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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
- 07:38am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#
3342 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.
I've had to postpone a trip East, to my great
disappointment, and the disappointment of my parents, because
of pressures from Cooper-Mazza-Dirac-Johnson - and some
opportunites, as well.
There is a key problem, and this board has adressed it
again and again (almost always in ways where details of my
identity don't matter).
Question:
. Do the authorities, or people with
status, have an unlimited right to lie, distort, and
distract in the United States of America?
In a lot of cases, that seems to be the status quo. Getting
that fixed is, in part a technical matter, and there
has been a lot of effort on this thread to address that. Over
time, almarst has been very helpful.
There are a lot of relevant things, some of the most
interesting involving almarst , to be found by
searching "Krugman" on this thread.
We'd have a much better world if the facts Krugman sets out
- in a place in the NYT where some checking is likely to have
occurred -- were checked to closure.
There are times when there ought to be compelling
obligations to get facts straight.
Where politicians ought to expect this of other
politicians, and voters should expect this of the people they
judge.
That would be a great but needed change from that "culture
of lying" that evolved in the 20th century - especially after
WWII - which has degraded so much that we value in America.
lchic
- 07:50am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#
3343 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
"" Bush already has approved covert action against Saddam
and directed the CIA to increase support to Iraqi opposition
groups. Six Iraqi opposition leaders are visiting Washington
for talks next month.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20262-2002Jul30.html
lchic
- 07:58am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#
3344 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Why do they hate us asks Bush ?
The Bush White House has decided to transform what was a
temporary effort to rebut Taliban disinformation about the
Afghan war into a permanent, fully staffed "Office of Global
Communications" to coordinate the administration's foreign
policy message and supervise America's image abroad, according
to senior officials.
The office, due to be up and running by fall, will allow
the White House to exert more control over what has become one
of the hottest areas of government and private-sector
initiatives since Sept. 11. Known as "public diplomacy," it
attempts to address the question President Bush posed in his
speech to Congress the week after the terrorist attacks: "Why
do they hate us?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18822-2002Jul29.html
lchic
- 08:17am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#
3345 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1408-2002Jun17.html
Other performers have feared voicing their views in public
lest they be accused of being unpatriotic. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,765579,00.html
rshow55
- 08:33am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#
3346 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.
MD3034-3044 rshow55
7/13/02 12:36pm ...
We need, in Lincoln's memorable phrase, a rebirth of
freedom.
We are much too afraid.
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