Ashcroft's terror warning05/29/2004 10:54 AM One of Ashcroft's
"credible sources" from last week's terror warning came from Abu Hafs al-Masri
Brigades, a group that has also claimed responsibility for the
blackout in the Northeast last year, the power outage in London, the
Madrid bombing and has been called "notoriously unreliable" by U.S. officials. “The
only thing they haven't claimed credit for recently is the cicada
invasion of Washington". Ashcroft blames the FBI who have
admitted that claims that terrorists were 90 percent ready to attack
came not from al-Qaida, but from the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades’
statements.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25813-2004Apr19.html track
this site | 4 links
Daily Show on Ashcroft's Contempt of Congress
Daily Show on Ashcroft's Contempt of Congress06/17/2004 02:15 AM Lisa Rein has posted some Daily Show clips from June including the
stunning segment on Ashcroft's weaselling on torture before Congress.
Watching Ashcroft spin and dodge and weave around Contempt of Congress
is astonishing -- why isn't this man in jail RIGHT NOW?
Link
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision09/06/2004 02:44 PM internment camps are appropriate for U.S. citizens .. a plan forthe
incarceration of Americancitizens .. moderates are speaking out
against Ashcroft .. commentary by Jonathan Turley .. Ashcroft wants to
.. As seen here
commondreams.org/views02/0814-05.htm track this
site | 2 links
Intelligence: Ashcroft's 'Threat' Source Not Credible
Ashcroft's Organization Breaks Law, Then Raises Money for Lawyers
Ashcroft's Organization Breaks Law, Then Raises Money for Lawyers03/08/2004 11:18 PM Washington Post: Ashcroft Funds Under Scrutiny. Attorney General John D.
Ashcroft's 1998 leadership political action committee, Spirit of
America, and his Senate reelection campaign committee, Ashcroft 2000,
raised more than $100,000 last year in order to pay a fine and legal
costs for violating campaign finance laws, according to Federal
Election Commission records and Garrett Lott, treasurer of both
committees
Ashcroft's Justice Dept. witholds list of foreign lobbyists
The consequences of cheating12/03/2003 07:23 PM That's one reason I can let it go and not Google every paper to
death," Neighbors said. "In the end, they've derailed their own
learning.". ...
Unintended consequences
Unintended consequences04/06/2005 07:20 AM You're full after a lovely La Terrine de Courgettes au Coulis de
Tomates Fraîches and a daunting but delicious Le Lapin en
Cocotte when the waiter asks if you'd like dessert. Because you're
spacing out a bit, and because he's lifting your empty plate, you
assume he's asking if you're all finished. So you say, "Oui." Next
thing you know you're ordering the tarte Tatin rather than extricate
yourself from this unforeseen predicament. Good thing for the dessert
compartment in the stomach. Perhaps French lessons are required after
all.
Ashcroft's Pre-9/11 Priorities Scrutinized; "the memo reflects the low priority that Ashcroft placed on terrorism during his first seven months in office." 4/13
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6589-2004Apr12.html track
this site | 6 links
The Unintended Consequences Of Skype
The Unintended Consequences Of Skype03/24/2005 05:19 AM It appears that the NY Times has finally discovered Skype, but their
article does make a few interesting observations concerning not just
the purpose of Skype but how it's been used in unexpected ways -- mainly
for strangers to call each about just about anything. Calls from
foreigners to Americans for the sake of English practice are
apparently quite common. There's also a story of people looking for
local info for a vacation they were planning. It's always fascinating
to see how these sorts of unintended uses become more popular -- but,
as the article notes, many are likely to go away as the service gets
more and more popular, and the spammers and scammers move in (which is
already happening). While I've been skept
ical of Skype in the past, the ease of use of the service has won
over many. It seems to have really touched a nerve for the ability to
build a community. Still, there are plenty of challenges for the
company going forward -- and busin
ess models may be the biggest.
Anonymity Online and its Consequences
Anonymity Online and its Consequences02/14/2004 09:09 PM NY Times: Amazo
n Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers. The weeklong glitch, which
Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare glimpse
at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool
to promote or pan a book — when they think no one is
watching.
