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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 - 07:14am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4047 of 4055)

http://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/BookPages/nvcmodel.html

lchic - 07:18am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4048 of 4055)

Korea Korea explained: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,783580,00.html

lchic - 08:07am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4049 of 4055)

Graph Graft

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1301406

Transparency International

rshow55 - 08:09am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4050 of 4055)
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.

Lchic has the most valuable mind I've ever had the honor to work with. (click rshow55).

rshow55 - 08:10am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4051 of 4055)
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.

"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?" - Joseph Welch, special counsel in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.

When people in 1954 watched television, and asked themselves Welch's question - politics changed.

It has been almost half a century - and there have been enormous changes. Including changes in our sense of decency.

The decisions Morgenson describes happened and were long tolerated.

Deals Within Telecom Deals By GRETCHEN MORGENSON http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/business/yourmoney/25TELE.html

Ethics in the military-industrial complex, and in the security agencies, are likely to be at a lower standard.

There's plenty of evidence that the standards are, at best, no higher.

That bears careful thinking about, when the Bush administration says "trust us."

Just Trust Us By PAUL KRUGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/opinion/30KRUG.html

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