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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 - 02:20am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4606 of 4617)
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A gem of a contribution to today's forum ran thus

Even Enstein, while not as busy as you mazza presumably are, still found it useful to think ...

Then swim in the big tank http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/tt-info/nwdtt99/

Everone excepting prioners ... oOOOps .. prisoners see Rule 10 - be forgiving of other peoples mistakes

lchic - 03:19am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4607 of 4617)
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Double Entry Book-Keeping isn't the new kid on the block, it's 1000 years old!

"" Lawyers for the General Accounting Office and Vice President Dick Cheney clashed today before a federal judge here over which branch of government's claim is paramount: the executive power to keep records confidential or the legislative right to investigate how public money is spent.

For the first time in the 81-year history of the agency, the auditing arm of Congress, the comptroller general of the United States went to federal court to ask a judge to order a member of the executive branch to turn over records to Congress.

.... a 22-year-old law allowed the comptroller general to "investigate all matters related to the receipt, disbursement and use of public money."

He also contended that the law gives the comptroller general the right to obtain all "information the comptroller requires about the duties, powers, activities, organization and financial transactions" of the agency under investigation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/politics/28CHEN.html

." But the information was essential, he said, for the agency to do its job to "look over the shoulder" of the executive branch as it spent taxpayers' money.

"How do you engage in a meaningful oversight function of the way public funds are spent if you cannot look at the highest level of the executive branch?" Mr. Phillips said.

Phillips should look - both Bush($__m) and Cheney ($36m) gutted their former companies - shareholders in America-inc want a report on 'The $state of the Nation'!

If the USA looks open, transparent, and honest ... who knows ... it might reflect well via world Sharemarkets.

lchic - 03:35am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4608 of 4617)
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Post WWII years of USA government seem a little weird ....

Time for straight answers to direct questions.

The people want to know about MONEY

How much has the Administration had, and how used.

They want straight answers to questions where no ONE answer is offered.

Multiple possibility answers suggest - that neither the question nor answers are 'straight'.

'The Poster' challenged the board to come forward with instances of the US using chemical weapons - outside weedkillers in agriculture one presumes.

The US may not have used such weapons over past two decades - but - seems to have been so involved in the Eighties.

The US may have indirectly 'funded' such usage ... who knows/no-one would be surprised ... perhaps someone does know?

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Looking at the places the US has had influence over since WWII - some of them were a mess, are a mess, and will continue to be a mess.

Raises the point - had the US a good foreign policy, then it would have helped other countries GROW into smarter, healthier places.

Where people were once oppressed - they often still seem to be oppressed.

A sound, smart, well intentioned, non-devious world-affecting foreign policy - about something more than 'king Oil' is necessary.

lchic - 07:47am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4609 of 4617)
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GU - How weapons inspections work http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,799653,00.html

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