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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 - 06:16pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8841 of 8849)
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Some come from the highland

Some come from the low

Jogging along hearty and strong merrily we go

Swinging thro' the byway, thro' the country lane

Now all together let it go again

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp here we come

Jolly good campers everyone

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp hear the call

Hi-De-Hi, Ho-De-Ho!

Post WarII the army camps around the coast were sold off, Billy Butlin Entrepreneur invested in them ... and used the camps to give people their annual holiday --- full provision of activities for adults and children inclusive in the price. The then annual vision for the British Worker was a week or two at the coast.

lchic - 06:27pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8842 of 8849)
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Showalter if someone asked you, as they did, 'What is your VISION?' would you have a clear understanding within as to what you wanted to achieve with your life?

If the president of the USA was asked 'What was his vision' ... he might reply ........ ?

If an Iraqi was picked out from a crowd and asked ... how might we expect them to reply?

So how do all these 'visions' get poured into the cauldron of life .... and be made to happen?

lchic - 06:29pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8843 of 8849)
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HOW is the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY being shaped and by whom?

lchic - 06:32pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8844 of 8849)
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Shaping and visioning UK style - HYDE PARK

""The eyes and ears of the world will be fixed on the London streets and on Hyde Park. The size and fury of the demonstration will have an impact on real events the like of which I have not experienced in a lifetime of protest. Hyde Park will once again host a demonstration, like that of the Reform League in 1867 or the suffragettes in 1908, that can change the whole course of politics. Go to it.

Paul FOOT http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,893937,00.html

almarst2002 - 07:18pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8845 of 8849)

"NATO has been moribund since the Cold War ended, for lack of a strategic purpose. Its life support system remained the popular support it has continued to enjoy in its member countries, based on agreement over common security interests. . The support system now has been disconnected because the agreement has broken. America's German bases are now part of a U.S. deployment that encompasses more than 40 nations and supports a foreign policy meant to establish an integrated international order with "the United States as the ultimate guarantor of order and enforcer of norms," to quote Andrew Bacevich of Boston University. Iraq intervention is part of this. . By adopting this policy, the second Bush administration has opened a deep strategic divide between itself and Western Europe. This is why there is a trans-Atlantic crisis. Public opinion in NATO Europe has turned against the United States. Washington prefers to call this "anti-Americanism." This is not true. It is hostility to American foreign policy. . Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintains that the three European governments making difficulties for the United States over Iraq are "isolated." Actually, NATO popular opinion is universally opposed to a war against Iraq not mandated by the United Nations. The dissident governments speak for about 80 percent of West European opinion - and more than 70 percent of opinion in Eastern Europe as well. Who, then, is isolated? - http://www.iht.com/articles/86519.html

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