widely expected to split from it before the 2009 national election.
As Africa's most prominent politician, Mr. Mbeki provides his fellow leaders with cover to avoid addressing the Mugabe problem. A handful of democracies, including Nigeria, have been more outspoken in criticizing aspects of Mr. Mugabe's rule. But none have the gravitas of South Africa, itself the democratic victor in a liberation struggle not unlike the one that led to Mr. Mugabe's dictatorship.
If this sounds like a recipe for stalemate, there is an alternative, voiced in Harare last month by a political activist who demanded anonymity because he was afraid that his employers would be punished for his views.
The African Union can put down a coup in Togo, he said, because its charter explicitly permits intervention in a member nation's affairs in the case of a coup. But the charter is silent on whether the bloodless theft of political power by, say, stealing an election, is a coup in all but name.
"What could change that is if Zimbabwean groups themselves make the call to the A.U.," he said. "You could make quite a strong argument that rigging and manipulating elections is a kind of constitutional coup."
Which is precisely why Zimbabwe is such a thorny

[Ugnet] Haile Selassie's Issue?

April 11, 2005
Bearing Haile Selassie's Face, Commoner Claims His BloodBy MARC LACEY

DDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Mekbeb Abebe Welde is the spitting image of Ethiopia's fallen emperor, Haile Selassie. Mr. Abebe has the same pointy chin, down-turned nose and slight build. When he picks up a cup of macchiato and puts it to his lips, as he did in a local cafe the other day, he does so ever so gracefully, more like a prince than a cabdriver.
But Mr. Abebe, 33, is a cabdriver. He lives a humble life in Ethiopia's crowded capital, scrounging to survive as so many others here do.
Still, Mr. Abebe's friends call him "Prince" and bow down when they see him, deference that stems from more than his resemblance to the emperor. Some here think Mr. Abebe really is a son born out of wedlock to the ruler, who claimed blood ties to the biblical King Solomon.
The monarchy was wiped out in this country in 1975, after the emperor died at age 83, but everyone knows the emperor's official kin. Mr. Abebe, on the other hand, exists in a netherworld, gossiped about, pointed at and subjected at times to angry diatribes about the emperor's misrule but not accepted by the emperor's acknowledged flesh and blood.
Mr. Abebe has petitioned the royal family to recognize him, to no avail. No one seems interested in his offer to undergo a DNA test.
Even if he were welcomed into the family, he would not necessarily win great treasure. The emperor's relatives live well, but most of their vast holdings were long ago seized by the state. He might enjoy prestige among devotees of the emperor, but he would have to suffer scorn from the emperor's many detractors. Mr. Abebe says it is acceptance by blood relations that motivates him, not treasure or acclaim.
Still, it would not be so bad to be able to travel the world, as the emperor's acknowledged relatives do. Mr. Abebe could perhaps go off to some "big name" university to get an education. He might get a big gated home to replace his modest dwelling. As the emperor's son, he could walk into the Sheraton Addis, where the cost of a glass of orange juice exceeds many Ethiopians' daily wage, and afford to quench his thirst.
It is family lore more than anything else that Mr. Abebe offers as evidence of his blood ties. His mother, Almaz Tadesse Goshu, was one of the emperor's many servants. They supposedly had a liaison late in the emperor's tenure, long after his wife had died.
Mr. Abebe says his mother's husband divorced her when he learned the child she was carrying was the emperor's. She died when Mekbeb was 7; he was taken in by a general who had been close to the emperor.
During his one face-to-face encounter with one of the emperor's granddaughters, Mr. Abebe said he disclosed his mother's affair with Selassie. "She said a lot of people show up and say they are sons," he recalled. "She said there was nothing she could do to help me."
One of the few aides to Selassie still around, an elderly butler who works in a palace-turned-museum at Addis Ababa University, seemed stunned when he met Mr. Abebe. With an emotional look, he bowed and shook Mr. Abebe's hand.
But he said only, "The past is the past." Mr. Abebe seemed to take the encounter as an encouraging sign.
The question of blood ties aside, Mr. Abebe has read a great deal about the emperor, who ruled from 1930 until the military ousted him in 1974, and was killed the following year in the basement of one of his palaces and buried like the commonest of men.
Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam took over as head of the new Communist government. He ordered the executions of dozens of members of the royal family and of ministers and generals who served the emperor.
Under Mr. Mengistu's rule, students were taught to despise Selassie. He was a feudal lord, a selfish fool, a tyrant responsible for Ethiopia's woes, they were told.
But Mr. Mengistu's government, too, eventually collapsed. Rebels chased him from the country in 1991 and set up the government that exists today, led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Mr. Zenawi's government is not fond of Selassie either, once labeling him "a tyrant and oppressor of the masses."
It is understandable that Ethiopians are somewhat divided on his legacy. Some dismiss him as a deluded leader who spent national wealth on shrines to himself. Others praise him for the hospitals he built, the palace that he turned into the country's main university and his work at bringing the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union, to Addis Ababa.
"His image has slowly been recovering," said Elizabeth W. Giorgis, acting director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. "He's not known as just a tyrant anymore. Most of the criticism of him is true, but he had another side to him."
It took until 2000 for the emperor's remains to be transferred from a temporary crypt to Holy Trinity Cathedral, placed beside his wife's in a grand ceremony attended by thousands of wailing Ethiopians. Mr. Abebe was in the crowd that

[Ugnet] Killer in Angola

April 12, 2005
A Daunting Search: Tracking a Deadly Virus in AngolaBy SHARON LAFRANIERE and DENISE GRADY

