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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

possumdag - 05:36pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3764 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

Human Rights - Alister Cooke wraps knuckles http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/letter_from_america/default.stm ... when latest edition - 12May - comes on web page, Cooke talks of Eleanor Roosevelt, her passion for humanRights, the secret vote that put current peoples into hR-Chairs .. and despares .. while they all 12 need improved human rights in their home countries .. Cooke reflects that the removal of the USA the greatest country for advocating improved humanRights could spell the end of the UN, reflecting back to the league of Nations and its demise.

Cooke, additionally, takes time to look at MD.

He's an international still-living treasure with almost a century of 'essaying' on the interaction of the USA with both home & international .. wow!

~ http://www.bbc.co.uk/a-z/ see 'A' and scan down for America

possumdag - 05:42pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3765 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

showalter: talking of 'in space' .. there were 4 satellites that had lost their link to earth .. the

ground control to majorTom/ David Bowey aspect ... fire in control room.

The point here being .. if space is filled with orbiting junk .. that eventually falls .. it might pollute the earth from above.

possumdag - 05:54pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3766 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

bbc talkingPoint 6March Putin http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1198000/1198631.stm
takingPoint-Home http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/default.stm

possumdag - 06:02pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3767 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

Texecution talkingPoint - current

Generally people think that 1 in 60 of those who found guilty are put to death for murder,
1 in 7 of those put to death are actually inocent.
14 blacks to 1 non-black are on death row ... suggests social problems re their identity, socialisation, aims and goals and real opportunities -- said these guys haven't recovered from the Slave label and that's because a proper reconcilliation is still to be worked out!

Are sadists allowed to apply to kill prisoners? That's what the world hears!

It isn't right to ask anyone to kill another citizen! Prison Process workers in the death cells suffer nervous breakdowns and their lives are totally blighted and destroyed.

possumdag - 06:11pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3768 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

The reader's digest has 'dropped' 700 wallets around the world. The two countries where all wallets were all returned, with $50 equivalent in local money were NORWAY and DENMARK. The people here are seen as 'more honest' than average.

possumdag - 06:18pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3769 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

Guinea Pigs clothing testing radiation 1950's Australia http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/05/item20010513003056_1.htm

possumdag - 06:22pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3770 of 3800)
Possumdag@excite.com

humanRights & the UN ... wondering here how a focus can be placed on hR issues to try to ensure that matters that should be raised and dealt with are. Does the 12 chair factor mean that only 12 nations discuss these issues - or a full house? Anyone know how the UN works - when it works ?

rshowalter - 06:31pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3771 of 3800)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

When it works best, sometimes -- it is totally informal -- people with different interests and backgrounds get together and talk, and find common ground.

When it works worst, protocol, and effective veto powers stop focus, or reasonable decision.

rshowalter - 06:45pm May 12, 2001 EST (#3772 of 3800)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

The New York Times - Science - MISSILE DEFENSE thread would total about ten 1 1/2' looseleaf notebooks by now. I summarized it, in a way some might find interesting, and could read quickly, in 3532: rshowalter 5/8/01 6:51pm , which reads in part:

"We've had outstanding contributors -- who have furthered discussion by taking a special "stand-in" role.

"We've had "stand-ins" who have imitated, or tried to imitate, the thought processes of important world figures, so that the discourse here could progress, and simulate more important dialogs to be hoped for. We've had extremely well written, thoughtful, and extensive contributions with a "Bill Clinton -stand in" a "Vladimir Putin -- stand in, Almarst" , and a " Bush Administration Sr Advisor -- stand in, gisterme"

3532: rshowalter 5/8/01 6:51pm contains links to directories , each with many links and highlights summarized, for these stand-ins --- in all, a massive amount of impressive correspondence by these "stand ins."

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