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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 - 05:44pm Jul 4, 2003 EST (# 12845 of 12855)
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Pork Pies and broken eggs | Phillip Adams ..... Talking of eggs, our fragile world teeters like Humpty Dumpty. And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men . . .

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6662322%5E12272,00.html

lchic - 05:51pm Jul 4, 2003 EST (# 12846 of 12855)
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Rotten-Ru-Mafia are making withdrawals:

A spam e-mail was circulated inviting bank customers to click through to an imitation site.

The bank said when the link in the e-mail was clicked on, the imitation site was apparent through its web address which was a series of numbers rather than them.

Advice - go to bank directly through web address.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6699552%5E1702,00.html

lchic - 06:13pm Jul 4, 2003 EST (# 12847 of 12855)
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Granta 77: What We Think of America

http://www.granta.com/back-issues/77?usca_p=t

almarst2002 - 09:04pm Jul 4, 2003 EST (# 12848 of 12855)

The chasm opening between what George W. Bush claimed was true about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and what U.S. forces are discovering on the ground is so huge it defies the Vietnam-era phrase of "credibility gap." In this case, it's more as if Bush is leading the nation to a new era, beyond the Age of Reason. - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/061703a.html

almarst2002 - 09:11pm Jul 4, 2003 EST (# 12849 of 12855)

CLARK: "There was a concerted effort during the fall of 2001, starting immediately after 9/11, to pin 9/11 and the terrorism problem on Saddam Hussein."

RUSSERT: "By who? Who did that?"

CLARK: "Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.' I said, 'But--I'm willing to say it, but what's your evidence?' And I never got any evidence."

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Clark's assertion corroborates a little-noted CBS Evening News story that aired on September 4, 2002. As correspondent David Martin reported: "Barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, the secretary of defense was telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks." According to CBS, a Pentagon aide's notes from that day quote Rumsfeld asking for the "best info fast" to "judge whether good enough to hit SH at the same time, not only UBL." (The initials SH and UBL stand for Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.) The notes then quote Rumsfeld as demanding, ominously, that the administration's response "go massive...sweep it all up, things related and not."

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-iraq.html

almarst2002 - 09:14pm Jul 4, 2003 EST (# 12850 of 12855)

There is a certain irony that today the American empire is celebrating an essentially anti-imperialist event. But, outside it, July 4 is becoming the focus for a new campaign - a declaration of independence from America. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,991118,00.html

lchic - 05:41am Jul 5, 2003 EST (# 12851 of 12855)
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" .. American imperialism is a lot more complex and subtle than the version its people threw off a couple of centuries ago. For example, they have ruthlessly taken over our cinemas with the calculated and cynical trick known as "making better films than we do". (from above)

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