Archive for month: February, 2024

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  It is definitely starting to look a lot like 2008 and 2009 again. Those years were such a painful time for our country, and in many ways, we still haven’t fully recovered from the damage that was inflicted upon us during that era. Unfortunately, so many of the exact same things that we experienced back then are starting to happen in our time. For example, the Great Recession brought us the greatest foreclosure crisis in the history of our nation, and now foreclosures are really starting to spike here in 2024. In fact, the number of new foreclosure filings in the U.S. just jumped 10 percent in a single month… Home foreclosures are on the up across the US as Americans continue to battle against soaring interest rates and rising costs. Last month, 37,679 properties had a foreclosure filing, according to fresh figures from real estate data provider ATTOM – up 10 percent from the month prior. According to the pundits, that wasn’t supposed to happen. But it did. Interestingly, Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware actually experienced the fastest increase in foreclosure filings last month. Nevada was second, and that was due to the large number of foreclosure filings in Las Vegas… Nevada’s position in the ranking is largely due to foreclosure filings in Las Vegas, where many people lost their jobs when tourism crashed during pandemic lockdowns. According to ATTOM, Las Vegas had a foreclosure filing on one in every 1,923 housing units in January. This is a really troubling sign. When the economy is booming, Las Vegas is booming even more. But when hard times arrive, times are even harder in Las Vegas. So let’s watch and see if this trend continues. Meanwhile, it is also being reported that the number of completed foreclosures in the U.S. was up 13 percent compared to the previous month. In Michigan, the number of completed foreclosures actually shot up by “a huge 200 percent”… Michigan saw the fastest rise in completed foreclosures – up a huge 200 percent. This was largely down to high rates of foreclosure filings in Detroit. I remember writing articles about how some homes in Detroit were literally selling for one dollar when things were at their worst. Has another housing crash begun? We are certainly ripe for one. Thanks to painfully high-interest rates, buying a home has become out of reach for most of the population. Unless interest rates go down dramatically, home prices have got to fall, and that is going to cause all sorts of problems. Of course, a horrifying commercial real estate crisis is already here. Prices have crashed all over the nation, and now many office buildings that were once worth millions of dollars are simply being torn down. In fact, in Los Angeles, there is a plan to tear down a very large office building in order to build just 30 EV charging stations… This is absolutely crazy… An owner of an office building in LA is seeking approval to tear down the building and construct 30 EV charging stations I don’t know what’s crazier…this headline or seeing office properties drop 80-90% in just a few years The commercial real estate recession (primarily office) has gone from scary to a meltdown in many cities across the US and it seems as though the damage is permanent If we really are heading into a major economic slowdown, we would also expect retailers to be shutting down stores all over America, and that is precisely what we are witnessing right now. Incredibly, even Walmart reduced the number of stores that it operates by 102 last year… Walmart last year closed 23 stores across the US, eight of which were in Illinois, it emerged this week Overall, its total number of stores fell by 102, from 4,717 in January 2023 to 4,615 a year later. That’s because in addition to the 23 closures, Walmart sold a combined 79 Moosejaw and Bonobos locations after selling the two retailers. If even Walmart sees a need to batten down the hatches, that is a really bad sign. On top of everything else, large employers continue to conduct mass layoffs from coast to coast. Last week, many were saddened to hear that Vice Media Group is laying off hundreds of workers as it continues to spiral toward oblivion… Vice Media Group plans to lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on its flagship news website, the company’s chief executive said in a memo to employees Thursday — a stunning setback for a digital media pioneer that ascended to cultural prominence more than a decade ago. “It is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,” Vice CEO Bruce Dixon said in the memo, which was seen by NBC News. Vice Media did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment on Thursday’s news. Everyone knew that Vice was in dire straits, and so those layoffs are not exactly a shock. But why has Google suddenly decided to give the axe to thousands of workers?… Google has initiated significant layoffs across its various teams, including the Voice Assistant, hardware, engineering and ad sales teams, marking a continuation of the tech industry’s trend towards reducing workforce expenses. The layoffs have affected hundreds of employees within the Voice Assistant unit; hardware teams responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit products; and a considerable portion of the augmented reality (AR) team. This move is part of Google’s broader effort to streamline operations and align resources with its most significant product priorities​​. According to The Verge, the total number is in the thousands. This comes at a time when Google parent, Alphabet Inc., reported record profits in late January. The company reported $20.4 billion in net income in Q4. Google is one of the most successful companies in the entire world, and they are swimming in cash. If they feel the need to ruthlessly cut workers, what kind of sign is that for the rest of the economy? Sadly, the truth is that it has become quite apparent that big trouble is ahead. 