Monday, August 18, 2003

Dim Bulb In White House QUOTE OF THE DAY "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - - Steve Biko KNOW YOUR HISTORY - AUGUST 18TH 1977 -- South Africa: Steve Biko, a leading student apartheid resister, is arrested in Port Elizabeth. He is later murdered while in custody. RHINO HERE: Had a great response to the shrub resume I posted this weekend. I failed to mention that I didn't write that. It was sent to me with no credit to the writer and a search failed to find it posted anywhere on the web which is why I posted the entire piece. Thanks to one of my readers hipping me, I now know it was written by Kelley Kramer and it's posted at the I Am Magginkat website. Lest any of your friends or relatives fail to grasp the scope of shrub's "accomplishments", I urge you to disseminate it far & wide. George bu$h Resume, By Kelley Kramer http://www.iammagginkat.com/bush_resume.htm RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE today is a article that was frantically written by candleLIGHT during last Friday's huge power outage. Trying to finish the piece and get it posted on the web before his laptop battery ran dry, Greg Palast reveals much about the connections between Niagara Mohawk Power Company, Enron, the California recall election, president-select shrub & his pop. What a tangled grid he weaves. Very enLIGHTning! BUT FIRST, last week, the "confused right wing wife of a wealthy Republican politician",  turned "clear thinking progressive anti-corporate thievery activist", & now candidate for Governor, Arianna Huffington, (Rhino sez, "You Go Girl!") held a press conference to urge the media to ask her opponent in the Governors race, Arnold SchWARzenegger, why he met with "still at large corporate criminal & shrub buddy", Ken Lay. The article excerpted below was written by Jason Leopold , a freelance journalist based in California who's currently finishing a book on the California energy crisis. It tells as much as is known about the Arnold / Kenny Lay meeting and related events. Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis By Jason Leopold, The Scoop, 8/17/03 Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't talking. The Hollywood action film star and California's GOP gubernatorial candidate in the state's recall election has been unusually silent about his plans for running the Golden State. He hasn't yet offered up a solution for the state's $38 billion budget deficit, an issue that largely got more than one million people to sign a petition to recall Gov. Gray Davis. More important, however, Schwarzenegger still won't respond to questions about why he was at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills two years ago where he, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and junk bond king Michael Milken, met secretly with former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay who was touting a plan for solving the state's energy crisis.. .. IT'S ALL AT: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00114.htm 7:15:46 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights by Greg Palast , ZNet, Friday, August 15, 2003 I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator of corporate racketeers. In the 1980s, "NiMo" built a nuclear plant, Nine Mile Point, a brutally costly piece of hot junk for which NiMo and its partner companies charged billions to New York State's electricity ratepayers. To pull off this grand theft by kilowatt, the NiMo-led consortium fabricated cost and schedule reports, then performed a Harry Potter job on the account books. In 1988, I showed a jury a memo from an executive from one partner, Long Island Lighting, giving a lesson to a NiMo honcho on how to lie to government regulators. The jury ordered LILCO to pay $4.3 billion and, ultimately, put them out of business. And that's why, if you're in the Northeast, you're reading this by candlelight tonight. Here's what happened. After LILCO was hammered by the law, after government regulators slammed Niagara Mohawk and dozens of other book-cooking, document-doctoring utility companies all over America with fines and penalties totaling in the tens of billions of dollars, the industry leaders got together to swear never to break the regulations again. Their plan was not to follow the rules, but to ELIMINATE the rules. They called it "deregulation." It was like a committee of bank robbers figuring out how to make safecracking legal. READ IT ALL AT: http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=257 "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. 6:21:02 AM    comment

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