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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?

lunarchick - 07:13pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8888 of 8905)
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"We are rather better at Airport security than America is" Kim Beasley (Leader - Australian Labour Party).

Relates to Demming, statistics, quality and standards.

Says there's too much reliance on electronic monitoring -- too little on using appropriate cultural nationals to take the pulse on thinking.

Speaking on GMA tv 10

lunarchick - 07:32pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8889 of 8905)
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Watching the doll figures fall from the high rise begs the question 'why did they jump?' .. i wouldn't -- but would i? They did.

They jumped to gain relief - all be it a momentary flight - from the pain of intense physical forces - fire.

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A big screen, re WTC events, for students at a city U drew a clapping response from a watching (international student) who was then 'punched'.

Raises the question why would/do people applaud. Are they applauding the suffering of individuals per say?

Or the concept that the SuperPower is seen to be experiencing the pain that they have suffered.

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That America has silos of missiles lined up and targeted ... turned like wine in a vinyard cellar on a nightly basis ... that could 'blow' at any time with a more devastating effect than wtc incident - says America likes to place a psychological grip over the world.

lunarchick - 07:36pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8890 of 8905)
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KNIFE: seems these may have been from the plane's own galley.

lunarchick - 07:39pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8891 of 8905)
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Wonder if the USA media are giving intelligent analysis re the wtc event. Doesn't seem that way from the live broadcasts.

Prayers to the american concept of 'god' currently - to assist healing.

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So why did the PLASTIC MINDS of the terrorists shape into the wtc/dc modes of thinking ... how did these minds arrive at that point ?

rshowalter - 07:40pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8892 of 8905)
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MD400 rshowalter 10/10/00 1:34pm : .... "In today's NYT, Barry Bearak's Lahore Journal: A Jehad Leader Finds the U.S. Perplexingly Fickle offers a clear example of how the U.S. nuclear policy increases danger, and offers excuses for horror, all over the world.

" Hafiz Muhammad Saeed justifies all sorts of terrorist activity, all sorts of random, hateful destruction, on the argument that "since the U.S. uses nuclear weapons, and claims the right to use them on first strikes, I can do anything."

We need to be properly afraid
MD398 rshowalter 10/10/00 11:57am MD399 rshowalter 10/10/00 12:04pm

If we were working to reduce all terrorism, in almarst's definition, all over the world, we'd get an enthusiastic response from a lot of nations that aren't helping us now, and I think we'd make a lot of progress.

Going after the terrorists who have hurt us so badly would be much easier for us to sell, all over the world, if we took that position.

And we'd be safer. Our military would still have plenty to do. But we'd be safer, and less hated, and the world would run better.

And also last longer.

lunarchick - 07:41pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8893 of 8905)
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I'm out ... visit the bay ... put my feet in the ocean, let the breeze blow some of the debris of the week away.

gisterme - 08:13pm Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8894 of 8905)

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

America: The Good Neighbor.

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.

The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.

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