2024 is going to be such an important turning point for the economy, and it is also going to be such an important turning point for the nation as a whole. The state of the economy will certainly be a central issue during the upcoming election season, but there are no easy answers for the problems that we are now facing. Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here. 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This article was originally published by Belle Carter at Natural News.  For Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the West will never disclose the truth about its criminal biological experiments as he slammed its impunity which violates many international agreements, including conventions on human rights and biological and chemical safety. “The impunity with which Westerners conduct biological experiments on humans is outrageous,” Lavrov said at the plenary session of the forum of supporters for the fight against modern practices of neocolonialism For the Freedom of Nations. He added that as per the latest information from the Russian Defense Ministry, which has been confirmed by investigative journalists, in the city of Mariupol, “Once controlled by the Kyiv regime, large European and U.S. companies conducted experiments on children and adults for meager rewards, using drugs that almost completely suppress the immune system and stimulate the growth of cancer cells. The tests were focused on the spread of disease and epidemics among members of the Slavic race,” he pointed out. He also stated that the collected materials were sent to European laboratories, whose fate remains unknown. He reiterated that the Western countries “will never disclose to the world community the facts exposing its criminal biological experiments.” Lavrov also noted that the West’s impunity violated many international agreements, including conventions on human rights and biological and chemical safety. “There is utter contempt of international law, let alone human lives,” he concluded. During the said speech, the Russian minister also touched on the West’s attitude towards the global majority and proceeded to cite examples such as the budget on green deals. “In 2010, developing countries were promised $100 billion annually for 10 years as climate finance. However, the West was in no hurry to fulfill its obligations, allocating just crumbs from the promised funds. In 2015, the pledge of ‘$100 billion per year for 10 years’ was reiterated in Paris but nothing changed,” he said. He also linked these efforts to the funding of wars such as in Ukraine. He said that the climate agenda was brought into play to gain market advantages over weaker countries. “By outsourcing ‘dirty’ production facilities to other countries, Western supporters of climate justice are imposing additional costs on Southern nations and pressuring them to buy costly green technologies from the West,” he said, saying that the money that was pledged for development is being spent on supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime and other military ventures. Another example was the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine distribution during the peak of the pandemic, Lavrov reminded his audience that the West secured the majority of scarce vaccines, leaving the impoverished and vulnerable to fend for themselves. At the same time, he said, international bodies controlled by the West, deliberately delayed the certification of the Russian Sputnik vaccine, which could have saved millions of lives in developing countries. “Western vaccines were certified in Europe almost immediately, bypassing standard procedures. But nobody was held accountable for any serious side effects resulting from these vaccines,” he also emphasized. (Related: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accuses West of sowing chaos globally to advance interests.) Russia’s Lavrov lands in Caracas to discuss with the Venezuelan president the strategic partnership between the two nations The Russian foreign minister arrived in Caracas for an official visit to the Bolivarian nation on Tuesday, Feb. 20. He is set to meet with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and Foreign Minister Yvan Gil to discuss key issues of bilateral cooperation and interaction in the international arena, as well as analyze the global and regional landscape. “Venezuela is a strategic partner and ally of Russia. Bilateral relations, based on strong ties of friendship and solidarity, are thriving and actively developing in all crucial areas,” Lavrov said in a statement. “Russia will continue to provide comprehensive support to the Venezuelan government and people in defending their national sovereignty and the right to choose their own development path.” A day before, Lavrov visited Cuba, where he met with President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez. Following the Venezuela visit, the foreign affairs minister will head over to Brazil to participate in a ministerial meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20). 💬 #Zakharova: 🎙 On February 16, FM Sergey #Lavrov will attend the ‘Forum of supporters against modern neocolonial practices’. 🇨🇺 February 19 – visit to Cuba 🇻🇪 February 20 – visit to Venezuela 🇧🇷 February 21-22 – #G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro. pic.twitter.com/4uQaYlxWQi — MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) February 14, 2024 Head over to Overlords.news to read more stories on the West trying to dominate the world.

