Re: [Ugnet] RE: MTN 'corporate theft' (was FW: Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small guys)
This is just banyarwanda/banyankole finding ways to steal money from poor people. I hear MTN is full of banyankole. I also read in the article only banyankole names. Just another plot to steal pretending its court case --- Sarah Nampija <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > > Please cut the racist crap. This is theft, pure and > simple. It has nothing to do with racism. > > These young guys were simply stupid, and I hope > Ugandan companies will learn from their mistake. I > mean how do you leave a laptop, with all the > software > for two weeks!! I wouldn't trust Gordon Brown or > Tony > Blair with a safety pin, let alone trusting a > corporation. This is the 21st century guys!!! > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:20:16 -0700, john masaba > wrote: > > > > > Another thing that makes me angry. > > First they accused the company of causing > inflation > and rising dollar then the management > > was favouring the bazungu. Now they are stealing > local invoation. > > > > > > I am tired of these boers who go to Uganda and > think > we are monkeys! > > > > > > Imagine if the Zim white farmers had gone. It > would > be worse > > > > > > read below and see > > > > > > Masaba > > - Snip - > > > > From: An Metet > > > To: > > > Subject: Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small > guys > > > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:42:25 -0400 > > > > > > > > > > http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/features/buz/biz200409162.php > > > MTN sued for 'stealing' Me2U > > > by Halima Abdallah > > > Weekly Observer September 16-22, 2004 page 30 > > > The possibility that MTN customers will continue > to enjoy the Me2U services lies in the hands of a > Kampala court. > > > > - snip - > > > The company said that MTN showed interest and > even > invited it to demonstrate > > > the application in January. Digital Solutions > claims to have demonstrated the > > > programme as required and even left its laptop > containing this new technology > > > for two weeks at MTN's switch at Bugolobi. > > > Head of Information Technology at MTN invited > [the] plaintiff to tender a draft > > > commercial proposal, software provision and > support contract and updated technical > > > specifications in respect of Me2U, their plaint > reads. > > > Subsequent to the disclosure, MTN allegedly > ceased > to communicate, and later > > > launched the Me2U service > > - snip - > > > > > > ___ALL-NEW > Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > ___ > Ugandanet mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet > % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
Re: [Ugnet] NYTimes.com Article: Swallowing the Elephant
Has Baganda supported the movement or they are just a bunch of used people? 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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 7:19 PM Subject: [Ugnet] NYTimes.com Article: Swallowing the Elephant > The article below from NYTimes.com > has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The baganda have supported the Movement for the last 20 years. All they got for it was Museveni abusing their Kabaka and trashing Mmengo is becoming a cottage industry. > > Is it time for fundamental change? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ > > I HEART HUCKABEES - OPENING IN SELECT CITIES OCTOBER 1 > > From David O. Russell, writer and director of THREE KINGS > and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy > starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason > Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts. > Watch the trailer now at: > > http://www.foxsearchlight.com/huckabees/index_nyt.html > > \--/ > > > Swallowing the Elephant > > September 19, 2004 > By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. > > > > > > The moment when the Republican Party lost black America can > be given a date: Oct. 26, 1960. Martin Luther King Jr., > arrested in Georgia during a sit-in, had been transferred > to a maximum-security prison and sentenced to four months > on the chain gang, without bail. As The Times reported, > John F. Kennedy called Coretta King, expressing his > concern. Richard Nixon didn't. > > "It took courage to call my daughter-in-law at a time like > this," King's father said about Kennedy at a church rally. > "I've got all my votes and I've got a suitcase, and I'm > going to take them up there and dump them in his lap." In > 1956, Dwight Eisenhower had received nearly 40 percent of > the black vote. (I myself sported an "I Like Ike" button in > first grade.) In 1960, Nixon received 32 percent. A few > years later, as the civil-rights era heated up and the > G.O.P. pursued its "Southern strategy," blacks effectively > became a one-party constituency. > > But at what cost? Speaking to a National Urban League > audience in July, President Bush quoted an Illinois > legislator's piquant remark that "blacks are gagging on the > donkey but not yet ready to swallow the elephant," and went > on to pose a series of questions that black people > themselves have been asking: "Does the Democrat party take > African-American voters for granted? Is it a good thing for > the African-American community to be represented mainly by > one political party? How is it possible to gain political > leverage if the party is never forced to compete?" > > Of course, such questions have an unspoken corollary: Why > support a party that has written you off? > > Some black Republicans will tell you that however important > the legal reforms of the civil-rights era had been 40 years > ago, blacks today will be well served by the party of > school reform and faith-based programs, the party of the > so-called ownership society. "These are going to be the > pillars of the black community," Condoleezza Rice told me. > "In my little community in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 50's > and 60's, there were black-owned businesses everywhere, and > everybody owned their own homes. That made our community > strong. We've got to get back to that." > > Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist, > says the Republicans' low levels of black support are > unhealthy for the party - once the party of Lincoln, after > all - and for the African-American community. Part of > what's gone wrong, he told me, is that Republicans don't > advertise in black media markets. "If the conversation in > the community is predominantly Democrat, and we don't make > the argument on urban radio and we don't pay attention to > the African-American newspapers, and if we don't campaign > in the community, then why are we surprised when people > don't hear our arguments and don't vote for our > candidates?" > > What's more, many blacks are evangelical Protestants, and > tend to be more conservative than their white counterparts > on "social" issues like gay rights and capital punishment. > "The Democratic Party is not 90 percent more black friendly > than we are," Rove exclaims. > > Why, then, are blacks such down-the-line Democrats? My > Harvard colleague Michael Dawson, a descendant of a black > Democratic congressman from Chicago, agrees with Rove that > black people are socially conservative. But the issues they > vote on are racial and, especially, economic. > > When it comes to race, he points out, parties have > multilevel strategies. Republicans can appeal to white > moderates by signaling a measure
[Ugnet] Crude dudes
Crude dudes`U.S. oil companies just happened to have billions of dollars they wanted to invest in undeveloped oil reserves when Iraq presen LINDA MCQUAIGFrom his corner office in the heart of New York's financial district, Fadel Gheit keeps close tabs on what goes on inside the boardrooms of the big oil companies. An oil analyst at the prestigious Wall Street firm Oppenheimer & Co., the fit, distinguished-looking Gheit has been watching the oil industry closely for more than 25 years. Selling the modern world's most indispensable commodity has never been a bad business to be in particularly for the small group of companies that straddle the top of this privileged world. But never more so than now. "Profit-wise, things could not have been better," says Gheit, "In the last three years, they died and went to heaven They are all sitting on the largest piles of cash in their history." But to stay rich they have to keep finding new reserves, and that's getting tougher. Increasingly it means cutting through permafrost or drilling deep underwater, at tremendous cost. "The cheap oil has already been found and developed and produced and consumed," says Gheit. "The low-hanging fruit has already been picked." Well, not all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. Nestled into the heart of the area of heaviest oil concentration in the world is Iraq, overflowing with low-hanging fruit. No permafrost, no deep water. Just giant pools of oil, right beneath the warm ground. This is fruit sagging so low, as it were, that it practically touches the ground under the weight of its ripeness. Not only does Iraq have vast quantities of easily accessible oil, but its oil is almost untouched. "Think of Iraq as virgin territory This is bigger than anything Exxon is involved in currently It is the superstar of the future," says Gheit, "That's why Iraq becomes the most sought-after real estate on the face of the earth." Gheit just smiles at the notion that oil wasn't a factor in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He compares Iraq to Russia, which also has large undeveloped oil reserves. But Russia has nuclear weapons. "We can't just go over and ... occupy (Russian) oil fields," says Gheit. "It's a different ballgame." Iraq, however, was defenceless, utterly lacking, ironically, in weapons of mass destruction. And its location, nestled in between Saudi Arabia and Iran, made it an ideal place for an ongoing military presence, from which the U.S. would be able to control the entire Gulf region. Gheit smiles again: "Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath You can't ask for better than that." There's something almost obscene about a map that was studied by senior Bush administration officials and a select group of oil company executives meeting in secret in the spring of 2001. It doesn't show the kind of detail normally shown on maps cities, towns, regions. Rather its detail is all about Iraq's oil. The southwest is neatly divided, for instance, into nine "Exploration Blocks." Stripped of political trappings, this map shows a naked Iraq, with only its ample natural assets in view. It's like a supermarket meat chart, which identifies the various parts of a slab of beef so customers can see the most desirable cuts Block 1 might be the striploin, Block 2 and Block 3 are perhaps some juicy tenderloin, but Block 8 ahh, that could be the filet mignon. The map might seem crass, but it was never meant for public consumption. It was one of the documents studied by the ultra-secretive task force on energy, headed by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, and it was only released under court order after a long legal battle waged by the public interest group Judicial Watch. Another interesting task force document, also released under court order over the opposition of the Bush administration, was a two-page chart titled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfields." It identifies 63 oil companies from 30 countries and specifies which Iraqi oil fields each company is interested in and the status of the company's negotiations with Saddam Hussein's regime. Among the companies are Royal Dutch/Shell of the Netherlands, Russia's Lukoil and France's Total Elf Aquitaine, which was identified as being interested in the fabulous, 25-billion-barrrel Majnoon oil field. Baghdad had "agreed in principle" to the French company's plans to develop this succulent slab of Iraq. There goes the filet mignon into the mouths of the French! The documents have attracted surprisingly little attention, despite their possible relevance to the question of Washington's motives for its invasion of Iraq in many ways the defining event of the post-9/11 world but one whose purpose remains shrouded in mystery. Even after the supposed motives for the invasion weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda have been thoroughly discredited, talk of oil as a motive is still greeted with derision. Certainly any suggestion that
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RE: [Ugnet] Challenge: Where is content?
Omwami Lunghabo,
Congratulations. What you've accomplished is a milestone on the
indigenous digital superhighway and an encouragement to all of us
who recognize the importance of African languages as a dynamic part of
the development equation to stay the course.
