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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 - 09:35am May 17, 2003 EST (# 11737 of 11738)
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 would like to be able to set up something very much like AEA again - and do it honestly - and work with Lchic in that format.

I'd like to be able to do that with people involved in AEA fully informed, and satisfied to the extent that was reasonably possible.

In ways that were reasonably satisfactory to my wife, her husband, the New York Times, other members of families involved, the federal government, and other people more-or-less connected. In ways that most people at the UN, if they happened to notice, might think fair.

I think, under the circumstances, that it might be particularly good if I could proceed on a basis senior people at Deutsche Bank Securities would think honorable, workable, and fair.

I've been trying to "play it straight" for a very long time.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ScienceInTheNewsJan4_2000.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ToE_H_E_G_P_M_xd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Safire_SpookAwardsNRequestXd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/etterToDeutscheBankSecuritiesXd.html

Bragg contact http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?14@192.DbxgaORTUHW^1265093@.f28e622/5785

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Burke_Jun16.htm

If the requests involved were awkward, the circumstances were awkward, too.

rshow55 - 09:39am May 17, 2003 EST (# 11738 of 11738)
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.

On September 25 I had an all day web meeting with "beckq" under circumstances where I had some quite good reasons to suspect that "beckq" was the President of the United States, or someone close to him. I think people looking at my records for the weeks preceeding that meeting would agree that that I was making a reasonable inference about that. Here is that web meeting. If I was being elliptical - I felt that I was doing what I was supposed to do, considering the promises about classification that I had made.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md266.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md273.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md280.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md290.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md300.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md304.htm

That all day web-meeting ended with this

rshowalt - 05:28pm Sep 25, 2000 EST (#304 of 11890)

I'd be grateful for a chance to come before you, or one or more of your representatives, and explain, in detail, with documentation and ways to check, how dangerous this situation is. Especially if a good reporter, and a videotape record, were there so what was said was clear.

Some mistakes have been made, and you and I weren't very old when they were made. They can be fixed. A lot of things would improve if this were done. They are American mistakes, and Americans, and American leaders, have to fix them.

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I have a great deal of respect for the US government. And a great deal of respect for the New York Times as well.

But all the same, I think the fact that my circumstances have been as awkward as they have been in the time since raises some questions - and not only questions about me.

Almarst , over the years, has pointed out some problems related to those questions.

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