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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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robkettenburg01 - 11:02pm Oct 12, 2002 EST (# 4834 of 4842)

Play "Find the Boeing Jumbo Jet!"

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The Matrix Document

The truth the media is forbidden to tell you

The Congressional Record of Testimony for the Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing Damage Analysis

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lchic - 02:02am Oct 13, 2002 EST (# 4835 of 4842)
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America - send the kids to English Public Schools - foundations with spare cash might oblige :

In a remarkable social engineering experiment, a black teenager expelled from school, roaming the streets of inner-city London and on the edges of the criminal world, was placed in one of Britain's top public schools to see how he would cope.

He excelled. Ryan Williams, 15, is now studying for 10 GCSEs, came top of his class in Latin and biology and is a leading member of the school rugby team. His report card put him in the top third of pupils at the school.

A television company is paying £15,000 a year for Ryan to attend ...

..... followed his progress for 12 months ...

Described as a cross between Pygmalion and Trading Places , the film examines Ryan's new-found confidence, his academic achievements and his rejection of his former life. 'What this demonstrates is that, in the right environment, children's lives can be changed,'

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,811079,00.html

lchic - 02:22am Oct 13, 2002 EST (# 4836 of 4842)
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Cross-bowed Archer

""In reading his diaries one is constantly struggling to tease out where the manipulator begins and the Toad of Toad Hall, Walter Mitty self-deluder ends. Above all, there are different fantasies he is having about himself, differing dramatic roles he enacts. ""

http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,810942,00.html

[ lchic: Some 'polies' by contrast have half a mind - if that! ]

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""Why is he cluttering up the system at all, when the current prison population is a record 72,241, plus 259 people held in police cells at £300 a night? Although the row about overcrowding peaked in April, the crisis has got silently worse. Last week, the figure rose, typically, by 170. Much better to have given Archer a backbreaking community sentence, satisfying his social reformist zeal while denying him a lucrative platform for confessions of despair and suicidal urges.

http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,810906,00.html

lchic - 02:37am Oct 13, 2002 EST (# 4837 of 4842)
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High prison populations in USA Russia and UK - in their view (implying USA rates are horrendous).

Suggest the 'economies' of all are sick and in need of attention, so that people have a 'chance' to develop skills and trades and become independent of systems that entrap them.

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Environments shape and mould character .... so, living in 2002 .... in the current climate and environment - how is it shaping character?

It's developing a 'simple' world

Us -- them
black -- white
lies -- truth
Friend -- Foe


an adolescent mind can be polarised and manipulated

rather than saying the world is a complex place that has to be 'understood'

What materials (educational, arts, explanational) are being put before developing minds to enable them to have insights and wisdom when viewing the world wrt political strategy and policy.

lchic - 08:23am Oct 13, 2002 EST (# 4838 of 4842)
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Bali Gu Talk | http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.3ba75da2/0

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One thing is certain. The biggest losers in a terrorist campaign on Bali will be the Balinese. The island derives a significant amount of its income from tourism, and bombing tourists will rapidly reduce that income to nil. ""

www.dfat.gov.au

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