ugnet_: MOVEMENTS BACK AGRARIAN REFORMS
Movements back agrarian reforms Herald Reporters LIBERATION movements and pan-African movements in the Diaspora have come out in full support of Zimbabwes land reform programme and called for unity of purpose among themselves to economically develop the continent. In a communiqué read at the end of the Zanu-PF External Relations Conference by Mr Tiryenje Kaunda of Zambias United National Independence Party, the movements applauded the land reform programme as an illustrious example and precedent to be followed by displaced peoples to reclaim their heritage. "We believe that land is a God-given heritage that should go back to its rightful owners. "Historical crimes committed by colonial powers should be addressed expediently to ensure that restitution is achieved in the indigenous and displaced communities. "We, therefore, believe that the developments in Zimbabwe have been a guiding light for other nations. "We reaffirm our solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe in their land reform programme, indigenisation of the economy and empowerment of the rural masses. "We urge Zanu-PF to continue on this path which will ultimately lead the nation to economic liberation," the liberation parties said. They recommended that the Zimbabwe Govern-ment embark on a pan-African education exercise to provide the true information and background on the land reform programme so as to increase the levels of understanding and comprehension of the programme by other nations on the continent. They noted the immense propaganda power "our detractors have at their disposal, with their highly intoxicating media". The liberation war movements said while political independence had been achieved, there was now need to pursue economic independence. They bemoaned the continued control of natural resources by colonial forces, which in many cases continued to own and control most of the resources. "We condemn the lingering racism of white settlers and their descendants on the African continent and their continued attempts to control African economies. "We denounce the racist regimes in Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the United States which are exploiting minorities in favour of global capitalist ideals. "We find their regimes hypocritical and as the greatest enemies of democracy, world peace and economic justice," read the communiqué. A mental decolonisation, the liberation movements said, was needed in the African and indigenous communities to reassert national pride and to promote indigenous values and ideals which have been eroded by Western capitalist ideals. African nations should develop their own systems of homegrown democracy which need not be aligned with Western models of democracy. "We believe that democracy is a very African principle and we should have confidence in our own systems of democratic governance," they said. The liberation movements said there was need to ensure that it was not the elite and petty bourgeoisie that benefited to the detriment of the masses. "We must adhere to equity, fairness, impartiality and transparency. We need urgently to empower the rural poor, who need to be equipped with the knowledge and physical tools to enable them to be self-reliant. "Redistribution of land is an excellent way of ensuring that the rural poor will have access to the means of production. We need to provide resources for them to be able to fully utilise this land and to achieve maximum productivity." There was great need for networking and solidarity among liberation movements and between them and the progressive world to harness their potential to achieve gains of the continued struggle. There was need for deep co-operation between Africans at home and those in the Diaspora. "All liberation movements, comrades and friends of the struggle should play their individual roles to counter the lies and deceptions of the Western media by providing the true picture of Africa to the rest of the world. "All Africans at home and in the Diaspora are challenged to increase investment, tourism and trade with Africa, which will create jobs and add value to the raw materials of Africa," the liberation parties said. In separate interviews, representatives of the Black United Front, the December 12 Movement and Australian Aborigines said it was particularly important for liberation movements in Africa and those in the Diaspora to unite since they were fighting a common enemy. Cde Coltrane Chimurenga of the December 12 Movement said the issue of land that ex-liberation parties were trying to address could not be separated from the issue of reparations that they were pursuing as pan-Africanist movements representing 40 million black people in the United States. "We have been fighting against the worst international atrocity against humanity just as the liberation wars were waged against the oppressors. "Now that we are waging the second phase liberation war, the
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Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza
Despite your denials, a keen observer cannot fail to notice the envy embedded in your writings. It seems you are turning this into a habit - I mean, the constant failure to answer questions put to you. Can you please at last answer Mw. Ssemakula's question about what you have to show by way of progress in your area / community for the last umpteen years. And while you are at it, could you also answer my and Mw. Ssemakula's questions about your allegations concerning what Kabaka Mutebi is supposed to have written. Failing this, I would earnestly advise you to abstain from talking about things you have not even an inkling about. Kasangwawo From: Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:04:24 +0100 (BST) This message is actaully meant for the dustbin and I will next time do exactly that. In London or wherever you are yakking from,how is that helping you develop Buganda? You should henceforth stop being obtuse and do more meaningful things. Envy is something very foreign to me and hence your presumptions are very misplaced. Start thinking beyond the chronic mediocrity that appears to have engulfed you and your ilk. Ciao!. Kipenji. jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kipenji, your envy of Buganda is there for all to see and it knows no bounds. It has taken you so far that you even criticize traditions and mottos whose origin you have no clue about. If you spent half of the energy which you waste criticizing Buganda on developing your region, maybe there would be something to show for it. Oh, that reminds me. Why don't you answer Mw. Ssemakula's question: - what do you have to show by way of progress in your area / community for the last umpteen years ? Kasangwawo From: Owor Kipenji Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:19:09 +0100 (BST) Ssenyange,I would rather you keep your puerile talks about you and your support for Mu7 to yourself. In the same vein would one have to say that as long as you and Buganda want to keep Mu7,then you can go ahead and get the Federo for Buganda that Mu7 is peddling before you?. Wise people learn from other peoples' mistakes but Fools always want to learn through their own experiences which oftentimes turns to be very expensive. You think Mu7's killing fields that you support in the North will go on for ever?.What about if he achieves what you want and still feels he needs to kill and by that time only the Baganda like you are there for him to kill,what will you say?.Will you stop him from killing you and your paranoid ilk? The Motto that might have been started and adopted for obscure reasons breeds more true today than then. Lastly I want you to take it from me,Kipenji,that I have nothing that I have ever envied about Buganda let alone Baganda so your conclusions about my opinions on this fora are very much misplaced. Lets' wait and see. Kipenji. __ ssenya nyange wrote: Mukooza, So long as UPC supporters continue their hatemonger against Buganda, Mu7 will rule Uganda until he's deposed by the use of arms or killed by bullets. Thats why he doesnt want to stop the war in the north so that UPC can increase its sentiments against Buganda- devide more, rule for ever. The result will be as you see on Ugandanet. Iam anti Museveni but when the Adhola, Mulindwa, Akanga, Kipenji etc continue the envious sentiments against Buganda, I would rather give Mu7 a go ahead until a more credible replacement ( free of UPC, NRM Ganda sentiments ) is found. I have argued UPC to initiate a Truth and Reconciliation commission similar to Suth African but they refused, saying that they have unfinished business to settle with Buganda. Well, Baganda say Ekigy'omanyi kinyaga bitono Sekawuka kaali kakulumye... okwerinda...ssi butiitiizi Ssenyange -- From: Rehema Mukooza Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni to talk to Mengo Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Members: I don't believe that Museveni is going to talk to Mengo. Ooh, please! How many times has he sworn to talk to Mengo?? The fact is that he has not done so, and he says the opposite. Take a look into his recent Tororo speech when he blasted Mengo. Museveni talks his shit about talking to Mengo and the Kabaka when he is in Buganda. Basically to please folks! Zakoomu M. === Omar Kezimbira wrote:Museveni to talk to Mengo, New Vision, 21st April 2004 By Alfred Wasike PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said he is willing to
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May be the results are already out! As a candidate what do you suggest? Touch screen? I also think that one ballot paper is enough for all issues. But you are bound to argue that it is much easier to cheat if it is only one page! FNL Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is also easier to switch a single ballot box with another one already stuffed! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:31 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: "Twagala kasandhuku kalala, sibusatu" in order to minimize pre-election ballot boxstuffing, etc. Dealing with one ballot box at each polling stationis more liley to deterarmed stuffers-- and it is much easier to verify theemptiness of oneballot box. ; God bless Uganda! FNL --- 3rd term, parties vote on same day SAME RESOURCES: Buturo (left) and Ngoma Ngime By Hamis Kaheru CABINET has decided that the proposed referenda on the political system and presidential term limit be held on the same day, information minister Dr. Nsaba Buturo said yesterday. The two referenda will be held on the same day but there are two questions which will be put to the public, Buturo told the weekly government press briefing at his offices in Nakasero, Kampala. In one question, voters will be asked whether they want the country to continue being governed under the Movement system or to return to multi-party politics. The second question will be on whether Article 105(2) of the Constitution should be repealed to remove the two-term limit for the presidency and allow continuous eligibility, popularly known as the third-term. Buturos remarks mean that Cabinet accepted justice and constitutional affairs mi nister Janat Mukwayas recommendation on the referenda. Mukwaya said on March 8 that she ha d recommended to the Government that the two referenda be held on the same day. The sh29b (cost of referendum) people are talking about is not for every issue that is to be decided through a referendum. It is possible to have a multiplicity of elections on the same day using the same resources and the same personnel, Mukwaya said on phone. She said under a joint referendum, voters would be required to tick different ballot papers and cast them in separate boxes. It is a matter of having one box for the referendum under Article 74 (change of political systems), another box for Article 105 (third-term) and another box for any other issue, she said. If a group of people can handle a referendum on one issue the same people can be used to manage another issue. We can have three or four elections on the same day and use the same reso urces, she said. Buturo said the question of funding the referenda was settled and tha t the exercise would take place by February next year. The funds will be there. We have found them, he said. When asked about the source of the funds the minister said, from your taxes. Finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana last week said his ministry had allocated sh30b in the 2004/05 budget for the proposed referendum. Article 74 of the Constitution says the political system can be changed either through a referendum or through a resolution of Parliament upon a petition of district councils. Cabinet proposed to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) headed by Prof. Frederick Ssempebwa, that a multi-party political system be adopted through a referendum under Article 74(1). However, CRC rejected the proposal and recommended that the change to multipartyism be effected through a resolution of Parliament under Article 74(2). The CR C argued that the referendum was an unnecessary costly exercise because the leadership, which would have been on the forefront of championing the Movement System, had already opted for a change to multipartyism. This means the outcome of the referendum on political systems is obvious since nobody would campaign against the proposed change to multiparty politics. Since there might not exist any effective groups to canvass the question, the costly exercise of a referendum should be avoided, the CRC report says. Article 74(3) of the Constitution says the referendum on political systems shall be held in the fourth year of the term of Parliament. This means that the referendum can be held any time between July 2004 and June 2005. Published on: Friday, 23rd April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints
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Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza
It is amazing that so called developed and therefore sophisticated people,the like of you and your purpoted cohorts still expect to be spoon fed with knowledge. Are you not by inference just proving that you and your ilk are not only mundane but also anachronistic? Development can not be defined by parameters that are not robust and thatcannot be verifiable in other settings. What Buganda had was only administrative structures that showed the strata into which the rulers could relate with the ordinary folks in their areas. This same arrangement existed in areas other than Buganda but had a different nomenclature which unfortunately for you with your Ntu syntax innebriation believes since you do not understand it then it could as well not exist. If you look at the parameters that are internationally used as a gauge of development,can you tell me what the Infant Mortality rate in Buganda is?,the Maternal mortality rate?,the life expectancy in Buganda ,the amount of disposal income available to these so called developed people and area you keep jabbering about just as a few examples?. If you realise that today unlike in the 1950s and 1960s Baganda are the highest consumers of Mwogo and all that they used to refer to as not food,do you still not feel ashamed to utter these nonsenses about being developed and sophisticated?. If you also recall that the establishment at the center of your purported development went on to urge their young girls and women to go sell their hardware in Europe and wherever inorder to bring income to them,does that pass for being developed and sophisticated? Any society that has no respect for women in their midst and uses them as entertainers aka Ebimansulo,needs to rethink definitions of what it calls development and sophistication. Have you ever heard of these litany of societal miscues anywhere from those areas you believe in your mind are not developed?. You are putting yourselves in coccoons of a past that has become a mirage and thus accepting to be used as political condoms and that is why today Mu7 is re-sterilizing you for further use in his quest for more time in Office since he knows very well how gullible you people can be when it comes to thinking you can re-invent a wheel.To live is to Change.From my opening statement,I am not going to spoon feed you on where Mutebbi said what I quoted because as developed and sophisticated people you need to exercise your intellect and take advantage of the super information highway and get the neccessary information to refute what you think is unpalatable to you. That in a nutshell will make you indeed sophisticated for they say,the taste of the pudding is in the Eating!. Thus to prove me wrong come up with info to the contrary rather than being passive receipients of knowledge unless your sophistication is only founded on being good Xeroxers of other peoples' ways and views. Thank you. Kipenji. _jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite your denials, a keen observer cannot fail to notice the envy embedded in yourwritings.It seems you are turning this into a habit - I mean, the constant failure to answer questionsput to you. Can you please at last answer Mw. Ssemakula's question about what you have to show by way of progress in your area / community for the last umpteen years. And while you areat it, could you also answer my and Mw. Ssemakula's questions about your allegationsconcerning what Kabaka Mutebi is supposed to have written.Failing this, I would earnestly advise you to abstain from talking about things you have noteven an inkling about.KasangwawoFrom: Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\MukoozaDate: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:04:24 +0100 (BST)This message is actaully meant for the dustbin and I willnext time do exactly that.In London or wherever you are yakking from,how is that helping youdevelop Buganda?You should henceforth stop being obtuse and do more meaningfulthings.Envy is something very foreign to me and hence your presumptionsare very misplaced.Start thinking beyond the chronic mediocrity that appears to have engulfed you and your ilk.Ciao!.Kipenji.jonah kasangwawo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:Kipenji,your envy of Buganda is there for all to see and it knows no bounds. It hastaken youso far that you even criticize traditions and mottos whose origin you haveno clue about.If you spent half of the energy which you waste criticizing Buganda ondeveloping your region,maybe there would be something to show for it. Oh, that reminds me. Whydon't youanswer Mw. Ssemakula's question:- what do you have to show by way of progress in your area / community forthe lastumpteen years ?Kasangwawo From: Owor Kipenji Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ugnet_: Women and the sweet things
