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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 - 06:07pm Jan 20, 2003 EST (# 7848 of 7868)
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North Korea ... has sat on the back burner for half a century / Prodigal Sons ... perhaps folks there have a feeling that they should be listened to, that their desperate needs should be assisted, that they should be invited to those tables of Status - internationally - where 'meaningful' talks happen.

Starting with Maslows bottom wrung and moving up the ladder .... how can the world assist to get this country and it's hungry people ... UP and functional?

Russia and Australia have diplomatic contact and ONE other country.

Three countries only have done their work and made best contacts ... why have other countries dragged their feet?

When NK does open it's borders ... tourism ... backpackers upwards would be a dollar earner ... people will want to taste the flavour of the culture before the bulldozers move in to create the Twenty First Century with avengance!

lchic - 06:14pm Jan 20, 2003 EST (# 7849 of 7868)
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Way back i had an interchange with Gisterme regarding 'The Good Senator' demanding that call-up forces be pulled from a balance of population segmentations -- rather than AfricanAmericans.

Gisterme came back and talked about 'blacks' - a very southern approach i thought at the time.

The African Americans of the USA have a very different look and appearance and culture to the African people .... their skin colours and tones and facial features are most often very different.

Two people one with a lighter the other a darker blend of melenoma in their skin can have exactly the same mix of ancestory .... so the term 'black' can be an irrelevancy ... and is best used by folks of that decent rather than others who may just appear to be ignorant!

lchic - 06:23pm Jan 20, 2003 EST (# 7850 of 7868)
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Alliance

Alliance is the word with respect to bringing in those from the outer edge.

Here's a graphic - http://www.1800aim.com/ - demonstrating the power of information technology .... no one need be left out of the fold.

Alliance in Timor -

http://depts.washington.edu/haiuw/Etimor.html

'Strategic Alliance International operates a "seamless" network of affiliated PR consultancies to implement local country programmes and services under its direction.'

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/estate/vm71/htmls/companyprofile.htm

North Korea needs industry, manufacturing, and alliances to bring it in from the cold.

Can 'goose-steps' be packaged and exported?

lchic - 06:34pm Jan 20, 2003 EST (# 7851 of 7868)
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Poems - Goose Step