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  • A Leaner, Looser 'Star Wars' System

    06/05/2007 5:23:03 AM PDT · by RDTF · 3 replies · 257+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | June 5, 2007 | Peter Grier
    The missile-defense plans of today's Pentagon are far less ambitious than those envisioned by the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative. Out, is the concept of an impenetrable domed shield for the US. In, is possible limited security against an accidental launch or rogue power such as North Korea. Yet 30 years after "Star Wars" roiled world geopolitics, US missile defense remains a contentious issue, both in Washington and abroad. Support for missile defense in Congress remains mixed. Meanwhile, Russia continues to hammer at Bush administration plans to deploy missile-defense elements in Europe with rhetoric that harks back to US-Soviet cold war...
  • House Panel Considers Cuts for Missile Defense (Democrats cut funds for base in Poland)

    05/09/2007 11:02:40 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 2 replies · 530+ views
    The New York Times (excerpt) ^ | May 9, 2007 | Thom Shanker
    Excerpt - WASHINGTON, May 9 — The Bush administration’s proposal to construct two American missile defense bases in Europe has roiled relations with Russia and provoked sharp questioning even in NATO capitals, where critics ask: With the system still unproven and, under the best of circumstances, years from completion, why rush construction now? Now the Democratic majority in Congress is moving toward budget cuts aimed at slowing the administration’s plans to break ground this year on one of the bases, in Poland. Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, a California Democrat who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said...
  • Airborne Laser Completes Successful In-Flight First Firing of Laser Tracking System

    03/16/2007 5:20:58 PM PDT · by RDTF · 9 replies · 768+ views
    mda.mil ^ | March 16, 2007 | MDA
    Lt. General Henry A. “Trey” Obering, Missile Defense Agency director, announced today the successful completion March 15, 2007 of the first in-flight test of the laser targeting system for the Airborne Laser (ABL), a boost-phase missile defense system that is designed to use directed energy to destroy a ballistic missile in the “boost” phase of flight. This important milestone involved multiple firings of the Tracking Illuminator Laser (TILL), mounted inside of the world’s most heavily modified Boeing 747-400 aircraft, to engage a missile-shaped target painted on the side of a KC-135 aircraft nicknamed “Big Crow,” and used as an aerial...
  • Jerry Lewis Telethon Raises Record $61M

    09/04/2006 8:18:31 PM PDT · by freedom44 · 19 replies · 1,033+ views
    Comcast ^ | 9/4/06 | Comcast
    LAS VEGAS - Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day telethon raised a record $61 million to fight muscular dystrophy, bolstered by a huge donation from a group of firefighters and the lack of a major hurricane before the show. "We did good," said Lewis, 80, looking choked up as the final figure, $61,013,855, flashed across the tote board Monday. "I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart for so many little people that can't thank you, can't show their appreciation in any way." Leading the contributors was the International Association of Fire Fighters, which donated a record $23.5...
  • Jerry Lewis scorns activist critics as he prepares for annual telethon

    09/03/2006 5:59:00 AM PDT · by Millee · 12 replies · 535+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 9/3/06 | E.A. Torriero
    For 40 years, comedian Jerry Lewis and his muscular dystrophy telethon have been as much a part of Labor Day weekend as the start of school and the symbolic end of summer. Now 80, and swallowing 25 pills a day for his sagging health, Lewis is approaching his curtain calls dogged by disabled activists who contend the show is designed to evoke pity rather than empower the disabled. Led by a former muscular dystrophy poster boy from Chicago, the activists scored what they call their "big triumph" last November as wheelchair-bound protesters ambushed Lewis in an appearance at the Harold...
  • Correction: Jerry Lewis is Hosting MDA Telethon Tonight

    09/03/2006 12:14:18 PM PDT · by My Favorite Headache · 73 replies · 2,856+ views
    AP | 9-3-06 | my favorite headache
    Saw this just breaking...Jerry Lewis will not host the annual MDA telethon for the first time ever due to a sudden illness...Ed McMahon will take his place as full time host this year. Lewis has battled a number of illnesses over the last 12 years but always managed to host the 21.5 hour show...even on oxygen. A taped opening filmed on August 31st on the Vegas strip with him stopping traffic with an orchestra at 2 am will still be shown but Lewis is too ill to do the show live.
  • Jerry Lewis Telethon Vanity (help)

    09/03/2006 9:09:09 PM PDT · by ReaganandDubyaForever · 5 replies · 1,022+ views
    Does anyone know where I can watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon online?
  • Barking Man Dies in LaPlace (La.)

