Re: [Ugnet] RE: SQUANDERING NATIONS' RESOURCES ONLY ON SELF
Bwana Okuto,
Welcome to this old debate. The Self interest Bwana Mulindwa and I have
been talikng about was not in terms of subscribing to given OBJECTIVES that
other people can subscribe to on account of their apparent noble outlook. The
SELF INTERESTwe've been discussing is one based onwhat benefits one,
as an individual,can get for his/her personal well-being, by being aligned
to a given set of values regardless of whether those valuesare
actually striving towards the achievement of the original noble
Objectives.
While this can be through Civil Society Organisations of different
strengths and/or shades (as you aver), the clearest manifestations tend be more
exhibited in politics. People here take positions (on issues) which make one
wonder whether they are from Mars especially when they had previously pronounced
themselves on those issues to the contrary prior to
ascendingtopositions of some privilege, which, therefore, needs
protecting and defending. It was in this context that I cited,as examples, the
utterances of our good "professors" in the NRM govt to-day: from the good old
VP, Prime Minister, LG, Prime Minister's office, Finance, etc., etc.
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Subject: Re: [Ugnet] RE: SQUANDERING
NATIONS' RESOURCES ONLY ON SELF
David,
Correct! But then, what causes the greed ("SELF-INTEREST")?
Could it be that we have a lot too few interest organizations (
Strong civil society organization's) to cater for the various
interests that form the pillars of our society?! There many
sectors which otherwise should have been fundamental in our
society but which interests are totally not structurally
organized. Their voice means nothing,. Yet, relatively they should
have been authorities.
Even the "SELF INTERESTS" are usually very short termed. And
because they are not structurally organized any son of a this
thing pushes his hands there and grab at will. Lack of
"strukturell-funktionalism", so to say.
Society interests must be organized. But, not under very large
umbrella if the interests are divergent. We need a lot many but
strongly organized ones to tape the loop-holes that bed for
grabs.
What do you think?
noc´l
--- On Tue 05/10,
David Nyende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From:
David Nyende [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], ugandanet@kym.netDate: Tue, 10 May
2005 16:49:03 +0300Subject: Re: [Ugnet] RE: SQUANDERING
NATIONS' RESOURCES ONLY ON SELFBwana Mulindwa,I
agree with most of your analysis especially regarding M-7's
utteranceswhich are extremely economical on the
TRUTH.But on the inability of Ugandans to be critical
thinkers, I think you aregeneralising too much. What I
personally have observed to be the majorproblem with the
political elite is SELF INTEREST. People deliberatelyrefuse to
"think" or think 'backwardly' and make utterances which make
youwonder whether your ears served you well. Otherwise, can you
explain to mehow a person calling him/herself a "professor" can
make some of thestatements I've heard recently from our
professors in M-7's regime insupport of the 5th term (25 years
in power) ? It is SELF INTEREST ratherthan inability to be
analytical.But since you are in North America, can you help
me by telling me how muchthis gorilla called Humvee costs
(bullet-proof, TV, fridge, communicationequipment, parachute,
open roof for papachuting in case all fails, etc).-
Original Message -From: "Edward Mulindwa"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "David Nyende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent:
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 02:26Subject: Re: [Ugnet] RE: SQUANDERING
NATIONS' RESOURCES ONLY ON SELF Mwaami
Nyende The problem we must make public again and
again is a simple fact that Ugandans are not critical
thinkers. Many times I have gone back into my postings in
these forums and wondered why every thing I predicted on
Museveni and movement have become true to the last data. You and I
knowthat it was even impossible to post any thing
happening in Uganda on Ugandanet
[Ugnet] Nothing strange about Colonel Patrick Karegeya's arrest (General James Kabarebe)
On Col. Karegeya's arrest A lot of fuss has been made about the arrest of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, especially in the foreign media. However, General Kabarebe emphasized that there is nothing strange about Karegeya's arrest and that just like any other indisciplined RDF officers of even higher ranks, he is being punished."He has persistently been indisciplined and crossed the expected line of the RDF disciplinary Code of Conduct, ethics and values," the General said, adding that on more than one occasion, the Colonel had been warned and advised to change, which he failed to do thereby attracting the punishment.Kabarebe emphasized that with properly managed institutions like the RDF that checks and emphasizes on discipline, it is to no surprise that officers are reprimanded."We do not believe in heroism or untouchables, no one is beyond disciplinary conduct," the General warned.Kabarebe said that on one occasion Col. Karegeya, while a Corporate Staff asked for permission to go to South Africa, which he was granted, "however, during the same trip, the Colonel also went to Kenya and on his return to Rwanda, he never bothered to explain his stay in Kenya. The reason as to why the Colonel went to Kenya or how he behaved could not be established." "That is gross indiscipline not required of someone of his status," General Kabarebe noted adding that there are several other cases which he would not want to discuss in the press.Kabarebe, who said he personally counseled the Colonel, disclosed that the Prosecutor of the General Court Martial (Auditorat Militaire Général) is to prefer charges against Karegeya soon. "This is a normal procedure and should be considered as a positive development; an institution that does not discipline will crumble," Kabarebe said adding: "That is why we are respected, we have earned it. It depicts who we are in terms of character." On coup reports in the Ugandan mediaOver the last couple of days, the Ugandan media had continuously published articles suggesting that there was an eminent coup by the RDF in Rwanda. However, General Kabarebe rubbished the reports describing them as 'deliberate anti-Rwanda propaganda that abuse a respectable institution'."The talk of a coup is very strange to RDF and Rwanda," the general said adding that, "those who preferred to do it are suffering from the hangover of their past which is synonymous with coups." General Kabarebe also pointed out that the RDF is a well commanded, highly disciplined and professional army that has contributed to the democratic values that Rwanda has achieved. "The RDF is respectful of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. Its loyalty to the leadership and Commander-in-Chief is real," the General emphasized, adding that it should not be compared to other armies in neighboring countries that are characterized by acts of gross indiscipline such as gang raping, flogging and beating of Members of Parliament. "The RDF is a much more superior institution and adheres and respects its values and codes of ethics. It is unfortunate comparing it with institutions that are totally different in terms of character, command form and practice," the general pointed out.The media reports had linked Colonel Karegeya with the alleged coup plot, something the General simply laughed about. "He is not even among senior Colonels. To tell you, it is something laughable for the Karegeya coup connection," said the General, while questioning the motive of the media house that published the story."Whoever is the author or architect of the propaganda should be irked by the continuous successes registered by the RDF and by the leadership of Rwanda as a whole," Kabarebe said. "All the good image RDF depicts should not be marred by erroneous propaganda," he further asserted. On army transfers, appointments and promotionsWhen Brigadier General Jack Nziza was transferred from heading the G2 to heading G5, it was perceived as a demotion with media reports alleging that he had fled the country. General Kabarebe shed some light on the issue saying that a demotion is when one is stripped of his ranks. "Re-assigning, transfers, promotions and re-appointing is a routine phenomenon in the military, there is nothing strange about it," Kabarebe said. The General clarified that the G5 commanded by Brigadier General Jack Nziza is a reputable department and one of the biggest in RDF. On the new military headquartersGeneral Kabarebe revealed that come late June or early July, the military will move to its newly constructed building commonly referred to as the Rwandan Pentagon. "The furniture is currently on its way. Installation will take about a month and by end of June or early July, we shall move," the general said EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THE NEW TIMES 13th May 2005 Gen. Kabarebe speaks out on RDF missionsBy Collin Haba The
