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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 - 11:48am Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4236 of 4250)

Nuclear Energy - bail out - UK

The Department of Trade and Industry is set to announce a £450m bail-out for British Energy today, after ministers decided that public safety could be threatened if the struggling nuclear power operator was allowed to collapse. Officials spent the weekend in emergency talks with BE executives and their advisers, following the company's admission late last week that it was on the brink of bankruptcy. A source close to the DTI said: "The government is moving with some urgency to put in place a package to allow British Energy to continue trading." http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,788581,00.html

lchic - 12:27pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4237 of 4250)

Strategy - International http://www.iiss.org/
see 13Sept2002 - next edition

lchic - 10:02pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4238 of 4250)

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/international/09CND-LOND.html

lchic - 10:09pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4239 of 4250)

Radar - 60 Years ... HOLDING PATTERN

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/science/physical/10RADA.html

... innovative 'then'

... in need of innovation 'now'

lchic - 10:15pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4240 of 4250)

FISK

Bush is intent on painting allies and enemies in the Middle East as evil

President is going to launch the biggest reshaping of the Middle East since the British and French parcelled out the Arab lands after the 1914-18 war. When he addresses the United Nations on Thursday, George Bush will be threatening not only Iraq – which had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes against humanity in New York and Washington – but Syria, Iran and, by extension, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The Syrian Accountability Act, which accuses Damascus of supporting "terrorism", will come into force as President Bush is speaking and will follow only days after the State Department branded the Lebanese Hizbollah as the "A-team of terrorism", more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Like Iraq, the Hizbollah had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks – indeed, they were among the first to condemn them – but the White House now seems set on painting allies and enemies alike in the Middle East as a focus of evil.

Only The Nation among all of America's newspapers and magazines has dared to point out that a large number of former Israeli lobbyists are now working within the American administration and the Bush plans for the Middle East – which could cause a massive political upheaval in the Arab world – fit perfectly into Israel's own dreams for the region ......

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=332011

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

lchic - 10:24pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4241 of 4250)

http://www.thenation.com/

Iraq http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1

Cheney http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=scheer&s=20020903

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