Women and the sweet things By Moses Odokonyero April 23 - 29, 2004 According to the folklore of a certain tribe in Uganda, women were once rulers. But all that came to a sudden and dramatic end when one young man, Balaba, went hunting. To keep the pangs of hunger at bay, he carried with him sugarcane and honey. After several hours of hunting he sat under a tree to have a bite of the goodies he had carried. Then three devastatingly beautiful women came carrying firewood for their queen. Hungry too, they asked Balaba to give them a bite of whatever he was eating. Without any hesitation, Balaba gave them small pieces of sugarcane It tastes so nice, said the women in chorus. You havent tasted something nice yet, roared Balaba as he doled out honey to the young women. My, my, my, this is even sweeter, the women again in chorus exclaimed. I have something much sweeter, Balaba shot back. We want it, the women asked in unison. And so Balaba gave all of them a dose of something sweeter in private. Intrigued that such sweet things existed in this world, the women unanimously decided to take Balaba to their queen so that she too could have a taste of the sweet things they had had. And womens love for sweet things has never ceased ever since except that sweet things have now increased in range and number. Today a Grandpa can be found swapping saliva and exchanging pleasantries with a young but extremely bold little nosed girl. Nikos Kazantzakis, a Greek writer, wrote in his Zorba The Greek. When I was young the first thing I did was to pinch and play with them (women). Now I am old the first thing is to spend money, be gallant and open fisted the women always go crazy. You can be a hunchbacked, old and ugly as a louse, but the girls will forget all that. They cannot see anything else but the hand that brings out the money So what is my point? Men should not be anxious about marriage because the women will always be there for as long as you have what they like and want. Not so long ago, an ageing royal stunned many when he married a little girl old enough to be his granddaughter. Many made noise but I celebrated because I thought that was a blessing of sorts to we men. You might be as old as those Mivule trees that were grown by Semei Kakukungulu during the colonial era, or as Kazantzakis says as ugly as a louse but you will never fail to get a woman as long as you have what it takes. The challenge to men who are not in a hurry to marry like I am, is this: hurry to acquire the sweet things like Balaba because the babes like them, work hard and get more and more money. Then be gallant and open fisted and the babes will come even if you are as dead as old wood, bony as a bone itself and as ugly as sin for our new world spins proper on the principles of capitalism. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: I can't open my door that soon
I cant open my door that soon By Nampiina M. Tracy April 23 - 29, 2004 I have been watching you for some time and I realise I am in love with you, will you be my girl friend? He asks. Give me some time to think about it, she replies. It could be a day, a week or a month. And men do not understand why the answer cannot be instant even when it seemed obvious. To them it is a simple matter; if you want to be in a relationship with me, say yes. If not, say no. That should require not more than a few seconds, should it? A couple takes to the dance floor at Miss Bweyogerere beauty pageant at Jokers Hotel Jan 11 (Photo by Willy Tamale).But, of course, it should. Every right thinking woman will tell you that only desperate women and adolescents do that. A real woman needs to get used to the idea of being in a relationship, she needs to study you when she is still on the outside so she can know if you are compatible. For example are you rich, outgoing, a snob etc. Because her life with you depends on so many things. Time is essential when determining whether the proposal was not on impulse. We know men; the sight of tears sends them whimpering. The boss can catch you gossiping on the company phone during working hours. He will start raving mad, screaming and shouting at you. And when you start crying, he will be all over you asking you not to cry and before you know it, he will also be asking you to be his girl friend! This cannot mean that he loves you. Probably he will not remember the next day that he asked you to be his girlfriend. So if you ignore his tear induced panic attack, you save yourself the embarrassment of allowing or refusing an offer that wasnt made. Men are the biggest liars in history. We women know that only too well. So, we need time to dissect their proposals and determine whether we want a married man for a boyfriend. It is important to do a background check on a man before you let him anywhere near your heart. Who wants an acid wielding jilted wife targeting her? Some things are really not worth the trouble.Men are also confused by alcohol. It excites them into action. You meet this guy in a bar and he goes on about you and him in a relationship. The best thing is to take that with a pinch of salt because tomorrow, he will be sober and sane. And you will look to him like the back of a horse. One he can never, in his right mind, go out with because all his friends will laugh and his family disown him. Personally, I need to consult. My girlfriends are so important to me. I cant imagine saying yes to a guys proposal without consulting them first. We need an extensive session, to sit down and discuss you for hours on end; the merits and demerits of an association with you. Who knows? One of them may know something nasty about you and I get lucky to find out in time. You may call it playing hard to get but I know it is safer to be stuck there with it. Dont fret. A wise man will not fight it. He will simply sit back and pray for the tide to turn in his favour. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: Look beyond the visible for the truth
Look beyond the visible for truth By Muhwezi G. Bonge April 23 - 29, 2004 Unidentified beautiful girl at Club Silk Yellow Bash April 10 (Photo by Bruno Birakwate) I know that the saying You cannot judge a book by its cover, has been used one time too many. Yet how many have fallen prey to this? Well I will say it again. Looks can deceive! You look at that pot-bellied man and all you can think of is how loaded he is. I remember one girl who eloped with some fat guy, whose potbelly was the work of malwa, a local potent brew. She discovered it too late. Many times, people look innocent. And when they are exposed, you cant help but wonder where they had hidden their true character. Agnes, a third year university student confessed that she met her ex boy friend at a club, chatted and exchanged numbers. He looked as innocent as an angel.A few months into the relationship and she could not believe the kind of monster she had got for herself. The man was a habitual abuser who could not keep a woman for more than a few months. It was only because of her persistence that the relationship lasted for a while. It is said that not all that glitters is gold. I am not saying that everyone is not what they appear to be. But it pays to scratch underneath the cover of innocence. © 2004 The Monitor Publications East African | About Us | Feedback | Site Map | License | Monitor Mail Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: Look beyond the visible for the truth
Look beyond the visible for truth By Muhwezi G. Bonge April 23 - 29, 2004 Unidentified beautiful girl at Club Silk Yellow Bash April 10 (Photo by Bruno Birakwate) I know that the saying You cannot judge a book by its cover, has been used one time too many. Yet how many have fallen prey to this? Well I will say it again. Looks can deceive! You look at that pot-bellied man and all you can think of is how loaded he is. I remember one girl who eloped with some fat guy, whose potbelly was the work of malwa, a local potent brew. She discovered it too late. Many times, people look innocent. And when they are exposed, you cant help but wonder where they had hidden their true character. Agnes, a third year university student confessed that she met her ex boy friend at a club, chatted and exchanged numbers. He looked as innocent as an angel.A few months into the relationship and she could not believe the kind of monster she had got for herself. The man was a habitual abuser who could not keep a woman for more than a few months. It was only because of her persistence that the relationship lasted for a while. It is said that not all that glitters is gold. I am not saying that everyone is not what they appear to be. But it pays to scratch underneath the cover of innocence. © 2004 The Monitor Publications East African | About Us | Feedback | Site Map | License | Monitor Mail Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
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Museveni has earned General ACTING BOSS: Mayega OFWONO OPONDO Opinion - New Vision -Friday, 23rd April 2004ACCORDING to the new guardian angels of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) Dr James Rwanyarare and his sidekick Henry Mayega, Gen (rtd) Yoweri Museveni does not deserve that rank in the UPDF. President Museveni, the founder of the NRA (now the UPDF), was early this year promoted to general, but subsequently retired from the army. As a civilian, Museveni is anticipated to be a major player in the new political phase of multipartyism. To Rwanyarare and Mayega, Museveni has never attended any military academy, which means that he has been simply masquerading as a soldier. Mayega added, My feeling is that he has been promoted to continue his control over the army and continue his dictatorship over the country. So the question is: If they fear Museveni both in service and retirement, where do these critics expect him to be beyond State House? Rwanyarar e and Mayega ought to be ashamed of their logic because it is Museveni and his NRA, without the alleged military academy credentials, who openly and courageously fought for five years to dismantle the UPC fascist regime of decorated generals from high profile military academies around the globe! That army, the UNLA of decorated generals, was to say the least based on and controlled through ethnicity to spread dictatorship. The fascist ideology turned the UNLA into serial criminals of armed robbery, looting, rape, murder and extra-judicial killings with impunity in broad daylight countrywide. The army was turned into a private looting enterprise. Yet the enlightened UPC leadership where Rwanyarare was the minister for culture and community development refused to stop the crime or bring perpetrators to justice! Just for taming the army, Museveni deserves recognition, if not applause! Mayega, a supposed teacher of history, and civil servant at Makerere University ought to know that academies are not the only places of higher and useful learning or which build human beings to their full potentials. Indeed, the world is full of examples of self-educated people such as Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Socrates, Aristotle and William Shakespeare. In military tradition, kings who captured and ruled swathes of wealthy lands never attended any known military academies. In the contemporary military establishments, Gen George Washington, Chairman Mao Ze Dong, Kim Ill Sung and Commandente Fidel Castro became generals by learning on the job, mobilising mainly rural peasants and artisans to bring liberty to their people. In fact, Museveni has never claimed to have trained at any formal, let alone professional military college. Like many of the above, Museveni is a self-educated, trained and efficient, if not competent, soldier in his own right who ousted fascists, not through palace coups but revolutiona ry armed struggles. Then, as usual, failed presidential hopeful Aggrey Awori, the jack of all trades but master of none, jumped into the fray. Awori told The New Vision that he was not aware of any recent UPDF victories (field) that make him (Museveni) deserve that rank. To a falsely celebrated Awori, for promotion to take place, there must be field victories, which in UPDFs case he has not been able to see although it defeated his banditry Force Obote Back Again (FOBA). It should be re-called, that Awori has on many occasions publicly and proudly said he used his forces to indiscriminately kill RC officials in Busia district between 1986-90, simply because they belonged to a system he opposed at the time! But at any rate, even without recent UPDF victories, Awori ought to know that there are many stable and peaceful countries where soldiers are promoted without firing a single shot in combat. In countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, US, UK, Canada, Australia, France and Germany and others, military service is a professional career. Secondly, promotion even in Ugandas case can be based on other achievements either in research or intellectual work leading to a new technology or military doctrine or strategy. While Musevenis military strategy of a protracted peoples war is not entirely new in the world, its successful application within a relative short time (five years) could be a useful indicator to his military ability. Unlike China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, Museveni successfully applied that strategy here in a small, landlocked and poor country with no rear base, yet bordered by large and hostile neighbours. Critics of Musevenis military credentials or achievements could alternatively be invited to study his Three Essays on Fighting Counter-Insurgency which led to the defeat of numerous armed groups since 1986, ushering in the current stability. Also critics need to know that the hitherto threats from Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, and Kenya in the early days of the NRM and supported by powerful nations, were not provoked by Uganda. The defeat
ugnet_: Blood test speeds sleeping sickness detection
Blood test speeds sleeping sickness detection 23 April 2004Source: BBC Online Researchers have developed a blood test that allows early diagnosis of sleeping sickness, the parasitic disease that affects half a million people each year in sub-Saharan Africa. The test, described in The Lancet, checks blood samples for a 'signature' of proteins specific to the infection. Until now it has been difficult to detect the disease until an advanced stage of infection. Untreated, sleeping sickness is usually fatal, and early diagnosis could help avoid unnecessary drug treatments and side effects. But critics say that the test is too high-tech to be practical for use in the field. Link to full story on BBC Online Link to research paper in The Lancet - FN L Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Fears in Kitgum
UGANDA 23/4/2004 9:54 KITGUM: FEAR OF NEW ATTACKS BY LRA REBELS General, Brief MISNA sources in Kitgum, capital of the north Ugandan district of the same name, report that the city is on alert following rumours of a possible attack by the rebels of LRA (lords Resistance Army). These fears are corroborated by a recent series of attacks by the Olum (as the LRA rebels are called in the local Acholi language) on villages in the area: raids, looting and violence, which do not appear to have claimed lives, but which have nonetheless terrified the local population. In one of the most recent attacks on a small village near Kitgum, the rebels abducted numerous people, only to release them a short while later. Meanwhile, MISNA sources point out that the number of women killed by the rebels in Matidi, 20 kilometres east of Kitgum, last week has risen to 16. In addition to the five women who were killed while searching for food in the area around the refugee camp where they lived, the bodies have been found of a further 11 women, who were abducted on that occasion and subsequently killed. The LRA has tormented the northern districts of Uganda under the leadership of Joseph Kony since 1986; according to local sources, tens of thousands of people have been tortured and killed, more than 25,000 children have been abducted and reduced to slavery or forcibly enlisted and over a million people have been displaced from their homes. [LC] N,h^wrz(Hm g(
ugnet_: A Story on How Company Policy Began
Usual disclaimers apply...Semei. Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done around here. And that, my friends, is how company policy begins.