This article was originally published by Austin Padgett at The Mises Institute.  Much of the developed world is slipping into a hyperregulated malaise. Growth rates are down across most major economies, and the developing countries are catching up to our errors almost as fast as they are growing. Increasingly, even in the US, you would have to be outside the norm to afford a house by age forty. The median age of a first-time homebuyer in 2023 is the same as a repeat buyer in 1981. We’re not allowed to build and grow, but we’re told everything is ok as long as the stock market hasn’t crashed. When we point out that the system isn’t working, we are told we should be happy because degrowth is good for the environment. It is time people stopped feeling obligated to justify their existence to a managerial class of unelected bureaucrats. Their incompetence and capture to powerful interests has been demonstrated enough times. There is utility in fighting propaganda by painstakingly digging through studies to highlight flaws in the constant stream of bad data and assumptions being used to rationalize our slavery. However, the only reason they can presume to have authority over our lives in the first place is that our society has broadly lost belief in our own agency. The United States was founded based on the ideas of individual sovereignty and natural rights. Whether these values have receded in the West as a result of the death of God, some failure of the Enlightenment, or the incentives of the system, they are diminished and need reviving. The presumption that leads Environmental Protection Agency consultant Professor Naomi Oreskes to generously tell us we “can still eat  some meat” on a World Economic Forum panel also generates our impulse to negotiate for freedom rather than assert it. We try to prove we aren’t a cancer on the planet so they will let us go free as if begging a captor for our worthless lives. There is a shared presumption of control, a master-and-slave mentality. Unless we cut to the core of that mentality, we will exhaust ourselves having to endlessly justify every ounce of our existence. A common criticism of our appeal to agency is that people are not rational; therefore, they must be protected from advertising, making their own healthcare decisions, or any number of freedoms the appointed experts deem us to be unworthy of or too stupid to be trusted with. It is a mistake to respond to this by arguing that people are rational or that a belief in freedom relies on that assumption. Libertarians explain agency through the observable fact that people act purposefully, not rationally. Violating someone’s intent when they are not interfering with anyone else’s is a violent rejection of our individual sovereignty. While an individual’s ability to reason can lead to rational action, it does not presuppose it. Nor can we presume to declare ourselves as arbiters of rationality. Much of traditional economic theory assumes that people are self-interested rational maximizers. Some advocates of free markets lean into this presumption as a justification for our ideas. When people are then inevitably seen to make suboptimal or seemingly random decisions it is labeled as a failure that needs to be corrected for their own good. It still holds true that freedom increases rational action, but it is not from an individual perspective; it is from a collective evolutionary perspective. The deepest evolutionary incentive is for the propagation of the species, not the individual. This is why a free market that allows purposeful action benefits the collective, while social planning benefits a parasitic class of individuals. The only way to maximize rationality within a collective is to allow for seemingly irrational, idiosyncratic individual behavior. During World War II, there was a bombing mission so dangerous only volunteer pilots were assigned to fly. When flying these bombers, there was roughly a 90 percent chance you would be killed by shrapnel and a 10 percent chance of losing your engine and crashing. Unfortunately, the planes could not handle the additional weight of both a parachute and a flak jacket, so they could only wear one. At first, the military was adamant that all the pilots should wear the flak jackets considering there was a significantly higher risk from shrapnel, but the pilots revolted, insisting on having a choice. Because it was a volunteer mission, the officers acquiesced, and the pilots matched the distribution of risk with 90 percent picking the flak jacket and 10 percent choosing the parachute. This choice demonstrated a deep, evolutionary instinct to match the probability of the scenario, maximizing the upside while minimizing the chances of catastrophic failure (an instinct our public health officials failed to demonstrate when they locked us down and insisted on population-wide mandates for experimental RNA treatments in response to a government-engineered cold). It may seem irrational for someone to dig a bunker or store a year’s worth of canned food, but the percentage of people who do will generally reflect the likelihood of requiring such preparation. This is perfectly rational from a collective evolutionary perspective. This process of matching the distribution of likely outcomes is routinely demonstrated in nature: Probability matching has been observed in thousands of geographically diverse human subjects over several decades, as well as in other animal species, including ants [32–35], bees [36–38], fish [39, 