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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 - 05:37pm Aug 2, 2003 EST (# 13211 of 13267)
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://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.Z9exbJU7wf8.2133194@.f28e622/14892 How many other things are buried? And how are they buried?

13208 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.Z9exbJU7wf8.2133194@.f28e622/14891 gisterme says I'm a master at stating the obvious. Stating the obvious can be very important - the best of our common culture is based on the "commonplaces" that have condensed, focused, and been found true enough to use. One thing that's clear is that there are ambiguities about this thread - and that the ambiguities can have their uses. Another is that if things come into sharper focus - there are advantages but also costs. Especially costs to those whose power.

The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Chrisian Anderson http://www.deoxy.org/emperors.htm

As I recall, cereals sometimes come with "premiums" - and to get the prize - you needed to return a box-top, or a "reasonable facsimile thereof." If this thread doesn't effect policy - it is a reasonable facsimile of one that would. Fictions have their advantages - and anonymity does, as well:

"When one wears a mask," Platinette explained, "one can say whatever one wants."

Italy's TV Drag Queen, Underneath the Eyeliner By FRANK BRUNI http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/international/europe/02PLAT.html

If, as I sometimes suspect, the NYT coerced Bill Clinton, or an officer closely connected, to converse with me on September 25, 2000 - and somewhat later invited Putin, or people closely connected, to converse with Lchic and me http://www.mrshowalter.net/PutinBriefing.html and then, not much later, the President of the United States, or officers close to him, got involved with me and almarst on this thread - there might be reasons - including some good reasons - for those circumstances to not be fully, sharply provable. Some people at the TIMES might have some stake in these reasons, and the leaders, too.

My motivation, from the first, has been different (or, at least, I've said so repeatedly - and there are many other records supporting that - going back years). I've been asking for a hearing. My "story" may be doubted - but my longstanding effort to get some information checked - on a confidential basis - can be shown. If NYT people don't know the basics about that effort - it is because they haven't checked with some responsible, independent, responsible people they could easily contact.

I had hoped to communicate the following information on a confidential basis:

I was commandeered, as an undergraduate - in 1967 by D.D. Eisenhower - then an ex President and old man.

and

" I was interrogated, with torture and an expectation that I would die, by the order of Richard Nixon. It was a stupid order - and a muddled business. Bill Casey got called in to sort out the mess. " http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.Z9exbJU7wf8.2133194@.f28e622/14703

I was grateful for this poem by lchic after the key points above got set out:

Wrapping our future in betterment http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee9cff9/2379

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