ugnet_: lebanese in the Whitehouse
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RE: ugnet_: MILTON,S MEN ON ARMY PROMOTIONS
Kabonero, Is Opondo talking about Foba(a creation of thehis rich imagination)or FOMBA( force museveni back again) aka"sad" term bid? Funny world indeed! Gook "Rang guthe agithi marapu!" A karamonjong word of wisdom Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: MILTON,S MEN ON ARMY PROMOTIONS Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:54:32 EDT Museveni has earned General ACTING BOSS: Mayega OFWONO OPONDO Opinion - New Vision - Friday, 23rd April 2004 ACCORDING to the new guardian angels of the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC) Dr James Rwanyarare and his sidekick Henry Mayega, Gen (rtd) Yoweri Museveni does not deserve that rank in the UPDF. President Museveni, the founder of the NRA (now the UPDF), was early this year promoted to general, but subsequently retired from the army. As a civilian, Museveni is anticipated to be a major player in the new political phase of multipartyism. To Rwanyarare and Mayega, “Museveni has never attended any military academy, which means that he has been simply masquerading as a soldier.” Mayega added, “My feeling is that he has been promoted to continue his control over the army and continue his dictatorship over the country.” So the question is: If they fear Museveni both in service and retirement, where do these critics expect him to be beyond State House? Rwanyarar e and Mayega ought to be ashamed of their logic because it is Museveni and his NRA, without the alleged military academy credentials, who openly and courageously fought for five years to dismantle the UPC fascist regime of decorated generals from high profile military academies around the globe! That army, the UNLA of decorated generals, was to say the least based on and controlled through ethnicity to spread dictatorship. The fascist ideology turned the UNLA into serial criminals of armed robbery, looting, rape, murder and extra-judicial killings with impunity in broad daylight countrywide. The army was turned into a private looting enterprise. Yet the enlightened UPC leadership where Rwanyarare was the minister for culture and community development refused to stop the crime or bring perpetrators to justice! Just for taming the army, Museveni deserves recognition, if not applause! Mayega, a supposed teacher of history, and civil servant at Makerere University ought to know that academies are not the only places of higher and useful learning or which build human beings to their full potentials. Indeed, the world is full of examples of self-educated people such as Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Socrates, Aristotle and William Shakespeare. In military tradition, kings who captured and ruled swathes of wealthy lands never attended any known military academies. In the contemporary military establishments, Gen George Washington, Chairman Mao Ze Dong, Kim Ill Sung and Commandente Fidel Castro became generals by learnin g on the job, mobilising mainly rural peasants and artisans to bring liberty to their people. In fact, Museveni has never claimed to have trained at any formal, let alone professional military college. Like many of the above, Museveni is a self-educated, trained and efficient, if not competent, soldier in his own right who ousted fascists, not through palace coups but revolutiona ry armed struggles. Then, as usual, failed presidential hopeful Aggrey Awori, the jack of all trades but master of none, jumped into the fray. Awori told The New Vision that he was “not aware of any recent UPDF victories (field) that make him (Museveni) deserve that rank.” To a falsely celebrated Awori, for promotion to take place, there must be field victories, which in UPDF’s case he has not been able to “see” although it defeated his banditry Force Obote Back Again (FOBA). It should be re-called, that Awori has on many occasions publicly and proudly said he used his forces to indiscriminately kill RC officials in Busia district between 1986-90, simply because they belonged to a system he opposed at the time! But at any rate, even without recent UPDF victories, Awori ought to know that there are many stable and peaceful countries where soldiers are promoted without firing a single shot in combat. In countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, US, UK, Canada, Australia, France and Germany and others, military service is a professional career. Secondly, promotion even in Uganda’s case can be based on other achievements either in research or intellectual work leading to a new technology or military doctrine or strategy. While Museveni’s military strategy of a “protracted peoples’ war” is not entirely new in the world, its successful application within a relative short time (five years) could be a useful indicator to his military ability. Unlike China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, Museveni successfully applied that strategy here in a small, landlocked and poor country with no rear base, yet bordered by large and hostile neighbours. Critics of
ugnet_: Comprimising National Security
Open Letter to the Government of Uganda Foreign aid has some good intentions though 30% goes back to the aiding party and then they take the drawing board and write policies and programs that are detrimental to the lives of our people. We then end up being buried in debts. We often fail to condemn international and national injustices because we are silenced by a check. It is a good idea to have a transparent defense budget and it is also a good idea to defend the sovereignty of our motherland. To give you unhindered access to what we have in our arsenal because you have given us 2% of the entire foreign aid, is to compromise our national security endangering the lives of our citizens. Once such information becomes public, our enemies will have a clear view how to defeat us. Foreign aid has replaced the diplomatic voice. Donors force us to have peace talk with thugs, those who have maimed us, those who have raped us, those who have enslaved us, those who have slain hundreds of our babies, those who have slain our parents, those who have slain our relatives. Foreign aid makes them saints and criminalizes the government whose primary objective is to protect the lives and the property of her citizens. At the end of the day, military aid is political and not developmental and neither humanitarian. Whether it is this government or other governments to come, we should not put the defense of our motherland into the hands of foreign donors. For decades to come a transformation strategy must be done and if we need to have a technologically advanced defense, the Ministry of Defense needs to be self-sufficient and cease to claim the lions share of the national budget. We must stop foreign nations to write our defense policies. For starters, our military can operate some business schemes that would supplement other sources. The MoD can invest into: Military TV/Radio International Military Academy Intensive Modern Farming Construction Industry I would challenge our representatives in the house to draw a road map that would ensure that our defense is not overly dependent on foreign aid. Edriss S Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Denver, Colorado USA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004
ugnet_: Kayira disturbed us-M7
From The Monitor, April 24, 2004 Kayiira disturbed us, says MuseveniBy Ignatius SsuunaApril 24, 2004 WAKISO President Museveni has said the late Dr Andrew Kayiira was a huge stumbling block to the National Resistance Army bush war effort. He said the late freedom fighter made unrealistic promises that pitted Baganda against non-Baganda fighters. He was disturbing us so much in the bush. He would come in our area of operation and excite people by promising them Kabakaship and other things you all know, Museveni told Wasiko residents at the district headquarters this week. Museveni said by making such promises, Kayiira was demoralising non-Baganda fighters and making the success of the war more complicated. You talk of the restoration of Kabakaship in a force which comprises of people like Bakiga! These people dont know about your Kabaka, Museveni said. Museveni said he told Kayiira that their primary aim was to capture power together and later see who gets what. Whether one would get Kabaka or not was a small issue. Getting [Milton] Obote out of power was the primary target, Museveni said. Kayiira, who was gunned down by unknown assailants on March 7 1987, was the head of the Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) that fought the Milton Obotes regime alongside the NRA under Museveni. His death has remained a mystery since. An investigation by Scotland Yard Police did little or nothing to unravel the mystery. Kayiira was a strong advocate of a federal system of governance for Buganda. The NRA, now UPDF, was the military wing of the National Resistance Movement, which ousted the Tito Okello Lutwa military junta in 1985. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Gook "Rang guthe agithi marapu!" A karamonjong word of wisdomSTOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: About a judge, goats and political mischief
About a judge, goats and political mischiefThis That By Henry OchiengApril 24, 2004 When the President went to open the new Wakiso district office block, I knew that was the perfect moment for him to come out with another of his disparaging remarks about perceived political opponents. Past leader, Dr Obote has variously been called swine and a ghost (File photo)He did not disappoint. Some distance into his long-winded delivery and Mr Yoweri Museveni digressed to his current pet theme, that matter of the peasants and whether they can make sound decisions on serious national business. He has said he is with the peasants but Supreme Court Justice, Prof. George Kanyeihamba last month alerted us to the reality that rural folk are largely simpletons who are easily manipulated and open to suggestion. George warned that it would not be prudent to leave grave decisions to them. The President has never forgiven the judge for making that observation. So, at Wakiso last week he told the people that Prof. Kanyeihamba should not be sitting on a Supreme Court bench but be somewhere in the lower courts whose main pre-occupation is to preside over cases of goat theft (and chicken theft I presume). This was a follow-up of another earlier salvo where he had claimed that the professor is not fit to be a judge. This is politics and the judge sensibly responded that he is not bothered and continues about his duties unperturbed in all probability. Our President is a man who has distinguished himself as a person partial to the use of colourful language. He added words like swine as a description for past leaders, ghost for former President Milton Obote and others to the national lexicon. And so it is not surprising when he comes out with goat remarks. Some people might think Musevenis resort to insulting language shows him up to be a petulant individual. This is not the case. The President is actually speaking the language of the peasants. In many villages when neighbours quarrel, rarely do they confront the substance of the quarrel,, instead there is preference to say bad things about each others wives, or children. The philosophy behind this approach is all about demoralising your opponent and removing the fire from his belly. Some men simply cannot stand being publicly humiliated, even when the facts of their humiliation cannot stand up to scrutiny. So, we have a President who cleverly misrepresents national issues when he is preaching to an unsophisticated audience. He does not tell the people that the whole debate is about whether they appreciate the import of lifting presidential term limits or the dangers that come with allowing a sitting President the space to run for office eternally in a third world country. It is now up to those who have chosen to stick with the truth to carry their weight with dignity. If it is true that the man at Nakasero intends to give it another go in 2006, life for those standing in his way could get bruising. They will be faced with an adversary who is convinced that his decision is right and in the national interest. The adversary is willing to get down in the gutter and there are signs that some people, even in Parliament are already wavering. At the last listen-in, a fly on the wall whispered that certain MPs are mulling over a trade-off. The deal is to grant Museveni his wish and in return he will look the other way when Parliament unilaterally decides to become a transitional legislature unelected at that for five more years. This fly said the inspiration for this mischief came to them after March 3. On that day the Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, Mr Pius Msekwa was a visiting speaker at a parliamentary workshop on peaceful political transition at Hotel Africana in Kampala. He said his country spent a whole five years to transit from the one-party state it was to the vibrant multi-democracy it is today. Now, we have exactly two years to the end of this chief executives last term in office and the 7th Parliaments term. He should not be running again because Article 105(2) restricts one to two consecutive five-year terms. But the incumbent obviously thinks there is a lot of unfinished business on the plate and is positioning himself to be around after 2006 but under a new pluralistic dispensation. If the Msekwa-inspired proposition gains currency then the country will be witness to some fascinating footwork. We shall be told that to proceed with transition in under two years is not only impossible but irresponsible. These things, we shall hear, have to be done in orderly fashion. The people have to be consulted, the politicians and other such riff raff will tell us. Then while we are still being consulted, Parliament will pull what the National Resistance Council (NRC) pulled in 1989. In that year, the NRC that was a makeshift Parliament, unilaterally extended its term by five years on the pretext that they were preparing ground for the
ugnet_: Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power
Comment Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy George Monbiot Tuesday April 20, 2004The Guardian To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what is happening there, you should read the resolutions passed at the state's Republican party conventions last month. Take a look, for example, at the decisions made in Harris County, which covers much of Houston. The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial matters: homosexuality is contrary to the truths ordained by God; "any mechanism to process, license, record, register or monitor the ownership of guns" should be repealed; income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax should be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric fences. Thus fortified, they turned to the real issue: the affairs of a small state 7,000 miles away. It was then, according to a participant, that the "screaming and near fist fights" began. I don't know what the original motion said, but apparently it was "watered down significantly" as a result of the shouting match. The motion they adopted stated that Israel has an undivided claim to Jerusalem and the West Bank, that Arab states should be "pressured" to absorb refugees from Palestine, and that Israel should do whatever it wishes in seeking to eliminate terrorism. Good to see that the extremists didn't prevail then. But why should all this be of such pressing interest to the people of a state which is seldom celebrated for its fascination with foreign affairs? The explanation is slowly becoming familiar to us, but we still have some difficulty in taking it seriously. In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met. The first of these was the establishment of a state of Israel. The next involves Israel's occupation of the rest of its "biblical lands" (most of the Middle East), and the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques. The legions of the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will lead to a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews will either burn or convert to Christianity, and the Messiah will return to Earth. What makes the story so appealing to Christian fundamentalists is that before the big battle begins, all "true believers" (ie those who believe what they believe) will be lifted out of their clothes and wafted up to heaven during an event called the Rapture. Not only do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able to watch, from the best seats, their political and religious opponents being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs, during the seven years of Tribulation which follow. The true believers are now seeking to bring all this about. This means staging confrontations at the old temple site (in 2000, three US Christians were deported for trying to blow up the mosques there), sponsoring Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, demanding ever more US support for Israel, and seeking to provoke a final battle with the Muslim world/Axis of Evil/United Nations/ European Union/France or whoever the legions of the antichrist turn out to be. The believers are convinced that they will soon be rewarded for their efforts. The antichrist is apparently walking among us, in the guise of Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Yasser Arafat or, more plausibly, Silvio Berlusconi. The Wal-Mart corporation is also a candidate (in my view a very good one), because it wants to radio-tag its stock, thereby exposing humankind to the Mark of the Beast. By clicking on www.raptureready.com, you can discover how close you might be to flying out of your pyjamas. The infidels among us should take note that the Rapture Index currently stands at 144, just one point below the critical threshold, beyond which the sky will be filled with floating nudists. Beast Government, Wild Weather and Israel are all trading at the maximum five points (the EU is debat ing its constitution, there was a freak hurricane in the south Atlantic, Hamas has sworn to avenge the killing of its leaders), but the second coming is currently being delayed by an unfortunate decline in drug abuse among teenagers and a weak showing by the antichrist (both of which score only two). We can laugh at these people, but we should not dismiss them. That their beliefs are bonkers does not mean they are marginal. American pollsters believe that 15-18% of US voters belong to churches or movements which subscribe to these teachings. A survey in 1999 suggested that this figure included 33%
ugnet_: A black man's unpaved road to S.Africa's middle class
