Re: The Ice Age Cometh

As I read the article it is broadly consistent with information available at the Science Museum in London about the Gulf Stream being dependent on a cold deep counter-current flowing southwards. (Although I am a bit uneasy about the idea of it joining the Pacific around the bottom of Africa (!) )

Strait-Talk

Title: Strait-Talk Several months ago I circulated a note to some people regarding a friend of mine, John Locke, who was working on completing his master’s project that involved making a documentary that examines the bias of perceptions (exacerbated by the media, academics, governments etc.) be

Amartya Sen: save the spotted owl

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n03/sen_01_.html LRB | Vol. 26 No. 3 dated 5 February 2004 | Amartya Sen Why We Should Preserve the Spotted Owl Amartya Sen

The insanity defense

Today's NY Times reports on a controversial death penalty case in Texas: NY Times, February 4, 2004 Insanity Issue Lingers as Texas Execution Is Set By RALPH BLUMENTHAL In one of the more extraordinary cases in the nation's leading death penalty state, a murder defendant with a long history of men

Eugene Coyle on KPFA

Wed 2.04.04| The Perils of Deregulation The California energy crisis, which jacked up electricity prices and produced rolling blackouts, was blamed at the time on restrictive environmental standards and other red herrings. Resource economist Eugene Coyle argues that deregulation was the root cause

The morality of American imperialism starts at home: the politics of lock-up terrortory

Writing in the LA Times on February 3, 2004, Robert Scheer said: "The central sickness of human history is the notion that the ends justify the means, and it has disastrously gripped political movements from left to right and from the secular to the religious. It is axiomatic that immoral means wil

disabilty

I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers in the US.  I seem to remember one from the NYT arguing that this was a from of disguised unemployment.  Any help appreciated.   Michael Yates

Re: disabilty

I have long been concerned about the amount of time that it takes for the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) to process claims. During the 106th and 107th Congresses, I supported legislation to decrease the amount of time that it takes the VBA to process claims. In 1999, there were 309,0

Theory of the leisure class: Dutch pornstar politics

While I was sitting in a courtroom yesterday waiting for my case to come up, I heard the judge talking to a presumably unemployed woman. She felt that she was unjustifiably overcharged by the electricity corporation for power bills, and she would go broke if she did not pay the bills, but she would

Boeing redux

[too funny] Rumsfeld Sees "Wrongdoing" in Boeing Tanker Talks By Jim Wolf Reuters Wednesday, February 4, 2004; 3:56 PM Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday that U.S. Air Force efforts to acquire Boeing Co. 767 aircraft as refueling tankers appeared to have been tainted by "wr

Re: The Ice Age Cometh

For some good information on the abrupt climate change theory I recomment the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's website: http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/ct_abruptclimate.htm . Peter Hollings -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ch

Prison statistics and empirical ethics

Actually, the most recent figures suggest more than 9 million people (about 0.14% of the world population) are held in corrective institutions throughout the world, mostly as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted or sentenced. In the last five years, the prison population

Fw: [corp-focus] The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman 2003 was not a year of garden variety corporate wrongdoing. No, the sheer variety, reach and intricacy of corporate schemes, scandal and crimes was spellbinding. Not an easy year to pick the 10 worst companies, for sure. Bu

Re: disabilty

Michael: You want "Laid-Off Workers Swelling the Cost of Disability Pay," written by Louis Uchitelle, and published on the first page of  The New York Times on September 1, 2002. Joel Blau MICHAEL YATES wrote: I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers

Re: disabilty

Michael: You want "Laid-Off Workers Swelling the Cost of Disability Pay," written by Louis Uchitelle, and published on the first page of  The New York Times on September 1, 2002. Joel Blau MICHAEL YATES wrote: I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers

letter to Kucinich

Title: letter to Kucinich I faxed this letter to Dennis Kucinich today at (216) 251-5974 and sent it by snail mail as well. I doubt it'll do any good, but it did help ease my feeling like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, to borrow from Tom Lehrer. Dan - Februar

Japan: forex

http://www.feer.com Japan can live with a weaker dollar but it has a vested interest in keeping U.S. interest rates low By Tom Holland/HONG KONG Issue cover-dated February 12, 2004 FINANCE MINISTERS and central-bank bosses from the Group of Seven, the world's leading industrialized countries, mee

Re: Prison statistics and empirical ethics

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: All the same, the number of prisoners in the US just keeps rising. All you can really conclude is that Americans love to meet out punishment, even although behavioural and criminological research shows that punishment is a strategy that is less likely to cause behavioural c

Re: Japan: Forex

Eubulides posted from FEER: "Japan can live with a weaker dollar but it has a vested interest in keeping U.S. interest rates low" Oh my, the apprehensive, nee cowardly, Euro-bourgeoisie. I'm sure the U.S. hegemon is quaking in its boots. First, eager, more than eager, to help Anglo-American death