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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 - 06:57am Aug 25, 2002 EST (# 3983 of 3983)

"" Henry Kissinger has never let me down, as a person to consult before making up my own mind. Stepping lightly over his one-man rolling war-crime wave, extending from Bangladesh through Indochina to Chile and East Timor, I pause to notice that he was the man who persuaded President Ford not to invite Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the White House. He was the chief defender in the West of the right of the Chinese Communists to massacre their own students in the centre of Beijing. He made himself conspicuous on the American Right by being one of the few to argue that Slobodan Milosevic should be left alone.

A week or so ago I wondered when he was going to pronounce on the impending confrontation with Iraq. And I bet right. He is against it. So is his former colleague, and partner in the dread firm of Kissinger Associates, General Brent Scowcroft. The general is known to be a ventriloquist, or rather dummy, for George Bush Senior ...

http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,780386,00.html

http://www.observer.co.uk/0,6903,,00.html

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UK news: "" Ministers in secret plan to bail out nuclear giant

Ailing British Energy is facing financial ruin - a £500m renationalisation is now possible as the Government fears fresh embarrassment after the Railtrack fiasco.

http://www.independent.co.uk/

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GM BUSH http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=327307

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