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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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rshow55 - 09:24am Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10062 of 17697)
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.

Richard Armitage speaks very carefully - guardedly - and http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/political_transcripts/article_1229.asp bears reading for both what is said, and for the style - the care of expression.

Gisterme either has more rank than Secretary Powell - who also speaks carefully - or the United States government has a "loose cannon."

Can that be a mystery to the US government?

I once saw my Windows display switched from the right hand side to the left hand side - and quickly - after I made a comment that might have displeased the far right wing of the Bush administration.

When I played a recording of a speech by Bill Casey before posting it - I got to listen to an overlay of some very threatening music (A night on Bald Mountain, as I recall) overlaying the sound track.

William Casey Director, Central Intelligence Agency Major Issues Lecture Series Asbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University Topic: >The Status of U.S. Intelligence in the U.S. Today October 27, 1986 http://www.ashbrook.org/sounds/ram/casey_86-10-27_speech.ram It was an interesting speech from the old pirate - some might enjoy listening to it - I hope it is still available.

I've been interfered with in a number of other ways. This thread isn't an accident - and neither are gisterme's postings.

Since the US government has very often demonstrated to me how much control they have over the internet - they must know who gisterme is. By any sane diplomatic standard - gisterme speaks as a "loose cannon". I'm only guessing - but if it isn't the President of the United States - of someone VERY close - I miss my guess.

rshow55 - 10:05am Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10063 of 17697)
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.

Verbal deal between M. Robert Showalter and William J. Casey for Showalter's work situation , as set out, to the what he claims is the best of his knowledge and belief, by Showalter. - - which is an EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, with details added in later postings . . . http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DDr1b0YuYGb.1134959@.f28e622/3445

Systems built for stability, and systems that are explosively unstable, can look much the same.

I appreciated Debuting: One Spy, Unshaken http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/23CUST.html was an interesting, but not exactly balanced, review of The Bourne Identity.

Am I trying to debut, as one spy, unshaken? Yes.

I feel some progress has been made - and some work on making clear warnings made.

. Thought problem: You're Bourne - how do you "come in" -- gracefully, and in a way that is in the reasonable interest of the United States, and decency?

. Thought problem: You're me. It seems to me that there are solutions "all over the place" if some facts can be straighted out. Graceful ones, maybe.

I've been working on this thread, and lchic has been working on this thread, for good reasons - - and motivated by strong concerns. MD1999 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DDr1b0YuYGb.1134959@.f28e622/2484

With current usages, nothing can be checked in the face of opposition from "authorities."

This is very dangerous. There are things to get straight, important in themselves - - and important because of the patterns that they show.

MD84 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DDr1b0YuYGb.1134959@.f28e622/99

D1075-1076 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DDr1b0YuYGb.1134959@.f28e622/1369

Links to CIA and my security problems, this thread: 3774-3779 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DDr1b0YuYGb.1134959@.f28e622/4753

Gisterme is right that I "scare pretty easy" - I know how vulnerable I am. Others should know that about themselves - and about the systems of trust and human interaction they depend on. That includes gisterme - and should include Prime Ministers Blair and Aznar, as well.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/sermon.html has been posted (and permitted) more than a hundred times on this thread. Like a good deal else about this thread - it is no accident. The last minute is especially worth hearing - we need judgement - not a surrender to things as unpredictable as "judgement day."

Things need to be checked.

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