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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 - 01:29pm Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9306 of 9309)
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.

Almarst , no one has to believe - without checking. And checking in expensive. But sometimes, not checking is even more expensive.

8368 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.FhC5aji14PL.88180@.f28e622/9894 links to 680 postings by gisterme prior to restarting of this thread on March of this year. All these posts are available by date at http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm

Each of these links connects to 20 links on the MD thread by gisterme:

8370 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.FhC5aji14PL.88180@.f28e622/9896

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All these posts are available, either by links here, or by date at http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm

The postings that were removed from this thread yesterday are reposted on Psychwar #381 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?8@@.ee7a163/414

I think that the references to Milgram's study, from Lecture Notes: Introductory Psychology by Prof. Evan Pritchard http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~epritch1/social98a.html includes this: are particularly interesting. Those notes also have a succint writeup of Jonestown. Trust can be misplaced.

Psychwar, 375-77 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?8@@.ee7a163/407

almarst2003 - 01:32pm Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9307 of 9309)

Amnesty International launches on-line petition for Iraq - http://www.amnesty.org/go/iraq

The population of Iraq is in imminent danger of a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. Military action could trigger a disaster for the people of Iraq and surrounding countries.

Before it takes any further action, Amnesty International calls upon the UN Security Council to assess the human rights and humanitarian impact on the civilian population of any military action against Iraq.

The assessment should take place in a public session of the Security Council, open to all UN member states, and it must include consideration of:

- the potential effects of military action on the human rights of the Iraqi population. - the effects on the humanitarian situation as Iraqis are already suffering under severe economic sanctions and violations by their government. - the risk that military action would lead to massive numbers of people being forced into flight. - potential grave violations of international humanitarian law, including direct attacks on civilians, the use of human shields and the use of inherently indiscriminate weapons.

Amnesty International urges the Security Council to deploy human rights monitors immediately throughout Iraq to report on human rights abuses by any party.

Join Amnesty International's call. Sign AI's online petition to the President of the Security Council at http://www.amnesty.org/go/iraq before 8 March. Please forward this message to others. Your appeal can make a difference.

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