40], pigeons [41, 42], and primates [43]. In virtually any setting where an animal is able to make a choice between A versus B in a randomized experiment, we observe probability matching. The way all creatures make decisions is through adaptive probability matching. For example, let’s say you have a fish tank. If you feed your fish on the right side of the tank 75 percent of the time and on the left side of the tank 25 percent of the time, the fish will match that distribution, with 25 percent of them swimming to the left side of the tank and 75 percent to the right at feeding time. If you change the feeding pattern, they adapt their behavior. This distribution results in the least amount of food being wasted by hitting the bottom of the tank. If you ask a social planner what the rational thing for a fish to do at feeding time, she might say it’s to swim to the right side of the tank since that would maximize its potential food intake. This is similar to how propaganda in public schools prioritizes four-year university attendance above other options, and how federal loan policies were put in place to push everyone to go to college based on the fact that on average, university graduates have a higher salary. Metaphorically, public policy encouraged everyone to go to the right side of the tank. Of course, all this artificial tipping of the scales did was devalue college degrees and create devastating shortages elsewhere in the economy. You will never be able to forcefully plan behavior in a way that maximizes rational collective action. An infringement of agency prevents the development of an individual’s character and capabilities, leading to an unconscious and weakened collective. The more freedom people must seek out through information and making their own choices, the better we can adapt to the fundamental uncertainty of life. This uncertainty requires a differentiated, antifragile approach, something a central planner would not even have the theoretical ability to do, due to their lack of distributed knowledge.

This article was originally published by Emily Thompson at The Activist Post.  Afghan women continue to feel scared or unsafe leaving their homes alone because of new Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan reports. According to the new UN report, since the August 2021 takeover, the Taliban have introduced more than 50 decrees that directly curtail the rights and dignity of women. UN Women, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) have, since August 2022, tasked themselves with consulting with diverse Afghan women every few months to gain a greater understanding of what is happening in the country. The results show that women fear arrest and the long-lasting stigma and shame associated with being taken into police custody, the report stated. In addition, over half of women – 57 percent – felt unsafe leaving the house without a  mahram , a male guardian. Risks to their security and their anxiety levels increased whenever a new decree was announced specifically targeting them. Only one percent of women indicated that they had “good” or “full” influence on decision-making at the community level. Some respondents expressed deep disappointment with some UN Member States who in their efforts to engage the Taliban, were overlooking the severity of what is an unprecedented women’s rights crisis and the associated violations of international law, based on treaties ratified by previous Afghan governments. Some women argued that one way for the international community to improve their situation would be to link international aid to better conditions for women and to provide opportunities for women to talk directly with the Taliban. UN independent human rights experts have expressed profound concern over multiple reports detailing arbitrary arrests, detention, and ill-treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan. The incidents, which have surged since early January, are purportedly linked to violations of the Taliban’s stringent dress code for women. The Human Rights Council-appointed experts called on the de facto (Taliban) authorities to comply with Afghanistan’s human rights obligations, including under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Taliban crackdown initially began in western Kabul, predominantly inhabited by the minority ethnic Hazara community – which has been the target of extremist violence for years – but swiftly expanded to other areas, including Tajik-populated regions and provinces such as Bamiyan, Baghlan, Balkh, Daykundi and Kunduz. Women and girls reportedly accused by the Taliban of wearing “bad hijab” were arrested during the operation in public places, including shopping centers, schools, and street markets. Some were forcibly taken to police vehicles, held incommunicado, and denied legal representation, according to a news release issued by UN rights office OHCHR on behalf of the experts. “Women and girls were reportedly held in overcrowded spaces in police stations, received only one meal a day, with some of them being subjected to physical violence, threats and intimidation,” they said. In May 2022, Taliban authorities ordered all women to observe “proper hijab,” preferably by wearing a  chadari  – a loose black garment covering the body and face – in public and made male relatives responsible for enforcing the ban or face punishment. While some detainees were released after a few hours, others reportedly languished in custody for days or weeks. The lack of