ÍGE, Angola, April 11 - The staff in the pediatric ward of Uíge's regional hospital suspected something was terribly wrong as early as October, when children who had been admitted with seemingly treatable illnesses began, suddenly and wrenchingly, to die.
But were those early deaths caused by the Marburg virus? If they were, and had they been diagnosed at the time, might the current epidemic have been averted?
The international health experts who have descended on Angola say they cannot pinpoint exactly when the largest outbreak of the deadly virus began.
"Nobody really has a sense of where or when it started," said Dr. Thomas Grein, a medical officer in the World Health Organization. "The widespread belief that it began in October is speculation."
But local officials in Uíge, the center of the outbreak, believe it began around that time, and then spread from the pediatric ward of the regional hospital, which has now been effectively closed except for emergency operations.
If they are correct and there was a delay in explaining the deaths, the reason may be that in Africa, sometimes the extraordinary is buried in the ordinary.
Children die at such an astonishing pace here and for any range of horrible reasons unknown to other parts of the world that it takes much more time for health workers to piece together if something as deadly as Marburg is at work.
In a country like Angola, where one in four children dies before the age of five, mostly from infectious diseases, crises like the one in the pediatric ward can easily be overlooked.
An outbreak of Marburg can look like a host of other illnesses to doctors and nurses who have never before encountered the disease.
"This is Africa," said Dave Daigle, the spokesman here for the World Health Organization. To be a health official here, he said, "is like being a fireman in a village with the whole village on fire."
Experts say at least 214 people have caught the virus and 194 have died. Marburg is spread by contact with bodily fluids, from blood to sweat, and kills with gruesome efficiency. Victims suffer from vomiting, diarrhea, high fever and bleeding from body orifices. Nine in 10 are dead within a week. There is no effective treatment.
When strange deaths first began to appear in October, mystified local health officials shipped samples of tissue and blood from four children to the United States.
In November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested them for at least three different types of hemorrhagic fever, including Marburg.
The results, which nearly all agree were accurate, came back negative. But in the tumult of deadly diseases and other health issues that plague this continent, it remains possible that Marburg was present in Uíge even then.
By the end of December, at least 95 children were dead, local health workers say.
How many deaths were Marburg-related is unknown, but even by the grim standards of the continent, it was an alarming number of deaths.
"In October, November, December, we were seeing so many children dying - just children," said Dr. Gakoula Kissantou, 31, the hospital's acting administrator. "It was becoming scarier."
He recalled the doctor in charge of the pediatric ward at the time, Dr. Maria Bonino of Italy, called a meeting with the staff and asked, "What is going wrong here in the hospital?" She herself died in March, a victim of the virus.
It was not until early March that the provincial health officials alerted a W.H.O. representative that they had found 39 suspected cases of Marburg. W.H.O. officials identified 60 possible cases. Angolan authorities then shipped more samples to the C.D.C. in Atlanta. On March 18, 9 of 12 came back positive for Marburg, which by then was claiming more victims by the day.
Since those new lab tests positively confirmed the virus, a growing number of epidemiologists, anthropologists, public health experts and emergency medical workers have descended on Uíge in a race to cut off the disease.
One thing is certain, scientists say: the epidemic began with just one infected person, and was then transmitted from one person to another.
That conclusion, based on finding only one strain of virus in all the samples tested, means the outbreak can be stopped if infected people are isolated.
Given the degree to which it has been contaminated, the regional hospital, which serves 500,000 people, has now been limited to emergency operations and an isolation ward where Doctors Without Borders, the international health charity, treats Marburg victims.
Eight pediatric nurses and the doctor in charge of the ward are dead, along with six other nurses and one other doctor, all Marburg victims. Every mattress, bed sheet and hospital uniform must be thrown out. Everything left must be disinfected.
On Monday, teams of soldiers and hospital personnel clad in bright yellow

[Ugnet] Ugandan Boxers Deserted in Kenya

Boxers get some food

STRANDED: Ugandans in Nairobi have saved the Bombers

By william muwonge and Reuben Olita THE national boxing team that has been stranded in Nairobi for three days, can now afford to have food. This follows a fundraising mission masterminded by the Ugandan community in Nairobi last evening. The Bombers are in Kenya for the week-long Africa Zone 5 tournament, a qualifier for the Africa Championship in Morocco next month. At a hastily convened meeting, sh1.2m had been raised by press time to cater for the Bombers immediate needs, top of which is food and accommodation. The boxers can now fight with relaxed minds. Their condition before was pathetic, a source at the meeting said. The source said the team was due to be moved to a decent hotel. The boxers were staying in a lodge in the shanty River Road. Interestingly
, a
Uganda High Commission official in Nairobi said they could not help the boxers because according to him, the team were in Kenya without NCS approval. Didas Twine claimed the boxers had not been cleared by NCS to take part in the event. There is no money and if there is no money there is no money, Twine said. Boxing official Sande Musoke was not bothered. What we want is only food and accommodation and other things can take care of themselves, he said.
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[Ugnet] Re: [UNAANET] State House, ISO Split Over Shs22b Education Deal

Rev. K.

I do not undertsand the gentleman's problem. By most definitions Museveni is a dictator and a tyrant. What doesn't he understand in the moniker 'tinpot', the 'tin' or the 'pot'?

I could have called Mu7 a kleptomaniacal military adventuristlumpen (see Mazrui's definitions of these creatures), butI did not, inanticipation of difficulties with multi-syllabic descriptions.

Perhaps the gentleman would care to elaborate his difficuties with the term tinpot dictator as an apt desription of Museveni and his policies.

In the meantime one could visit the following websites:
http://realpolitik.us/archives/000915.phpwww.tomaskohl.com/blog/archive/71.htmlwww.poisonedminds.com/tests/dic/www.cambridge2000.com/azara_blog/html/2005/02/20050224_tinpot_tony.html

But the outstanding question on the table is: Has UNAA's leadership decided to jump in bed with the thieves in Kampala, and if so how do we dissociate ourselves from the kleptos?

I'd very much appreciate a categorical, unambiguous and unequivocalanswer, for this issue will not just go away.Joseph Kamugisha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Omw. Katatumba:

Recently during his visit to Mukono where he attended a meeting with international donors, the President of Uganda, His Excellency Mr. Y.K. Museveni, almost lost his "cool" when the donors pointed out some of the evils he has failed to combat as a leader. Corruption being onthe top list.

What surprised me the most waswhen heasked why he was being blamed for corruption in the country when it was the"Permanent secretaries" and other lower ranking government officialswho are known for engagingin the act!

I'm sure by now you must be wondering why i'm bringing up these issues in reponse to the point you raised about "abusive langauage".

Ofcource, i don't endorse anybody who engages in personal attacks and name calling. That is why whenever Museveni, attacks and calls his opponents all kinds of abusive words, it really bothers me because i thoughtbeing civil and democratic was part of the "fundamental change" package he brought with him. But unfortunatly, there seems to be no difference between him and those he fought to remove from power.

I remember, the shameful abusive wordsIdi Amin usedon the late Kenyata, Nyerere and the Queen of England, andon his own cabinet minister's. But again, knowing who and what Amin was, one would have expected Museveni to be more civil in conduct and behavior especially in the public eye.

So when i see someone like you calling others "foolish", oranother high profile Uganda goverment official calling God's creation "devils", in a public seting that scares me to imagine what more one would do in private.

Now, talking about Mr. Ssemakula's comment on the President. It is a fact that Museveni's regime has outlived anyother regime in the history of Uganda including many other African regimes and intententions of leaving office bypeaceful and democratic means, seems to be very uncertain.

So, i don't know whyyou are overtaken by the fact that Museveni is called as such. It is true, he is a dictator.

That is not an abusive word as such. It is a perfect description of one who has outlived his term of office, that is if he was in office democratically in the first place. But that is another story because we all know how he came in power and what he told the world during his swearing in ceremonies at the Parliament buildings. We know what he told the world shortly before his first five years in office had expired. We also know what has been happening with the MP's and the million shillings they "ate". We know and you also know that he wants to stand for next year's elections.