This thought-provoking story is a window into an increasingly relevant
problem: how to deal with anonymous speech.
(This is also my colu
mn today in the San Jose
Mercury News.)
I still don't know whether Dan Rather and his colleagues at CBS News'
``60 Minutes'' show got snookered by a memorandum-faking con artist
when they reported on documents that raised new questions about
President Bush's National Guard duty. As a journalist I hope they
didn't, though I suspect they did.
And while doubts about the memo's authenticity were first raised on
the Internet, some of the self-congratulatory online chest-thumping is
overdone. Why? The traditional media would not have ignored the issue.
Certainly by now, big newspapers and broadcasters would have been
asking deservedly tough questions of a dismayingly recalcitrant CBS.
Yet I'm also convinced that the emergent online community known as the
``blogosphere'' -- the world of Weblogs, or blogs -- has played an
essential role in this bizarre sequence of events. The major shift,
however, is one of perception, less in what happened than its high
visibility and velocity.
More...
Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences
Shark Tank: Not the consequences he had in mind04/14/2005 01:15 PM Pilot fish's boss has had it with techs who string temporary wires
across the server room instead of running cable through the ceiling --
and he says if it happens again, there will be consequences.
Shark Tank: Unintended Consequences
Shark Tank: Unintended Consequences04/11/2005 01:44 PM Nightly update fails, but somehow no one notifies the CIO, who first
hears about it in a meeting with users. He's furious, and announces
that from now on, he must be the first to know.
Tobacco Affiliates Wonder about Consequences of Mass. Case
Truth, Consequences of Kerry's 'Liberal' Label (washingtonpost.com)
Truth, Consequences of Kerry's 'Liberal' Label (washingtonpost.com)07/19/2004 02:58 AM washingtonpost.com - In 1988, George H.W. Bush warned voters his
Democratic opponent represented the "failed liberal policies of the
past." Liberal-bashing worked wonders, carrying the elder Bush from a
12-point deficit in polls in early July to a 10-point victory over
Michael S. Dukakis on Election Day.
Hollywood's objections to digital content may have far-reaching consequences
It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for
'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for
reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty
quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the
Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the
individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served
this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.
I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the
inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects
would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The
dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to
work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent
waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching
where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy
weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a
pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These
are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test
subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even
asked me for the recipe.
Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls
This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns,
the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel
glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns,
and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the
ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are
repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap
and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through
before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns,
about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put
into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.
Dough
3 large eggs at room temperature
3/4 cup buttermilk (2 dl piima) at room temperature
4 1/4 cups (10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional
for dusting work surface
6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to
combine.
Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or
rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with
dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but
should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at
low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick
to bottom).
Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand
about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick
to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in
additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking
spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray,
then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2
hours.
Caramel Glaze
6 tablespoons or 85g unsalted butter
3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 pinch table salt
Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is
melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking
dish.
Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking
dish.
Set baking dish aside.
Cinnamon-Sugar Filling
3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 pinch table salt
1 tablespoon or 15g unsalted butter, melted
Raisins (optional)
Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break
up sugar lumps.
Set aside.
To assemble and bake buns:
Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm)
rectangle.
Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch
border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of
baking dish.
Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along
top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently
press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut
cylinder.
Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45
cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in
half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized
quarters.
Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75
cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot
until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone
(if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center
of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer,
25 to 30 minutes.
Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet,
large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto
buns; let cool while making pecan topping.
Pecan Topping
3 tablespoons or 50g unsalted butter
1/4 cup (.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
1 pinch table salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
3/4 cup (1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over
medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled
and coarsely chopped
Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan
and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to
thoroughly combine.
Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly
coated.
Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over
center of each sticky bun.
Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.
I heard Johnson
interviewed on Episode II, War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War,
Post-9/11 Era of The Whole Wide World
The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and
ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and
their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the
world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa
and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and
warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a
world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy,
freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation
building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these
things?
