Monday, July 21, 2003

Bigger Than Watergate QUOTE OF THE DAY "When the rich make war, it's the poor that die." - - Jean-Paul Sartre KNOW YOUR HISTORY - JULY 21st 1994 - - Britain's Labor Party elected Tony Blair its new leader, succeeding the late John Smith. RHINO HERE: Good Monday morning. For your consideration, articles about a few of the dem presidential hopefuls, and a BOTTOM LINE detailing an in depth investigation of the voter fraud alert. 2004: THE DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS Dennis J. Kucinich The onetime boy mayor of Cleveland is still a maverick after all these years and proudly wears the liberal label. By David Lamb, Times Staff Writer, July 13, 2003 Opening day, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, April 1978. On the mound, to toss out the ceremonial first pitch, the 31-year-old maverick mayor and enfant terrible of Ohio politics. He is wearing a bulletproof vest. Police sharpshooters ring the ballpark roof. Dennis J. Kucinich looks up at the crowd. When he is in attendance and Indian fans yell "Kill the bum," he knows they aren't talking about the umpire... ITS ALL AT: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-kucinich13jul13,17144717.story?coll=la-home-leftrail Senator Kerry: End US Occupation of Iraq Agence France-Presse, Wednesday 16 July 2003 Washington, DC - US Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry called for an end to the US occupation of Iraq and criticized the administration's use of now discredited intelligence as a basis for launching the war. "I fought in Vietnam, and half the wall -- half the (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) wall -- is filled with the names of people who were there because leaders were filled with pride and wouldn't make the right decisions," Kerry told NBC television.  "We need to get the sense of American occupation over with. We need to protect our troops. And that means that pride should not prevent this administration from going to the United Nations and doing what they should have done in the first place," he declared... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071803A.shtml Peter Coyote Explains Why Proprietary Software Is Bad For Electronic Voting Machines by Lisa Rein, onlisareinsradar.com Actor/writer/activist Peter Coyote MC'd the Howard Dean kick off event that took place on June 23, 2003 at the San Francisco Hyatt. If there are three parts to taking our country back: 1) exposing shrub corruption 2) getting a good candidate to run against him 3) fixing our screwed up election procedures I'd say we've got 1 and 2 pretty well under control. Time to get started on number 3 in a big way! READ IT ALL AT: http://onlisareinsradar.com/ 9:24:33 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - How To Rig An Election in the United States Bigger Than Watergate! How To Rig An Election In The United States by  C.D. Sludge, information Clearing House, 7/08/03: (Scoop) The story you are about to read is in this writer's view the biggest political scandal in American history, if not global history. And it is being broken today here in New Zealand. This story cuts to the bone the machinery of democracy in America today. Democracy is the only protection we have against despotic and arbitrary government, and this story is deeply disturbing. Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to control forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you are likely to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not wish to be removed by a ballot driven backlash. One way to accomplish this outcome would be to adopt the Mugabe (Zimbabwe) or Hun Sen (Cambodia) approach. You agree to hold elections, but simultaneously arrest, imprison and beat your opponents and their supporters. You stuff ballot boxes, disenfranchise voters who are unlikely to vote for you, distort electoral boundaries and provide insufficient polling stations in areas full of opposition supporters. However as so many despots have discovered, eventually such techniques always fail - often violently. Hence, if you are a truly ambitious political dynasty you have to be a bit more subtle about your methods... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4031.htm "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. 8:54:48 AM    comment

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