    08/10/2006 5:30:51 PM PDT · by chemicalman · 14 replies · 474+ views
    L'Observateur via Dead Pelican ^ | August 9, 2006 9:31 AM | LEONARD GRAY
    LAPLACE -- A still-unidentified man was reported barking like a dog at passing cars and rolling on the ground, until he was taken to River Parishes Hospital with a high fever and died an hour later. Maj. Michael Tregre of the St. John Parish Sheriff's Office reported that the sheriff's office was notified Friday afternoon of the strange, dog-like behavior of the man, who appeared to be in his mid-20s. A deputy who arrived at the scene on La. Highway 628 found him lying in the roadside, breathing heavily but otherwise not responding. An ambulance took the man to River...
  • Common Sense Of Missile Defense Continues To Elude Policymakers

    08/01/2006 6:22:46 AM PDT · by Paul Ross · 3 replies · 840+ views
    Investors Business Daily ^ | Juy 21, 2006 | Brian T. Kennedy
    On the Fourth of July, North Korea's Kim Jong Il tested a series of ballistic missiles. Two days later, when questioned about the test, President Bush acknowledged that America's missile defenses were "modest and new." That they are new is understandable, since only in the last year has America begun to field missile defenses. The modest part, however, is of greater concern, since they are likely to remain modest by design throughout the administration's tenure.
  • Experts debate space-based BMD assets [Coyle Takes Aim At Brilliant Pebbles]

    08/01/2006 6:17:15 AM PDT · by Paul Ross · 16 replies · 1,022+ views
    United Press International ^ | July 21, 2006 | Jessica Taylor
    Experts debate space-based BMD assets [More Usual Suspects] By JESSICA TAYLOR UPI, July 25, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- A new report claims U.S. anti-ballistic missile defenses must be deployed in space to be effective, but critics disagree. Several analysts say the study is based on false pretenses and the deployment of defense mechanisms into space is not in national security interests. The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, a Washington think tank, has issued a study saying the implementation of plans for space missile defense is critical for U.S. national security and an effective system against at least some...
  • Muscular dystrophy reversal clue

    07/30/2006 6:09:18 PM PDT · by wjersey · 3 replies · 218+ views
    BBC ^ | 7/30/2006 | Staff
    US scientists have found a way to reverse muscular dystrophy (MD) in mice, offering hope of a cure for humans with muscle-wasting diseases. The animals in the Nature Genetics study had myotonic dystrophy - the most common form of MD in adults. The therapy targets a particular kind of toxic molecule to "silence" its presence in the diseased muscle. The University of Virginia team showed the treatment fully restored heart and skeletal muscle function in mice. In myotonic dystrophy, like the other types of MD, faulty DNA is to blame for the abnormalities that occur. Weakness Myotonic dystrophy occurs because...
  • Defanging Hezbollah: A Directed Energy Defense Could Help

    07/22/2006 3:07:27 AM PDT · by Paul Ross · 49 replies · 2,755+ views
    The Heritage Foundation ^ | July 20, 2006 | James Jay Carafano
    Defanging Hezbollah: A Directed Energy Defense Could Help by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., and David D. Gentilli WebMemo #1169 July 20, 2006 | Hezbollah’s Katyusha rocket attacks have killed and wounded dozens of Israelis, destroyed property, and sent thousands to bomb shelters. They threaten to plunge the entire region into conflict. There is a way to shoot these missiles out of the sky, limiting the danger to innocents and mitigating the serious threat of one of the region’s most dangerous terrorist groups. The U.S. Army and Israeli Defense Ministry have a joint program that has developed a high-energy laser that...
  • Six Scuds and a Dud - Why Should We Care?

    07/21/2006 9:27:38 AM PDT · by Paul Ross · 24 replies · 1,730+ views
    High Frontier ^ | July 14, 2006 | Henry F. Cooper
    High Frontier Strategic Issues Policy Brief July 14, 2006 “Six Scuds and a Dud” – Why should we care? By Henry F. Cooper 1 (Stanton Coalition Presentation) On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume referred to North Korea’s intrusion on our July 4 celebration with their launch of “Six Scuds and a Dud,” and implied this was not a particularly significant event. I beg to differ. The Dud Problem First, the “dud,” their failed test of a Taepodong-2, involved a three stage rocket presumably intended to deliver a modern nuclear weapon to Hawaii, Alaska or the Northwestern continental United States. And...
  • Independent Working Group Report on Missile Defense, Space Relationship, & the 21st Century

