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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 - 05:48pm May 21, 2003 EST (# 11849 of 11850)
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.

Perhaps I was wrong, and the "becq" who spent a day with me on September 25, 2000 had no governmental connection. But I felt, and feel, that I had and have "pretty good reasons" to think "becq" was closely linked to Clinton, or Clinton himself.

I am very proud of my work with Lchic , who also uses the names xpat , possumdag , bNice , bNice2NoU , and maybe others, maybe including NatalieAng ( Aug 30, 2000 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/160 - I think Paradigm Shift . . . whose getting there is good and important stuff. I think it would have impressed Dwight D. Eisenhower, or Milton Eisenhower, or Bill Casey, or C.P. Snow. I know it would have impressed Steve Kline, had he lived long enough to see it. That thread starts on July 28, 2000 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@138.Cdv0baE7dZm^58323@.ee7726f/0 and is also set out at http://www.mrshowalter.net/Paradigm1_998.html

It is especially interesting, from some points of view - from its beginning to September 11

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from Possumdag:

to opt for what is seen as a best case senario, under changing circumstance.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- rshowalter - 11:50am Oct 10, 2000 BST (#165 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/199

Yes, Possum - and if they can carefully enough understand their circumstances (INCLUDING THEIR PAST) then it can work!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Possumdag - 02:13pm Oct 10, 2000 BST (#166 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/200 But will they want to look at their 'immediate' past?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- rshowalter - 04:44pm Oct 10, 2000 BST (#167 | http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/201

They better. If they can't, or don't, there will be too many pitfalls for a workable interface with the rest of the world.

Lies get more and more complicated, at an explosively increasing rate, as circumstances get complicated. The Serbian situation is far too complicated to be workably redeemed by anything but rather careful truth.

All around the world, there are problems like this, where, though the truth may be "too weak , it is, nonetheless, the only possible hope for workable accomodations involving the complex, ongoing cooperation that this world really involves.

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11738 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.wqteaPfzb4O.980287@.f28e622/13348

11744 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.wqteaPfzb4O.980287@.f28e622/13354

11823 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.wqteaPfzb4O.980287@.f28e622/13438

11831 Jorian http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.wqteaPfzb4O.980287@.f28e622/13444

Here is correspondence, from around the 11th of September 2000 that combined with other things to make me think that I had the attention of senior people at the New York Times. It seemed reasonable, from where I was, that lchic really did, in some way or another - have some contact with Howell Raines.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/I_MailedHowell.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/LetterToRaines.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/SentMessage_ResponseIs.htm

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Perhaps the " beckq " of these postings was not Clinton, as I then thought. But I believe I was being reasonable in my judgements of who I was dealing with.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md266.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md273.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100

rshow55 - 05:49pm May 21, 2003 EST (# 11850 of 11850)
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.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md266.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md273.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md280.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md290.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md300.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md304.htm

I think, by now, that the New York Times ought to have an obligation to get enough straight so that I have a reasonable chance to live.

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