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Government, Not Globalization, Destroyed Detroit

How the Democrats Destroyed Detroit

How Coleman Young Ruined Detroit

With Detroit bankrupt, is 'blue model' to blame?

Yep, next thing you know Democrats will again be trying to get into our bedrooms.

California Legislators Want to Tell College Kids When to Have Sex

You could try moving to Vermont.

Vermont's Single-Payer Dream

"Wal-Mart employees are the largest group of .. food stamp recipients"

Except

1) denver is democrat leaning, especially the city itself
2) http://www.bloombergview.com/a...

good luck with your subway in SV, or perhaps you just need reading comprehension lessons. Obviously NYC's mass transit is miles ahead of most other cities, and SF's as well. Im not about to spend an hour or 2 in mass transit or traffic hell when I can have my nice 15min commute and not waste 15 hours of my life a week in commuting

It'd never happen. I mean, that'd be like every country that had a German minority being invaded by Germany.

You mean like in the Sudetenland crisis (1938) and Austrian Anschluss (1938)? (We won't include Russia's Volga Germans.) Do you want to include the "Aryan" peoples too?

Nothing like that could happen with Russia, right?

Russia Pressures the Baltic States

Nearly three years after all three Baltic States regained their independence, Russia continues to infringe on their sovereignty, intervene in their internal affairs and subject them to coercive diplomacy. Russia's failure to complete the withdrawal of its troops from Estonia and Latvia, a long and varied series of incidents involving the Russian forces, and allegations that Estonia and Latvia have violated the human rights of their Russian-speaking population, are issues that have acquired a particularly menacing aspect in view of Russia's characterization of the Baltics as being within the "near abroad," not as independent and sovereign as other European states--and the recently formulated military doctrine and activist foreign policy that reflect a resurgent Russian imperialism.

In Ukraine, Echoes of the Anschluss

If you throw away e-waste, it ends up in a domestic landfill at the worst, recycled in a domestic processing plant at best.

http://www.bloombergview.com/a...

It's actually the used computer equipment that gets sold to the third world that ends up in places like Africa. They do actually end up using most of it, until it either breaks or they find something better, and NOBODY buys their used stuff, so THAT stuff ends up in these photographs you are seeing here. The only way WE can prevent that is to completely deny the third world access to technology, which I don't think is an ideal situation.

But basically this is unwarranted environmental alarmism, exactly like the imagined (and never realized, and never will be realized) threat of so called overflowing landfills:

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

False. Yet another endlessly repeated "truth" based on invalid or non-existent studies.

The VFX shops don't own the IP of the shit they work on any more than American factories own the brand/design/etc. to whatever they build. Work will be farmed out as usual, and only those with $BIGBUCKS$ will control the flow of work.

The issue on the table is the current (surprisingly large, for something with no obvious benefit to the host nation) pools of 'incentives', tax-breaks, and subsidies that you can score by handling parts of your movie in various countries that are suckers like that(and even by the standards of cynics, it's a trifle surprising how much you can wring out of an allegedly competent nation state...)

If the argument being made here holds, those subsidies suddenly stop hiding in magic-cultural-product-land, and start facing the same anti-dumping rules that apply to boring stuff like steel and cars(and the rules, they are numerous and taken very, very seriously).

Doesn't mean that the VFX peons won't still be recruited from the cheapest and most desperate outfits the global economy has to offer; but they won't get all that and a tax break from whatever place they end up sourcing them.