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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

lunarchick - 08:58am Apr 8, 2001 EST (#2090 of 2099)
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TED TURNER - was offered a 30% share in MTV Moscow.

Not sure of the format of that MTV ... don't know how much 'current affairs/news' gets to air ... suspect that MTV is mainly music videos. Great for Gym workouts

... perhaps the 'next' big tv-shopping exercise machine or torture-exercise-RACK might eminate from Russia.

lunarchick - 09:16am Apr 8, 2001 EST (#2091 of 2099)
lunarchick@www.com

Person-to-Person interaction is paramount.

rshowalter - 11:23am Apr 8, 2001 EST (#2092 of 2099)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Great thead ! And person to person interactions, which are essential between nations, are destroyed by "unilateralism" -- an elementary fact that seems to have escaped President Bush -- to the detriment and shame of the whole nation.

almarst-2001 - 07:38pm Apr 8, 2001 EST (#2093 of 2099)

Against the mainstream: - http://mediafilter.org/caq/

lunarchick - 05:02am Apr 9, 2001 EST (#2094 of 2099)
lunarchick@www.com

A bull in a china shop ... breakages!

rshowalter - 05:45am Apr 9, 2001 EST (#2095 of 2099)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Interesting breakages indeed. A web of lies, when it breaks, especially after it is frayed enough that key players at CIA start dying -- may be brittle indeed. "bull" above is worth reading carefully. So is the whole thread - right to the end.

rshowalter - 05:54am Apr 9, 2001 EST (#2096 of 2099)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee81038/373

jqb00 - 06:34am Apr 9, 2001 EST (#2097 of 2099)

armel7 4/6/01 1:17pm

High quality discussion here. I wish we could pull in some more faces to share the good points.

Yes, too bad Putin isn't posting here. But in fact the suggestion that he is is ludicrous, and is likely to cause people to dismiss Mr. Showalter without even looking at the content.

rshowalter - 07:32am Apr 9, 2001 EST (#2098 of 2099)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Somebody with pretty good staff backing is posting here as almarst_2001 -- your suggestion that it is "ludicrous" that it is Putin, or someone close to him, is just bald assertion.

I may perhaps be entirely wrong, in an assumption that I've made, looking at consistency relationships. You might look at them, too.

You can judge for yourself. And explain to me how what I said is inconsistent with what is here.

I've often been wrong, just as other people are wrong -- and I'm subject to correction. Based on argument and evidence.

Is almarst_2001 who he's claimed to be -- a person who left Russia at 24, who spend 14 years in Israel, and who now resides in Boston . . . well, maybe, but if so, he's doing an interesting service -- setting out what seem to be Russian points of view, on interesting issues.

Attacks on credibility are essential ways to close off discussion, of course. And I've had my share of such attacks.

In large measure, my credibility will hinge on my technical work. And if that is well established, the worth of this thread may be significantly augmented. There's some progress in that regard since http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/klinerec .

Let me get a posting dealing with some of that progress . . .

rshowalter - 07:35am Apr 9, 2001 EST (#2099 of 2099)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/450

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