RE: [Ugnet] FW: The results of your email commands
Brother Yaobang, Maybe the easier approach is to sign off your ugandanet membership, and thenre-register, afresh. I also had problems with ugandanet.Mr. Kiggundu says these problems originate from hotmail. But how come your postings on ugandanet go through if really the machine has delisted you? ===From: "Y Yaobang" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: ugandanet@kym.netTo: ugandanet@kym.netCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Ugnet] FW: The results of your email commandsDate: Thu, 12 May 2005 02:12:20 + message3.txt ___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed Netters, I have not received mail from Ugandanet forthe last month or so. Occassionally I get the reminders below, and when I respond, I get negative messages. I have even written to Kiggs, but wapi! Are some of us (non-southerners) being systematically exterminated from Ugandanetoba what??? yFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: The results of your email commandsDate: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:30:13 +0300The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is youroriginal message.- Results: Ignoring non-text/plain MIME parts Invalid confirmation string.Note that confirmation strings expireapproximately 3 days after the initial subscription request.If yourconfirmation has expired, please try to re-submit your original request ormessage.- Done.Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE! ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Horror of USA's depleted Uranium
Horror of USA's depleted Uranium Friday, April 29 2005 @ 03:16 PM MDT Contributed by: Diogenes Views: 1355 Horror Of US Depleted Uranium In Iraq Threatens World American Use Of DU is "A crime against humanity which may, in the eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time."US Iraq Military Vets "are on DU death row, waiting to die."By James Denver4-29-5"I'm horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It's going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car." The speaker is not some alarmist doomsayer. He is Dr. Chris Busby, the British radiation expert, Fellow of the University of Liverpool in the Faculty of Medicine and UK representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk, talking about the best-kept secret of this war: the fact that by illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world. For these weapons have released deadly, carcinogenic and mutagenic, radioactive particles in such abundance that-whipped up by sandstorms and carried on trade winds - there is no corner of the globe they cannot penetrate-including Britain. For the wind has no boundaries and time is on their side: the radioactivity persists for over 4,500,000,000 years and can cause cancer, leukemia, brain damage, kidney failure, and extreme birth defects - killing millions of every age for centuries to come. A crime against humanity which may, in the eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time. These weapons have released deadly, carcinogenic and mutagenic, radioactive particles in such abundance that there is no corner of the globe they cannot penetrate - including Britain. Yet, officially, no crime has been committed. For this story is a dirty story in which the facts have been concealed from those who needed them most. It is also a story we need to know if the people of Iraq are to get the medical care they desperately need, and if our troops, returning from Iraq, are not to suffer as terribly as the veterans of other conflicts in which depleted uranium was used. A Dirty Tyson 'Depleted' uranium is in many ways a misnomer. 'Depleted' sounds weak. The only weak thing about depleted uranium is its price. It is dirt cheap, toxic, waste from nuclear power plants and bomb production. However, uranium is one of earth's heaviest elements and DU packs a Tyson's punch, smashing through tanks, buildings and bunkers with equal ease, spontaneously catching fire as it does so, and burning people alive. 'Crispy critters' is what US servicemen call those unfortunate enough to be close. And, when John Pilger encountered children killed at a greater distance he wrote: "The children's skin had folded back, like parchment, revealing veins and burnt flesh that seeped blood, while the eyes, intact, stared straight ahead. I vomited." (Daily Mirror) The millions of radioactive uranium oxide particles released when it burns can kill just as surely, but far more terribly. They can even be so tiny they pass through a gas mask, making protection against them impossible. Yet, small is not beautiful. For these invisible killers indiscriminately attack men, women, children and even babies in the womb--and do the gravest harm of all to children and unborn babies. A Terrible Legacy Doctors in Iraq have estimated that birth defects have increased by 2-6 times, and 3-12 times as many children have developed cancer and leukaemia since 1991. Moreover, a report published in The Lancet in 1998 said that as many as 500 children a day are dying from these sequels to war and sanctions and that the death rate for Iraqi children under 5 years of age increased from 23 per 1000 in 1989 to 166 per thousand in 1993. Overall, cases of lymphoblastic leukemia more than quadrupled with other cancers also increasing 'at an alarming rate.' In men, lung, bladder, bronchus, skin, and stomach cancers showed the highest increase. In women, the highest increases were in breast and bladder cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.1 On hearing that DU had been used in the Gulf in 1991, the UK Atomic Energy Authority sent the Ministry of Defense a special report on the potential damage to health and the environment. It said that it could cause half a million additional cancer deaths in Iraq over 10 years. In that war the authorities only admitted to using 320 tons of DU-although the Dutch charity LAKA estimates the true figure is closer to 800 tons. Many times that may have been spread across Iraq by this year's war. The devastating damage all this DU will do to the health and fertility of the people of Iraq now, and for generations to come, is
[Ugnet] Net-Based Phone Services Can Save Subscribers Money
Net-Based Phone Services Can Save Subscribers Money, but They Have FlawsNet-Based Phone Services Can Save Subscribers Money, but They Have Flaws By Yuki NoguchiWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 13, 2005; H06 Warren C. Duthie, who over the years dabbled in selling long-distance phone service, thinks he has finally found the best deal in his Internet-based phone. Duthie, a retired Coast Guard officer who lives in Woodbridge, hooked an Internet phone up to his cable-modem line in September, and now pays a fraction of what he used to for local and long-distance calls. "I'm kind of a fanatic," said Duthie, who got his daughter, son and neighbor to sign up with Lingo, a service sold by Primus Telecommunications Inc. in McLean. For $20 a month, they get unlimited domestic calling, he said, which used to run him $60 a month with Verizon Communications Inc. Another advantage: "There are not a whole bunch of added-on taxes and other stuff," he said. Duthie is part of a small but growing number of callers who are using the Internet to get around the traditional phone system. Cable companies, Primus and start-ups such as Vonage Holdings Inc. are championing the service as a cheaper alternative for calling. The phone isn't without its flaws, Duthie says. Initially, there were some glitches in the system, and occasional power outages and cable network outages shut down his Internet phone. When his Internet phone couldn't connect to a toll-free 800 number, he had to contact Lingo to correct the problem. And he said he had to make sure his home alarm system could still alert him if he converted his traditional phone line to the new Internet-based system. He also called to make sure that 911 emergency calls made from his new Internet phone would be routed through to his local public safety calling center, and it would know where he was calling from. "If you recognize that it's a new technology and you recognize that there will be new problems, then it's okay," Duthie said of his phone. Frequent calls to his wife's native Brazil used to cost 45 cents a minute, which during an average month amounted to an $80 bill. Now, for $10 a month, Lingo allowed Duthie to sign up for a Brazilian phone number, which means relatives there can dial a local phone number and call him over the Internet at no additional charge. "Now we get no less than two to three calls a day," he said. SIEDEBAR: Internet Calling Choices · Internet phone service allows people to make telephone calls over a high-speed Internet connection instead of a regular phone line. Such services come in many different flavors. · Some, such as Skype ( http://www.skype.com ), or the talk option in AOL's instant message program ( http://www.aim.com ), amount to free software that allows you to use your computer's speakers and microphone to talk to someone else on his or her computer. Skype also offers an option to complete calls to and from traditional telephone numbers for a small charge. · Other companies offer services that work more like traditional phone service, allowing users to plug in their regular handsets to special adapters connected to the Internet. Examples include Vonage ( http://www.vonage.com ), ATamp;T's CallVantage service ( http://www.usa.att.com/callvantage ), 8x8 Inc.'s Packet8 service ( http://www.packet8.net ) and Primus Telecommunications Inc.'s Lingo offering ( http://www.lingo.com ). ©2005The Washington Post Company Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
RE: [Ugnet] $0.14 to Call Uganda
There is an interesting article that gives a fuller picture about internet based services in Canada. The players, the legal tussles going on, etc... I am still looking for, rather than me trying to give a summary. From: musamize [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:14:59 -0700 (PDT)how about www.lingo.com?Mitayo Potosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Vonage has a $25/month unlimited calls to US Canada (http://www.vonage.com/products_premium.php), $0.14 to Uganda (mobile or landline), but $0.28 to UK (http://www.vonage.com/intrates.php#U).Where is the catch?Dear all,I dont think there is any catch. Vonage is at the forefront of VoIP. It is only because telephone companies, which have recouped their investiment a zillion times over, cheat us with these high telephone rates. There is no reason why Telephoning is not as cheap as e-mail.Uganda should have never allowed the local phone companies to charge wananchi an arm and a leg. And we warned Hon Nkuuhe - head of NRM Science policies. Regardless, Vonage and some five or so other companies are trailblazing the future.The British, under cover of South African telephony may be bleeding us now but the writing is on the wall - they will not fleece us for ever.In Canada the big Telephone companies are fighting back. They want govt to regislate them special favours and protection. They are lobying to get whole telephone-law enforcment public services disbanded and the relevant public servants who enforce these laws put out of business.Wherever you reside get more informed on this ripoff and fight back, through your political representatives. But in the end technology and the people will win.Humanity is entitled to telephony which is as cheap as e-mail. = From: musamize [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ugandanet@kym.net To: ugandanet@kym.net Subject: [Ugnet] $0.14 to Call Uganda Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Vonage has a $25/month unlimited calls to US Canada (http://www.vonage.com/products_premium.php), $0.14 to Uganda (mobile or landline), but $0.28 to UK (http://www.vonage.com/intrates.php#U). Where is the catch? Musamize Usual disclaimers, and, I've never used Vonage. -Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more.___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] NYT: Out of Africa ...
May 13, 2005 DNA Study Yields Clues on First Migration of Early Humans By NICHOLAS WADE Andy Wong/Associated Press The Orang Asli people, north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were studied by geneticists who traced their mitochondrial DNA from Africa. By studying the DNA of an ancient people in Malaysia, a team of geneticists says it has illuminated many aspects of how modern humans migrated from Africa. The geneticists say there was only one migration of modern humans out of Africa; that it took a southern route to India, Southeast Asia and Australia; and that it consisted of a single band of hunter-gatherers, probably just a few hundred people strong. Because these events occurred in the last Ice Age, when Europe was at first too cold for human habitation, the researchers say, it was populated only later, not directly from Africa but as an offshoot of the southern migration. The people of this offshoot would presumably have trekked back through the lands that are now India and Iran to reach the Near East and Europe. The findings depend on analysis of mitochondrial DNA, a type of genetic material inherited solely through the female line. They are reported today in Science by a team of geneticists led by Dr. Vincent Macaulay of the University of Glasgow. Everyone in the world can be placed on a single family tree, in terms of their mitochondrial DNA, because everyone has inherited that piece of DNA from a single woman, the mitochondrial Eve, who lived some 200,000 years ago. There were, of course, many other women in that ancient population. But over the generations, one mitochondrial DNA replaced all the others through the process known as genetic drift. With the help of mutations that have built up on the one surviving copy, geneticists can arrange people in lineages and estimate the time of origin of each lineage. With this approach, Dr. Macaulay's team calculates that the emigration from Africa occurred 65,000 years ago, pushed along the coasts of India and Southeast Asia and reached Australia by 50,000 years ago, the date of the earliest known archaeological site there. The Malaysian people whom the geneticists studied are the Orang Asli. The term means "original men" in Malay. They are probably descended from this first migration, because they have several ancient mitochondrial DNA lineages that are found nowhere else. These lineages are 42,000 to 63,000 years old, the geneticists say. Subgroups of the Orang Asli, like the Semang, have probably been able to remain intact because they adapted to the harsh existence of living in forests, said Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer, the member of the geneticists' team who collected blood samples in Malaysia. Some archaeologists theorize that Europe was colonized by a second migration that traveled north out of Africa. This fits with the earliest known modern human sites, dating from 45,000 years ago in the Levant and 40,000 years ago in Europe. Dr. Macaulay's team says there could have been just one migration, not two, because the mitochondrial lineages of everyone outside Africa converge at the same time to the same common ancestors. Therefore, people from the southern migration, probably in India, must have struck inland to reach the Levant and, later, Europe, the geneticists say. Dr. Macaulay said it was not clear why just one group succeeded in leaving Africa. One possibility is that because the migration occurred by continuous population expansion, leaving people in place at each site, the first emigrants may have blocked others from leaving. Another is that the terrain was so difficult for hunter-gatherers, who carry all their belongings with them, that only one group succeeded in the exodus. Although there is general but not complete agreement that modern humans emigrated from Africa in recent times, there is still a difference between geneticists and archaeologists about its a timing. Archaeologists tend to view the genetic data as providing invaluable information about the interrelationship between groups, but they place less confidence in the dates derived from genetic family trees. There is no evidence of modern humans outside Africa earlier than 50,000 years ago, said Dr. Richard Klein, an archaeologist at Stanford. Also, if something happened 65,000 years ago to allow people to leave Africa, as Dr. Macaulay's team suggests, there should surely be some record of that in the archaeological record in Africa, Dr. Klein said. Yet signs of modern human behavior do not appear in Africa until 50,000 years ago, the transition between the Middle and Later Stone Ages, he said. "If they want to push such an idea, find me a 65,000-year-old site with evidence of human occupation outside of Africa," Dr. Klein said. Geneticists counter that many of the coastline sites occupied by the first emigrants would now lie under water, because the sea level has risen more than 200 feet since the last Ice Age. Dr. Klein expressed reservations about that
[Ugnet] What's Up, Pussycat? Whoa!