All the best.
vukoni
Original Message Subject: Re:
[Ugnet] Challenge: Where is content?From: "Lunghabo Wire"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Thu, September 16, 2004 12:23
amTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]SsemakulaThanks a bunch for
those links. I will certainly forward them to those that have been
making inquiries in that direction.God Bless
uWire- Original Message -From: musamize
ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:25:15
-0700 (PDT)To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Ugnet] Challenge:
Where is content?> > Luganda web browser set>
> By Davis Weddi > It is all smiles at James Lunghabo?s
office on Kagga House in Kampala where a Luganda language Internet
browser has been made ready for use. > > Lunghabo, the
managing director of Linux Solutions, yesterday announced that the
?Kayungirizi web browser? is ready for distribution. > >
He said the software would be made available for download from the
Internet. > According to Lunghabo, the software will be launched
today during the Uganda I-Network monthly seminar in Kampala. >
> ?It will be easier for Luganda speakers to surf the Internet.
They will not have to ask for explanations since everything is
explained in Luganda,? Lunghabo said. > > Earlier this
year, The New Vision reported that local players in information and
communication technology were developing a virtual instrument to bridge
the digital divide. > > The ?Kayungirizi web browser? can
be used in computers which have windows, Linux of Unix operating
systems. > > ?With the sprouting Internet cafés within
the country where Luganda is common language, ?Kayungirizi? will be a
vital tool. Since it is free, it will be easier for many to communicate
on the Internet,? he said. > > The brains behind this
project have also initiated a Luganda word processor which will be used
with the Luganda Internet browser. > > In March, Lunghabo
and Ivan Mugabi said there were arrangements to extend ?Kayungirizi?
into other local languages like Lunyankole, Lunyoro, Luo and Ateso.
Research is underway. > > He said more than 50% of
Ugandans will be potential users of their products. > Experts
said the number of people getting access to the Internet in Uganda is
increasing and the enthusiasm of the public had created demand for
local content. > > > Published on: Wednesday, 15th
September, 2004> > Rise to the occasion and provide
Luganda web pages ... ask not what the web can do for you, but what you
can do for the web ...> > Examples:> >
http://modersmal.skolutveckling.se/luganda/> >
www.luganda.com > > www.buganda.com/language.htm>
> www.iwtc.org/luganda.html> >
www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number/ganda.html> >
www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/lap1.htm ("broken" Luganda but content is
good)> > www.ratzlaf.com/luganda.htm or> >
www.adventistreview.org/2004-1502/ecd-Discover_Luganda1.pdf>
>
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/languages/luganda.html>
> http://ecd.hopetalk.org/luganda/> >
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Luganda-english/
(we should grow this one and the one by CBOLD and the one
below)> >
www.ikuska.com/Africa/Lenguas/luganda/frases.htm> >
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LAP> >
www.studygs.net/luganda/> >
www.freelang.com/dictionnaire/luganda.html ( .. "je ne sui
pas")> >
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/uganda.html (on
Uganda)> >
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Ugeduc.html (on
Uganda)> > www.buganda.com (on Buganda)> >
www.absolutetranslations.com/english-into-luganda-translation-services.htm>
> www.translationship.com/languages/luganda.htm> >
http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?team=lg >
> www.kizito.uklinux.net (work in progress)>
>
www.languageresourceonline.com/languages/learn_luganda.html>
> http://silentnight.web.za/translate/luganda.htm>
> www.theglimpse.com/newsite/viewarticle2.asp?articleid=188
(travologue)> >
www.maps2anywhere.com/Languages/Luganda_language_course.htm (ask
me privately about cheaper tapes)> >
www.uebersetzung.at/twister/lug.htm> >
www.jergym.hiedu.cz/~canovm/vyhledav/varianty/l3.html> >
(I like this one:
www.jergym.hiedu.cz/~canovm/vyhledav/varianty/l.html)> >
www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Luganda.htm (Luganda fonts,
etc)> > www.multilingualbooks.com/luganda.html (learn
Luganda)> > www.real-africa.co.uk/F5.htm> >
www.experienceafrica.co.uk/G7.htm> >
www.bibleuganda.fslife.co.uk/indexlu.htm> >
www.geocities.com/budohicomp/luganda/index_lu.htm> >
www.africaninengland.org/Lugandapage.html> >
http://luganda.wikiverse.org/> > (or
www.worldhistory.com/wiki/L/Luganda.htm)> >
www.discoveronline.org/luganda/> >
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~malouf/nlp99/exercise05.pdf (interesting
excercise!)> >
http://home.btclick.com/easc/lugandan.html> >
http:/
[Ugnet] DP still wallowing in its inglorious past
DP still wallowing in its inglorious past Inside the democratic party: By Charles Etukuri Sept 15 - 21, 2004 Officially, the Democratic Party (DP) was formed in 1956 with Matayo Mugwanya as its President. But its actual founding was in 1954 as a Catholic Servants Welfare Association initiated by the Catholic Church DP was formed because of the perceived marginalisation of Catholics in the politics of the protectorate. In most of the Kingdoms and particularly Buganda, the Kabaka, most senior Mengo Ministers and most of the chiefs were Protestants. Though not officially pronounced, Protestantism (Anglicanism) was the state religion, Uganda being a protectorate of Britain, the home of Protestantism. Thus when Matayo Mugwanya a Catholic-Muganda attempted to run for the office of Katikkiro after the return of the Kabaka in 1955 he was favourite to win and it became clear that history was bound to be re-written in Buganda. The positions of Katikkiro (Prime Minsiter) and Omuwanika (Treasurer) were clear preserve for the Protestants. At worst a Catholic could only be allowed to be Chief Justice. Kavuma a protestant was requested by the Kabaka to step down for Kintu who was a protestant who then beat Mugwanya by four votes. Mugwanya later won a by-election to represent Mawokota in the Lukiko but was refused leave to take his seat by the Kabaka on dubious grounds that he was a member of the East Africa Legislative Assembly. It's against this background that DP was formed, to counter what was perceived as historical discrimination against Catholics. It was also an answer to the Protestant-led party, the Uganda National Congress (UNC). Uganda Peoples Congress, UPC, (a merger of the Uganda Peoples Union, UPU and UNC), which was protestant-led, embraced other religions and tribes, gaining a more national outlook than DP.DP won the first election to form the first self-government of Uganda before independence, but the election was nullified partly because Buganda had boycotted it, but really because it gave good excuse to the British who could not stand the thought of Uganda in Catholic hands. DP lost the second general election to the UPC and Kabaka Yekka (KY) alliance. Consequent defections saw its demise on the political scene as a serious political party. Catholicism and Bugandaism remain the power locus of DP and to emerge as a party boss, tradition has it that both interests have to be represented. In 1980, Yusuf Lule, a Muslim-turned-Anglican attempted to return to Uganda and contest the DP leadership, but the project flopped.Tiberio Okeny was a Catholic but not a Muganda and thus could not be permitted to go beyond Vice Chairmanship. So he broke away and founded the National Liberal Party. When Bwengye, a Munyankore, attempted to hold a delegates conference to change party leadership, the reaction of UYD members who seized the DP offices consequently thereafter, told the whole story of how far DP has moved. The Youths chanted "Aba DP Mubadde Ki? Tulwanyisa Banyankole ate Mutuleetera Bwengye ne Chapaa" (DP guys what's wrong with you? We are fighting Banyankole and you still bring for us Bwengye and Chapaa!). Any attempt to move the party forward has been met with the conservative calls for those who want to change to form their own parties, making it appear that DP has its owners! That was the verdict read out to Nasser Sebaggala, a Muganda, but unfortunately in this case, a Muslim. The situation seems to be further worsened by the fact that DP's donors and international sympathizers are largely Catholic who can't be upset. DP's emergence as a political party and a force to reckon with lies in its ability to break away from its past and market itself as a national party; not one still operating in 1954 when party politics were still being run on race or religion. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Gook "Rang guthe agithi marapu!" A karamonjong word of wisdomMSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*. ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
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Banya\'s story has got holes in it - as predicted the suffering of Acoli people is multifaced and if ICC comes we might be shocked how the entire thing has been ochestrated- it is terrible. .. http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/features/spec/spec200409161.php In 1998 I was taken away from being camp commandant. I became coordinator. They called me ambassador, and so I went to Juba to stay there. I had an office in Juba. My work now was to coordinate the Sudan government and the LRA. So there was an office, a liaison office in Juba. I became a political coordinator until 2002, when the (Operation) Iron Fist came, I was there. They now came together with Neo, the American lady, up to the camp. When this thing was read, Neo said, Kony you are very right. This thing, we should start again. How can you do without LRA? So the Arabs spoilt the peace talks. Bwanika http://www.idr.co.ug --> for your consultancy needs http://p201.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1 --- Spela poker mot verkliga människor över Internet. Över 40 000 spelare online http://www.multipoker.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Nadduli takes pupils to native healer-Fundamental change?
