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Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Willingness to use speculation and conjecture as facts in public presentations is appalling. It's astounding.... The general public just doesn't have any independent way of weighing what is said. If you repeat it enough times, then people become convinced it's the truth."
Vincent Cannistraro (former CIA counterterrorism specialist)
About last Sunday's "Meet The Press" appearance by VP Dick Cheney.
Cheney Link of Iraq, 9/11 Challenged, Boston Globe, 9/16/2003 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/16/cheney_link_of_iraq_911_challenged
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 17th
1970 Jordanian King Hussein drives the PLO out of Jordan forcing them into Lebanon.
1976 Amnesty International receives Erasmus prize.
1978 US Pres. Carter, Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt sign Camp David Accords in which Israel promised to withdraw gradually from the Sinai and to establish some form of autonomous Palestinian territory on the West Bank.
1990 Defense Secretary Dick Cheney sacks Air Force chief of staff General Mike Dugan for openly discussing contingency plans to launch massive air strikes against Baghdad and target Iraqi President Saddam Hussein personally.
RHINO HERE:
Chalk one up for the real owners of the airwaves.
The Senate voted Tuesday to quash Michael Powell's new FCC dereg's.
Senate Votes to Block New Media Rules
By DAVID HO, The Associated Press, September 16, 2003
The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday to repeal media ownership rules critics say could lead to a wave of mergers and ultimately stifle diversity and local viewpoints in news and entertainment. Defying a White House veto threat, the Senate voted 55-40...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18847-2003Sep16?language=printer
Rhino's on the email list for "Meet The Press" in which they announce the upcoming guest & ask for suggested questions. The last 2 times the V.P. was going to be on, I suggested:
"Mr. VP. Is it legal or ethical for a sitting U.S.V.P. during wartime, to be receiving a million dollars a year from a federal government military contractor?"
They haven't used that one. Rhino sez, "If there wasn't such big money in warmongering, so many people wouldn't be so suspicious of the V.P & his affiliates." BOTTOM LINE? G.M . Bombs. But 1st:
How are Halliburton, Home Depot & the storm Isabel related?
The US taxpayer funded Iraqi rebuild is hogging all the plywood!
As Isabel Nears,
Americans Pay the Price for What Is Likely
an Industry-Engineered Plywood Shortage
by Cheryl Seal. Baltimore Indy Media , 15 Sep 2003
Over the weekend, as residents of North Carolina prepared to batten down the hatches against Hurricane Isabel, they made a disturbing discovery: there is a plywood shortage. Just as bad, those who could get sheets of the stuff paid astronomical prices for it - $30 or more for a single 4X8 sheet that, just last spring, may have cost $12-15. Many observers believe that the immediate cause of the crisis is the commandeering of hundreds of thousands of sheets of plywood for the Iraq reconstruction effort. This summer, the Defense Supply Center ordered 766,498 sheets for use in Iraq. However, this may represent just a tiny fraction of the plywood being shipped to the war-ravaged country. A so-far undisclosed volume of the material has also been ordered by private contractors such as Halliburton, working under government contract...
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4968/index.php
And from the "whitehouseforsale.org" comes word of Halliburton striking gold in Peru
(Rhino loves that domain name - whitehouseforsale.org)
Follow that Pipeline
Posted on 09-12-2003 12:39 PM EDT
Although the United States abstained from the final vote, the rest of the board of the Inter-American Development Bank unanimously approved financing for a $1.6 billion natural gas pipeline in Peru, reports the Washington Post . The pipeline - strongly opposed by environmentalists -- would pump gas "from an Amazon rain forest, pipe it over the Andes and deliver it to a processing plant near a marine preserve." As previously mentioned here, that vote is sure to please Pioneer Ray Hunt, chairman, CEO and president of Hunt Oil, which is poised to construct and run the $1 billion to $2 billion processing plant.
The heavy lifting on the project will be done by none other that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, the division of Dick Cheney's old firm perhaps best known for its lucrative, no-bid government contracts to rebuild Iraq... (with links to the Washington Post)
http://whitehouseforsale.org/blog/page.cfm?pageid=158
...and from the Wall Street Journal via Democrats.com
Halliburton's Bloating Bids - One Skyrockets $200M in One Month!
Wall Street Journal reports: "An Army Corps of Engineers contract to rehabilitate the country's oil fields, controversial because it wasn't competitively bid, now is valued at $948 million, more than $200 million above the level projected last month. One particularly expensive item: importing fuel to the oil-rich country, at a cost of as much as $6 million a day. Halliburton's separate Army Field Support Command contract, which it won in 2001, now is estimated to cost $1 billion in Iraq alone. That is up more than $400 million from the level in late May. The rising price tags could renew challenges for the Bush administration because Vice Resident Cheney previously was the company's CEO. Halliburton's work in Iraq has become a focus of attacks from Democrats criticizing the expense of the reconstruction plans. 'These costs are rocketing up, and I will be examining them closely,' Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) said."
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=16319
Rhino tilts his horn & ponders, "What will these chicken-hawks think of next?
How bout a bomb that only kills rhinos? ...or those genetically prone to leaning left?
From the Dr. Strangelove Department comes today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE by
Thom Hartmann (thom at http://www.thomhartmann.com), the award-winning, best-selling author of over a dozen books, and the host of a syndicated daily talk show that runs opposite Rush Limbaugh in cities from coast to coast. www.thomhartmann.com His most recent book (September 2003) is "The Edison Gene." This article is copyright by Thom Hartmann, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached and the title is unchanged.
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The Genetically Modified Bomb
by Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, September 10, 2003
Imagine a bomb that only kills Caucasians with red hair. Or short people. Or Arabs. Or Chinese.
Now imagine that this new bomb could be set off anywhere in the world, and that within a matter of days, weeks, or months it would kill every person on the planet who fits the bomb's profile, although the rest of us would be left standing. And the bomb could go off silently, without anybody realizing it had been released - or even where it was released - until its victims started dying in mass numbers. Who would imagine such a thing? Paul Wolfowitz, for one. William Kristol for another. And, history shows, when the men who define U.S. military policy from the shadows set their sights on something, it's worthy of our attention.
I have brown hair and eyes, both determined by specific genes, and there are probably other markers deep within my DNA that would show a geneticist that most of my ancestors are Norwegian, Welsh, and English. While there's no one gene for race, there are numerous genes for the various components of what we call race - hair color and texture, skin and eye color, eye and nose shape, predispositions or immunities to disease like Sickle Cell Anemia or Tay-Sachs, and the like.
When creating a genetic bomb to target specific groups, such genetic profiles are actually far subtler and more accurate than the coarse pseudo-category we call race. Among men named Cohen all over the world, for example, researchers have found a specific genetic profile tying them all back to a common ancestor. Another group with a common genetic profile are people with ADHD ("The Edison Gene"), who uniquely share common inherited variations in their dopamine-regulating genes regardless of their ostensible race, geography, or ethnicity.
Thus, anybody who's part of a group with a shared genetic profile may be at risk in the future, suggest the authors of The Project for a New American Century 's (PNAC) report titled " Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century. " ...
READ THE REST AT:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0910-15.htm
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