It was an excellent program and well worth your
listen, either by RA now or mp3 later. (From listening to the
radio)
THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE: WHAT ECO-COLLAPSE MIGHT LOOK LIKE
Several
readers have asked me to explain what I have called eco-collapse,
the cascading series of catastrophic environmental and cultural
failures that most scientists believe will start to occur unless we
radically rethink and correct our unsustainable behaviour. Unlike the
Club of Rome and the Malthus/Ehrlich population doomsayers, I'm not
going to predict that this will happen in our lifetimes (though I
think
we'll see the early symptoms), nor that a single cause or effect will
dominate the collapse. I do think, based on this
chart
of population and resource consumption, that collapse is likely to
occur by the end of this century, and that therefore the
great-grandchildren of the baby boom generation will likely bear the
brunt of it.
If you study history, and specifically the history of overcrowded
areas, you can learn the past consequences of the type of conditions
that exist
already in much of the world today, and get an idea what the elements of eco-collapse will be.
In no particular order, and not for the easily depressed, the ten
elements are:
Catastrophic Famines:
Eighty million died of starvation in Mao's China. Despite the surplus
of food that exists today, catastrophic famines remain common and are
increasing in magnitude with population. Humanitarian efforts may
alleviate the small famines of North Africa, but we're not equipped to
handle Asian famines resulting from catastrophic crop failures with
victims in nine figures, and that's what we can expect in this
century.
Epidemic Human Diseases:
We haven't found a cure for AIDS in a quarter-century of intensive
effort, and AIDS is a relatively slow-spreading disease. Plague left
half of medieval Europe dead, and smallpox has killed a billion
humans.
Epidemic diseases are nature's population balancer. Diseases like SARS
mutate rapidly, faster than we can isolate and inoculate for them. And
BSE (Mad Cow) has now ushered in a whole new family of even
harder-to-contain diseases that result from prions. As population
density increases, new parasitic diseases always emerge with
increasing
speed and ferocity. In the incessant battle against disease, nature
always bats last.
Crop Failures:
Five animals and six grains now make up the large majority of human
food intake, with fewer varietals of each being produced each year.
This creates a hugely vulnerable human food system -- vulnerable to
plant and animal diseases (like potato blight) and insect
infestations,
as well as flooding and drought. We are now drawing down the water
table below the soil, and replacing depleted soil with artificial
oil-based nutrients, so frighteningly quickly that shortages of
groundwater and oil are now even more likely to produce catastrophic
crop failures than diseases and infestations.
Cannibalism:
Watch for the re-emergence of cannibalism in the 21st century. It has
been endemic, and even legal, in China for much of its history due to
that country's dependence on fragile monoculture, and also occurred in
the former USSR in the last century. It will of course get great
press,
but its real importance is as a harbinger of cultural
collapse.
Nuclear & Biological War:
With North Korea and Iran joining Israel, India, China and Pakistan in
the club of nuclear-capable belligerants, it is sheer folly to believe
that, as conditions in these areas continue to deteriorate, nuclear
weapons won't be used. Even Dubya wants to re-start the arms race with
mini-nukes. In the unlikely case that nuclear bombs are not dropped in
this century, we can expect factions in at least 60 (and growing)
totalitarian states with rudimentary bioweapons capability to start to
deploy them. The number of possible users, agents and means of
deployment are limitless. The only question will be how many times
they
will be deployed and whether they will get completely out of
control.
Water Rationing & Desertification:
The massive freshwater needs of 6, 7, 10, 14 billion people are
rapidly
lowering water tables and depleting all available freshwater
resources.
At the same time, the Arctic ice, which contains a large proportion of
what's left, is melting at an unprecedented rate into saline seas.
Deserts are advancing at an increasing rate, especially in tropical
areas where exploding population and poor soils quickly turn lush
forests into new deserts. Desalination is an expensive and
energy-consuming process. Look for massive water rationing, and at
least one 'water war' in this century.
Economic Depression: Almost
all the anti-depression safeguards enacted in the mid-20th century
have
been done away with in the interest of 'deregulation' and in the
belief
that 'it could never happen again'. Currency, land, stock and
commodity
speculators are again buying on huge margin (no money down) at
unsustainably low interest rates, manipulating and whipsawing prices
and rates and massively inflating the value of securities and real
estate. At the same time, market deregulation and 'globalization' have
greatly increased interdependence of economies -- one big domino can
now topple them all. And trade imbalances, debts and deficits
(government, corporate and individual) are at ruinously, irresponsibly
high levels, making the entire economic system extremely vulnerable to
the twin threats of interest rate spikes and deflation. Not only can
it
happen again, recent economic policies have made another worldwide
economic depression a probability.
