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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 - 08:07pm May 20, 2003 EST (# 11839 of 11848)
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.

Casablanca 1942 - USA - Romantic Drama/War Romance Critic's Pick: Review http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=8482

Starring Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Paul Henreid. Directed by Michael Curtiz. (NR, 102 minutes).

" One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization."

#512 - http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.IhSTaZozb6v.875270@.f28e622/631

MD152-153 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.IhSTaZozb6v.875270@.f28e622/181

" Casablanca is common ground, something culturally literate Americans know -- and that people the whole world over understand, at the level of sympathy, and intellectually, too. I used the movie as a point of departure in PSYCHWAR, CASABLANCA, AND TERROR , which tells a key story about the Cold War, interesting to American, Russians, and others. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/0 Especially the core story part, from posting 13 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/12 to posting 23 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/22 There is a comment in #26 that I feel some may find interesting, as well...

search Casablanca , this thread, which includes these things, with much more:

4947 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.IhSTaZozb6v.875270@.f28e622/6250

6192 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.IhSTaZozb6v.875270@.f28e622/7672

On October 3, there was a sequence of postings on the NYT Missile Defense forum - and all the NYT forums were closed down thereafter for four days

9599 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.IhSTaZozb6v.875270@.f28e622/11140

lchic - 03:50am May 21, 2003 EST (# 11840 of 11848)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

TRUTH LIES and PRIVATE ENTERPRISE UK

Food processors have been caught on video boasting that they have developed undetectable methods of adulterating the chicken that goes into hospitals, schools and restaurants with cheap beef waste and water. Tests by a television programme have also shown samples of Sainsbury's Blue Parrot chicken nuggets to contain both bovine and pork DNA. The company says the bovine DNA comes from milk protein and the presence of pork DNA in one sample may be the result of contamination in the laboratory.

In what is likely to be a major food scandal, secret filming for BBC1's Panorama has revealed that vast quantities of frozen chicken coming into the UK each week have been injected with beef proteins.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,960404,00.html

lchic - 06:04am May 21, 2003 EST (# 11841 of 11848)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Iraq GU TALK || Is war on Iraq just a commerical venture?

... Haliburton, Bechtel and so on are profitting from war on Iraq (and the death of many people). Many of the bosses of these companies are linked with the Bush administration either as advisors or in key roles? Is the war on Iraq just payback time for the firms who funded the Bush Campaign?

http://politicstalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a9134ad/0

http://www.rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs/studies/bipp_study_15/bippstudy15.html

http://64.58.76.136/search/cache?p=saddam+us+energy+policy&url=bjUQb044qWUJ:www.netl.doe.gov/scng/news/2002/pdf/volatile%2520market.PDF

lchic - 06:22am May 21, 2003 EST (# 11842 of 11848)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

UK OIL

http://www.dbd-data.co.uk/bb2001/book.htm

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