Blogs: Consequences Of The Black Death

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power – Black death. ..... affirmative action to provide job opportunities to black job seekers; medicaid to provide health insurance for low income people; and now climate change proposed legislation is to protect future generations from catastrophic consequences of increased global temperatures. ...

We already tax booze and tobacco quite a bit, but I don't think we'd miss that money if it meant we got to eliminate all the cancer/alcoholism/disease/death caused by those drugs. I suppose the argument is that ... There's a lot of writing that attempts to feel out what the consequences on society of legalization would be; as a member of that society you will presumably be able to extrapolate what the effects on you would be from there. There will certainly be some, ...

Since its initial success, In Cold Blood has spawned a host of imitators, the most celebrated being Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song (1979), Gabriel Garcia Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and John Berendt's Midnight in ... Tanner noted that Capote continues “an old American tradition when he tries to get at the 'mythic' significance of the facts”, which, in the case of In Cold Blood, was to “extract a black fable from contemporary reality” (p.99). ...

On the basis of a 14th-century account by the Genoese Gabriele de' Mussi, the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack. ..... Despite its historical unimportance, the siege of Caffa is a powerful reminder of the horrific consequences when disease is successfully used as a weapon. The Japanese use of plague as a weapon in World War II (29) and the huge Soviet stockpiles of Y. pestis prepared for use ...