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That's naive. The real reasons for war are usually something obscene. In Middle East for istance the goal is to dismember Iraq and Syria into smaller states by fomenting internal ethnical and religious conflicts, while Lebanon is supposed to be turned into a Christian state. All this because Israel doesn't like strong neighbours. The US accepted also for other trivial reasons. The only thing to say it is that Iraq quagmire was expected, as it was expected in Vietnam and before that in Japan; it never was a surprise, rather it was an intentional goal. Another important fact is that no weapons are required to kill lot of people. Look at Switzerland. It is neutral, but with Nestlè, Novartis and its banks it has killed thousands around the world. There are books that describe how economic strangling is done. "We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens." Emma Goldman (1869-1940) FV

Macross II to me was not only a reharsh but also bland. I was disgusted by it in the same way of Rahxephon, which is a bland reharsh of a bland anime. I think Macross 7 TRASH started good but then it got lost. The main problem of M7T is that its story is based on a fictitious sport whose rules are sillier than that of Quidditch. Fortunately Harry Potter had more than a sport designed around the protagonist, the same doesn't exactly applies to M7T. I think it will be interesting to try to draw a psychological profile of the guy who hates Macross 7. Has it to do with nationality, with politic or sexual orientations? I think that the attitude of an American may be different from that of an European, since US never stopped waging wars, so the use of propaganda never stopped even after WWII (that is to say war propaganda stopped, while the invasion of pop stars started). "[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 180 "[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way…" -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 183 "[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with…" -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 182 The black or white emotional attitude is created by extensive use of propaganda, it's not the expression of a rational human. It corrupts the mind and prevents from seeing how the things really are. One of the things humans most desire is to be told that they are good, and religious and political leaders historically has exploited it quite well. However, after hearing so many times they are good, they feel others are not as much as good as them, and at the end others are so bad that everything can be done to them without the good ones becoming bad themselves, for how can evil's worst enemy be bad himself? Like said in "The Carpet People", every people call themselves "the true humans" (and what about other humans?). I think that honestly in US the cultural conditions for "understanding" are, and not exactly decided by its people, poor. The US has a long story of collective psychosises. The most notorious one was the International Comunist Conspiracy. Actually, it was mirrored in Soviet Union, where government warned of a Western Powers Conspiracy to bring down Comunism. Only luck or masonry saved humanity that time. It seems there were also a South-American Drug-Traffickers Conspiracy, a Hopping Chinese Conspiracy, a Black Unrest Conspiracy, a Wedding-Wrecker Homo Conspiracy, an America Hater Conspiracy and many else. Maybe one day a state will be invaded just because its laws allow baby-killing abortion, euthanasia and marijuana smoking (well, if someone starts to make a biodiesel out of marijuana and alcohol a war is not really that unthinkable. Wars for oil are also wars for oil only). I am obviously exagerating, but given its prison population one could think US citizens are not exactly jars of love themselves. Someone in the US once acknowledged that US had most of world resources, and this inequality (at the expense of lot of people) could cause envy and rage abroad, so they created the United States Information Agency. Its goal was "to influence attitudes and opinions of foreign public in a way to support US politics... and to describe America and its objectives and American politics to peoples in other nations in a way to generate comprehension, respect and, when it could be done, identification with their own legitimate aspirations... and to demonstrate and document to the world the plans of those who threat our safety an try to destroy freedom". With Operation Mockingbird CIA substituted press so that key foreign countries received favourable image of US. A giant operation of PR for what is in fact a giant corporation. Actually, this was useful to plant fake stories even inside the US (yes, despite the laws). A lot of cultural products was exported. Books, movies and music of every genre. Even stars were often sent abroad. Shirley Temple offered an image of grace and innocence, she was sent in African countries. It seems Italy was easily overcome by USIA and American stars. Italians, "a people with strong intellectual limits" (so it's written), never suspected to be manipulated. (well, that's harsh. We were a second homeland for Japanese anime, it's not that hard to culturally invade Italians. The Italians themselves were invaded several times by all kinds of people: Greeks, Gauls, Barbars, Turks, Vikings, Austrians... we were a mixed race from the beginning. I must admit stupid TV shows have done a lot of damage to Italians, but so did DeNiro and his roles of mafia man, ex-mafia man or pseudo-mafia man) So, real world and Macross 7 can teach you the same lesson. Brainwash! Brainwash! Brainwash! (From the country that researched a "dirty gay bomb" I wouldn't expect so much bias against Macross 7) My experience tell me that there isn't any better solution than the Truth itself. This comes from the understanding of the secrets rules of war, like: In a war wins who kill the most, yet after the war only the loser has done a massacre. (British Ministery of Propaganda invented a lot of atrocity stories done by Germans during WWI, like the human soap. American intellectuals were naive and swallow them. In WWII it was human soap again: the essence of propaganda is plagiarism) Grant power to a man to do something and he will keep the power and cut himself some slack. (if he really did what he was supposed to, he would have to give power back) Peoples will oppose war, but they can bear a quick victory or two Always present yourself as a victim of an attack ("turnspeak", supposed to be invented by Hitler) A state may work like an organism, but at the end it is just private property like many else. There are those who own it, known as bankers, those who behave like they owned it, known as leaders, and those who are supposed to do anything to prevent someone not in the first two categories (including themselves) from steal it, known as people (how money works would be a good story) When something bad happens, check what was doing your leader (I cannot stress this one enough) And such. Something which is rarely if not at all seen in anime. FV