But we also know what he wrote in his book the "Mustard seed" when hewrote wondering on how African leaderscould stay in power for more than ten years against the wishes of their people.

My friend, Katatumba, Let us learn how to call a spade a spade but not calling a spade a "big spoon".

In a situation where one is wounded. It is notadvisable for one to coverup a wound before it is treated.Covering it up, only agravates the situation. But when properytreated whether it is covered or nothealing will easily take place and the results will be appreciated.

In the case of Uganda, the "majority"instead of advising the President not to make the same mistakes thedictators he helped to remove, they are instead patting him on the back and asking him to violate and abusetheideolgies he cherished since he was in Ntare high school all the way tothe bushes of Luwero.

Obusingye Bwa Mukama Bube Neiwe.

Kamugisha

Allan Katatumba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Members,

DidMr. James Ssemakulajust call our President a'tinpot dictator'?Where are Rev. Kamugisha, Johnson Mujungu and others when this abusive language is used against our President without reason. I am still waiting for your responses.

This is uncalled for and is an insult to the majority (and I mean majority)of Ugandans who actually support the President and

[Ugnet] Human origins debate heats up, again.

April 12, 2005
Fossils of Apelike Creature Still Stir Lineage DebateBy JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

hree years ago, a French-led team of paleoanthropologists reported finding in central Africa a skull and other bones of a possible human ancestor that lived seven million years ago, close to the fateful time when the human and chimpanzee lineages diverged.
The discoverers described the fossils as belonging to the earliest known humanlike primate, or hominid. They named the new species Sahelanthropus tchadensis and commonly call it Toumai, meaning "hope of life" in the local language of Chad. But several other researchers disputed the interpretation, contending that the skull was too apelike to be a hominid.
So the discoverers went back to Chad and found additional evidence, particularly two jawbones and an upper premolar tooth, that they say confirms their original conclusion. Another science group has produced a computer-generated reconstruction of what Toumai looked like.
In a report in the current issue of the journal Nature, Dr. Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France and his colleagues said the new fossils established critical differences between Toumai and African apes, features consistent with a species "close to the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans."
The size of Toumai's brain and the shape of its skull were similar to a chimp's, but its face, teeth and brow ridge were more like a hominid's. Another group, led by Dr. Christoph P. E. Zollikofer of the University of Zurich, said the reconstruction of the badly damaged and fragmented skull confirmed that Toumai "is a hominid and is not more closely related to the African great apes."
In a separate report in Nature, Dr. Zollikofer's team said the fossils and the three-dimensional reconstruction indicated that Toumai might have walked upright.
One of the skeptics, Dr. Martin Pickford of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, has not changed his mind. "What we're saying is that it is an apelike animal," he told the BBC. "It may well have given rise to bipedal hominids, but it's not yet a bipedal hominid."
Other scientists said the new research, particularly the digital restoration of the skull, strengthened Toumai's hominid credentials.
Dr. Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, said the poor condition of the fossils would continue to raise questions about the new species. He said he supported the hominid status for Toumai but was "eager to make further finds in Chad, perhaps something in better condition."
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[Ugnet] Brazil seeks African partnership

*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday 
Times, South Africa. ]*

Brazil seeks African partnership
Tuesday April 12, 2005 11:27 - (SA)
ABUJA - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has visited Nigeria 
to seek a new political and economic partnership between the nations and 
their continents.

Nigeria's president Olusegan Obasanjo and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da 
Silva were speaking as Lula visited Abuja as part of an African tour.

Nigeria and Brazil are allies in the fight to persuade the World Trade 
Organisation to agree a better deal for farm exports from the developing 
world, and both are seeking a seat on a possible expanded UN Security 
Council.

Lula said that both Latin America and Africa had been looking too much 
towards the United States and Europe to help them develop their 
economies and that the time had come for developing countries to work 
together.

Myself together with President Obasanjo and with dozens of other 
leaders; now is the time for us to make a decision. Do we want to 
continue to be poor, or do we want to take a step forward? asked the 
Brazilian leader.

If the 19th century was the century for Europe, the 20th century was 
the century for the United States. Why can't the 21st century be ours? 
It only depends on us and if we can believe in that, he declared.

I believe that the time has come that we should look towards each other 
and that we should proceed. There are many things that we should do 
together that we have not yet done, he said at a joint media call.

Our trade relations could be much more intense. Our cultural relations 
can be much more intense too. Then our political liaison can be 
definitely much more than it is today, and for that we are now in this 
gathering, he added.

Lula was greeted at Obasanjo's Aso Rock Villa by an honour guard and a 
21-gun salute. He went immediately into bilateral talks with Obasanjo.

There is so much we have in common, there is so much that we can 
explore bilaterally between Africa and South America, that I personally 
hope that this visit will be the beginning of greater things, said 
Obasanjo.

Obasanjo is the current chairman of the African Union and both Nigeria 
and Brazil are the biggest nations on their respective continents and 
potential economic powerhouses.

Many Brazilians are descended from Nigerian slaves kidnapped from west 
African by European traders and transported across the Atlantic and the 
traditional rites of the coastal peoples continue to have much in common.

Lula is expected to meet later in the day with Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the 
executive secretary of the west African regional bloc Ecowas, and again 
with Obasanjo on Tuesday, after which some bilateral agreements will be 
signed.

The Brazilian leader said that he had invited Obasanjo on a return visit 
to Brazil and that he hoped that more bilateral deals would be signed then.

Lula is on a tour of African countries. He left Cameroon on Monday and 
is expected to head on to Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.

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[Ugnet] Teachers and Classmates Express Outrage at Arrest of [Guinean] Girl, 16, as a Terrorist Threat

*Teachers and Classmates Express Outrage at Arrest of Girl, 16, as a 
Terrorist Threat*
   By Nina Bernstein

   Saturday 09 April 2005
   At Heritage High School in East Harlem, where the student idiom is 
hip-hop and salsa, the 16-year-old Guinean girl stood out, but not just 
because she wore Islamic dress. She was so well liked that when she ran 
for student body president, she came in second to one of her best 
friends - the Christian daughter of the president of the parent-teacher 
association, Deleen P. Carr.

   Now Ms. Carr, a speech pathologist who calls herself a typical 
American citizen, is as outraged as the girl's teachers and classmates, 
who have learned that the girl and another 16-year-old are being called 
would-be suicide bombers and are being held in an immigration detention 
center in Pennsylvania.

   They have painted this picture of her as this person that is trying 
to destroy our way of life, and I know in my heart of hearts that this 
is bogus, said Ms. Carr, who welcomed the Guinean girl to her house 
daily and knows her family well. I feel like, how dare they? She's a 
minor, and even if she's not a citizen, she has rights as a human being.

