Re: ugnet_: Lado Kingdom? - A Northern Solution

2004-02-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Dear Zakoomu, The Lado Enclave, as a cohesive cultural-political entity in the past or currently, exists only in the imagination of Captain John Agami and his followers.  Originating in the period of European Scramble for Africa, this phrase doesn't really feature in the power calculus of Mr. Kon

ugnet_: Beloved Haiti: A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial

2004-02-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Beloved Haiti A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial By STAN GOFF February 9, 2004. As I write this there is an attempt to start a civil war in Haiti, engineered in the United States of America and supported by its lapdogs in Caricom and the Organization of American States. Former Haitian milit

ugnet_: Human Genetic Engineering: Supersize Your Child?

2004-02-17 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Supersize Your Child? By Richard Hayes, TomPaine.com February 16, 2004 In the late 1950s, soon after Watson and Crick had discovered DNA's structure, scientists began predicting that someday we'd be able to genetically engineer our children. We'd design them to be healthy, smart and attractive,

ugnet_: Fwd: Odious Debt: Review of African $300 Billion Debt

2004-02-18 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Odious Debt: Review of African $300 Billion Debt Review of Debt of African Countries (http://www.digitalaid.org/debt.htm). Digital Aid Inc. and African Foundation are organizing a petition drive aimed at the reduction of the debt owed by African countries. As you may be aware, President George

ugnet_: Fwd: SBA's E-Confluence Monitors Africa, M-East Markets

2004-02-18 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
SBA's E-Confluence Monitors Africa, M-East Markets Lagos SBA Research Limited has launched its e-confluence data platform that provides information liquidity on 23 emerging markets of Africa and the middle East. Executive Director of SBA, Mr. Segun Akande, said the e-confluence data platform cove

ugnet_: 9/11 victims' families confront Bush

2004-02-18 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
The Family Steering Committee Statement and Questions Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview with President Bush t r u t h o u t | Report Monday 16 February 2004 The Family Steering Committee believes that President Bush should provide sworn public testimony to the full ten-memb

RE: ugnet_: AFRICAN ECONOMIC WEB DOCTRINE

2004-02-21 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Spot on, my ass! From the offensive title he's slapped on his book, to the jumbled contents of his bombastic address, Dr. Chika Onyeani exudes a symptom that afflicts far too many conservative Black public intellectuals. They imagine they have stumbled upon extraordinary and unspeakable truths

RE: ugnet_: AFRICAN ECONOMIC WEB DOCTRINE

2004-02-21 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
No my friend, I do not imply that the conservative ideology is confined to Caucasians. I'd be foolish to make such a conclusion when men like you and Dr. Onyeani helpfully remind us that you are out of the woodworks. The main point of my submission is that there is really nothing new that Dr O

RE: ugnet_: AFRICAN ECONOMIC WEB DOCTRINE

2004-02-22 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Bwana Musaazi, It is well and good for every successful Black man or woman to point out that "even though i am from way down here, i am right up here now," but let's remember that personal anecdotes can never substitute for global/overarching strategies that recognize and learn the lessons of

ugnet_: The Death of Horatio Alger

2004-02-22 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
The Death of Horatio Alger by PAUL KRUGMAN [from the January 5, 2004 issue] The other day I found myself reading a leftist rag that made outrageous claims about America. It said that we are becoming a society in which the poor tend to stay poor, no matter how hard they work; in which sons are

ugnet_: Museveni recalls Lira commander

2004-02-23 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Museveni recalls Lira commander By Frank Nyakairu Feb 24, 2004 Death toll up to 204 KAMPALA – Gen. Museveni has recalled the commander of the army’s 403 Brigade following the Saturday massacre in Lira of scores of civilians. “I have transferred the commander of the 403 Brigade, Lt. Col. Mulind

ugnet_: Throttled by History: Haiti's Descent into Gang Warfare

2004-02-24 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Haiti's Descent into Gang Warfare Throttled by History By GARY YOUNGE (www.counterpunch.org) PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI. As civil war encroaches, civil society implodes and civil political discourse evaporates, one of the few things all Haitians can agree on is their pride in Toussaint L'Ouverture,

ugnet_: The northern tragedy: How can we help?