May 12, 2005 What's Up, Pussycat? Whoa! By SUSAN SAULNY Ruth Fremson/The New York Times ON THE PROWL: Savannahs, like this one in Greenwich Village, are illegal in New York. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times CONTRABAND CAT: Darjeeling out for a stroll in Greenwich Village. DARJEERLING and Bunnicula are two kittens who prefer shrimp cocktails and steak frites to pet food. They sleep on Burberry beds in their Greenwich Village apartment and wore matching crystal-studded collars until a few weeks ago, when they chewed off all the stones. They live a life of luxury, to be sure, but it is life on the lam. They are outlawed in New York City, members of a new designer breed growing in popularity called the Savannah, an offspring of a wildcat - the African serval - and the domestic house cat. "If I have to move to New Jersey to keep these cats, I will," said their owner, a 29-year-old hedge fund analyst who equates life in downtown Manhattan with life itself. "That's how much I love them," she said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity. The cats - which can cost from $4,000 to $10,000 - are visually striking with their long necks and oversized ears, and they can be intimidating. They look like little leopards and grow to more than twice the size of normal cats. They love to leap and splash in water, and they don't mind taking long walks on a leash. Some people describe them as dogs in cats' bodies. "More than ever, everyone's been calling me about the Savannah, and I'm like, 'What's going on?' " said Bash Dibra, an animal trainer in New York whose sessions, at $300 to $500 an hour, are often the last resort for people who cannot control their Savannahs. Taking care of them on the sly - as New Yorkers must - can be tricky. Across the country, however, the Savannah is not always illegal: a hodgepodge of city and county regulations and state laws govern pets that are part wild. In New York authorities do not scour the streets for such pets. Owners are often in hiding from their neighbors who might report them. For instance Darjeerling and Bunnicula rarely appear outdoors in the light of day. In an apartment on the Upper East Side, another Savannah named Tiger is tended by the household help in the middle of the night. And Kara LoDolce, who recently moved to a new town on Long Island with her Savannah, Mazi, will not even tell her friends where she lives. "It's hard to have, hard to keep," said Mr. Dibra, who calls that part of the Savannah's appeal. It makes it "more mystical to own," he said. New York City banned ownership of any wild or part-wild animals long ago. The state followed suit in 2004. Bethany Schumann, an aide to Assemblyman Paul D. Tonko, a Democrat from Amsterdam, who sponsored the state law, said her office had heard from hundreds of angry cat owners for and against the Savannah in the last couple of years. "For whatever reason, these cats are cats many people would like to have," she said. "There is some sort of wow factor to the 35-pound cat in your Manhattan apartment." But they come with too many unknowns, she added. "We have no idea what this cat's habitat should be," Ms. Shumann said. The cats are growing in popularity elsewhere in the country too. It is hard to estimate exactly how many Savannahs are kept as pets. Their numbers are surely small compared with the average cat. But animal trainers, veterinarians and pet-business owners say they are seeing the Savannah more frequently, while they were rare five years ago. In Chicago, Cynthia A. King, a Savannah owner and breeder, said: "I had to wait two years to get my kittens, and I had cash I was waving in the air. For a first-generation pet, we're talking a $5,000 minimum expenditure. That's how popular they are." Julian Robertson, a breeder in Reidsville, N.C., said: "We've shipped them to Alaska, we've shipped them to Austria. You name it, and we've shipped them. We can't keep enough of them." But owners are increasingly worried about restrictions. Chicago recently considered a wide-ranging ban on exotic pets. So far the proposed law has languished in a City Council committee for more than a year, and its future is unclear. Massachusetts and Georgia, like New York, have strict bans against pets like the Savannah, while other states like Illinois and Arizona have restrictions but do not completely prohibit the animal. Some states require owners to obtain permits for part-wild pets. Others require nothing. "We are one of the stricter states because we are one of the most densely populated states," said Dr. Thomas French, the assistant director of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. "Any time you get a lot of people in close proximity to untrustworthy animals, it causes conflict. Sometimes the conflict is no more than a neighbor being frightened, but that is still conflict." "We don't cater to people's fears," he said, "but we do try to regulate what we think is a public health threat." The United
[Ugnet] Turn up the sound for this video clip
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Re: [Ugnet] There are other sufferers in the North
Mr. Kipenji: I always think and identify as a Muganda before anything else -religion, politics, gender, education, inclusive. So, I do not find it strange, neither do I take offence, nor do do I feel slighted if anyone else does so. IMHO, to do otherwisewould be putting the cart before the horse. The hogwash that "Let us talk about the 1966 problem with Mengo. Sir Edward Muteesa left Uganda for United Kingdom. Obote as the Uganda president instructed Bank of Uganda to send money to Sir Edward for upkeep. That is why Sir Edward did not end up on a welfare line in United Kingdom." is just that: unadultered Grade Z hogwash and sophistry generated by asingularly contorted mind. We all know that Obote was did not endup in a welfare line while in Tanzania. So, should we conclude that this was due to General Idi Amin's "generosity" in "instructing" the Bank of Uganda to send money to Obote for upkeep? From which account, and who was paying? Likewise, we all know that Obote did not endup on welfare in Zambia after being kicked out of power by the Okellos. We also know that Obote has never worked a day in his life in Zampia (and, for that matter, in Tanzania). Why then don't we sing the praises of Okello, and Museveni for similarly instructing the Bank of Uganda to send money for Obote's upkeep courtsey of the pizanti, aka "common man"? What is good for the goose ... MusamizeOwor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other sufferers in the north With due respect I found Yoni Okwera-Olok's letter: "Let the Government prove it does not hate the Acholis" very bothering and a true example of the problem we have in our nation today. Mr Okwera must remember to always be a Ugandan before he thinks as an Acholi. Many of his facts are not true and we need to throw away passion on this issue so that we can see through the web of Okwera's lies. Only then can we try to plant nationalism in our nation. Okwera must remember that Uganda has gone through very hard times during the Movement. Ombaci happened in West Nile, Mukura was in eastern Uganda, Kibwetere was in western Uganda. Yes, northern Uganda has had the largest suffering under the Movement. But northern Uganda is not only a land of Acholis, so let us not play a tribal game here. The last time I checked, Uganda had a people called Langis. Can Okwera tell us today that Langis are not in camps? It is quite wrong for us to get a problem in our nation and we tribalise it. The example Okwera-Olok uses of Obote and Buganda is equally false, for Buganda has never enjoyed power in Uganda than under both Obote's governments. Yes, Okwera has a right to hate Obote, but he must as well recognise that the most powerful ministers in Obote's government were actually Baganda. Okwera-Olok must remember the names of powerful Baganda like Eriya Babumba, Apolo Kironde, Luyimbazi Zaake, Kalule Ssetaala, Keefa Ssempangi, Sam Mugwiisa, Bidandi Ssali. Let us talk about Attorney Generals like G. L. Binayiisa or even Nkambo Mugerwa. Governors Bank of Uganda like Mubiru, Kikonyogo, Leo Kibirango. All these were very powerful Baganda during Obote's government. Let us talk about the 1966 problem with Mengo. Sir Edward Muteesa left Uganda for United Kingdom. Obote as the Uganda president instructed Bank of Uganda to send money to Sir Edward for upkeep. That is why Sir Edward did not end up on a welfare line in United Kingdom. Baganda did not organise any means for maintenance of their exiled King. What is interesting is that this money continued flowing into the same account through Amin's era, up to today, because the instructions are still on Uganda papers. When Obote came back to Uganda, as a President and a minister of finance, he did not cancel those instructions. We must be very careful when we make false public statements to push our agenda. Okwera-Olok's claim that Obote hates Baganda is totally unfair. If he did hate them, Miria Obote should have been a Langi or an Acholi. This is the mother of Obote's children. By all means we have a problem in northern Uganda and no one will debate that. But this problem is the same with Langis as well. Edward MulindwaToronto[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Finger this ...
