Saturday, April 19, 2003

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG QUOTE OF THE DAY "It's the media's responsibility to examine the President with a microscope . . . but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far." - - Richard M. Nixon (April 8th, 1984) APRIL 19, 1988 -- U.S. Supreme Court rules the Forest Service can build a logging road through sacred lands of Yurok, Karok & Tolowa tribes in Northern California. APRIL 20, 1999 The Second Columbine Massacre. Many media (e.g., Reuters, UPI) erroneously call this the biggest school massacre, but it was not. On May 18, 1927, 45 people were killed, including 38 elementary students, by a series of dynamite explosions at the Bath Michigan School, detonated by Andrew Kehoe, a school board member. The first Columbine Massacre you never hear about was November 21, 1927, when picketing miners were brutally massacred while on picket duty during a 1927 strike. A Northern Colorado Mine Workers Historical Marker on Highway 7 leading to Lafayette marks the site. TV TIP OF THE WEEKEND: " THE WORLD OF AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE" NBC - TV Saturday, April 19, 2003, 3PM EST (Noon PST) See the Trailer -- http://www.4D-enter.com A one-hour documentary introducing the beauty, artistry, athleticism and competition of American Indian dance. Filming Crow Fair on the Crow Indian Agency of Montana, Four Directions Entertainment recorded over 40 hours of spectacular footage using Panasonic High Definition Television cameras. Crow Fair draws approximately fifty thousand people from around the world and each year its popularity grows. The spectators are all guests of the Crow Nation as hundreds of American Indians from throughout the continent join in this summer celebration and dance competition. The event is held on historic Little Big Horn Mountain surrounded by breathtaking Crow lands located between Devil's Tower and Yellowstone National Park. From this vista, a compelling story of American Indian Dance is told. The many types of dance, their meanings and origins are explored, depicting how the Dance fortifies and sustains the survival of a race of people. With its presence and energy, Indian Dance is a powerful influence on US-Indian relationships. Dramatic conflict ensues as we see the struggle between intertribal cultures, progress versus tradition, spirituality versus commerce, the old versus the new. The World Of American Indian Dance RHINO HERE: Howard Dean... Dennis Kucinich... Pondering. Both / and. Martin Sheen? He sure makes it look easy on West Wing. Reagan wasn't even as good an actor as Marty. A few slightly lighter commentaries for the weekend, but first: I must decide the title of a new documentary by Monday morning. Wanna help? It features History of The World's Religions Professor Huston Smith, in one on one conversations with 8 American Indian spiritual & political leaders. After an overview of the history of religious intolerance & superiority towards Indigenous religions, the dialogs explore destruction of the environment as persecution of Indian Religion; the legal struggle of The Native American Church; protection & access to Indian sacred sites; effects of the loss of Indian languages on ceremonies; access to ceremonies for American Indian prisoners; the threats caused by the Human Genome Diversity Project; & the Mount Graham International Observatory in Southeast Arizona where The Vatican Observatory & the University of Arizona built an array of telescopes atop Apache sacred lands. So wanna help me name it? Your ideas are welcome via email this weekend til... DEADLINE Monday morn, 6AM PST. Here's the ones we've been playing with: * "A Seat At The Table: The Indigenous Place in The World's Religions" * "A Seat At The Table: The Indigenous Struggle In The World's Religions" * "A Seat At The Table: Due Respect For Indigenous Religions" * "A Seat At The Table: Indigenous People, Essence of the World's Religions" * "A Seat At The Table: Indigenous People, Hub of the World's Religions" * "Struggling For A Seat At The Table: Indigenous People in The World's Religions" * "Indigenous Religions of America: A seat at the table" * "Invisible Nations: Forgotten Rights, Endangered Rites" * "Religious Freedom in the Fourth World" * "Overlooked and Endangered: Indigenous Worship" * "Religious Freedom in the Natural World" * "World Views on Native American Religious Freedom" Send suggestions to the rhino: rhino@kifaru.com Bowling for Kennebunkport by FRANK RICH , NY Times, 4/6/03 POLITICS abhors a vacuum. Entertainers love center stage. And so it was only too predictable that once the Democratic party's marquee names proved M.I.A. during the White House march to war, show business's stars would answer the call, whether anyone wanted them to or not. The ensuing cavalcade has been entertaining in its way, if not exactly edifying... ...Mr. Moore's boorish Oscar night yelling, far from relegating him to obscurity, seems to have enhanced not only his movie's box office but his own magnitude of stardom. While Hollywood and its acolytes may believe that Mr. Moore was (in that now terminally overused word) "inappropriate," there may well be plenty of other Americans who find it more mischievous than scandalous to break etiquette at a glitzy awards show. Upending a ceremony at which the high priest is Steve Martin is not, after all, an act of sacrilege quite on a par with disrupting high mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.. .. IT'S ALL THERE AT: http://www.MICHAELMOORE.COM/articles/index.php?article=20030406-nytimes The Warmongers Were Right! (link) A gutted Iraq, a low slaughter rate, an Exxon can for every peasant. See? Peacenik losers! By Mark Morford, The Gate, 4/18/03 Oh my yes. What whimpering, unadulterated embarrassment the anti-war protesters must now feel, what heaping mountains of crow we must all imbibe. This is the general sentiment, the snickering attitude hissing from the Right like hot spittle spraying all over your nuanced perspective. Hail the great victor BushCo! Ha! The U.S. kicked ass! Who's your daddy, beeyatch? Thump thump thump on the manly chest of great liberator America! Liberals suck! Go, war! It's Miller Time. Yes, justifiably do the war zealots gloat. See how our multibillion-dollar high-tech superpower ordnance annihilated the little scrawny pip-squeak nation! See how we barely even broke a multibillion-dollar sweat!... THE REST'S AT: Warmongers were right Some excerpts from the soon to be passed Patriot Act II, following on the success of the Patriot Act, which did much to alleviate the long nightmare of civil liberties for many Americans. Patriot Act II Article I The term CURRENT ADMINISTRATION will henceforth be used to denote the George W. Bush administration and its duly Supreme Court appointed successors. As "popular vote" has proven an unreliable method for choosing administrations, all previous administrations (with the exception of George H.W. Bush and Reagan) do not fall under this term and therefore this act does not apply retroactively to them, therefore excusing all PATRIOTS from prosecution for everything they ever said in the years 1993-2000... THE ENTIRE THING'S AT: http://www.hoolinet.com/patriot.html 7:55:10 AM    comment

