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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 - 10:00pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3309 of 3339)

"" Saudi Arabia is teetering on the brink of collapse, fuelling Foreign Office fears of an extremist takeover of one of the West's key allies in the war on terror. Anti-government demonstrations have swept the desert kingdom in the past months in protest at the pro-American stance of the de facto ruler, Prince Abdullah.

At the same time, Whitehall officials are concerned that Abdullah could face a palace coup from elements within the royal family sympathetic to al-Qaeda.

^{http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,764617,00.html}

lchic - 10:07pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3310 of 3339)

Friedman's for 'regulation' (for regulation read CHECKING)
^{http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/opinion/28FRIE.html}

and as a Saudi-ophile ? ...
We'll have to wait for his next 'opinion'

lchic - 10:18pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3311 of 3339)

The 9/11 issue was said to be a purely Saudi issue - it came from the politics of 'that' location.

Now that there's a push for co-operation by IranQ
^{http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,763198,00.html}

Shouldn't there be a move for a peaceful coup within Iraq, and a concentration on events in Saudi?

What would happen to WesternPower Prisoners in Saudi jails?

lchic - 10:35pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3312 of 3339)

Camp-Xray

There seems to be only ONE terrorist in that camp.

The two Australians there are being reported over and over as living in a situation of torture:

Strong lighting 24hours - no natural darkness

allowed to send/receive very limited mail ONCE per 2 months

Chained

exercise only 2x per WEEK for 15 minutes
exercise only 2x per WEEK for 15 minutes

AMERICANS STANDARDS ARE HELL
AMERICANS STANDARDS ARE HELL
AMERICANS STANDARDS ARE HELL
AMERICANS STANDARDS ARE HELL

What do the American People think of them torturing others???

What does the American Parliament 'think' - does it think?

lchic - 10:40pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3313 of 3339)

As (above)

there is now a MethodistVoice in the USA asking: Shouldn't the distribution of wealth be more equal

How can the poor stimulate the home economy when over time they are becoming relatively poorer and poorer

It's the mass of people's basic need demands that keep an economy healthy rather than the small upper layer of 'rich-rich-rich' whose demands are luxury and limited.

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lchic - 11:12pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3314 of 3339)

Rockefeller before and over the period of the 'great crash' built in New York - giving jobs - creating an entity that has generated it's own economy - even if critics condem http://www.webaccess.net/~comminc/Rockefeller.html

The question the US should ask is - should money be spent on 'dead end' missiles (that do give commissions to the Bush Family and friends via conflict-of-interest) or should projects that have a beneficial and lasting effect be developed - that generate jobs and their own mini-economy?

lchic - 11:56pm Jul 27, 2002 EST (#3315 of 3339)

biggest stock market corrections since the Depression of the Thirties, say leading City experts http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,764222,00.html

lchic - 12:07am Jul 28, 2002 EST (#3316 of 3339)

... says USA mkts have fallen 40% and should fall another 40% to get to 'value'

.... says internationals are selling local shares to get cash to pay off debt re USA investments

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'Wonder what the outlook will be for land-house mkts where it now takes almost twice the time 7-years-full-income to pay off a home, whereas a few years ago this was 4-years (locally-Oz)

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