[Futurework] 716. The mighty is about to fall

2005-05-25 Thread Keith Hudson
716. The mighty is about to fall Can there be any doubt that the invasion of Iraq has been a total disaster? The latest report from Iraq on Times Online shows that there is no prospect of reconciliation between the Sunnis and the Shias. The civil war is gradually building up -- as all civil wars

RE: [Futurework] The banality of evil in the white-collar workplace

2005-05-25 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Freud is reported to have sometimes a cigar is also just a cigar Perhaps the paper towels are not a result of anger or rage at the system, but just someone in haste or perhaps someone who is a slob. arthur -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: [Futurework] Income mobility in the US

2005-05-25 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
so if you are poor the prob. is that you stay that way and if you are rich the prob. is that you stay that way?? arthur -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:03 AM To: futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca

[Futurework] Fw: Bad news for the oil patch

2005-05-25 Thread Ed Weick
I sent this out earlier today, but it doesn't seem to have got anywhere. If it appears twice, please forgive. Ed - Original Message - From: Ed Weick To: futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:27 AM Subject: Bad news for the oil patch For a few days now, the

Re: [Futurework] The banality of evil in the white-collar workplace

2005-05-25 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Cordell, Arthur: ECOM wrote: Freud is reported to have sometimes a cigar is also just a cigar Perhaps the paper towels are not a result of anger or rage at the system, but just someone in haste or perhaps someone who is a slob. This is kind of a projective test, for, as Freud also said

Re: [Futurework] Two bites, four bites, six bites, a lot of dollars

2005-05-25 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Karen Watters Cole wrote: First, two examples to add to the debate about universal health care and a comprehensive energy policy that mandates conservation. Then commentary and opinion about the shrinking middle class. KwC * * *Dental problems stymie Guard call-ups* Fort Lewis, Washington

[Futurework] Dreamers dare

2005-05-25 Thread Karen Watters Cole
As with the commencement speech proclaiming there are no experts, just us chickens, this concludes with the force majeure of I have a dream. And often, the successful peacemakers are the planners, architects and engineers who can make it tangible progress happen, not the politicians or

[Futurework] Buffet Power

2005-05-25 Thread Karen Watters Cole
With Bill Gates sitting on his board now, if this doesnt signal the importance of energy resources in the global economy, what does? Investor Buffet to buy PacifiCorp from Scottish Power for $5.1 B, wants to buy more energy MidAmerican expects to complete the purchase in 2006 upon

RE: [Futurework] Income mobility in the US

2005-05-25 Thread Keith Hudson
Arthur, At 13:01 24/05/2005 -0400, you wrote: so if you are poor the prob. is that you stay that way and if you are rich the prob. is that you stay that way?? Not quite. According to those charts, half the poor families in 1989 remained poor in 1999 but the remainder grew better off, though

Re: [Futurework] Profile of long-term unemployed ~ Oikos and polis 101

2005-05-25 Thread Keith Hudson
At 18:52 24/05/2005 -0400, Brad McCormick, Ed.D wrote: Keith Hudson wrote: Interesting article on the long-term unemplopyed in America. Keith Hudson THE NEW PROFILE OF THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED Louis Uchitelle [snip] There are just not new jobs being created in the things these people did

[Futurework] Test

2005-05-25 Thread Ed Weick
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[Futurework] Defenceless America

2005-05-25 Thread Keith Hudson
742. Defenceless America The brand-new Department of Homeland Security in America is publicly confessing what any intelligent observer could have told it as soon as it was formed. In these modern days when customers want goodies from everywhere, it is completely impossible to prevent hard drugs,

[Futurework] test

2005-05-25 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
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[Futurework] Bush enters dangerous territory

2005-05-25 Thread Keith Hudson
743. Bush enters dangerous territory It is exquisitely interesting that Bush now faces out-and-out opposition from Congress on a relatively recondite matter -- stem cell research. Rather like the resistance Bush has met to his Social Security ideas and also his promotion of five Supreme Court

RE: [Futurework] Bambalooza Tour: cause and effect

2005-05-25 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Oooops! When this didnt go through 2 months ago, I had no idea it would sit, clogging up the filter. Dont oversized files get zapped? My apologies to all, especially the computer gods at FW, Waterloo. May the Force be with you. Karen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Futurework] Could Taiwan be the Lusitania for the 21st century?

2005-05-25 Thread Karen Watters Cole
What do you think? Prof. Ferguson also has an OpEd today in the NYT where he argues that an abrupt withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous. He compares the failing US occupation in Iraq to the British empires manpower problems in the 1920s, but does not mention Vietnam when inequity of

Re: [Futurework] Bambalooza Tour: cause and effect

2005-05-25 Thread Ed Weick
May the Gods be blessed, Karen! (Don't know about the force!!) Ed - Original Message - From: Karen Watters Cole To: futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:31 PM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Bambalooza Tour: cause and effect

[Futurework] Show me the money

2005-05-25 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Former special envoy Dennis Ross does not have as optimistic vision as the RAND think tank did about todays conditions for peace in Israel and Palestine, though he does say that the clock is ticking for bold action to secure the ceasefire and produce tangible progress that will undermine

[Futurework] Politics of the pipeline

2005-05-25 Thread Karen Watters Cole
What is 42 inches wide and 1000 miles long? Phase 1 of the New Great Game and a large reason why the US has increased exporting weapons to dubious regimes. None of this made the headlines in the US corporate media today. The pipeline that will change the world By Daniel Howden and

Re: [Futurework] Could Taiwan be the Lusitania for the 21st century?

2005-05-25 Thread Keith Hudson
Karen, I think Niall Ferguson is dead wrong. The big difference between globalisation today and what he calls the first globalisation period in the 1870-1914 period is that trade was then between largely national-based firms set within newly centralising states. Today, globalisation is mostly