    07/19/2006 12:11:16 PM PDT · by Paul Ross · 45 replies · 1,646+ views
    [An 8 megabyte PDF download at the link.]Summary OverviewThis report provides an assessment of missile defense requirements beyond the limited ground-based system currently being deployed, together with opportunities to benefit from existing and new technological opportunities. More specifically, it is intended to provide a greater understanding of proven technology options that should form the basis for deployment of an innovative missile defense that draws upon the legacy of technologies developed during the Strategic Defense Initiative program of the Reagan administration and the first Bush administration. The Report provides the necessary vision to exploit existing and future technologies, with space as...
  • Missile Defense Element Successfully Flight Tested

    07/12/2006 2:21:22 PM PDT · by RDTF · 21 replies · 599+ views
    Defense link ^ | July 12, 2006 | Steven Donald Smith
    WASHINGTON, July 12, 2006 – The Missile Defense Agency successfully completed a developmental flight test of a major element of its ballistic missile defense system today at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., agency officials said. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system mobile-launcher is an element of the Missile Defense Agency's ballistic missile defense system, which is designed to shoot down enemy missiles. Courtesy photo Initial indications show that the test achieved what it set out to do: test parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to ensure they work together, officials said. The THAAD components include truck-mounted...
  • Boeing-led Team Fires Surrogate Lasers from Airborne Laser Aircraft

    06/26/2006 2:03:46 PM PDT · by Righty_McRight · 17 replies · 994+ views
    Boeing ^ | June 26, 2006
    ST. LOUIS, June 26, 2006 -- A Boeing-led [NYSE: BA] industry team and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) took a major step toward demonstrating the capability of the Airborne Laser (ABL) by successfully firing surrogate lasers from inside the aircraft. During recent ground tests at Boeing facilities in Wichita, Kan., the team placed the lasers in the ABL aircraft, a modified Boeing 747-400F, and fired them repeatedly into a measuring device called a range simulator. The tests verified that the ABL team properly aligned the optical beam train, a series of optical components, steering and deformable mirrors, and sensors...
  • Is the ICRC finally escaping racist Arab Muslim Goliath "lobby" oil Mafia?

    06/19/2006 11:54:56 AM PDT · by PRePublic · 181+ views
    Ha'aretz Israel is set to join the Red Cross after nearly six decadesHa'aretz, Israel - 2 hours agoIsrael is set to join the Red Cross movement after nearly six decades of exclusion, despite attempts by Muslim countries to derail a complex diplomatic ... Cross and crescent gone, 'red crystal' in OhmyNews InternationalAntigua represented at International Red Cross meeting AntiguaSun'Historic' Red Cross vote on MDA to be held Thursday Jerusalem Post Has there been one other nation on earth that was excluded in such a blatant hateful racist manner, under prresure by global Arab Muslim 'lobby' (there are hundrteds of different...
  • Freepers needed to battle ALS

    03/30/2006 1:30:00 AM PST · by gnarledmaw · 7 replies · 439+ views
    FreeRepublic Exlcusive | Wed, 29 March 2006 | William Toebe
    How does a hairdresser meeting a comedian equal a Freeper working to assist in the battle against Lou Gehrig's Disease? Oprah made me do it.Not really, but she is part of this story. Confused? I am too, at least at the way that seemingly small events in one persons life can add up with events in anothers to become something very important. Its a strange and winding path to where I am today, let me show you the way thus far, I think you might wish to continue this journey with me... Tim Pfaffendorf was the owner of a hair...
  • Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests

    12/12/2005 4:02:19 PM PST · by Paul Ross · 30 replies · 959+ views
    Boeing ^ | December 12, 2005 | Maria McCullough
    Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests ST. LOUIS, Dec. 12, 2005 -- The Boeing-led [NYSE: BA] Airborne Laser team announced today the successful completion of a series of tests involving its high energy laser at the Systems Integration Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. During this test series, lasing duration and power were demonstrated at levels suitable for the destruction of multiple classes of ballistic missiles. This is the second of two program significant knowledge points planned for 2005. Airborne Laser's (ABL) megawatt-class Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) is designed and built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC). Lasing...
  • MDA to sign deal with Palestinian Red Crescent

    11/27/2005 8:43:52 PM PST · by SmithL · 3 replies · 342+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/27/5 | JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
    Magen David Adom chairman Dr. Noam Yifrach will on Monday sign an unprecedented agreement with his counterpart at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Geneva that is expected to lead to MDA's formal inclusion in the International Red Cross Movement and recognition of its red Star of David symbol. The red Star of David will continue to be used inside Israel, but when on international missions and for fundraising, MDA can be represented by a red star inside a red "crystal," essentially a diamond-shaped frame, or an empty red crystal when a red Star of David could jeopardize its...