2004-02-24 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
My dear brothers and sisters, Far too many defenseless and innocent Ugandans have lost lives, limbs, ears, noses, lips, and property in the last 18 years even as the NRM administration has internationally promoted the lie that our country is secure. Regardless of our political persuasions or w

ugnet_: Stamp of Approval?

2004-02-24 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Stamp of Approval? By William Jelani Cobb, Africana.com February 24, 2004 Word on the street has it that the person who told us that hindsight is 20/20 vision was blind in one eye his damn self. And that explains why in 2004 it's increasingly difficult to recognize the difference between this c

ugnet_: Aristide Kidnapped by U.S. forces?

2004-03-02 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Aristide Kidnapped by U.S. Forces? By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 1 March 2004 "Beyond the mountains, more mountains." - old Haitian proverb The front pages of major American newspapers and the talking heads on the news channels would have you believe that

ugnet_: Democracy Now Interview on the Alleged Aristide Kidnap

2004-03-02 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A COUP' Monday, March 1st, 2004 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/01/1521216 Multiple sources that just spoke with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Democracy Now! that Aristide says

ugnet_: Haiti as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story

2004-03-02 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Haiti as Target Practice How the US Press Missed the Story By HEATHER WILLIAMS "The fact that the group in charge of Haiti policy today in the State Department has been literally gunning for Aristide since before his initial election as a champion of democracy in 1990 has been left all but unme

Re: ugnet_: For "sale": One Govt Printer

2004-03-02 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Even the U.S. government has a printing office that serves the very purpose that our very own government printer has been serving. If the past is anything to go by, someone/people in government or their cronies want to make a killing by selling the printery to themselves and then awarding cont

ugnet_: Fwd: [DigAfrica] FYI: "Localization in African Languages"

2004-03-07 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Multilingual Computing & Technology in its latest edition (#61) has a piece on African language localization. Though the focus of the project described is cellphone terminology, the article may be of interest in the larger process of adapting new technologies to African contexts. And for those wh

ugnet_: Was Madrid 9/11 All Over Again?

2004-03-12 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Folks, If you really wish to indulge in spooky numbers, I just heard a commentator say on NPR that the blast in Madrid on 3/11 came exactly 911 days after 9/11. Does it actually add up? If so, is it coincidence or are the terrorists telling us in code where or when the next big blast is going

ugnet_: Research on refurbished PCs for African schools

2004-03-14 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Research on refurbished PCs for African schools 03/11/2004, SchoolNet Africa: Research on refurbished PCs for African schools calls for an integrated strategy and effective management system in Africa Johannesburg, 8 March 2004 To use or not to use second hand and refurbished computers as pa

ugnet_: I sacked Agoa girls - Museveni

2004-03-21 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
I sacked Agoa girls - President By Kakaire A. Kirunda March 22, 2004 MBALE – President Yoweri has announced he ordered the sacking of about 200 girls working at Tri-Star Apparels factory in Bugolobi. Museveni said he feared their strike would send the wrong signals to potential investors. “I

ugnet_: Brazil's Kalunga Honor Dead Slave Ancestors

2004-03-28 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
ttp://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/03/26/brazils_ka lunga_honor_dead_slave_ancestors/ Brazil's Kalunga Honor Dead Slave Ancestors = March 26, 2004 By Axel Bugue Kalunga, Brazil (Reuters) - Cut-off from the outside world for centuries, the Kalunga community of descendants of

ugnet_: An Occurrence in Pakistan: The Battle That Wasn't

2004-03-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
An Occurrence in Pakistan The Battle That Wasn't By WILLIAM S. LIND (From www.counterpunch.com) About two weeks ago, the world's attention suddenly turned to a dramatic battle in Pakistan. The Pakistani Army, we were told, had trapped a large force of al Qaeda, including a "high-value target," po

ugnet_: Rwanda - Whose Genocide?

