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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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mazza9 - 05:05pm May 28, 2002 EST (#2411 of 2432)
Louis Mazza

RShow55:

This past weekend there was a program on the Discovery Channel regarding exotic guns. The ABL laser was featured and the photonic impact was demonstrated and displayed. It'll work!

for lchic: Here's what Ambassador Keyes says about your PLO and Yasser Arafat

Look under "New Postings"

LouMazza

freamon - 05:53pm May 28, 2002 EST (#2412 of 2432)

Should we spend billions to defend again elephants, while we are being attacked by ants.

lchic - 05:56pm May 28, 2002 EST (#2413 of 2432)

Some ants can 'light your fire' they're killers ! [FireAnts]

lchic - 06:43pm May 28, 2002 EST (#2414 of 2432)

and here's what TIME MAG says about USA intelligence incompetency :

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020603/terror/

Categorially Jews are arabs .. all DNA'd to Abraham .. ^{blah blah blah blah blah etc}

They're ALL PEOPLE, and both need an economy, a job, etc ... but one mob are being subsidised to the tune of $3.6billion a year by the USA ... the others aren't. Much of those billions go on buying superKillingToys to trash Palestinians ... and it's this aspect that wrankles the EU(whatever that is), the ArabWorld (whatever that is), and all fair minded peoples (whoever they are).

What's your point mAzzA?

I'll work my way through backcopies of Time while waiting ^{http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,1101020520,00.html}
NicoleK befriended SpiderMan ;)

Great Minds Think Alike - yet differently!

Here's one for Showalter who's told us he checked back over 300 years on TheMathsProblem.

How Everything Works By Michael D. Lemonick ^{http://nasw.org/users/MichaelLemonick/}
"Stephen Wolfram says science has been broken for more than 300 years [EM] and he can fix it" ($ archived $)

Time and Tide etc ... browse on ...
^{http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/}

lchic - 07:20pm May 28, 2002 EST (#2415 of 2432)

no nukes over kashmir
^{http://www.moveon.org/nonukesoverkashmir/}

lchic - 08:47pm May 28, 2002 EST (#2416 of 2432)

Africa ~~ Democracy

lchic - 06:45am May 29, 2002 EST (#2417 of 2432)

""" proposes in essence to abolish the right of individual EU countries to run their own foreign policies ^{http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1143600}

lchic - 07:03am May 29, 2002 EST (#2418 of 2432)

Pakistan - 3rd missile ^{http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=300101}

lchic - 07:17am May 29, 2002 EST (#2419 of 2432)

Putin, likened the struggle against terrorism to the Second World War ^{http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=300096}

What people comment on re WWII was that at the end of it the 'agressors' were given economies.

If Terrorism has parallels to WWII then the need for assistance to economies should be considered. Additionally Islam needs a modern progressive leadership to give a positive spin, and remove redundant dogma.

Note: the FBI is said to be dropping it's regular homeland activities to fight Terrorism ... but doesn't the Terrorism eminate from 'elsewhere' ...

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RS : In the seating plan, Russia is now placed alphabetically between Portugal and Spain. (article above)

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:) http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=300093

lchic - 08:38am May 29, 2002 EST (#2420 of 2432)

Pakistan Nukespaper
^{http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/29/welcome.htm
http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/28/welcome.htm
http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/27/welcome.htm
http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/26/welcome.htm
http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/25/welcome.htm}

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