story at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/wendy_s_finger Fri May 13, 3:35 PM ET These photos released by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department show Jamie Plascencia, left, and his wife Anna Ayala, right. On Friday, May 13, 2005, San Jose police announced that the finger that Ayala claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an acquaintance of her husband who lost it in an industrial accident in December. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Police Department, File) Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. Slideshow (finger in one of slides) http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050513/480/fx10205131935g=events/lf/032405finger Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Jumbo baby, Mkombozi rescues Angel, Breastfeeding a tiger, injections
Mon May 9, 4:36 AM ET Eleven-month-old Lokman Hakim Mondol, who weighs 22 kilograms (48 pounds) is brought at a hospital by his grandfather Tabarak Mullick, in Calcutta, India, Monday May 9, 2005. His mother, Jnanera Bibi, tries to cool him with a hand fan. Lokman consumes 5 liters of milk and 1 kilogram of rice-flour every day and is suspected to be suffering from a rare hormonal disorder. (AP Photo/Sudipto Das) --- Thu May 12,10:10 AM ET Mkombozi outside her home in the outskirts of Nairobi. Kenyan police said they had arrested the mother of an infant reportedly rescued by the foraging dog in a forest south of the capital Nairobi.(AFP/File/Simon Maina) --- Thu May 12,10:10 AM ET Angel is attended to by a nurse at the Kenyatta hospital in Nairobi. Kenyan police said they had arrested the Angel's mother after the infant was reportedly rescued by a foraging dog in a forest south of the capital Nairobi amid amounting scepticism over the truth of the heartwarming tale.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba) - Thu May 12, 9:47 AM ET Hla Htay breastfeeds a tiger cub in Yangon. Two endangered Bengal tiger cubs breastfed for weeks by a Myanmar woman have died of dehydration.(AFP/File/Law Eh Soe) = Dog Nurses Tiger Cubs in China Photograph from China Newsphoto/Reuters/CorbisMore Photos in the News May 9, 2005Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? The mother of these tiger cubs couldn't produce enough milk, so zookeepers in Hefei, China, enlisted this dog. She began work when the cubs were one day old, on May 2, when this picture was taken. This isn't the first time a dog has played wet nurse to tigers at the Hefei zoo, which organized a similar arrangement with another dog last year. It may not even be the oddest recent example of cross-species suckling. As of February, India's Namatia Ghosh, 46, was still breastfeeding the pet monkey her husband found orphaned several years ago. "He is my son," she told BBC News. Not to be outdone, Hlah Htay, 40, helped a Burmese zoo feed two tiger cubs in April, according to the AFP news service. The cubs had been separated from their aggressive mother. Tigers are born toothless. In the wild they nurse for about six months but begin eating meat after six to eight weeks, when the mother begins sharing her kills. Ted Chamberlain http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0509_050905_dogtigers.html Size-obsessed Thai men warned on penis injections http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050513/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_thailand_penis__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] KABAKA COMES BACK FROM EXILE. (Photos in Life Mag)
KABAKA COMES BACK FROM EXILE. Oct. 31, 1955 When the signal came from the airport, the royal drums thundered into life for the first time in two years. To Buganda's 1,300,000 people, the noise announced the return of their beloved Kabaka (King). Thousands of gallons of banana beer had been brewed, garlands fashioned, 16 arches constructed over the processional route with banners proclaiming: "He has triumphed." Stiffly upright in his immaculate grey suit, 31-year-old Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Luwangula MutebiKabaka Mutesi IIbowed stiffly to the right and left from his Rolls-Royce convertible as it rolled triumphantly toward his palace in Kampala past throngs of his screaming, weeping, dancing subjects. They beat their cheeks in the Baganda brand of war whoop, thumped tom-toms, flung themselves prostrate as the Kabaka passed. And for four days and nights, an orgy of welcome roared on. No Time for Change. For young King "Freddie," as his London friends call him, it was a proud moment and sweet revenge for the humiliation back in 1953, when he watched Uganda's British Governor Sir Andrew Cohen touch a button in his office to summon a policeman. Then, King Freddie was unceremoniously hustled aboard a plane for exile in London without so much as a chance to change his clothes or say goodbye to his wife. King Freddie's sin was that he had dared defy the governor's plans for Uganda, of which Buganda is officially a province. The British were talking of melding Uganda into white-dominated Kenya and Tanganyika to form an East African Federation. The Kabaka, ruler of a proud old kingdom where white men cannot even buy land without great legal difficulties, wanted no part of a multiracial federation. He demanded separation from Uganda and that the British set a date for self-government. Furthermore, the Kabaka balked at Governor Cohen's proposal to allocate to Africans only 20 of the 56 seats in the protectorate's new Legislative Councilless voice for 5,300,000 Africans than for 57,000 whites and Asians. The British colonials were aghast; this troublesome young man had to go, and the Lukiko (Parliament) could elect somebody more malleable to replace him. The decision, said Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, was "final." Hollow Triumph. To the British it had seemed simple and tidy. Lyttelton silenced Laborite criticism and moved himself nearly to tears with an emotional speech about his own affection for the Kabaka. "It was the more painful to me because he was a member of my university, and of my regiment [the Grenadier Guards], and a friend of my son's at Cambridge!" The press applauded, the critics subsided chapfallen. Scarcely anybody noticed that parliamentary triumphs in London had no effect whatever in Buganda. There the Lukiko refused flatly to elect anyone to replace the Kabaka. Cohen was hissed and booed in Kampala. Thousands of the Kabaka's subjects swore never to shave until he returned. Even when the British offered concessions, the Lukiko refused to accept them in the Kabaka's absence. King Freddie, ensconced in a West End apartment at Britain's expense, behaved as a young ex-guardsman should. Price of Mistake. Finally, Her Majesty's government was forced to recognize that they had made a mistake. Under new Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, agreements were worked out which changed the Kabaka from an absolute to a constitutional (and therefore more manageable) monarch, and King Freddie agreed to swear renewed loyalty and obedience to the Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over its own natural resources, schools and local government. Africans were allotted three jobs in the protectorate "Cabinet," the first time that African hands have been allowed to touch executive power. With typical Whitehall urbanity, the Colonial Office represented the Kabaka's exile and return as designed from the first for the Baganda's own good, which had been practically forced on them to save the Baganda from the stubbornness of an absolute monarch. They should have told that to the Baganda. At the ceremonial signing of the new agreements last week, 10,000 roared noisy applause as King Freddie spoke. Then Governor Cohen rose. "Who does not believe that this friendship [of Britain and Buganda] has emerged not diminished but strengthened?" he asked rhetorically. The assembled tribal chiefs burst into raucous, mocking laughter. Ps: Ayagala okulaba ku bifaananyi ebiraga oBuganda bwe bwajaganya nga Ssekabaka Muteesa II akomawo okuva mu buwanganguse e Bungereza mu 1955 atunuleko wano: Life Magazine 14 November 1955 (Eisenhower Convalescing). The Troubles of the King of Buganda. Nov. 30, 1959 In the East African kingdom of Buganda, a province of the British protectorate of Uganda, the night
Re: [Ugnet] There are other sufferers in the North