Nadduli takes pupils to native healer By Frederick Kiwanuka Luweero chairman Hajji Abdul Nadduli on Tuesday took seven pupils to a native healer in Bamunanika after their parents complained that the children had been attacked by demons. The pupils, from Tongo Primary School in Ziroobwe sub-county in Bamunanika, had been brought to Luweero by the Police and LCs, for safe custody after they went on rampage, demolishing two houses, insulting and assaulting villagers. While at the police Station, they refused to eat, spoke in tongues and insulted the officers and journalists who tried to take their pictures. Luweero police chief SP Ben Draza said he wanted to take them to a dispensary for a mental check-up, saying he suspected that they had a psychiatric problem. But the parents bitterly protested against Drazas proposal and contacted Nadduli (above), who ordered that the children be taken to a witchdoctor. Naddulis aides said the children were taken to Nurdin M uyanja, one of Naddulis official witchdoctors, at Katagwe in Kamira sub-county Published on: Saturday, 18th September, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Gook "Rang guthe agithi marapu!" A karamonjong word of wisdomHelp STOP spam with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Why regime change cannot be effected in Zimbabwe
ï Why regime change cannot be effected in Zimbabwe Mirror Review Blessing-Miles Tendi The principle of sovereignty is being violated almost at will by human rights defenders. International politics abounds with talk of âregime changeâ, all in the name of advancing human rights. The fall of the Saddam Hussein-led Iraqi government at the hands of the United States of America and the âcoalition of the willingâ last year is an example, in our time, of how sovereignty no longer always trumps all other considerations. However, the sovereignty defenders have not been outdone. As Western nations have prioritised human rights over sovereignty, the non-Western world has strengthened its resolve to safeguard its sovereignty from what it perceives as Western ideals. What has developed are two very entrenched and bitterly opposed camps of sovereignty defenders versus human rights defenders. Zimbabwe has not been a spectator in the sovereignty/human rights debate. In fact, Zimbabwe is, within the Southern African context, at the heart of this debate. Following its 2002 presidential election, Robert Mugabe asserted that he had been duly elected as President of Zimbabwe according to the Constitution of Zimbabwe as a sovereign state, and not the expectations of the international community. The international community argued that Zimbabweâs 2002 presidential election had not been conducted according to international norms and standards of free and fair elections. For the international community Mugabeâs presidency was and still is illegitimate. Two contradictory principles are therefore at play here: sovereignty versus human rights. Human rights defenders such as the USA continue to criticise Zimbabwe for its alleged human rights violations while Zimbabwe continues to play the sovereignty card as a rebuttal. But, in the first place, why does the USA feel that it ought not to, or has a duty not to remain silent about human rights violations within the borders of other sovereign states? The answer to this question is that over time and history the principle of sovereignty has been gradually challenged by the diffusion of the concept of universal human rights and the development of institutions intended to protect human rights. âThe peoples of the earth have entered into a universal community, and it has developed to the point where a violation of rights in one part of the world is felt everywhere.â When US President George W Bush visited Southern Africa in 2003, the USA was fresh from a âtriumphantâ invasion of Iraq. The invasion had been a relatively simple exercise and the USA was touting more regime change missions in Iran, Libya, North Korea and even Zimbabwe. But after meeting the South African leader, Thabo Mbeki, Bush left Southern Africa more tempered in his rhetoric towards Zimbabwe. Bush left convinced that Mbeki would remain behind brokering a settlement to the political crisis between the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and President Mugabeâs government over the disputed 2002 presidential election. Mbekiâs international policy that Africans could and should help themselves find their own solutions to their problems dissuaded Bush from his prior conviction of effecting regime change in Zimbabwe.However, the revelation that Christopher William Dell, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with experiences as the chief of mission in crisis ridden countries like Kosovo and Angola and as Deputy Chief of Mission in Mozambique from 1991 to 1994, added fuel to the possibility that Zimbabwe was still on Americaâs list of regimes it wanted changed. Ambassador Dell is now in Zimbabwe and he presented his credentials to President Mugabe recently but regime change is an unlikely outcome. The exportation of democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq under the Bush administration has, thus far, been immensely problematic and spoilt the USAâs appetite for another regime change project in another distant land most Americans know little or nothing about. There is a more profound, urgent and genocidal crisis unfolding in Sudan, than in Zimbabwe, which the Bush administration has been reluctant to intervene in because of the Iraq experience. It is, therefore, unlikely that Zimbabwe is high on the Bush administrationâs regime change list. Democracy has not taken root in most of the countries in which the USA has intervened. âThe US record of installing democracy is very dubious, with less than a 20 percent success rateâ notes Minxin Pei, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Americaâs real successes in exporting democracy were scored in post-World War II Germany, Japan and Italy â but even those took many decades of sustained commitment and military occupation to achieve. In Africa, also, Americaâs success rate has been dismal, as evidenced by its disastrous intervention in Somalia during the 1990s. The reality is that regime change and th
[Ugnet] Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small guys
Dear Brother Masaba, I hear loud and clear your cries in regard to Anglo-Saxon-Boer chicanery, thieving, killing etc It is a steep price we pay for these white aristocrat vampires to keep their running dogs in 'power'. Museveni, Kagame etc are kept around to enforce this kind of nonsense. Otherwise they would not be around ruling for one more day. And we would witness such destabilization that you would not hear of this nonsense of "kasita ffe twebaka ku tulo". That is unless we united like the brothers and sisters that we are but never seem to realize. H.E. Dr Kizza-Besigye, in his tribulations, when victory was literally snatched from his mouth seems to have realized the level of evil to which these monster supremacists will go. Don't you remember him being assured by Colin Powell that justice would be done? Most of our politicians and the so-called educated, unfortunately, are totally blind and naive. They get excited everyday that the 'donors' will prevail on Museveni not to hang around anymore!! Can you believe that? That these Anglo-Saxon-Boer pirates will put to jeopardy their hold on our hydro power supplies, our telecommunication systems and potential, our minerals, our land and our human capital etc In the far distant future when they replace museveni it will only be when his gonads are rotting with cancer like what happened to Mobutu's, and that replacement is going to be with another similar 'Nyampara'. We would be kidding ourselves to think otherwise!!. We get mired in snarling against one another while we are being robbed clean. Baganda vs non-Baganda, etc It all gets me sick to the stomach. We have to embrace one another and appreciate the beauty of the mosaic of all our tribes, and use that as the stepping stone to craft a power arrangement that is impossible to subvert or prostitute. But look at the Mengo shenanigans. Instead of calling on all other ethnic leaders to come for a brainstorming conference, for the good of everybody, to see how to weave new corridors of power, they alone rush in the middle of the night to Museveni to cut eating deals for a hollow 'Baganda' federo. It is all sickening. And you and our children will continue to pay. Very dearly, I am afraid. Mitayo Potosi === From : john masaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent : September 18, 2004 1:19:11 PM To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject : [Ugnet] FW: Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small guys | | | Inbox Another thing that makes me angry. First they accused the company of causing inflation and rising dollar then the management was favouring the bazungu. Now they are stealing local invoation. I am tired of these boers who go to Uganda and think we are monkeys! Imagine if the Zim white farmers had gone. It would be worse read below and see Masaba From: An Metet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small guys Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:42:25 -0400 http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/features/buz/biz200409162.php MTN sued for 'stealing' Me2U by Halima Abdallah Weekly Observer September 16-22, 2004 page 30 The possibility that MTN customers will continue to enjoy the Me2U services lies in the hands of a Kampala court. The Me2U service provided by MTN Uganda Limited is a software programme that enables peer-to-peer airtime and service fee transfers between two pre-paid mobile phone subscribers by way of a short messaging command. MTN launched the service in July but Digital Solutions Limited, a company that deals in computer software and hardware claims to own the Me2U trademark, went to court in August 2004, accusing MTN of infringing on their trademark. Its directors are Mr. Paul Bagyenda, Mr. Joseph Ogwal and Mr. Ian Mugarura. A.F. Mpanga Advocates represent Digital Sol utions. The company wants the Hight Court commercial division to stop MTN from providing Me2U services on grounds that it authored it between December 2002 and December 2003 and named it Me2U. But MTN, through Kampala Associated Advocates, denied the charge, arguing that tis sister company in South Africa uses the same service. The software was internally developed by the defendant's IT department, MTN said in a defence statement sent to court. MTN further said that Digital Solutions approached their marketing department, which was not aware that MTN was in advanced stages of developing Me2U. On trademark, MTN said that it is a generic name, which is bonafide. The defendant has every right to continue operating its own software as its proprietor,' MTN said. Digital Solutions insisted MTN got the idea from their firm when it contacted MTN with a view to interest the mobile phone giant into entering a contract for w hich it would issue a licence to MTN to use Me2U. The company said that MTN showed interest and even invited it to demonstrate the application in J
[Ugnet] MEAN PRECIPITATOR HAVOCS AGAIN
MEAN PRECIPITATOR HAVOCS AGAIN!!! The Fa..hm BOLTON ravages without restrain. Football lovers, keep these names in memo: BOLTON, BLACKBURN and FULHAM. There have you the burgers never to trust and absolutely, never to underestimate. One moment they play so lousy football that they don't even qualify for novice league, only to turn around the next moment to frustrate Mean Gunner Machine itself!!! Last time around it was the Fugerson bunches from Manchester(!) to taste the bitter stuff. This time around and without same, the Mite of North London itself! Doug, next time you see the fu'n Bolton vs an impossible, fully guard the tips. Did you see the ODDS?!? Impossible, is the word! BUT, WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE Gunners gun'am ciao noc'lVeckans Pollenprognos hittar du nu på MSN Väder Klicka här ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Museveni warns Mengo and compares UPC to Ziizi
