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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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lchic - 09:01am Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7865 of 7880)
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North Korea

NK Prison Camps

An in-depth look at the NK underground church by The Sentinel Group, a research organization for Christian missions and community transformation...[more]

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Kim Jong Il institutionalizes medical torture, forced labor, and summary execution... [more]

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1 million dead, 200,000 in detention camps, children attend executions. US State Dept Country Report on Human Rights Practices, February 2001...[more]

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Pierre Rigoulot's comparative analysis of concentration camps in Nazi Germany and NK...[more]

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Juche ideology and political prison camps, a study on the correlation between them in NK...[more]

http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~jeffpark/fullpage.html

lchic - 09:08am Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7866 of 7880)
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NK - Reports on Human Rights Practices - USA

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/726.htm

The Penal Code is draconian, stipulating capital punishment and confiscation of all assets for a wide variety of "crimes against the revolution," including defection, attempted defection, slander of the policies of the party or State, listening to foreign broadcasts, writing "reactionary" letters, and possessing reactionary printed matter. The Government prohibits freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and association, and all forms of cultural and media activities are under the tight control of the party. Radios sold in North Korea receive North Korean radio broadcasts only; radios obtained abroad by the general public must be altered to work in a similar manner. Cable News Network (CNN) television is available in one Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. Under these circumstances, little outside information reaches the public except that approved and disseminated by the Government. The Government restricts freedom of religion, citizens' movements, and worker rights. There were reports of trafficking in women and young girls among refugees and workers crossing the border into China.

lchic - 09:21am Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7867 of 7880)
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Israeli Election -- http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-20-2003-34013.asp

"" Eighty percent of Haredim are not employed and rely heavily on government stipends to study religious texts.

Underpinning the challenge to the Haredim is Mr Lapid's association of the religious with what he describes as the rest of the Middle East's "corrupt, lazy and backward" environment.

"Israel exists by virtue of being a western state, a high-tech country, one which has adopted European cultural values and Anglo-Saxon democratic principles - which stand in complete opposition to the Levantine disarray," he said.

Missing from the equation is a policy on the Palestinians. "" .... more ....

http://www.buzzle.com/index.asp

lchic - 09:25am Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7868 of 7880)
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NK Defectors

http://north-korea.narod.ru/defectors_new_3.htm

Few had expected, though, to see a single woman arrested by immigration officials at the end of what she described as a perilous journey over seven years through several countries. The woman identified herself as Kim Soon-hi, 37, a former elementary school teacher in Musan, North Hamgyeong Province. She reportedly told officials at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Diego that she left North Korea in 1994 and lived in the northeastern Chinese city of Yanbian for six years, doing various odd jobs, before embarking on her trip to the United States last November. She is said to have left her eight-year-old son with an ethnic Korean in China, from whom she borrowed the money she needed to buy a forged passport and make the trip. She allegedly walked across a partly frozen river, carrying her little son on her shoulders, into China in February 1994. Two other people who were crossing the river with her were shot to death by North Korean guards, according to her story

lchic - 10:02am Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7869 of 7880)
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PEACE - within - Dendritic cells may be central to halting the body's immune system from attacking itself http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s765183.htm

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