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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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lchic - 11:25am Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1817 of 1841)
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Although The Times's news columns in those years did not offer as much analysis or synthesis as they do today, the paper took great pride in ranking the importance of events each morning and in carefully reviewing the major news of every week and every year. ....

How could it happen that the war on the Palestinians never qualified for such highlighted attention?

Good to know that the NYT does not hold bias today - ain't it!

lchic - 11:29am Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1818 of 1841)
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Big brother brother brother is watching this guy enroute to the 'toilet' ... unbelievable!
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20 toilet calls a day --- talk about making jobs!

Send those two Australians 'home' ... one has a wife and 4 kids ... who wonder what's happening.

lchic - 11:40am Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1819 of 1841)
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The above was posted hours ago, must have detoured via Cuba.

lchic - 11:40am Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1820 of 1841)
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Extra Sensory Perception ESP is a fascinating concept ... a short while ago I had one such experience. Wowee ... a treasure trove history dig seemed to be occuring ... a review of past correspondences from ions ago, another place, another time, along with conversation that via ESP was exactly placed by me. Interesting 'truth' - believe me!

Got me to wondering if folks in high ranking powerful positions ever 'link-in' to catch those ESP waves.

Were WalkerB to do so, would he gain any insights and wisdom from such a process which in turn might modify the current disaster foreign policy?

rshow55 - 12:00pm Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1821 of 1841)

MD1794 rshow55 4/26/02 3:11pm . . . reads in part:

"A key question - that illuminates some others, is this.

" When large news organizations such as The New York Times cannot solve problems by covering the facts about them -- why don't the solutions happen, when they often seem very clear?

"If people could answer that question in detail, with balance -- a lot that is ugly now would clean up - in ways that both almarst and most literate people, all over the world, would approve of.

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Many substitutions for " The New York Times" would be interesting as well - for instance, The Council for a Livable World . . . The Center for Defense Information . . . International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and many, many others.

Why is the truth "somehow, too weak" - - or never seriously examined?

Why do things so often fail to propagate -- fizzle? If people understood the reasons, things might change.

In this thread, a person could say that I've been cowardly -- have lost chances. Perhaps it is true. But I've been worried about fizzles - - if pieces by Dowd, of Friedman, or Rich, or Kruger often don't get attention -- if their initiatives often fizzle, I have to worry about initiatives I propose, and that other people propose, as well.

To find out whether a certain pattern may propagate - to judge whether it will fizzle, without actually making a fizzle that could cut off hopes for future action, it sometimes makes sense (I'm using a phrase from nuclear weapons development history) to "tickle the dragon's tail" - - to make experiments that give an idea whether things are "close" to detonation.

It seems to me that things are closer to being propogatable than they used to be.

lchic - 12:07pm Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1822 of 1841)
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Fisk seemed to think (on his recent trip to the 'States) that thinking-people were looking for knowledge and answers - moreso than ever.

Balance the thinking people against those who follow the patterns fed them ...

Ask if the 'thinking people' are those with the influence to propagate ideas that affect others ..

List the factors that might change the 'popular' view point on issues ....

The HIP POCKET NERVE is a major factor ... Rising TAXATION (to pay for military home/elsewhere), might strike a chord in the popular mind ...

lchic - 06:13pm Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1823 of 1841)
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Student Loans - difficult - USA

""The Bush administration is seeking to ease its budget shortfalls by squeezing $1.3 billion from a huge federal student loan program, administration and Congressional officials said today.

The proposal would prevent millions of college students and graduates from consolidating their education loans to lock in low interest rates. It was made this week to Republican budget negotiators by the White House budget director, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., as a way to deal with shortfalls throughout the budget that are expected to push the federal deficit for this year to more than $100 billion.
(Shendon http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/national/28LOAN.html )

lchic - 06:15pm Apr 27, 2002 EST (#1824 of 1841)
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FISK http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=289324

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