Thursday, July 31, 2003

The 28 Pages QUOTE OF THE DAY "I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall." - - Mahatma Gandhi KNOW YOUR HISTORY - JULY 31 1944 - The US hosted an international conference at Bretton Woods, N.H., to deal with international monetary and financial problems. The talks resulted in the creation of the IMF, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank in 1945. In 1997 Catherine Caufield wrote "Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations." The Bretton Woods institutions also include the United Nations and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (renamed the World Trade Organization). The agreement was a gold exchange standard and only the US was required to convert its currency into gold at a fixed rate, and only foreign central banks were allowed the privilege of redemption. RHINO HERE: Did those codgers actually think they's get away with their scheme to wager on terrorism? Rhino figures they saw how much shrub & company were getting away with on so many fronts that they thought the sky was the limit. But yesterday, Admiral Poindexter's insane "Policy Analysis Market" was scrapped. Pentagon Cancels Terrorism Betting Plan Pentagon Cancels Plan Meanwhile, the brain surgeons at the US Department of Homeland Security were busy putting out the alert that they expect a major terrorist attack on an International airlines flight... Memo warns of new hijack plots - More details emerge about possible terror plans http://www.msnbc.com/news/945783.asp ...and at the same time, the department announced they were cutting their budget by laying off the Air Marshal's on all flights that would require them to stay overnight in a hotel. Like for instance, international flights. Duhhh! And then as quickly as you can close down an online gambling casino, they were rescheduling the marshals. Flip-flop on air marshal schedules - Guards will continue to fly on international, cross-U.S. trips http://www.msnbc.com/news/945774.asp Here's a couple regarding the 9/11 investigation & what shrub & co don't want us to know about the Saudi Connection. 28 Pages Later - Why is George W. Bush handling Saudi Arabia so gently? Geov Parrish , WorkingForChange.com, 07.29.03 http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15367 Saudi blames Bin Laden for tension Foreign minister: Al-Qaida stands to benefit from Bush move to keep pages secret Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal tells NBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/943459.asp#BODY Since the events of 9/11/01, it's been considered taboo to discuss the possibility that there was any culpability on the part of the U.S. that may have contributed to making the perpetrators angry & crazy enough to do what they did. Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is taken from Walter Mosley's new book, 'What Next?' (Serpent's Tail), to be published in September. It is a provocative piece & I believe worth the read. Rhino thinks the BILLIONS of US taxpayer dollars spent since 9/11 on bombing Afghanistan & Iraq would have been better spent creating security for America & the World by funneling it through a U.S. Department of Peace as proposed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. But then what contracts could Halliburton get? How 'bout building schools & hospitals and water treatment systems worldwide? No justice - no peace. 6:51:42 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Ignorance is Not Bliss Ignorance is Not Bliss - The Race Riots of the 1960s Civil Rights Struggle Were Motivated by the Same Alienation That Fueled the September 11 Attacks by Walter Mosley, lndependent/UK ,  July 29, 2003 ...The America that exists for the middle class is beautiful. But there are places that deny this American Eden: poor America, working-class America and the gray area between those two suffering masses. The millions of men and women who travel the revolving door between the ghetto and prison, the children who go to bed hungry, the mentally ill, the sick and the under-educated make up a large portion of this paradise. And these suffering masses are the lucky ones. At least they have the chance of being associated with the American dream. There's the magic of wealth in America, but what about the rest of the world? Afghanistan was the poorest nation in the world before the World Trade Center attack. And while Aids decimates Africa, we only have to look at our recent history to see the carnage that we've created on a worldwide scale: the bombing of Cambodia and the senseless, endless war on the Vietnamese people; the slaughtering of thousands in Guatemala, and the invasion of Panama. We have embargoes against the leaders of nations who never suffer want, leaving only the innocent populations to endure our punishments. Our freedom and comfort comes at a great cost for our own citizens and peoples around the world. Middle-class white America and its aspirants have been blissfully ignorant of this situation.  But black Americans are not so lucky. READ IT ALL AT: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0729-12.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. 6:03:45 AM    comment

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