«A new series of paintings from Brian Maguire at IMMA later this month depicts the destruction of Aleppo, Syria and
the global effect of war.»
Not exact matches
Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a
global effort, involving not only this visual
effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250
of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star
Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.
With headaches like natural disasters, rising wages in China, and a financial domino
effect gripping economies around the world — not to mention recession - induced protectionism like U.S. President Barack Obama's jobs bills with their Buy American clauses — have we reached the limits
of the
global integration that has propelled the world economy since the end
of the Cold
War?
The moves add to fears
of escalating trade
wars and the
effects they could have on the
global economy.
A partial but not complete list
of worries includes: China melt down, Yuan reevaluation after
effects or Taiwan action,
global biomedical epidemics, e.g. Avian Flu, or bioterrorism outbreaks, trade
wars (China, EU), major hedge fund bankruptcies, a PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.) shortfall crisis, major junk bond or emerging market bond default, a bank derivative blowup, Fannie Mae issues plus possible assorted natural disasters.
Paul Ellenbogen, head
of global regulatory solutions at Morningstar, said the latest moves «could be the beginning
of a price
war,» which was likely sparked by the DOL fiduciary rule that take
effect in early April 2017.
Since both US and EU are huge economical actors, one should expect that such a «trade
war» if started, to have significant
global economical
effects (measured in tens
of billion $).
«Before the
war is ignited, we have deemed it fit to call this summit where we discussed and made our grouse and positions known to the Nigerian government and the
global community to the
effect of our further intolerance
of the menace on our racial pride.
He looks not just at the barrier that partitioned a city, and the human stories
of those
effected by the Wall, but also at the
global politics behind its construction in 1961, 16 years after the
war had ended and 13 years after Stalin's failed attempt to seal off the city had been foiled by the Berlin airlift.
In addition to its motion - picture and television production, the company's activities include visual
effects and audio post-production, cutting - edge digital animation, interactive entertainment software, and the management
of the
global merchandising activities for its entertainment properties including the legendary STAR
WARS and INDIANA JONES franchises.
Works such as We Die Out
of Hand (2007) reference the fringe -
effects of global war states, the military prisons and covert operations such as Guantanamo.
These artists both conceptually and materially distill segments from the surrounding environment: styles and theories
of former art movements, social rules,
wars around the world, the
effects of the
global economy, ideologies
of different eras, art materials, everyday objects and personal memories.
Melding the two disparate visual traditions, the silhouette
of the Officer and rearing horse are filled with details from the prayer rugs and a plethora
of other sources defined in similar «Acid House» blues and reds., In juxtaposing the hybrid images
of the prayer rug and the soldier, Haward investigates the millennia old relationship between religion and
war, and more broadly the immense power and
effects of ideology and doctrine in a world in which East and West are struggling to redefine the
global hegemony.
I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse
effect,
global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction
of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion,
war, etc., etc., etc..
We can understand the US refusal to enter the Second World
War and its refusal to join
global efforts to tackle climate change as the
effect of supremacy
of isolationist tendencies.
The conflict in Darfur is perhaps the first
war to be attributed in part to the
effects of global warming.
It may seem a bit wonky as an issue itself, but the growing carbon trade
war precipitated by the European Union airline emission trading program, now roughly six weeks in
effect, really is indicative
of the continued
global denial about the environmental impact
of our activities.
At the root
of proactive actions that ultimately lead to victory during all kinds
of wars, regional or
global in nature, are usually Generals who effectively transpose the
effects of their individual powerful personalities onto their soldiers.