Food For Thought #735

 

Another “conspiracy theory” confirmed: California moves to seize fire-ravaged Palisades for low-income housing

Six months after devastating wildfires swept through the Pacific Palisades, leaving thousands homeless and causing an estimated $15 billion in property damage, California Democrats have pushed forward a highly controversial bill that critics are calling a government-sanctioned land grab. 

Senate Bill 549, passed last week, empowers Los Angeles County to establish taxpayer-funded "Resilient Rebuilding Authorities" (RRAs) with the authority to forcibly purchase fire-damaged private properties at so-called "fair" prices—a move opponents argue paves the way for the mass displacement of homeowners in favor of state-controlled low-income housing projects.

The legislation arrives alongside $17.6 million in fire department budget cuts that severely hampered wildfire response efforts, leaving critical firefighting equipment inoperable and exacerbating the destruction. Now, as wildfire victims struggle to rebuild, they face an even greater threat—the potential loss of their land to government agencies under the guise of "affordable housing solutions" championed by Governor Gavin Newsom...<<<Read More>>>....

Newsom to SEIZE MALIBU COAST to build massive 15-minute city after weather weapons destroyed Los Angeles by FIRE – per last homeowner Grant Cardone

 Famous sales guy Grant Cardone owns the last standing home on the Malibu coast after the globalists used weather weapon technology to burn down everything in the Pacific Palisades that did not have a blue roof. Now the insurance companies are telling him that too will be taken by imminent domain, which is being used as a tool to confiscate all the property for the upcoming “15-minute city” that Newsom (the ultimate Big Government yes man) bragged about before, during, and after the mass arson event of Los Angeles. 

Grant Cardone, a slick used-car salesman who got rich from infomercial style sales training programs, has the last standing mansion in Malibu that’s about to be confiscated via “eminent domain” for a smart city. The whole coastline of Malibu is about to be seized, and have no doubt, Governor Newsom (Biden Regime yes man) is “all in,” as he was seen dancing on video interview while talking about the death and destruction that’s helping him cut land deals with the globalists who are moving in like hawks on a carcass (pun intended).

Grant Cardone “I got a phone call yesterday from a guy that sells trillions of with a T of insurance premiums per year worldwide. He's actually covering my home. Okay. Along with a 15,000 unit portfolio that we cover with him.”

That’s why the beaches are not being cleaned up. That’s why only four permits have been “approved” in 4 months, and all those permits where already approved before the fires. Newsom and his globalist cohorts want complete control of Malibu’s coastline, and they’ll probably get it, while thousands of homeowners are displaced, burnt up, or dead. He couldn’t care less. It’s all about money and control.

The smart cities mean the government can shut down all power, internet, water, vehicles, public transportation, banking, roads, businesses, and the food supply with the flick of one switch. Should the Democrats regain control of the country, every city will be turned into this and anyone who bucks the system will suffer the consequences...<<<Read More>>>...

The dangers of smart cities and 15-minute cities

 The concept of smart cities started in the mid to late 2000s in England with the Smart City Index.  Bristol and London served as flagship smart cities, where infrastructure such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence (“AI”) were implemented to create an efficient system.

The initial plan was part of the Millennium Development Goals, which were accelerated in 2015 to achieve the 2030 Agenda, a goal of Agenda 21, but the plan did not quite work out as intended until the covid pandemic, when the infrastructure for smart cities, including biometrics, and ultra-low emission zones (“ULEZ”) and low traffic neighbourhoods, was rapidly implemented.

The infrastructure for smart cities includes telecommunications infrastructure, such as towers and cables, as well as data centres and servers.  It also involves the installation of smart equipment in people’s homes, including smart meters, such as smart water meters and smart energy meters.

Other features of smart cities are electric vehicles.  The geofencing capability fitted into some electric cars raises significant concerns as it enables the vehicles to be remotely controlled by the government or military in the event of a national emergency.  If they wanted to implement a climate lockdown, they could geofence the whole smart city, Adams said....<<<Read More>>>...

‘Covid’ liar Whitty promotes 15-minute cities for better health access – no, to serve his masters as he did with ‘Covid’

 England’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, supports the “15-minute city” concept in his annual health report. 

He emphasizes the need for urban areas to provide easy access to essential services like shops, healthcare, and green spaces. Whitty argues that improving walking and cycling infrastructure can enhance public health by encouraging physical activity. 

He calls for city designs that prioritize health through better transport, housing, and pollution control. He also highlights the dangers of urban air pollution, linking it to serious health issues. Whitty urges critics of health measures to propose alternative solutions for improving public health and air quality....<<<Read More>>>...

