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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 - 08:28pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3842 of 3866)

"" "The Bush family has managed to involve the United States in two wars; two invasions in Latin America , one that resulted in the fiery deaths of thousands of poor Panamanian barrio residents and another that resulted in the Bay of Pigs fiasco; aiding and abetting through murky financial investments America's Teutonic enemy in the last world war; corrupting the U.S. Presidential election process; and making the wealthiest Americans and U.S. corporations richer while at the same time cutting federal health, education and welfare budgets and offloading those tasks to the overburdened states."
http://www.mindspace.org/print.php?sid=137

rshow55 - 08:30pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3843 of 3866)

Integrity is a huge issue for journalists - and with some change there, the world could be MUCH better.

Some work on this thread, and some insights that I was assigned to look for, could be useful. Paradigm Shift . . . 765 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/855

766-767 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/856

Sometimes barriers are HIGH - I lack status - but Steve Kline didn't - and he was stonewalled by CIA for six years. http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/klinerec

Pity Bill Casey died under such awkward circumstances - so very few days before he was to testify about Iran-Contra. Only speculating - but I wonder what a competent autopsy would show about William J. Casey's hyper-malignant brain tumor? ( I don't even know if the body still exists. ) Am I being insufficiently trusting? Maybe. But people sure have been allergic to me, with my involvement with Casey. When talking should have been easy.

Was Casey murdered?

Just wondering.

Also wondering, if so, who might have authorized it.

Out. Want to think about being mathematical so as to satisfy Mazza.

Truth matters.

lchic - 08:40pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3844 of 3866)

The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to provide the American people with the findings of our investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability and ethics related issues.
http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/index.asp?L1=40&L2=0&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0

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"" One hundred fifty years ago, most newspaper readers couldn't get to that ship bringing news from overseas, so they needed journalists to do it for them. Today's news consumer can go directly to the source behind a news story. But even in the Internet age, journalists do more than bring information to the public. We've gone from an age of too little information to an age of overload. With all of the information now at the user's fingertips, Web viewers need context, someone to verify facts and identify sources, to make sure all sides of the story are told. The newsroom of the future needs to be better than ever at good old-fashioned journalism.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1100/ijge/gj07.htm

lchic - 08:46pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3845 of 3866)

"" Clinton decides to make CIA directory a cabinet rank, after John Deutch makes this a condition of taking the job

"" The problem is finding welding cracks in the M-5 motor casings; such a crack is blamed for a rupture in a 1993 pressure test, and both improved materials and improved testing methods have been introduced as a result. The loss of the last M-3S-2 has put ISAS under considerable pressure to make sure the M-5 works properly. Original date for the first launch was mid-1995. It's now mid-1996

http://www.islandone.org/SpencerAvLeakReports/Avweek-950320.html

lchic - 08:51pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3846 of 3866)

Editor’s Response: What’s the role of the press? I believe that

we should be taking a critical look at the institutions of our society, analyzing them, and reporting on how they operate, such that an informed citizenry can demand reform, or if necessary, radical transformation.

The press, and Journalism Schools, can either work to further these worthwhile social goals, or can operate as impediments to those goals. And of course, the press itself should not be above investigation.

http://www.chicoexaminer.com/letters/Letters_19991126.html

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