Tuesday, July 8, 2003

Beyond shrub QUOTE OF THE DAY "The greatest test of the 2004 presidential election campaign is not with the candidates. It is with the people. There are strong signs that presidential election issues on the Democratic side are already being manipulated by corporate and financial interests. And some naïve and well-intentioned (and some not-so-naïve and not-so-well intentioned) activists are already playing right into the Board's hands." - - Mike Ruppert (Publisher of From the Wilderness) from today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE KNOW YOUR HISTORY - JULY 8th 1970 -- Taos Pueblo recovers its sacred Blue Lake from the U.S. government. Richard Nixon is instrumental in this historic return of a sacred site to its American Indian caretakers. 1980 -- The US Congress enacts the Hopi-Navajo [forced] Relocation Act to "solve" the problem of impeded access to coal deposits at Big Mountain, Arizona. Dine (Navajo) families at Big Mountain continue their resistance to this day. Peabody Coal makes the bucks. Navajo sheepherders suffer. RHINO HERE: I'll begin today with an apology for yesterday having incorrectly referred to the shrub as a recovering alcoholic and doing so within a sentence flavored by scorn & condemnation. I had said: "Now comes the dim witted, tough talking, recovering alcoholic, never seen a day of real war in his life AWOL selected President actually taunting the Iraqi resistance who've been firing rocket-propelled grenades at our troops, to 'Bring It On!'" I believe my scorn & condemnation were accurately placed, but my inclusion of the adjective "recovering alcoholic", (commonly used to describe a courageous person) was not. I apologize to all those who rightly took offense. I have a lot of respect for those friends & family who fight that battle. I want you to know that I stand with you. In fact, in 1993 & 94 I immersed myself in the struggle for sobriety in American Indian communities and in 1995 released a 3 and a half hour documentary series called, "The Red Road To Sobriety" documenting the contemporary Native American sobriety movement. http://www.kifaru.com/rroad8.html My thanks to the blog readers who pointed out my mistake and let me know that shrub is not a recovering alcoholic, but a born-again Christian who became dry which is very different from an alcoholic following a 12 Step Program, which includes practicing rigorous honesty, and trying to live a life of love and service. One reader commented: "Though AA doesn't have a defined idea of "God" and refers to it only as a Higher Power, this is certainly one of the most spiritual paths in the world today. The Resident Bush is clearly not on any spiritual path and he's not in any recovery group that I've ever heard about. I've done my research on this." First People's TV A quick note that our beloved WorldLink TV will air another episode of First People's TV on Wednesday entitled, Dances For The New Generation". For more info go to: http://www.worldlinktv.com/programming/programDescription.php4?code=dances and http://www.dreamcatchers.org/fptv/index.html Today I offer 2 well researched pieces on the state of our nation. The first is another important history lesson written by Thom Hartmann , author of over a dozen books, including "Unequal Protection" and "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," and a nationally syndicated daily talk show host. http://www.thomhartmann.com Dear Clarence Thomas: It Happened on July 4, 1776 by Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, 7/3/03 In 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote a note to James Madison about the future possibility of a president who didn't understand the principles on which America was founded. "The tyranny of the legislatures is the most formidable dread at present," he wrote, "and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period." The new so-called conservatives claim the power to violate citizens' private lives because, they say, there is no "right to privacy" in the United States. In that, they overlook the history of America and the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776. And they miss a basic understanding of the evolution of language in the United States. Of course, they're not the first to have made these mistakes... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0703-09.htm RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE today is written by Mike Ruppert, Publisher of From the Wilderness or FTW, a newsletter which has pioneered innovative analysis on the impact of the $500 billion per year in drug money that moves through the US economy & the illegal covert operations which he says, maintain control of that cash flow for US economic interests. Since 9-11-01 he has released major stories involving government foreknowledge of 9/11, corruption & violations of the Constitution, the consequences of Peak Oil, the fact that the world is running out of energy, and what this might mean for human civilization. The article below is Part 1 of a series which argues that because of their bungling management style, the shrub gang is on their way out, but that may or may not be good news. Provocative, but well researched stuff. For more on From The Wilderness, GO TO: http://www.fromthewilderness.com 7:35:17 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - BEYOND BUSH - Part I BEYOND BUSH - Part I by Michael C. Ruppert, From The Wilderness July 1, 2003 1600 PDT ( FTW ) -- Let's just suppose for a moment that George W. Bush was removed from the White House. Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz and Rove too. What would that leave us with? It would leave us stuck in hugely expensive, Vietnam-like guerrilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would leave us with the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and Total Information Awareness snooping into every detail of our lives. It would leave us with a government in violation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments to the Constitution. It would leave us with a massive cover-up of US complicity in the attacks of 9/11 that, if fully admitted, would show not intelligence "failures" but intelligence crimes , approved and ordered by the most powerful people in the country. It would leave us with a government that now has the power to compel mass vaccinations on pain of imprisonment or fine, and with no legal ability to sue the vaccine makers who killed our friends orour children. It would leave us with two and half million unemployed; the largest budget deficits in history; more than $3.3 trillion missing from the Department of Defense; and state and local governments broke to the point of having to cut back essential services like sewers, police, and fire. It would leave us with a federal government that had hit the debt ceiling and was unable to borrow any more money. And we would still be facing a looming natural gas crisis of unimagined proportions, and living on a planet that is slowly realizing that it is running out of oil with no "Plan B". Our airports however, would be very safe, and shares of Halliburton, Lockheed and DynCorp would be paying excellent dividends. This is not good management.   Leaving all of these issues unaddressed is not good management either. And this is why, as I will demonstrate in this article, the decision has already been made by corporate and financial powers to remove George W. Bush, whether he wants to leave or not, and whether he steals the next election or not. Before you start cheering, ask yourself three questions: "If there is someone or something that can decide that Bush will not return, nor remain for long, what is it? And if that thing is powerful enough to remove Bush, was it not also powerful enough to have put him there in the first place? And if that is the case, then isn't that what's really responsible for the state of things? George W. Bush is just a hired CEO who is about to be removed by the "Board of Directors". Who are they? Are they going to choose his replacement? Are you going to help them?... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/070103_beyond_bush_1.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. 6:14:16 AM    comment

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