Museveni is indeed a shallow thinker. The sad thing is, he thinks is smart! Remember when he introduced barter trade to do international business; and those rotting bananas at Entebbe?
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>From: Assumpta Kintu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Kistmo] How M7's letter torpedoed Cancun talks
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:36:38 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Where have you been hiding all this time?
>So we finally managed to re-discover YOU?
>Oh yes! those two share plenty and I keep telling
>people they are lying in the same bed. Every time they
>wake up to act, Planet Earth loses plenty in terms of
>life, freedom, resources which they confine only to
>themselves. By the time they are done Planet Earth
>will be non-existance but they would have bought land
>on the moon and flawn there at our expense.
>Welcome back and don't disappear again and deprive us
>of your talents on the net.
>amk
>--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > M7 is erratic in thought and an intellectual
> > pretender. Incidentally, he shares many traits with
> > the current US president.
> >
> > Batera emundu, batunga obusingye!
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 9/29/2003 11:56:39 AM Eastern
> > Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > > Mw. Semakula,
> > > This is from Daily Nation.
> > >
> > > How M7's letter torpedoed Cancun talks
> > > By SUNDAY G. KISANGARA
> > > Reports that President Yoweri Museveni has
> > confirmed sending a letter to the
> > > head of Uganda's delegation at the WTO conference
> > at Cancun, urging them to
> > > support the European and US position rather than
> > that of the developing
> > > countries displays a failure to understand the
> > factors that affect poor
> > > economies in globalisation.
> > >
> > > We know that Museveni wholeheartedly embraced the
> > Agoa Bill when it was being
> > > debated in the US and offered little or no support
> > to the HOPE of Africa Bill
> > > that was floated as an alternative to Agoa.
> > >
> > > I really wonder whether he understood Agoa and its
> > implications and whether he
> > > ever tried to examine the rationale of HOPE.
> > >
> > > Museveni’s arguments against dumping in the
> > African context are rather shallow.
> > > African countries produce primarily agricultural
> > products. They have not dumped
> > > these goods on the US market. On the contrary, the
> > US has dumped agricultural
> > > products ranging from maize to soya, in Africa
> > directly, or indirectly in the
> > > form of aid.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, Asian countries have dumped
> > electronic goods on the African
> > > market, undercutting the expensive Western
> > electronic goods. This Asian dumping
> > > is in Africa's interests, given that we don’t
> > manufacture any electronic goods.
> > >
> > > What African governments should do in the short
> > term is to welcome the cheap
> > > manufactured goods from Asia and draw up a
> > strategy on how to reverse this in
> > > the long term.
> > >
> > > For 18 years, Museveni has not put a long-term
> > strategy in place for the local
> > > manufacturing sector. He is therefore responsible
> > for the Asian dumping of
> > > their manufactures on our market.
> > >
> > > Museveni also fails to understand that the main
> > reasons why African governments
> > > can’t sell their agricultural products in Western
> > markets is because of
> > > artificial restrictions caused by Europeans and US
> > government subsidies that
> > > distort the market, tilting the balance in favour
> > of Western farmers.
> > >
> > > The US legislature passed a Bill authorising
> > massive subsidies to US farmers
> > > just weeks after passing the Agoa Bill. Does Mr
> > Museveni really think this was
> > > intended to promote Agoa? Does he think Africans
> > can ever trade freely and
> > > fairly in an open market without proper reforms?
> > We all know that Museveni is a
> > > strong advocate of Uganda’s reflexive solidarity
> > with the US and EC, something
> > > that is not out of love for his country, but
> > rather, the need to entrench
> > > himself in Uganda's politics.
> > >
> > > These imperialists, out of their national economic
> > interests, have bank-rolled
> > > his regime; turned a blind eye to the chaos in our
> > country; paid no attention
> > > to Museveni's activities in Rwanda; overlooked
> > Uganda’s activities in the DRC,
> > > and remained silent on rampant corruption in the
> > country.
> > >
> > > As a result, he torpedoed the WTO conference in
> > Cancun through his letter, and
> > > the end loser in this game was the poor Ugandan
> > farmer.
> > >
> > > In his letter, Museveni showed a degree of envy
> > for emerging economies like
> > > India and Brazil. The performance of the Indian
> > economy, for example, today
> > > threatens jobs in the developed world, be it in
> > the IT sector where Western
> > > companies have out-sourced their cheap services;
> > in pharmaceutical industries,
> > > and in manufacturing. Now, companies like Rover
> > are engaged in delicate
> > > negotiations with TATA of India.
> > >
> > > We should learn from them and not look at them as
> > threats in international
> > > negotiations that affect the livelihood of 90 per
> > cent of our people.
> > >
> > > We could easily acquire technology from countries
> > like India, Malaysia, Taiwan,
> > > China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, that is
> > commensurate with our economic
> > > circumstances instead of looking to the Western
> > world.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Mr Kisangara is a Ugandan journalist resident in
> > the United Kingdom
> > >
> > > \\\\\\\"Always be a first rate version of yourself
> > instead
> > > of a second rate
> > > version of someone else.\\\\\\\\\\\\\"
> > >
> > > Njoki Paul
> > > University of Pretoria
> >
> >
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