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Friday, July 11, 2003

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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"A people enrich their minds who keep their history on the leaves of memory."
- - Luther Standing Bear (Lakota)


KNOW YOUR HISTORY - JULY
1958
-- Daisy Bates & the Little Rock Nine, African-American youths who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., receive the Spingarn Medal for their "heroism & pioneering roles in upholding the basic ideals of American democracy in the face of continuing harassment & constant threats of bodily injury."
1985 -- U.S. votes to impose sanctions against South Africa in protest of its apartheid policy.


RHINO HERE:
Holy! Moly! I sure got a load of responses to Wednesday's BOTTOM LINE ARTICLE, "Beyond Bush - Part 1" by From The Wilderness (FTW) publisher, Michael Ruppert. Many of you want to know how long you're gonna have to wait to read Part 2 so you can find out who the democratic presidential candidates are that are pulling the wool over our eyes making us think they're progressives when they're actually tools of what Ruppert calls the" U.S. political and economic elites" - the " Board of Directors" - who are "laying the groundwork to make the Bush administration, specifically Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Perle and Wolfowitz, sacrificial scapegoats for a failed policy". "Is Dean clean?" many want to know.

Ya mon - Rhino wants to know too, though he's not sure what all to make of Ruppert. Yet, it's obvious the author has done some exhaustive research. According to his web site, Part 2 will be available in mid-July.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com

Here's the blurb from the FTW site:
Coming in mid-July - PART II - The real state of the world and why the coup is necessary for Wall Street and the power brokers. How Bush's options in Iraq and everywhere else are being closed off by American power brokers. FTW will question spokespersons for every Democratic challenger to provide you with a detailed analysis of who they are and what they stand for. We'll also talk about how their campaigns are being influenced, guided and controlled. Don't get your hopes up. The one chance for real change is to use the energy of the coup to drag the secrets of 9/11 out into the open.


For those who can't wait for more, today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is an older piece by Ruppert, but just as fascinating, in which he reviews a book entitled, "THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives"  written by Zbigniew Brzezinski whose resume includes such positions as:

- Trustee and founder of the Trilateral Commission ( & secure enough to admit it)
- Associate of Henry Kissinger (& bragging about it)
- Member of Reagan's NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy
- Past member, Board of Directors, The Council on Foreign Relations
- Co-chairman of the (papa) Bush National Security Advisory Task Force
- (yadda yadda yadda)


But 1st, a couple important statements by the UN General Assembly & Amnesty International

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS LANDMARK RESOLUTION
ON PREVENTING ARMED CONFLICT
New York, 7/3/03
After three years of preparation and five months of intensive negotiation, the United Nations General Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution on the prevention of armed conflict, hailed as a landmark in efforts to move the world body from a culture of reacting to crises to one of preventing them reaching critical mass. Welcoming the adoption, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette recalled that Secretary-General Kofi Annan had made conflict prevention one of his major priorities...
READ IT AT:
Preventing Armed Conflict

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA
African Union: A new opportunity for the promotion and protection of citizens' rights
28 June 2002
"As the African Union (AU) replaces the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in early July, it is essential for African leaders to recognize the centrality of human rights and the need to incorporate it in all the work of the organization," Amnesty International said today at the beginning of preparatory meetings in Pretoria, South Africa, for the launch of the AU. "Human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights remain unrealized for the vast majority of Africans, despite the adoption of the African Charter on Human and peoples' Rights in 1981, and its subsequent entry into force in 1986." Amnesty International said. "The great challenge is to ensure that the African Union becomes a tool to deliver real change for ordinary Africans," the organization added...
READ IT AT:
African Union

7:54:02 AM    comment


A War in the Planning for Four Years
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans In a 1997 Book
It Is "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and NATO Official
Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an Exclusive Interview With FTW
by Michael C. Ruppert, From The Wilderness Publications

Summary
"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives"
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.
These are the very first words in the book: "Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power."- p. xiii.æ Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in his address to a joint session of Congress, just days after the attacks of September 11, as the very first place that the U.S. military would be deployed.
As FTW has documented in previous stories, major deployments of U.S. and British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the U.S. Army and the CIA had been active in Uzbekistan for several years. There is now evidence that what the world is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan - at least four years in the making - and that, from reading Brzezinski's own words about Pearl Harbor, the World Trade Center attacks were just the trigger needed to set the final conquest in motion.
FTW, November 7, 2001, 1200 PST (Revised Jan. 21, 2001) - There's a quote often attributed to Allen Dulles after it was noted that the final 1964 report of the Warren Commission on the assassination of JFK contained dramatic inconsistencies. Those inconsistencies, in effect, disproved the Commission's own final conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963. Dulles, a career spy, Wall Street lawyer, the CIA director whom JFK had fired after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco - and the Warren Commission member who took charge of the investigation and final report - is reported to have said, "The American people don't read."  Some Americans do read. So do Europeans and Asians and Africans and Latin Americans...
READ IT ALL AT:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html



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