Wednesday, October 1, 2003

ACTION TIME QUOTE OF THE DAY "The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis." - - Edmund Burke KNOW YOUR HISTORY - OCTOBER 1st 1997 -- Kosovo: 100,000 demonstrate in Pristina, the capital (occupied by Serbia), for civil rights for the majority ethnic Albanian population. RHINO HERE: 1st of the month. It's ACTION TIME!  There are 2 pressing situations which The Rhino believes can be effected by each of us taking just a few minutes to make phone calls &/or write a quick letter: 1) The shrub gang wants 87 BILLION MORE U.S. Taxpayer Dollars to continue their quagmire building in Iraq. Who will end up with those dollars? Shrub & Cheney's cronies in the military industrial complex, Halliburton, etc. What about the profits from the Iraqi people's oil? Why would they use that money when they can rip off the American public's children? It's vital that we let out Senators know loud & clear that we don't want more debt dumped on our kids & grandkids. In addition to the 70,000 TrueMajority members who faxed their Congresspeople on this issue last week, thousands more calls & letters from members of the MoveOn & Working Assets organizations also mobilized last week That flood of citizen communications hitting Congress matches the polls that show the American people oppose another $87 billion for the shrub gang quagmire. So what has the Senate Republican leadership just announced? An abrupt end to hearings over America's policy in Iraq and a speedy vote on the $87 billion to limit the people's ability to weigh in. The vote is now scheduled for Friday, October 3. CALL YOUR SENATORS!!! U.S. SENATOR PHONE NUMBERS LISTED AT: http://www.nalc.org/depart/legpol/senatorphones.html WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF YOUR LOCAL PAPER BULLET POINTS AVAILABLE AT: http://www.truemajority.org/letter.cfm True Majority :          http://www.truemajority.org MoveOn :         http://www.moveon.org Working Assets: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/index.cfm 2) The shrub gang wants a Republican Governor in California. They don't care who that person is nor what he believes in nor what he's done in his past. Anyone who saw the California Recall Election debate, if they aren't hypnotized by Hollywood Iluminati or so partisan that they're willing to forego their Republican principles, saw clearly that Arnold Schnitzel had trouble expressing any concept that took longer than 2 short sentences.  The guy is a meathead who's being handled by Pete Wilson & Karl Rove. Do they care about California's budget? To answer that you must ask yourself do they care about the budget crisis of the entire U.S.? Of course not. It was their funding cuts to all the states and their cronies' energy rip-offs that put us in the shape we're in. What they really want is to control who programs the new electronic voting machines in California. That way they can steal California's electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election & thumb their nose at the largest state in the union where every significant elected office is filled by democrats & Greens. So sez The Rhino! Let's not let them do this. IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN CALIFORNIA: Call your friends & relatives who live in California & urge them to: 1)  Vote next Tuesday AGAINST the Recall of Governor Gray Davis 2)  Vote for  Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamonte  (in case the Recall goes through) 3)  Vote AGAINST proposition 54 IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, RHINO URGES DOING ALL THE ABOVE Now, RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE consists of 3 articles, 1 about Arnold, 1 by Arianna, & 1 on the recall. 7:42:30 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Arnold the Barbarian-s Fascistic Flicks Arnold the Barbarian's Fascistic Flicks Gustav the goosestepper, the "Coup-vernator," and the triumph of the recall. by Ed Rampell, L.A. ALTERNATIVE PRESS, Sept 17th - 30th, 2003 Hitler's favorite filmmaker, 101-year-old Leni Riefenstahl, died Sept. 8, but the philosophy of her propagandistic documentaries appears to live on in Arnold Schwarzen-egger's movies. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer as the Von Trapps in 1965's "The Sound of Music" fled Austria in 1938 when derFuhrer invaded. But not Schwarzenegger's father, who - according to Aug. 24's USA Today - applied for Nazi party membership shortly before Germany annexed Austria. Gustav Schwarzenegger joined the storm troopers May 1, 1939. USA Today went on to report that in an old photo of the brownshirt, he wore "a Hitler-style mustache," and that a recent article in Vienna's daily Der Standard called the elder Schwarzenegger "a high-ranking Nazi." ... MORE AT: http://www.laalternativepress.com/v02n12/polis/rampell.php Arianna Shifts Campaign to Defeat the Recall, Arnold and Prop 54 Arianna Huffington delivered the following statement on September 30, 2003. Over the last 48 hours it has become clear to me that the only way to stop a Republican takeover of our state is to vote No on the recall. Because it's also clear that I am not going to win on October 7, I am withdrawing from the race so that I can devote all my time and energy in the remaining week to defeating the recall -- and to defeating the Arnold Schwarzenegger-Pete Wilson forces that are trying to use the recall to hijack our state. The number one goal of my candidacy has always been ending the power of special interest money to determine public policy. Which is why I filed a Clean Money/Clean Elections ballot initiative last week to create a system of publicly funded campaigns... MORE AT: http://www.votearianna.com/article.php?id=273 California's Populist Revival by Norman Solomon, San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2003 So, you're mad as hell, and you're not going to take it anymore. The powerful spirit of populism is now channeling through California's body politic: "Throw the rascal out!" And Gray Davis is a fine specimen of rascality: an ice-veined governor who catered to big donors and simmered the books in Sacramento until they exploded with red ink.  But the winds of populist anger rarely reach gale force on their own. In politics, no one should expect a perfect storm to occur by accident. Much more than a pressure system is needed. Lots of money and access to media help. So do calculated ambiguities... MORE AT: Populist Revival "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. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:29:32 AM    comment

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