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Missile Defense

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 - 06:31am Jun 16, 2003 EST (# 12557 of 12562)
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Lying:-

"In truth lying is an accursed vice. We are men, and held together, only by our word. If we recognize the horror and the gravity of lying, we would persecute it with fire more justly than other crimes."

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Montaigne.htm#Sayings

lchic - 02:37pm Jun 16, 2003 EST (# 12558 of 12562)
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GU Post 9/11 - George Orwell's centenary of birth approaches [book]

"" grateful to Orwell for alerting me early to the danger flags I've tried to watch out for since. In the world of Animal Farm, most speechifying and public palaver is bull.... and instigated lying, and though many characters are good-hearted and mean well, they can be frightened into closing their eyes to what's really going on.

The pigs browbeat the others with ideology, then twist that ideology to suit their own purposes: their language games were evident to me even at that age. As Orwell taught, it isn't the labels - Christianity, Socialism, Islam, Democracy, Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good, the works - that are definitive, but the acts done in their name.

I could see, too, how easily those who have toppled an oppressive power take on its trappings and habits. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was right to warn us that democracy is the hardest form of government to maintain; Orwell knew that to the marrow of his bones, because he had seen it in action.

How quickly the precept "All Animals Are Equal" is changed into "All Animals Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others". ................. http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,978474,00.html

lchic - 02:40pm Jun 16, 2003 EST (# 12559 of 12562)
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EU Airbus v Boeing

Airbus say they provide what their customers want, and demand for their EU product this year exceeds demand for Boeing airplane product.

lchic - 02:57pm Jun 16, 2003 EST (# 12560 of 12562)
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Audio - Demand that bombs-Cluster post war are cleared ... USA won't sign

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/analysis/default.stm

lchic - 03:01pm Jun 16, 2003 EST (# 12561 of 12562)
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WaterWars | Israel(Palestine) has a Duty of Care

""The water that Israel receives comes mainly from the Jordan river system, the Sea of Galilee and two underground sources.

The supply is shared between Israelis and Palestinians, but, as ever, is a source of great controversy.

At the Third World Water Conference in Kyoto, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev outlined the history of water conflict around the world.

He said there had been 21 armed disputes over water in recent history - and 18 of them involved Israel.

"It's highly unfair," said Yehezkel Lein, a water expert for Israeli human rights group B'tselem, who help to solve water problems in Palestinian areas.

"We are talking about mainly the mountain aquifer and the Jordan River system. Regarding the first one Israel exploits approximately 80% of the renewal water resources, and the Palestinians the remaining 20%.

"Regarding the Jordan River system, the Palestinians do not have any access."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2982730.stm

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