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QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND
"I'd a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it."
- - Will Rogers
THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY
JUNE 21, 1960 -- Nobel laureate Linus Pauling defies Congress by refusing to name signers of petitions calling for total halt of nuclear weapons testing. Pauling later wins a second Nobel: a Peace Prize for his work championing nuclear disarmament. He shared devotion to pacifism with his friend Albert Einstein. In 1958, he presented a petition signed by 11,000 scientists, warning the public about the biological danger of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing.
JUNE 22, 1977 -- US Attorney General John Mitchell, Tricky Dick Nixon's law & order hard-liner & highest ranking US lawman, starts his 19 months in an Alabama prison. In September '72, stories by The Washington Post linked Mitchell to a secret campaign fund that paid for the Watergate burglary. When Post reporter Carl Bernstein called for a comment, Mitchell directed his response at the Post's publisher: "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's ever published." According to later testimony, Mitchell approved $250,000 for the break-in.
CARTOON OF THE WEEK:
THIS MODERN WORLD - "Christians - Not All Bad"
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15152
TV TIP OF THE WEEKEND
Democratic presidential candidate & former Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean will do a live one-hour interview Sunday on "Meet the Press" covering the key issues of his grassroots campaign & previewing his formal campaign announcement scheduled for Monday.
RHINO HERE:
Ben Cohen , the famous frozen desert magnate & founder of internet advocacy group, The TrueMajority announced on Friday his personal endorsement for President - - Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Ben's written endorsement is RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE below. A coincidence that Rhino also formally endorsed Kucinich on Friday? Rhino thinks it's synchronicity. That's coincidence with meaning.
Word has it Al Gore is pursuing creation of a cable network with partner Joel Hyatt , co-founder of Hyatt Legal Services & a Democratic fund-raiser during the 2000 presidential election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/national/19GORE.html
Radiohead's New Album 'Hail to the Thief' explores comparisons between the 1984 Orwellian State and the current shrub gang administration. Seattle University's Spectator puts it this way:
"Hail to the Thief, a reference to George W. Bush's non-military coup of the White House, will strike a chord in those who pay attention to the message.... the entire concept and theme of Big Brother (or George W. Bush) is punctuated by special effects or synthesizers, compelling you to watch your back and wonder if he really is watching."
http://www.spectator-online.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/06/02/3edbdb3114998
Here's 2 reports from the Indigenous Peoples Film Community
For Maori Actors, a 'Whale' of a Story
By Desson Howe , Washington Post, Sunday,6/15/03
They are from different generations, these three: A precocious 13-year-old girl named Keisha, a Buddha of a 49-year-old man named Rawiri, and the intense, sensitive Cliff, 34. But they are all strongly connected to one another, a three-strand knot of endearment. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene and Cliff Curtis are all actors in "The Whale Rider," a mythic tale set in New Zealand that has been winning audience awards at such film festivals as San Francisco, Rotterdam, Toronto and Sundance and opens Friday in Washington. They are all Maori. All three sets of eyes glisten like dark topaz. Their laughter warms you like a hearty swig of rum...
IT'S ALL AT:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47871-2003Jun12.html
Pueblo Standing in for Navajo Rez in Hillerman Film
Indianz.Com, 5/15/03
PBS is shooting the next installment of Tony Hillerman's Navajo cop series in New Mexico. "A Thief in Time" again features actors Adam Beach, a Canadian Aboriginal, and Wes Studi, a member of the Cherokee Nation, as Navajo police officers. Albuquerque is standing in for Santa Fe and Jemez Pueblo is standing in for the Navajo Reservation. Filming will also take place in the Navajo community of To'hajiilee community. The film is a follow-up to last year's "Skinwalkers," which was PBS' highest rated program of the year with 12 million viewers.
THIS BLURB POSTED AT:
http://www.indianz.com/News/printme.asp?ID=2003/05/15/hillerman
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL COVERAGE OF SAME STORY AT:
http://www.abqjournal.com/paperboy/text/news/869015news05-15-03.htm
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RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE
STATEMENT FROM BEN COHEN
ENDORSING DENNIS KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT
In this endorsement, I am speaking out as an individual -- and not on behalf of any organization, business, government, labor union or armed force. Nor does it imply that there will soon be an ice cream flavor named Kucinich Kreme.
You know me as a Vermonter, an entrepreneur, a Grateful Dead fan, and a longtime advocate for a peace dividend -- for providing money we need to invest in our children, our schools, and our environment by reducing Cold War-era Pentagon expenditures. There is one candidate running for President who supports the values most important to me, and most critical to the country. That candidate is Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, and the leader on Capitol Hill in challenging Bush Administration foreign policies that make Americans less -- not more --
secure.
While others discuss incremental change, only Dennis Kucinich advocates changing the way our government is run in order to reflect the values of America's people. As Granny D says: "We are the people who believe in a world of environmental beauty, of happiness and not exploitation, of justice and not oppression and torture. A world safe for children... We believe in international law and cooperative action."
How we spend our money as a nation reflects our values and beliefs. Look at your personal check book, and it tells you what is important to you. Our nation's checkbook tells us that our priorities are all wrong -- and Kucinich is the one candidate bold enough to say so. He calls for funding human needs such as universal healthcare, education, environmental cleanup and expanded programs for the poor, the cities, the elderly, and he does it at no additional taxpayer expense by shaving up to 15 percent of the billion dollar a day Pentagon budget.
Because of our skewed national priorities, municipal and state governments are in crisis, as are school districts. Other candidates offer compassionate rhetoric about leaving "no child behind," but it's just lip service without putting your money where your mouth is, and getting rid of tax breaks benefiting the wealthy.
So in this election, voters should say: "Show me the money. What will you cut? What programs will you expand?" I like the answers provided by Dennis Kucinich.
On the subject of checkbooks and money, if you donate some cash to the Kucinich campaign, it will help amplify his message that America needs to reverse course -- and head toward peace and economic justice. And it's not like he's going to get a donation from Enron or Hallibruton or the big
corporate PACs anytime soon. So check out his web site at
http://www.kucinich.us (Donate at https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php )
My top priority in November 2004 is defeating George W. Bush, and I will try to make that happen even if Dennis Kucinich does not become the Democratic nominee. Win or lose the nomination, his grassroots presidential campaign is the vehicle for expanding the party, moving it in a progressive direction, bringing in new voters, and reaching out in a serious way to bring back disaffected voters. That's another reason I endorse Kucinich for President.
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