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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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lunarchick - 04:14am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6265 of 6271)

Nov30 Observance Convention on the Non-Appilicabilty of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity signed. (1968)

http://www.wagingpeace.org/new/aboutus/calendar/currentmonth.htm

lunarchick - 04:17am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6266 of 6271)

Primary Documents PNND
http://www.pnnd.org/browse_all_documents_by_subject.htm

lunarchick - 07:06am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6267 of 6271)

Nuclear Dump |USA | Yucca Mountain

"" .... decided, due to "sound science and compelling national interests" that the development of a federal facility to store the highly-radioactive waste, was wholly necessary rather than keeping it at 131 nuclear reactors ....

http://www.envirospace.com/waste_management/view_article.asp?article_id=475

lunarchick - 09:39am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6268 of 6271)

Saudi - agonizing torture - falanga

... repeatedly beaten on the palms and soles of his feet while in detention in Saudi Arabia.

Painstaking corroborative evidence was taken

This agonizing torture is known as falanga.

In the light of this evidence, there is a possibility that seven other westerners - five Britons, a Belgian and a Canadian - who confessed to planting bombs killing and maiming other westerners - have also been tortured.

Jones told me: "I would hear the screams of people upstairs being tortured.

"And that was awful because you knew what they were going through. You knew that it was your turn next, your turn would come to be back in that room."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/2480379.stm

lunarchick - 09:48am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6269 of 6271)

Torturer is Lt Col Abdul Aziz said Jones

_{Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal insists that torture does not take place}

Prince Saud al Faisal: "I am telling you they were not tortured."

Saudi Arabia - State of denial, Sunday 24 November 2002 | BBC Two

lunarchick - 10:05am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6270 of 6271)

2010 : Ten Million People will die of Aids

at least a third of all injections in China are unsafe, but in poor rural areas it can be as high as 100%.

China's hospitals are not fulfilling even the most basic of hygiene standards.

Syringes and needles are being recycled; often doctors use the same syringe over and over, only changing the needle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2510887.stm

rshow55 - 10:11am Nov 25, 2002 EST (# 6271 of 6271)
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.

In the ugly, dangerous situation we're in - are the things that are happening part of an overall trend consistent with progress?

We have to see ugliness - understand ugliness - before we can deal with it.

We're in a situation where international law is in the process of being renegotiated - at the level of ideas and at the level of force.

There's a lot of craziness - but a lot of reasonable people, working hard, are involved, too.

If we can get some fights settled that have to be settled - workably - there is a lot of reason for a lot of hope. For that to happen without too much carnage - there have to be limits to what people can do - and threaten - even inside borders.

And there have to be better agreements than exist today about the "right to lie."

Like other rights that real human beings have - the "right to lie" has to be subject to some limits - because of consquences.

We need to negotiate and enforce better limits than we have now - because the risks and costs of not doing so are prohibitive.

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