   According to a government document provided to The New York Times by 
a federal official earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation has asserted that both girls are an imminent threat to 
the security of the United States based on evidence that they plan to be 
suicide bombers. No evidence was cited, and federal officials will not 
comment on the case.

   Its mysteries deepened as teachers and neighbors gave details of the 
Guinean girl's life, like the jeans she wore under her Muslim garb, her 
lively classroom curiosity about topics like Judaism and art and her 
after-school care for four younger siblings while her parents, illegal 
immigrants who have lived in the United States since 1990, eked out a 
living.

   I just can't fathom this, said her art teacher, Kimberly Lane, who 
has repeatedly called the youth detention center but like Ms. Carr was 
not allowed to speak to the girl, who has no lawyer. Among the 
unanswered questions they raised was why, if she was really a suspect, 
no F.B.I. agent had shown up to search her school locker or question her 
classmates, who sent her letters of support.

   This is a girl who's been in this country since she was 2 years 
old, Ms. Lane said. She's just a regular teenager - like, two weeks 
ago her biggest worry was whether she'd done her homework or studied for 
a science test.

   Until now, attention has focused on the other 16-year-old, a 
Bangladeshi girl reared in Queens who could not deal with the 
hurly-burly of her West Side high school and withdrew into home 
schooling. Yesterday, on a motion of the government, an immigration 
judge closed the Bangladeshi girl's bond hearing to the public and 
adjourned it to next Thursday, said Troy Mattes, a lawyer who is taking 
over the case but has yet to meet her.

   By the Bangladeshi girl's account, reported by her mother, the girls 
did not meet until March 24, after their separate arrests in 
early-morning raids on immigration charges against their parents. Both 
grew up in Islamic families. But while the Bangladeshi girl had grown 
increasingly pious, and uncomfortable in the urban culture of the High 
School of Environmental Studies on West 56th Street, the Guinean girl, a 
10th grader, embraced every aspect of Heritage High, at 106th Street and 
Lexington Avenue, her teachers said.

   She is, yes, an orthodox Muslim, but completely integrated into 
this school, said Jessica Siegel, her English teacher in a class in 
which topics like teenage pregnancy and world politics were discussed. 
Ms. Siegel was profiled in the book Small Victories, by Samuel G. 
Freedman, as an unsentimental, but fiercely committed teacher who 
provoked and delighted her students.

   She's a wonderful, wonderful girl, Ms. Siegel said. She's about 
the last person anyone could imagine being a suicide bomber.

   The English teacher's most vivid recollection was of a day two 
months ago when she heard a kind of roar in the hallway of the school, 
which is full of colorful student collages and life-size sculptures in 
papier-mâché. The teenager had stopped wearing her veil, and she beamed 
as her fellow students, seeing her face for the first time, cheered.

   After the class read Night, the Holocaust memoir by Elie Wiesel, 
the girl wrote a paper about genocide in the Sudan, she recalled. But 
she was so excited about a field trip to see Christo's Gates in 
Central Park, Ms. Siegel said, that she skipped an appointment at 
immigration - a teenage impulse the teacher now worries might have set 
off problems with federal authorities. Her father is now in immigration 
jail facing deportation.

   At Woodrow Wilson Houses a few blocks from the school, a sticker on 
the family's apartment door reads, Allah is our protector. Yesterday 
no one was

[Ugnet] Putting [American] Indian Realities in Context for the Media

*Putting Indian Realities in Context for the Media*
   By Anthony R. Pico
   Indian Country Today
   Friday 08 April 2005
   /*The unexamined portrayal of American Indians and this country's
   history needs to be debunked and exposed because the self-serving
   rationalizations of the past are still robbing generations of
   American Indians of our lives and future.*/
   The task of breaking American Indian stereotypes, dispelling myths 
and putting tribal issues into context falls on the media, the public's 
primary source of information. If the press doesn't understand us, the 
public will never get past the stereotypical ignorance that has plagued 
Indians from the day the first European arrived.

   Tribal leaders have an obligation to do what they can to educate 
both the public and the media. No less than the future of American 
democracy is at stake, along with a rare chance to alter generations of 
failed relations between Indians and non-Indians.

   *Culture, History Ignored*
   The media can help free non-Indians of the residual ethnocentricity 
and racism buried in the dark recesses of history and myth. They also 
can help free America's original people from the lethal grip of despair 
and generational cycle of dysfunction that result from being viewed as 
disposable icons, defined to fit the designs of others.

   The perception of American Indians is framed not by the thousands of 
years we lived on the North American continent, but by our short, 
largely confrontational relationship with European immigrants. Our 
culture and long history in this country has been ignored. Instead, we 
have been characterized by conflicting and changing public attitudes 
ranging from the only good Indian is a dead Indian to the romanticized 
noble savage, keepers of the lost innocence of the Garden of Eden.

   In the past, we were treated as obstacles to Manifest Destiny, 
anachronisms with no place in the emerging country. That belief led to 
exploitation, war, genocide and exile from our ancestral land and 
culture. The view of indigenous people as expendable and obsolete 
remains in the nation's conscience.

   The victors not only get the spoils of war, but they get to write 
the history. The unexamined portrayal of American Indians and this 
country's history needs to be debunked and exposed because the 
self-serving rationalizations of the past are still robbing generations 
of American Indians of our lives and future. It also dishonors America's 
ethical claim as a culturally diverse democracy.

   Elders told me some time ago that they wanted me to be chairman. In 
doing so, they charged me with finding an economic base for our tribe so 
we could become self-reliant and once again control our destiny. They 
sought the means to generate income for our government and jobs for our 
people.

   *A Matter of Survival*
   My people wanted to meet our governmental responsibilities to our 
community and land, as our ancestors had done. They wanted to finally 
exercise the retained sovereignty promised us in treaties, the U.S. 
Constitution and legal precedent.

   Governments cannot function without funds. And a strong government 
and resources are necessary to instill Native pride and secure a share 
in the American dream. The elders knew that our people must have an 
investment and voice in our future.

   It was also a matter of survival.
   Viejas elders wanted our tribe to stand on its own two feet, free of 
the federal government's crippling policies that kept us in perpetual 
poverty and dependency. They saw the social and cultural dysfunction and 
hopelessness that resulted from being at the mercy and political whims 
of states and the federal government.

   Between dependency on other governments and benign neglect, Indian 
people were not just starving from a cultural and economic standpoint - 
we were also slowly committing social suicide.

   We were poor. And we were hungry: not just for resources to feed our 
families, but for justice.

   My mission to find an economic base didn't challenge me as much as 
the realization that part of my job description as chairman would be to 
interact with the media. Indians don't like to talk to the media; it's a 
trust issue that goes back more years than I can count. Whoever speaks 
to the media usually takes political heat from the tribe. And then I 
discovered the idea of context.