2004-03-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Rwanda - Whose Genocide? By Steve Weissman t r u t h o u t | Perspective Wednesday 31 March 2004 In Rwanda ten years ago, Hutu gangs began killing ethnic Tutsis, slaughtering between 500,000 and one million men, women, and children - all in 100 days. Hutu extremists had ca

RE: ugnet_: Acholi clergy defends fr. Rodriguez

2004-05-11 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Dear Musaazi, To illustrate a point that's best driven home anecdotally, I was going to tell netters a story about a tragic event that happened in 1981 in my neck of the woods. But it occurred to me that I could simply redact your small polemic to good effect. My insertions are in brackets. "

Re: ugnet_: U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences

2004-05-03 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
And where are we in this scheme of things? On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 10:13, Lisa Toro wrote: > What they stole from germans is now over and they can not figure out > their own!! > > - Original Message - > From: J Ssemakula > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: M

RE: ugnet_: Acholi clergy defends fr. Rodriguez

2004-05-15 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Bwana Musaazi, Once again, with so much verbiage you have deftly sidestepped the real issues. But I'll revisit them anyway. 1. The government of Uganda has the responsibility of protecting the property and lives of all Ugandans from both internal and external threats. By commission and omission

ugnet_: Israeli Nukes and the American Connection

2004-04-26 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Israeli Nukes and the American Connection Vanunu and the Terrible Secret By URI AVNERY In the darkness of a cinema, a woman's voice: "Hey! Take your hands off! Not you! YOU!" This old joke illustrates the American policy regarding nuclear armaments in the Middle East. "Hey, you there, Iraq and Ir

Re: ugnet_: AFRICA'S PROBLEM ARE ROOTED IN COLONIAL BOUNDARIES

2004-06-09 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
EM, Aliyi Ekineh is a very confused (I mean mentally enslaved) African. I say this, not because there is no modicum of truth in the petition to Tony Blair. The Sovereign National Congress he/she and many other Nigerians are calling for is probably the only sane course of redress for Nigeria and se

Re: ugnet_: Re: The Chronicles of Riddick - movie

2004-06-22 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Wow Rehema! That was some mind-blowing panegyric. On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 03:18, Rehema Mukooza wrote: This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug

ugnet_: Kasangwawo: Re: [FedsNet] Press freedom (or lack thereof) in Uganda

2002-10-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Mw. Kasangwawo,   Alas, Neogy died in 1995.  It is interesting that Uganda's ex-dictators are outliving many of their victims.  Ufortunately, most of these witnesses of history are taking the knowledge of their uncomfortably intimate brushes with unbridled power to the grave.   vukoni ---

Re: ugnet_: RE: What was life like during Obote I?

2002-10-23 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Mw. Ssemakula, Your message doesn't include the Word attachment. Could you please resend it? Thanks. vukoni - Original Message - From: "J Ssemakula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:05 PM Subject:

ugnet_: "In Defense Of Black Reparations"

2002-10-21 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
"In Defense Of Black Reparations" Part One of a Two-Part Series By Manning Marable  TBWT Contributor  Article Dated 10/21/2002 Throughout this year, the black reparations debate has become widely known, and it continued to attract increased national and international attention. In Februar

Re: ugnet_: UGANDA'S CHIEF MILITARY INTELLIGENCY THREATENS UN

2002-10-24 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
  "That is an insult to the UPDF, to say that we can keep a whole battalion in an area for just $ 25,000," Wapakhabulo said.  That, as the saying goes, is just the tip of the hippo's nose.  When Wapa seizes on it, he is merely diverting attention from the ugly body of the beast.   We shouldn'

ugnet_: Empire of chaos challenged: Samir Amin's Take on Imperialism

2002-10-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly   Who can explain the chaotic affairs of today's world? Samir Amin for one. Fatemah Farag interviews Egypt's most famous Marxist theorist As the world prepares itself for an imminent American/British military onslaught against Iraq, the "clash

ugnet_: What's Right About Singling Out Israel for Divestment

2002-10-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
October 24, 2002 Israel's Singles Night Out:Critics Charge that Divestment "Singles Out" Israel. They Are Right. by WILL YOUMANS www.counterpunch.com A little more than a week ago several hundred college students from all over the United States met in Michigan to further the growing campai

ugnet_: Time to Fight for Reparations for Arab Slavery in Africa?

