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Post by commes on May 5, 2011 12:39:46 GMT 3
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Post by politicalmaniac on May 5, 2011 18:23:16 GMT 3
PM, Nop, Lumumba was still alive when table ronde and independence chachacha were done. Infact Joseph Kabaselleh was with the negotiating team in Brussels, and he saw the roundtable! But he was later to say something was wrong. He did not get a fine feeling about it. It was like a funeral gathering, and it did not look like it was colonialism dying. So when he went to the studio, to sing about the good news of independence for Congo, it was the authentic sadness in his heart that came out. But Dr. Nico [of the divine fingers on guitar] told him it was the coldness of europe that had gotten to him! VERY VERY INTERESTING!! I had no idea that the Kabaselleh the musician was so involved politically during the early stages of the Congo independence!! I need to hear those songs again and look out for the melancholic notes. But the dirge sang by the late Franco and Tabu Ley commiserating the death of Kabaselleh had a definite melancholic note pervading the whole song. Its one of my favorite songs.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 6, 2011 20:25:47 GMT 3
@ Something that has just been brought to my attention, and which may probably need verification, is that KB owns a petrol station in Nsambya, for those who know Kampala, on the road leading to the US embassy. The prices there are still as high as all the others. If he was truly genuine about the plight of the people, why can't he reduce the pump price there as a show of solidarity??? ( just my thoughts) JJ, These are very relevant and pregnant thoughts you have. Let me assume, as I have not yet verified that KB owns that petrol station, that he does. Then he has a major contradiction in his hands to resolve. Being two different, opposing things at the same time. It reminds me of Ken Matiba long ago under Moi, when he threatened to march with workers demanding higher pay, while he was a major employer in the hotel business himself, underpaying wagers. There was a cartoon in a TZ paper where Matiba was looking at his reflection in the mirror. He wore a cup of FKE [federation of Kenya employers] saying wagers must be down to improve investment climate, but his reflection wore a COTU cap demanding wage rises! Who is that? he yelled at the reflection! Will the real Matiba surface, a voice from the shadows asked! Lets call it a delicate balancing act, or chord-dancing. But it shows the political class is ideologically very confused, and therefore limited in political strategy to lead a way out of underdevelopment! however brave and heroic their antics in the streets are!
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Post by einstein on May 6, 2011 21:49:09 GMT 3
@ Something that has just been brought to my attention, and which may probably need verification, is that KB owns a petrol station in Nsambya, for those who know Kampala, on the road leading to the US embassy. The prices there are still as high as all the others. If he was truly genuine about the plight of the people, why can't he reduce the pump price there as a show of solidarity??? ( just my thoughts) JJ, These are very relevant and pregnant thoughts you have. Let me assume, as I have not yet verified that KB owns that petrol station, that he does. Then he has a major contradiction in his hands to resolve. Being two different, opposing things at the same time. It reminds me of Ken Matiba long ago under Moi, when he threatened to march with workers demanding higher pay, while he was a major employer in the hotel business himself, underpaying wagers. There was a cartoon in a TZ paper where Matiba was looking at his reflection in the mirror. He wore a cup of FKE [federation of Kenya employers] saying wagers must be down to improve investment climate, but his reflection wore a COTU cap demanding wage rises! Who is that? he yelled at the reflection! Will the real Matiba surface, a voice from the shadows asked! Lets call it a delicate balancing act, or chord-dancing. But it shows the political class is ideologically very confused, and therefore limited in political strategy to lead a way out of underdevelopment! however brave and heroic their antics in the streets are! Jakaswanga,I really feel let down by your response here. Up to now, I considered you a brainy chap until I read this. Even after I gave JJ a hint on how to answer his very own question, you still come up with this sort of shoddy response. Have you guys ever heard of a discipline called ECONOMICS? Or do you guys think folks go into business to become charitable organisations? What is this for a bull-dung of a response? And you dare claim that you are a teacher!? God help our students!!!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2011 12:04:56 GMT 3
Einstein, I am sorry I hurt your feelings, sonny boy! Not proving to be the hero you thought I was. You see on my last trip to Migingo that weekend, --Migingo has been turned into a waragi wholesale island by the Ugandans, who have been kind enough to show us a copy of the sales-act which transfers the prime real-estate site known as Migingo to the ownership of Uganda, with Raila personally going to Uganda sometime earlier this year to sign the deal earlier concluded by Kibaki--- I and my fishermen buddies saved some super-conc waragi which continues to wreak intermittent havoc with my intellect!