A black man's unpaved road to S. Africa's middle class By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0421/p01s04-woaf.htm JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Back in the old South Africa, during the dark days of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment, a gregarious black man named William Khazamula Ngobeni was in his own kind of prison. After working for 17 years as a bank messenger, he earned just $55 a month. One day in 1989, his white boss exploded in rage. "You think because you've worked here for so long you amount to something," he yelled. "Well, you don't, and you never will." With that, he kicked his employee. Mr. Ngobeni decided not to go back the next day. There was no severance, no pension, no recourse. But this is the new South Africa. Mr. Mandela's African National Congress won nearly 70 percent of the vote in elections last week. And Ngobeni - "Willy" to his friends - now owns a growing business that shuttles tourists around the country. He marvels at the new opportunities. "We grew up knowing we could only work for a white man," he says. "Owning a business was not for a black man." Until now. As the nation celebrates its first decade of democracy next week, his rise from expend- dable messenger boy to budding entrepreneur is emblematic of the millions of blacks who've scrambled into the middle class. But 22 million of the country's 44 million citizens still live below the official poverty line, highlighting how South Africa's struggle is now an economic one - against the oppression of poverty. "We've come this far," Ngobeni says, spreading his thumb and forefinger an inch apart. "We have this far to go," he says, raising his arm above his head. He - and many others - have made big steps toward economic freedom. This is a man who began life in a grass-roofed hut with his parents and six siblings in rural South Africa. Every night, as the sun went down, they didn't know whether they'd eat dinner. These days, Ngobeni sports a faux Rolex and an ever-ringing cellphone. Striped polo shirts cover his prosperous belly. On a tour of his suburban house, he shows off the addition to the kitchen and living room he's been building. And he has a favorite keepsake: a tattered plane ticket to London, which made him the first in his family to travel abroad. No deed, no minivan Many blacks have seen similar success. Between 1990 and 2000, per capita income among blacks rose 28 percent, according to Carel van Aardt, a researcher at the University of South Africa. For whites, it rose just 2 percent. Between 1996 and 2001, the number of black technicians and junior professionals jumped 180 percent, according to census data. The ranks of black legislators, senior officials, and managers swelled 44 percent. Even for those who've made it, it hasn't been easy. In 1996, Ngobeni was just a Johannesburg taxi driver with a dream. His family was living in a two-bedroom apartment on the edge of the city's worst neighborhood. Razor wire encircled their building's entrance. He scratched to make the $150 monthly rent. He soon decided there was money to be made from the legions of tourists arriving in Johannesburg. After taking a tour-guide course, he went to a bank for a loan to buy a minivan. The cool response: Show us the deed to your house, and we'll give you a loan. Since blacks had only recently been allowed to own property, he figures the white bankers knew he wouldn't have a deed. He was reduced to carting tourists in his ancient blue Opel sedan. On slow days he would even round up his family and take them on tours. "He loves showing people around," says Johanna, Willy's wife. Soon he saved up enough money to buy a rattletrap minivan. "I missed so many jobs because it broke down on my way there," he remembers, laughing. Busted fan belts. Overheated engine. So many problems. He did finally buy a small house - and marched triumphantly to the bank, deed in hand. But they would only give him a loan for 50 percent of the price of a new van - at a 25-percent interest rate. After badgering them every day for two weeks, they finally relented, giving him a loan for 75 percent of the price. Even still, he moans, by the time the loan is retired, "I'll pay for the car three times." But now his company - Willy's Tours and Safaris - is growing. He's got three Volkswagen vans and is saving up for a 20-seater bus. Good ideas but no funding Others have risen up in different ways. The government's Black Economic Empowerment program is a voluntary affirmative-action plan for corporations. It has transferred much wealth to the top 12 million blacks, says Sampie Terreblanche, emeritus economics professor at the University of Stellenbosch. But corporations have "no responsibility to the unemployed," so the 22 million living in poverty haven't been helped much. Neither has the ANC helped, he says, because it's become "a middle-class party." He expects class-based unrest to grow
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: How to Eat Sushi
/- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ How to Eat Sushi April 21, 2004 By JULIA MOSKIN THE responsibility for great sushi extends to the customer. The sushi bar diner is expected to order from the chef (but drinks and other food from the waiters), to pick up each piece with fingers or chopsticks (both are correct) and to eat it in one or two bites without putting it back on the plate. Another sushi commandment, often flouted in American sushi bars, forbids dropping a piece of sushi into soy sauce and leaving it to soak. All the careful hospitality of the Japanese tradition could not conceal the shudder that ran through every sushi chef when asked about this practice. "It is very painful for us," Gen Mizoguchi of Megu said. For the record, you should turn the piece upside down and swipe the fish lightly through the dish of soy sauce. A small amount of wasabi can be added to the dish, but too much is disrespectful to the chef and the fish, as it drowns other flavors. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/dining/21SBOX.html?ex=1083674111ei=1en=12f0f5525965f31b - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1ExternalMediaCode=W24AF HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company From must-see cities to the best beaches, plan a getaway with the Spring Travel Guide! This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Where the NRA (LRA?)leart its Art of cutting off lips!
Kerry's 1971 testimony on Vietnam reverberates Vivid words alleged atrocities by soldiers Friday, April 23, 2004 Posted: 1:26 PM EDT (1726 GMT) John Kerry, in the tan uniform, is seen in this 1969 photo with members of his crew during the war in Vietnam. ON CNN TV A look at the issue of abortion rights and the upcoming March for Women's Lives in Washington includes more of Candy Crowley's interview with John Kerry, on "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics" at 3:30 p.m. ET Friday. Also on the show: Sen. Richard Lugar on transition of power in Iraq, and Bill Schneider's Political Play of the Week. THE MORNING GRIND Abortion politics Center stage this weekend VIDEO CNN's Kelly Wallace on Kerry's release of lobbyist records. PLAY VIDEO CNN's Bill Schneider on the impact of religion on Bush policy. PLAY VIDEO RELATED Bush, Kerry vie for environmental spotlight Vatican backs denying communion to abortion-rights politicians Politicians eye U.S. youth vote Carlos Watson: Kerry's recordss records online SPECIAL REPORT (CNN) -- The strong, vivid words John Kerry uttered 33 years ago continue to ring through time. Back in 1971, the square-jawed, clean-cut decorated combat veteran, with a generous mop of dark hair, told a rapt audience of senators of atrocities he said had been reported to him by his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. Rapes. Razed villages. Ears and heads cut off. Random shootings of civilians. Bodies blown up. Wires from portable telephones taped to genitals, with the power then turned on. Food stocks poisoned. Dogs and cats shot for the fun of it. "We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service as easily as this administration has wiped their memories," Kerry told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in testimony that made him a national figure at 27. To those who were against the war, he was a courageous hero standing up for the truth; to those who supported it, he was a treasonous pariah aiding the enemy. But no matter how his words were viewed, their power was beyond question. Even President Nixon groused about him in the Oval Office. "John was able to speak to people, whether they were conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican, and people listened," said Lenny Rotman, who worked with Kerry back then in the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Today, more than three decades after making those charges, Kerry is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, fighting a close campaign during a time of war, putting his resume as a Vietnam hero front and center. At 60, the hair is graying, though the jaw is still square. And he is still explaining and defending those strong, vivid words, which continue to divide. "I think the way I characterized it at that time was mostly the voice of a young, angry person who wanted to end the war," Kerry told CNN's Candy Crowley in an interview broadcast on Thursday's anniversary of his Senate testimony. "I regret any feeling that anybody had that I somehow didn't embrace the quality of the service. But I have always said how nobly I think every veteran served." The senator concedes he wouldn't say the same things in the same way today, that talk of "atrocities" back then was over the top. Yet, he insists he's still proud he stood up against the war. While he has regret for the words he chose, he defends the legitimacy of the sentiment he so starkly articulated. "They were honest expressions of the passion that we brought to the cause," said Kerry. "I'm older, I'm wiser. I'm farther from it. But they were the words that came out of my gut at that time, based on the anger and frustration that I felt back when it was happening." He also told Crowley, "I'm not going to back down one inch on what I've fought for and what I've stood for all of these years." Such qualified regret doesn't go far enough for some Vietnam veterans, who can't forgive the stigma they still see attached to those long-ago words. "He was the father of the lie that the Vietnam veteran was a rapist, a baby killer, a drug addict and the like," said John O'Neill, who served in the same Navy patrol unit where Kerry served and who sparred with him on national TV during the tumult of 1971. "I don't think there's anybody that did that, or created that, more than Kerry." (Fellow vet blasts Kerry's antiwar comments) Kerry bristled at the suggestion that he ever said Vietnam soldiers were baby killers. "I never said baby killing," he told Crowley. "I fought that image everywhere I went. I described accurately what was happening, and what wasn't." The senator also said the negative image of the Vietnam veteran didn't start with him -- and that his anger was directed not at the soldiers who served but at the people who sent them "to die for the biggest nothing in history," as he put it in 1971. "I came back to find Americans who were
Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza
Kipenji, a few comments: 1 - what is disposal income? Did you incidentally mean to say disposable? 2 - You refer to administrative structures in Buganda - What did we in the North have. What Buganda had is the best that mankind has come up with and the racist colonialists were stunned by the development of administrative structures Buganda had, which were a carbon copy of their own system, despite the fact that there had been no previous interaction. I'm however not that surprised that this universally acknoledged fact about Buganda has escaped your little brain. 3 - Before you ask about the infant mortality rate and sundry in Buganda, it would only be fair for you state that statistic in our area in the North - thereafter there wont be much mileage in your pursuing this particular point, if you know what I mean. 4 - About Buganda's consumption of Muwogo, again it would be prudent first to state the dietary habits in our area, including the hunting activity and what we hunt, including the little birds and other creatures 5 - About Baganda girls and women selling their merchandise in Europe and wherever, I challenge you to inform the netters where you can sell merchandise on the market if it is not saleable - in the same token I challenge to let us know if we northerners have a chance to compete in that market, which is by the way extremely competitive and only for those that can really compete in that market, since the customers are wealthy and chosy. You know as I do that the Baganda and their sophistication are a hard act to follow, as many of our girls would happily enter the market, instead of being raped by Kony and his commanders, if it weren't for the high qualities demanded of the trade. 6 - It is now evident to every right thinking netter that you in the habit of peddling unsubstantiated rumours, having failed to answer to extremely straight-forward questions from Mr Ssemakula about the source of your info. That's why it would have been extremely difficult for you to get a decent mark in any institution of higher learning and thus your complex of passing off as a knowledgeable person by reading dictionaries, including in languages you know absolutely nothing about. 7- You have displayed the highest degree of idiocy and uncovered your ignorance to the extent that there will be few doubters about that fact. Adam From: Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:09:12 +0100 (BST) It is amazing that so called developed and therefore sophisticated people,the like of you and your purpoted cohorts still expect to be spoon fed with knowledge. Are you not by inference just proving that you and your ilk are not only mundane but also anachronistic? Development can not be defined by parameters that are not robust and that cannot be verifiable in other settings. What Buganda had was only administrative structures that showed the strata into which the rulers could relate with the ordinary folks in their areas. This same arrangement existed in areas other than Buganda but had a different nomenclature which unfortunately for you with your Ntu syntax innebriation believes since you do not understand it then it could as well not exist. If you look at the parameters that are internationally used as a gauge of development,can you tell me what the Infant Mortality rate in Buganda is?,the Maternal mortality rate?,the life expectancy in Buganda ,the amount of disposal income available to these so called developed people and area you keep jabbering about just as a few examples?. If you realise that today unlike in the 1950s and 1960s Baganda are the highest consumers of Mwogo and all that they used to refer to as not food,do you still not feel ashamed to utter these nonsenses about being developed and sophisticated?. If you also recall that the establishment at the center of your purported development went on to urge their young girls and women to go sell their hardware in Europe and wherever inorder to bring income to them,does that pass for being developed and sophisticated? Any society that has no respect for women in their midst and uses them as entertainers aka Ebimansulo,needs to rethink definitions of what it calls development and sophistication. Have you ever heard of these litany of societal miscues anywhere from those areas you believe in your mind are not developed?. You are putting yourselves in coccoons of a past that has become a mirage and thus accepting to be used as political condoms and that is why today Mu7 is re-sterilizing you for further use in his quest for more time in Office since he knows very well how gullible you people can be when it comes to thinking you can re-invent a wheel.To live is to Change. From my opening statement,I am not going to spoon feed you on where Mutebbi said what I quoted because as developed and
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: The Body Politic
/- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ The Body Politic April 22, 2004 By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON Not since Jane Goodall lived with chimps in Tanzania has there been such a vivid study of the nonverbal patterns of primates engaged in a dominance display. Bob Woodward's new book, "Plan of Attack," reveals that President Bush decided to go to war based mostly, believe it or not, on body language. Like his father, Mr. Bush prefers more elemental means of self-_expression_ than the verbal. (Not long before the first gulf war, Bush senior's masseuse told a client that the president's neck was so tight, she assumed we were going to war.) The younger Bush, suspicious of Clintonesque dialectical fevers and interminable analyses, did not bother to ask most of his top advisers what they thought. The less Dick Cheney talked, the more power Mr. Bush entrusted in him. Like the silent, cool-hand cowboy he aspires to be, who would shoot a man just because he didn't like the way the varmint was looking at him, the president preferred doing gut checks, visually sizing up advisers and Saddam, rather than dwelling on pesky facts. He did not probe deeply to reconcile advisers' assessments. He cared only about their spine, figuratively and literally. There was no skeptical debate in the Oval Office like the one before the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The president explained to Mr. Woodward that he had wanted to talk to Tommy Franks in person about the Iraq war plan. " `I'm watching his body language very carefully,' Mr. Bush recalled. He emphasized the body language, the eyes, the demeanor. It was more important than some of the substance. . . . `Is this good enough to win?' he recalled asking Franks, leaning forward in his chair and throwing his hand forward in a slicing motion at my face to illustrate the scene." As the president studied the physio-semiotics of those around him, they studied his. " `I knew my relationship with the president and the access and his interest and how he feels and his body language on things,' " a typically cocky Donald Rumsfeld said. The author writes of the Cheney aide and Iraq hawk Scooter Libby: "He was watching the president carefully, noting the body language and the verbal language ordering war planning for Iraq, the questions, attitudes and tone." When the C.I.A. briefers told Mr. Bush that to recruit sources inside Iraq, they would have to say the U.S. was coming with its military - putting him in the awkward position of simultaneously pursuing diplomatic and military solutions - Condoleezza Rice watched the president. "The president's body language suggested he had received the message, but he didn't make any promises." Nick Calio, the White House legislative affairs director, realized the endgame by September 2002: "Judging from Bush's side comments and body language, Calio assumed that the question on Iraq was not if but when there would be a war." When George Tenet was telling a dubious president that the W.M.D. "evidence" would be there when he needed it, he knew how to physically underscore his point. "Tenet, a basketball fan who attended as many home games of his alma mater Georgetown as possible, leaned forward and threw his arms up again. `Don't worry, it's a slam-dunk!' " When the president at long last informed his top diplomat that he was going to war, Colin Powell could tell from the president's body language that there was no point in arguing: "It was the assured Bush. His tight, forward-leaning, muscular body language verified his words." After a while, the usually literal Mr. Woodward also began dipping into the science of kinesics. When he greeted Mr. Bush at a White House Christmas party in 2002, he interpreted the president's body language as blessing the prospect of a sequel to his last book, "Bush at War." The end of "Plan of Attack" says that when Mr. Woodward asked the president how history would judge his Iraq war, Mr. Bush smiled. " `History,' he said, shrugging, taking his hands out of his pockets, extending his arms out and suggesting with his body language that it was so far off. `We won't know. We'll all be dead.' " Soon, these people had the
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Losing Our Edge?
/- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ Losing Our Edge? April 22, 2004 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I was just out in Silicon Valley, checking in with high-tech entrepreneurs about the state of their business. I wouldn't say they were universally gloomy, but I did detect something I hadn't detected before: a real undertow of concern that America is losing its competitive edge vis-à-vis China, India, Japan and other Asian tigers, and that the Bush team is deaf, dumb and blind to this situation. Several executives explained to me that they were opening new plants in Asia - not because of cheaper labor. Labor is a small component now in an automated high-tech manufacturing plant. It is because governments in these countries are so eager for employment and the transfer of technology to their young populations that they are offering huge tax holidays for U.S. manufacturers who will set up shop. Because most of these countries also offer some form of national health insurance, U.S. companies shed that huge open liability as well. Other executives complained bitterly that the Department of Homeland Security is making it so hard for legitimate foreigners to get visas to study or work in America that many have given up the age-old dream of coming here. Instead, they are studying in England and other Western European nations, and even China. This is leading to a twofold disaster. First, one of America's greatest assets - its ability to skim the cream off the first-round intellectual draft choices from around the world and bring them to our shores to innovate - will be diminished, and that in turn will shrink our talent pool. And second, we could lose a whole generation of foreigners who would normally come here to study, and then would take American ideas and American relationships back home. In a decade we will feel that loss in America's standing around the world. Still others pointed out that the percentage of Americans graduating with bachelor's degrees in science and engineering is less than half of the comparable percentage in China and Japan, and that U.S. government investments are flagging in basic research in physics, chemistry and engineering. Anyone who thinks that all the Indian and Chinese techies are doing is answering call-center phones or solving tech problems for Dell customers is sadly mistaken. U.S. firms are moving serious research and development to India and China. The bottom line: we are actually in the middle of two struggles right now. One is against the Islamist terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere, and the other is a competitiveness-and-innovation struggle against India, China, Japan and their neighbors. And while we are all fixated on the former (I've been no exception), we are completely ignoring the latter. We have got to get our focus back in balance, not to mention our budget. We can't wage war on income taxes and terrorism and a war for innovation at the same time. Craig Barrett, the C.E.O. of Intel, noted that Intel sponsors an international science competition every year. This year it attracted some 50,000 American high school kids. "I was in China 10 days ago," Mr. Barrett said, "and I asked them how many kids in China participated in the local science fairs that feed into the national fair [and ultimately the Intel finals]. They told me six million kids." For now, the U.S. still excels at teaching science and engineering at the graduate level, and also in university research. But as the Chinese get more feeder stock coming up through their high schools and colleges, "they will get to the same level as us after a decade," Mr. Barrett said. "We are not graduating the volume, we do not have a lock on the infrastructure, we do not have a lock on the new ideas, and we are either flat-lining, or in real dollars cutting back, our investments in physical science." And what is the Bush strategy? Let's go to Mars. Hello? Right now we should have a Manhattan Project to develop a hydrogen-based energy economy - it's within reach and would serve our economy, our environment and our foreign policy by diminishing our dependence on foreign oil. Instead, the Bush team says let's go to Mars. Where is
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Only the Gorgeous and Smart Need Apply
/- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ Only the Gorgeous and Smart Need Apply April 21, 2004 By SHERRI DAY Thomas Lopez-Pierre was looking for just the right men for the Harlem Club, a private social club for African-Americans and Latinos that he was forming in Manhattan. For $5,000, mid-career professional men could become charter members; $2,500 would make them general members. But this club did not want just any moneyed men. Rap stars, Hollywood glitterati and professional athletes - what Mr. Lopez-Pierre labels the "ghetto-fabulous crowd" - would not be welcome. Women could join the Harlem Club, too. But only as associate members. And they had to be 35 or younger, unmarried, childless, college educated and willing to submit a head-to-toe photograph, to prevent unattractive women from making the cut. And to ensure that there would be a steady stream of fresh pretties at the club, Mr. Lopez-Pierre planned to rotate 20 percent of the associate members, who pay no dues, every three months. The goal, he said, was to present members with undeniable marriage material. "When people think of the Harlem Club, I want them to think beautiful, intelligent, highly successful women of color," said Mr. Lopez-Pierre, the public face for the club's 15 charter members, men who do not want their identities known for fear of public backlash. The club has not held a single event yet. And while Mr. Lopez-Pierre - who is 35, married and the publisher of Regine, a small magazine for black and Latino professionals - has helped run an online dating service, he has never tackled anything like this before. But since the beginning of the year, when Mr. Lopez-Pierre began an e-mail campaign directed toward members of the black bourgeois, the Harlem Club has been at the center of a controversy. Some critics have called it elitist. Others say it is little more than a brothel for the business class. On a recent afternoon, Mr. Lopez-Pierre was reviewing applications for all potential members. A photograph of a woman wearing a coquettish grin and a cropped shirt received a positive assessment. "She's got a great stomach," he said. His praise was more effusive for a bikini-clad woman: "She's our No. 1 associate member." Reaction to the club has been particularly visceral, critics said, because its membership requirements highlight a controversy in the black community, the swelling number of single black women. According to federal Census data, only 29.2 percent of black women are married and living with spouses, compared with 54.3 percent of white women. Jeffrey R. Gardere, a psychologist who is the host of a radio talk show about black relationships in the New York metropolitan area, said the Harlem Club could help college-educated black women meet men with compatible backgrounds. But he questions the likelihood of serious love connections. "It almost sets up a meat-market situation for these men who are allegedly powerful and allegedly have all these degrees to come in and look at these women as potential sex partners and potential mates," said Dr. Gardere, author of "Love Prescription: Ending the War Between Black Men and Women." "I also think that the club may be snubbing a whole lot of people who may not have college degrees who may be brilliant." So far 200 young women, among them doctors, lawyers, accountants, investment bankers and models, have applied for associate membership, Mr. Lopez-Pierre said. He has deleted the e-mail applications of overweight women. Tiffani Webb, 28, a licensed psychologist who lives in Brooklyn Heights, said she joined the club because she was tired of spending her evenings with other single black professional women who, like her, have not found Mr. Right. She points to a study by the Community Service Society that found that nearly half of working-age black men in New York City are jobless. "What are your chances of going to a normal, regular environment and meeting someone who could be compatible with you professionally?" she said. "It's hard if you want an African-American man." It is women like Dr. Webb, Mr. Lopez-Pierre said, that the Harlem Club was formed to rescue. A group of Mr.
Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza
Musaazi,if I enter into any serious discourse with you,the difference will not be noticed. You can continue to delude yourself in your coccoon of self importance etc etc,but given what the world is today,we need to use internationally acceptable definitions to give credence to our claims. You take it or leave it and continue with your jabberings. God save you from the ignorance that has engulfed you. Thank you. Kipenji. ___emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..Kipenji, i have just about had enough of your stupidity and ethonophobic outbursts...your prejudice and hatred of Baganda is of genocidal proportions...i would go as far as warn Baganda to keep away from this man (Kipenji)...these are poeple who, if they had the means and wherewithal, would eradicate Baganda from the face of this earth Rwanda style, and we sit and wonder how genocide occured in Rwanda. I wonder where Mr. Oracha is when Kipenji is unleashing his ethnic venom against Baganda...well they say silence is a sign of consent..Kipenji, what exactly is your quarrell with Baganda...why this hatred of Bugunda and Baganda...have Baganda ever invaded your tribal area and killed your kingsmen as you northerners have done to us on several occasions..most of you have property and family in Buganda, have they ever been attacked and\or mistreated on account of being northerners. Even now that you guys are out of power and given the attrocities commited by your tribesmen against Baganda during OboteII, one would have expected retribution on a large scale from Baganda (as your Kingsmen did to Idi Amin's kingsmen and Baganda, during OboteII), but no, Baganda have not descended to such babaric levels. Anytime your kingsmen get into power, they immediately descend on Baganda and other southerners, killing our people, raping our women and destroying our property. To me that is the highest display of inferiority complex, even obote had to marry a Muganda in order to feel like a human being. This love/hate relationship is bourne out of the fact that you northerners hate and envy us but realize (unfortunately) that you can't do without us...and unfortunately that is a situation you guys have put yourselves into...it doesn't have to be that way, as Mr. Dada has been trying to drum into your thick skull. The more you write the more you expose the jealousy you have for Baganda (and southerners in general) eating deep into your soul...i'm sorry for you.If you think Baganda are "inferior" and not as sophisticated as we make out, the i suggest you join and support the federalists, that we you and your "more developed" tribesmen can live Buganda, and go to your area and be spared the "inferior" culture and habbits of Baganda. Your inferiority complex, and other petty grudges you have against Buganda will be better soothed if you had less contact with Baganda...don't you agree Mr. Kipenji and it is only federalism that can enable that.What amaizes me about these fellows is that in their hate mongering against Baganda, they forget (albeit conveniently) that it was because of Kabaka Mutebi's (and Buganda) support of Obote and his UPC, that Obote won Uganda's maiden elections and became Prime minister, Obote has never (and will never) won an election since, because he betrayed the trust of Buganda. Obote was the first to play the ethnic card in Ugandan politics and it has been down hill for UPC ever since...and listening to the likes of Kipeji and "Mulindwa" one clearly sees, that UPC has never learnt it's lesson and is therefore perpetually doomed to failure.Finally, to all you Baganda and southerners who think that Museveni is bad for Uganda, wait 'till the likes of Kipenji ever get into power in Uganda then you will know what bad really is...if you pay kin attention to their postings you get a sneak preview of what to expect if they ever got power in Uganda, that will be the day you will all pray for Museveni to come back. UPC has NOTHING to offer Uganda and Ugandans except pain, poverty and disunity, that has been their record and that will always be their record.From: Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\MukoozaDate: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:09:12 +0100 (BST)It is amazing that so called developed and therefore sophisticatedpeople,the like of you and your purpoted cohorts still expect to bespoon fed with knowledge.Are you not by inference just proving that you and your ilk are not only mundane but also anachronistic?Development can not be defined by parameters that are not robust andthat cannot be verifiable in other settings.What Buganda had was only administrative structures that showed the strata into which the rulers could relate with the ordinary folks in their areas.This same arrangement existed in areas other than Buganda but had a different nomenclature which unfortunately for you with your
ugnet_: Rukutana clarifies on Bidco deal
Rukutana clarifies on Bidco deal By Mary Karugaba THE state minister for finance, Mwesigwa Rukutana, has clarified that the Government was not forced to sign the Bidco palm oil project by the International Fund for Agriculture Development(IFAD). The Government was never forced to sign the Bidco deal. IFAD was in fact patient with us Mwesigwa said. Speaking in his office yesterday, he added, IFAD did not push us around. As government we realised we would miss the loan if we did not act fast, since it had been renewed twice. The media quoted Rukutana as telling Parliament that the Government was forced to sign the agreement in order to get the $20m IFAD loan for vegetable oil development. Published on: Friday, 23rd April, 2004 Who owns BIDCO? FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Vatican says lay people must not give sermons
Vatican says lay people must not give sermons in crackdown on liturgical abusesat 16:37 on April 23, 2004, EST. VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican insisted Friday that lay people must not deliver sermons or preach the Gospel during mass, issuing a new directive to crack down on practices that are becoming increasingly frequent in the United States and Europe. The document, commissioned by Pope John Paul, softened a draft that had discouraged the use of altar girls and denounced such practices as applauding and dancing during mass. But it was still likely to raise concern among Roman Catholics and - if followed - will likely change the way liturgies are celebrated worldwide. Francis Cardinal Arinze, whose Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued the document, said the majority of priests celebrate mass correctly and stressed the directive was not intended to be "repressive" but merely to remind Catholics of church teaching. However, the document said some practices were "not infrequently" plaguing masses, and that in some places "the perpetration of liturgical abuses has become almost habitual, a fact which obviously cannot be allowed and must cease." The directive restated church teaching on all aspects of the liturgy, from the type of vestments a priest should wear, to the timing of his prayers and the types of bread and wine used at communion. It paid particular attention to the role of lay people in the mass - an issue of particular concern in places where priests are increasingly in short supply. In the United States, for example, where more than 3,000 of the 19,000 parishes did not have a resident priest last year, lay people have taken on a greater role, sometimes leading worship services and delivering homilies. But the document said only priests and deacons may read the Gospel and priests "should ordinarily" deliver the homily, in which biblical readings are often interpreted for worshippers. The priest may occasionally delegate the homily to a deacon "but never to a lay person." If there is no priest to celebrate mass, a bishop may name a lay person as an "extraordinary minister of holy communion" - but that should only be when necessity dictates it and for a specific time, the document said. It said anyone conscious of being in grave sin shouldn't receive communion without going to confession - a regulation that prompted questions about whether priests should deny Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry communion because of his support for abortion rights. Arinze told a news conference that U.S. bishops should decide about Kerry. When pressed about the church's general position about Catholic politicians who are "unambiguously pro-abortion," Arinze said they should be denied communion because they are "not fit" to receive it. The document also touched on other aspects of the mass which are likely to resonate in the United States, Canada and elsewhere: - The gesture of exchanging the peace greeting should only be done "to those who are nearest and in a sober manner." In many U.S. parishes, the exchange can go on for some time, with the priest greeting many worshippers. - The introduction of rites taken from other religions into mass is forbidden, and priests may not celebrate mass in a temple or sacred place of any non-Christian religion. - Priests should be careful not to allow non-Catholics and non-Christians to take communion. - It is "altogether laudable" to use altar boys at mass; girls and women may also be used. John Paul commissioned the document last year after issuing an encyclical - his most authoritative type of teaching - on abuses concerning communion, the sacrament in which Roman Catholics believe they receive the blood and body of Christ. The Vatican issued a new directive Friday to crack down on what it called abuses in celebrating mass. Here are some highlights from the document: - Only priests and deacons may read the Gospel, and a priest "should ordinarily" deliver the homily. He may occasionally delegate it to a deacon "but never to a lay person." - If there is no priest to celebrate mass or necessity otherwise requires it, a bishop may delegate a lay person as an "extraordinary minister of holy communion" for a specific time. - Anyone conscious of being in grave sin shouldn't celebrate or accept communion without going to confession first. - Priests may not deny sacraments to Roman Catholics who are seeking them "in a reasonable manner, are rightly disposed and are not prohibited by law from receiving them. Hence, any baptized Catholic who is not prevented by law must be admitted to Holy Communion." - It is "laudable" to use altar boys at mass; girls or women may also be used. - "The reprobated practice by which priests, deacons or the faithful here and there vary at will the texts of the sacred liturgy that they are charged to pronounce must cease It is illicit to omit or substitute the prescribed
RE: ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala!
