Bloomberg probably was very much aware that the corporations behind #Uber, #Hailo and all the rest are already destroying the taxi industry in San Francisco, Boston,Los Angeles and places less known. Any Tom, Dick or Harry who has access to a car and a smart phone is made into an instant taxi driver, who cares about his license, his insurance, whether he is a fugitive from the law (These outfits all sneer at the law, operating with or without permission of authorities as they see fit)BWhen Mike Bloomberg made this threat to Evgeny Friedman "I will fuckin' destroy your industry" he should have been taken very seriously by everyone who works in the industry and everyone who thinks it's a good idea to regulate public transit, ie. to make sure the vehicles are maintained and insured, the drivers have licenses and no outstanding criminal warrants, etc.
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Here is where I have been trying to make this warning understood:
Jun 07, 2013
The New York Post was first to break the story. Mike Bloomberg is peeved because the organized taxi owners put a dent in his cockamamie Taxi of Tomorrow plan by taking his highness to court and beating his ass in front of a ...
Jul 17, 2013
... every Tom Dick and Harry to be a "taxi driver." No background check, no quarterly inspection no commercial insurance required. Wake up people! This fits in with Mike Bloomberg's plan to "fuckin' destroy" the taxi industry!
Jun 15, 2013
You must be aware that he threw a tantrum and threatened the biggest medallion owner to his face that he will "fucking destroy your industry." Not good for the future of New York Taxi medallions. In addition the movers and ...
Feb 15, 2013
Mike might have actually meant it when he wanted to destroy the medalliom market without really thinking but cooler heads prevailed, all the while praising Mike and his plan until the last shovel full of dirt had been tossed onto ...
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These outfits operated in New York without permission (though apparently with nods and winks) and in contempt of court orders which the authorities did nothing to enforce. What hope there is in at least limiting these outfits is in Anthony Weiner, not someone who should be the repository of much confidence. He has taken the mantle of defender of the taxi industry and defender of the automobile in New York but his chances look slim and should he be elected he will be hobbled by a Bloomberg bought City Council, as Mike has no intention of giving up his power, even if he must yield the office.
London's proud and professional taxi drivers hopefully are not so beaten down as we American workers and taxi drivers are. They can pull the plug on this garbage if they see the threat in time. This threat and this plan is global and has money behind it. It can kill stories in the media and barge past regulators. London, New York;'s calliing.
Here is what I have said about that in the past:
London's proud and professional taxi drivers hopefully are not so beaten down as we American workers and taxi drivers are. They can pull the plug on this garbage if they see the threat in time. This threat and this plan is global and has money behind it. It can kill stories in the media and barge past regulators. London, New York;'s calliing.
Here is what I have said about that in the past:
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Michael Bloomberg: That nasty little man who just will not go away. Open your eyes and try not to be one of his enablers.
Lots of people say that New York City is so much a better place to live and visit in since the advent of the rule of Giuliani/Bloomberg, Certainly things have changed, The place looks a lot prettier, at least the parts where you con't see many dark faces walking around. Places that used to be known to be scary to be in are now playgrounds for the affluent. The Empire State Building and our magnificent old bridges are all lit up at night in pretty colors and they sure are pretty. Not a whole lot of meat gets packed in the meat packing district any more. And The Church of The Realized/Fantasy is hardly remembered at all. Same thing the Harmony Burlesque on White Street.
All those movie houses that lined West 42nd Street that showed Tarzan and Three stooges and National Geographic films of women on remote islands who did not wear blouses and wrongly dishonestly called porno houses by the prostituted press - they were places where homeless people could stay for hours on end for little money- all gone. The street prostitution scene, 99.99 percent gone. Now it's on publications and web sites that Goldman Sachs invests in.
Pretty soon Harlem won't be the largest black city. Maybe already that's the case. I could go on and on. No Puerto Ricans, hardly any at all walking Borinquen Place,
Yeah, it's so much nicer now.
So, one reason, or so we are told by Michael Bloomberg for this pretty state of affairs is that his cops stop and frisk pretty much at random, hundreds of thousands of mainly people of African /descent , Some sticklers for human rights and that old piece of paper called The Constitution of The United /States object to this and other similar policies (like arresting ?Bronx residents for loiteringoutside and even inside the apartment buildings where they live) . You see, as Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said that Cops targeted blacks and Latinos as part of their “stop-and-frisk” policy to “instill fear in them,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly admitted in a private meeting with lawmakers, a state Senator testified ....