Fear of escalation should be (but I am not sure it really is) an even better reason. Small states may think they have nothing to lose in using nukes to threaten other countries (especially to avoid being nuked), and bigger states may think it is time to take all the pie for themselves. 1975 Nuclear war Equipped with a nuclear arsenal containing the explosive equivalent of 615,385 Hiroshima bombs, the Ford Administration formulates plans for "limited" nuclear war. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee Defense Secretary James Schlesinger assures the august body that nuclear war would not be catastrophic, that "the psychological impact of a nuclear attack would result in some initial loss of confidence in government, " but that 'positive, adaptive behavior would prevail. " The Greatest Story Never Told by Michael K. Smith Not that the use of nukes is not actually seriously considered in real world. The world barely avoided a nuclear war in 1962, when a Soviet submarine was chased by an American cruiser. One of the captains in the submarine opposed the use of a nuclear warhead; the other two captains were for it, but the rules said that decision was to be taken only under unanimity. The captain instead ordered to emerge. The American cruiser saw them threw offboard a box on which was written "KGB: top secret", and chose to pursue the box instead of the submarine. Ironically the box contained just the books of Marx and Lenin. The real reason why nukes have been used only in Japan is that there is an old British rule of war that says "make your enemy pay your invasion". Only if an exploitation of the territory, that is an invasion, is not considered at all then a nuke may be viable, provided there is some serious propaganda behind it. I don't know if it was really Hitler who started it, but so it goes: If at the beginning of the War and during the War twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, th sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain. On the contrary: twelve thousand scoundrels eliminated in time might have saved the lives of a million real Germans, valuable for the future. Mein Kampf After Hitler others started talking about prehemptive strikes to save lots and lots of lives. I still think there must have been someone before Hitler talking like that. Things never really change in this world. The bombing of Japan was simply meant to scare Russians though. Germany was the territory to be exploited. There was a propaganda project, I believe it was called "atom for peace". It was meant to be the trojan horse for nuclear weapons by providing what should have been useful civilians employment of nuclear materials. It seem that it was in that time that medicians started using radiology to cure cancer. It still doesn't work (radiations kill all cells without distinctions), but that doesn't mean anything. Nuclear plants are still built without a real solution for the disposing of nuclear waste. Enrichment of nuclear material was what was really behind. Now the problem is that there is so much of deleted uranium around it must be turned into something usefull, too. Even fluoride came out from project Manhattan. Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, and in many other things. Fluoride is actually a toxin used even in Nazi prison camps because it makes people stupid and docile. To dispose of it it was invented the lie that in small doses it was good for the teeth (well, maybe that was done not only to dispose of it). So much for the Manhattan project. Standard Oil has an even worst record though. Back to Macross, Macross main cannon was powerful, but less than 2050 era's nukes. Beside this a Macross cannon is not a technology everyone has, and also it can't fire continously. A series of nukes is surely a lot cheaper to built than a Macross-class ship. The reason why nukes aren't used often in Macross may leave rooms for further development. Since Zentradi were already nuked once, would some Earthians go as far as to promote the annihilation of a colony because there are Zentradi or half-Zentradi in it and they are still presented evil aliens ("and they breed like rabbits...")? But in fact it is improbable because there are in Macross universe other ways to resolve conflicts, and they usually involve mecha FV

