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Mapping An Ungoverned World
For those paying attention, you might have noticed that the world seems to be getting more and more ungovernable of late.
There are a variety of reasons for this - not the least of which is that in some states, outside governments are conspiring to destabilize regimes - but the phenomenon is manifesting itself across the globe.
There is of course Syria, where a hodgepodge of rebels, militant groups, and extremists are battling to wrest control of the country from Bashar al-Assad. To quote Ban Ki-moon, there are parts of the country that one might imagine resemble “the worst circle of hell.”
There’s also Yemen, another theatre for the Mid-East proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, where the fight between Shiite militiamen and a Saudi-backed alliance that includes the UAE and Qatar has cost countless innocent lives and destroyed parts of Sana’a, a UNESCO world heritage site.
And how about Burkina Faso, the landlocked, West African nation which has seen more than its share of coups and countercoups over the past 12 months.
And then Libya, another US foreign policy "success" story.
It is of course difficult to catalogue all of the cases where, for whatever reason, states become failed states, or where large swaths of territory become ungovernable, but Bloomberg has taken a shot at it.
We present a few examples of what is truly a sweeping infographic below and encourage you to check out the entire presentation here.
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Ungoverned? you mean not governed by the empire that made it ungoverned in the first place.
Add DC to it.
ahh you beat us to it...probably a thousand people had the same thought
Detroit & Chicago as well
Strange......I don't see Detroit or Chicago on there.........
I know! 449 in Columbia doesn't sound bad, Chicago had 460 homocides in 2014.
http://heyjackass.com/category/2014-chicago-crime-murder-stats/
I myself am ungovernable
I can hardly govern myself, definately not letting someone else tell me what to do.
Can't say they didn't tell us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil
Just like how `hitler told the world in Mein Kampf he'd invade Russia etc
Then there's Baltimore, south side of Chicago, east side St Louis, and others...
Camden, N.J., Chester, PA., Wilmington, DE.
The only good State is a failed State.
Actually, not so. Failed states generally have previously been strong, institutionalizing the population into mindsets of passivity, submission, centralization, and dependancy. Not to mention outlawing any hint of anything but state solutions.
When such states decline to "failing" status, they usually remain just strong enough to continue to thwart the basic mechanisms of self-governance from taking root and starting to reverse momentum. Yet the failed states are not strong enough themselves to provide any credible services. The worst of all words, Chaos ensures and people point to it as proof positive a strong state is needed.
So basically, your'e saying the suffering population doesn't have the guts to finish it off. Shame.
Yes, a tragedy. It changes little to remove the whip from the slavemaster's hand if the slaves are unable to think of themselves as free men. People who are convinced they need to be ruled are easy to continue to rule, even by impotent rulers.
Put up a map of Detroit and Chicago.
They forgot to mention Zomia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomia_(geography)
Some areas of the Philippines, some areas of Ceylon, Malaysia, Burma, France, and as mentioned, several US cities.
If it is a necessity to have paid personal body guards, you are probably in an ungoverned region.
I've got a wacko neighbor with obviously too much money. She has two 24 hour security people in two or three shifts a day. Claims she was threatened with death. The security guards not only patrol the property but accompany her the few times she leaves her property. This has been going on for over a year! Imagine what this is costing??
And I live in a fairly civilized small rural town. The nearest city war zone is 45 minutes by car and the war zone there is only a few section 8 city blocks.
Which part of New England is that?
Jamaica.
The place is doubly fucked up.
Brain drain. NO jobs. Corrupt as fucking HELL government. Law enforcement - non-existant.
The whole island needs a fucking enema.
IF you go there, stay at an all-inclusive, and don't give shit/take shit from any of the unfounded prideful motherfuckers there.
In other words, don't go.
PLENTY of other places to go. WAS going there for 36 years. Lied to, robbed, cheated.
Governance is a UN keyword, as in...
“Environmental governance is a concept in political ecology and environmental policy that advocates sustainability (sustainable development) as the supreme consideration for managing all human activities—political, social and economic. Governance includes government, business, and civil society, and emphasizes whole system management.
It views natural resources and the environment as global public goods, belonging to the category of goods that are not diminished when they are shared. This means that everyone benefits from for example, a breathable atmosphere, stable climate and stable biodiversity.
Public goods are non-rivalrous—a natural resource enjoyed by one person can still be enjoyed by others—and non-excludable—it is impossible to prevent someone consuming the good (breathing). Nevertheless, public goods are recognized as beneficial and therefore have value. The notion of a global public good thus emerges, with a slight distinction: it covers necessities that must not be destroyed by one person or state.”
Israelis Declare Carrying Firearms Helpful in Preventing ‘Lone Wolf’ Attacks
http://theantimedia.org/israelis-declare-carrying-firearms-helpful-in-pr...
