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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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almarst2002 - 10:52pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12245 of 12253)

Powell was under pressure to use shaky intelligence on Iraq

According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshlt."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030531/wl_mideast_afp/us_iraq_powell_030531004225

almarst2002 - 10:54pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12246 of 12253)

"I think he is Lenin's great-great grand nephew."

You "think" you "can think"

almarst2002 - 10:57pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12247 of 12253)

AMERICAN MEDIA "free" TO GRAB. - http://www.clearchannelsucks.org/

almarst2002 - 11:08pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12248 of 12253)

Does the scene below look like the fall of the Berlin Wall? - http://www.joecitizen.org/saddam_toppling.html

"Truthfully, we are surprised that he did not just paste mustaches on the same bunch of Congressional aides who stormed the Miami-Dade recounts and send them off to Baghdad for that perfect photo op.] "

LIES, BOMBS AND VIDEOTAPES (restricted)

almarst2002 - 11:14pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12249 of 12253)

Gulf War Casualties and 'Depleted' Uranium: An Educational Campaign Providing Resources on Radioactive, Chemical and Biological Weapons - http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html

THE WEARPON OF CHOICE FOR LIBERATION (after the CLUSTER BOMB)

almarst2002 - 11:15pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12250 of 12253)

The widespread looting in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and other Iraqi cities, following the collapse of the Ba’athist regime of President Saddam Hussein, was not merely an incidental byproduct of the US military conquest of Iraq. It was deliberately encouraged and fostered by the Bush administration and the Pentagon for definite political and economic reasons.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/iraq-a15.shtml

fredmoore - 11:58pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12251 of 12253)

Some useful Einstein links:

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/early1.htm

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/EinsteinLegacy.html

Einstein's impact on world GDP? How 'long' is a piece of string? Solid state physics is integral to all economic development for example.

Japan's 3% GDP investment in R&D isn't helping its current economic situation right now but it took them from zero to hero in less than 30 years. However, Japan's downturn situation will change ... knowledge is power. There is simply more competition for Japanese goods based on their own technology in the hands of other nations.

A Worldwide .5% GDP investment in R&D for a Kyoto Alternative energy protocol would radically change the world we live in. It is about sorting out priorities and things that really matter.

As for 'the Poster' ... who knows, who cares! The way to bully someone into your point of view is to first of all dehumanise them ... eh loonster? School girl's tricks no doubt? She goes, she goes, she goes .... she just GOES: I wasn't being rude to the poster ... I thought he was the one you put your jammies in.

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