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Hiroshima vs Detroit -- 64 years later
9/25/2009 | VANITY

Posted on 09/26/2009 5:38:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

PICTURES OF HIROSHIMA CIRCA 1945









DETROIT IN THE LATE 40's and EARLY 50's












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HIROSHIMA TODAY











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DETROIT TODAY




















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Who the hell won the war!



TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: bluezones; detroit; hiroshima; michigan; urban
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
We have NEVER shown them in pics what they got with the DEMS...especially black people.

Who wants to be tarred with the dreaded "R" WORD ?
21 posted on 09/26/2009 6:02:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Downtown is a ghost town..


22 posted on 09/26/2009 6:02:54 PM PDT by Irisshlass
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To: SeekAndFind
I know one thing that went dreadfully wrong. In the 1950s a man named Edwards Demming presented a management concept to American industry (INCLUDING the auto industry in Detroit) called Organizational Behavior. The U.S. auto industry, and IBM (among others) turned their noses at him and sent him away.

So he went to Japan, which was RIPE for his concepts. They were willing to hear him and adopt his new concepts as they were in the midst of rebuilding and recovering from world war two. You probably remember when the "funny looking" little Japanese cars starting appearing on American roads in the early 1970s...and how the U.S. auto industry turned their noses at them and told us how they were a passing fad. But by the late 1980s the Japanese had become a serious threat to the U.S. auto industry.

Edwards Demming is probably the single most responsible person for the success of the Japanese automotive and technology industries.

In truth, organizational behavior has been adopted throughout a goodly portion of American business and industry today. But Demming was able to reach Japan after world war two with it first.

The photos are a direct reflection of the results of Japan adopting and applying innovation and change correctly (with help from Mr. Demming) and the U.S. staying with industry killers such as the UAW.
23 posted on 09/26/2009 6:04:19 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: Irisshlass

Interesting article from someone who was originally from Michigan :

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35248

TITLE :

Detroit: The Future Face of America


25 posted on 09/26/2009 6:09:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks . Just added the link .


26 posted on 09/26/2009 6:10:04 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: SeekAndFind

if the soviets or chicoms or moslems had done this,

there’d be hell to pay.

but, fdr, eleanor, lbj, carter, clintons and the democrats did this.


27 posted on 09/26/2009 6:10:09 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: GeronL

You are correct . Every inch of available space is utilized . There are some very beautiful parks / spaces in Tokyo and still a few sections where you’d think you were in the countryside : quiet , green , peaceful ...But alas , they are getting scarcer as the megalopolis continues to grow .


28 posted on 09/26/2009 6:14:24 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: SeekAndFind

Detroit = New Fallujah. Similar pictures?


29 posted on 09/26/2009 6:31:39 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=10743

Excerpt:

Imagine a city where all the major economic planks of the statist or “progressive” platform have been enacted:

* A “living wage” ordinance, far above the federal minimum wage, for all public employees and private contractors.
* A school system that spends significantly more per pupil than the national average.
* A powerful school employee union that militantly defends the exceptional pay, benefits and job security it has won for its members.
* A powerful government employee union that does the same for its members.
* A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor and to government bureaucracies.

Would this be a shining city on a hill, exciting the admiration of all? We don’t have to guess, because there is such a city right here in our state: Detroit

For a video tour of Detroit go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz_vDOrqOOQ


30 posted on 09/26/2009 6:33:58 PM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: sushiman

Their apartments are quite small, when you learn that people will pay to pet a cat for twenty minutes it should say something about those tiny living spaces.


31 posted on 09/26/2009 6:37:38 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s a chilling thought for Twilight Zone fans.

Aside from avoiding further and massive loss of American lives as our armed forces advanced on Japan, scientists were allegedly interested in nuking Japan for another reason: learning of the impact it would have on the environment.

Satisfied that no permenant damage was done, plans for the Greening of America were drawn up.


32 posted on 09/26/2009 6:41:02 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (Luke 23:31)
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To: SeekAndFind

Go ahead and tar me !

Rev. James David Manning of Harlem has said that black people - generally speaking - are destroyers . Look around the world and just about everywhere you go you see evidence of this . As long as they keep blaming whitey ( not that we are perfect mind you ) for everything instead of moving on and becoming more patriotic while at the same time creating self-sufficiency in their communities with the help of whites AND putting more emphasis on FAMILY ( versus single mother households ) ...they will continue to be destroyers . They need GOD most of all . Too many have been hoodwinked by charlatan preachers who are no more Christian than Stalin .


33 posted on 09/26/2009 6:41:23 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: GeronL
More Pics of Hiroshima today





34 posted on 09/26/2009 6:54:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

gorgeous. doesn’t seem to glow in the dark at all.


35 posted on 09/26/2009 6:57:40 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: SeekAndFind
Who the hell won the war!

The Allied Forces, comprised mainly of the forces of the Soviet Union, the United States, the British Empire, with the assistance of their allied nations, partisans and resistants.

36 posted on 09/26/2009 6:59:27 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: SeekAndFind

That square park surrounded by water. Is that a shrine? does it sit on reclaimed land?


37 posted on 09/26/2009 6:59:49 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: preacher
MORE PICS OF ABANDONED BUILDINGS IN DETROIT TODAY ( SOME OF THE BUILDING SHELLS LOOKED NICE, MUST HAVE BEEN GRAND DURING ITS HEYDAY) :





38 posted on 09/26/2009 7:00:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: GeronL
That square park surrounded by water. Is that a shrine? does it sit on reclaimed land?

I believe it is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

Here is the layout :

39 posted on 09/26/2009 7:05:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

So the whole thing is about the A-bomb. A-bomb this and A-bomb that, toy A-bombs at the souvenir shop....

That town needs a Six Flags.

*snicker*


40 posted on 09/26/2009 7:11:51 PM PDT by GeronL
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