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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 - 07:00pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9707 of 9722)
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Many of our stories and literature shake out to simplicity - Shakespeare wrote the seven ages of man - would this be done as simply today?

rshowalter - 07:01pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9708 of 9722)
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Again, here's KOKO !

MD6559 lunarchick 7/4/01 8:27pm . . . is the start of the Koko series.

lunarchick - 07:10pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9709 of 9722)
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http://www.light-straw.co.uk/ate/baynard/saom1.html http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Mulready.Ages.html http://www.luciddesign.com/Projects/Folger/thumbnails.html http://www.noelcollection.org/noel/ages/

.... Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard*,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the canon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon* lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws* and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLTnoframes/life/lifesubj+1.html

lunarchick - 07:12pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9710 of 9722)
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As seen above it is said that one can't kill terrorism. And if it's a bank. It has liquidity. Is fluid. Flows. It moves into the vacuums of discontent!

lunarchick - 07:15pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9711 of 9722)
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If the world doesn't want 'people' to call upon the 'terrorism bank' then what has to be done?

What understanding is there of the Seven Ages of Nation - Region Development.

What might some of those stages be? How can those stages be eased and assisted and ensured by countries futher along the continuum? Within the regions are the people who have Maslow needs - to all levels within their surrounds and environment. Basic needs have to be met. People have to see a future for their DNA for their children for their future DNA for their grandchildren.

lunarchick - 07:18pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9712 of 9722)
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Varied philosophies have grown out of environments. Primitive folk - perhaps even KOKO? - evolved rules and codes related to the spirits dwelling within the natural manifestations of their immediate environment. Later - with the mobility of the Mongolian horse, the god was thrown skyward to travel with the human - whereever a warrior/traveller went.

lunarchick - 07:20pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9713 of 9722)
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A problem to today is how to enable various philosophies and religions ... that grew out of different needs and different environments .. to coexist in the modern complex world.

In world cities they do just that.

In deprived economic zones the basic human teachings of their philosophy can be twisted to act upon itself and others.

lunarchick - 07:22pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9714 of 9722)
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Sometimes in business it is necessary to STOCKTAKE. To draw a line. To take stock. To separate the activities of THE THEN, from THE NOW.

With respect to recent past American Foreign Policy - a follow-up questionnaire to assess the quality component would be appropriate!

lunarchick - 07:32pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9715 of 9722)
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Americans are gobsmacked - note recent limited contributions to NYT threads. Tragic Tuesday kicked the US nation in the nether-regions paralysing a nation.

The question 'WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?' is still not being voiced.

Will the National Gut Feeling ever demand TRUE answers related to past foreign policy? Isn't this necessary to stocktake, to draw the line ... to look to orderning new and different stocks more suited to C21 world needs.

Were America to be seen to have a focus on the Why did it happen questions ... then the world might at least feel they were beginning to travel a path of truth, honesty and understanding .. from which a new and better beginning for the century might occur.

The basic needs of all nations have to be taken care of ... it's a complex and interrelated world.

lunarchick - 07:35pm Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9716 of 9722)
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Showalter, I noted that one declaration by the new world alliance is to rid the world of terrorism.

It occurs to me that 'anyone' might be labelled 'terrorist' and disposed of. Regimes stocktaking might clean out people - as if redundant goods - and dispose of them - under the auspices of making it a safer world!

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