But lets find out if you yourself is not captive to single-malt blue label from Kentucky vintages: Do you think Matiba was in a conflict of interest situation? [serving 2 masters at the same..] such that yore ariyo nyalo tamo otoyo luwo nyadichiel? such that hypocrisy becomes the political practice... God help your students indeed. My students are taught thought, before they go into economics. With thought, we unmask even nobel price economists. See an article by Samir Amin on Stiglitz at IMF!
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Post by einstein on May 7, 2011 22:07:21 GMT 3
Einstein, I am sorry I hurt your feelings, sonny boy! Not proving to be the hero you thought I was. You see on my last trip to Migingo that weekend, --Migingo has been turned into a waragi wholesale island by the Ugandans, who have been kind enough to show us a copy of the sales-act which transfers the prime real-estate site known as Migingo to the ownership of Uganda, with Raila personally going to Uganda sometime earlier this year to sign the deal earlier concluded by Kibaki--- I and my fishermen buddies saved some super-conc waragi which continues to wreak intermittent havoc with my intellect! But lets find out if you yourself is not captive to single-malt blue label from Kentucky vintages: Do you think Matiba was in a conflict of interest situation? [serving 2 masters at the same..] such that yore ariyo nyalo tamo otoyo luwo nyadichiel? such that hypocrisy becomes the political practice... God help your students indeed. My students are taught thought, before they go into economics. With thought, we unmask even nobel price economists. See an article by Samir Amin on Stiglitz at IMF! Jakaswanga,While I agree with you on Matiba's case having been one of a glaring and massive conflict of interest, I'm struggling to see the conflict of interest in the case of KB! Or was your response limited to Matiba's case only?
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Post by jakaswanga on May 8, 2011 18:07:48 GMT 3
PM wrote I need to hear those songs again and look out for the melancholic notes. But the dirge sang by the late Franco and Tabu Ley commiserating the death of Kabaselleh had a definite melancholic note pervading the whole song. Its one of my favorite songs.
PM, Funny world! We do not always argue the same side on jukwaa, and elsewhere on the sports thread I have gathered you are rooting for the blues against the reds, which makes us enemies, but it looks like when it comes to congolese music, we are identical twins in taste. Kabaselleh in memoriam the song is called, and I love it too, with GM Franco playing acoustic this time. And I cannot remember any other time when all three wizards [Luambo Ley and Mavatiku Michellino] work together. I happen to know the LP [Lisanga ya Banganga] was produced in Adongo's backyard [Canada] because of contractual conflicts in Europe!
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Post by einstein on May 10, 2011 22:34:33 GMT 3
Ugandan opposition leaders sprayed pink to stop rallyThe authorities said the rally the opposition had organised was banned Ugandan police have sprayed opposition leaders with a pink liquid to stop them holding a banned rally in the capital.After the drenching, Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao was then arrested. This week, opposition parities have stepped up their campaign over high prices, which has led to recent clashes between the police and protesters. Meanwhile, President Yoweri Museveni has said to curb riots he wants a new law to deny bail for six months to those arrested while protesting. Mr Museveni, who has been in office for 25 years, is due to be sworn in again as president on Thursday. Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye lost to Mr Museveni in February in polls he says were rigged. Dr Besigye is in Kenya where he was receiving treatment after being assaulted in April by police during a "walk-to-work" protest over the rising cost of living, The opposition have been taking part in a campaign for protesting about the high cost of fuel and foodThe BBC's Joshua Mmali in Uganda's capital, Kampala, says the police and military blockaded the entrance to the city's Constitutional Square where the opposition parties wanted to hold their rally. The police then intercepted the opposition leaders' procession, which was heading towards the square, with dogs. When this failed to stop them, they were drenched in the pink liquid sprayed from nearby trucks. Before Mr Mao was hauled into a police van he told the BBC there was "no justification" for the police action. "I don't know what liquid it is. I don't know whether it is lethal or not, but there was no justification for pouring those liquids on us," he said. "We were simply accessing this place and the police needed to exercise restraint." The police say political gatherings have been banned at the square since 2007. Last month, riots broke out in Kampala in protest at the rough treatment meted out to Dr Besigye by the security services during his arrest on 29 April. Plain-clothed policemen beat up his supporters, smashed the window of his car and doused the inside with pepper spray and tear gas before manhandling him into a vehicle and driving off. The authorities say Dr Besigye provoked them - and he was charged with inciting violence. Before the polls, Dr Besigye had called for Egypt-style uprisings in the event of fraud. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13355229
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Post by enigma on May 11, 2011 13:34:48 GMT 3
I see that Kibaki will be attending M7's innauguration. Wouldnt it be a pleasant surprise to M7 if Kibaki brought the stranded KB along on presidential jet?