Australia: “Managed retreat” is a scam to take people’s homes and replace them with smart cities

 Managed retreat, also known as planned retreat, is a strategy for responding to climate change and rising sea levels by relocating people and assets out of harm’s way. It is a process where communities, buildings, and infrastructure are gradually evacuated from areas designated as uninhabitable or dangerous due to changing geology, extreme weather, or climate change.

In Australia, this concept is gaining traction as a necessary measure to mitigate the impacts of climate change, particularly in coastal communities. In New Zealand, managed retreat is becoming a necessary adaptation strategy to address the impacts of climate change.

That’s the official narrative.

However, independent researcher Kate Mason has exposed how this sinister scheme is using exaggerated modelling of climate change effects to designate certain areas as uninhabitable for humans. Properties in these areas are uninsurable and prices are plummeting. Of course this would be the result.

“Who is going to buy in a flood zone? Unless it’s a developer who will raze it all to the ground and build a Smart Resilient complex,” Mason said....<<<Read More>>>...

Smart Cities and 15-minute cities: We must stop allowing these criminals to slowly walk us into techno-tyranny

 This brings us to the concept of 15-minute cities. First discussed by a city planner named Carlos Moreno at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, 15-minute cities is essentially the idea that all the resources within a community should be within a 15-minute walk.

As is typical with most ideas promoted by the UN – it doesn’t sound all that horrible in isolation. I mean, who doesn’t want to be able to walk to get their groceries or to the local community centre for a cookout? In fact, some of you may already be living in areas with everything within 15 minutes of your home. Then what’s the problem, you might ask?

Well, when you look beyond the buzzwords you begin to see that, much like smart cities, 15-minute cities have the potential to be used as a way to limit freedom of movement, freedom of speech and privacy. Many people have also come to fear that concepts like smart cities and 15-minute cities are really about socially engineering people to stop driving their own private vehicles – all in the name of the climate, of course. Look no further than a brand new book by Carlos Moreno, which claims to offer “techniques to change the habits of automobile-dependent city residents”. It doesn’t get much clearer than that.

Moreno has been successful in pushing his idea into the mainstream, with Paris, France first adopting the idea in 2020. But it wasn’t until late 2022 and early 2023 that resistance to 15-minute cities became a public issue. In February 2023, an estimated 2,000 demonstrators gathered in central Oxford, England for a protest against the creation of what is known as a low-traffic neighbourhood, or LTN.

To implement the LTN, Oxford officials voted to introduce six “traffic filters” which are intended to limit the use of cars in residential areas of the city during certain hours. Automatic License Plate Reader (“ALPR”) cameras will scan license plates to fine drivers from outside the county of Oxfordshire who enter these areas during high-traffic times.

Of course, the media has done their best to label the opponents of 15-minute cities as “far right” conspiracy theorists. However, due to the pushback from residents and international attention, the Oxford council recently voted to remove mentions of “15-minute cities” from their city planning documents. While the council voted to remove the phrase from their documents, they made it clear that they still plan to continue their vision of a walkable city with limits on private vehicles. Louise Upton, the cabinet member for planning at Oxford City Council told The Times that removing the phrase would make “no noticeable difference to our plans"...<<<Read More>>>...

The Dark Side of 15-Minute Cities: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

The concept of 15-minute cities has been marketed as a modern utopia, promising to revolutionize urban living by ensuring that residents have access to all their needs within a mere 15-minute walk or bike ride from their homes. This vision, championed by certain globalist entities, paints a picture of green, equitable, and connected communities where happiness and health are supposedly within everyone’s reach. 

However, beneath this appealing facade lies a troubling reality, raising significant concerns about the erosion of personal freedoms and the imposition of hidden agendas.

In the rush to embrace the seemingly utopian vision of 15-minute cities, a critical element of human existence is at risk of being overshadowed: the fundamental rights to privacy, freedom, and individual autonomy. This concept, while painted in the bright colors of convenience and sustainability, raises profound concerns about the trade-offs between collective benefits and personal liberties.

As we examine the implications of transforming urban landscapes into tightly controlled zones, it becomes imperative to scrutinize what we stand to lose in our pursuit of this modern urban ideal....<<<Read More>>>....

America’s First 15-Minute City Has Been Created In Tempe, Arizona – Do Residents Know What’s in Store for Them?

 A Tempe, Arizona, neighborhood has been named “Culdesac” and is America’s first example of a 15-minute city, a vision of the World Economic Forum and the globalist cult, who are pitching the concept as being more environmentally friendly. Instead of seeing this development as a dystopian nightmare, Culdesac residents appear to be thrilled at their new way of life, do they have any idea what they have in store for them?

A 15-minute city is a SMART City in an urban environment with omnipresent surveillance and data harvesting technologies that will monitor and record even the most intimate, personal details of every individual inhabiting it.