As we tip-toe into a democratic society and we still mistrust each other, The United Nations conducting the elections is the only near rig proof option at the moment. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FN Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala! May be the results are already out! As a candidate what do you suggest? Touch screen? I also think that one ballot paper is enough for all issues. But you are bound to argue that it is much easier to cheat if it is only one page! FNL Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is also easier to switch a single ballot box with another one already stuffed! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FN Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala, sibusatu in order to minimize pre-election ballot boxstuffing, etc. Dealing with one ballot box at each polling stationis more liley to deterarmed stuffers-- and it is much easier to verify theemptiness of oneballot box. ;; God bless Uganda! FNL --- 3rd term, parties vote on same day SAME RESOURCES: Buturo (left) and Ngoma Ngime By Hamis Kaheru CABINET has decided that the proposed referenda on the political system and presidential term limit be held on the same day, information minister Dr. Nsaba Buturo said yesterday. The two referenda will be held on the same day but there are two questions which will be put to the public, Buturo told the weekly government press briefing at his offices in Nakasero, Kampala. In one question, voters will be asked whether they want the country to continue being governed under the Movement system or to return to multi-party politics. The second question will be on whether Article 105(2) of the Constitution should be repealed to remove the two-term limit for the presidency and allow continuous eligibility, popularly known as the third-term. Buturos remarks mean that Cabinet accepted justice and constitutional affairs mi nister Janat Mukwayas recommendation on the referenda. Mukwaya said on March 8 that she ha d recommended to the Government that the two referenda be held on the same day. The sh29b (cost of referendum) people are talking about is not for every issue that is to be decided through a referendum. It is possible to have a multiplicity of elections on the same day using the same resources and the same personnel, Mukwaya said on phone. She said under a joint referendum, voters would be required to tick different ballot papers and cast them in separate boxes. It is a matter of having one box for the referendum under Article 74 (change of political systems), another box for Article 105 (third-term) and another box for any other issue, she said. If a group of people can handle a referendum on one issue the same people can be used to manage another issue. We can have three or four elections on the same day and use the same reso urces, she said. Buturo said the question of funding the referenda was settled and tha t the exercise would take place by February next year. The funds will be there. We have found them, he said. When asked about the source of the funds the minister said, from your taxes. Finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana last week said his ministry had allocated sh30b in the 2004/05 budget for the proposed referendum. Article 74 of the Constitution says the political system can be changed either through a referendum or through a resolution of Parliament upon a petition of district councils. Cabinet proposed to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) headed by Prof. Frederick Ssempebwa, that a multi-party political system be adopted through a referendum under Article 74(1). However, CRC rejected the proposal and recommended that the change to multipartyism be effected through a resolution of Parliament under Article 74(2). The CR C argued that the referendum was an unnecessary costly exercise because the leadership, which would have been on the forefront of championing the Movement System, had already opted for a change to multipartyism. This means the outcome of the referendum on political systems is obvious since nobody would campaign against the proposed change to multiparty politics. Since there might not exist any effective groups to canvass the question, the costly exercise of a referendum should be avoided, the CRC report says. Article 74(3) of the Constitution says the referendum on political systems shall be held in the fourth
ugnet_: Freed From Captivity in Iraq, Japanese Return to More Pain
Freed From Captivity in Iraq, Japanese Return to More Pain By NORIMITSU ONISHI (NY Times) TOKYO, April 22 The young Japanese civilians taken hostage in Iraq returned home this week, not to the warmth of a yellow-ribbon embrace but to a disapproving nation's cold stare. Three of them, including a woman who helped street children on the streets of Baghdad, appeared on television two weeks ago as their knife-brandishing kidnappers threatened to slit their throats. A few days after their release, they landed here on Sunday, in the eye of a peculiarly Japanese storm. "You got what you deserve!" read one hand-written sign at the airport where they landed. "You are Japan's shame," another wrote on the Web site of one of the former hostages. They had "caused trouble" for everybody. The government, not to be outdone, announced it would bill the former hostages $6,000 for air fare. Beneath the surface of Japan's ultra-sophisticated cities lie the hierarchical ties that have governed this island nation for centuries and that, at moments of crises, invariably reassert themselves. The former hostages' transgression was to ignore a government advisory against traveling to Iraq. But their sin, in a vertical society that likes to think of itself as classless, was to defy what people call here "okami," or, literally, "what is higher." Treated like criminals, the three former hostages have gone into hiding, effectively becoming prisoners inside their own homes. The kidnapped woman, Nahoko Takato, was last seen arriving at her parents' house, looking defeated and dazed from tranquilizers, flanked by relatives who helped her walk and bow deeply before reporters, as a final apology to the nation. Dr. Satoru Saito, a psychiatrist who examined the three former hostages twice since their return, said the stress they were enduring now was "much heavier" than what they experienced during their captivity in Iraq. Asked to name their three most stressful moments, the former hostages told him, in ascending order: the moment when they were kidnapped on their way to Baghdad, the knife-wielding incident, and the moment they watched a television show the morning after their return here and realized Japan's anger with them. "Let's say the knife incident, which lasted about 10 minutes, ranks 10 on a stress level," Dr. Saito said in an interview at his clinic on Thursday. "After they came back to Japan and saw the morning news show, their stress level ranked 12." To the angry Japanese, the first three hostages Nahoko Takato, 34, who started a nonprofit organization to help Iraqi street children; Soichiro Koriyama, 32, a freelance photographer; and Noriaki Imai, 18, a freelance writer interested in the issue of depleted uranium munitions had acted selfishly. Two others kidnapped and released in a separate incident Junpei Yasuda, 30, a freelance journalist, and Nobutaka Watanabe, 36, a member of an anti-war group were equally guilty. Pursuing individual goals by defying the government and causing trouble for Japan was simply unforgivable. But the freed hostages did get official praise from one government: the United States. "Well, everybody should understand the risk they are taking by going into dangerous areas," said Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. "But if nobody was willing to take a risk, then we would never move forward. We would never move our world forward. "And so I'm pleased that these Japanese citizens were willing to put themselves at risk for a greater good, for a better purpose. And the Japanese people should be very proud that they have citizens like this willing to do that." In contrast, Yasuo Fukuda, the Japanese government's spokesman offered this about the captives' ordeal: "They may have gone on their own but they must consider how many people they caused trouble to because of their action." The criticism began almost immediately after the first three civilians were kidnapped two weeks ago. The environment minister, Yuriko Koike, blamed them for being "reckless." After the hostages' families asked that the government yield to the kidnappers' demand and withdraw its 550 troops from southern Iraq, they began receiving hate mail and harassing faxes and e-mail messages. The Japanese, like the villagers in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," had to throw stones. Even as the kidnappers were still threatening to burn alive the three hostages, Yukio Takeuchi, an official in the Foreign Ministry, said of the three, "When it comes to a matter of safety and life, I would like them to be aware of the basic principle of personal responsibility." The Foreign Ministry, held both in awe and resentment by many Japanese, was the okami defied in this case. While Foreign Ministry officials are Japan's super elite, the average Japanese tends to regard them as arrogant and unhelpful, recalling how they failed to deliver in time the declaration of war against the United States in 1941 so that Japan became forever known as a
ugnet_: Nowhere at all did Wapakhabulo oppose third term!-WBK
Nowhere at all did Wapakhabulo oppose third term! SIR It is a shame that the editors at the New Vision accepted to publish the nonsense by Prof Semakula Kiwanuka. His article is off topic. What is he disagreeing with the late James Wapakhabulo for, in the first place? Nowhere did Wapakhabulo write that the Constitution cannot be amended. So what is the history professors beef? The issue has been misunderstood by both critics of Wapakhabulo like Prof Semakula and some in the media who have rushed to claim that Wapakhabulo was opposed to term limits. Well, both have not read carefully. Or should we assume they are incompetent of a literal interpretation of the late minister's letter? Nowhere, I repeat nowhere, does Wapakhabulo oppose the third term. Let us get that clear. So where exactly does Prof Semakula get the impression that the late Wapakhabulo was not in favour of amending the Constitution? What Wapakhabulo put forward was a warning, if one can call it that, that the proper procedure should be followed, not whether the Constitution should be amended. It is therefore an issue of process or means and not ends. If I read the late Wapakhabulos letter clearly, he was advising the President to follow the proper procedure, that is, to take his views to Parliament because under the current Constitution, it is the only body with the power, and not the peasants, to amend the Constitution, to grant his burning ambition to eliminate the two-term limit or not. Semakula wants readers to believe that the 1995 Constitution provided for a referendum on this and other issues. Where does it say so other than quoting the preamble that power belongs to the people? Semakula should pinpoint the exact section of the Constitution that entrusts the task at hand to the general voting public, the peasants. The truth is that under the current Constitution, the power to amend Article 105 (2) does not lie with the peasants or the general voting public, but rather with their elected representatives the MPs. I am not sure whether as an ex-officio, Prof Kiwanuka can vote on constitutional amendments or not. Therefore, instead of misleading the public, he should direct his efforts to convincing his fellow members of the House who have been entrusted with the onerous task of dealing with Article 105 (2). Simply said, Ugandans in their wisdom opted for a representative democracy and not direct democracy in the form of referenda. W. B. Kyijomanyi Kampala Published on: Saturday, 24th April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Salim Saleh Slates Luweero people On 130m Loan - Bukedde 23/4/2004
The people of Luweero whom he lent Ug. Shs 130 million have impeded his ambition to set up banks in villages,according to a claim byveteran soldier, Maj. Gen. Salim Saleh. Maj. Gen. Salim Saleh has blamed the people of Luweero for defrauding him of a sum of Ug Shs. 130 million that he lent them to salvage them from poverty. He said that they demoralised him from setting up banks at county levels. "The people whom I lent money are not paying, an examplebeing the people of Luweero whom I lent 130 million which they ate". That is how Saleh who was speaking in Luganda informed people on Tuesday who attended the official function marking the opening of a Developement Micro Finance Institution at Sonde in Goma county, Mukono. Salim Saleh went on to say that he had a vision of setting up Micro Financial Schemes at all county levels to assist people in poverty alleviation efforts but feared due people being unreliable. The Minister of State for Finance, Planning Economic Development, Mr. Isaac Musumba, disclosed that the government is to utilise Micro Finance Institutions in assisting people in self- development efforts especially in villages. -- Balyazamaanya Saleh (ku kkono) ngaggulawo banka ya Micro Finance e Sonde. --Abe Luweero Salim Saleh be yawola obukadde 130 bamulemesezza okutandikawo banka mu byalo Mukono Bya Steven Musoke MUNNAMAGYE Maj. Gen. Salim Saleh anenyezza abe Luweero okumulyazamaanya obukadde bwa ssente 130 ze yali abawoze okweggya mu bwavu nagamba nti kyamuterebudde okutandikawo banka ku magombolola. Abantu be mpoze ssente tebasasula, waliwo ekyokulabirako kyabantu be Luweero be nnawola obukadde 130 ne bazirya Saleh eyabadde ayogera mu luganda bwe yategeezezza abantu abeetabye ku mukolo gwokuggulawo banka ya Development Micro Finance e Sonde mu Ggombolola ye Goma mu Mukono ku Lwokubiri. Yagambye nti yalina ekirowoozo kyokutandikawo banka entonotono ku buli ggombolola okuyamba abantu beggye mu bwavu naye ntya olwabantu abatali besimbu. Minisita weggwanga owebyenfuna Isaac Musumba yategeezezza nti gavumenti egenda kukozesa banka entonotono okuyamba abantu okwekulaakulanya naddala mu byalo. Published on: Friday, 23rd April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Nowhere at all did Wapakhabulo Oppose Third Term - W.B. Kyijomanyi
Letter to the editor, New Vision, 23rd April 2004 Nowhere at all did Wapakhabulo oppose third term! SIR It is a shame that the editors at the New Vision accepted to publish the nonsense by Prof Semakula Kiwanuka. His article is off topic. What is he disagreeing with the late James Wapakhabulo for, in the first place? Nowhere did Wapakhabulo write that the Constitution cannot be amended. So what is the history professors beef? The issue has been misunderstood by both critics of Wapakhabulo like Prof Semakula and some in the media who have rushed to claim that Wapakhabulo was opposed to term limits. Well, both have not read carefully. Or should we assume they are incompetent of a literal interpretation of the late minister's letter? Nowhere, I repeat nowhere, does Wapakhabulo oppose the third term. Let us get that clear. So where exactly does Prof Semakula get the impression that the late Wapakhabulo was not in favour of amending the Constitution? What Wapakhabulo put forward was a warning, if one can call it that, that the proper procedure should be followed, not whether the Constitution should be amended. It is therefore an issue of process or means and not ends. If I read the late Wapakhabulos letter clearly, he was advising the President to follow the proper procedure, that is, to take his views to Parliament because under the current Constitution, it is the only body with the power, and not the peasants, to amend the Constitution, to grant his burning ambition to eliminate the two-term limit or not. Semakula wants readers to believe that the 1995 Constitution provided for a referendum on this and other issues. Where does it say so other than quoting the preamble that power belongs to the people? Semakula should pinpoint the exact section of the Constitution that entrusts the task at hand to the general voting public, the peasants. The truth is that under the current Constitution, the power to amend Article 105 (2) does not lie with the peasants or the general voting public, but rather with their elected representatives the MPs. I am not sure whether as an ex-officio, Prof Kiwanuka can vote on constitutional amendments or not. Therefore, instead of misleading the public, he should direct his efforts to convincing his fellow members of the House who have been entrusted with the onerous task of dealing with Article 105 (2). Simply said, Ugandans in their wisdom opted for a representative democracy and not direct democracy in the form of referenda. W. B. Kyijomanyi Kampala Published on: Saturday, 24th April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
Re: ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala!
