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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 - 12:07am Feb 25, 2003 EST (# 9279 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Quote : Ruby Wax : Vowel States

'Once you leave New York and LA, you're in those vowel states - you know, Iowa, Ohio - and your brain suddenly plummets leagues below sea level. I tour all round this country, and even in more out-of-the-way places, your audience is pretty sophisticated. In American vowel-land, they are moronic ....

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,7493,902341,00.html

Raises the point ... Is the USA pulled into the Twenty First Century by GOOD leadership, or, pushed into it by the righteous jihad of the vowel states!?

lchic - 11:22am Feb 25, 2003 EST (# 9280 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

KENYA : Recently, Mr Awori visited prisoners and warders and was perturbed by the living conditions ..... the 28 prisoners were traumatised each day of their lives as they did not know whether their hanging day had reached or not. They had never seen the sun or the sky .... They were confined in total darkness everyday, 11 of them crowded in a room meant for three ... freed because they had already served up to 20 years

http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/Today/News/updtNews65.html

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