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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 - 08:05pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9310 of 9336)
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http://www.economist.com/

... important to remember three things. First is the extraordinary degree of uncertainty involved in making economic assessments right now. This makes any attempt at forecasting even more difficult than normal. Second is the importance of distinguishing between short-term responses and the longer-term impact. The immediate fallout seems bound to be negative: for several days, at least, people have not been able to fly even if they wanted to; the emotional reaction to the unfolding tragedy in New York in particular, seems bound to discourage consumer spending. Many economists think the economy will contract in the third quarter of the year. Last, but perhaps most important, as things stand now the economic impact of the terrorist attacks might be relatively small in the long term.

lunarchick - 08:13pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9311 of 9336)
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! .. !! .. Silence

lunarchick - 08:38pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9312 of 9336)
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Looking at the countries in the world who feel they have been stopped and weakened by the USA, to ensure USA dominance. A Seventeenth Century strategy .. that has no place in the Twenty-First.

The areas of South and Central America .. now under Commander Fox, and the continent of Africa, haven't figured in recent discussion.

Tragic Tuesday WTC is incidental to the nuts and bolts of daily life in Africa:

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/default.stm http://www.africanewsnow.com/ http://allafrica.com/

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America - South of : USA focus http://ajr.newslink.org/nonuss.html http://ajr.newslink.org/news.html http://www.southamericadaily.com/ http://www.centralamericadaily.com/

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KOKO Note: here's a distant cousin.

james22h - 08:38pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9313 of 9336)

http://stadt.heim.at/berlin/110289/800/katja/galerie4/index8.html

jinn

rshowalter - 08:39pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9314 of 9336)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Silence seems right to me, for me, tonight.

A day with so much mourning, with so many funerals being planned, with people so shaken, it is hard for me to deal with the questions raised in Angier's article, and touched on on the board for a long time. rshowalter 9/17/01 3:47pm

We have to learn to deal with each other as full human beings - - even when we hate each other - - we need to be able to have "meetings of the mind" that are really clear, even when we disagree about basics - - we need to know enough that, if we fight, we don't do it by mistake, on the basis of misunderstandings . . . and we need to find, much more often, ways to "win-win" situations.

I think we can learn to do these things, better than today.

We better.

Out for tonight. Want to go back and reread things that have been said, this last week.

rshowalter - 08:45pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9315 of 9336)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Fantasticly good links! lunarchick 9/17/01 8:38pm

rshowalter - 09:09pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9316 of 9336)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

We need to be WORTHY of the GOOD THINGS people associate with this flag - - not just wave it.

lunarchick - 09:10pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9317 of 9336)
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"Do No Evil

Hear No Evil, See No Evil"

2 Samuel 11:1- 27

james22h - 09:13pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9318 of 9336)

looking up at the sky? Spinning spinning.

lunarchick - 09:14pm Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9319 of 9336)
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Three wise cousins .. see

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