Museveni warns Mengo Sunday Vision - 19/9/2004 --Join Movts enemies at your peril President By Jude Etyang And Henry Mukasa President Yoweri Museveni has warned Buganda kingdom against joining anti-Movement groups, saying it will be at their peril. Museveni said he is not scared at all by Mengos threats that it would not support him because of the failed talks on Bugandas demand for a federal status. He said he has information that the inner circle in Mengo didnt support him in 1996 and the past presidential election in 2001. I am not scared. I dont care. My support is from my work. What I have done attracts votes. If Mengo wants to join anti-Movement groups its their decision. We (government) are not fighting Mengo. If they tread a line of cooperating with the Movement we shall work together. If they take a wrong line we shall oppose them, as you know its not new for us to oppose those in the wrong. Museveni was Saturday morning addressing the nation on the governme nt-owned Star FM. However, his address was interrupted for over 30 minutes when the 50-year-old stations equipment failed. On resumption, the host, Seruga Matovu, said the station was celebrating half a century with equipment it was began with. The President took the technical glitch lightly but asked Prime Minister, Apollo Nsibambi, who together with several ministers were in the studios, to explain why the station had obsolete equipment. You are celebrating 50 years with 50-year-old equipment. I didnt know that I was using equipment that is 50 years old, Museveni said. He said consultation showed that only sh4b was needed to turn around the station. He, however, wondered whether the mishap was staged for him to act upon. Nsibambi said the information minister will soon present to Cabinet a paper proposing the transformation of the station and directed the Finance State minister, Mwesigwa Rukutana, to ensure that the money is provided. Mus eveni accused Mengo, the seat of Buganda Kingdom, of using its radio station CBS FM to abuse him and said he hasnt responded for he knows there is a time for everything. He said people spend more time politicking than engaging in productive work. On talks between the government and Mengo, Museveni said if the kingdom officials were flexible they would have achieved their demands and at the same time cater for the national interests. On Movement historicals deserting him, Museveni said he cannot work with people who dont accept collective responsibility. He said in all his struggles, there have been people departing from his line but he has marched on. Politics is a belief. I cant work with bigheaded people. Because you have told them to leave something he becomes an enemy. I am used to enemies. He scoffed at threats by UPC that its re-organising to regain state power saying the atrocities they committed while in power are contagious. M useveni compared UPC to an insect, ziizi, that has a nasty smell and said that anybody who touched UPC would smell like it. UPC is dead. The atrocities they committed here are contagious. Anybody who touches them will smell, he said. Ends Published on: Sunday, 19th September, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
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Tests The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] The rise of the tough guys
On The Mark With Alan Tacca The rise of the tough guys Sept 19 - 25, 2004 There is no wind that blows nobody no good so goes the saying. Come to think of it, even in the most depressing of situations (like the death of an exemplary soul who was loved by all), there is an undertaker delicately measuring the grief, and who will provide a special coffin at a special price. Perhaps a little more often than not your average undertaker politicians will jump on anything that comes with the wind as long as it could be remotely useful. Take the recent hostage drama in Kampala. You may follow President Musevenis cue and call it a circus, but you probably will not share the gate money. A windfall like that, and suddenly his banana republic looks like a serious country. At this particular point in the history of human civilization, every serious country must face the threat of terrorism. And in Uganda, where thousands upon thousands of self-employed citizens have turned Ludo into a full-time occupation, and a country where a region wounded by eighteen years of war has failed to mature into a disaster area, the question of seriousness had certainly become an issue. The exhibition at the Ministry of Lands on Parliament Avenue may not have been on the scale of Beslan, a school building siege that left the teeth of Russian President Putin grating with rage, but then Rome was not built in one day. Once we are on the list of serious countries, only the resources of each of us will limit how far we can march with the times. Inspired by the fantasies of a government minister, many youngsters were already getting confused whether to become rocket scientists or to go for Hollywood heroics against the likes of Joseph Kony. Now the climate definitely favours Hollywood. Several weeks ago, an ordinary-looking man jumped out of his car and shot dead a necklace thief on Luwum Street. Calmly, he picked up the necklace, returned it to his companion (the owner) and drove to the police station to report his exploit. A few eyebrows were raised, but some people got impressed, and the episode must have got a number of our more pompous braggadocios thinking: if an ordinary-looking man could raise himself to this glorious act, why not real men? Why not the men known to wield power? This is what free enterprise is all about. You bring guts and an ego on the scene; I bring a stronger mixture. The graying (and in some cases estranged) old Museveni friends had their day in the Luweero Triangle. So you have the presidents new cronies claiming slices of the present action. One spears a loitering nephew in the afternoon; another relishes shooting dead a car junk parts hoodlum in the morning. In America, too, you have noticed that the mastery of the arts of war and killing are big on the screen. Where was George W. Bush when the Americans were killing the Vietnamese? If John Kerry was with his fellow countrymen in the heat, did he fight gallantly enough? And which of the two men will more competently lead their country in tomorrows battles against terrorism? Then in Russia, where the resources of Mr. Putin (being a former spy chief) cannot be doubted, the President still feels a need to prove his mettle by vowing to annihilate the Chechen terrorists. Kenya and Tanzania got their fiery baptism a couple of years ago, with terrorist attacks in Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. Then Kenya has just received another dose with its drivers held hostage in Iraq. The Parliament Avenue event should give Uganda an opportunity to catch up. Some people worry about this brave new world, because with the talk of terrorists in the air, the men of power who express themselves more readily through violence are likely to be in accelerated ascendancy. If it is street corner hoodlums now, why not opposition politicians tomorrow? And what if the people decided to shoot all those officials who steal, not car mirrors, but billions of their money from the treasury? It is a fear President Museveni will probably not take seriously. © 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* ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Black Muslims and the Sudan
Black Muslims and The Sudan By Salim Muwakkil (In these Times, September 13) It has taken a genocide in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands have been killed in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and countless more continue to die in disease-ridden refugee camps, to force influential segments of the black activist community to put aside their differences and acknowledge a long history of ongoing atrocities in the Sudan. For years, some black activists have charged the Islamic government of Sudan with supporting Arab militias that raid Christian and traditionalist areas of southern Sudan and force their black African captives into slavery. Others argued that those charges were manufactured primarily to justify Western intervention in the region. Initially, the disagreement was centered in the Black Nationalist community and, to put it simply, was divided between nationalists who were Muslim and those who were Pan-Africanists. Many Muslim nationalists believed the charges of slavery were fabricated for the purpose of anti-Islamic propaganda. But Pan-African nationalists found more than a grain of truth in the charges and pushed the issue into the public light. The apparent sectarian character of the militia raids eventually energized various Christian groups and they began mobilizing in opposition to the Sudanese government. The ardent support of these often right-wing groups further clouded the issue for many black activists who suspected their new allies had ulterior motives. Thus, the effort to bring attention to the issue of slavery in the Sudan was crippled. But a dedicated group of pan-African nationalists continued to push the cause and consistently condemned the Sudan's Islamic regime; some blamed prominent black Muslims for helping to keep the issue off the table. 'Black Muslims were reluctant to criticize the Islamist government in the Sudan, which is based in the north in Khartoum, because of their religious and other ties," says Nate Clay, talk-show host, newspaper publisher and one of the most vocal members of this pan-Africanist group. Clay is gratified that so many black activists, politicians and celebrities have been willing to get arrested in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C. in the last few months to protest the atrocities in Darfur. But he also is a little disgusted. 'What really bothers me about this sudden flash of consciousness is that they've only become interested in the Sudan in the face of the white media's interest in the issue," he says. 'Where were they when the Sudanese government and its Arab militia were busy killing 2 million black Africans in the southern Sudan?" He believes African-American leaders were intimidated by black Muslims in particular, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. 'Farrakhan knows about this and I've heard him condemn Arab racism. But he talks out of both sides of his mouth. I think he has become too dependent on Arab money." But the latest conflict in Darfur pits Muslim against Muslim. As Eric Reeves reported in the September 20 issue of In These Times (See 'Deathly Silence," p. 8), members of the tribal groups most affected by the ethnic cleansing are Muslim, as are the government and its Arab militia (the Janjaweed). Although the government reportedly got involved to suppress political opposition, the conflict now seems to be driven by ethnic, or at least cultural, animosities. Many members of the Janjaweed are dark-skinned Africans who identify with Arab culture. They would more accurately be called Arabized militia. Since the religious component has been neutralized, several African-American Islamic groups have joined the protest against the Sudanese government's treatment of the Muslim tribal groups that don't identify themselves as Arabs. In fact, one group Project Islamic H.O.P.E. has called for Islamic governments and organizations to protest Khartoum's action in Darfur. 'These Arab and Muslim leaders seek out our support on issues like Palestinian rights, religious racial profiling of civil liberties violations and American treatment of Islamic countries, but these Muslim leaders aren't saying anything about the genocide of the African population in the Sudan," says Najee Ali, founder of Islamic H.O.P.E. The issue also sparked some heated discussions at the recent convention of the American Society of Muslims, the largest group of indigenous Muslims in the country. The situation in Darfur is forcing a focus on an issue the Muslim world has tended to avoid: race. And although the Western media's depiction of the current conflict as one between Arab and African groups is too simplistic, there is a well-documented history of anti-black Arab bias in the region that has seldom been explored. So, while Darfur has closed gaps between black activists, it has opened one between Muslims. Too bad it required the tragedy of another African genocide to provoke a conversation about Arab racism that is long past overdue. Sa
[Ugnet] The growing genocide in Darfur testifies to the worlds disgrace
