NYC

  • Revealed: 9/11 plotters’ intent

    The 9/11 attacks in New York City have gone down as a terrorist incident, but it’s now believed by some experts that it may be a crime event of global proportions by design and by intention.

    It’s not a small change in definition because it opens up the possibility of analysing it from many more different angles. By example, it’s believed Kofi Annan – the UN Secretary General at the time – had been an initial target of the attackers.

    It’s been suggested he was due on a visit that morning in one of the towers. It cannot be confirmed, but if this is true, it goes someway to proving it was intended as a crime event in the first place. 

    The intent to cause worldwide havoc is far removed from local issues that are used in justification. In addition, it throws up the question of what purpose it had if it sought to divide international relations.

    The clear lesson is that security matters have a lot of complexities that take time to understand and that the essential function or purpose of any legitimate activity needs a lot of protection besides.

  • US Journalism is cracking under pressure

    The appearance of ‘random’ victims onscreen to demand the end of Prince Andrew has become a poor diet on the BBC News channel, but it’s less of a fault in London and more of a problem in perspective for New York City that it’s even happening.

    The fact is US Journalism is cracking under pressure – of too much exposure and not enough quality analysis. The tranche download of documents by the DOJ is a flurry of activity that has not been backed up with criticism of those that keep claiming sexual abuse harms.

    The reputation of NYC has always been that prostitution is a shady business, and that if it starts there it finishes there. Prince Andrew has never been guilty of buying sex on its streets – or in hotels. This has been proved, and yet it’s not pointed to as a reason for his innocence here.

    The headlong pursuit of more commentary – or more to say – has scattered relevant figures in a mad dash for safety. The errant political thinking of representatives has sent the public in the same way, proving yet again they fail to deal seriously with substantial issues. The elite class is shown up in such failures.

    The handling of a global news sensation has been a concern for media regulators in the US for some time. It’s been believed that too much harm results from an immature and overbearing approach to ending careers overnight. The call is for steady reporting and not the heady rush to any sort of finish line.

  • Antifa is an enemy of the state

    The phenomenon of Antifa in America has reached its heights of notoriety because of constant references by a President, but also by a concerted effort to oppose it by many others in and out of the mainstream of the media.

    Its attempts to intimidate people and its ruinous presence in many cities has driven questions about its existence, its purpose, and a lack of pushback at times from authorities that see it as a protest movement even though it creates threats against members of the public.

    The reality inside the movement bares all of its problems and clarifies its true nature. It’s alleged to have been started in New York City by a group of youths. They wanted to rule their city, as they saw it, and set out to cause fear and angst. They figured it was a quicker way to Police than normal law and order.

    Its founder is alleged to have said it’s about “the way we all look” in response to a question over why it was founded. It’s a curious statement. It gives rise to the notion it’s a type of creative movement in an ultra violent sense that has more purpose than simple confrontation.

    It’s believed its members have an obsessive focus on image. They have studied the approaches to force across the world. They’ve looked at how militaries make themselves appear. They later arranged their own understanding of street rule along more idealised lines.

    Their real name is alleged to be Anti-Face, a type of rebuke to the familiarity in which Policing and investigation is carried out in most Western societies. The neighbourhood Officer is their target. As agitators they hate the reassurance ordinary citizens can provide in their own duties.

  • Gaza is not a New York issue

    The first New York City Mayoral debate is perhaps a chance to flesh out responses to any crisis that exists in the City.

    It’s a place of meeting for all types of creed and character. It produces its own problems and has taken in many more.

    This is the forum for that sort of tricky interaction with difficult and often controversial topics.

    Andrew Cuomo – an NYC Mayoral candidate – stipulates his position on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

    However, Gaza simply isn’t one of them. An example is Andrew Cuomo, who has already been challenged over his visits to Mosque’s during his campaign.

    He faced questioning about Gaza also, although the Strip is thousands of miles away.

    In last nights debate he stuck to an obvious line about Hamas, and denouncing the infrastructure of hate that supports it.

    This isn’t the point in New York politics, or America, but protests ship it in as if it’s a legitimate import and a product ready to sell.

    The sadness is that candidates like Mamdani can’t see the irrelevance of so much activity over the investment of time needed in the City he lives in and seeks to govern.