transparency and access to justice means the current number of detainees potentially held incommunicado is hard to assess. Their release has been made contingent on male family members and community elders providing assurances, often in writing, that they would comply with the prescribed dress code in the future. “In addition to punishing women for what they wear, assigning responsibility for what women wear to men violates women’s agency and perpetuates an institutionalized system of discrimination, control of women and girls and further diminishes their place in society,” the experts said. In addition, UNAMA reported several human rights violations affecting women and restrictions on freedom of expression by the Taliban authorities. Approximately 400 women were banned from working at a pine nut processing facility, and another 200 were dismissed from a power plant. Women have been arrested for buying contraceptives, and unmarried female healthcare workers were coerced into marriage under the threat of job loss. Even though UN officials on the ground in Afghanistan have tried to make a difference, many women continue to face restrictions on public transport and employment due to their marital status or lack of a male chaperone. Arbitrary arrests are made for not adhering to the hijab decree, with varying consequences for violations. The Taliban have also curtailed freedom of expression by instructing educational institutions to remove books against Hanafi jurisprudence, impacting materials related to Shi’a beliefs, political parties, and the previous elected government. It is clear that Afghan’s women continue to experience sustained abuse and oppression at the hands of the Taliban government and it is up to Western countries to crack down on the authorities by tying aid relief to the loosening of restrictions on women. Without such intervention, Afghanistan’s women will only continue to suffer and remain a persecuted segment of society without any hope for their future.

This article was originally published by Patricia Harrity at The Daily Exposé. 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 said that “of course, the development will be used to push similar Agenda 2030 nightmare neighborhoods across America.” A more recent report by  NBC News promoted the car-free community to a national audience, talking with Culdesac co-founder Ryan Johnson, who claimed, “Every generation including 90% of Gen Z would like to pay more to live in a walkable neighborhood.” Do they know what their “walkable neighborhood” is really all about though? While they may be thinking that it is like a scene from a 1950s movie, with white picket fences and all, or at its worst, it would be more akin to “Nosedive” an episode of Black Mirror. However, as the creator of Black Mirror states, is “satire, on acceptance, and the images we like to portray and project to others” and he says “it is basically, the world we live in.” The Chinese Social Credit System. We cannot even say that 15-minute cities, will be like China’s Social Credit System (SCS), which is “a policy project that aims to incentivize lawful, honest behavior and expand financial services.” If you try to enter public place with a red QR code…immediately an Alam goes off. Chinese govt can easily cut you off from society By remotely switch your COVID passport to code red. Code QR red in China means you need to do your time in a quarantine camp and pay for it. https://t.co/3OmT3isry7 pic.twitter.com/i44hGcEx2f — Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 22, 2022 The term “Social Credit System” is problematic for various reasons. One, it makes the policy plan sound like a singular, coherent entity, when really it’s a “hodgepodge of public administration and legal reform initiatives”, as Ocean University of China associate professor Xin Dai puts it in his award-winning paper on the topic. However, a social credit system despite being on the totalitarian spectrum, cannot be compared to the “hodgepodge of public administration and legal reform initiatives that the global cult has planned for us. Most of us are aware of this, however, it is clear by the optimistic attitude of the Culdesac residents, that many more need to be made aware. The following information is from Stop World Control. Source 15 Minute Cities According to Stop World Control, every aspect of life in a Smart City will be monitored by a wide variety of data-harvesting technologies: SMART Lights SMART Poles SMART Cars SMART Neighborhoods SMART Homes SMART Appliances SMART Energy SMART Transportation and many other SMART technologies. Together they will form an omnipresent surveillance grid, continually collecting all information about every little detail of the life of the people. Source Smart Cities create the
Internet of Bodies Internet of Bodies