Deathly Silence The growing genocide in Darfur testifies to the world's disgrace By Eric Reeves Refugees at the Kounougo camp, in eastern Chad. Sudan's army has vowed to fight any foreign forces sent into its western Darfur region and called a U.N. resolution to resolve the crisis "a declaration of war." Darfur continues its relentless slide into greater catastrophe, with no adequate humanitarian or diplomatic response on the horizon. More than 100,000 displaced Sudanese have died, and another 2,000-plus die daily. By the year's end, the death toll could stand at more than 400,000. Conditions in the refugee camps in neighboring Chad range from poor to appalling. Many of the displaced personsperhaps more than 1 millionhave no resources whatsoever and are dying agonizing, invisible deaths. The National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum, which precipitated the genocide in response to the insurgency that began in February 2003, has continued to impede humanitarian relief. They recently grounded U.N. World Food Program planes, even though many children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition may perish because of a single day's delay in food. More disturbingly, Khartoum has inaugurated a policy of forcible expulsions from camps for the displaced. The African tribal populations that are the targets of Khartoum's genocide are being forced, typically violently, to return to 'their villages." But the villages of these mainly Fur, Massaleit and Zaghawa peoples largely have been destroyed. As numerous aid workers have observed, forced return is a death sentence: There is no food and people returning are easy prey for the marauding Arab militia forces, known as the Janjaweed. Janjaweed predations continue unchecked and have reached new levels of cruelty. Numerous reports, including from the small contingent of African Union ceasefire monitors, offer accounts of children being hurled serially into the flames of burning huts and buildings. One African Union report includes a picture of the charred remains of eight schoolgirls who were chained together. And as a new Amnesty International report makes clear, rape continues to be used as a weapon of war. Khartoum's culpability in this disaster is beyond dispute. Any lingering doubts about the responsibility of the regime were incinerated in July by a Human Rights Watch report that revealed internal government documents indicating Khartoum both armed and coordinated the Janjaweed. Despite these grim reports, the only meaningful actionhumanitarian intervention accompanied by necessary military protectionlooks unlikely. The reality of genocide has not galvanized U.S. action. A bipartisan congressional resolution unanimously declared the killings in Darfur to be genocide and called on the Bush administration to do so as well. The State Department, however, continues to dither, denying that such a declaration would change anything. This is not true: Article 1 of the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention obliges contracting parties (including the United States and all members of the U.N. Security Council) to 'prevent" genocide. Yet the burdens and consequences of U.S. military intervention in Iraq make U.S. leadership at this critical moment politically unimaginable. An appropriate response from the United Nations is no more promising. An already weak U.N. Security Council Resolution, proposed by the United States, survived only after the removal of a meaningless threat of sanctions against Khartoum. Both veto-wielding China and Pakistan abstained in the Darfur resolution vote, urging that Khartoum be given more time to disarm the Janjaweed. China is motivated in particular by its huge investments in oil development in Sudan. The Arab League subsequently weighed in with a similar demand, while the Organization of the Islamic Conference fully sided with Khartoum out of religious and anti-Western solidarity. The reality on the ground is that more time simply makes possible greater incorporation of the Janjaweed into Khartoum's regular military and police. The genocidaires will control the camps. All this occurs on the 10th anniversary of the world's shameful failure to respond in Rwanda. Peace talks between Khartoum and the insurgency groups may begin in late August. Their chances of yielding meaningful results are negligible, given the appeasing words from Kofi Annan's new special representative for Sudan, Jan Pronk, who declared in early August that he found security improving in camps for the displaced and a regime responding in good faithdespite massive evidence to the contrary. This is all the encouragement Khartoum needs to remain intransigent. Annan apparently is convinced that the Security Council will be embarrassingly divided on Darfur and thus ineffectual in its response. He has consequently settled on a course of expediency and is looking for ways to ensure that the August 30 deadline of the Security Council Resolution doesn't have the force of a true deadline. The
[Ugnet] NYTimes.com Article: Swallowing the Elephant
The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] The baganda have supported the Movement for the last 20 years. All they got for it was Museveni abusing their Kabaka and trashing Mmengo is becoming a cottage industry. Is it time for fundamental change? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ I HEART HUCKABEES - OPENING IN SELECT CITIES OCTOBER 1 From David O. Russell, writer and director of THREE KINGS and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts. Watch the trailer now at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/huckabees/index_nyt.html \--/ Swallowing the Elephant September 19, 2004 By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. The moment when the Republican Party lost black America can be given a date: Oct. 26, 1960. Martin Luther King Jr., arrested in Georgia during a sit-in, had been transferred to a maximum-security prison and sentenced to four months on the chain gang, without bail. As The Times reported, John F. Kennedy called Coretta King, expressing his concern. Richard Nixon didn't. "It took courage to call my daughter-in-law at a time like this," King's father said about Kennedy at a church rally. "I've got all my votes and I've got a suitcase, and I'm going to take them up there and dump them in his lap." In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower had received nearly 40 percent of the black vote. (I myself sported an "I Like Ike" button in first grade.) In 1960, Nixon received 32 percent. A few years later, as the civil-rights era heated up and the G.O.P. pursued its "Southern strategy," blacks effectively became a one-party constituency. But at what cost? Speaking to a National Urban League audience in July, President Bush quoted an Illinois legislator's piquant remark that "blacks are gagging on the donkey but not yet ready to swallow the elephant," and went on to pose a series of questions that black people themselves have been asking: "Does the Democrat party take African-American voters for granted? Is it a good thing for the African-American community to be represented mainly by one political party? How is it possible to gain political leverage if the party is never forced to compete?" Of course, such questions have an unspoken corollary: Why support a party that has written you off? Some black Republicans will tell you that however important the legal reforms of the civil-rights era had been 40 years ago, blacks today will be well served by the party of school reform and faith-based programs, the party of the so-called ownership society. "These are going to be the pillars of the black community," Condoleezza Rice told me. "In my little community in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 50's and 60's, there were black-owned businesses everywhere, and everybody owned their own homes. That made our community strong. We've got to get back to that." Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist, says the Republicans' low levels of black support are unhealthy for the party - once the party of Lincoln, after all - and for the African-American community. Part of what's gone wrong, he told me, is that Republicans don't advertise in black media markets. "If the conversation in the community is predominantly Democrat, and we don't make the argument on urban radio and we don't pay attention to the African-American newspapers, and if we don't campaign in the community, then why are we surprised when people don't hear our arguments and don't vote for our candidates?" What's more, many blacks are evangelical Protestants, and tend to be more conservative than their white counterparts on "social" issues like gay rights and capital punishment. "The Democratic Party is not 90 percent more black friendly than we are," Rove exclaims. Why, then, are blacks such down-the-line Democrats? My Harvard colleague Michael Dawson, a descendant of a black Democratic congressman from Chicago, agrees with Rove that black people are socially conservative. But the issues they vote on are racial and, especially, economic. When it comes to race, he points out, parties have multilevel strategies. Republicans can appeal to white moderates by signaling a measure of compassion about problems of race. "On the other hand," Dawson observes, "you can go into places such as Florida and try systematically to disenfranchise poor black votes." The real watershed, in his view, was the 1980 election. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford tried to build up, and win over, a black middle class; the Reagan team figured they could do better by shutting out the black political establishment and mobilizing white conservatives. "Black elites were shocked to find out that with Reagan and his advisers, there were no longer 'good Negroes' and 'bad Negroes,' " Dawson says. What the big-tent rhetoric ignores is
[Ugnet] Mu7 & VP Play "Bad Cop - Good Cop": One Abuses, the other Soothes
Govt willing to work with Buganda VP THANK YOU: Bukenya (left) receives chicken from Haji Musisi of Busiro during the prayers (those who have will receive more ...) By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe THE Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, yesterday said the Government was willing to work with Buganda to fight poverty, which he said was a more pressing issue than politics. Before I left for California, I called the Kabaka and asked him for about five acres of land for investors to build their factories. The Government wants the Kabaka, Buganda Kingdom and the entire country to concentrate more on fighting poverty which is a more pressing issue, he said. Bukenya was speaking at his country home in Kakiri during a thanksgiving ceremony for returning home safely. Hundreds of people welcomed him to his village on a hill which over-look s upland rice plantations. Bukenya said, We want the Kabaka to have some financial base. He needs to be like His Highness, the Agha Khan, so that he can help his people. Mengo and the Government were recently engaged in talks over federalism but the talks broke down over disagreements on the composition of the Lukiiko (parliament) and the role of the Kabaka. Bukenya said even the opposition should work with the Government to consolidate the achievements of the National Resistance Movement. All of us must work towards changing the lives of our people. When I was in California, a group of Ugandans wanted to demonstrate but I told them that the most important thing was helping their communities to fight poverty. I told them to come and join hands with us so that we can develop the country, he told the cheering crowd who frequently bellowed, movement ebeewo (let it stay). Bukenya said about six investors would be in the country in October and would e ngage in processing fruits and packaging them for exportation. Published on: Saturday, 18th September, 2004 (ps: who had planned to demonstrate, and over what?) Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out!___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
