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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 - 10:23pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4516 of 4536)

London New York Lybia - a repost

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Showalter follows with technical, ethical and moral issues, and questions of duty to the State and public wrt implementation of MD technology in policy - that will risk American lives unnecessarily.

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Excellent posts Showalter!

kalter.rauch - 12:34am Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4517 of 4536)
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lchic 9/24/02 10:23pm

It's Libya, by the way.

I see Rshow is still prattling about his shiny balloons. He can fudge his reflectance as much as he wants, but even a measely 1 or 2% absorption would spell doom for his clown faces. Besides...."plasma packet" beams, likened as directed lightning bolts, will make laser reflectance schemes a moot point.

.......and don't pretend you "care" about Americans, lchic.......

lchic - 06:02am Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4518 of 4536)

That American bombing raid on Lybia, a while back, must have been the cause for the transposition of i and y ...

Series - an American to 'Care' about - here's Phil

"" Phil Donahue is perhaps the most honest man on television. Despite his strong feelings and opinions, he's incredibly open and empathic, willing to risk his own embarrassment to discover new insights. The Donahue Show was amazingly successful during its 29-year-run, raking in Emmys and dealing with issues like AIDS, feminism and race, and coverage of the 1992 presidential election. The show, he told The Progressive Magazine, "helped bring democracy" to television. "I wanted people from all walks of life to be able to actually use the airwaves that truly belong to them," he said.

Donahue’s openness is one explanation for his high "Q rating," an index TV execs use to describe the warm fuzzies audiences experience. No doubt his new project will be cheered on by a wide array of viewers from many vantage points ..

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0709-06.htm

[Poor Phil's been cut from Aussie TV --- Can we have him back please!]

Oliver North - the novel http://www.northamerican.com/

lchic - 01:22pm Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4519 of 4536)

Dictators / viewpoints

""What's really absurd about this entire phenomenon is about the inactivity of the majority of the masses who sit back and allow themselves to remain at the mercy of such brutal tyrannies http://news.asmarino.com/Comments/July2002/GShimhalal_25.asp

THE RAPE OF THE MIND: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing / Meerloo http://www.ninehundred.net/control/mc-ch1.html http://www.ninehundred.net/control/mc-ch7.html

""Powell, a man of moderate temperament, is a paradox. He is a military man who's first impulse is to avoid war. This is the "Powell Doctrine:" If you must go to war, ensure an unambiguous objective, overwhelming force, swift victory, minimum casualties and a clear exit strategy. http://www.hbo3.com/index.cfm?action=full_text&ARTICLE_ID=236 http://www.hbo3.com/index.cfm

Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/talking_point/2158475.stm

http://www.theamericanmind.com/

Bush & weapons inspection - http://www.theonion.com/onion3835/wdyt_3835.html

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