   Most people criticized because of a quoted remark in a newspaper or 
magazine give the same excuse: I was quoted out of context. I decided 
the idea of context was something I should keep in mind for future 
reference.

*Sovereignty Is an Evolving Process*
   Context is important in the media.
   Gaming and our newfound government revenues gives us a real chance 
to once again exercise our sovereignty. Yet my heart worries that for 
every inch we give, others will take a mile and more. Such has been the 
lessons of our past, a tortured history that is difficult for

[Ugnet] Darfur: Women Raped Even after Seeking Refuge

*Darfur: Women Raped Even after Seeking Refuge*
   By Human Rights Watch
   YubaNet.com
   Tuesday 12 April 2005
   */Donors must increase support to victims of sexual violence./*
   Women and girls who have fled ethnic cleansing in Darfur are being 
raped and subjected to sexual violence around the camps where they have 
sought refuge, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today.

   Donors meeting in Oslo on April 11-12 to discuss aid for Sudan must 
provide more support to protect victims of sexual violence in Darfur and 
the refugee camps in Chad.

   Rape and sexual violence have been used to terrorize and uproot 
rural communities in Darfur, said Peter Takirambudde, Africa director 
of Human Rights Watch. Donors urgently need to set up programs to 
protect women and girls from sexual violence and address the needs of 
those who have been raped.

   The Human Rights Watch briefing paper documents how the Sudanese 
security forces, including police deployed to protect displaced persons, 
and allied Janjaweed militias continue to commit rape and sexual 
violence on daily basis. Even as refugees in Chad, women and girls 
fleeing the violence in Darfur continued to face the risk of rape and 
assault by civilians or militia members when collecting water, fuel or 
animal fodder near the border. Human Rights Watch interviewed many 
victims of sexual violence in camps in Chad and Darfur during two 
research missions to these areas in February.

   Some women living in the refugee camps in Chad had been imprisoned 
by the Chadian authorities for trying to collect firewood outside the 
camps, only to be raped by Chadian inmates while in jail. Human Rights 
Watch documented 10 cases of women and girls from Farchana camp who were 
imprisoned in such circumstances in January.

   Rape and sexual violence against women and girls has been a 
prominent feature of the ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by 
government forces and its Janjaweed militias, both during and following 
the displacement of civilians from Darfur. As recently as last month, 
Human Rights Watch has documented scores of cases of rape of women and 
girls while traveling along rural roads in Darfur.

   The response of Sudanese authorities has exacerbated an already 
appalling situation. Human Rights Watch documented how authorities in 
Bindisi, West Darfur, harassed and detained pregnant girls and women, 
many of whom who had become pregnant as a result of rape. The 
authorities threatened them with charges of fornication if they did not 
pay a fine. In some refugee camps in Chad, police and male residents 
have coerced women and girls to provide sexual services in exchange 
for protection, Human Rights Watch said.

   Donors and humanitarian agencies must give much greater emphasis-and 
more resources-to preventing sexual and gender-based violence. They also 
must take urgent steps to respond to its medical, psychological, social 
and economic consequences. The high levels of sexual violence and 
displacement in Darfur create a risk of increased transmission of 
sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.

   Despite the existence of clear standards for responding to sexual 
and gender-based violence, including in the context of conflict, Human 
Rights Watch's research suggests that humanitarian agencies are not 
implementing these guidelines on a systematic basis in Darfur and Chad.

   The U.N. and humanitarian agencies should address the specific 
needs of women and girls who continue to suffer the consequences of 
sexual violence, said Takirambudde.

   As of February, only one in six of the agencies that were providing 
health services in the refugee camps in Chad had a protocol for rape 
that included the provision of emergency contraception, comprehensive 
treatment of sexually transmissible disease and post-exposure 
prophylaxis of HIV/AIDS.

   Sexual violence is a fundamental violation of human rights and has a 
profound impact on physical, mental, social and economic well-being of 
women and girls, both immediately and in the long term. Acts of sexual 
violence committed as part of widespread or systematic attacks against a 
civilian population in Darfur can be classified as crimes against 
humanity and prosecuted as such.


   /The Human Rights Watch briefing paper entitled /Sexual Violence and 
its Consequences among Displaced Persons in Darfur and Chad/ is 
available online at: http://hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/darfur0505/./

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[Ugnet] Faking Civil Society

*Faking Civil Society*
   By Jonathan Schell
   TomDispatch/The Nation Magazine
   Wednesday 06 April 2005
   Perhaps the most beautiful achievement of political life in the late 
twentieth century was the international movement for democracy that 
brought down several dozen dictatorships of every possible description 
-- authoritarian, communist, fascist, military. It happened on all 
continents, and it happened peacefully. It began in the 1970s, with the 
collapse of the Greek junta and of the right-wing regimes in Portugal 
and Spain; it continued in the 1980s, mysteriously jumping the Atlantic, 
with the collapse of dictatorships in Argentina, Chile and Brazil; then, 
vaulting the Pacific, it claimed the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in 
the Philippines. Finally, in the early '90s, it spread to South Africa, 
where the white apartheid regime yielded to majority rule, and returned 
to the Eurasian continent where the great Soviet empire itself shuffled 
off history's stage.

   The actors in this benign contagion acquired a name: civil society. 
Civil: they were peaceful, meaning that the bomb in the cafe, the 
assassination of the local official, the paratrooper invasion of the 
Parliament building, were not their tactics. Society: they expressed 
popular will, not the will of governments. The movement broke or made 
governments. It was their master.

   Recently, however, the movement has undergone a change both at home 
and abroad. Civil society groups in the more prosperous societies began 
to lend welcome assistance in poorer ones. But governments also joined 
in. Unlike private civil groups, governments are in their nature 
interested in power, and the civil society movements clearly exercised 
it. Here in America, the National Endowment for Democracy was created in 
the early eighties. Funded by Congress and governed by a board that 
includes active and retired politicians of both parties, it nevertheless 
calls itself a nongovernmental organization. Its declared mission was 
to support democracy per se, not any political party, but the 
distinction was soon lost in practice. Most of the $10.5 million handed 
out in Nicaragua during the elections of 1990 went to the opposition to 
the Sandinistas, who were duly voted out of power. In 2002, the 
Endowment funded groups in Venezuela that backed the briefly successful 
coup against President Hugo Chávez, in which the Venezuelan Parliament, 
judiciary and constitution were suspended.