The closest thing was in Macross 7, the "PinPoint Barrier Punch!" yelled by Basara. A Super Robot show does bear its traditions you can't get away with. At the end the best authors can do is justify them inside the story. Why the boy pilots for the first time his robot in battle without having never seen it before, for istance. Common even in Real Robot anime. Make no illusions, Aquarion is a Super Robot anime. Personally, I am proud there is a psycotherapist character in the cast. I mean, in Evangelion there were only characters with no specifical education in this department making statements in their free time. Aquarion at least has a pro. It could be the envy of other anime fans. FV

He merged robots with planes, which were a passion of his. That made me think of what could be a modern gimmick: a huge robot that turns into a... loli girl! Kinda like Ryoohki in Tenchi, which is a spaceship that turns into a rabbit, we have this mecha which transforms into a small girl, and maybe we should put in this anime more than a mechagirl. A harem mecha anime (a new genre: haremecha or mecharem?). No, I am just kidding FV

In Macross Zero there is a tao-like metaphor. The sky and the sea (wind and water, "feng shui") represent male and female principles. The love-letter spears were made imagining mixing the sea and the sky, becoming kind of a sexual metaphor. Flying fishes and swimming birds are, in their way, the yin in the yang and the yang in the yin, but especially they are a metaphor of love between a man and a woman longing for each other yet at the end being two worlds apart. In the second episode Kate instructed Shin to feel his opponent's heart, and at the end Aries talked about love. Love was one of the main theme of Macross Zero. I think tying flying fishes and swimming birds to Valkyries is over-thinking It appears only in episode 13. The ruler of Freid may not be always be considered a "duke". In Italian AFAIK he was considered a prince. FV

Actually, I am beginning to love them. Well, the Solar still looks strange (even if it has its style), but the Lunar and the Mars are quite good even though I would have liked more blending to cover gattai gimmicks. Beside this, the music in the trailer sounds awesome. FV

While the mecha was better it was a lot harder to make a good toy out of it than Gundam, and thus more expensive. Despite all things popularity mean, this is the real bottle neck of Macross. FV

Duke Freid's guymelef. Here's an image. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think it really deserves a watch. The myth of Arjuna comes from Bhagavad Gita. Prince Arjuna, an exceptionaly skilled archer, had to fight a battle where on either sides there were his relatives, teachers, and friends. He asked his charioteer Krishna for advice. In Earth Girl Arjuna Kawamori loosely adapted as a theme: “The concept of fighting against one’s friends can be applied to technology as well. I’m not against technology, it is definitely our friend, but I think there could be dangerous aspects to technology. Knowing that, I think people should find the right way to use technology, the right balance between technology and nature. But the environmental aspects of Arjuna aren’t the main aspect of the story, they’re just a motif.” Earth Girl Arjuna has many cues on today's society. Arjuna's agriculture teachings were taken from Masanobu Fukuoka, for istance. The only thing Kawamori didn't know is that hemp can replace oil The series would have had a more positive feeling if Kawamori knew it FV

I still think it is a foolish idea. The "chapter" Kawamori is living in is not finished. First of all, you don't have identified what is fascinating Kawamori: Hindu culture. Look at this Gabil. It began with Hindu-inspired designs. There was one of them in Escaflowne too (the Chafaris), even if that may have been a chance. Arjuna was a step further in implementing even Hindu philosophy. The name Arjuna itself was derived from a Hindu myth. Macross Zero involved some themes already presented in Arjuna (one of them many skip is how words are not the thing they mean), but it was not Hindu. It was reminiscent of Polynesian culture (although the Rapa Nui's birdman is totally different from Macross Zero's birdman). Aquarion is Hindu and many else, but there isn't yet a Hindu Macross. FV

Very likely, although I am fairly sure there won't be any characters of Macross Zero in it (this doesn't exclude characters from other Macross series). The only thing is that for this new Macross series Kawamori will be avalaible only some 5 years from now. They don't exactly lost it. Some of it will be simply bought or traded from the UN. Corporate world has its own rules: "enemy" can mean even "customer", as in "win-win competition". It may sound weird but if you really know history you see it happened a lot. Also banks have a role in this, but it's another story. We Italians have something like that. It is called "Villa Certosa". Built without any reguard for urbanistic plans, it is not accessible even by magistrates since it was invoked the secret of state on its construction. Rumored to have a dock for submarines. It is owned by our Prime Minister Berlusconi. No aliens whatsoever, in fact, but likely to have hosted mafia men. So banal I envy US alien stories (despite I think most of them are planted by Operation Mockingbird). FV