2002-10-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
A Response from Prof Kwesi Prah to Ali Mazrui10.10.2002Dear Ali Mazrui,Conference on Reparations for Arab-led SlaveryI am writing in response to your letter of the 27th September, 2002, addressed to Iman Drammeh regarding the scheduled conference on reparations for Arab-led slavery. She pas

Re: Fw: ugnet_: Vukoni - Kony Eats People. Is it the culture of the region?

2002-10-26 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Netters,   Ndugu Ssemakula asked me a question, which I thought was honest and worth answering.  While I do recognize that you cannot control the manner in which people discuss an issue that is out in the public domain, I must express my extreme discomfort and dismay at being associated with

ugnet_: Roy/Bwanika_: Zionists using spoofed email to sow disunity...

2002-10-27 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Mr. Bwanika,   Roy has more rights to being on Ugandanet than you being in Sweden or wherever you're domiciled in Europe, my dear deluded ndugu.   And in terms of cause and effect (which a self-acclaimed social scientist as you should meticulously -- I should say instinctively -- strive to i

Re: ugnet_: MANDELA HELPS SADDAM BUILD NUKES

2002-10-27 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
EM,   This article is dead wrong.  South Africa has already reacted to these unsubstantiated charges.  Under Mandela, South Africa took the well-meaning and unprecedented but perhaps naive decision to terminate the nuclear program (even more advanced than the North Korean one giving a sustai

ugnet_: West tells Brazil: Do as we say, not as we do

2002-10-28 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 Do as we say, not as we do While Lula's Brazil kowtows to the free market, Blair's Britain only pretends to do so George MonbiotTuesday October 29, 2002The Guardian Democracy in Brazil both won and lost on Sunday night. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a

ugnet_: Important INS Press Release

2002-10-29 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Anyone who has navigated the very frustrating process of checking on case status with the INS will appreciate how much this new feature means.  It may not substantially change the outcome of a case, but just to know that one no longer has to dial the ever busy phones is comforting news.   v

Re: ugnet_: New Law passes in Brazilian Senate

2002-10-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Mw. Ssemakula, I vaguely remember that to be the case in the "A" Levels. vukoni - Original Message - From: "J Ssemakula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:24 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: New Law passes in Brazilian Senate > Mr. Vukoni, > > Is it

ugnet_: U.S. to Add to Forces in Horn of Africa

2002-10-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
We will live to regret this build-up of U.S. military presence on African territory. vukoni   U.S. to Add to Forces in Horn of AfricaBy ERIC SCHMITT ASHINGTON, Oct. 29 — The United States is increasing its forces stationed around the Horn of Africa to about 1,200 troops, allowing them to c

Re: ugnet_: AFRICANS I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!

2002-10-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Thanks for this news, EM.  Congratulations to all of you brothers and sisters in Canada who have fought the good fight.   - Original Message - From: Mulindwa Edward To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ugnet_: SOMETIMES RACE IS SIMPLY A FACTOR

2002-10-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
EM,   I have only been in Toronto once -- on a visit that lasted 10 days.  So, I cannot really say with confidence how racial profiling works in your great city.   But from what I know in Chicago, to define racial profiling as a necessary evil in the search for criminals is either disingenio

ugnet_: In the Crocodile's Mouth

2002-11-05 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
In the Crocodile’s Mouth Blair is appeasing Bush partly in order to get a share of the world’s diminishing supplies of oil By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th November 2002 Tony Blair's loyalty to George Bush looks like slow political suicide. His preparedness to

Re: ugnet_: TAMALE MIRUNDI'S POISON

2002-11-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
It is deplorable that Tamale Mirundi (and I am taking Cheye's word for this) is blaming all Banyankole for the sins of Museveni and his cabal.    However, Cheeye's logic condemns Cheeye. Look at this: "The late J. Namakajjo and group were coughing up in this mess, and journalism became syno

