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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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lunarchick - 11:31am Nov 19, 2002 EST (# 5962 of 5969)

Anti tank missile - 25 years to develop - now outdated ... highlighted in AUDIT - GERMAN BUDGET

Budget critcised as OUT OF BALANCE 75% spent on social need & interest payment.

Find 2.5 billion 'losses'

Finds 40 new-planes sufficient for needs ... government told to reduce order to 40 (from 73).
(DW) ~~~~~

The US might look to the German Audit System ... Germany has/understands accountability! The US spends 50% of FedBudget on military!

As an EU member it has to keep debt within EU-set limits.

lunarchick - 11:39am Nov 19, 2002 EST (# 5963 of 5969)

An argument against 'the death penalty' ...
""QUETTA: Hundreds of people wearing black armbands shouted anti-American slogans when the coffin of Aimal Khan Kasi, who was executed in US on November 14 for killing two CIA agents, reached Quetta International Airport on Monday afternoon.
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2002-daily/19-11-2002/main/main7.htm

rshow55 - 11:47am Nov 19, 2002 EST (# 5964 of 5969)
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.

lunarchick 11/19/02 11:31am . . . wonder what would happen - in countries all over the world - of all sorts - if honest accounting of how resources was being spent was done, using "state of the art" patterns of explanation - so that people actually understood what was happening.

Or at least so that many actually understood.

No other changes - just that - and people interacting with each other, starting from where they are - with conventions and cultures just as they are.

A lot might sort out.

lunarchick - 11:48am Nov 19, 2002 EST (# 5965 of 5969)

carbon dioxide burial ""The reservoir for the buried CO2 is a permeable and porous sandstone, called the Utsira sand. The pores initially contain salt water but is displaced when the carbon dioxide is pumped in. The gas then spreads up through the sandstone, becoming trapped between layers of shale and mudstone.

lunarchick - 11:51am Nov 19, 2002 EST (# 5966 of 5969)

The German-Audit looked for theft, misuse, abuse and redundant areas of expenditure.

The team are a national resource ... perhaps they could assist in the US!

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