   The day after the overthrow, which Omar Encarnación of Bard College 
has called a civil society coup, the president of the International 
Republican Institute, which is loosely tied to the GOP and is a conduit 
for Endowment funds, stated, Last night, led by every sector of civil 
society, the Venezuelan people rose up to defend democracy in their 
country. Speaking for the U.S. government, presidential press secretary 
Ari Fleischer stated that the coup happened in a very quick fashion as 
a result of the message of the Venezuelan people. In fact, the 
Venezuelan people opposed the coup, and Chávez, notwithstanding his own 
repressive tendencies, almost immediately returned to power.

   More recently Endowment contributions went to groups in Ukraine that 
supported presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko, who became president 
after fraudulent results engineered by the opposition government 
candidate were reversed by popular pressure. In Venezuela, the outcome 
was the destruction, however brief, of all democratic institutions, 
whereas in Ukraine the outcome was the rescue of democracy; yet in both 
cases the integrity of civil society, which depends on independence from 
governments, was partially corrupted.

   Something similar was meanwhile happening within the United States. 
The Republican Party and its supporters have been the pioneers, creating 
what might be called a shadow civil society and seeking to merge it 
imperceptibly with the real one. Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley 
summarized the process in a March 30 op-ed in the New York Times: Large 
donors founded partisan think tanks more interested in propagandizing 
than in thinking; then proceeded to establish seemingly independent but 
actually politically subservient news organizations such as FOX News and 
the Rush Limbaugh show. Recently, some new wrinkles in the process have 
emerged: the use of fake newscasters, pretending to report from an 
independent news station while actually working for a department of 
government, and fake reporters, such as Jeff Gannon, the imposter 
permitted by the White House to ask sycophantic questions of the 
President at White House press conferences. There is also the fake town 
meeting (the very emblem of civil society) with the President, at which 
a screened audience asks pretested questions.

   The strategy of faking civil activity has a long tradition in the 
foreign sphere. For example, the CIA virtually cut its teeth 
manipulating popular and

[Ugnet] US Appears to Have Fought War for Oil and Lost It

*US Appears to Have Fought War for Oil and Lost It*
   By Ian Rutledge
   The Financial Times
   Monday 11 April 2005
   From Dr. Ian Rutledge.
   Sir, Your recent report that oil prices have reached an all-time 
nominal high and that Goldman Sachs has suggested the possibility of a 
super spike in prices to as high as $105 per barrel (Crude at 
all-time high despite Opec's efforts, April 5) should be of no surprise 
to anyone who has studied the informed opinions of US energy experts in 
the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq. Nor, for that matter, to 
anyone who has seen my own observations on future world oil prices in my 
recent book Addicted to Oil.

   In a crucial report to President George W. Bush by the US Council on 
Foreign Relations in April 2001, the president was warned that: As the 
21st century opens, the energy sector is in a critical condition. A 
crisis could erupt at any time . . . Theworld is currently close to 
utilising all of its available global oil production capacity, raising 
the chances of an oil supply crisis with more substantial consequences 
than seen in three decades.

   With US oil consumption in 2001 at an all-time high (19.7m b/d), 
import penetration at 53 per cent, and dependence on Arabian Gulf oil 
also at an all-time record (14.1 per cent of total US domestic and 
foreign supplies), the council stated that it was absolutely imperative 
that political factors do not block the development of new oil fields 
in the Gulf and that the Department of State, together with the 
National Security Council should develop a strategic plan to encourage 
reopening to foreign investment in the important states of the Middle East.

   But while the council argued that there is no question that this 
investment is vitally important to US interests it also acknowledged 
that there is strong opposition to any such opening among key segments 
of the Saudi and Kuwaiti populations.

   However, there was an alternative. In the words of ESA Inc (Boston), 
the US's leading energy security analysts: One of the best things for 
our supply security would be liberate Iraq; words echoed by William 
Kristol, the Republican party ideologist, in testimony to the House 
Subcommittee on the Middle East on May 22 2002 that as far as oil was 
concerned, Iraq is more important than Saudi Arabia.

   So when, according to the former head of ExxonMobil's Gulf 
operations, Iraqi exiles approached us saying, you can have our oil if 
we can get back in there, the Bush administration decided to use its 
overwhelming military might to create a pliant - and dependable - oil 
protectorate in the Middle East and achieve that essential opening of 
the Gulf oilfields.

   But in the words of another US oil company executive, it all turned 
out a lot more complicated than anyone had expected. Instead of the 
anticipated post-invasion rapid expansion of Iraqi production (an 
expectation of an additional 2m b/d entering the world market by now), 
the continuing violence of the insurgency has prevented Iraqi exports 
from even recovering to pre-invasion levels.

   In short, the US appears to have fought a war for oil in the Middle 
East, and lost it. The consequences of that defeat are now plain for all 
to see.

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[Ugnet] The Fed's Preemptive War

*The Fed's Preemptive War*
By Robert B. Reich
The American Prospect
07 April 2005 Edition
/*We're fighting an inflation that's not imminent, and low-income
workers are taking the heaviest casualties.*/
Just 110,000 jobs were added in March, not nearly enough even to
keep up with population growth. Meanwhile, the wages and benefits of
non-supervisory workers -- about 80 percent of the American workforce --
continue to drop, in real terms. This is unusual for this stage of a
so-called recovery.

What's going on? Blame higher interest rates. They're becoming a
drag on the economy. The Fed continues to raise them in order to prevent
an outbreak of inflation. But the Fed is fighting a ghost. Inflation is
in no danger of getting out of control.

Alan Greenspan worries that the huge federal budget deficit will
bring on inflation. That may be something to worry about over the long
term. But right now, the deficit isn't spurring inflation because
there's so much excess capacity in the economy.

Oil prices are another potential problem, but not yet. Most sellers
are still holding the line on their own prices. They don't want to lose
customers, and they know customers have more choices than ever before in
this global high-tech marketplace.

So the Fed's war against inflation is a preemptive one. The Fed
wants to tackle inflation before inflation becomes a problem to be
tackled. That might be okay, except for the fact that this preemptive
war is imposing a huge toll -- especially on the nation's poor.

When the Fed makes preemptive war against inflation, poorer
Americans are almost always the first to be drafted. That's because when
jobs slow, they're hit the hardest. They're at the end of the job line
-- the last to be hired, the first to be fired. They have the lowest job
skills and the least attachment to the labor force.

On the other hand, a tight labor market, like the one we had in the
late 1990s, has the opposite effect. The poor are the biggest
beneficiaries. Between 1996 and 2000, the earnings of Americans in the
bottom fifth grew faster than anyone else's. That's because employers
had so much work for them to do.

But now employers don't have much work for poorer Americans to do
because of the Fed's preemptive war against inflation.

Poorer Americans are paying the price at the very time when the
White House is cutting low-income housing, cutting Medicaid for the
poor, cutting child care, and cutting other programs for poor families.
The White House is doing this in order to reduce a budget deficit that
Alan Greenspan worries may lead to inflation. That budget deficit, by
the way, is due mainly to big tax cuts for the wealthy.