Re: ugnet_: UK: IT'S ALL OUR FAULT

2002-11-19 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Ndugu Mitayo, Hypocrisy appears to be the badge of neo-liberals. If Jack Straw really believed what he said in this interview, he'd have resigned from his post long ago. This good cop facade should fool none of us. Imperialists and their beneficiaries never admit of guilt (as exemplified by Mr

Re: ugnet_: Yahoo! News Story - Mali Begins Removing Citizens

2002-11-21 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Ndugu Mitayo, Take heart. Those who don't dream have nightmares. And don't you get worked up about Ssemakula's occasional outbursts against Pan Africanism. I've come to believe that it does for his mind what a belch (which is rude socially, but beneficial for the stomach) does for the glutton.

ugnet_: Ivorian deported after 422 Days in U.S. jail as terrorism witness

2002-11-23 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 washingtonpost.com A Sept. 11 Detainee's Long Path to Release After Final Glitch, Ivory Coast Native Is Home By Amy GoldsteinWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, November 12, 2002; Page A03 Before Tony Oulai stepped out of a government car on Saturday at Orlando International Airport, an

ugnet_: AIDS in Africa Imperiling Armies That Are Seen as Keys to Stability

2002-11-24 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
AIDS in Africa Imperiling Armies That Are Seen as Keys to Stability (nytimes.com)By HENRI E. CAUVIN UANDA, Angola — First Sgt. Domingos Leiria may be the future of the Angolan Armed Forces. Like thousands of other soldiers in Angola, and thousands more across Africa, Sergeant Lei

Re: ugnet_: From Muniini Mulera on Bush

2002-11-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Ed, Just my point. Bush is a product of and front for crony capitalism. His successes only make sense if you look at it from the narrow perspective of the plutocracy he's beholden to. It's the other American bubble waiting to burst. But on one and only one thing, I agree with Muniini. Bush is

Re: ugnet_: 'Congo Rebels Using Ugandan Child Soldiers' -East African 25/11/2...

2002-11-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Matek, Thanks for this. "A lie has short legs. The truth always catches up with it," according to a Ma'di/Lugbara proverb. It's now Museveni's turn to see how even the most intricately manufactured "realities" can evaporate like fog in the morning sun. But those who have ruled or intend to rul

Re: ugnet_: From Muniini Mulera on Bush

2002-11-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
hing you would credit him as an individual to show > that Dubya is his own man (read Dubya aw "W") > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:07 PM > To: [EMA

Re: ugnet_: Illegal human settlement

2002-11-29 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Ndugu Mitayo, Could you please tell me which media organization originally published this article? Thanks. vukoni - Original Message - From: "Mitayo Potosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: ugnet_: Illeg

ugnet_: S Africa shuns apartheid lawsuits

2002-11-29 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 S Africa shuns apartheid lawsuits Country needs investment, say ministers, not compensation Rory Carroll in JohannesburgWednesday November 27, 2002The Guardian The South African government has refused to support a lawsuit against foreign multinationals and banks which allegedly propped u

Re: ugnet_: Illegal human settlement

2002-11-29 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
ugnet_: Illegal human settlement > > To "Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I got the story from the Zimbabwe Herald of Friday 29 Nov > > I don't know whether that is of any help, my brother!! > > And I should have indicated the sourse. S

ugnet_: Why Are Black Students Lagging?

2002-11-30 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
  Why Are Black Students Lagging?By FELICIA R. LEE he persistent academic gap between white and black students has touched off difficult and often ugly debates over the question why. Are racist stereotypes to blame? Substandard schools? Cultural attitudes? This long-running argume

ugnet_: The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals

2002-12-02 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals New book reveals links of two presidents and the governor of Florida with exiled hardliners Duncan Campbell in Los AngelesMonday December 2, 2002The Guardian The brother of President George Bush, the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, has been instrumenta

ugnet_: The Pitfalls of Thinking Like a Negro

2002-12-05 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
  The Pitfalls Of Thinking Like A NegroBy Mark P.  Fancher TBWT Contributor Article Dated 12/1/2002   With the passage of time, the liberation struggle becomes increasingly complex. In days past, when a freedom fighter took stock of the masses, the only concern was who among them might be a

