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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 - 08:33pm Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3365 of 3382)

It would be worth money, a great deal of safety, and worth honor too for leaders of nation states, all over the world, to ask that some key things about the history of the Cold War be checked.

Lies are unstable. Because they are unstable, there is a great deal of hope, if people show some reasonably courage.

Whatever your religious feelings may be, it is important to stay awake. Here's a sermon worth listening too - mostly secular after the first 9 minutes -- especially the last 30 seconds. . . http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/sermon.html

MD3294 rshowalt 7/26/02 7:15pm

MD3338_3340 rshow55 7/29/02 1:32pm

MD3349 rshow55 7/30/02 8:38am

How can I play it any straighter? What more could Casey, or Eisenhower, of "the average reader of The New York Times reasonably ask of me?

Postings, reposted from this thread pre-March 2002 in Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror :

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/288
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/290
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/291
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/292
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/293
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/294
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/295

"I'd like to post links to a Guardian thread where I've said many of the most important things I'd like people to know. Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror

including the key story, #13.. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@@.ee7a163/13 ... to #23.. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@@.ee7a163/24

There simply is no alternative but for us to put the Cold War behind us. And that means that some core facts - that must be clear, for any reasonable shaping of the future --- must be set out.

I think that this thread is part of that.

I'm asking that some things be checked. I believe that I deserve that much -- in the national interest, the world interest, and my own.

back tomorrow.

almarst2002 - 08:53pm Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3366 of 3382)

"to put the Cold War behind"

It was. Substituted by the HOT one.

lchic - 11:13pm Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3367 of 3382)

Hot pot
stew

Bush in a muddle
Stands in a puddle
- of oil
back-hands the rich
- dollars
The poor toil!

dR2002

lchic - 11:33pm Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3368 of 3382)

Did she get a reward for stopping the next war ?

"" ... a woman who, together with her husband, makes a living combing through trash for recyclable materials, found the container ..

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mexico-Missing-Iridium.html

lchic - 02:17am Jul 31, 2002 EST (#3369 of 3382)

SCRAMJET

The local U's scramjet test ... they think .. it worked this time ... before it sucided in the desert

http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/lp/lasdiag/scram.html

lchic - 02:30am Jul 31, 2002 EST (#3370 of 3382)

If this crowd don't even know who's on their staff list, then it's time they were made answerable to a Senate Committee

If they can't demonstrate Human Resources competence = can't run the shop - locally, can't function efficiently ...

rshow55 7/30/02 6:28pm

.... then we should all be scared, as these guys take the kid gloves off to run the American Foreign Policy.

Can't the USA get sufficiently organised to have foreign policy run by and from their Parliament - rather than by a bunch of folks who don't know if they are coming or going, can't get a staff directory together, can't sort our simple matters related to people - can't organise themselves to give Showalter the things in writing he requires so he can move on with 'his' life.

lchic - 02:32am Jul 31, 2002 EST (#3371 of 3382)

In Australia ASIO were put under the ministerial control of parliament. They'd done too many 'things' off their own bat - that didn't fit the national need.

lchic - 07:13am Jul 31, 2002 EST (#3372 of 3382)

GU Cartoon - Bell

^{http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html}

lchic - 07:30am Jul 31, 2002 EST (#3373 of 3382)

UK ruling 'Unlawful detention of foreign nationals'

""such detentions were discriminatory and unlawful because they applied only to non-British citizens
_{http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,766602,00.html}

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