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Dont blame us for our own suffering Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:38:20 + Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Dont blame us for our own suffering By Joel Ohuma Sept 21, 2004 Mr Robert K. Rutaagi in his Museveni Does Not Need A Legacy, which appeared on Monday blamed people of the north for their woes and mendaciously suggests that this was due to loss of power by the northerners. This, to me spawns nothing short of umbrage, since it is the same old divisive lies that have been recycled and regurgitated time and again since 1986. Mr Rutaagi, instead of limiting himself to the principal issues of which he disagreed with columnist Munini Mulera, asserted rather blithely that, The northern Uganda war is a nemesis, not so much because of Museveni alone but because of all those Ugandans who plunged themselves into self denial after losing political power and chose to inflict incorrigible misery to themselves and their own people(sic). Soldiers heading for convoy protection duty Gulu. The army continues to be accused of abuses(File photo) This, to the Movement faithful, though outrageously apocryphal, has become a standard feature of their explanation of the problems in northern Uganda. The implication is that the northerners brought on themselves the on-going tragedy that has led to the death of thousands of innocents that by any moral measure have bordered on genocide. This line of reasoning would have been comical, were it not tragic. Unfortunately such remarks often go unchallenged, especially since the issue spawns such tepid response from other Ugandans and the international community that a remonstration of this kind is almost unheard of. Rutaagi lionises his hero the President and rhapsodises the Movement, without taking a critical look at the man, which is fine, were he not to pejoratively level the tragedy in the north a comeuppance. For the record, I reproduce below an edited body of evidence produced by one Ugandan in a discussion on the conflict in northern Uganda. I have not included his name but in this mans comment Rutaagi will clearly see who is culpable, and hopefully he will understand that, stating facetiously, as he does, that the problem is an outcome of self denial due to loss of power is unfortunate and inaccurate. The problems are more nuanced that is often admitted largely due to a concatenation of political and military factors. It must be stated though that, the people in the north do not like rebel leader Joseph Kony one bit, contrary to official cant. But you will see that, as this gentleman demonstrates, Museveni and Kony are two sides of the same coin: (1) Since there are numerous reports about the activities of Kony, I will provide a few evidence about Musevenis (I can also provide similar ones on Kony): (a) Terror and massacres of Muslims in Ankole in June 1979 (Uganda government Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights:31). (b). Abductions and assassinations of civilians (See, Amnesty International (AI), Uganda (August 1981;1); AI, Uganda: Six Years After Amin; Muwanga and Gombya, The Pearl of Africa is Bleeding). (c). Attacks on civilian vehicles (See Africa Research Bulletin (Dec. 1-31, 1981: 6289BC). d). Massacres of civilians, while disguised as soldiers (Lance-Sera Muwanga, Violence in Uganda: What is Inside Musevenis Uganda; Muwanga and Gombya, The Pearl of Africa is Bleeding. See also what Kayira reported after a meeting with Museveni at the NRA command post in Luwero: There were no less than 50 heads at a quick count. We found Museveni and the NRA soldiers inside the ring of human heads. He told us while pointing at the heads: You see those heads? That is how I deal with those who do not agree with me This is cited in The Pearl of Africa is Bleeding..e) Abductions and kidnapping (See Uganda: The Fall of President Obote, Africa Confidential (1985) For similar acts of terror and atrocities see Ogenga Otunnu, An Historical Analysis of the Invasion of Rwanda, in Adelman and Suhrke, eds, The Path of a Genocide in Northern Uganda; Otunnu, Refuge, 17, 3 (1998); Uganda Law Society, Matters of Concern to Uganda Law Society (1990); AI, Deaths in the Countryside: Killings of Civilians by the Army (1990); AI. The Failure to Safeguard Human Rights (1992); Acholi Religious Leaders, Let My People Go (2001). See also Musevenis address to Langi and Acholi RCs and elders in the New Vision, March 28, 1994. In his address, he reluctantly pointed out that Sometimes, our own indisciplined soldiers took advantage of the breakdown of law and order caused by the rebellion and committed atrocities against the civilian population... Mass rapes and other atrocities are also mentioned in the New Vision, of January 29 and February 22, 1988 etc. It is important to examine the following: When the war of pacification/genocide started and conditions that sustain
[Ugnet] Byaama Bya Buganda Vol 1 #3
Byaama bya Buganda Ensulo yamagezi ku bya Buganda Vol. 1 No. 3, Sebutemba 7, 2004 EBIRI MUNDA Abaganda basanyukidde Mmengo okuva mu kusabiriza Federo Mmengo tenafuuna nkola nambulukufu kwetambuliza mirimu Pulofeesa Ssemakula takyeesiga Museveni kumukuuma Ekirowoozo: Buganda esobola okuwamba Federo nga tekubye mundu Abaganda basanyukidde Mmengo okuva mu kusabiriza Federo Mukono (Kyaggwe), Mengo (Kyadondo), ne Boston (America) Abaganda bangi, nga mwemuli nAbataka abawera, basanyukidde nnyo ekya Mmengo okusalawo neva mu kuteseganya ne Yoweri Museveni ku bya Federo. Ensonga eyabadde esinga okuweebwa abo betwatukiridde yabadde nti, ne Mengo byebadde esaba byenyini Abaganda bibatwaala mu buwambe. Ku luno twayogeddeko nabe Mukono, mu Kyaggwe, ku lwa Sebutemba 3. Twasoose kwogera ne Onyango eyatutegezezza nti Mujapadoola nalyooka agamba nti, Nze ndowooza abe Mengo naffe abatali Baganda batukola bubi bwebakiriziganya ne Museveni ku Federo emboofu. Ffe Abaganda tunabaddawa senga obwaavu bunabatuusa okugamba nti buli atali Muganda yeyabubaletera? Nze mukulaba kwange, babadde balowoleeza kumpi. Berabidde nti Museveni muntu era ajja kuvaawo ate nga Abaganda ggwanga era bazaala?. Nnamukadde Ssebuyira eyabadde ava okukyaalako e Katosi yasanyukidde nnyo Katikkiro ne John Katende byebayogedde mu Lukii ko. Ddaaki abe Mmengo batandise okugondera Ssabasajja, eyatukakasa nti Federo entuufu, yeeyo, ekomyaawo Obuganda ba Jajja ffe bwebatulekera. Wabula si Federo enyweeza Bidandi Ssali ne Museveni byebatuleetera. Kati vva wano ogende okutukira ddala e Katosi oba e Nazigo, ebyaalo bijjudde Abanankole nAbanarwanda Museveni baleese wano jjo lya balamu, kati bebafuga Abaganda. Ate nga mu Ankole ne Bunyoro Abaganda bagoba bagobe? Kirungi nnyo Ssemwogerere ne Katende obutateeka Mutebi mu byafaayo nga Kabaka eyagabula Buganda eri Abanankole. Mu Bulange yo agavaayo simangu nnyo kutegeera. Enseke zaffe e Mmengo zitutegeeza nti waliwo bangi abasanyuse okulaba nti, nabatugamba bulijjo nti Museveni mukwaano nnyo gwa Baganda, alaze nti ddala tebamutegeera butegeezi. Naye ate waliwo abalala, naddala abo abaganyulwa ennyo mu nkola eriwo e kati Mengo, abawotokerevu era nga bakyanyigiriza nti, Ssebo, kano akakisa tetuusaana kukasubwa. Tutwaale, konna omusajja kaatuwa. Nga ebyo bikyaali awo, enseke zaffe mu NRM zitutegeeza nti Museveni yalagidde dda Amelia Kyambadde, Richard Muhinda, ne Naava Nnabagesera okukozesa ku ssente okukomyaawo Mengo mu kuteesa. Wabula tetumanyi oba ensimbi zino zitandise okuwa ba Tudeeyo tuteese amaanyi e Mengo. Okumanya Abaganda abali ku mawanga bwebalowooza, twakubidde omuzaana wa Kabaka, Mbatudde owe Boston, eyabadde ku mikolo mu Seattle, America. Yayimye ku buli wooli nkufuna eya roaming natugamba nti, Abaganda bangi mu America babadde nendoowoza nti abe Mengo Museveni yabagula dda. Era kyabewunyisizza nokubasanyusa ennyo okulaba nga John Katende ayogera mu ddoboozi eryomwanguka nti ebyokuteesa tubivuddemu. Naye Mbatudde yalabudde nti, okuva ku bulimba bwa Museveni bweyakamala okwelabirako mu Seattle, atya nti, ono asobola okuba katemba kuzanyira ku bwongo bwa Baganda. Yabitadde mu Luzungu nti, The jury is still out. Remember that the people involved were buddies at Dar es Salaam University. So, you cant rule out games. Ekivvunurwa nti, Amagi teganaalulwa. Jjukira nti abali mu bintu bino ennyo baziluunda bonna mu Yunivasite ye Dar es Salaam. Kale ekyobuzannyo tosobola kumala gakigaaana. Mmengo tenafuuna nkola nambulukufu kwetambuliza mirimu Kampala (Kyadondo) Ebivudde mu kubuliriza kwa kakensa waffe okumaaze sabiiti 9 bilaga nti Mmengo talina nkola nambulukufu kwetambuliza mirimu. Mu kubuliriza kuno kakensa waffe, yakyaalira Bulange nayogerako nAbaganda abaali bbaze okukola ku nsonga zaabwe era nabakozi mu Gavumenti ye Ssabasajja. Ate era yeebuza ne ku nseke zaffe mu Bulange era nokukozesa bwino eyafunibwa okuva ku NRM Secretariat. Essira okubuliriza kwaalissa ku nnyingo ssatu. Esooka, yenkola omuyitibwa okufuna omulimu oba obuvunanyizibwa e Mmengo. Eyokubiri, yenkola yokuzuula era nokukangavula abo abalagajalira omulimu gwaabwe. Neyokusatu ye ya accountability, ekitegeeza nti buli muntu asalawo ku mirimu ne sente bya Kabaka atekwa okunyonyolanga, biki byeyasalawo, lwaki yasalawo mu ngeri gyeyasalwo, era ne sente ezakozesebbwa wezaalaga. Ku byokufuna emirimu e Mmengo, tewali nkola nambulukufu. Wabula twakizudde nti waliwo abemulugunyaako eddako era Katikkiro nalangilira nti abagala emirimu bajje okwewandiisa ku Bulange. Naye tewaalabisewo bujulizi nti bekikwatako balina kyebakolawo ekyenkalakalira. Okutwaalira awamu, Mengo talanga mirimu. Wabula twakizudde nti CBS oluusi yo elanga, olwovuganya okwamaanyi okuliwo ne zi radio endala. Mu buwanga bwa Buganda Sabasajja tanyagibwa Muganda. Era waliwo Omugave omu eyabulankanya ebya Ssekabaka Muteesa emyaaka nga 45 egiyise naye nakati akyajj
[Ugnet] Barbarians at the Digital Gate
Jeff Crosby September 18, 2004 September 19, 2004 Barbarians at the Digital GateBy TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN and SAUL HANSELL ARSTEN M. SELF, who oversees a children's computer lab at a youth center in Napa, Calif., spends about a half-hour each morning electronically scanning 10 PC's. He is searching for files and traces of code that threaten to hijack the computers by silently monitoring the children's online activities or by plastering their screens with dizzying - and nearly unstoppable - onslaughts of pop-up advertisements. To safeguard the children's computers, Mr. Self has installed a battery of protective software products and new Web browsers. That has kept some - but by no means all - of the youth center's digital intruders at bay. "You would expect that you could use these systems in a safe and sane way, but the fact of the matter is that you can't unless you have a fair amount of knowledge, time to fix the problems and paranoia," he said. The parasitic files that have beset Mr. Self and other frustrated computer users are known, in tech argot, as spyware and adware. The rapid proliferation of such programs has brought Internet use to a stark crossroads, as many consumers now see the Web as a battlefield strewn with land mines. At the same time, major advertisers and big Internet sites are increasingly tempted by adware's singular ability to display pop-up ads exactly when a user has shown interest in a particular service or product. "Adware has its place, but to grab market share I think a lot of companies are doing things that make consumers feel betrayed," said Wayne Porter, co-founder of Spyware-Guide.com, a Web site that tracks adware and spyware abuses. "I think we're at a very important inflection point that is going to decide how the Internet operates." The exact definitions of spyware and adware, like many things in the ever-changing world of the Internet, remain open to debate. But spyware generally refers to programs that reside in hidden corners of a computer's hard drive and record confidential information like keystrokes, passwords and the user's history of Web site visits. Some of the most insidious versions have to be installed on a computer by someone other than the user - maybe a jealous spouse or lover. Adware, for its part, marries old-fashioned highway billboard pitches to online distribution and the possibility of immediate response. Adware vendors range from fly-by-night operators who hawk pornography and gambling, wherever they can, to more legitimate companies like the Claria Corporation, which tries to aim its ads at the consumers deemed most likely to respond, based on their surfing habits. Claria alone has about 29 million users running its adware products on their computers, according to comScore MediaMetrix, an Internet research firm. That compares with 1.5 million users in early 2000, according to the company. Some spyware creeps onto a computer's hard drive unannounced, often by piggybacking onto other software programs that people download or by sneaking through backdoor security gaps in Web browsers when consumers visit certain sites. In other cases, consumers technically agree to download the software, but critics say that the disclosures are hard to find. FOR all the differences between spyware and adware, their impact on computers is pretty much the same: screens transformed into digital versions of Times Square, and overburdened PC's that operate much more slowly as they struggle with random and uncontrollable processes prompted by the hard drive. Small wonder that consumers are throwing up their hands in despair. "From what consumers are telling us, they feel like their computers are being taken away from them," Mr. Porter said. "We have some consumers saying it makes them hesitant to use the Internet at all because of what an annoyance it has become." Reliable data about the booming adware market is scant, but consumer complaints have become frequent and vociferous. Privacy watchdogs like the Center for Technology and Democracy in Washington have called for closer regulatory scrutiny of the industry. Legislation seeking to protect consumers from abusive adware and spyware has been introduced in Congress. One state, Utah, has even outlawed the installation of any software without users' consent. Consumers can use some tools to fight adware and spyware themselves. Software products like Spybot-Search & Destroy, Spy Sweeper and Adaware can zap some intrusive programs on a hard drive and block attempts to trespass onto a PC. And many analysts like Mr. Porter recommend that consumers switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox, a free browser that they say has fewer security vulnerabilities. (Microsoft has issued software patches for Explorer and released an update to Windows XP that makes it harder for consumers to download software unknowingly.) But critics of the adware industry say solutions to the problems
