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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 - 09:47am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5343 of 5355)
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The value of the internet when advancing towards truth is paramount

It enables

a world search
the potential for communication to assist validation
access to a cross-section of opinion
access to sites that keep a 'history' of previous articles/information on a topic
as at The BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, and The NYT
reference, glossary, papers,
access to people and expertise

LAY THEM STRAIGHT !!!

reveal truth
REVEAL TRUTH
reveal truth

lchic - 09:52am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5344 of 5355)
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KENNEDY

- who killed him -

The Military or

was it a Random death?

lchic - 10:00am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5345 of 5355)
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16:44

Blast hits train loaded with oil in Chechnya

A cargo train loaded with crude oil was derailed as a bomb blast destroyed the track in Chechnya. A total of 9 carriages went off the track, the Emergencies Ministry reports. The fire was avoided but the soil around the track is heavily polluted by the oil spill. //Interfax

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Plane hijack ?

lchic - 10:04am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5346 of 5355)
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Brain | back pain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2360387.stm

rshow55 - 10:33am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5347 of 5355)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

gisterme 10/27/02 12:58am asked what I meant by "the foundation community"

- - I was using words in a common way. People talk of "invisible colleges" in academe, for instance -- mathematicians, or ancient historians, or business law professors - - working all over, for different institutions. They know each other - and meet to discuss things of common interest from time to time.

For a workable definition of the "foundation community" - - in the United States and elsewhere - a phone call to any reasonably senior librarian at the Library of Congress, or the Patent Office, or any major university would suffice. Names and phone numbers would be easy to associate with the definition - - almost part of it.

Or ask any reporter competent enough to be in any important government press pool - at the White House, DOD, or elsewhere. If the first person asked didn't have a good answer off the top of their head - they could get it quickly.

lchic - 11:28am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5348 of 5355)
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'The Poster's personal Backscratcher'!

lchic - 12:28pm Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5349 of 5355)
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Iraq and North Korea

are two potentially 'great' nations that have been 'isolated'

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/NorthKorea/KoreaGIFS/markstein.gif

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