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Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006?
apsmith writes "Former congressman and House Science chairman Robert S. Walker has written some rather striking conclusions about Chinese intentions in space over the next few years, based on information received for the recent Commisison on the Future of Aerospace. Walker is convinced the Chinese are going all-out for a permanent settlement on the Moon within 10 years; apparently some closer to the situation in Japan think the first landing will be in only 3-4 years. Meanwhile the Economist says IT people are starting to focus on space as the next high-tech venue. Fortunately, despite NASA's neglect, we do have a few private missions to the Moon in the works."
I knew you were on my 'friends' list for a good reason!!! Great reply to a very ignorant post.
[FromTheMorning]
Uhh... Evil Islamic terrorists woke the US up on Sept. 11. Have you forgotten already? I would prefer that the US stay alert and defend itself!
[FromTheMorning]
Evil Islamic terrorists woke the US up on Sept. 11. Have you forgotten already?
How could we. BTW have you found their evil master? Not yet? Not after bombing two nations without any provocation? Mhhhh... better start training those marines for the Siria/Iran/Saudi Arabia search.
I would prefer that the US stay alert and defend itself!
Trouble is this defensive concept of yours is starting to look much more like multiple offensive invasion.
My other OS is the MCP!
"Without provocation?" ?! Are you really that ignorant? Fuck you. I don't give a shit what this does to my Karma, you, sir, are an asshole. Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes. I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation. Troll.
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
Astonishing...
The chinese actually have a word for Fuck.
And all this time I thought it was just a slang term used to indicate copulation, derived from the word "Fekt" which in ancient germanic means "to stab at" with the contextual meaning of "To stab at with a spear".
So how bout you go hide and play "Kan" yourself. But whip me up a batch of pork fried rice first.
krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
Amen.
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Think about it: Bush wanted to get Iraq oil. In order to get into Iraq he had to make an impression that Iraq is not the only country he is for. So, they decided to begin with Afganistan and thus to preliminary brain wash americans. How to get to Afganistan? Simple - let's bomb something in our own country and let's blame Osama and others in Afganistan and let the show begin!
So, don't use Sep/11 as an argument - it has been never proved in any court, especially in the International Crime Court, which has been officially denied by USA arrogant Govt.
Less is more !
Succinct translation: "Watch Fox News."
I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation.
Please list the "acts of terrorism" toward the US proven to have been committed by Iraq.
We're painfully aware of the Bush administration's attempts to link Al Quaeda to Saddam Hussein using the "intelligence sources" that are now under so much scrutiny in light of the puffed-up WMD argument. Our intelligence also told us Saddam was in that bunker on night one: yesterday the soldiers searching on the scene admitted they could find no evidence of a bunker at the site. Alas, the Ansar al Islam group is now completely off our radar as a result of the war, having scurried across the border to hide, so we can't question them about this subject... Leaving alone the 9/11 hints Condy Rice so quickly disavowed.
Please also contrast this policy toward Iraq's violations of international law with the US policy toward Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, and South Africa over the last 50 years.
FWIW, I agree with you that "without provocation" is an overstatement. The questions for me, and a lot of other people, are whether the war was justifiable and whether it's going to accomplish what it intended to. Right now we're taking it on the chin internationally for having "spun" our pretexts for going to war when we did. I see no evidence that the Bush administration is emerging from its determined solipsism with respect to international opinion; we keep right on acting like right-wing domestic supporters are the only audience for our policies. The jury is very much out on Iraq's reconstruction and the volatility of the middle east -- they're both supposed to become peaceful and stable as a result of this war and its aftermath, but that's a damn tall order, and this was an extremely high risk policy.
Oh, excuse me, I guess all those questions are just "ignorant," so why should we expect answers? You're brave, you're strong, and Fox is the only voice you want in your ear. Never mind.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Amen to that. Wiser words were never spoken.
