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I'll see if we can, ahh, "pick some up" next time we are "near a Morganite city".
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I don't know how to copy text from another person's post, and have it show up as being copied.
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Kody
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If life's standing still and your soul's confused
Jun 2003
time: 14:35
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You can do it by using the following tags.
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Googlie
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Commanding Officer, CRYPTEIA
Apr 1999
time: 21:35
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LOL - no ropleplaying - just history
Bull (Gerald, I got the first name wrong) was the Canadian arms dealer who sold the (US developed) Big Bertha specs for a rail gun to the Iraqis a decade ago
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Originally published by CAAT (Campaign Against Arms Trading)
A Canadian scientist/businessman and his Belgian company might seem out of place in a briefing concentrating on British aspects of the arming of Iraq. Dr Gerald Bull and his Space Research Corporation (SRC) are however essential elements in the story.
Dr Bull worked on ballistic research for the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment during the 1950s; then from 1964 to 1968 he was the Canadian director of the US Army-Canadian Department of National Defence High Altitude Research Project (HARP). This sought to develop a large calibre gun as a cheap alternative to rockets for putting satellites in low earth orbit. HARP was tested in Quebec, Arizona and Barbados, but experts doubted that such guns could place delicate satellites in orbit and the project was terminated. (Jane's Defence Weekly, 24.11.90)
In 1968, Dr Bull set up his own company, the Space Research Corporation, registered in Delaware. A Brussels SRC was set up in 1972 and it became the only one in 1980 when the US, and a Canadian SRC, went bankrupt. The company, by now with subsidiaries in Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Austria, was employing about 85 people at the time Dr Bull was murdered in March 1990. SRC wound up its operations soon after Dr Bull's death. (Financial Times, 20.4.90; Guardian, 27.4.90) During its existence the company achieved notoriety twice. The first time was in 1980 when Dr Bull was sent to prison for four months in the United States for violating US laws regarding the United Nations arms embargo on South Africa. The second time was in 1989 and 1990 when there was a whole series of revelations about SRC's involvement in arming Iraq. One of the first of these concerned the LearFan factory and TDG.
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23-06-2004 05:43
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*Jumps out the window*
Third this week? Was there a market crash in MI since so many people is jumping trough windows?
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