Catastrophic Terrorism:
Technology, combined with the staggering concentration of power and
resources, economic interdependence and our dependence on
uninterrupted
energy flows and grids, work to the terrorist's advantage. A
well-planned attack by a small group could easily produce millions in
casualties and trillions of dollars in economic losses. The
intelligence failure on 9/11 and the incompetent responses since then
have ably demonstrated the effectiveness and high likelihood of
success
of terrorist actions. There is simply no way in our complex society to
suppress information about our vulnerabilities to attack or about the
technologies that could exploit these vulnerabilities. As desperation
and nihilism (expressed very effectively by the number of 'suicide'
attacks) grow, so will the probability of catastrophic terrorism. In
fact the restraint that the millions, perhaps billions of potential
terrorists have demonstrated to date speaks to our basic humanity, our
aversion to inflicting suffering on each other. It is in no way a
reflection of how 'anti-terrorist' acts have made the world safer --
in
fact these acts have made the world immeasurably more
dangerous.
Cascading Weather Disasters:
Scientists warn that global warming brings with it extremes in climate
change: heavier and longer floods, devastating hail, severe and
recurring drought (and related fires), crippling blizzards and ice
storms. So far these increasingly extreme weather patterns have been
merely newsworthy. Soon they will start causing major casualties and
huge economic losses.
The Decline of Democracy, Constitutional
Liberalism and the Rule of Law: Israel and Palestine are models
of what
happens
when advocates of escalating war, reprisal and terrorism gain the
upper
hand. Many of Latin America's ever-fragile democracies are already
imperilled, as are some of Eastern Europe's. Totalitarian states tend
to spend more on military adventures, and provoke more terrorist acts.
And economic and physical hardship tends to destabilize nations
politically. Look for the percentage of the world's nations that can
fairly be called 'democracies' and 'free' to start declining soon, as
well as increasingly common suspension of civil liberties and the
'rule
of law' in favour of 'security needs outweigh the need for
freedoms'
and 'might makes right' politics.
The Flashpoints: The
frequency of each of these ten elements is likely to increase slowly
over the coming decades, amplified by the reality that many of these
problems are self-sustaining, and reinforce and precipitate the other
elements, in a cascading sequence like we saw in the first half of the
20th century. Throughout history, the main locations of violence and
catastrophic loss have usually been those with at least two of (a)
high
population density, (b) high population growth rate, and (c) high
utlilization of limited resources (arable land, energy, water etc.)
Three areas to watch, therefore, are the Mideast/South Central Asia
area, China, and Latin America. These are all under massive
environmental stress already -- horribly polluted and degraded and
under huge population and resource stress. Many of the ten elements
above will thrive in these areas, so watch for these areas to explode
first -- 'the beginning of the end'.
The Last Straw: The wild
cards in how all of this will play out are human innovation and
technology. Remarkable human resourcefulness has made fools of
Malthus,
Ehrlich and the Club of Rome. I don't believe famine will be our
undoing. There is currently a veritable (though highly vulnerable)
glut
of human food on Earth -- obesity is now commoner and a greater killer
of humans than starvation. I think human ingenuity will keep food
production high enough that we won't starve before we kill each other
off. I also think that we will kill each other off before nature even
comes to bat with the devastating consequences of global warming. (So
save your money and don't go see the incredibly silly Day After Tomorrow).
We have three much greater vulnerabilities: (#2) Diseases, (#5) War
and
(#8) Terrorism, all of which already fill the daily newspapers, any
(or
a combination) of which will, I believe, prove to be our undoing
rather
than the other seven elements.