ugnet_: U.S. Policies Contribute To African Famine - Report

2002-12-05 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 U.S. Policies Contribute To African Famine - Report By Emad  Mekay IPS Article Dated 12/5/2002   WASHINGTON - The United States and international financial institutions (IFIs) are partly to blame for the famine in Africa because they push policies that fatten the coffers of multi-national

ugnet_: Zimbabwe: Workers Ignore Calls For General Strike

2002-12-15 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Zimbabwe: Workers Ignore Calls For General Strike By Lewis  Machipisa IPS Article Dated 12/10/2002   HARARE - A general strike called Tuesday to protest Zimbabwe's deteriorating economic situation was ignored by most workers across the southern African country. Banks, supermarkets, offices

ugnet_: Kenyans Seek End To Close Military Ties With U.S.

2002-12-15 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Kenyans Seek End To Close Military Ties With US By Katy  Salmon IPS Article Dated 12/10/2002   NAIROBI - Kenyans are calling for their government to rethink its close military relationship with the United States, following last month 's terrorist attacks on Israeli-interests on the Indian

ugnet_: Patent Your Heritage

2002-12-15 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Patent Your HeritageBy TINA ROSENBERG lobalization has made it easier for companies in wealthy countries to take advantage of poor countries by filing patents for crops, medicines and chemicals that traditional cultures have been cultivating and using for centuries. This year, t

ugnet_: What's in a Name? Perhaps Plenty if You're a Job Seeker

2002-12-16 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 nytimes.com December 12, 2002 What's in a Name? Perhaps Plenty if You're a Job SeekerBy ALAN B. KRUEGER HAT'S in a name? Evidently plenty if you are looking for a job. To test whether employers discriminate against black job applicants, Marianne Bertrand of the University of Chica

ugnet_: Banned Farrakhan reaches UK audience via satellite

2002-12-26 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Banned Farrakhan reaches UK audience via satellite The Guardian Unlimited December 23, 2002   Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002 The controversial American black leader Louis Farrakhan yesterday tried to undermine the government's ban on him entering Britain by speaking l

ugnet_: Sikukuu ya Kwanzaa

2002-12-26 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Wana wa Afrika,   Msherekeeni sikukuu ya Kwanzaa na salaam!!  Na kwenda mtandao wa rasmi wa idi hiyo, tafadhali bonyeza anwani: http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/   Ni mimi ndugu wako,   vukoni   ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisof

Re: ugnet_: Sikukuu ya Kwanzaa

2002-12-27 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Ndiye Dada 'angu. - Original Message - From: "Assumpta Kintu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Sikukuu ya Kwanzaa > Asante sana Bwana Vukoni! > akintu > --- Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga

ugnet_: Comparative Bantu On Line Dictionary Project

2002-12-31 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Dear all,   I had a most educating interaction with Professor Kwesi Prah (of the Centre for Advanced Study of African Societies, Cape Town, South Africa) a while ago.    He is of the view (which I largely share) that the myth of Africa being a Tower of Babel is just that.  He also points ou

ugnet_: Journalists are under fire for telling the truth

2002-12-31 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
  Robert Fisk: Journalists are under fire for telling the truth (The Independent) 18 December 2002 First it was Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel, who advised the US President to take the "harshest measures possible" agains

ugnet_: Boomtime for the Military-Industrial Complex: Arming for Armageddon

2002-12-31 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Counterpunch.com December 30, 2002 Boomtime for the Military-Industrial Complex Arming for Armageddon by JOHN STANTON In 2001, the US weapons industry controlled approximately 50 percent of the world arms market. The Federati

ugnet_: Uganda must prepare for the global threats

2003-01-01 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Banange, This is from The Monitor.   Peace.   vukoni   Uganda must prepare for the global threats By Veronica Njuba The world economy is under attack, from a potentially lethal combination; a global corporate governance crisis, $8,000bn of destroyed equity wealth, sagging consumer confidence