The UN was intended to serve the purpose the League of Nations never did: provide an infrastructure of 'cooler heads' to keep the global breakout of war from ever happening again after WWII. It is too bad that the very explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that signalled the end of that war, also made the UN itself obsolete.
The brushfire conflicts of the Cold War were intractable to the UN, and those in the post-Cold War world have also proved intractable, save with US intervention, without exception!
The 'cooler heads' missing from 1910's Europe and 1930's Europe are provided by the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads aimed across oceans at various powers. The UN as a peacemaking (or peace-keeping) force is a waste of time.
That being said, the work of WHO and other social services bodies within the UN is very worthwile and would be appropriately continued in a body which no longer had notions of being a world government.
The ultimate US withdrawal from the UN is long overdue.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
This Monday, FCC Chair Michael Powell will hold his vote on media
consolidation. There's nothing special about that date -- it's totally
arbitrary. The vote will conclude a process which has shown deliberate
disregard for the views and opinions of the American
people. Powell has refused to even release the actual language of
the rule change -- it won't be known until after the vote. And he's
only held a single meeting to hear the views of the public. Even when a
bipartisan group of Senators requested that he give Congress some time
to discuss the impact of this change, Powell brushed them off.
Chairman Powell still has the power to delay the rule change and allow
time to have a democratic debate about its consequences. Please call
him today and ask him to allow a real public debate on an issue of such
massive importance.
You can reach Powell's office at:
(202) 418-1000
Once you've made your call, please let us know at:
http://moveon.org/fcccall.html
"Moving through the masses like a fish through water." syrup
Moderators, the parent is off-topic. Please re-read the guidelines.
(yeah, and my little rant here is also off-topic to the thread -- how oh so meta-ironical)
Okay, let's hear about the acts of terrorism that constitute provocation for war on the part of Iraq. This ought to be fascinating.
P.S. The USA has far exceeded Iraq in violations of international law. Imagine Kuwait 10 years ago, except Iraq successfully takes over and occupies the country and tries to kill its leaders.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Hello !
:-) ?
I am for the arab world, whatever happend on 911 was certainly not the official story, now I'm not saying that Dubya made it happen he is simply too stupid for that, but there is something FISHY about it, click over and read:
1.Two 911 Jetliners EXCEEDED Their Software Barriers
2.The Israeli "arts" students cheering and photographing the collapse of the WTC?
3.The WTC buildings were designed to withstand a jet impact
4.9/11 Survivor Describes Multiple Explosions
ok now you read it, dont be scared, or you can just ignore it and trust your reality.
not just a rumor started in the arab world...
dont you just *WISH* that it is a only a rumor
P.S. We plan on taking the SDI lasers and using them to burn large American advertisements on the moon...
Oh, so now you are not on the WMD high horse anymore? Is the US inspectors doing anything? Or are they stuck between nothingness and bureacratic propaganda? An irony I always find amusing is project of UN from the hawks. Are you for or against UN resolutions? If you are for it, explain why US voids UN resolution and conduct military operation without UN approval. If you are against it, then stop bitching about Saddam voilating resolutions. Hint: pick one side and stick to it. The way I see it, be it Bush or Saddam, "evil" has little intention of letting others get in their way I consider the adjective evil could be apply to someone who oppose landmine ban. Are you the supporter of evil now? Damn, Saddam is such a puppet, that he's implemented when he's needed, and now he's deposed when he's done? I wonder how much time Rumsfield spent washing his hands since he shake hands with Saddam. I would be quite happy to see a change of leadership in Iraq, but I in no way would agree a country could invade a country base distaste of leadership. Simply put, there is little moral highground(the only one I could think of is "we want to clean up our own mess"), no holy reason in this conflict. And since the conflict(there is still no formal declaration of war) is over, I guess we all have no choice but to seat and wait. However, should things go wrong, the Iraqis could care less your vote, and you couldn't carry any of their pain either. Isn't it nice to exercise your "responsibility" to determine other's fate? Mind you it's not a game where you can start over if things are screwed up.