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Missile Defense

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 - 06:12pm Sep 7, 2002 EST (# 4220 of 4229)

says buck (alias GeorgeJohnson) ....
< talking to himself - hazily
... after imbibing
quaff upon quaff
of newly distilled
prescribed Bellevue potion >

lchic - 02:28am Sep 8, 2002 EST (# 4221 of 4229)

Japan ~ North Korea

.... the list is expected to contain most or all of the following items:

· Japanese nationals allegedly abducted 20 years ago - 11 (to be returned in good health)
· Red Army members wanted for a 1970 hijacking - four (to be sent home in any condition)
· Spy ships to be restricted from Japanese waters - any in operation
· Promises that missiles will be kept in their silos - one (long-lasting)
· Nuclear weapons programs to be halted - any in the pipeline
· Sundries, including the normalisation of diplomatic relations and the construction of a consulate in Pyongyang.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,787449,00.html

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lchic - 02:40am Sep 8, 2002 EST (# 4222 of 4229)

Iraq - Britain and US ready to fight alone

· Saddam 'threatens UK citizens'
· Doing nothing is not an option, says PM
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,788158,00.html

'Terrorists' upstairs in Flat 26

the two young people arrested on suspicion of planning a spectacular bomb attack on the anniversary of 11 September described them yesterday as an outwardly normal couple. Yet the pair were found to be harbouring a poisonous hate and a toxic secret.

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,788183,00.html
If normal people can so easily become a part of 'the abnormal' - at the drop of a hat - then it IS IMPORTANT for world leaders to work together, to work for people's futures, to enable potentials ... to draft positive blue prints of their futures.
The cults and religions that are skewed towards the horrendous should work through why they were formed - for greed, hate, or a better reason - a TOP DOWN injection of golden rule logic is a necessity.

lchic - 02:49am Sep 8, 2002 EST (# 4223 of 4229)

Blair has UK Youth problems - at home!

'Young people are being drawn into the gangs and crews in ever increasing numbers and the average age of new members is falling dramatically. The gang culture is now inextricably linked with gun violence.'
http://www.observer.co.uk/crimedebate/story/0,12079,788167,00.html

lchic - 02:53am Sep 8, 2002 EST (# 4224 of 4229)

Now in her early fifties, she seems vivacious on the tapes, with more than a trace of the youthful beauty which made her a burning sexual obsession for Saddam.

Often, however, her anguish breaks through. 'After the rape of my daughter, I felt hatred for him, and when I slept with him, I felt I was being raped too. I admit it was balanced by the good life. I was turned into the palace whore.' The tears flow as she says: 'No mother should have to endure what I've gone through. But then, in a sense, every Iraqi mother has.'

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,788164,00.html

lchic - 03:00am Sep 8, 2002 EST (# 4225 of 4229)

Clinton

My vision for peace

On the anniversary of the attacks in New York and Washington, former US President Bill Clinton says we can only counter the threat of terrorism by reparing the widening rift between the haves and the have-nots of our planet http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,788135,00.html

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