Once the world starts to be pummelled regularly by famines, crop
failures, desertification, water scarcity, economic depressions,
weather catastrophes, and cultural collapse, we'll be so caught up in
physical, social, economic and political turmoil that we may not even
see the knockout punch coming -- India/Pakistan nuclear war, a major
bioterrorist attack, or emergence of a new superdisease to take the
place of Smallpox and the Plague, or some similar rapidly escalating
catastrophe that will simply get out of control. There simply won't be
time for us to step back from the brink as we did at least twice in
the
20th century. Whether this holocaust is nuclear or biological, the
result will be what scientists call an Extinction Event -- a sudden
drastic change in Earth's absolute biomass and its constituent makeup.
There will be a huge drop in human population as well as a similar
drop
in the populations of all the species that have cast their lot in with
us -- the major animals and high-carb grains we eat, plus the pets,
rodents, insects, weeds and diseases that feed on or thrive in dense
urban and monoculture environments. Whether the rest of life on Earth
is better or worse as a result of this Extinction will depend on its
direct cause -- if it's a human-specific disease like Smallpox, the
rest of the planet's life could recover and thrive quickly, whereas if
it's nuclear war or an undifferentiated bioweapon, its impact on the
whole ecosystem could be as profound as the meteorite that wiped out
the dinosaurs and much of the rest of the planet's species 60 million
years ago. Scientists currently seem to believe that the next cycle of
life will be dominated by birds and insects -- creatures that can fly
above the devastation and cover long distances to find scarce food.
Apres nous les dragons.
Nature abhors absolutes, and it is unlikely that either humans or our
co-dependent life species will be completely wiped out by an
Extinction
Event. At least not immediately. Depending on the nature and cause of
the Event, the human survivors could find themselves with a second
chance -- back in an Eden with the opportunity to build a new culture
and society that melds a simple hunter-gatherer-gardener economy
together with those technologies still relevant in a post-apocalyptic
world. Or, if the Event leaves the planet seriously poisoned, we could
instead be a marginalized, poorly-adapted, struggling minor part of a
new global ecosystem dominated by those species better suited than we
to what we have wrought, until evolution brings our wretched history
to
an ignominious end -- a whimper after the bang.
"Have these people thought through the consequences of such resignation?"
Well, that didn't go as planned.03/14/2005 05:02 PM At 3:30pm I decided to take a 2 hour nap so that I'd be able to get
back on a normal sleep schedule this evening. However, I was more
tired than I realized. Apparently I managed to completely disable the
alarm when it went off and I didn't really wake up until 11:30pm. So I
did manage to get 8 hours of sleep in but now I'm quite out of sync.
Let's see how much I can get caught up...
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Saturday, March 26 at 9:00am MST. We will be implementing a major
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News: L.A. Mac Gathering planned for May04/06/2005 12:32 PM Mac specialist Deborah Shadovitz has announced the 2nd Annual Regional
Macintosh Gathering set to happen in Los Angeles, Calif. May 13-15,
2005. The event will take place at the Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn
in North Hollywood.
The MySQL Roadmap nu What's Planned?
The MySQL Roadmap nu What's Planned?05/21/2004 06:49 PM MySQL is old news ...or is it? In this fast-paced expose, Blane looks
at where MySQL is now, and what's planned in Versions 4.1 and 5 -
including the exciting developments of MySQL Cluster and Stored
Procedures!
New sex offender clinics planned
New sex offender clinics planned09/08/2004 06:31 PM The government plans to build several local residential treatment
clinics for child sex offenders, the BBC learns. Grok Description matches for likely consequences of Ashcroft's planned war on porn GrokA matches for likely consequences of Ashcroft's planned war on porn
likely consequences of Ashcroft's planned war on porn
The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry:
Several
readers have asked me to explain what I have called eco-collapse,
the cascading series of catastrophic environmental and cultural
failures that most scientists believe will start to occur unless we
radically rethink and correct our unsustainable behaviour. Unlike the
Club of Rome and the Malthus/Ehrlich population doomsayers, I'm not
going to predict that this will happen in our lifetimes (though I
think
we'll see the early symptoms), nor that a single cause or effect will
dominate the collapse. I do think, based on this
chart
of population and resource consumption, that collapse is likely to
occur by the end of this century, and that therefore the
great-grandchildren of the baby boom generation will likely bear the
brunt of it.
