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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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lchic
- 11:29am May 18, 2002 EST (#2270
of 2282)
Palast
British paper faces suit over Palast investigation
By Greg
Palast
In retaliation for the investigative story about the finances
of the George W. Bush campaign, Barrick Gold Mining of Canada has
sued my paper, the Observer of London, for libel. The company,
which hired the elder Bush after his leaving the White House, is
charging the newspaper with libel for quoting an Amnesty
International report, which alleged that 50 miners might have been
buried alive in Tanzania by a company now owned by Barrick.
The company has also demanded the Observer and its parent,
Guardian Newspapers, force me to remove the article from my US
website, a frightening extension of Britain’s punitive libel laws
into the World Wide Web.
lchic
- 11:35am May 18, 2002 EST (#2271
of 2282)
President Bush's CIA briefing last August about possible attacks
on US targets by al-Qa'ida – the focus of the current "what did he
know and when did he know it" furore – was based on British
intelligence reports, officials on both sides of the Atlantic said.
Intelligence sources in London confirmed yesterday that both
MI5 and MI6 had sent reports to the United States in the run-up to
11 September, suggesting that America was under threat.
lchic
- 11:39am May 18, 2002 EST (#2272
of 2282)
Media NOT doing it's job!!!!
In an interview with BBC's Newsnight, Mr Rather said he
believed it was a patriotic duty to bring the government to
account. "It's unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in the eye,
and ask the questions they don't want to hear – they being those
who have the responsibility, the ultimate responsibility in a
society such as ours, of sending our sons and daughters, our
husbands, wives, our blood, to face death, to take death," he
said.
lchic
- 12:36pm May 18, 2002 EST (#2273
of 2282)
Links: see
lchic
- 12:37pm May 18, 2002 EST (#2274
of 2282)
Electronic Count - Irish Elections are High Tech!
lchic
- 12:41pm May 18, 2002 EST (#2275
of 2282)
Palast - Enron - ref
.. Gregory Palast having delved into his not yet published
book titled "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and
subtitled "An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about
Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters."
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