Message to the Fed: Get real. Inflation isn't real. Widening
poverty is. Stop this preemptive war.

Robert B. Reich is co-founder of The American Prospect. A version
of this column originally appeared on Marketplace.

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*Falling Fortunes of Wage Earners*
By Steven Greenhouse
The New York Times
Tuesday 12 April 2005
Beginning in the mid-1990's, pay increases for most workers slowly
but steadily outpaced the rate of inflation, improving the living
standards for nearly all Americans. But an unexpected reversal last year
in those gains has set off a vigorous debate among economists over
whether the decline is just a temporary dip or portends a deeper shift
that may cause the pay of average Americans to lag for years to come.

Even though the economy added 2.2 million jobs in 2004 and produced
strong growth in corporate profits, wages for the average worker fell
for the year, after adjusting for inflation - the first such drop in
nearly a decade.

Pay increases are not rebounding, even though the factors normally
associated with higher pay have rebounded, said Peter LeBlanc of Sibson
Consulting, a division of Segal, a human resources consulting firm.

The problem is not with the jobs themselves. Most economists dismiss
as overblown the widespread fear that the number of jobs will shrink in
the United States because of foreign competition from China, India and
other developing nations. But at the same time many of these economists
argue that the increasing exposure of the American economy to
globalization, along with other forces - including soaring health
insurance costs that leave less money for raises - is putting pressure
on wages that could leave millions of workers worse off.

We're in for a long period where inflation-adjusted wages will be
under acute pressure, said Stephen S. Roach of Morgan Stanley. That's
a most unusual development in a period of high productivity growth.
Normally, real wages track productivity.

But some economists

Re: [Ugnet] Re: [UNAANET] State House, ISO Split Over Shs22b Education Deal

2005-04-12 Thread Edward Mulindwa

Can you imagine if Ugandans listened to us when we
told them that Dr Muniini Mulera had taken UNAA to sell it to Uganda government
for his own benefits? We as well warned them that this organization is finished,
well guess what Ugandans called us stupid, Mulera wasted the organization and
moved on, and the wankers are still yapping.

Where is the critical thinking in Ugandans? Why do
you always think that any action has no reaction? Thank God Ugandans looked
through this crap and moved on, thus a creation of several North American Uganda
organization. Hope you guys use this crap to learn something about
responsibility, for Mulera alone had no right to take this organization to
Uganda which made it lame and now dead.

Em
Toronto
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Rev. K.

I do not undertsand the gentleman's problem. By most definitions
Museveni is a dictator and a tyrant. What doesn't he understand in the
moniker 'tinpot', the 'tin' or the 'pot'?

I could have called Mu7 a kleptomaniacal military
adventuristlumpen (see Mazrui's definitions of these creatures),
butI did not, inanticipation of difficulties with multi-syllabic
descriptions.

Perhaps the gentleman would care to elaborate his difficuties with the
term tinpot dictator as an apt desription of Museveni and his
policies.

But the outstanding question on the table is: Has UNAA's leadership
decided to jump in bed with the thieves in Kampala, and if so how do we
dissociate ourselves from the kleptos?

I'd very much appreciate a categorical, unambiguous and
unequivocalanswer, for this issue will not just go
away.Joseph Kamugisha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Omw. Katatumba:

Recently during his visit to Mukono where he attended a
meeting with international donors, the President of Uganda,
His Excellency Mr. Y.K. Museveni, almost lost
his "cool" when the donors pointed out some of the evils he has
failed to combat as a leader. Corruption being onthe top
list.

What surprised me the most waswhen heasked
why he was being blamed for corruption in the country when it was
the"Permanent secretaries" and other lower
ranking government officialswho are known for engagingin the
act!

I'm sure by now you must be wondering why i'm bringing
up these issues in reponse to the point you raised about
"abusive langauage".

Ofcource, i don't endorse anybody who engages in
personal attacks and name calling. That is why whenever
Museveni, attacks and calls his opponents all
kinds of abusive words, it really bothers me because i thoughtbeing
civil and democratic was part of the "fundamental
change" package he brought with him. But unfortunatly, there
seems to be no difference between him and those he fought to remove from
power.

I remember, the shameful abusive wordsIdi
Amin usedon the late
Kenyata, Nyerere and the
Queen of England, andon his own cabinet minister's.
But again, knowing who and what Amin was, one
would have expected Museveni to be more civil in
conduct and behavior especially in the public eye.

So when i see someone like you calling
others "foolish", oranother high profile
Uganda goverment official calling God's
creation "devils", in a public seting
that scares me to imagine what more one would do in
private.

Now, talking about Mr.
Ssemakula's comment on the President. It is a fact that
Museveni's regime has outlived anyother regime in the
history of Uganda including many other African regimes and intententions
of leaving office bypeaceful and democratic means, seems to be very
uncertain.

So, i don't know whyyou are overtaken by the fact
that Museveni is called as such. It is true, he is a
dictator.

[Ugnet] NEW ZEALAND MP BORED ABOUT THE HOLOCUST

2005-04-12 Thread Edward Mulindwa




New 
Zealand MP 'Sick' Of Hearing About The Holocaust 

Jerusalem Post4-12-5





  
  

  
"I am sick and tired of hearing how many Jews got 
gassed," announced New Zealand Labor Party MP John Tamihere, in an 
interview released on Sunday. 
 
Tamihere's comment was met with quick reaction from 
international groups as well as his own party, which currently holds the 
New Zealand premiership. 
 
In a statement issued to the press, New Zealand Prime 
Minister Helen Clark described Tamihere's comments as "deeply offensive 
to New Zealanders" and added that "the statements are also offensive and 
utterly unacceptable to the New Zealand Labor Party." 
 
Clark went on to apologize on behalf of her party: 
"The pain caused to the Jewish community and to others who suffered in 
the Holocaust by these thoughtless comments is acknowledged and deeply 
regretted by the Labor Party." 
 
In response to the New Zealander MP's comments, Dr. 
Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel director suggested 
that such a lack of understanding of the significance of the Holocaust 
makes Tamihere unfit for political leadership. 
 
"It would appear that MP Tamihere is in urgent need of 
psychological assistance to increase his ability to deal with the sad 
history and reality of life on the planet Earth during the past century, 
an absolutely necessary quality for anyone who desires to serve as a 
public representative. In that respect, "Holocaust fatigue " is simply a 
new form of mental illness, which is a condition which should disqualify 
him from public service," said Zuroff on Sunday. 
 
