Vital to who?

G.I.’s Enter the Colombia Fray to Protect a Vital Oil Pipeline

Casting a wary eye for rebel snipers, Lt. Felipe Zúñiga and his counterinsurgency troops slog through the wet fields and patches of jungle here. Their mission has nothing to do with drugs - until now, the defining issue in Colombia for American policy makers - but instead with protecting a pipeline that carries crude to an oil-hungry America.

The 500-mile pipeline, which snakes through eastern Colombia, transporting 100,000 barrels of oil a day for Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles, is emerging as a new front in the terror war.  

That’s who!

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Go back to yelling at Teletubbies, please

Falwell Calls Mohammed a Terrorist. Jerry Falwell, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on 60 Minutes, called Mohammed a “terrorist.” In a later interview… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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Gephardt’s Double-Cross

Did Gephardt Double-Cross the Dems? The Washington Post says “Yes, Personal Gain is Said to Govern House Minority Leader Gephardt’s Siding With Bush on the House’s Iraq Resolution” [Blog Left: Critical Interventions]

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Saudi sheik still runs Al Qaeda-linked mosque

High in the misty mountains of Asir, no man could escape the rant of the “evil father” of Khamis Mushayt.

White fluorescent strips illuminated the squat mosque as evening took hold. But powerful amplifiers made up for what the minaret lacked in stature as the imam’s message was force-fed into the neon jumble at the centre of town.

This is the conservative corner of Saudi Arabia from which five of the September 11 hijackers were recruited. And according to Ali Al Mosa, an academic reform campaigner, the mosque of Sheik Ahmed Al Hawashi was a vital link in the al-Qaeda recruitment drive.

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The Biofuture Robot Dog Contest

The Biofuture Robot Dog contest is over and the winner will be announced soon!  And just what the Hell, you ask, is a Biofuture Robot Dog? 

I guess you’ll just have to check it out.

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France and Germany Agree on Iraq

New York Times - PARIS, Oct. 2 As Congress moved to accept a resolution giving President Bush latitude to strike Iraq if he concluded that United Nations diplomacy was stalled, the leaders of France and Germany said they opposed any effort to alter the conditions …

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It finally happened

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Oct 6 nationwide protests

Just returned from a mararthon four hour planning meeting for the Los Angeles protest on Sunday (1-6 PM at the Federal Bldg in Westwood), part of the nationwide Not In Our Name protests happening that day.

So far we have an amazing, if somewhat still in flux, lineup of 30+ speakers, musicians, spoken word, and more - in addition to the march itself.  Hip hop, folk, Sonali Kolhatkar from KFPK and the Afghanistan Women’s Mission, Tibetan gongs, Blase Bonpane from the Office of the Americas, DJ’s, ministers, and lots more I can’t recall right now now!  A diverse and talented lineup.  Response has been huge, we’ve had to turn away speakers and musicians because we can’t fit everyone in.

People are coming from Orange County, Santa Barbara, and elsewhere, and some are coming via chartered buses.

In other words, turnout looks to be big.

These protests are happening in twenty two cities so far. Among the big cities are San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, and, of course, the big one, in New York City in Central Park.

Hope you can make it!

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