Musamize: For starters,I do not see why you shoot release you bazooka for no reason. The document I forwarded has nothing to do with me but I saw it in Monitor. The bibliography is well documented at the end of it. So your outpouring of your ethnocentricity is really unwarranted. I personally feel it not wise to engage in any discussions on the contents of this letter and incase you are still getting pruritus from it,address your concerns with the originator. Thank you Kipenjimusamize [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Kipenji: I always think and identify as a Muganda before anything else -religion, politics, gender, education, inclusive. So, I do not find it strange, neither do I take offence, nor do do I feel slighted if anyone else does so. IMHO, to do otherwisewould be putting the cart before the horse. The hogwash that "Let us talk about the 1966 problem with Mengo. Sir Edward Muteesa left Uganda for United Kingdom. Obote as the Uganda president instructed Bank of Uganda to send money to Sir Edward for upkeep. That is why Sir Edward did not end up on a welfare line in United Kingdom." is just that: unadultered Grade Z hogwash and sophistry generated by asingularly contorted mind. We all know that Obote was did not endup in a welfare line while in Tanzania. So, should we conclude that this was due to General Idi Amin's "generosity" in "instructing" the Bank of Uganda to send money to Obote for upkeep? From which account, and who was paying? Likewise, we all know that Obote did not endup on welfare in Zambia after being kicked out of power by the Okellos. We also know that Obote has never worked a day in his life in Zampia (and, for that matter, in Tanzania). Why then don't we sing the praises of Okello, and Museveni for similarly instructing the Bank of Uganda to send money for Obote's upkeep courtsey of the pizanti, aka "common man"? What is good for the goose ... MusamizeOwor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other sufferers in the north With due respect I found Yoni Okwera-Olok's letter: "Let the Government prove it does not hate the Acholis" very bothering and a true example of the problem we have in our nation today. Mr Okwera must remember to always be a Ugandan before he thinks as an Acholi. Many of his facts are not true and we need to throw away passion on this issue so that we can see through the web of Okwera's lies. Only then can we try to plant nationalism in our nation. Okwera must remember that Uganda has gone through very hard times during the Movement. Ombaci happened in West Nile, Mukura was in eastern Uganda, Kibwetere was in western Uganda. Yes, northern Uganda has had the largest suffering under the Movement. But northern Uganda is not only a land of Acholis, so let us not play a tribal game here. The last time I checked, Uganda had a people called Langis. Can Okwera tell us today that Langis are not in camps? It is quite wrong for us to get a problem in our nation and we tribalise it. The example Okwera-Olok uses of Obote and Buganda is equally false, for Buganda has never enjoyed power in Uganda than under both Obote's governments. Yes, Okwera has a right to hate Obote, but he must as well recognise that the most powerful ministers in Obote's government were actually Baganda. Okwera-Olok must remember the names of powerful Baganda like Eriya Babumba, Apolo Kironde, Luyimbazi Zaake, Kalule Ssetaala, Keefa Ssempangi, Sam Mugwiisa, Bidandi Ssali. Let us talk about Attorney Generals like G. L. Binayiisa or even Nkambo Mugerwa. Governors Bank of Uganda like Mubiru, Kikonyogo, Leo Kibirango. All these were very powerful Baganda during Obote's government. Let us talk about the 1966 problem with Mengo. Sir Edward Muteesa left Uganda for United Kingdom. Obote as the Uganda president instructed Bank of Uganda to send money to Sir Edward for upkeep. That is why Sir Edward did not end up on a welfare line in United Kingdom. Baganda did not organise any means for maintenance of their exiled King. What is interesting is that this money continued flowing into the same account through Amin's era, up to today, because the instructions are still on Uganda papers. When Obote came back to Uganda, as a President and a minister of finance, he did not cancel those instructions. We must be very careful when we make false public statements to push our agenda. Okwera-Olok's claim that Obote hates Baganda is totally unfair. If he did hate them, Miria Obote should have been a Langi or an Acholi. This is the mother of Obote's children. By all means we have a problem in northern Uganda and no one will debate that. But this problem is the same with Langis as well. Edward MulindwaToronto[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! MailStay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Yahoo! Messenger
[Ugnet] African American religious leaders meet about AIDS
CALIFORNIA African American religious leaders meet about AIDS Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer May 13, 2005 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/13/BAG2KCOL9F1.DTLtype=health Some of California's most prominent African American religious leaders are gathering today to find ways of fighting the alarming spread of AIDS in the black community. At least 60 representatives of several dozen churches, including three Bay Area congregations, are meeting at Faithful Central Bible Church in Los Angeles to develop a "faith-based" education and outreach plan. African Americans account for more than half the nation's estimated 40, 000 new HIV infections each year, though they make up only 12 percent of the U. S. population. In California, African Americans account for 20 percent of HIV cases and 18 percent of AIDS cases -- almost triple their proportion of the state's overall population, the California Health Services Department Office of AIDS reported last year. Just 6.7 percent of California residents are black. "This is a tremendous disparity," said Kevin Farrell, acting chief of the office's education and prevention branch. "We've had our challenges in speaking to this community." The Statewide HIV/AIDS Church Outreach Advisory Board, which includes representatives of 20 churches, has worked with state AIDS prevention officials since 1999 to help people infected with HIV. The religious leaders want to develop programs churches can use. The Outreach board has printed a guidebook for pastors on starting an HIV ministry. "I think the church can have a huge impact, particularly because of all the ongoing activities that happen there," said Gloria Crowell, co-chair of the AIDS ministry at Oakland's Allen Temple Baptist Church, who will attend the event. Leaders at today's meeting planned to discuss ways to help churches reach out to worshipers from the pulpit by making HIV prevention part of their overall mission. About 150 black churches have taken part in activities staged by the organization. Farrell said it can be hard to reach African Americans because of myths afloat in the black community that AIDS was created to harm minority populations and that treatment does not work. "Working with the pastors really gives us an in with the community that we might not have had before," said Farrell. "These folks get to people that we really didn't have a way of reaching." HIV prevention can be a tough issue for black churches to take on. AIDS is often associated with taboos such as homosexuality, drug use and promiscuity. For years, health advocates and some community groups have criticized black clergy for failing to take a leadership role on AIDS. Rev. Brondon Reems, pastor of Oakland's 2,000-member Center of Hope Community, said representatives of his church would come today, believing that AIDS has become a top priority among black churches. "In the beginning, churches were very skeptical about talking about it," said Reems. "Now we're in a place where every church, every ministry has been affected by this disease." Center of Hope is active in HIV education. Some sermons discuss AIDS prevention and include prayers for families that have lost loved ones to the disease. Even so, Reems said AIDS can be tough to discuss within the church if it's not addressed with a focus on the need for education and prevention. "Our message is trying to go forward to get the word to young people, who need to be tested,'' said Reems. Since 1987, Allen Temple members and volunteers from other Oakland churches have been staging workshops at area schools and churches. One last year featured former NBA star Magic Johnson, who was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1991. Members also take donated medical supplies and clothing to needy communities in the African nation of Zimbabwe twice a year, said Crowell. "There are women's departments, youth departments, groups that meet every Sunday," said Crowell. "We should try to integrate HIV efforts into the regular (church) activities." Communications professor Lenard Steinhorn at American University in Washington, D.C., who has written extensively about African American culture and race relations, said churches can have a major impact in changing perceptions about AIDS within the black community. "(Churches are) an important part of the community," said Steinhorn. "Black people are the most religious of Americans." E-mail Jason B. Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. PageB - 2 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/13/BAG2KCOL9F1.DTL Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! Get Yahoo! Mail___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] AIDS reshaping religiuos views in Africa
AIDS reshaping religious views in Africa Crisis pushes Christian leaders to debate new perspectives The Associated Press Updated: 4:27 p.m. ET May 12, 2005 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7832486/ AGIOS ANDREAS, Greece - A pastor in Lesotho urges his congregation to get tested for HIV infection. A Nigerian activist has counseled Roman Catholic priests with AIDS. An Anglican minister who is HIV positive speaks of how the pandemic in Africa may help reclaim Christianitys spirit of compassion. Stories emerging at a global conference on Christian mission highlight a critical intersection of faith and crisis: the ravages of AIDS in Africa and how it may reshape religious views and practices on the continent where Christianity is growing fastest. The relentless spread of AIDS in Africa already has forced many churches to grapple with sensitive subjects of sexuality and death among the young and put Roman Catholics at odds with officials over the Vaticans opposition to condoms. But some pastors and scholars believe the coming decades could push churches in Africa to reorder basic theology placing social assistance and health care ahead of traditional preaching and evangelism. Birth of a new faith movement? Such a shift, some religious leaders say, could promote more cooperation between Catholic and Protestant denominations and stir a new movement in the faith, as the 1970s growth of Catholic liberation theology in Latin America focused on social and economic inequalities. We have pastors who are spending more time burying members of their congregation than ministering to them, said Jacinta Maingi, who runs an HIV/AIDS program supported by the Geneva-based World Council of Church, which has brought together more than 700 Christian leaders, theologians and others from around the world to examine challenges facing Christianity. I tell them, 'If you dont get involved today, you wont have a congregation tomorrow. The conference, which ends Monday, has touched on dozens of issues from declining religious participation in the West to the rise of radical Islam. But none carry the urgency of the appeals to seriously confront the AIDS dilemma in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than 60 percent of the 40 million people infected with HIV worldwide. In March, a U.N. study predicted more than 80 million Africans may die from AIDS by 2025 and infections could soar to 90 million or more than 10 percent of the continents population if more isnt done to expand prevention programs and offer better access to drugs that can control the virus. There are deep theological questions, but it also touches on socio-economic questions and on women and children and the family, said Tinyiko Maluleke, a University of South Africa professor who studies religious trends. Churches are struggling with this. 'AIDS theology' Maingi urged an AIDS theology that allows sufferers to remain within the fold of the faith. We have too many pastors who think: AIDS equals sex equals immorality equals death equals hell, she said. But I ask them, Isnt the whole role of churches to prevent people from going to hell? Maingi conducts seminars around Africa with evangelical groups and mainline Protestants. Last year, she said she counseled several Roman Catholic priests in Kenya who had advanced HIV infection. It led to a closed-door meeting, approved by Kenyas top Catholic clerics, of more than 100 priests and nuns to discuss the impact of the disease on congregations and the church leadership. That was a breakthrough, said Maingi, who hopes to hold similar meetings with Roman Catholics in other countries. The Vatican opposes the use of condoms, which can block the spread of AIDS, but even some top prelates have raised questions about whether its more sinful to transmit the virus than protect sexual partners. Catholics account for nearly a third of Africas 400 million Christians and nearly every denomination has reported dramatic growth in recent decades. The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, told the conference Christianitys demographic center of gravity has drifted from Europe to northern Africa. Removing the stigma Conference participants, however, described their main challenge as altering Christian outlooks: removing the stigma of AIDS as a disease that often leaves sufferers estranged from the faith and their communities. Diseases such as AIDS today, or leprosy in earlier times, push those suffering to the margins of society, Greek theologian Athanasios Papathanasiou, told the conference. In the southern African nation of Lesotho, a church has tried to encourage the entire congregation to take tests for HIV infection. The message, said Alina Mosebo Chabane of the Lesotho Evangelical Church, is twofold: halt the spread of AIDS and unite the followers. What other response can Christians have? she asked. Can we turn away people who are suffering
Re: [Ugnet] There are other sufferers in the North
Mr. Kipenji: The only pruritus I am getting is from the disingenuity of your argument. Pray tell, if you personally do not "feel it not wise to engage in any discussions on the contents of this letter", did you post it on this forum just to clutter cyberspace with garbage? If you put your flame-thrower down for minute or two, and want to comment intelligently on what I wrote, please direct your effort at the main thrust of my argument, with regard to Obotes capacity and ability to even lifting a finger to offer financial support to Ssekabaka Muteesa II during (final) exile vs. Amin/Okello/Museveni offering Obote support Obote during the latters spells of exiles. Have a nice weekend sir. Musamize "Cowardice asks the question: is it safe?; Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, or popular -- but one must take it because it is right." Martin Luther King Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Musamize: For starters,I do not see why you shoot release you bazooka for no reason. The document I forwarded has nothing to do with me but I saw it in Monitor. The bibliography is well documented at the end of it. So your outpouring of your ethnocentricity is really unwarranted. I personally feel it not wise to engage in any discussions on the contents of this letter and incase you are still getting pruritus from it,address your concerns with the originator. Thank you Kipenjimusamize [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Kipenji: I always think and identify as a Muganda before anything else -religion, politics, gender, education, inclusive. So, I do not find it strange, neither do I take offence, nor do do I feel slighted if anyone else does so. IMHO, to do otherwisewould be putting the cart before the horse. The hogwash that "Let us talk about the 1966 problem with Mengo. Sir Edward Muteesa left Uganda for United Kingdom. Obote as the Uganda president instructed Bank of Uganda to send money to Sir Edward for upkeep. That is why Sir Edward did not end up on a welfare line in United Kingdom." is just that: unadultered Grade Z hogwash and sophistry generated by asingularly contorted mind. We all know