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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 - 03:39pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3180 of 3327)

UK arms to India

"" Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, dismissed fierce criticism from MPs yesterday about the sale of British arms to India and Pakistan insisting they would make no difference to ... http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,758779,00.html

Mr Straw flies to Islamabad later today when the Pakistani military regime will tell him that it wants India to begin talks on the future of Kashmir.

Speaking in Hong Kong before he flew to India, Mr Straw said he would use his visit to urge New Delhi and Islamabad to resume a "sustained dialogue" over Kashmir.

lchic - 04:04pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3181 of 3327)

{{{{{{{{{ Silence is a tax exemption }}}}}}}}}

Princeton:

http://www.aclu.org/news/n081496a.html

Stanford:

adminguide.stanford.edu/15_1.pdf

Hospital:

http://www.ihatoday.org/public/legal/pactax.htm

God & co:

http://www.aacs.org/publications/cc/03-02/cc03-022d.asp
Political speech is forced into church parking lots because of a nimble bit of legislative maneuvering by then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954. Faced with intense opposition from nonprofit groups in his bid for reelection, Johnson submitted an amendment on the Senate floor to ban all nonprofit groups from engaging in election activity. Without hearings or public debate, his amendment passed the Senate on a voice vote.

Johnson’s revision of the federal tax code was targeted at just two organizations contesting his seat http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/NEWS/newspage.asp?story=908
H.R. 2357 “The Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act,” introduced by Rep. Walter Jones (NC), and cosponsored by 110 other members of the U.S. House of Representatives, will reverse Johnson’s ban and, for the first time in 48 years, extend the protection of the First Amendment to ...

Nuclear silence:

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=political+activity+restriction+tax+exempt+nuclear&btnG=Google+Search

lchic - 04:19pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3182 of 3327)

Sweden imposes a tax of 5.514 kroner per meggawatt of electrical power (Nuclear Reactor). http://www.rsv.se/pdf/51006.pdf [ There's a move by the EU towards uniform taxation ]

lchic - 04:34pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3183 of 3327)

FreeSpeech

Indexed:

http://www.europarl.eu.int/hearings/speech/freedom_en.htm
electronic interception http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_7.07.html

UK Sterling speech

David Owen, continued …

“It is rich that the Government and the European Commission are committing millions of British taxpayers’ pounds towards euro propaganda, while planning to restrict fundraising by private individuals.”

A further danger lay in the wording of the referendum question, Lord Owen said. “We need to watch closely to ensure that any referendum question is clear and fair.

http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.88.89supr.html

lchic - 04:40pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3184 of 3327)

GU nuclear waste(mox) archive

http://search.guardian.co.uk/search97cgi/s97networkr_cgi?QueryText=mox&Action=Search&Collection=Archive&ResultTemplate=ArchiveFull.hts&SortSpec=VdkPublicationDate+Desc

lchic - 04:53pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3185 of 3327)

"" DEFENCE is not like any other industry. Its output—the ability to deliver death and destruction, albeit mostly in the name of deterrence, peace and security—makes it unloved outside the communities where it provides jobs

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1223483

lchic - 04:57pm Jul 20, 2002 EST (#3186 of 3327)

Skewing history:

"" .. Pappe's expulsion is apparently being demanded due to his defence of Teddy Katz, the graduate student who gained notoriety through his 1998 MA thesis. The thesis was concerned with the fate of the Palestinian village of Tantura during the 1948 War of Independence. Katz's thesis argued, through eyewitness accounts, that Jewish pre-state militias had slaughtered up to 200 Arab fighters who had laid down their arms in Tantura.

What ensued was extraordinary.

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

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