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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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rshowalt - 07:53pm Jul 19, 2002 EST (#3166 of 3339)

Elements of hope here.

Bush Tells Arab Ministers U.S. Wants Mideast Peace By TODD S. PURDUM http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/international/middleeast/19DIPL.html

Arab leaders know there has to be some change on their side. The worst doesn't always happen.

For all sorts of reasons, almost every nation in the world wants to work with the United States. And work with the President of the United States.

I find myself hopeful, but tired. Working on getting a disk out to some key people MD3155 rshowalt 7/19/02 9:16am

There are things, including simple things, that need to be checked, and can be.

Back tomorrow.

lchic - 12:38am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3167 of 3339)

On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. It is the morrow!

lchic - 02:19am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3168 of 3339)

"" widespread poverty in villages with "nothing to show for over 30 years of the company's existence (Nigeria - Chevron Texaco) .... The 10-day takeover trapped an initial 700 American, Canadian, British and Nigerian oil workers inside the southeastern Nigerian terminal.

About 200 of them were allowed to leave on Sunday, and hundreds more departed in a ferry Tuesday morning, leaving just a few dozen trapped inside, protesters said.

After the verbal agreement was reached with the company Monday, the women permitted ChevronTexaco employees back into the facility's control room so they could load two tankers with offshore oil

http://www.brisbane.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=1405&group=webcast

lchic - 02:30am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3169 of 3339)

http://www.democracynature.org/dn/index.htm
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/index.html

kalter.rauch - 03:42am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3170 of 3339)
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rshowalt 7/19/02 1:04pm

Are you with "The Shop"???

How come you're going on about archiving when THIS Forum has so far remained UNTOUCHED by The Great Purge which about to befall other venues???

kalter.rauch - 04:05am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3171 of 3339)
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lchic......

It's too late for you and your 5th column saboteurs. Even if you and your "friends" enroll in an Al Quaida sponsored flying school, you'll never catch THIS!!!

HAHAHA!!!

lchic - 07:52am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3172 of 3339)

'The Great Purge' .... sounds rev-ablutionary! Mainly a numbers game.

Read the Boeing media release re - testing phase ... can missiles really spot an 'enemy' - wouldn't the enemy be just too cute? ... sounds as if the missiles go ballistic ... the real question is - WHY ARE THEY USED ... the answer being ... because as yet people are not assisted through conflict via peaceful means.

An interesting thing i've noted about Americans generally is this, they are very very very concerned about the couple of thousand who expired 9/11 but don't give a damn about the thousands they're killing. Don't give a damn about the innocents locked up in camp x-ray. Haven't understood a thing about their foreign policy over the past half century.

Re this thread - try reading it - then scratch around and put up the stats regarding hits and usage of it - would be interesting to see.

Hip-pocket Nerve

Here's the Op-Ed article

"" "It's Forrest Gump does finance," says Charles Lewis, the center's founder, in looking at the story line of the remarkable George W. Bush business career. "Every time he seemed to be in trouble, he would end up with a box of chocolates."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/opinion/20FRIC.html

lchic - 08:42am Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3173 of 3339)

First Casualty of War...? by Shirley Dent

http://www.rationalist.org.uk/newhumanist/5thColumn/FirstCasualtyofWar.shtml

lchic - 03:33pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3174 of 3339)

The east London council of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest boroughs in the UK, is considering a proposal to twin itself with the Israeli-occupied Palestinian town of Jenin as an act of political solidarity.

Tower Hamlets is currently twinned only with Sylhet, an area in Bangladesh. "We are not sending anyone to Jenin yet," said Belal Ahmed, a council spokesman. "Councillors merely instructed officers to make a feasibility study of the plan and report back." http://politics.guardian.co.uk/redbox/story/0,9029,758796,00.html

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