The globalist goal is to collect the data of every individual and will know: 

What they eat and drink,
Where they go,
What they buy,
Who they meet,
What they think and feel
Their opinions and habits
Their health and vaccination status. Etc, etc..

In other words, every little detail, and as the oft-quoted Noah Yuval Harari has said, those who own that data will know you better than you know yourself. Yet this all-encompassing surveillance has been justified as we are told that it will be essential for the future of the planet, and to save it from “climate change.”

They also guarantee it will make your life more connected, safer, and healthier and it looks like the Culdesac residents have bought the idea.

A 12 News report promoted the community as helping with sustainability which includes them giving up their own vehicles as Culdesac is the first community in the nation to be designed around car-free living, but instead of being unhappy about this, the report showed a Culdesac employee who seemed to be thrilled about the alternate transportation provided in the neighborhood du to gas vehicles being prohibited from the area.

The employee told 12 News “Residents can own one [a car] as long as it’s not parked on site. “Can you imagine living on top of your grocery store?” the employee asked the news outlet.

“What’s the appeal of living on top of a grocery store?” asked the People’s voice” who say that “of course, the development will be used to push similar Agenda 2030 nightmare neighborhoods across America.”...<<<Read More>>>...

15-Minute City: This Statement Should Be Read At Every City Council Meeting In America

15-minute cities are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Don’t believe the countless stories spewing forth from the 24 seven bases from the elitist-captured mainstream media, all claiming to have your best interests at heart. We have been burned too many times. In reality, 24/7 surveillance through the Internet of Things inside your home, 5G and LED streetlights outside, monitoring and tracking and recording everything.

Implementation of exclusion zones and geofencing to restrict movement and travel. Ability to control behaviors through military-directed energy technologies. property and car ownership to be outlawed, evictions from farms and rural areas to go to gather people into cities. Digital passports being promulgated by the U.S.

The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization are in the final stages of planning and implementation. They are tied to social credit score, which is determined by compliance to government directives. These passports control all access and all aspects of life. Digital currency is being implemented to end cash and monitor all your spending.

Your digital currency will be turned off or on depending on your compliance score. UBI Universal Basic Income is a state-controlled allowance forcing compliance by restricting access to food, money, services, and education. All of the above will enable climate lockdowns to be implemented easily, arbitrarily, and indefinitely...<<<Read More>>>...

The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has been chosen as a pilot area in the EU to be climate neutral with a transition in protein food and a transformation of healthcare into a telemedicine, data, and AI-driven connected system approach led by Public Private Partnerships. A closure of 55-70 percent of traditional farming is foreseen to be replaced by tech-driven vertical farming, gene-edited crops, edible insects, veganism, 15-minute cities and a CBDC passport covering personal health data.

Citizens will pay for the transition by increasing prices for energy, food, healthcare services, and insurance.

A U-turn of these EU-driven policies is highly needed. Health and wealth have been decreasing in the past years due to pandemic measures, inflation, and recently implemented policies. The Netherlands, famous for farming and innovations, can best win this challenge to re-establish healthcare driven by traditional farmers producing nutritious whole food that prevents famine, improves the soil and the immune system for healthy lives....<<<Read More>>>...

Are Canadians being FORCED by planned ARSON into dystopian “15-minute cities” by Trudeau the Tyrant?

 Somehow, the Liberals and “New” Democrats in Canada found an insidious way to keep tyrant Trudeau in power until 2025, so he can further decimate the country’s oil and gas sector in the name of “climate change.” 

Now suddenly, out of nowhere, more than 400 massive wildfires ignited at the exact same time, across eleven Canadian provinces and territories, including Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and Nova Scotia. How is this possible? 

Most of the wildfires are ripping through the forested countryside, forcing country folk and conservatives to retreat and possibly permanently migrate to crowded cities. Coincidence? Or is this coordinated arson to kick the 15-minute city plan into full gear? 

Let’s take a closer look, because it’s surely not all smoke and mirrors this time around...<<<Read More>>>...

Chief Covid Con Artist Chris Whitty to approve planning for 60% of new homes

The UK government is to invest £3.2 billion and has created a new statutory consulting body to nudge and corral people into 15-minute cities. Active Travel England (“ATE”), as the new body is called, has recently been tasked with approving all large planning applications, about 60% of new homes. The “Expert Advisor” of the scheme is none other than Chief Covid Con Artist Chris Whitty.

Of course, they make it sound all fluffy and nice, “it’s for your own good” … and voluntary. But this is the start of corralling people into their dystopian 15-minute neighbourhoods and, by overseeing planning applications, forcing businesses to comply with it.

“Active Travel England is responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling the preferred choice for everyone to get around. Our objective is for 50% of trips in England’s towns and cities to be walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030,” the website states.