According to a statement issued by the New Zealand 
PM's office, Tamihere will not attend caucus this Tuesday and will be 
placed on extended leave, as part of an agreement made with Labor Party 
leadership in light of this, the latest in a series of brash statements 
that caused embarrassment to the Labor Party 
leadership.
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[Ugnet] IGNORANCE FUELS DEATHS IN ANGOLA

2005-04-12 Thread Edward Mulindwa






Ignorance Fuels Killer Marburg Outbreak In 
Angola - 192 DeadAfricanCrisis.Org4-12-5





  
  

  
ANGOLA (Reuters) -- Fear 
and ignorance are fuelling the world's deadliest outbreak of Marburg 
fever in Angola, where locals are too suspicious of medics in 
"astronaut" suits to let them take away infected loved ones, aid workers 
said today. 
 
Terrified residents stoned World Health Organisation 
(WHO) workersí vehicles late last week, putting a brief halt to their 
operations to contain the disease in Uige province, northeast of 
Angolaís capital Luanda. 
 
"We no longer have people coming to the isolation 
ward, people are hiding their patients at home because theyíre scared. 
That means the virus keeps on spreading in the community," Monica 
Castellarnau, emergency coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) 
in Uige, told Reuters by phone from Uige. 
 
The outbreak has killed 192 of the 213 known cases. 
There is no cure for the disease which is related to Ebola. 
 
"We've become scapegoats. That's how people express 
their fear, grief and anger at the situation. They see weíve got an 
isolation ward with very restricted access -- they think weíre doing 
funny things," Castellarnau said. 
 
"People have not been given sufficient information to 
understand the measures that are necessary to stop the virus ... It's 
crucial people understand the public health risk of keeping sick people 
at home. Only then can we start to control the spread of the virus," she 
said. 
 
Marburg, a rare hemorrhagic fever, is spread through 
contact with bodily fluids including blood and saliva. Symptoms include 
headaches, internal bleeding, nausea, vomiting and bloody 
diarrhoea. 
 
MSF has opened the cityís only isolation ward in a 
cordoned-off section of the general hospital. 
 
But Castellarnau said the hospital should be closed to 
all non-Marburg cases to avoid it becoming a source of infection. 

 
"We have strongly recommended that the hospital be 
closed temporarily and this is because the risk of infection at the 
hospital is unacceptably high," she said. 
 
Health workers have said basic hygiene rules are still 
not fully observed in hospitals. 
 
Emergency measures to deal with the outbreak have 
stretched to the limit Angolaís healthcare facilities which have been 
left in tatters after decades of civil war. 
 
But many locals have not welcomed the strange-looking 
healthcare workers who have descended on Uige city dressed in full 
protective clothing. 
 
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[Ugnet] Museveni

2005-04-12 Thread Y Yaobang

The most presidential political mastabator Uganda has ever had.
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[Ugnet] Re: [Mwananchi] Togo And Ayittey's Law

Georgi!

Sometimes I think you just"talk ", so to say, for the sake of talking..without making any sense what soever. George the evidence is quiet glaring and hit you striaght between . The United States and Not so Great Britian for close to twenty years have offfered unwaivering Financial and Military support to Yoweri Museveni's Military dictatorship...Now what are you talking talking aboutGeorgi boy!!

Matek

aboGeorge Ayittey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matek,
The fact is, Museveni OUGHT to have been history a long time ago. It is your own incompetence and foolish blunders that you should look at, not Western support for Museveni. We removed Rawlings from power, despite Western support and there are many pro-Western despots that have been tossed out too.
George Ayittey, Washington, DC
Matek Opoko wrote:
Georgi!The facts is that without the West ( particularly the United States and NOT so Great Britain) Museveni would have been History! ..and yes WE DO have the Ability to control the VARIABLE (WESTERN POLICIES Towards Africa)..we might decide to do an Idi Amin on their ASS or a Mugabe!!!Matek
Wale,
You will lose me whenever you drag the WEST into every African problem. This does not mean the West has played no role in causing some of Africa's problem but the moment you drag in the West, you make the problem INSOLUBLE. Because you have made the resolution of the problem dependent upon variables (Western policies toward Africa) that you do NOT and CANNOT control.
The West has NOTHING to do with the Eyadema family seeking to maintain their grip on power. Neither does the West have anything to do with Mugabe clinging to power or Obasanjo seeking a third term. In fact, the West has nothing to do with Mubarak of Egypt, Ghaddafi of Libya, Museveni of Uganda, etc. maintaining their grip on power. It is political GREED and the obsession with POWER. Pure and simple. Why the obsession with power: Power to enrich oneself, cronies and kinsmen; power to crush one's enemies; and power to perpetuate oneself in office.
Why are the RICHEST people in Africa heads of state and ministers? What has the West got to do with African leaders plundering their treasuries?
George Ayittey, Washington, DC
Wale Oyewumi wrote:
Prof. Ayittey, I understand your feelings on this.Most African leaders have invited and organized parties for disaster in thier respective countries,this is not in doubt.If you look at it critically,it is not only for the havocs the western world cause alone that intellectuals criticise them{and this is not synonymous with resigning to fate because the west had once,and probably still surreptiously destroy Africa,we have to act too!},but also for the roles they are insincerely playing or not playing at all.If a country in Europe assumes the role of Mobutu,and other countries in Europe have no hands in that{just as none should be blamed for African Nations' misfortune,would others in Europe watch and merely set up commissions? If Obasanjo plans to go for the third ruin via the Nigerian electorate,what humane role would they play than see us waste in war? What did they do,or not do to encourage disorder in this part of the world? Life and
Love,Mankind Olawale Oyewumi.
George Ayittey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wale,
Look, responses such as yours do NOT help us get out of our mess. In Togo, police opened fire on opposition protestors, killing two of them.
The basic problem is POWER, POWER, POWER -- the adamant refusal of African despots to share or relinquish POWER. It was this refusal which caused the implosion of Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and many other African countries. The whiteman has NOTHING to do with African dictators clinging to power. And it is this stubborn refusal to share or relinquish power that will destroy Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and other African countries.
In your own country, Nigeria, Obasanjo is scheming for a third term. Is the whiteman telling him to seek a third term?
George Ayittey, Washington, DC
Wale Oyewumi wrote:
Prof.Ayittey, Africa is a continent with its unique identities,but not isolated from the osmotic social pressures,which colonialism and imperialism have come to emblemise through other races.So our mind-set should not be strictly subjective on African issues.You should not always read absoluteness into the conviction you hold on crises-causes in our fatherland.You are not wrong because you believe African leaders are silly satans,but woefully sinful in making Africans the confluence diggers of socio-political cacophony.Problems,in history,has been a collective achievements of participatory characters and settings.The white were part of the causes we can allude to,which station Africa in stagnation,even though we do not get detered by their roles.No matter the rank and file of those who buy your idea,Africa's problems are multifacetted.Irrespective of the roles evil Africans had played in the drama of their

[Ugnet] Re: [Mwananchi] Re: Matek_opoko on Uganda