Re: [Futurework] Where do we go from wherever we are?

2008-02-29 Thread Harry Pollard
Natalia. His hypothesis is plausible and interesting. He writes well. Harry ** Harry Pollard Henry George School of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 (818) 352-4141 ** From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Futurework] Hey, we're Americans! It's what we do!

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Weick
US jail numbers at all-time high A new study of US prisons has found that numbers of people in jail are at an all-time high, with more than 1% of the adult population behind bars. The Pew Center report calls the US the global leader in the rate at which it imprisons its citizens. Over 2.3

Re: [Futurework] Where do we go from wherever we are?

2008-02-29 Thread pete
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Natalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read an interesting theory by an ex-NASA scientist on the disappearance of the dinosaurs, the correlation of earth and moon rotation, the missing continents, Pangea remnants, why it took so long for life to appear on land, and a very

Re: [Futurework] Hey, we're Americans! It's what we do!

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Spencer
With 750 inmates per 100,000 people, imprisonment cost the 50 states more than $49bn last year, up from less than $11bn 20 years earlier. Now that we've made a good run a privatizing prisons, I assume there's a substantial and active biz lobby wherever sentencing policy can be influenced.