Friday, October 24, 2014
Misses the point entirely
RCS notes an interesting Swedish article on the rise of the city-state. It's an important trend. Cities like Lagos and Sao Paulo and Shanghai have become larger and more powerful than typical nations. Unfortunately the article ... or at least the available synopsis ... seems to be solely about New York.
This type of ‘local global policy’ concerns issues such as for example climate change and terrorism. While the world’s nations were still debating the Kyoto Protocol, Toronto in Canada was the first in the world to ever adopt an emission target. Other cities and local governments all over the world have followed its example. In the US, for example, hundreds of city councils and many states have defied the Federal Government by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. And alongside the global fight against terrorism since ‘9/11’, many cities have started developing their own security strategies. Today, the New York police have a metropolitan security service that is larger than that of many countries and includes, for example, a separate local intelligence organisation with staff stationed permanently in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.This is not about the city-state as a modern phenomenon. This is solely and strictly about the psychotic mass-murdering genocidal all-consuming wackitude of Lord of Lords and King of Kings Michael Bloomberg. The author apparently doesn't know that "hundreds of city councils" (with a few equally psychotic exceptions like SF) are not representing their own unfortunate inhabitants. They are representing bribes paid by Lord of Lords and King of Kings Michael Bloomberg. Emperor Bloomberg decided to use his money to take over the country from the bottom up. And he has succeeded magnificently. ¶ 3:50 AM
