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Olympic Makeover

Brisbane’s ‘Smart City’ Makeover for the 2032 Olympics

The Smart Cities Council (SSC) is one of the world’s largest and most influential global ‘Smart Cities’ organisations, with offices all over the world.

Here in Australia, it has chosen Brisbane as its operational headquarters, and for good reason.

Last year it released a “blueprint”, called the “Connected Games Playbook”, saying it was partnering with the Queensland Government and Big Tech to:

“Catalyse investment in technology and data in a way that accelerates the highest level of sustainability and prosperity for the people… of Brisbane, South East Queensland and beyond”.

To “lay the ‘smart’ foundation for Queensland’s collective future in the digital economy”, the SSC says digital and data infrastructure must be ‘embedded’ into every single aspect of the games to “achieve maximum legacy impact”.

Major infrastructure programs together with the roll-out of the 5G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT), AI and Digital Twin marketplace will see the state’s “data collection technologies advance at eyewatering pace”:

As Yahoo News put it on Monday:

“Think sensor-triggered streetlights, automated air conditioning and watering of parks and green facades. Envision robots for cleaning and construction, satmaps, swipe cards and QR codes. Data technology will be embedded in 32 existing and planned Olympic venues, the future athletes’ village at Northshore Hamilton (near Breakfast Creek) and the international media centres.”

Under cover of the 2032 Olympics, the government will be transforming our state into one filled with data gathering, full spectrum surveillance, digital wallets, drone policing, wearable sensors and biometric tracking.  All framed as tools for “sustainability” and “keeping you “safe”.

A future that bears all the hallmarks of an open air prison.

It may go by the name of “Safe Cities”, “Living Cities”, “Sustainable Cities”, “Resilient Cities” and “Build Back Better”, but at its heart it is a profoundly anti-human scheme.

One where eventually, tokenised credit and digital ID will be needed to go to work, school, the shops, to access public buildings, services and events.

A predatory “What works”, “data-driven” system, rebranded as circular economies and stakeholder capitalism.

Each life measured according to its perceived burden on society.

Who decided all this?

The same billionaire oligarchs who want us to all play along with their little charade that this is ‘saving the planet’. 

Who want us to overlook the insane energy requirements needed to build and run this augmented reality, IoT, ‘Smart City’ delusion they are building.

To close our eyes to the child labour, turbo-charged minerals extraction, toxic waste, land grabs and enormous data centres cooled 24/7 by vast amounts of our precious water.

I know that many Queenslanders have been propagandised into cheering on this transnational global capital plan for a final “green” solution.

But not me.

#smartcities #Olympics2032

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Smart city or concentration camp

THE C40 SMART CITIES MAYORS SUMMIT 2022

Mayors from cities all round the world gathered in Buenos Aires last month, for the annual C40 Cities World Mayors Summit.

The panel discussions centred around the idea of the 15-minute city: an increasingly popular tool for smart-city and mega-city planning strategies.

In the old days, cities mostly conformed to the pattern of residential areas separated from commercial districts, all linked by highways for a population who mostly travelled by car.

Not anymore.

Now they want us crammed into ‘smart city’ precincts, within a larger “city framework in which residents can meet their everyday needs within a 15 minute radius”.

In other words, you will never be more than 15 minutes away from the prescribed area where you are to live/work/study/shop/play/socialise/die.

According to C40’s glossy manifesto, the goal is to significantly reduce all our “consumption and production” patterns and replace them with more “sustainable” models.

Called “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5 degrees Celsius world”, the manifesto sets out a series of “consumption interventions and “targets” that each ‘smart city’ must achieve by 2030.

Here’s few you might like:

– Meat consumption per person per year – 0kg;

– Dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) pp per year – 0kg;

– Privately owned vehicles per person – 0 private vehicles.

The “target” for “consumption Interventions on clothing” stipulates a measly 3 sets of new clothing items per person per year.

Oh and the “target” for Air Travel is “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) per person every 3 years”.

People who live in Brisbane, won’t even be able to fly to Melbourne!

No doubt there will be some ‘social credit system’ devised allowing people to buy or ‘earn’ “carbon credits” to achieve a higher level of consumption outside the basic parameters.

Trillions of dollars have been spent in making all this happen.

These people may be crazy but believe me, they are deadly serious.

They want us all living like rats in a maze, jumping through their designated hoops.

I could only find two Australian C40 Cities – Melbourne and Sydney.

Michael Bloomberg is President of a board that is largely made up of reps from WEF, Rockefeller Foundation, Clinton Foundation, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WWF and the World Resources Initiative.

All funded by the usual suspects, including: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ikea, Open Society Foundation, Wallace Global Fund and Google.

If you want to know where all this is headed, go read Ayn Rand’s Anthem, where a totalitarian elite brainwash the world into going back to a pre-industrial system of serfdom.

THE FUTURE OF URBAN CONSUMPTION IN A 1.5°C WORLD C40 CITIES HEADLINE REPORT

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