Because war is a racket and defense contractors always need to be fed. Taxpayers' money pays for research&development of new technology promptly exploited by private corporations. Incidentally, those who profit from war are always in the back row of the government, although only their spokeperson ends up in history text books, leaving only a display of propaganda used at the time that matches with what Benedetto Croce called Phantasie Politik, as opposed to Real Politik which is why a state really wages war. But this is anime, situation is a bit different yet money must still circulate to feed economy by selling new toys out of an old franchise. FV

By the way, I think you should see the Boonga Boonga. FV

There are line-arts of the transformation of theVF-17 in the model section of MW. FV

I think Kawamori wanted to leave open a room for further add-ons. If he ever included again a YF-19 in one of his new Macross, he would have turned these chest tubes into other sensed and unexpected things, like a kind of beam sabers. It can't leave my mind the idea that he simply thought they looked cool, though. Btw, the SV-51 has similar holes in the side of the chest, but the Compendium doesn't mention any chest cannons either. Maybe it is simply a mecha fashion (I suddenly had the vision of a white shirt with regult beam guns over the nipples). FV

Here's my take. I used a reference picture.

I am Italian. The Lybians once held a Day of Hate against the Italians. Most Italians didn't know it, though, nor they would understand why there was such day, because we are "Italians, good people". You know, we were taught at school that Mussolini chose autarchy because he wished Italy had a strong economics. The last year browsing internet I just discovered there was an embargo going on against Italy by the League of Nations. It was for our treatment to Ethiopics. You know, deportations, force labor, gas bombing, the usual Nazi things. We were worst than others in the colonial game. There is no such thing as unjustified hatred, there is only biased nationalistic history and news. That's why for Gandhi war wasn't supposed to be fought by love, but by truth. It would be good to reason out if they hate you because you wage a war against them or you wage a war against them because they hate you. You know, Japanese were thought to be shortsighted during WWII. Why the secret service created that misconception? In this world when someone often talks about "liberty" or "freedom" it just means he is a freemason. Italian Prime Minister has a coalition party called "House of Freedoms", on which there is written "For free Men and women who want to live free". He was enlisted in masonic lodge P2, which tried to "democratically" take over Italy. P2 was called "a state within the state" because it had men in key positions of the government, of the secret service and of the police. They had a "democratic rebirth" plan which was currently actuated and is bringing Italy to ruins. Europe has a masonic flag, but I hope they will save us, although I will never accept privatizing water. Btw, AFAIK the French boycott didn't do too well. And I found that joke funny. I am not for PC. FV

Sound Force was so good it was lame in SRW D. If you know how to do it you can get +70 points in all stats for all your men in the first 7 rounds. FV

In Macross these red lights are usually infra-red sensors. Starting with Macross Plus even sensors on the nose were red. The VF-19Kai is the only exception, but it was red on its own. Just remember that the VF-1 was supposed to fight the RX-78 and win. FV

And that would be what? Realistic? Deep? Macross? I would have understood if someone said those minor characters didn't have their own story arc or their own share of development, but protesting because they didn't die at the end of the story is ridiculous, and I think that makes anime fans look bad. But so are most of anime. I never watch them for the story. I think it has to do with budget limitation and typical 20" format, and also Japanese are istinctively formulaic. I watch Kawamori for his sense of poetry and his weltanschauung. Things like the animals Kawamori chose to portray man's will to fly. Macross Zero could have been better, but I guess Kawamori was hampered by technical and time costraints. I think the original final episode was supposed to be a bit different, although that ending was chosen from the beginning. To judge Macross Zero however I think we at least should have read some guide to good scriptwriting. FV