And I say Let us go the cheapest way, let all candidates stand and all supporters stand behind them. If you support a candidate why do you want to make it secret? We will save million of dollars. Trust me. No ballot boxes no ballot boxes no returning officers nothing. My way is the only way. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Lugemwa FN To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:54 AM Subject: ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala! May be the results are already out! As a candidate what do you suggest? Touch screen? I also think that one ballot paper is enough for all issues. But you are bound to argue that it is much easier to cheat if it is only one page! FNL Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is also easier to switch a single ballot box with another one already stuffed! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:31 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: "Twagala kasandhuku kalala, sibusatu" in order to minimize pre-election ballot boxstuffing, etc. Dealing with one ballot box at each polling stationis more liley to deterarmed stuffers-- and it is much easier to verify theemptiness of oneballot box. ; God bless Uganda! FNL --- 3rd term, parties vote on same day SAME RESOURCES: Buturo (left) and Ngoma Ngime By Hamis Kaheru CABINET has decided that the proposed referenda on the political system and presidential term limit be held on the same day, information minister Dr. Nsaba Buturo said yesterday. The two referenda will be held on the same day but there are two questions which will be put to the public, Buturo told the weekly government press briefing at his offices in Nakasero, Kampala. In one question, voters will be asked whether they want the country to continue being governed under the Movement system or to return to multi-party politics. The second question will be on whether Article 105(2) of the Constitution should be repealed to remove the two-term limit for the presidency and allow continuous eligibility, popularly known as the third-term. Buturos remarks mean that Cabinet accepted justice and constitutional affairs mi nister Janat Mukwayas recommendation on the referenda. Mukwaya said on March 8 that she ha d recommended to the Government that the two referenda be held on the same day. The sh29b (cost of referendum) people are talking about is not for every issue that is to be decided through a referendum. It is possible to have a multiplicity of elections on the same day using the same resources and the same personnel, Mukwaya said on phone. She said under a joint referendum, voters would be required to tick different ballot papers and cast them in separate boxes. It is a matter of having one box for the referendum under Article 74 (change of political systems), another box for Article 105 (third-term) and another box for any other issue, she said. If a group of people can handle a referendum on one issue the same people can be used to manage another issue. We can have three or four elections on the same day and use the same reso urces, she said. Buturo said the question of funding the referenda was settled and tha t the exercise would take place by February next year. The funds will be there. We have found them, he said. When asked about the source of the funds the minister said, from your taxes. Finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana last week said his ministry had allocated sh30b in the 2004/05 budget for the proposed referendum. Article 74 of the Constitution says the political system can be changed either through a referendum or through a resolution of Parliament upon a petition of district councils. Cabinet proposed to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) headed by Prof. Frederick Ssempebwa, that a multi-party political system be adopted through a referendum
Re: ugnet_: [abujaNig] Microsoft plans Kiswahili software for East Africa
Much ado about nothing ... I have heard it said that many of the 100 million inhabitants of E. Africa do not own even a radio, let alone a computer. I have even heard that some 200 years after writing was introduced into the area, only about 25% can read or write, much less read, write or even speak Swahili (albeit pidgin at that -- especially in Uganda). Languages that have yet to make it into popular print will likely die as newer ones are adopted. I think that Microsoft is being hoodwinked into squandering their investor's money on a non-existent market. MN --- Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Story by ZEDDY SAMBU Publication Date: 04/23/2004 Microsoft software products will for the first time have Kiswahili options. The project, to be launched within the next five months, will be included in the latest software applications, Windows XP and MS Office 2003. The three-phase programme will cover more than 100 million people in East Africa. Due to lack of a simplified language, most users find it difficult to interact with most operating systems. This has contributed to the technological gap between rural and urban areas. Microsoft country manager, Mr Louis Otieno, launched the Microsoft Local Language Programme at the company's offices in IM building in Nairobi yesterday. He said the project will enhance various programmes in major universities. These include initiatives to standardise the Kiswahili language, spoken in six Eastern Africa countries. We will first assess the existence of a glossary and accelerate it to completion within the next 8-12 months, Mr Otieno said. The first and hardest step, that involves development of a glossary of standard words considered legitimate by the Government and other bodies, is to be completed in two months. The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/TTwplB/TM -~- **LAWRIE GREEN EDUCATION 2004 Abuja EXHIBITION of UK Schools !!!* 1 To obtain the best possible offers given each individual circumstance; 2-To advise and guide you through at evry stage of application process; 3-To consider your interest first at all times. Lawrie Green Education - Prepararion for life. contact:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.preparationforlife.com http://www.preparationforlife.com/pages/_nigeria/lge_nigeria.html ++ Nigerians for Nigeria, rebuilding a Country where No man is oppressed. - --- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Internet Solution A one stop solution for your web site. It is fully Nigerian, with Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo Alphabets and so many resources easy to use and a 24/7 support access. Why go further when a Nigerian, try this one you wont go elsewhere. I ve my signature to it... http://www.africaservice.com PJ Adamz Abuja Nigeria. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abujaNig/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Plot against Moi hatched in the back streets of Kampala City
THE EAST AFRICAN STANDRAD -NAIROBI - KENYA Friday, April 23, 2004 Plot was hatched in dingy structure in the back streets of Ugandan city The plot against President Moi was hatched in a dingy two-room backyard structure in the heart of Kampala. The building on Burton Street has since been demolished. The Fera headquarters equipped with two computers and two typewriters was hidden on the backyard, shielded at the front by small businesses. To gain entry, one had to pass through a short stretch of a dark alley between two buildings. One of the rooms served as Dr Jood Mafokengs herbal clinic. This led cynics to argue that Fera was posed no serious threat to the Kenya Government. Yet the flipside may be that such a setting provided the requisite secrecy and ultimate protection for the rebels. Those who unmasked Fera say so much money used to change hands here. And because of this, they say, a good number of top military Ugandans were immersed in this deal against President Moi. The money is said to have come from Libya, North Korea, and Cuba through their missions in Kampala. Of interest is Mafokeng and his Ugandan sidekicks, who had an iron grip on the finances to the extent Odongo was hardly in charge. Yet the UN High Commissioner for Refugees unwittingly supported Fera by paying the so-called refugee allowances. A former Special Branch mole recalls that in 1994, just after the World Cup finals, about 118 rifles were conveyed to the Burton Street secretariat. The mole and Mafokeng were among those who received the brand new AK-47s delivered in a Land Rover. The arms were ferried to the "Baghdad Camp" the same evening. In the arsenal were also rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and pistols. It is in this two bed-roomed house that the Kenyan mole operated from, and when he was unmasked, he escaped through the Busia border with documents that revealed the subversive designs crafted by top officials of the Ugandas National Resistance Movement. The mole stole Mafokengs documents after he fell out with Odongo early 1995. The documents revealed minutes of Fera leaders meetings, names of recruits, planned attacks and names of financiers. There were also details of oath and the "five-system" treatment Mafokeng employed on the troops prior to attacks on Kenya, say intelligence sources. The dusty Burton Street faces the Pioneer Mall, Kampalas first-ever mall, which hosted a bar where Fera leaders and sympathisers held meetings. Odongo, the mole and a number of Kenyas Opposition leaders assembled here to strategise against Moi. Ironically, the mole and spies at the Kenyan High Commission in Kampala also met here to review their progress. The mole used the two public booths outside the mall to pass on messages to his masters in Kampala and Nairobi. Incidentally, the mall is sandwiched between Burton and Williamson streets. It was on Williamson Street that Odongo was nearly kidnapped by Kenyan intelligence. He escaped into a high-rise building, and was rescued by Ugandan military intelligence from an allys clinic. Sources within the Kenyan intelligence say there was a plan to bomb Burton Street in a desperate bid to smoke out Fera. "We looked at this option but before we could exact it, the Fera leaders were deported to a third country," says an intelligence official. The Fera training camps were on Mt Elgon, Mbale and the Nakivale Refugee Camp, which hosted Rwandan and Kenya refugees pushed out by ethnic clashes. It was a perfect setting for recruitment and training. All Kenyan dissidents, including Odongo and Wangamati, were registered as refugees and benefited from Sh1,700 monthly allowances from the UNHCR. The boys took an oath of allegiance to Fera administered by Mafokeng. The troops, who have since returned to Kenya, say they were forced to feed on a concoction mixed in their own blood. "We were told to drain blood by slicing our fingers and letting it into a pot containing a mixture of meat from land and marine creatures. We did this in rounds while sitting around a fire, and when the food was ready, we ate it together," says a returnee. The ritual was intended to bottle up the troops and instill some level of fear, togetherness, and camaraderie. Those planning to stage a raid smeared their bodies with the concoction on the eve of the attack as a way of protecting themselves from bullets. Mafokeng called this treatment the "Five System", saying it took five years to develop and was administered in five stages. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Microsoft plans Kiswahili software for East Africa
Nagadya It is sad that in all information we have pumped in here you have failed the pick up a thing. Let me state that the fact that Uganda is behind, does not mean the rest of East Africa will not move. Uganda has a very high rate of illiteracy. Kenya and Tanzania are not. Look here developed countries have through interested groups and churches pumped a great amounts of monies to lift those nations as by illiteracy, if you go to countries like Kenya and Tanzania you will be amazed how especially women and girls are doing better today. Uganda especially in Buganda you will be amazed on the kind of illiteracy we have especially in women and girls because those monies sent to Uganda are swindled and do not reach the intended people. And if you want to prove what I am writing about here, try chat rooms like Simba or Monitor where you will find a whole bunch of Baganda women who can not express them selves in English but Luganda. What I am saying is that Microsoft is a very targeting company, and they have done the study and they know it is worth investing in Swahilli. For Kenya and Tanzania are a worth market. Now if you as Nagadya think that Microsoft will lose money, then may be you should advise them, but for them on the last information I have they are even planning to build a regional office in East Africa. When we are enjoying the sleeping that Museveni brought for us from the bush, let us not forget that the world is moving and fast. Let God help us that by the time we will wake up from the sleep Museveni brought to us, we will be able to catch up. I would as well encourage you to read the website of Microsoft and find out how much and how long they have invested and been into East Africa. After you read that, compare between Uganda and the rest of East Africa. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Mary Nagadya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:12 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: [abujaNig] Microsoft plans Kiswahili software for East Africa Much ado about nothing ... I have heard it said that many of the 100 million inhabitants of E. Africa do not own even a radio, let alone a computer. I have even heard that some 200 years after writing was introduced into the area, only about 25% can read or write, much less read, write or even speak Swahili (albeit pidgin at that -- especially in Uganda). Languages that have yet to make it into popular print will likely die as newer ones are adopted. I think that Microsoft is being hoodwinked into squandering their investor's money on a non-existent market. MN --- Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Story by ZEDDY SAMBU Publication Date: 04/23/2004 Microsoft software products will for the first time have Kiswahili options. The project, to be launched within the next five months, will be included in the latest software applications, Windows XP and MS Office 2003. The three-phase programme will cover more than 100 million people in East Africa. Due to lack of a simplified language, most users find it difficult to interact with most operating systems. This has contributed to the technological gap between rural and urban areas. Microsoft country manager, Mr Louis Otieno, launched the Microsoft Local Language Programme at the company's offices in IM building in Nairobi yesterday. He said the project will enhance various programmes in major universities. These include initiatives to standardise the Kiswahili language, spoken in six Eastern Africa countries. We will first assess the existence of a glossary and accelerate it to completion within the next 8-12 months, Mr Otieno said. The first and hardest step, that involves development of a glossary of standard words considered legitimate by the Government and other bodies, is to be completed in two months. The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/TTwplB/TM -~- **LAWRIE GREEN EDUCATION 2004 Abuja EXHIBITION of UK Schools !!!* 1 To obtain the best possible offers given each individual circumstance; 2-To advise and guide you through at evry stage of