How dare they encourage what the US is being brainwashed to reject!
See:
The Art of Not Being Governed, by James C. Scott
Domination and the Arts of Resistance, by James C. Scott
Weapons of the Weak - Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, by James C. Scott
Seeing Like A State, by James C. Scott
The author is a professor of agrarian studies at Yale
Each one a masterpiece
Criminy,mor reedin?
thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governed
"Seeing Like a State" is perhaps his most important because it illuminates the other side of the freedom equation.
"Efforts to permanently settle these mobile peoples (sedentariization) seemed to be a perennial state project - perennial, in part, because it so seldom succeeded"
"The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I came to see them as a state's attempt to make society legible, to arrange the population in ways that simplified the classic state functions of taxation, conscription, and prevention of rebellion. Having begun to think in these terms, I began to see legibility as a central problem in statecraft"
"The book is about the 2-3 century long process by which modern states reorganized the societies they governed, to make them more legible to the apparatus of governance. The state is not actually interested in the rich functional structure and complex behavior of the very organic entities that it governs (and indeed, is part of, rather than 'above'). It merely views them as resources that must be organized in order to yield optimal returns according to a centralized, narrow, and strictly utilitarian logic. The attempt to maximize returns need not arise from the grasping greed of a predatory state. In fact, the dynamic is most often driven by a genuine desire to improve the lot of the people, on the part of governments with a popular, left-of-center mandate. Hence the subtitle (don’t jump to the conclusion that this is a simplistic anti-big-government conservative/libertarian view though; this failure mode is ideology-neutral, since it arises from a flawed pattern of reasoning rather than values)."
When you think about the Deep State and the NSA, think increasing legibility.
The most terrifying thing to these control freaks is large swathes of the planet that they don't control.
So, 120,000 killed last year in "strife" in these regions, and all big countries around the world sticking their noses into all of it, taking one side or the other, at least verbally. Didn't they used to call those World Wars?
So, 120,000 killed last year in "strife" in these regions, and all big countries around the world sticking their noses into all of it, taking one side or the other, at least verbally. Didn't they used to call those World Wars?
Abkazia? What is going on there? I heard it is a nice place in between wars.
Jewish Supremacist Girl Speaks Candidly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVR14nl-uI (2:13)
"The ultimate goal is to be a light for the gentiles."
All Denominations Welcome.
Amy Winehouse - Rehab Parody (Crack Pipe) - Greg Scarnici
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHGF1FAVkg
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go figure , man.
Ungovernable? Is that a synonym for Extreme Libertarianism?
Where the Market Forces determine the price and value of everything, and cash, PM and barter are king?
Something to think about. :-)
Does nobody notice that the Palestinians have decided not to be governed by Israelis as vassals?
Israel is King George + Big Brother America and massive propaganda to the world, and they are still losing.
Israel is a failed state, same reason as all the other militaristic societies in the world, they eventually can't afford the enemies they make playing negtive sum games.
'Win' is a long-term concept, not often associated with negtive-sum games.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/people-can-lose-zero-or-ne...
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/just-to-summarize-to-this-...
So Libertarian free market Utopia should break out any minute.
Not exactly. You take things too literally.
that makes about as much sense as iislaam means peace. the benevolent rulers... yeah.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVR5gAs5ak0 (1:42)
Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy and we shall have peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1h4iKeMZ0 (0:15)
Amy Winehouse - Rehab Live on David Letterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jx_VgnV9cY
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and that is the way it goes/went down, man.
This is all a process of sometimes thinly veiled DELIBERATE destabilzation to reinstsate a new age of colonization/occupation. A parallel phenomenon was established after slavery, where slowly but surely we now have as many if not more people of color in prison as were slaves....and the vast majority of those not in prison live on the edges of the system.
Also, there are other countries that have not resisted, but preferred to submit, and live knowing who are their masters.
All born from a group of deluded psychopaths who firmly believe they are superior, and must control people and resources. That's why the birth of organisations like the NSA, that's why we have so many false flags.... to find reasons to justify tighter controlof the masses, whereever they may be.
Seems to be in the DNA of certain.
I think you must mean "Allied" occupied Ukraine, you know mass murdering rapist history writing "Victors". The Nazis were heroic patriotic under-dog defenders of Europe that the Debt Money Monopoly tribe had taken down by the rest of the world that they were fully in control of because the "Nazis" would not bend the knee and pay. you know the "by deception we wage war" tribe
Northern Mexico is a really violent place. Some cities are almost like war zones. I was traveling in Mexico a short time ago and spend a short time in Reynosa. http://tinyurl.com/p8buvjd
some 15,000 people killed in last five years!
Can I be ungoverned???