Now even Al Qaeda makes psy-ops. Berlusconi said Bush forgot to mention Italy in the list of countries threatened by Al Qaeda and then we got our Al Qaeda cells, too, and our own terrorism alert. Then I saw those men were released. The judge didn't mistake a McDonald pamphlet as a map useful for terroristic attacks, and neither a beltbag as a kamikaze belt. Police actually found explosive, but in fact the door of their house was violated days before. It intervened even an Italian secret service agent to discharge them (the same agent who asked those men if they liked to do some work for secret service). Then there is the fact that we know Italians are located at Nassiryah, but there is no mentioning of Nassiryah oilfields ever in TV. We were just told our soldiers helped putting Saddam's nuclear plant back in action, and so in Nassiryah people had electricity. We are always told our men got a distinctive Italian style, but not much else. Then there was internal opposition to war, and in Iraq four Italians got kidnapped. They were not regular force in Italian army, they were contractors. One of them got killed. The government said no to terrorism and we remained in Iraq. The other hostage were freed, although our government said there wasn't any ransom, we just snickered in a raid at night using even helicopters. Quattrocchi's corpse came home before that, though. The DNA analysis confirm his identity, but some newspaper told additional informations: 1) the corpse was a skeleton lacking even some bones. There wasn't supposed to be enough time for a body to decompose 2) Doctors couldn't find out the cause of Quattrocchi's death (well, theorically he was shot in the head and in the chest, but the skeleton lacked part of the head and the ribs), they say they wanted to saw Quattrocchi's video were he was killed 3) that video is still in Qatar, and when politicians wanted to saw it they were told this would waste funds dedicated to war on terrorism. In TV we saw Quattrocchi saying "I'll show you how an Italian dies", and then someone shot him but the rest of the video was judged too gory by Al Jazeera (which by the way now is owned by Murdoch), so it wasn't shown. We officially received an edited video, although theorically some of our ministers saw the full video in Qatar. Well, maybe I should make clear that our prime minister owns 90% of Italian media and has affiliations with eversive masonic lodges and mafia (which is only one of the four types of organized criminality in Italy, at least if you don't count Vatican in), so I don't think of him as a honest and unbiased man. We just want to remain in Iraq because we got ten year of oil in Nassiryah, that I can understand. Is there an Operation Phoenix in Iraq like in Vietnam? That I can understand. It's this doll psy-op that suddenly makes things look a little off the scale. Is war propaganda degenerated that much? Are people becoming so aware that each war has always had its conspiracy theory behind (and FOIA documents may assert they weren't theory at all) and its public opposition? Is there any real need to ridicolize conspiracy theoring so much? FV

I had a small picture of the armored VF-11 taken from VF-X2. The only thing is that your image is obviously switched. The gunpod should be in the right hand. FV

It should be "prana", not purana. It's the Hindu equivalent of Polynesian Mana or Chinese Chi (in Japanese it's called Ki or Reiki). Kawamori got a lot of Hindu inspiration. Have you seen this Gabil? This is true, but even Macross Zero was something of that kind. For istance Nora's V-51 has the colours of Macross 7's Elgerzorene, and even the SV-51 Battroid was based on the design of the Elgerzorene. I expect the last monster of Aquarion to be huge Actually, that was not the sense of Arjuna. The pole shift is a recurring Japanese idea (because they fear earthquakes) that legends connected to Atlantis. In Arjuna the Human race is Nature. This is a subtle difference from most of other works like those of Miyazaki. Dangaioh, although he was only the mecha designer. I doubt he will "release" He will keep inserting them in every work, trying to do everytime a better anime. The characters seem to be called "deava". "Deva" means "god" in Hindu. There are Hindu references in almost all his works since Macross 7. FV