[Ugnet] NYTimes.com Article: Users Find Too Many Phish in the Internet Sea
The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ I HEART HUCKABEES - OPENING IN SELECT CITIES OCTOBER 1 From David O. Russell, writer and director of THREE KINGS and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts. Watch the trailer now at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/huckabees/index_nyt.html \--/ Users Find Too Many Phish in the Internet Sea September 20, 2004 By DAVID F. GALLAGHER A recent flood of fake Citibank e-mail messages demonstrates the growing arsenal of tricks used by online "phishers." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/technology/20phish.html?ex=1096697130&ei=1&en=b01210a6dc040480 - 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=SubscriptionT1&ExternalMediaCode=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 ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] NYTimes.com Article: No Stars, Just Cuffs
The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ I HEART HUCKABEES - OPENING IN SELECT CITIES OCTOBER 1 From David O. Russell, writer and director of THREE KINGS and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts. Watch the trailer now at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/huckabees/index_nyt.html \--/ No Stars, Just Cuffs September 19, 2004 By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON - In World Wars I and II, gold star mothers were the queens of their neighborhoods, the stars in their windows ensuring that they would be treated with great respect for their sacrifice in sending sons overseas to fight and die against the Germans and Japanese. Instead of a gold star, Sue Niederer, 55, of Hopewell, N.J., got handcuffed, arrested and charged with a crime for daring to challenge the Bush policy in Iraq, where her son, Army First Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, died in February while attempting to disarm a bomb. She came to a Laura Bush rally last week at a firehouse in Hamilton, N.J., wearing a T-shirt that blazed with her agony and anger: "President Bush You Killed My Son." Mrs. Niederer tried to shout while the first lady was delivering her standard ode to her husband's efforts to fight terrorism. She wanted to know why the Bush twins weren't serving in Iraq "if it's such a justified war," as she put it afterward. The Record of Hackensack, N.J., reported that the mother of the dead soldier was boxed in by Bush supporters yelling "Four more years!" and wielding "Bush/Cheney" signs. Though she eventually left voluntarily, she was charged with trespassing while talking to reporters. The moment was emblematic of how far the Bushies will go to squelch any voice that presents a view of Iraq that's different from the sunny party line, which they continue to dish out despite a torrent of alarming evidence to the contrary. Aside from moms who are handcuffed at Bush events and the Jersey 9/11 moms who are supporting John Kerry after growing disillusioned with White House attempts to suppress the 9/11 investigation, the president is doing very well with women. The so-called security moms, who have replaced soccer moms as a desirable demographic, are now flocking to Mr. Bush over Mr. Kerry, believing he can better protect their kids from scary terrorists. In the new Times poll, 48 percent of women supported the president, compared with Mr. Kerry's 43 percent - a reversal from July, when Mr. Kerry had the women's vote 52 to 40 percent. This is an ominous sign for the Democrat, who lost his gender gap advantage after his listless summer and the G.O.P.'s convention swagger. How did the president who has caused so much insecurity in the world become the hero of security moms? He was, after all, in charge when Al Qaeda struck, and he was the one to send off Mrs. Niederer's son and other kids to die in a war sold on a false premise. And that conflict has, despite what Mr. Bush claims, spurred more acts of terror and been a recruiting bonanza for Osama bin Laden. In the Times poll, half of all registered voters said they had a lot of confidence in Mr. Bush's ability to protect the nation from another terrorist attack, compared with 26 percent who felt that way about Mr. Kerry. While Mr. Bush managed to duck service in Vietnam and let Osama get away, he has been relentless in John Wayning the election and turning war hero John Kerry into a sniveling wimp. Last week, Mr. Kerry finally tried to change the subject from Mr. Bush's mockery of Mr. Kerry's tortuous stances on Iraq to the awful reality of what's happening in Iraq. He got an assist from the president's own intelligence community, which issued a gloomy report that gave the lie to the administration's continued insistence that Iraq is a desert flower of democracy. This was followed by a report by Charles A. Duelfer, the top American weapons inspector in Iraq, that found no evidence that Iraq had begun any large-scale program for weapons production by the time of the American invasion last year. To rationalize its idée fixe on Iraq, the administration squandered 15 months, with 1,200 people - at a time when our scarce supply of Arabic experts should have been focused on the Iraqi insurgency and Al Qaeda - just to figure out that Saddam would have loved to have dangerous weapons if he could have, but he couldn't, so he didn't. Even with the help of his new Clintonistas, Mr. Kerry is nibbling around the edges of the moral case against W(rong) and Dark Cheney. He charged that the president was living in "a fantasy world of spin" on Iraq. But the Bushies are way beyond spin, which is a staple of politics. These guys are about turning the world upside down, and saying it's right side up. And that sh
[Ugnet] RE: MTN 'corporate theft' (was FW: Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small guys)
John, Please cut the racist crap. This is theft, pure and simple. It has nothing to do with racism. These young guys were simply stupid, and I hope Ugandan companies will learn from their mistake. I mean how do you leave a laptop, with all the software for two weeks!! I wouldn't trust Gordon Brown or Tony Blair with a safety pin, let alone trusting a corporation. This is the 21st century guys!!! On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:20:16 -0700, john masaba wrote: > > Another thing that makes me angry. > First they accused the company of causing inflation and rising dollar then the management > was favouring the bazungu. Now they are stealing local invoation. > > > I am tired of these boers who go to Uganda and think we are monkeys! > > > Imagine if the Zim white farmers had gone. It would be worse > > > read below and see > > > Masaba - Snip - > > From: An Metet > > To: > > Subject: Twenty tonne elephant stomps on small guys > > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:42:25 -0400 > > > > > > http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/features/buz/biz200409162.php > > MTN sued for 'stealing' Me2U > > by Halima Abdallah > > Weekly Observer September 16-22, 2004 page 30 > > The possibility that MTN customers will continue to enjoy the Me2U services lies in the hands of a Kampala court. > > - snip - > > The company said that MTN showed interest and even invited it to demonstrate > > the application in January. Digital Solutions claims to have demonstrated the > > programme as required and even left its laptop containing this new technology > > for two weeks at MTN's switch at Bugolobi. > > Head of Information Technology at MTN invited [the] plaintiff to tender a draft > > commercial proposal, software provision and support contract and updated technical > > specifications in respect of Me2U, their plaint reads. > > Subsequent to the disclosure, MTN allegedly ceased to communicate, and later > > launched the Me2U service - snip - ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] My view of our crisis
The Englishman Thomas Paine at the critical moment of the American Revolution (or if you will the American colonist Unilateral Declaration of Independence â UDI similar to the UDI of the Rhodesian settlers in the sixties) wrote the following in his work âThe American Crisisâ THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and womanâ Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Africa and Africans are in a state of crisis, And because, unlike the Continental Congress forces that Paine was addressing, our cause is just and not tainted with hypocrisy and duplicity of a settler colonial UDI, but is indeed just and honorable, the words of Paine are more appropriate for our situation than it was for the forces he wrote them for. We are fighting for freedom, we are victimized by tyrants and tyranny, and indeed those who fight for African liberation do deserve the gratitude of the worldâs people; as the struggle to liberate Africa will have a singular positive affect on people around the globe, including the Europeans. As Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah wrote our problem is an economic problem, and as such it can only be resolved by affirmative political action on our part. To be more specific, our problem is a problem of economic exploitation and social oppression directly emanating from the illegal possession of our land. We all know that land is based of power, as Malcolm X- Omowale constantly reminded us. Land is the source of our naturally occurring resources, such as metals, silicon, precious gems, energy sources (gas, petroleum), agricultural, naturally occurring plants, timber and other forestry goods, wildlife, and so forth. Land also means the things attached to land such as the mines used for extraction. Land is also important for geo-strategic purposes for example the tip of South Africa/Azania is considered a vital area for space launches, the Suez area in Egypt is considred strategic for military operations in Asia and Africa, in World War II the Roosevelt administration supported the British â Free French effort to seize Dakar Senegal from the Vichy French because they knew it would be an effective base for German u-boat attacks on American maritime and naval traffic. Land is also considered to include the airspace, the waterways, adjacent oceans/seas, and the general electromagnetic spectrum associated with the specific land area. In capitalist economics land is considered one of three factors of production, along with labor and capital. This view is generally shared by all theories of economic development, although obviously in the socialist view the relative and respective roles of the three factors are distinct. Whereas capitalism advocates that the critical ingredient is capital, socialist revolutionaries understand that the critical factor is the interaction of the human labor and the land. After all it is the human ingenuity and skill, in other words work, applied to the land and its derivatives that makes capital possible. Without people, there could be no capital. Without land there could be no capital. So the capitalist position that capital is primary is patently wrong and if oppressed people allow bogus leadership to continue to impose this theory of life on us, we will never be free. It is the role of conscious Africans to propagate and promulgate the proper role of land in the equation of development. . We can only do this by creatively combining the correct understand of the factors, mode, and means of production and wealth creation, with the correct cultural and historical perspective; since true socialism can only emerge if the practitioners and theories are consistent with the general way of life; the values, history, characteristics, attributes, morals, ethics, ethos, traditions, customs, mores, and institutions that define the specific human society in which socialism is being constructed. This requires that we constructively integrate the many disparate elements impacting on the society and the interconnectedness of the world, and the global population, including institutions such as supranational and national governmental agencies, corporations, especially trans-nationals, organizations and groups, as well as the actions of individuals; into a coherent database, if you will, that can be collectively analyzed as the basis for both our strategic and tactical planning and implementation activities. If we do this scientifically, then we will be able to un
