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rshow55
- 10:15am Feb 6, 2003 EST (#
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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.
It seems to me that the world is a great deal safer and
more hopeful place than it was in September, 2000, when
lunarchick and I started work on this thread - - maybe that
just shows how crazy I am. It also seems to me that we could
do a lot better - and a lot of things - including things on
view at the Security Council - show that we're well along the
road to better things.
Getting to truths - in the sense of maps that work well
enough for the things we need us to do - is NOT hopeless -
though it might "logically" seem so - because though the world
is far more complex than we can completely master - the
patterns that matter.
3791 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@193.NfCqai35Rvu^1599691@.f28e622/4770
3790 cites Almarst , from September 13, 2002 - and
is worth reading with respect to our Iraqi plans, as well. http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm
Everybody does a lot of guessing - mostly
unconscious - and everybody has to. So long as people keep at
it - keep checking - and are prepared to discard ideas, even
though they've come to like them - when they turn out to be
wrong - we can do well enough to get the maps we need to keep
us out of disasters, and do pretty well about the things we
want to do in human terms that we can state in a orderly,
symmetrical, and harmonious way, admit to ourselves, and admit
and explain to others.
I'm hoping to explain that, in a way that people can
actually face and understand. If they did - they'd understand
a lot else - and could solve problems better.
I'm hopeful, and apologize for moving slowly, and not
responding to every good comment and request on this thread.
It seems to me that with a few changes, a lot of things can go
very much better - from the viewpoint of people on the
Security Council - and from our own. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1644
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1662
I'm also hopeful, selfishly, that I can get my security
problems handled - emerge from what is now substantially house
arrest - and make a living. There's an initiative at Stanford,
funded by Exxon-Mobil, GE, and other firms, and advertised on
the Op Ed page - that I'd like to be involved with. I'd have
other options, too - if I could just get the US government to
tell me, in writing, what they've told me verbally - in a way
that would permit me to work with ordinary American
institutions.
almarst2002
- 03:10pm Feb 6, 2003 EST (#
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THIS IS VERY SERIOUS - http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030206/dossier.html
"Channel Four News has learnt that the bulk of
the nineteen page document was copied from three different
articles - one written by a graduate student."
almarst2002
- 04:27pm Feb 6, 2003 EST (#
8646 of 8648)
An Iraqi scientist has been privately interviewed by UN
weapons experts for the first time in the current crisis, as
Baghdad fights back against an extensive US dossier on its
alleged banned weapons. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2734851.stm
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