THE BOTTOM LINE - The Iraqi Gravy Train THE BOTTOM LINE Welcome aboard the Iraqi gravy train Congratulations to all the winners of tickets to take part in the greatest rebuilding show on earth by Terry Jones, The Observer, Sunday April 13, 2003 Well the war has been a huge success, and I guess it's time for congratulations all round. And wow! It's hard to know where to begin. First, I'd like to congratulate Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and the Bechtel Corporation, which are the construction companies most likely to benefit from the reconstruction of Iraq. Contracts in the region of $1 billion should soon coming your way, chaps. Well done! And what with the US dropping 15,000 precision-guided munitions, 7,500 unguided bombs and 750 cruise missiles on Iraq so far and with more to come, there's going to be a lot of reconstruction. It looks like it could be a bonanza year. Of course, we all know that KBR is the construction side of Halliburton, and it has been doing big business with the military ever since the Second World War. Most recently, it got the plum job of constructing the prison compound for terrorists suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Could be a whole lot more deluxe chicken coops coming your way in the next few months, guys. Stick it to 'em. I'd also like to add congratulations to Dick Cheney, who was chief executive of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, and who currently receives a cheque for $1 million a year from his old company. I guess he may find there's a little surprise bonus in there this year. Well done, Dick. Congratulations, too, to former Secretary of State, George Schultz. He's not only on the board of Bechtel, he's also chairman of the advisory board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group with close ties to the White House committed to reconstructing the Iraqi economy through war. You're doing a grand job, George, and I'm sure material benefits will be coming your way, as sure as the Devil lives in Texas. Oh, before I forget, a big round of appreciation for Jack Sheehan, a retired general who sits on the Defence Policy Board which advises the Pentagon. He's a senior vice president at Bechtel and one of the many members of the Defence Policy Board with links to companies that make money out of defence contracts. When I say 'make money' I'm not joking. Their companies have benefited to the tune of $76bn just in the last year. Talk about a gravy train. Well, Jack, you and your colleagues can certainly look forward to a warm and joyous Christmas this year... THERE'S MORE - IT'S AT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0%2C2763%2C935650%2C00.html "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. 6:50:42 AM    comment

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