So now there is a probability of a nominally independent monitor to oversee police behavior particularly towards those groups of people who are darker, poorer, and powerless. This is so egregious a situation this stop and frisk, these loitering arrests, this brutality, that even ?Christine Quinn, Bloomberg's mini me, has to say she's for monitoring the cops.
So what does "Bloomberg, whose third term as elected emperor is coming to aclose at the end of ?December say? That (t)he powerfully wealthy Bloomberg plans on taking advantage of the upcoming elections to gather City Council support specifically for his once-vetoed stop-and-frisk bill.
We know that money dominated our politics but we don't ask ourselves why - it's because we allow it! What every NEW YORKER WHO WANTS TO END THE DOMINATION OF MONEY IN OUR POLITICAL PROCESS NEEDS TO DO IS SUPPORT FIORST OF ALL EVERY CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE THAT BLOOMBERG OPPOSE - EVEN IF EVERY POSITION THAT CANDIDATE TAKES IS ODIOS TO YOU, Second, consider this: writing in the name of a penniless taxi driver for mayor - me, Eugene Weixel. Why" Because I represent everything that is against the Bloomberg one percenter legacy. Because I will spend less than three hundred dollars on my campaign This is our way to not sit at home and grumble and to not give in to the rigged electoral system - to vote for the guy who does not want your campaign contribution, who is clearly the one who is against money politics and who will if given the chance do the necessary complete make over ado over re do and purging necessary to have tranquility for the 99 percent. I will abolish the NYPD and replace it with something totally new and much more effective - an armed and aware population that chooses from among itself those who will enforce the laws in a democratic process in communities and work places.
Search this blog for posts regarding NYPD and open your mind to something new.
And tell Bloomberg that his moeny will not influence your way of thinking and voting.
All those movie houses that lined West 42nd Street that showed Tarzan and Three stooges and National Geographic films of women on remote islands who did not wear blouses and wrongly dishonestly called porno houses by the prostituted press - they were places where homeless people could stay for hours on end for little money- all gone. The street prostitution scene, 99.99 percent gone. Now it's on publications and web sites that Goldman Sachs invests in.
Pretty soon Harlem won't be the largest black city. Maybe already that's the case. I could go on and on. No Puerto Ricans, hardly any at all walking Borinquen Place,
Yeah, it's so much nicer now.
So, one reason, or so we are told by Michael Bloomberg for this pretty state of affairs is that his cops stop and frisk pretty much at random, hundreds of thousands of mainly people of African /descent , Some sticklers for human rights and that old piece of paper called The Constitution of The United /States object to this and other similar policies (like arresting ?Bronx residents for loiteringoutside and even inside the apartment buildings where they live) . You see, as Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said that Cops targeted blacks and Latinos as part of their “stop-and-frisk” policy to “instill fear in them,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly admitted in a private meeting with lawmakers, a state Senator testified ....
So now there is a probability of a nominally independent monitor to oversee police behavior particularly towards those groups of people who are darker, poorer, and powerless. This is so egregious a situation this stop and frisk, these loitering arrests, this brutality, that even ?Christine Quinn, Bloomberg's mini me, has to say she's for monitoring the cops.
So what does "Bloomberg, whose third term as elected emperor is coming to aclose at the end of ?December say? That (t)he powerfully wealthy Bloomberg plans on taking advantage of the upcoming elections to gather City Council support specifically for his once-vetoed stop-and-frisk bill.
We know that money dominated our politics but we don't ask ourselves why - it's because we allow it! What every NEW YORKER WHO WANTS TO END THE DOMINATION OF MONEY IN OUR POLITICAL PROCESS NEEDS TO DO IS SUPPORT FIORST OF ALL EVERY CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE THAT BLOOMBERG OPPOSE - EVEN IF EVERY POSITION THAT CANDIDATE TAKES IS ODIOS TO YOU, Second, consider this: writing in the name of a penniless taxi driver for mayor - me, Eugene Weixel. Why" Because I represent everything that is against the Bloomberg one percenter legacy. Because I will spend less than three hundred dollars on my campaign This is our way to not sit at home and grumble and to not give in to the rigged electoral system - to vote for the guy who does not want your campaign contribution, who is clearly the one who is against money politics and who will if given the chance do the necessary complete make over ado over re do and purging necessary to have tranquility for the 99 percent. I will abolish the NYPD and replace it with something totally new and much more effective - an armed and aware population that chooses from among itself those who will enforce the laws in a democratic process in communities and work places.
Search this blog for posts regarding NYPD and open your mind to something new.
And tell Bloomberg that his moeny will not influence your way of thinking and voting.
