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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?

rshowalter - 04:42am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8587 of 8604)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Nice to see you post, gisterme . I've had a good sleep, and feel pretty good.

Will be looking at your posts carefully. Thanks for them.

lunarchick - 08:07am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8588 of 8604)
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Gistern said (but check my links)

If the US could have somehow avoided the Cold War , say by isolating itself, or Stalin dies in 1945, something like that...this would be a much different world today, wouldn't it? We probably wouldn't have these fantastic PCs, the internet, ..internet ...interstate freeways, GPS...a real space station...and all the other "miracles" we take for granted daily. Take pause for a moment and think seriously about that, Robert...

lunarchick - 08:26am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8589 of 8604)
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GI said

preparation for battle has always been the spearhead of technical innovation

I'd interpret this more logically by saying that $$$$$ becomes available for R&D at governmental whim

Therein lies the problem .. there should always be money for R&D for advancement -- Engineers are problem solvers .. define the problem, give then resources, and let them work for results.

lunarchick - 08:37am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8590 of 8604)
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Gi said

people in the Balkans will still hate each other's guts...

The interesting thing about that melting pot is that folks were very intermarried.

Northern Ireland: On the news today there's a dispute in Northern Ireland. The kids in red uniform walk down a protestant street to school - front door. The people in the protestant street want those kids to go into school via the back-door. The problem for Northern Ireland was religious polarisation. The catholics had the hardest time getting work. Equity has been imposed, but, the 'trouble' seems still to be in the heads of the residents. Didn't the USA-Irish/CIA literally fund the amunition of those troubles? It seems to take a long time to shake hatred out of heads .. especially when an area is run down.

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PNG have sent to Bwsh for a few million dollars to mount an election campaigne 2002 ... wonder what the response back will be?

lunarchick - 08:40am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8591 of 8604)
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Fee Fo Fi Fum

lunarchick - 08:57am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8592 of 8604)
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On Ted Turner, the guy's still down under with the Goodwill Games ... He visited long-stay kids at a hospital today. from

lunarchick - 09:08am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8593 of 8604)
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GORBY

Beria My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin by Sergo Beria (translated by Brian Pearce) is published this month by Duckworth

Amazon - Book Description

For almost twenty years two men from Georgia dominated the Russians and its empire: Stalin and Beria as head of what was to become the KGB. This book is a memoir of daily life with these two men who sent millions to their graves. It vividly paints Stalin's increasingly psychotic nature and the dread that pervaded everyone's life, even that of Beria, but also the incomprehensible loyalty that Stalin inspired among women such as the author's mother, also a Georgian. It also contains Sergio's anecdotes like the time Svetlana, Stalin's nymphomaniac daughter, chased him. Upon Stalin's mysterious death, Beria dramatically lost the struggle for power with Khrushchev, a Russian, who murdered him with the aid of his fellow politburo members. More than any book currently available, this extraordinary document shows what it was like to grow up at the top in a duplicitous and deeply immoral and violent atmosphere.

lunarchick - 09:24am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8594 of 8604)
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lunarchick - 09:26am Sep 7, 2001 EST (#8595 of 8604)
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Time lag between interest rate cut (USA 7th January) is 9 months ...

5% unemployment in USA

USA is exporting unemployment

Japanese ec shrank by 0.8%

Slowdown in America, Japan and Europe!

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