T hese external SMART devices are being synchronized with devices that are directly connected to the human body, like SMART watches on our wrists or SMART phones in our hands. These devices are able to gather information about what is happening inside our body and even have the ability to alter functions of the human body. In the near future, they will be implanted inside the human body to collect even more data and have a lot more influence on what happens inside of us. The personal information gathered by these billions of devices worldwide form a network called the Internet of Bodies, or in short, IoB. Currently, we are all familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT), which allows us to access unlimited information about every thing . The Internet of Bodies will essentially be the same, except it will gather all the personal, most intimate information about every body . This data will be in the hands of global corporations, governments, banking imperiums, etc. Source A Smart City limits your movement I n order to make sure that everyone remains within the perimeter of data harvesting, movement in Smart Cities will be limited to 15 – 20 minutes from home. This concept has coined the phrase “15 Minute Cities” and is being promoted as the best idea ever for saving the planet from climate change. Everything you need will be made available within a short distance, so no one ever needs to go beyond that perimeter. For longer distances, a permit will be required. On top of this, 30% of all wilderness areas will be closed off as an encouragement for people to seek their happiness inside the Smart Cities instead of venturing into the majestic outdoors. Virtual realities are being created as an alternative to spending time in nature. Examples are the MetaVerse and all its alternatives. Again, a “wonderful idea to save the planet”: lock the world population up inside Smart Cities, where they “enjoy life” in a virtual realm.Source There is zero privacy in
a Smart City a Smart City
T he World Economic Forum wrote an article on Forbes.com that describes the experience of a citizen inside a Smart City, who praises it as heaven on earth: “How come we never thought of this before?” One of the characteristics will be that no one will own anything. Everything will be shared: homes, cars, tools, cars, even clothes. At the end of the post, the citizen expresses one concern about life in a Smart City: “Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that somewhere, everything I do, think, and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me. All in all, it is a good life.” The central nervous system of Smart Cities will be 5G. According to former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, 5G is not only able to read our thoughts but can also insert thoughts and emotions into everyone. He stated that it would become the central nervous system of society, and he guaranteed that they will make sure it reaches every home in the country. Interestingly, all streetlights in Smart Cities are also concealed 5G antennas. Source Smart Cities harvest everyone’s data W hy do they want everyone to live in Smart Cities, and what is their motivation behind recording every little detail about all of us? The answer is given by Israeli professor Yuval Noah Harari, who is an advisor to the World Economic Forum. He explains: “The new masters of the world will be those that own the data.” The wealth of today is no longer gold or oil. It is data. The more data a corporation, government, or banking imperium has about the population, the more power it affords them. Smart Cities will be an unprecedented way to use humanity as one massive herd of data cows. Personal data will be milked from us all day long, and even while we sleep. Apart from gathering tremendous amounts of data, these technologies also allow for levels of control that are unheard of in previous civilizations. A former Silicon Valley engineer, Aman Jabbi, is sounding the alarm that Smart Cities will essentially be open concentration camps: “By giving them your data, you give them the ability to monitor and assess your behavior, which can now be converted into a social credit score. That score is then used to determine what privileges you qualify for and which ones you don’t in the new slave society.” This social credit score is already being deployed in China, and during the 2020 pandemic, many nations implemented the first steps toward this system of control. Digital IDs and digital currencies will be at the center of this grid. When people disobey, or criticize the system, their spending will be curtailed, and access to basic aspects of society will be blocked. Again, this is happening already in China, which is the testing ground for the rest of the world. Source Will Smart Cities
edit the human genome? edit the human genome?
A  concerning fact about Smart Cities is that all streetlights are LED lights, which have the ability to manipulate the human genome. Gene expression can be turned off or on with LED lights, which can also activate mRNA inside the human body. Scientific studies documenting these facts abound online.  Which begs the question: is this why authorities insist on injecting all of humanity with mRNA technologies that can be activated through LED light? Where Next? Culdesac today but it is coming to a city near you soon! Other cities chosen as ‘Pioneer cities’ include: Apeldoorn, Netherlands; Barcelona, Spain; Belfast, UK; Bengaluru, India; Bilbao, Spain; Bogotá, Colombia; Brasilia, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cordoba, Argentina; Daegu, South Korea; Dubai, UAE; eThekwini (Durban), South Africa; Faridabad, India; Gaziantep, Turkey; Hamamatsu, Japan; Hyderabad, India; Indore, India; Istanbul, Turkey; Kaga, Japan; Kakogawa, Japan; Kampala, Uganda; Karlsruhe, Germany; Leeds, UK; Lisbon, Portugal; London, UK; Maebashi, Japan; Manila, Philippines; Medellín, Colombia; Melbourne, Australia; Mexico City, Mexico; Milan, Italy; Moscow, Russia; Newcastle, Australia; and Toronto, Canada………. When it does reach your city, remember, just like Hotel California, “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave” The time to resist is now.