that Obote was did not endup in a welfare line while in Tanzania. So, should we conclude that this was due to General Idi Amin's "generosity" in "instructing" the Bank of Uganda to send money to Obote for upkeep? From which account, and who was paying? Likewise, we all know that Obote did not endup on welfare in Zambia after being kicked out of power by the Okellos. We also know that Obote has never worked a day in his life in Zampia (and, for that matter, in Tanzania). Why then don't we sing the praises of Okello, and Museveni for similarly instructing the Bank of Uganda to send money for Obote's upkeep courtsey of the pizanti, aka "common man"? What is good for the goose ... MusamizeOwor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other sufferers in the north With due respect I found Yoni Okwera-Olok's letter: "Let the Government prove it does not hate the Acholis" very bothering and a true example of the problem we have in our nation today. Mr Okwera must remember to always be a Ugandan before he thinks as an Acholi. Many of his facts are not true and we need to throw away passion on this issue so that we can see through the web of Okwera's lies. Only then can we try to plant nationalism in our nation. Okwera must remember that Uganda has gone through very hard times during the Movement. Ombaci happened in West Nile, Mukura was in eastern Uganda, Kibwetere was in western Uganda. Yes, northern Uganda has had the largest suffering under the Movement. But northern Uganda is not only a land of Acholis, so let us not play a tribal game here. The last time I checked, Uganda had a people called Langis. Can Okwera tell us today that Langis are not in camps? It is quite wrong for us to get a problem in our nation and we tribalise it. The example Okwera-Olok uses of Obote and Buganda is equally false, for Buganda has never enjoyed power in Uganda than under both Obote's governments. Yes, Okwera has a right to hate Obote, but he must as well recognise that the most powerful ministers in Obote's government were actually Baganda. Okwera-Olok must remember the names of powerful Baganda like Eriya Babumba, Apolo Kironde, Luyimbazi Zaake, Kalule Ssetaala, Keefa Ssempangi, Sam Mugwiisa, Bidandi Ssali. Let us talk about Attorney Generals like G. L. Binayiisa or even Nkambo Mugerwa. Governors Bank of Uganda like Mubiru, Kikonyogo, Leo Kibirango. All these were very powerful Baganda during Obote's government. Let us talk about the 1966 problem with Mengo. Sir Edward Muteesa left Uganda for United Kingdom. Obote as the Uganda president instructed Bank of Uganda to send money to Sir Edward for upkeep. That is why Sir Edward did not end up on
[Ugnet] Opinion: Obote was no democrat, Janet Museveni dishonest, etc
Obote was no democrat In your issue of April 28-May 4, you published a letter, Obote not Nagendas equal by Peter Kawada of Makerere University. The writer asserted that John Nagenda (a presidential advisor) could not be Apollo Milton Obotes equal because the latter was MP, party president, prime minister, president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. However, Obote was never a legitimate president of Uganda. In 1967, he declared himself president through a derailed parliament. It was an internal coup. In 1980 he was declared president on the basis of torture. Ask Vincent Ssekono the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government [who was chairperson of the electoral commission]! He (Obote) brutally did this using his peg boy the late Paulo Muwanga. So, Kawada, you are wrong! Patrick Kiggundu,Masaka. Weekly Observer, 12th May 2005 First Lady not being honest Mrs Janet Museveni has hit back at ex US envoy, Mr Johnnie Carson, in an article in the local press, making a circular argument in support of a third term for her husband. During the 2001 campaigns Janet begged Ugandans to vote for her husband for the last time. She evidently has a lot of difficulty directly asking Ugandans to return her family to State House one more time, hence the veiled appeals. The part that is most unacceptable is where she says: "And all we ask is, let Ugandans discuss their destiny without those who chose to be silent when we lived in shame and now that we are marching forward as a nation, they want to decide that we should not be doing that." Janet then concludes by asking: "Are these friends or enemies?" I would expect the shame in which Ugandans live today to be felt most at State House, unless those in power have lost their sense of shame. Abject poverty, endless wars, encampment, shameless desire for life presidency and uncertainty about the future amidst the so-called stability brought about by her husbands government, constitute the most shameful of cocktails Ugandans have had to go through under any regime. Therefore, to answer her question, people like Mr Carson who bother to advise us for no gain during such a shameful era in our history are friends, not enemies. Clement LaloboJinja The political future for Uganda looks utterly bleak If unemployment can make our desperate graduates risk their lives willingly to work in deadly Iraq, do we have any tomorrow? The government said more districts should be created in West Nile such that unemployment can be checked. Can someone tell me whether Koboko is finished with proper infrastructure? Where is the administrative block? Why do we turn blind to problems of our own creation by creating more districts when the existing ones are all limping? We rant against corruption, but we cannot fight it, because we reap from it. What kind of leaders has Uganda engendered? Denis A. Toko Kampala Let govt meet our simple needs''Makerere university faces closure'' - no money.''Mulago Hospital suspends surgeries'' - no money.''War in northern uganda is likely to continue for years" - no money. However, the goverment is reserving Shs31 billion for the referendum.Referendum concerning which way we should go politically is really not a matter for debate. The Movement and the opposition should consider that we ordinary mortals are the ones suffering in their fight for supremacy. We do not care who rules, provided we get our peace and basic necessities, which we are not getting now. David Mugume KateebaMakerere University I would like to salute the government of Uganda that whereas Mulago is on the verge of closing for lack of money to buy medicine and other basic equipment for surgical operations, someone in the echelons of power is pushing for Shs3,040,000,000 (Shs10 million for each MP) as Constituency Development Fund (CDF), to be spent on the 304 Members of Parliament that already take a whopping Shs5.7 million each month, and will most likely spend 50% of the CDF on their stomachs. I am also thanking the government, given that whereas Makerere University is in dire need of Shs5.2 billion, some people in certain circles are highly charged to spend Shs7.6 billion on 66 vehicles. I advise the government to always keep to itself its proposals, should not be bothered by Public Expenditure Review meetings in the guise of consultations. It should simply spend as lavishly as it so wishes. Julius KapwepweKampala Ps: do not forget the US $150 MILLION proposed to build a State House (one that Ugaganda has done without for the last 20 years with no visible ill effects, US $300K+ rececently spent on acquiring a Hammer SUV for H.E. General Museveni, US $400K+ spent on acquiring a Range Rover just a couple months back for H.E. General Museveni, US $40 MILLION splurged on a Gulf Stream jet for the very same H.E. General Museveni, and which now needs over $5 MILLION (i.e. 12.5% of the purchase price) just for a tune up. I suppose all that
[Ugnet] Would like the verbatum article as it appeared in the BOG
A THREAT TO AFRICA'S SUCCESS STORYBostone Globe, May 1, 2005Author(s): JOHNNIE CARSON FOR THE PAST decade, Uganda has been one of Africa's success stories. It has been held up as an African poster child for economic reform, improved human rights, and a champion in the struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The man responsible for its success has been President Yoweri Museveni. Charismatic and affable, Museveni is regarded as one of the most influential leaders in Africa. However, his thirst for power and quest for a controversial third presidential term may return Uganda Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
