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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 - 01:39pm Jul 12, 2002 EST (#3020 of 3033)

"The loan was completely appropriate and fully disclosed," Scott McClellan said, arguing that the need for new business practices had only later become evident.

"In recent years, abuses have emerged, and that's when it becomes necessary to implement reform."
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rshowalt - 05:41pm Jul 12, 2002 EST (#3021 of 3033)

Those abuses are at least a hundred and fifty years old -- they were already old, and well understood, by the Nazis . The usages were well studied by the CIA - and of course, by the Bush family, and other "insiders."

There is a great deal of deception going on, and it is considered "bad form" to check facts.

The Insider Game By PAUL KRUGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/opinion/12KRUG.html bears careful reading.

lchic - 06:23pm Jul 12, 2002 EST (#3022 of 3033)

1383 Francesco Datini used double-entry bookkeeping

Late Nineties - Bill Clinton with careful spending had a budget surplus buget surplus budget surplus

Electors have a HIP POCKET NERVE .. detail $165bn they'll reverve, regile and whince and breath in in ... the fat won't pay - but - already thin!

USA -farEast foreignPolicy - is up for critism!

lchic - 02:05am Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3023 of 3033)

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The instance is rising
It isn't surprising
They certainly can
Uncle Sam

lchic - 04:26am Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3024 of 3033)

"" doubts about the ability of US consumers to keep the world economy afloat stopped the rally in its tracks ... "

! When the odds are saying
You'll never win
That's when the grin
Should start .....
..... you gotta
have heart

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,754462,00.html

lchic - 04:38am Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3025 of 3033)

Over 500 journalists a year are dying to get the news out!

Imad Abu Zahra, it was home, and as a journalist he struggled to express its history, its turbulent politics and its desperation ... Today, he died of a wound he suffered on Thursday, when he made his last effort to tell the world about life here by photographing Israeli tanks downtown.

Randa al-Hindi, 45,
and her 2-year-old daughter,
Noor.
Returning home from a relative's wedding,
they were shot dead
last Saturday as their truck,
in a foggy dawn,
approached Israeli
Army outposts

The price to Palestinians has been high, with hundreds of thousands of people who Israel acknowledges are innocent virtually prisoners in their homes, under 24-hour curfew and stringent travel restrictions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/international/middleeast/13MIDE.html?ex=1027224000&en=d7600f4660aea8b2&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

lchic - 05:00am Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3026 of 3033)

Economist | Not for America the “crony capitalism” of Asia or the egalitarianism of Europe. America rewarded hard work and smart people. But now Americans are asking just how much of the great boom the country has gone through was real, or the result of corrupt executives enriching themselves at shareholders' expense with the help of complicit accountants and greedy bankers.
^{http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1224700
see also
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1224348}

lchic - 05:07am Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3027 of 3033)

Economist | You bet it's a problem when failed executives who have driven their companies and their shareholders to ruin pocket vast bonuses. This is not the market working; it is the market failing (see article). The remedy is disclosure, honest accounting, non-executive directors empowered to do their job—and, as always, sceptical shareholders looking out for their own interests.

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=1224181

lchic - 05:41am Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3028 of 3033)

Japan UK Toxic Cargo Nuclear Fuel GU

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,754177,00.html

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