[118476] in Cypherpunks
Japan is American's Comfort Lady
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Sep 29 12:20:10 1999
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:51:28 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909291551.RAA08024@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Sure, we'll sell you stuff for "your" spy satellites.
Dumbshits.
Japan Agrees To Buy U.S. Parts For Spy
Satellites
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Wednesday formally agreed to buy U.S. parts and
components to build its first spy satellites planned for launch in early 2003.
Japan decided to launch the four intelligence satellites following North
Korea's surprise
test-firing in August 1998 of a ballistic missile over Japanese air space.
Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura and U.S. ambassador to Japan
Thomas Foley signed
a document in Tokyo Wednesday to confirm the deal.
Japan plans to spend $1.9 billion to develop and launch four spy satellites
by the end of March
2003, but how much of this money would be used to buy parts from the United
States is
uncertain.
Japanese government sources said Tokyo could end up ''virtually importing
whole satellites''
from the United States because it was not currently capable of developing
key functions.
Japan also plans to set up a satellite information center by March 2001 to
operate the satellites
and deal with incoming data.
To alley fears among its Asian neighbors over a possible resurgence of
militarism, Japan has
said the satellites will be used only to gather information needed for
crisis management as well
as prevent smuggling and illegal immigration.
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Can the Southern US leave the north, if the UN sends
in the blue hats? Of course not, rules don't apply
to the US.
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Lucky: its not *just* that the US gives lots of reasons
for domestic retribution (biological or otherwise) these days. Its also
that the US is colonizing places that have no hope of staging a
conventional war. All's fair...
