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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 - 09:28am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10473 of 10508)
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.

A reason things can be sorted out is that, on things that matter most, patterns very often repeat again and again.

Fractals circumstances and SELF-SIMILARITY: http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/chaos-game/node5.html

10330-10332 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.74hFaQTc5d0.1542655@.f28e622/11876

There's plenty to hope for, if we work at it - and if people get concerned enough to think straight - we can sort out a lot.

Lchic and I have some of that sorting done, if people could arrange to debrief us on a little more systematic basis than is happening here - it might save a lot of blood an money. Though I understand why that is an "impossible" request.

almarst2003 - 09:29am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10474 of 10508)

Hope does not help the dead.

I am not Russian.

I do not live in Russia.

I don't talk to Putin.

almarst2003 - 10:35am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10475 of 10508)

Looking for the facts? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3251554&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

A range of weapons in the American arsenal - such as landmines and cluster bombs - are banned by Australia, and Canberra has emphasised that its forces will refuse to attack civilian targets, including key bridges, dams and other vital infrastructure of the kind bombed by the US in the 1991 Gulf War.

Will ICC welcome the whole "family"?

almarst2003 - 10:41am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10476 of 10508)

Petition from Veterans Rejected at White House - http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php

No wonder, they are not in a "family".

lchic - 01:32pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10477 of 10508)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

al-Jazeera

Based in the tiny Arabian Gulf state of Qatar – this satellite channel has become a broadcasting and political phenomenon, both reporting and influencing Middle East conflicts with a freedom of speech that’s unprecedented in the region.

Evan Williams reports from behind the sets and make-up rooms at Al Jazeera, and finds that while Al Jazeera’s popularity is immense, the network has also attracted some powerful enemies.

A series of exclusive reports on Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network has angered the United States Government, which accused Al Jazeera of giving far too much air time to the fundamentalist cause. But the broadsides can be more than verbal. At the height of the Afghanistan conflict in 2001, Al Jazeera’s Kabul bureau took a direct hit from U.S bombs. The Pentagon claimed it was a mistake.

According to Al Jazeera presenter Faisal al-Qaseem, accusations of bias fly thick and fast. Evidence he says – that his journalists are doing their job.

“I myself have been accused of being all sorts of things ................

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s811500.htm http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/

lchic - 01:37pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10478 of 10508)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The above showed a presenter (who had spent time in the UK) and who looked at and got Arabs to talk about issues that had been taboo - including women discussing their lot in the multi-marriage stakes.

This presenter draws huge viewing audiences and the discussion of his topics flows out widely through the Arab-world-community.

He's getting guests to examine and question aspects of Islamic Culture.

Opening minds --- so they can move on to reshape culture to modern environs.

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