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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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almarst-2001 - 04:21am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1470 of 1482)

Do you know why there are not military coups in the USA ? Because they do not have US embassies there… - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/17/27702.html

almarst-2001 - 04:40am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1471 of 1482)

FRANCE - http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2002/0422/cover/france.html

"It has crafted a society that gives a large role to the state, which built one of the world's best public health systems and an enviable transport infrastructure, and preserved a rich cultural heritage. France has given its people time not just to work, but to enjoy the fruits of their labor"

lchic - 06:09am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1472 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

PUTIN - Grow the Economy
_{http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-russia-putin.html}

Growth coming off a low base.

8% pa growth required.

Russians are looking for strong improvements.

Putin has 70% rating from Ru population.

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Russia has the advantage of being able to straightaway implement innovative management strategies - seen to work - and necessary to a modern economy. Human capital - appropriately implemented - can maximise growth.

lchic - 06:14am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1473 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

Sharon was happy to bulldozed down all the executive buildings in Palestine - including the HQ for UNIONS ... making Unions world-wide join as a botherhood to ask the question WHY and next impose a blockade and sanctions on Israel .... this is going to cost the US more and more dollars!

lchic - 06:50am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1474 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

Whoops is something going on here ? Japanese tourists in Bethlehem looking for the sights! ^{http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1936000/1936241.stm}

lchic - 07:00am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1475 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

Lest we forget

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-269503,00.html

lchic - 10:12am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1476 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

massacre http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1937000/1937387.stm

mcgovern_wacko - 10:15am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1477 of 1482)

almarst-2001 4/18/02 4:05am

Children have readily available all the free food they require. The only possible truth to your statement that 10% of our children are hungry is if they are the fat brood who constantly pronounce their hungry. Please don’t deceive regarding our nation’s children to further an unrelated agenda you may enjoy, it detracts from their true problems on which we must concentrate.

lchic - 10:33am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1478 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

M a s s a c r e J E N I N (Deaths: funded via USA tax payer dollars)BBC >>

Jenin camp 'horrific beyond belief'

Terje Roed-Larsen, who toured the West Bank refugee camp on Thursday, said it was "morally repugnant" that Israel had not allowed rescue teams in after the fighting.

It is totally destroyed, it looks like an earthquake has hit it," he said.

Aid agencies now have access to Jenin

"I am watching two brothers pull their father from the ruins, the stench of death is horrible. We are seeing a 12-year-old boy being dug out, totally burned," he said.

"We have expert people here who have been in war zones and earthquakes and they say they have never seen anything like it," he added.

Mr Roed-Larsen, who is the UN's Special Co-ordinator

lchic - 11:13am Apr 18, 2002 EST (#1479 of 1482)
Jenin massacre "It's just like Hiroshima," US reporter said http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

Wearing boots paid from USA tax payer donations, no doubt :-

Andira Harab told how her brother had been made to strip to the waist and how other young men were stripped naked before they were bound and made to lie on the road, where Israeli soldiers tormented them by stepping on sensitive parts of their bodies before they were taken away.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/17/1019020661483.html

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