Imagine Kickbacks saying ''Nimekuletea kijana mpotevu. Usichafe yeye. Washa tu. Alikuwa nayumbayumba na kulegealegea''.
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Post by politicalmaniac on May 11, 2011 18:42:37 GMT 3
I see that Kibaki will be attending M7's innauguration. . Why is he attending that inauguration? Why did the guy who willfully, forcefully and with deadly consequences (1500 dead, 300, 000 displaced last 4 yrs) NOT invite anyone to his "swearing in" ceremony? This "ceremony" if you can call it that, was held in darkness, with just a witness or two. I doubt whether ka-rucy or even the mafiya lickspittle Judas KM his veep, was there. Gen kegs obviously has no sense of shame. An illegitimate poseur attending the inauguration of a fellow dictator. Washindwe!
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Post by job on Jun 15, 2011 21:08:17 GMT 3
Uganda gets prominent editorial coverage in the Washington Post - the paper read daily by the US President, and all US Senators and US Congressmen.The Washington Post Editorial Board Opinion
UGANDA COULD BE CLOSE TO AN AFRICAN SPRING
By Editorial, Published: June 14
IN HIS BUDGET address to parliament this month, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who assumed office a quarter of a century ago, said that his country is “one of the most democratic in the world.” His response to a recent series of popular protests suggests just the opposite. Ugandans joining “walk to work” marches to protest soaring food and fuel prices have been met with excessive force, including volleys of tear gas and live bullets.
A handful of people have been killed and hundreds wounded; opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been arrested repeatedly, shot in the hand and nearly blinded with gas. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, for Mr. Museveni has warned he will devour protesters “like samosas.”
The Ugandan strongman’s use of violence and his refusal to accept term limits are all too reminiscent of Arab dictators such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, who, like Mr. Museveni, was supported by successive U.S. administrations despite his resistance to political liberalization.
Uganda, too, appears destined for a violent upheaval unless the nation is protected from further repression by its president. President Obama and his envoys would be wise to press Mr. Museveni now for change, before protesters — whose marches have recently waned — return to the streets.
Uganda’s recent political trouble began withFebruary’s presidential election, in which Mr. Museveni won a fourth, five-year term. While the United States and international community appeared pleased with the dearth of violence during the vote, they remained relatively silent on allegations of pervasive fraud and police intimidation of voters.
The Commonwealth Observer Group, which monitors election fraud globally, noted “the lack of a level playing field, the use of money and abuse of incumbency” in the election process. Rather than inviting his political rivals to participate in dialogue or committing to a term limit, Mr. Museveni has responded to opposition since the election by cracking down on journalists as well as adversaries such as Mr. Besigye.
While triggered by price increases, the protests by Ugandans also demonstrate their concern that a presidential tenure spanning 25 years has left many voiceless. Without meaningful reform, Mr. Besigye believes, the Arab Spring could morph into an African one sooner than we might expect. Like Egypt, Uganda boasts a youthful and impressionable population, half of whom are under 15. But with fewer educational and occupational opportunities than in Egypt, the potential for havoc in Uganda is arguably greater.
The United States has considerable leverage with the regime, as it recently demonstrated with its opposition to an anti-gay law that was hastily withdrawn from parliament. That influence should now be used to press Mr. Museveni for restrictions on executive
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Post by job on Oct 26, 2011 2:53:02 GMT 3
Museveni's repression on high gear as tension mounts over a planned mass rally. He has now forcefully blocked Opposition leader KIZA BESIGYE (on house detention).
Meanwhile, the UNHRC are keeping a close eye...they can't risk with a paranoid (deranged) power-drunk Museveni.
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