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----- Forwarded Message Follows ----- Stay Informed Spread Truth Act Daily Fact & Act #14 Thursday, 3 October 2002 LMNOP Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace http://lmno4p.org ANALYSIS "When you pass something as broad as apparently Mr. Gephardt has signed onto with the president, then it really undercuts, I believe, the negotiation that's going on at the United Nations," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat. While Biden said he still expected to push an alternative plan he wrote with Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, he said, "I'm a realist. The straight, honest answer is it's probably too late." [Democrats] complained the resolution kept a variety of grounds for a preemptive strike instead of limiting it to threats posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. They also said it did not put a strong enough requirement on exhausting diplomatic measures at the United Nations before war, and skirted issues of how Iraq would be rebuilt after a possible conflict. Senate to Debate Possible Strike on Iraq -Reuters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=3&cid=578&u=/nm/20021003/ts_nm/iraq_usa_dc ACTION Time to be out in the streets. Sunday 6 October, 2pm NOT IN OUR NAME Mass Convergence Union Square San Francisco http://www.nionbayarea.net/ Actions planned across the country and throughout the Bay Area. BAY AREA PEACE CENTERS http://lmno4p.org/actions.htm#pea FACT Harken Energy has benefited from war and terror in Colombia. The cornerstone of Bush's new military aid package is a $98 million grant to help the Colombian government establish a new battalion of its army's 18th Brigade to protect an oil pipeline against guerilla attacks. The 18th Brigade has a long history of ties to the paramilitaries, and its own history of attacks on civilians - earlier this year soldiers killed a teenage boy for walking too close to the pipeline. Ironically the first beneficiary of this program will be Occidental Petroleum, the company that helped the Gore family make its fortune. But U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson has said that in the long run the Pentagon is eyeing similar programs for other key economic assets in Colombia. These would likely include pipelines maintained by Harken's subsidiary, Global Energy Development, a natural gas pipeline operated by Enron, and projects involving Dick Cheney's old company, Haliburton, as well as assets owned or used by Texaco, Exxon-Mobil, and BP. The Other Harken Energy Scandal Oil, Death Squads and Corruption in Colombia http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue0712.html SOURCES The White House has confirmed that Harken Energy Corporation, of which President Bush was a director from 1986 to 1993, formed an offshore subsidiary in September 1989 in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. The subsidiary, Harken Bahrain Energy Company, was set up in anticipation of the company's venture drilling for oil off the coast of Bahrain. More Harken Energy Corporation Documents http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=456&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 ADDITIONAL READING The Cheating America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions-and What You Can Do about It Charles Lewis Center for Public Integrity Staff Bill Allison, 4/2002 DEFICIT WATCH >From LMNOP's Stock Watch (http://lmno4p.com/stockwatch.htm#men) 10/01/2002 | $6,215,430,666,794.73 (trillions) Bear Market Longest in 60 Years http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=580&e=2&cid=580&u=/nm/20020928/bs_nm/markets_stocks_bear_dc CALENDAR Tomorrow, Friday, 4 October 12n-1p Berkeley Women in Black Vigil for Peace & Justice for the Palestinian Occupied Territories Bancroft & Telegraph 7p Peace Navy Organizational Meeting Bayview Boat Club 489 China Basin San Francisco Ken Meyercord (925)827-3373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMNOP CALENDAR http://lmno4p.org/calendar.htm More in the Resources section at LMNOP http://lmno4p.org/resources.htm +=+=+=+=+ Wm Leslie Howard On my bike in San Jose, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMNOP http://lmno4p.org archives of Daily Fact & Acts: http://lmno4p.org/fa/ +=+=+=+=+ ................................................................ 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