ugnet_: Our quality of life peaked in 1974. It's all downhill now

2003-01-02 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 Our quality of life peaked in 1974. It's all downhill now We will pay the price for believing the world has infinite resources George Monbiot Tuesday December 31, 2002The Guardian With the turning of every year, we expect our lives to improve. As long as the economy continues to grow, we ima

ugnet_: Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow

2003-01-04 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow (nytimes.com) t the end of every year, John Brockman, a literary agent and the publisher of Edge.org , a Web site devoted to science, poses a question to leading scientists, writers and futurists. In 2002, he asked respondents to imagine

ugnet_: Kenyans Witness History, Face Refreshing Uncertainty

2003-01-06 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
By Alex P. Kellogg (africana.com) The sun rose in Kenya's capital of Nairobi a week ago today to a human spectacle. Those who hadn't packed the city's main park and surrounding streets perched on lamp posts, treetops, roofs and balconies just to catch a glimpse of perhaps the most important

Re: ugnet_: A TYPICAL WHITE MAN'S SOLUTION

2003-01-07 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
EM, Words have consequences except for Neanderthals like Tuma who choose to fish and swim in the sewers of history. I say, the little white caveman is not worth a waste of our precious time. We've got a job to do, a revolution to win. vukoni - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

ugnet_: India Harvests Fruits of a Diaspora

2003-01-12 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
India Harvests Fruits of a Diaspora By AMY WALDMAN EW DELHI, Jan. 11 — Sir Shridath Ramphal's grandmother left India in rebellion 150 years ago, after refusing to throw herself on her dead husband's funeral pyre. She ended up in indentured servitude in South America, in what wa

Re: ugnet_: India Harvests Fruits of a Diaspora

2003-01-12 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
al reasons, the African diaspora is mostly at the bottom of the economic pile, but regardless, we are in a position to help one another's march towards dignity and prosperity.   vukoni - Original Message ----- From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, J

Re: ugnet_: Musinguzi Withdraws From Kinkizi Race-New Vision-14/01/2003

2003-01-13 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Netters,   If this level of pre-election meddling and intimidation was happening in Zimbabwe, "experts" in the white media would be flapping their gums, liberally spreading the specious saliva of kinship masquerading as concern for democracy.   vukoni - Original Message - From:

ugnet_: The Class President

2003-01-22 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
The Class President By MAUREEN DOWD www.nytimes.com ASHINGTON — Once when I was covering the first President Bush, I took one of his top political strategists out to dinner. After a couple of martinis, he blurted out that the president was having a hard time with the idea that I was the White

Re: ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Ivory Coast Haven Turns Hostile for Liberians

2003-01-22 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
My dear brother Ssemakula,   I wonder if it has ever occurred to you that every time you blame Pan Africanism for ills such as the suffering of Liberian refugees in Cote d'Ivoire you sound as crass as some members of this forum who blame Buganda and Baganda for each and every problem Uganda h

Re: ugnet_: UPC Slams US Aid To Uganda

2003-01-22 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
 Thanks for this, Jal Matek.  M7's son, Kainerubaga,  is a self-confessed admirer of Israel.  Any prize for guessing where he has found his love for the Zionist state? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: We

Re: ugnet_: Council chairman on sedition charges

2003-02-04 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
"UPDF soldiers were destroying people's houses and grabbing their land". That sounds like the truth to me. This representative of the long-suffering people of Acholi was doing his job. It's the soldiers terrorizing the wananchi who should be arrested for sedition because their actions are surely

Re: ugnet_: Re: IS MUSEVENI ON ECSTASY? I wonder

2003-02-04 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Everything that Museveni says or will say about the war in the North, the economy, etc, he has already said it six, 10, and may be even 16 years ago.  Worse, he now sounds more awful than a broken record (which at least repeats itself consistently) as he keeps contradicting himself.     -