Missile defense is doomed to become a joke for it unfeasibility. Take for istance the Patriot missile: A great cover up by governments and Raytheon has surrounded the accuracy of their missiles, it was claimed that the Patriot, Tomahawk and JSOW were highly successful in the Gulf war and numerous pictures of missiles going down chimneys were shown. Initially the US army said the Patriot achieved an 80% success rate in Saudi Arabia and 50% in Israel. This was later reduced to 70% and 40% respectively. However a 10-month investigation in 1992 by the US House of Representatives Government Operations Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security concluded that there was little evidence to prove that the Patriot hit more than a few of the scud missiles launched. Another 1992 investigation by the General Accounting Office found that only 9% of Patriot-Scud engagements could be proved to end in a 'kill'. Except in those 9% of cases the army could only prove that the Patriots came close to the scuds, not that they destroyed them. Both reports stated that the Patriot chasing Scud television pictures were misleading as most were only damaging scuds or pushing them off course. In Israel/Palestine the amount of damage and number of casualties increased after the Patriots were deployed there. If you search further, however, you will also find out that the missile were doomed to be shoddy because so were the the resistors of Philips Electronics: Philips Electronics North America Corporation will pay the United States $65.3 million to settle claims Philips sold improperly tested capacitors and resistors to the government for a number of military and aerospace programs, the Department of Justice announced today. [...] Resistors and capacitors are key electronic components in a number of military and aerospace systems, including aircraft, missiles, satellites and radar systems. The Department said the government was not aware of any field failures of such systems attributed to Philips's resistors and capacitors. [...] Philips admitted that "in a significant number of instances" its Florida facility falsified test reports for capacitors and failed to report when the capacitors failed tests. Philips also admitted that certain assembly and testing processes that were required to be performed in its Florida facility actually were performed in a factory in the Dominican Republic. [...] Philips also admitted that its Texas facility sold resistors that were tested improperly, falsified some resistor test results and failed to report resistor test failures. Last June, Philips pleaded guilty to 18 criminal counts in connection with these claims and paid the government $9 million in criminal fines. Those fines are not included in today's $65.3 million civil settlement. (By the way, the CEO of PE, Jan Timmer, was nicknamed "Hurricane" after firing 45,000 workers during his first 18 months as CEO) It doesn't stop there. Teledyne, Inc. failed to accurately test the A4 front end module of the IFF; failed to perform the "burn-in" of units as required by the contract; manipulated the testing and calibration of the units to achieve acceptable results; and permitted employees waiting for work assignments to charge their idle time to the government. Also, Teledyne was contracted to repair military aircraft engine parts and to maintain inventories of parts to be used on military planes. According to the relator, Teledyne did not maintain accurate inventory levels and concealed the shortages through a number of schemes which included destroying records. In addition, the relator claims that Teledyne used some of the parts owned by the government to repair commercial aircraft and sold other government parts to commercial entities. General Electric Company agreed to pay the Government $7.18 million to settle a Qui Tam suit filed by Ian Johnson, an electrical engineer at the company's Evendale, Ohio aircraft engine plant. General Electric was accused of failing to satisfy electrical bonding requirements in its contracts, thereby creating a safety risk in the engines of commercial planes and military aircraft such as the F-16 fighter and B-1B bombers of not having undergone proper testing for resistance to electrical interference. Although the Air Force and FAA found no safety problems, the company would still have been liable under the False Claims Act. Hughes Aircraft Co. Inc. failed to perform tests on components used in military electronic equipment and paid $4,050,000. Lucas Industries, a British corporation and two U.S. subsidiaries (LWI) paid the Government $88,000,000 to settle a Qui Tam suit brought by Frederick Copeland, a machinist who formerly worked for the company. Copeland accused LWI of falsifying gear charts for a key component of the Navy's F/A18 Hornet and major defects in gearboxes for the Army's Multiple Launch rocket system. One of the subsidiaries, Lucas Western, pleaded guilty to 37 counts of making false certifications to the Department of Defense that gearboxes for Navy fighter jets and Army rocket launchers had been fully inspected in accordance with contractual requirements when they had not. The investigators had suggested that the gearboxes supplied by Lucas were responsible for aborted missions, system failures and engine fires. A criminal fine of $18.5 million was paid by Lucas Western, and Lucas Industries was barred from receiving new Government contracts. Beside this there is even lobbism. There won't be a working missile defense for a simple reason: profit margin. One just has to accept reality that things won't never work they way they told you. On the other hand though all this research and development on missile defense will be paid by taxpayers and then a new technology will be avalaible for free for the private to gain profit, the same way as space tourism started as a Nasa project. "You have a survivability of command and control, survivability of industrial potential, protection of a percentage of your citizens, and you have a capability that inflicts more damage on the opposition than it can inflict on you. " Vice-President George Bush, on how to win a nuclear war This is the real missile defense. Make no illusions, they can't protect everyone. As for the Japanese, I heard they have even a pill that prevent their crapping from smell. They think sweat is obscene, so at the end they have the problem that they have a low birth rate. I think this cell phone technology is useless if used that way, but maybe would be great for something else. FV

In fact, Itano Ichiro animated even those Daicon films. FV