[Ugnet] I'll fight Mengo, vows Museveni - Sunday Monitor 19/9/2004
Ill fight Mengo, vows Museveni By Robert Mwanje Sept 19, 2004 - Monitor KAMPALA - President Yoweri Museveni has said he will fight Mengo if it decides to join the Movements opponents. If they drop the Movement system and go the wrong side, we shall fight them (Mengo). I am not threatened any more. Even during the 1996 and 2001 presidential elections, Mengo never supported me, Museveni said. He was speaking on Radio Uganda on Saturday. Musevenis remarks were prompted by a question by one of the moderators. The moderator asked him what he would do if Buganda did not support the Movement in the run up to the 2006 presidential and parliamentary elections. I am used to fighting enemies and thats not new, neither can it worry me any more. I cant work with bigheaded people, he said.The presidents remarks come a week after Buganda kingdom officials said they would not support any anti federo candidate at all election levels in 2006. This followed governments failure to grant the Kingdom federalism the way they want it. Mengo and government had been engaged in a series of negotiations, which ended in disagreement after Kabaka Ronald Mutebi and Museveni failed to reach a consensus. Museveni said Mengo, the seat of Buganda Kingdom, couldnt influence his support in any way. I gain support from what I do but not from particular personalities, he said. He also said there is no reason anyone should take a hard-line position when negotiations are on. When you soften your stand you dont lose anything but you gain something. Even Uganda will not melt tomorrow, Museveni said. Using a Kinyankole proverb; enjhoka eyorobi emira egumire (meaning, an elastic python can swallow a hard goat), Museveni likened governments flexibility to that of a python. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Toronto's ShareNews.com : The 'Innocents' of Darfur will prevail
Brother Vukoni, Here is a follow-up article on Darfur by the same beloved, brother Clem Marshall. This one however has a different tone, I think. The 'Innocents' of Darfur will prevail By CLEM MARSHALL Our Wolof elders from Senegal taught me an ancient Afrikan truth: "Lu reen jan jan, reen geen ko jan" - "When you see a deep root going into the ground, never forget that there is another root that goes even deeper still." In Sudan, the deepest roots are not Persian, Hebrew, Greek, Arab or any mixture of those groups. The deepest roots are folks who look like the young bruthas falsely convicted over raping a White woman in Central Park, or the sistahs denied housing in St. Jamestown because their sons are treated like suspects from the cradle to the grave. According to all the science, archeology and history accepted by experts from every continent, Afrika is home to the first First Nations on earth. Sudan's First Nations who go back before recorded time are Kushites and Black. They are like the Masai in Kenya, the Wolof in Senegal, the Shona in Southern Afrika, the Rastas of Jamaica and the Jukkas of Suriname. They are folks who look like us and seem to get p icked on the most whether we speak French Kreyol in Haiti, Jamaican Patois in the Jane and Finch of Toronto, Portuguese in Bahia, Brazil, Ebonics in Harlem, New York or Spanish in Colombia. Bruthas and sistahs here, in the Caribbean or other parts of Afrika tell me that they find the horrors in Darfur both disturbing and confusing. They know that Black folks are dying. However, unlike apartheid, this time the identity of the killers seems less clear. For example, CNN casts Colin Powell as a champion of Black folks in Darfur. Never mind that he has been particularly silent when Whites profile Afrikans, shoot us down or rob them of their voting rights in the country he calls his own. Today, six guns blazing, he goes after Arabs for persecuting Afrikans in Sudan. On the other hand, while fighting against apartheid or for a free Palestine, Arabs and Afrikans have generally been on the same side. Yet, today's Arab League defends the Khartoum government that bombs Afrikan villages and arms the gangs attacking them. Instead of coming to the rescue of the dying, it blames Israel and Christian fundamentalists for stirring up trouble between Muslims. To add to the confusion, not all Arabs agree. Some Arabs, such as the prominent scholar, Professor Helmi Sharawy, head of the Arab Research Centre for Arab-African Studies and Documentation in Cairo, criticize their own people. At a conference in South Africa in 1996 he said: "The Arabs seem to have been preoccupied with expressing their own identity which they isolate from other identities They tend to come forward only with their own problems, ignoring those of others." What Dr. Sharawy says challenges the conscience of all Arabs. They, too, can state publicly that they are against suppressing Afrikan languages, religion or culture and replacing Afrikan with Arab ways. Arabs of integrity can also call on their leaders to uphold the rights of Afrikans to remain the majority on the soil where the bones of our Ancestors are buried. My moral guides to the situation in Darfur are the sistahs and bruthas who are completely innocent. As decent folks, my job and yours is to make sure we get to hear from them. In the meantime, I listen harder for the faint voices of those who are usually the hardest to hear. Then I tend to the sufferers first. No one can accuse us of hating any group if we're just defending innocent sistahs and bruthas against brutal, unjust attack. The Innocents I refer to are not "passport Whites", like me, with residence or citizenship in Canada, the U.S., Australia or the European Union. The Innocents aren't like the government ministers who make putrid, sweetheart deals with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that trade away clean water, fertile land and the heritage of Afrika's heirs for privileges for their own children or their clan - privileges like trips to foreign casinos; professional credentials from Harvard, the Sorbonne or the U of T and shares in Afrikan oil, gold and diamonds on the New York, London, Toronto or Paris Stock Exchanges. The Innocents don't confuse the issue with big words while humble people keep dying little by little. They don't spout meaningless nonsense like "Racism hurts everybody" and "Everybody is Afrikan". The Innocents don't collude with hypocrite missionaries, NGOs and media spies who wear benign faces to mask brutal foreign plots and promote their people's interests so that whether their schemes are called "NEPAD" or "The War on AIDS" they always leave Afrika poorer in the end and cost more Afrikan lives. The Innocents don't manufacture land mines to maim grandmothers or babies and turn lush land into barren fields of death. The Innocents don't hire or conspire with White, racist thugs, th
[Ugnet] Throw out Federo only on its merit\ Opoka, read this
From: Omar Kezimbira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ugnet] Throw out Federo only on its merit - Monitor 17/9/2004 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Hello Mr President - By David Ouma Balikowa Throw out federo only on its merit Sept 17, 2004 - Monitor President Yoweri Museveni was this week quoted in the media saying he would not let Mengo have an inch of Kampala city. According to the President, Kampala belongs to all Ugandans and not only the Baganda who are fighting tooth and nail to turn the centre into a federal (federo) state. The Presidents vow comes in the thick of his failed negotiations between Mengo and the over the latters demand for federo. To begin with, the President overstretched the matter when he used the above appeal. The issue is not whether Kampala belongs to us all. That is a truism. Even Mengo knows that very well. Rather the issue is who between Mengo and the central government administers the capital city, Kampala. Any of the two can do this on behalf of the city dwellers. So let us not play up this tribal sentiment of trying to suggest that a Kampala under Mengo is only for the Baganda. Or that once it falls under Mengo, the non-Baganda would be chased out. That is cheap politics and that is divisive at worst. It is at best aimed at mudslinging Mengo and making it appear selfish and sectarian. Which is far from the case. There are a lot of facts to bear Buganda or Mengo out. If anything to prove that they are very accommodative. But also because they have no choice even if they wanted to turn the wheels of modernity back. Because of its central position and hosting the capital, Buganda has seen an influx of settlers from other parts of the country. Some settled in the city while others settled in the outlying districts like Mukono, Wakiso, Mityana etc. Despite the few occasions where some national leaders have applied divisive politics and caused friction, the settlers have mixed in well taking up leadership positions in many cases. That is why you will even see non-Baganda members of Parliament representing constituencies in Buganda region. Many voters in Buganda put personal record and performance over and above nationality considerations. It is not only the Baganda. The latter who have either settled or do business in districts outside Buganda have also been welcome and treated same way. One can say that Ugandans have by and large become less sectarian in their public life. Buganda belongs to all Ugandans the same way the rest of Uganda belongs to all nationalities, Baganda included. It would for example be interesting to see how Museveni responds to the fact that he is free to own land and a farm in Mpigi, which will fall under Mengo if federo is granted. Will he shift his farm? Of course not. Mengo does not expect him to. The truth of the matter is that Buganda already belongs to all of us. Many big wigs in Musevenis have bought huge chunks of land in Buganda and now own farms. So what difference will it make if Kampala reverted to Mengo? It is very important that the federo debate is not confused for selfish reasons. If it must be defeated, it must be done on merit arguments, not dirty or sectarian appeals. That will only breed confusion. It is also true that even under federo, all Ugandans will have rights to their properties both in and outside Kampala. The same way Baganda who have settled in other areas do. If we begin saying Kampala is for us all, we are in effect saying other parts of Uganda are not. This is dangerous. This would give some people in a federated Buganda license to ask non-Baganda to leave say Mpigi or Mukono and go to Kampala because it is the only place that belongs to us all. Even if one is opposed to Mengo having federo, this should not blind them to the positive developments at Mengo. Today, Mengo processes land titles to all Ugandans without discrimination. Many non-Baganda have bought the commonly refered to as Kabakas land and went ahead to apply for titles at Mengo. One can perhaps talk of the fee or delays, but not discrimination. But even then, delays in processing titles are common even at the central governments ministry of Lands Federation represents some form of decentralisation. The major difference is that it presents much bigger units than decentralisation at district level. Kampala City Council already enjoys a lot of autonomy from the central government. So whether it falls under a federated Mengo or not, it might not make much difference. The truth is that Mengo might not be able to solve some of Kampala City Councils (KCC) problems; just the same way the central government has not. One fact also need to be straightened out. A KCC under a federated Mengo does not entirely free the central government of any responsibility over the city. Dependin
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Re: [Ugnet]Mengo won't get Kampala - Museveni ,\ Opoka
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