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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 09:03pm Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10341 of 10349)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

From ancient days:

Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum. -- "To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil."

A sign I've seen more recently.

. To err is human.

. To forgive is not library policy.

I'm worried, but hopeful.

Out.

mazza9 - 11:05pm Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10342 of 10349)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Fredmoore: I agree. The means to satisfy climate concerns is to understand the mechansim and, at the same time, use science based programs to shift our economy to alternative energy generation. Yes to the O'Neil Solar Generating Stations. Yes to Wind Power! Yes to MEMS!

We've seen how advanced technology, such as cell phones, has allowed Third World Counties to advance by not having to repeat the telephone poles, land lines and all the telecommunications developement that took place prior to 1950! The same can occur if we focus our energies on capitalism and democracy which have been proven to be the methods by which people prosper and grow into the free state that we enjoy.

almarst2003 - 03:19am Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10343 of 10349)

PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDENT REPORTERS IN IRAQ - http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm

almarst2003 - 03:24am Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10344 of 10349)

The lexicon of the Bush doctrine of unilateral world domination is laid out in detail by the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), founded in Washington in 1997. The ideological, political, economic and military fundamentals of American foreign policy - and uncontested world hegemony - for the 21st century are there for all to see. http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=301174&group=webcast

almarst2003 - 03:26am Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10345 of 10349)

A MESSAGE TO THE DEAD - URGENT APPEAL TO UN - Investigate US Mafia War Crimes! - http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=301795&group=webcast

almarst2003 - 03:29am Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10346 of 10349)

US tries to blackmail Carribean states on Iraq War - http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=301787&group=webcast

The Americans were "out of order", said Professor Brian Meeks, who teaches politics and government at the UWI's Mona campus in Jamaica.

Meeks insisted that the war was illegal.

"I am so outraged for the disregard for international law, the absolute carelessness, it is immoral and illegal," he said.

"I am not for sale and hope that the Government of Jamaica is not for sale," said Dr Clinton Hutton, another politics lecturer at Mona. "They (the Jamaican Government) should tell the American Government that Jamaica is a sovereign state and that Jamaica is an equal member of the United Nations."

almarst2003 - 03:33am Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10347 of 10349)

Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, gloated tonight while Baghdad was subjected to a terrifying 3 hours of massive bombardment by aircraft and cruise missiles. - http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=301781&group=webcast

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