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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 - 04:14pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 12809 of 12818)
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World Temperature - RISING

"" report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it looks like a disaster is on the horizon. In more than 1,000 detailed pages, reviewing all the significant scientific work of the past five years, the UN panel of international scientific experts has assessed the likelihood of calamitous environmental change due to global warming. And it doesn't look good.

In the past century, the globe warmed 0.6 degrees Celsius. The global average temperature is projected to warm 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years. This rise in temperature could, according to the report, lead to the melting of the polar ice caps and the extinction of .............

http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxxi/2001.02.23/opinion/p13areport.html

lchic - 04:29pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 12810 of 12818)
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liquid_paper4 - 03:15pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 3175 of 3177) Bob Novak on CNN: "Democrats are trying to steal this election by counting votes."

Looks like I got to that Dumb Bunker named aka Jorian. When I go after a fascist, I get them. My family has a history of that.

I doubt any of the other Dumb Bunkers wants to come out into the open and debate here. The corporative state won't win that kind of battle --it would rather buy out university research centers. Especially an anon talking fossil fuel head.

Who I would really love to take on now is Spud. I was thinking about his nicknamed yesterday--and laughing at a joke I made about him years ago. Spud as in small potatoes. Spud as in a shill for the rich, corporative potato heads in our corporative state.

I would love to shred this b@stard now--because he is exactly the kind of evil minded individual who is backing up the criminal Bush administration.

jorian319 - 03:24pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 3176 of 3177)

I doubt any of the other Dumb Bunkers wants to come out into the open and debate here.

You don't debate, you just attack in your impotent way. "Here", because "here" is the only unmoderated forum where you can get away with baseless attacks and false characterizations.

I'm sure you think you "got" to someone, and again you are deluded. Keep crowing about your imagined victories, Mike. The sane among us will continue to pay attention to areas where RESULTS are manifest.

Chaos Idiots may be limited in their scope, but at least they have scope, unlike EMFools.

I'm sure your family has a long long history of vanquishing foes of freedom worldwide, stamping out injustice, and inbreeding for irrationality.

liquid_paper4 - 03:41pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 3177 of 3177) Bob Novak on CNN: "Democrats are trying to steal this election by counting votes."

The reason you are dead is because you are dead intellectually in a debate that IS intellectual. You can name call all you want, but you cannot address my saliant points. And that is why you are boring, too, I might add, because real thinking, interesting ideas, come from addressing the points made, which you do not.

The fascist movement is all heart and body now. Mighty, and dead intellectually.

Leaderless. Fitting the unelected representative of this movement is an idiot.

lchic - 04:36pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 12811 of 12818)
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Looks like a 'fight' above .... so why do (what one presumes are males) find it necessary to 'fight', rather than let the IDEAS and FACTS speak for themselves?

fredmore note that the product liquid-paper came in via 'The Arts' (art in fact), and a woman currently richer than the ElizabethII made it via the arts - and that's not fiction!

lchic - 05:04pm Jul 2, 2003 EST (# 12812 of 12818)
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http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2147

"".... With their ideological opposition to international agreements and organizations, the Bush posse has undermined the very institutions that could have legitimated “policing” of distasteful tyrants around the world. The International Criminal Court, with a charter to which almost all countries in the world have agreed, has been spurned by the Bush administration. It was this very institution that could have adjudicated U.S. claims about Saddam’s atrocities. The UN Security Council is the only body in international law that could have legitimately authorized an aggressive war against Iraq. Without the backing of the international community, American military action is no better than thuggery—it cannot in good conscience call itself constabulary.

The war ideologues would have you believe that the important principles of law and police in society do not apply in the international realm, but these assertions are silly: Sept. 11 did not happen because American military might was not powerful enough. There is no way to construct a terrorism-proof country. When you realize you cannot defend yourself by your own sheer force of might, it becomes a smart thing to try to organize your neighbors into some structure of law and governance. America has neither the resources nor the legitimacy to do all of this on its own. The fact that some of these institutions are not as effective as we might want does not mean that they should be ignored, but rather, that they need to be strengthened. ....

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