But he notes that geolocation is merely the latest example in a growing trend to impose local controls on the Internet.
All of the money distributed by the Global Fund is handed over to national governments, so the Global Fund is to spend more money on local controls.
David Sparks, from the Local Government Association, defended the millions of pounds in profit that comes from local authority parking controls.
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The bureau's summary reiterates a local government assertion last year that Johnson Controls had used more lead in its manufacturing than was allowed by a local quota.
As long as BT controls the "local loop", the last link from the network to a phone or modem, and insists on metered access, it hardly pays to offer unmetered web deals.
Mr Kneese gave credit to the work of Genossenschaften, co-operatives run by industry and local government with the lightest of controls from central government.
Once South Africa abandons its residual exchange controls, which limit local companies' foreign investments, unbundling will become more attractive because the cash raised can then be spent abroad.
At the time, he cited findings from a Shanghai testing firm that determined that Johnson Controls had abided by local laws and wasn't the source of the local lead pollution.
They have so-called A shares that trade in Shanghai and Shenzhen and are only available for local investors because China has currency controls and China has controls whether the money can move in and out.
This kind of incentive far outweighs the heavier hand of using regulatory mandates or certain price controls, since participation from local vendors is voluntary.
In Monterrey's Independencia neighborhood, one of the city's oldest, it is not the city government that controls the streets but the local pandillas, or gangs.
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As the Demographia study shows, the highest rise in prices relative to incomes generally has taken place in wherever strong growth controls have been imposed by local authorities.
Manufacturers also typically rely on the ability to import parts - something that may prove impossible for local companies so long as international capital controls stay in place and the banking system remains dysfunctional.
Despite a weak performance in local elections in June, the party still controls 16 of the big metropolitan councils.
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China's richer cities like Shanghai are increasingly eager to push polluting industries elsewhere, sentiment Johnson Controls said it detected in its negotiations with local authorities.
In Spain, by contrast, the centre controls 58%, the regions 27% and local councils 15%.
Party activists fear losing control of a string of local authorities in Labour's inner London heartland, where it controls 15 of the 32 boroughs.
But before the announcement, local officials in at least three states vowed to resist any new gun controls.
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Johnson Controls executives agreed but said emissions levels from the plant have been below local and national limits, and that in past years local officials focused on emissions levels, not the quota.
Ansar al-Dine, which controls Timbuktu, is more moderate and has tried to co-operate with local leaders, though it has failed to create a working civil administration.
Mr Matheson said the FSA in Scotland had made arrangements for local authorities to carry out a series of food standards inspections, on top of "stringent" controls already in place.
Over the weekend, a senior adviser to the People's Bank of China said that there are no signs of a rebound in the local economy, while a senior housing official said that the country plans to continue implementing strict property controls.
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