“By 2030.” There is the red flag that this is being driven by the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. Once you see the agenda behind the bumph, you can safely assume the rest of the text is psychological mumbo jumbo and it is what is not being said that is important.

England’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, is one of 4 that form the advisory panel called Active Travel England. The other three are West Midlands’ Mayor Andy Street, Chair of the Office of Rail and Road Declan Collier and engineering consulting firm Arup’s Global Transport Leader Isabel Dedring. The advisory panel will meet quarterly. The first meeting took place in late October 2022.

The Government has set aside £3.2 billion of investment in active travel and has so far embedded active travel into 1,000 major new developments. stment in active travel and has so far embedded active travel into 1,000 major new developments....<<<Read More>>>....

WEF Official Admits ’15-Minute Cities’ Will Imprison Humanity in ‘Forever Lockdowns’

The 15 minute city concept, the brainchild of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is becoming a reality in the United States with the city of Cleveland, Ohio signing up to the scheme and vowing to implement Klaus Schwab’s vision.

The term refers to a community where residents can reach everyday essentials — like work, school and shops — by walking, biking or taking public transportation in 15 minutes or less. According to the globalists promoting the concept, 15 minute cities are necessary to fight climate change and support public health.

Critics of the 15 minute city concept claim that the elite are constructing open-air prisons in which residents will be walled in, figuratively and literally. And as we will see in a minute, there is plenty of evidence, including an admission from a city official, that “forced lockdowns of the future” are at the forefront of the elite’s 15 minute city agenda...<<<Read More>>>....

Rishi Sunak Should Overrule Local Councils’ Attacks on Motorists, Including Unwanted 15-Minute Cities

 Ross Clark has written a great piece for the Telegraph urging the Prime Minister to over-rule the crackpot schemes of local politicians to impose more taxes on motorists, such as Sadiq Khan’s planned extension of London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone. He thinks it would be popular and might even revive the Conservative’s flagging fortunes.

Four London boroughs, as well as Surrey County Council, have launched a judicial review of the Ulez extension, alleging that Khan deliberately targeted his consultation at younger, non-motorists in an effort to swing the results in his favour – and then ignored evidence that two thirds of respondents were against the scheme. But why should it be left to borough councils to fight it out with Khan? The proliferation of low-emission zones, congestion charges and “15-minute cities” demands that the Government step in and formulate a national policy on what councils can charge for and how they can charge for it.

I wouldn’t object if the Government replaced fuel duty and road tax with a national road pricing scheme, which charged us all a simple, easy-to-understand tariff according to where we had driven – and then billed us in a civilised manner. As electric cars start to eat into income from fuel duty, such a system is probably inevitable....<<<Read More>>>...

Thousands Join Oxford Protest Against Tyrannical ’15 Minute Cities’

Thousands of protesters gathered in central Oxord on Saturday, to stand against new highly controversial transport plans which would divide the city into six districts.The plans include proposals to block residential streets to stop vehicles cutting through, and to set up six traffic filters to cut unnecessary journeys.

Some claim that the proposals will prevent residents from leaving their local area as part of a ‘climate lockdown’ and claim that this is connected to a larger plan to limit freedom of movement and control people....<<<Read More>>>...

15-minute cities: Councils are attempting to remove our freedoms, take control of our lives and herd us into spaces they completely control

 At the same time local governments in the UK are attempting to implement 15-minute cities a top banker claims the rollout of a digital ID “super app” is inevitable. Both are dystopian control tools and neither is inevitable.

It’s not only in the UK that cities are signing up for the 15-minute prison concept. Edmonton in Canada, for example, is also planning to implement the draconian control structure needed to restrict residents’ rights and freedom of movement.

The UK government will eventually roll out a “super app” that houses each citizen’s combined economic footprint, from credit ratings to know-your-customer details, a top banker has predicted. This economic digital ID would aim to follow in the footsteps of the swift and widespread adoption of the UK government’s NHS health app.

The NHS app was first launched by the UK government in January 2019 as a “one-stop shop of the health data for each UK citizen.” The UK’s financial sector has taken note of the NHS app’s “popularity” and one top banking official predicts that the launch of an equivalent digital ID for UK citizens’ economic data is inevitable.

Referring to this “super-app” that could carry all of the financial data of each UK citizen, Chair of UK Finance Bob Wigley said: “This will be the year that we finally persuade the banking system that we need an economic digital identity system, just like the NHS app.”

Speaking at the New Digital Assets and Money Symposium conference in the City of London on Tuesday, he added: “This financial app will be personal and attached to each citizen as we need a wider fully digital economic identity programme.”

Wigley is not telling the truth. It is not inevitable and we don’t need it.