Morning Ed: World {2016.04.25.M}
During the recent unrest in Mali, a librarian saved Timbuktu’s history.
There is a pretty major suicide problem in Canada’s First Nations.
Uber found an interesting ally in the Travis County Sheriff’s office, on account of what they believe it does for the prevention of drunk driving.
I’ve linkied it before, but here’s another article involving Portland’s housing and growth problems.
Some Chinese investors just bought a ranch the size of Ireland. My parents were Down Under earlier this year, and the “Asian Invasion” and the domestic response to it are causing quite a bit of consternation.
Everyone needs a hobby, and the oldest man in Australia has a pretty awesome hobby.
On the one hand, having tiers of citizenship may well make allowing more immigrants in easier. On the other hand, it doesn’t seem like an enduring solution and is rife with problems. For whatever reason, I respond to this the same way some people respond to “regional visas” even though the arguments are kind of similar.
There is more encapsulated in this article about megacities than I think even the author may realize. It is, in essence, a latent confirmation of a vague paranoia about globalism, transnationalism, and those left behind.
Librarian: Nice. Best comment: “I believe Mr. Haidara deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, as a far more worthy candidate than the President of the USA….” QFT.
Uber: Hmm..political counter by Uber to “onerous regulations” of it’s business or happy coincidence? You be the judge.
Oz Ranch: I seem to recall something similar in terms of “panic” when the Japanese were buying up real estate on Hawaii.
Tiers of citizenship: On the one hand, it’s totally up to the native population to decide who they want to let in or not, or how to structure it, but ” Branko Milanovic advocates that in order to fight global poverty, we should introduce explicit systems of differentiated citizenship”. I’m trying to understand WHY foreign poverty 1) is some other countries issue to resolve and 2) why this has to be solved by allowing these migrants into said country vs doing nothing or providing aide over there.Report
A lot of foreign policy was and is caused by the policies of developed nations, especially from the abuses of colonialism. Its sort of like thieves taking all of your money and wealth but not wanting to take any responsibility for the damage done to you.Report
Of course. But, to offset the impact of meddling the first time, we’re going to meddle again?
That makes sense.
Of course your position presupposed that the foreign meddling was the direct cause of the current poverty doesn’t it?Report
Meddling again won’t work but taking a harsh stance against immigration or acting in our favor in a real politic way won’t work either. There is also no realistic way to stop meddling. Whether it is humanitarian or self-serving, there will be meddling. The reason why we have so many kids from Central America trying to get into the United States traces back to the Cold War and the War on Drugs.Report
Meddling again won’t work but taking a harsh stance against immigration or acting in our favor in a real politic way won’t work either. There is also no realistic way to stop meddling. Whether it is humanitarian or self-serving, there will be meddling. The reason why we have so many kids from Central America trying to get into the United States traces back to the Cold War and the War on Drugs.Report
” There is also no realistic way to stop meddling.”
Of course there is. You trade with folks, that’s it. Total non intervention. Now, you may disagree with that idea, but you can certainly have a FP outlook that minimized our “international footprint”. Now, as to your specific point about drugs and central america, we could legalize drugs or we could tighten immigration, or both. It CAN be done, we choose not to.Report
Damon,
there is no realistic way to stop corporations from meddling. if they can’t get the government to do it, they’ll buy their own planes and tanks.Report
Meddling corporations aren’t my point. And let’s say that Google decided to fuel air bomb some defenseless Australian town.
1) Why is that the US gov’ts problem?
2) Google would likely be violating US, OZ, and, probably, international laws, and could easily be prosecuted-for the act, for the possession of militarized aircraft, etc. by several political entities.Report
My sources trace it back to The Mad Bomber
but, hell, that fucks with your narrative, don’t it?Report
Tiers of citizenship?
Regional visas?
Gonna have to amend the constitution for that. Gonna need a better argument than these to get me to agree to modifying bedrock principles like the right to travel throughout that nation and the equali protection of the law.Report
Regional visas wouldn’t inhibit travel, it would just set residence parameters. If we can require immigrants to work for a particular company (or any sponsoring one), I suspect we can require them to maintain residence in a particular place, or any sponsoring place (as long as they have the freedom to roam and be a traveling salesman if they wish).
The piece on differing citizenship was aimed more at Europe than us, but yeah for here that would require a change in the constitution.Report
Will:
The fed gov barely manages the visas they already issue why would they do any better with this new kind?Report
@burt-likko. the United States technically does have tiers of citizenship even though we do not exactly refer to it that way. The United States government assumes that the end goal of any immigrant is citizenship. There isn’t really a straight forward path to citizenship many times though. Most aliens have to go through at least two or three types of status with different rights before they can become full citizens. You have non-citizen immigrants like people on student visas, O1s, and H1Bs, than you have people on immigrant visas that lead directly but not immediately to a green card most times, permanent residents, and after three or five years of permanent residency you can get naturalized. A person can start on a non-immigrant visa, go to another one, get an immigrant status, a green card, and finally citizenship. These are tiers of citizenship to an extent because the end assumption is that you will eventually naturalize.Report
This is true, though most of that isn’t actually citizenship and ends after the first generation. The article is talking about something more enduring.Report
I know that and it would be a very bad idea for reasons that anybody who thinks about it a little could spell out. It would be creating a caste system that would lead to great discrepancies of wealth and power.Report
How is it that LGM can publish this:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/04/jacobin-walking-on-the-fighting-side-of-me
and this:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/04/is-smugness-a-significant-causal-factor-in-american-politics-spoiler-no
with in a day of each other?
a love this bit:
To state the obvious, if a large percentage of the white working class defected between 1948 and 1964, as Bouie says it’s pretty hard to argue that Jon Stewart and people saying mean things about Kim Davis on Twitter played a major causal role.
As if Adli Stevenson was an elitist jerk (“you’re than thinking man’s candidate.” “But I need a majority”). Norman Rockwell politics were down the liberal but mid-century liberals hated him because he valorized the common man.Report
I’m not familiar enough with LGM to comment on the details of their setup, but blogging platforms that can handle two different authors posting on two different subjects within that timeframe are fairly unremarkable.Report
Scott Lemieux put up a post agreeing with the one Erik Loomis madeReport
The articles were complaining about two different things. The first post was criticizing a certain strain of leftist thought that insists that all entertainment needs to conform to a certain orthodoxy. This is called aesthetic Stalinism. Erik’s post never claimed that this line of thought is driving people away from liberal politics. It was simply that this is a very dumb way to look at art and entertainment. The second post is de-bunking the idea that more white people would vote for the Democratic Party if the Democratic Party was less smug.Report
Unless you’ve been banned there, which takes some work, why don’t you comment there instead of here? Registration is not complicated.Report
I can’t imagine why the Obama admin tried to bury this info.
CDC Official Warned Staff of Health, Safety Risks During Influx of Illegal Alien Minors: “Plan on Many of the Kids Having TB,” “Be Wary of Personal Safety.”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/04/cdc-official-warned-staff-of-health-safety-risks-during-influx-of-illegal-alien-minors-plan-on-many-of-the-kids-having-tb-be-wary-of-personal-safety/Report
This was just minor “hey, get your shots, idiots” advice.
We get it all the time around here.
Not buried at all, from the looks of it.Report
They had to sue to get a redacted copy. Sure, not buried.Report
Will:
Why down play the AQI attacks and call it “unrest”? It’s Islamic terrorism.Report
It’s Islamic, but not sure about terrorism. They look and act more like an army.Report