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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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rshow55 - 05:33pm Jun 3, 2002 EST (#2456 of 2463)

We're living in a world where ideas can be tested, checked, compared, as never before - because matching, and crosschecking, are far easier than before, and illustration that permits people to look for themselves is also much more advanced than ever before.

The stakes on information are very high - in capital markets, and everywhere else where decisions have to be made based on information. Trust matters -- and, over the long run, for safety, trust has to be justified - which means that people have to be checked, and judged.

What If Investors Won't Join the Party? By GRETCHEN MORGENSON http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/business/yourmoney/02CONF.html

If investors shun stocks for a prolonged period, companies will find it much more difficult and costly to raise the capital they need to expand their operations.

The Big Board Is Standing Up for Independence By GRETCHEN MORGENSON http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/business/yourmoney/02WATC.html

A Collision on Risks of Energy Trading By NEELA BANERJEE http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/business/yourmoney/02WILL.html

Is the level of honor, or competence, in the military industrial complex much higher than that found among investment advisors? It would be worthwhile to check. Both our money, and our safety, depend upon it.

Everything we hold dear depends on reasonable decisions - decisions that make human sense.

Even religions have to be asked to meet human needs - and are being asked to do so . . . . .

IDEAS & TRENDS O Ye of Much Faith! A Triple Dose of Trouble http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/weekinreview/02GOOD.html By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

This is a rare moment in history, like a planetary alignment: three world religions simultaneously racked by crisis.

Basic human needs: MD667 rshow55 3/18/02 12:13pm

lchic - 04:41am Jun 4, 2002 EST (#2457 of 2463)

Le Pen France
Battle of Algiers returns to haunt Le Pen as claims of torture focus on far-right leader http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,727264,00.html ... Electrocution, beatings, rape and water tortures were all used by Mr Le Pen or his soldiers, according to his accusers, as he led a special military intelligence unit ... They have not been seen since and are just two of between 3,000 (by French estimates) and up to 40,000 people (by Algerian ones), who disappeared during the colonial war.

lchic - 05:38am Jun 4, 2002 EST (#2458 of 2463)

MASLOW

These thoughts can be applied to a person, to a job, to a Nation(?)

Essentially, Maslow presents a theory on the hierarchy of human needs. From the lowest to the highest there are five needs that, according to Maslow, all humans wish to satisfy. They are as follows:

1. Physiological: Air, water, food, shelter, sleep, activity, comfort, sex.

2. Security: Freedom from arbitrary deprivation, familiar surroundings, and freedom from danger, safety.

3. Social: Desire for relationships with others, attention, love, understanding, and a sense of belonging.

4. Ego: Self-respect, self-esteem, esteem of others, recognition, increased control over own affairs, being in on things, status, respect, independence.

5. Self-Fulfillment: Meaningful existence, being all you can be; self-actualized, creativity, truth, aliveness, and perfection.

4. Ego: Self-respect, self-esteem, esteem of others, recognition, increased control over own affairs, being in on things, status, respect, independence.

3. Social: Desire for relationships with others, attention, love, understanding, and a sense of belonging.

2. Security: Freedom from arbitrary deprivation, familiar surroundings, and freedom from danger, safety.

1. Physiological: Air, water, food, shelter, sleep, activity, comfort, sex.

http://www.genelevine.com/Papers/8.htm

lchic - 05:40am Jun 4, 2002 EST (#2459 of 2463)

Need 3. Social: Desire for relationships with others, attention, love, understanding, and a sense of belonging.

When there's a vacuum here, then mischief may happen. Perhaps this is the need that needs re-statement wrt giving peoples a 'firmer' sense of belonging.

rshow55 - 06:03am Jun 4, 2002 EST (#2460 of 2463)

For that, communication - at all sorts of levels, is vital.

Much too often, powerful ways are found to cut off individuals, and whole nations, from each other.

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