Re: ugnet_: MANDELA'S VIEWS

2003-02-05 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
EM,   For those who don't know Christopher Hitchens, the man is a British-born, U.S.-domiciled, former leftist writer whose gradual metamorphosis into a right-wing apologist was completed after 9/11.  From embracing progressive causes, he has lurched in the opposite direction and now espouse

ugnet_: Robert Fisk: Don't mention the war in Afghanistan

2003-02-05 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
  Robert Fisk: Don't mention the war in Afghanistan The near collapse of peace in this savage land is a narrative erased from the mind of Americans 05 February 2003 There's one sure bet about the statement to be made to the UN Security Cou

ugnet_: UK war dossier a sham, say experts

2003-02-06 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
UK war dossier a sham, say experts   British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles   Michael White and Brian WhitakerFriday February 7, 2003The Guardian   Downing Street was last night plunged into acute international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the British gove

Re: ugnet_: Re: [FedsNet] More on language

2003-02-08 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Netters,   Isn't it ironic that those who say a national language is unimportant and "that we shouldn't spend so much of our precious time on" are precisely doing this -- i.e., spending several hours a day, each time this topic crops up, spreading forth their opinions across various Internet

ugnet_: Venezuela's Media Coup

2003-02-14 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
lookout by Naomi Klein Venezuela's Media Coup [from the March 3, 2003 issue] Poor Endy Chávez, outfielder for the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of Venezuela's big baseball teams. Every time he comes up to bat, the local TV sportscasters start in with the jokes. "Here comes Chávez. No, not th

Re: ugnet_: Northern Conflict: Prof. Mahmood Mamdani criticises Rosa Whittaker

2003-02-15 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Netters,   In a presentation I made this past Monday to a group of Northwestern law students preparing for a study trip to Uganda, I made a case of how the U.S. government has consistently given political cover to the Museveni regime in its anti-democratic activities.   Little did I know that

ugnet_: Fw:Buganda's report to the constitutional review commission

2003-02-15 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
PREAMBLE: For centuries, Buganda was a warrior kingdom, which believed in conquest and settling disputes with neighbors with force of arms and conquest. Internally, reigning kings (Kabakas) were often removed and replaced by force of arms. At the close of the 19th Century however, the th

[Ugnet] Ssemakula: NRM USA PRESS RELEASE

2005-07-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
"James Ssemakula ?a U.P.C stalwart, who labored to discourage the Uganda American community in California from attending the NRM event." Sseruganda Ssemakula, I must have missed the news of your crossing over to "the party of ideas." From: " To: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: M

[Ugnet] A garbled Luganda glossary

2005-07-25 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Quite by accident, I discovered the following link: http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/CBOLD_Lexicons/Ganda.Snoxall1967/Non-distributed_files/Luganda%20Parsed. Does anybody know where I could get a clearer version of the Luganda glossary on that page? Thanks. v

Re: [Ugnet] A garbled Luganda glossary

2005-07-26 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Mr. Musamize, Thanks for your very generous referencing. vukoni ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/

Re: [Ugnet] A garbled Luganda glossary\ Semakula

2005-07-28 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
s escape me now. > > > >On the web there is a Luganda-English & English-Luganda translator under >construction at www.gandaancestry.com, but that portion may not be open to >the public yet. > > > >In Buganda, Ekibiina Ky’olulimi Oluganda is putting together a >Lu

Re: [Ugnet] Re: [Mwananchi] Sudan's Vice President John Garang maybe dead

2005-07-31 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Hold the obituaries and speculations. I just got off the phone talking with the members of a well-connected southern Sudanese family. Garang is alive. The helicopter landed safely, although in an unscheduled location. vukoni ___ Edward Mulindwa wrote: Netters This is a true exa

Re: [Ugnet] Re: [Mwananchi] Sudan's Vice President John Garang maybedead

2005-07-31 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
upe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" ----- Original Message - From: "Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Re: [Mwananchi] Sudan's Vic

[Ugnet] More Trees Can Mean Less Water, Says Report

2005-07-31 Thread Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
*More Trees Can Mean Less Water, Says Report* *SciDev.Net* (London) NEWS July 29, 2005 Posted to the web July 29, 2005 By Sonja Van Renssen Water management programmes across the developing world are based on the mistaken belief that trees increase the available water in an area, says a repor

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