ugnet_: AN EX-NFL PLAYER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
Ex-NFL playerkilled in action After 9-11, gave up $3.6 millionto serve country as Army Ranger Posted: April 23, 20045:00 p.m. Eastern An NFL player who walked away from a $3.6 million contract in the prime of his career to become an Army Ranger was killed in Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. Pat Tillman (Photo: Arizona Republic) Pat Tillman, 27, a former defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals, died last night at 7:30 local time in a firefight with militia forces in the village of Sperah, about 25 miles southwest of a U.S. military base at Khost. U.S. troops frequently have engaged al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in the area. "The enemy action was immediately responded to by the coalition patrol with direct fire and a firefight ensued," a Pentagon press release said. "During the engagement, one coalition soldier was killed and two wounded." Tillman's former head coach with the Cardinals, Dave McGinnis said he felt "overwhelming sorrow and tremendous pride" upon hearing the news, according to NFL.com "Pat knew his purpose in life," McGinnis said. "He proudly walked away from a career in football to a greater calling, which was to protect and defend our country. Pat represents those who have and will make the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom." McGinnis said Tillman who according to news reports over the past two years did not accept interview requests about his military service "always shunned the limelight, and I am sure he would want that continued, but his life deserves to be celebrated and for his story to be told. "He and the people he served with are what make this country such a special place," McGinnis continued. "It was an honor to be his friend and coach and I will miss him." White House spokesman Taylor Gross said Tillman "was an inspiration both on and off the football field." "As with all who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the war on terror, his family is in the thoughts and prayers of President and Mrs. Bush," Gross said. A member of the 75th Ranger Regiment from Fort Benning, Ga., Tillman's decision to enlist was influenced by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, several of his friends say. "In sports we have a tendency to overuse terms like courage and bravery and heroes," said Cardinals vice president Michael Bidwill, according to the AP, "and then someone like Pat Tillman comes along and reminds us what those terms really mean." The Cardinals set up a memorial outside the team's Tempe, Ariz., headquarters with Tillman's No. 40 jersey in a glass frame alongside flowers and a pen for messages to his family. Flags at his alma mater, Arizona State University, were flown at half staff by order of Gov. Janet Napolitano. Tillman's brother, Kevin, a former minor league baseball prospect in the Cleveland Indians' organization, joined the Rangers at the same time, also for a three-year stint, and has served in the Middle East. About 110 American soldiers have died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, which began in late 2001. $3.54 million pay cut In a July 12, 2002, column in the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan recounted how Tillman, who had set a Cardinals record in 2000 with 224 tackles, came back from his honeymoon seven weeks earlier and told his coaches he would turn down a three-year, $3.6 million contract and instead join the U.S. Army "For a pay cut of roughly $3.54 million dollars over three years." "Those who know him say it's typical Tillman, a surprise decision based on his vision of what would be a good thing to do," Noonan wrote, noting after his 2000 season he was offered a $9 million, five-year contract with the St. Louis Rams but chose to stay with the Cardinals. "But it was clear to those who knew Mr. Tillman that after September 11 something changed," Noonan said. "The attack on America had prompted a rethinking." She quoted from a report by ESPN's Len Pasquarelli, who wrote in a May 2002 article the "free-spirited but consummately disciplined" starting strong safety told friends and relatives that, in Pasquarelli's words, "his conscience would not allow him to tackle opposition fullbacks where there is still a bigger enemy that needs to be stopped in its tracks." Tillman's agent and friend Frank Bauer said, "This is something he feels he has to do. For him, it's a mindset, a duty." Last December, Tillman made a surprise visit to his Cardinal teammates during a trip home. McGinnis said at the time, according to the Associated Press, "For all the respect and love that all of us have for Pat Tillman and his brother and [his wife] Marie, for what they did and the sacrifices they made ... believe me, if you have a chance to sit down and talk with them, that respect and that love and admiration increase tenfold." The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est
ugnet_: BUT YOU BROUGHT US FREEDOM OF SPEECH !!
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Army News Service, April 21, 2004) Engineers from Fort Hood avert a possible riot after taking down posters of anti-coalition cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. 1st Lt. Brian Schonfeld, from the 91st Engineer Battalion, is confronted with resistance when he attempts to persuade a shop owner to remove framed images of anti-coalition leader Muqtada al-Sadr from his shop. Spc. Jan Critchfield While on patrol in the Washash district of Baghdad, 1st Lt. Brian Schonfeld, a platoon leader with 1st Platoon, Company C, 91st Engineer Battalion, and his troopers found something a little surprising: posters and photographs promoting al-Sadr. Schonfeld found these posters in apartments and some shop windows. He said he hadnt noticed anything to suggest al-Sadrs influence in the neighborhood prior to this patrol. After the initial dismounted patrol discovered the propaganda, Schonfeld received orders to re-enter Washash and remove the posters. These posters are considered illegal because of al-Sadrs extremist anti-coalition stance. The first few posters were confiscated with great ease. On public display, they did not appear to belong to any one in particular and no resistance was given. However, a few yards down the crowded market road, Schonfeld and his platoon came upon a shop selling framed prints. The lieutenant tried to explain to the owner of the shop that anti-coalition propaganda is illegal, and that the prints could not be displayed. The man refused to remove them. We explained the best we could without an interpreter, said Cpl. Mark Steir, a team leader in 1st Platoon. They started to get angry once they realized why we were taking them down. The further along we got, the community became more upset. To make the situation more tension-filled, the loudspeakers of a local mosque addressed the neighborhood, drawing ecstatic shouts from the growing crowd of onlookers. There was a lot more finger-jabbing going on than usual, said Schonfeld. A couple [people] even tried to grab our hands away from taking the pictures down. After several minutes of negotiation, Schonfeld was able to persuade the owner of the shop to remove the pictures, thanks to the help of a few English-speaking locals. Moving along, 1st Platoon removed one more poster before a sizeable crowd formed and started throwing rocks. Weve got a riot down here, sir, one Soldier yelled to Schonfeld, who promptly moved his platoon from the area to avoid an escalation of force. The discovery of anti-coalition propaganda is a negative development for coalition efforts in this neighborhood. The coalition has several such as a playing field, a refuse disposal plan, and a communal textile shop in the works, hoping to make Washash a better place to live. It was a significant event for us because there is not a very heavy presence of supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr in Washash. The people that we know in Washash have been supporters of [Grand Ayatollah al-Husseini al-Sistani], said Capt. Ronald Hayward, commander of Company C, who gave the order to remove the posters. I think it was important [to remove the posters] because al-Sadr currently stands for all things that are anti-coalition, he said. Its important to show [the people of Washash] that we can deal with the propaganda in a non-threatening way, rather than coming in hard and forcefully. (Editors note: Spc. Jan Critchfield is a staff writer for the 122nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.) shez writes: "Thats right, it is ilegal in Iraq to have any pictures of anyone who is anti-coalition. Quote: The lieutenant tried to explain to the owner of the shop that anti-coalition propaganda is illegal Seriously the whole American thinking is so messed up, who the f/k do they think they are to tell people who they can and can not have hanging on there walls.. A clear sign of refusing democracy and it is not by Iraqis but by Americans..Weird to think that they are prepared to risk so much grief and battles that could cost many lives all for photos..How would the Admin explain to a mother about her son being killed for taking down a photo from an Iraqi home.? Army to Mrs Smith = "Your son died a brave man, he was sent on an overt mission into hostile terrotory to take a photo down of a man we do do not like because he refuses to accept America rule" Exactly f/kn pathetic. And then American forces have the cheek to say well we could of went in hard to remove the photos but we shown them we can do it in a none forcefull way. Gee those Iraqis they are so lucky that American forces decided to let them live over having pictures on there walls. I hope they are greatfull. [rolleyes] Quote: Its important to show [the people of Washash] that we can deal with the propaganda in a non-threatening way, rather than coming in hard and forcefully. America policies in Iraq are so pathetic so messed up, so
ugnet_: World's Largest Military Budgets
The World's Largest Military Budgets: ($Billions) United States 399.1 Russia* 65.0 China* 47.0 Japan 42.6 U.K. 38.4 France 29.5 Germany 24.9 Saudi Arabia 21.3 Italy 19.4 India 15.6 South Korea 14.1 Brazil* 10.7 Taiwan* 10.7 Israel 10.6 Spain 8.4 Australia 7.6 Canada 7.6 Netherlands 6.6 Turkey 5.8 Mexico 5.9 Kuwait* 3.9 Ukraine 5.0 Iran* 4.8 Singapore 4.8 Sweden 4.5 Egypt* 4.4 Norway 3.8 Greece 3.5 Poland 3.5 Argentina* 3.3 U.A.E.* 3.1 Colombia* 2.9 Belgium 2.7 Pakistan* 2.6 Denmark 2.4 Vietnam 2.4 North Korea* 2.1 Czech Republic 1.6 Iraq* 1.4 Philippines 1.4 Portugal 1.3 Libya* 1.2 Hungary 1.1 Syria 1.0 Cuba* 0.8 Sudan* 0.6 Yugoslavia 0.7 Luxembourg 0.2 Countries in bold are those identified by the Pentagon as our most likely enemies. Information is courtesy of www.cdi.org. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 image001.gif
ugnet_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza
Sorry my computer is going awo 4) The only way Musaazi can fight UPC is by threatening an entire section of our nation. Musaazi wants Ugandans to know what he knows that Southern Ugandans do not, that UPC has nothing to offer and their entire survival or even whole being alive is due to Museveni and as soon as Museveni leaves office, Southern Ugandans will be eliminated by UPC. No one can refute those true words from Musaazi, but an un-intellectual like me will ask only two questions, Using Musaazi's demarcation of Uganda, Southern and Northern, where does UPC have a more support? And how can Museveni protect Southern Ugandans from UPC a party that was not only created but adorned by Southerners? Musaazi is from Buganda, a now known as a developed nation. So he does not have to respond to this or to any of his gullible. They are strange in-deed Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:21 PM Subject: ugnet_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza This discussion I swear is not mine and I am not going to touch it. But this paragraph interested me very much and I quote Finally, to all you Baganda and southerners who think that Museveni is bad for Uganda, wait 'till the likes of Kipenji ever get into power in Uganda then you will know what bad really is...if you pay kin attention to their postings you get a sneak preview of what to expect if they ever got power in Uganda, that will be the day you will all pray for Museveni to come back. UPC has NOTHING to offer Uganda and Ugandans except pain, poverty and disunity, that has been their record and that will always be their record. Whether what Musaazi states is a fact or not is not my issue, I will leave that with the intellectuals, but my beef is to wonder why we as Ugandans have turned the politics of our nation to a fear politics. For the following reasons:- 1) Museveni stated that we killed the masses in order to make the population hate the UPC government. (Was that the only way Museveni could get into power by killing the population in the day and claiming to be NRM at night?) 2) Museveni comes into power and he states that Uganda's problem is North vs South, and I am seeing Musaazi now pulling in the South than Buganda, But after all these years of NRM in power, do we actually believe that Uganda's problem is North Vs South? 3) For the sake of this discussion I am going to take Musaazi's statement at face value, as a fact. UPC and Northerns are enemies of Southern Uganda. Let me accept that and take Musaazi's warning serious. Then the question must follow, Museveni has been in power for now 20 years, if Musaazi knew all along that it is only Museveni who can save Southern Uganda from Northerners, what has he done about that situation? For Museveni will leave office either way, he will be overthrown or he will die of age if not heart attack. And he will not be a president. One can not help but ask what Musaazi expects us to do then, that the only savior Southerners have will have gone !! If our nation ever needed God it is now. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:04 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re:t_: Museveni to talk to Mengo\Mukooza ..Kipenji, i have just about had enough of your stupidity and ethonophobic outbursts...your prejudice and hatred of Baganda is of genocidal proportions...i would go as far as warn Baganda to keep away from this man (Kipenji)...these are poeple who, if they had the means and wherewithal, would eradicate Baganda from the face of this earth Rwanda style, and we sit and wonder how genocide occured in Rwanda. I wonder where Mr. Oracha is when Kipenji is unleashing his ethnic venom against Baganda...well they say silence is a sign of consent ..Kipenji, what exactly is your quarrell with Baganda...why this hatred of Bugunda and Baganda...have Baganda ever invaded your tribal area and killed your kingsmen as you northerners have done to us on several occasions..most of you have property and family in Buganda, have they ever been attacked and\or mistreated on account of being northerners. Even now that you guys are out of power and given the attrocities commited by your tribesmen against Baganda during OboteII, one would have expected retribution on a large scale from Baganda (as your Kingsmen did to Idi Amin's kingsmen and Baganda, during OboteII), but
ugnet_: World's Largest Military Budgets
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