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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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rshow55 - 04:52pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4568 of 4573)
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.

I don't know how many. I was a somewhat special case.

But they do box in very many people - so that they are afraid of doing much of anything.

Lies paralyze - and whole big sections of our culture (including a great deal of our engineering culture) have been devalued and diminished.

There's a lot to be proud of in this country. But some things that happened during the Cold War - and many things that have happened since the Cold War should have ended - and was continued under corrupt circumstances - are things we should look at straight - and fix.

The corruption, waste and damage here is far, far, far greater than that of Enron and all the other business scandals.

With all the same evasive patterns of enronation .

And more than a whiff of murder, as well.

We can do better - if some politicians and journalists have some courage.

We need some good journalism - where things really are checked.

This thread is like "pretrial discovery" in a lot of ways.

There's a lot that could be checked.

It might take some money. Too much for a journalistic outlet? Probably. But if anybody with a name wanted to help - it seems to me that there would be ways to find the resources to do some very thorough, impartial, umpired checking.

Suggested to a senior Madison area journalist that if he'd make a phone call - - odds were he could raise enough money so a detective could check a lot - - wouldn't have to take my word for anything much. Somehow, he said, that would be "poor journalistic ethics." Seems to me that it would be ethical journalism to a high standard.

lchic - 05:00pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4569 of 4573)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Worldlings reading might consider this a test for lies:

Is there one clear and accepted story on the deaths, murders, assassinations of leading Americans over the past fifty years.

If the answer is NO - which it often is - then .... there's a query over the system.

rshow55 - 05:07pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4570 of 4573)
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.

That's a set of questions where answers are overdue.

I've had some questions about Casey's death - but the questions about the JFK assasination (coup?) are much more important.

I've often wondered why in the world the CIA and other Feds have bee so reluctant to talk to me. I've surely tried to be accomodating - and worked hard at it. (That's a thing I can prove.)

rshow55 - 05:14pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4571 of 4573)
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.

For various reasons (for example, after I was met at the NYT DC office by an Assistant Sec of State) I've thought some folks might be taking my doings seriously. Maybe I've been "connecting the dots" wrong. To give a sense of my sense of my situation and my problems - here's a sheet I've given to some people over the last few weeks- including the ex-Senator who got me on an OTA committee, and some influentials around Madison. Maybe too indirectly, but I've also tried to get it in some senior NYT hands.

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