Doug Casey on “15-Minute Cities” and Penning You In for the Next Lockdown

Via International Man

15-Minute City

International Man: The “15-minute city” is an urban planning concept rapidly spreading in North America and Europe. They aim to make everything—where people work, shop, get their education, healthcare, and leisure activities—just 15 minutes away.

The idea is for bureaucrats to restrict—and eventually prohibit—car use because everything is within walking or biking distance. Phasing out hydrocarbons, in general, and cars with internal combustion engines, in particular, is a primary goal of the carbon hysterics.

Critics also argue that 15-minute cities will eventually allow for total surveillance and control of people’s lives, as governments will inevitably pair them with an ESG social credit system and central bank digital currencies.

What is your take on the 15-minute city concept?

Doug Casey: It’s social engineering taken to a new level—trying to reform the way humans act and live. In fact, it’s social engineering that’s expressed in the form of civil engineering, putting people in the kind of houses, environments, and locales that the elites—strike that, I mean parasites—prefer.

It’s as if the whole human race is taking a role in the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show. But that’s way too benign. The way they’re trying to reform the cities and force people to stay in place in certain areas, it’s more like the panopticon, which was a type of prison where all people could be observed easily by the guards at all times.

Of course, keeping everybody within a 15-minute radius of their home sounds convenient, homey, and small town-like. But it just makes things much more convenient for artificial intelligence to monitor where everybody is. Not just in their vehicles, either, because the next step along this path will be to make it desirable for everybody to have a chip implanted so individual bodies can be monitored. The 15-minute city concept is just a step on the way to something much more dystopian.

International Man: 15-minute cities received a big boost from the Covid hysteria as many city councils and mayors sought to redesign city spaces amid the lockdowns.

The concept has spread to many areas in North America and Europe, with plans to transform parts of the biggest cities into numerous 15-minute city zones. We have already seen this happen in Ottawa, Oxford, and other large cities.

What is really going on here?

Doug Casey: It’s all about control, but it won’t be sold as a military “you must do this” type of control. It will be a soft, “do it for your own good” type of control. And, of course, it’s part of the general climate insanity for the supposed good of Mother Earth. The idea is to get people to stay out of their cars and, for that matter, stay off of planes and even public transportation.

It’ll be sold as a great way to get to know your neighbors, walk, and maybe bicycle. They’re trying to return the world to medieval times where nobody went more than 15 minutes from their house. Because not only weren’t they supposed to but there might be dragons over the next hill.

International Man: The global elite don’t want the plebs to be as mobile as they used to be.

In recent years, we’ve seen more and more travel restrictions. The Covid hysteria set a precedent for using lockdowns as official policy and introduced many confusing travel restrictions. The carbon hysteria also serves as a pretext for all sorts of proposals to limit and restrict travel. The trend now in motion is gaining momentum.

How do you see 15-minute cities within the context of this trend?

Doug Casey: People are far easier to control if you know where they are at all times. And the elite—again, they’re parasites that don’t produce anything or serve a useful purpose—want the plebs to stay in place, not just physically, but psychologically, economically, and politically.

They’d prefer to live in a world where places like St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Machu Picchu, and the Grand Canyon aren’t overwhelmed with the hoi polloi because they’re back observing their 15-minute travel zones and adhering to requirements that allow them to expend only so many pounds of carbon.

It’ll be much more convenient for the parasites from a personal living point of view, in addition to affording them vastly more control.

International Man: The World Economic Forum (WEF) has promoted 15-minute cities.

Why are they interested in this topic?

Doug Casey: In the past, the United Nations provided the premier forum for governments to get together and palaver about how to restructure the world. But the UN—fortunately—is fading into obscurity. It’s now really no more than an expensive club for mid-level government officials to vacation in New York while playing big shot and connecting with other ambitious bureaucrats.

The World Economic Forum is for the real power people.

The WEF, however, needs a reason for existing. These people are into power and money. They naturally like to socialize with each other, scratching each other’s backs and seeing themselves as masters of the universe. Now that they’ve gotten to know each other at the WEF and have clearly taken the reigns over at least the Western world, they’re no longer there just to socialize. They have lots of big plans for the plebs.

The concept of the 15-minute city is one of the many prongs of attack that they’ve launched to essentially take over the world, as outrageous as that sounds.

International Man: Given everything we have discussed, what can the average person do to safeguard his sovereignty in general and his freedom to travel in particular?

Doug Casey: First of all, try to relocate to a rural area where you’re much more in control of your own life, and you’re not surrounded by thousands of people who might rat you out as a non-conformist and could easily turn hysterical.

The second thing is to get as rich as you can because having assets helps insulate you from both the parasitic elites and the capite censi.

And third thing you can do is to resist any way you can. Speaking out and letting other people know that they aren’t alone in thinking what’s going on is actually evil. But recognize the risks of doing so.

We can’t change the trends of history. The atmosphere in today’s world is like that of the early days of the US Civil War or the early days of World War I or World War II. The boobs become stupidly hysterical, enthusiastic to ” join up” to fight some real or imagined foe, and marching together in lockstep. A giant mind virus is well on its way to capturing most people.

We live in really dangerous times.

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The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Good luck with the cat herding, you fucking morons!

anonymous
anonymous

My opinion? GTH

VOWG
VOWG

My opinion, a vigorous application of the second amendment is needed, NOW.

Winchester
Winchester

This is 15-minutes of walking time, seeing as we are talking cities and they don’t want people to drive. I guess public transit can be used. Shit, 15 minutes is a quarter way through a stroll around my property. I enjoy living far from everything.

Dangerous Variant

“First of all, try to relocate to a rural area…”

“The second thing is to get as rich as you can…”

“…helps insulate you from both the parasitic elites…”

These f*cking carpetbagging bug people disgust me almost as much as the prog death cult.

anon a moos
anon a moos

“The second thing is to get as rich as you can…”

You should include, and get your wealth out of their reach.

Buy real assets, after bullets and beans, get the shiny stuff you hold. Do Not Bank on anything but collapse.

Dangerous Variant

real wealth is already out of their reach because it has nothing to do with their “money”.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Bartering items: have a bin to stash bartering items that are commonly used.

VOWG
VOWG

You will need your own freaking army to keep it.

Mary Christine

They are only think they are elite. Just drop that word and call them parasites.

Boogie
Boogie

The Donald thinks this is a good idea. Are you sure he’s not a NWO scumbag prick? Inquiry minds want to know.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Trump is pals with some of the WEF guys incl Rothchild’s, so was Clintons, Bushes, etc. Can’t trust any politician they are all bought off.

Boogie
Boogie

Eye’s wide open Laura

Jay
Jay

This will go right over most peoples head, but the only way to fight this is to get right with God and then influence everyone around you to do the same. If you don’t, then you will find that God will allow you to be slaves of the globalists instead of slaves to God. Remember, the globalists aren’t in control. God is.

Machinist
Machinist

Kinda reminds you of the life of Moses, doesn’t it ?
But even then, the people rebelled against God, so they wandered for 40 years until the last of that generation had passed.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Won’t work, been there done that yrs ago: trying to influence others is useless. Parents can’t even get their older kids to see things.

Jay
Jay

Personally, I know thousands of people, but I only know two people who regularly go door to door, handing out Bibles and Gospel tracts and telling people how to be saved. How many people do you know like that?

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

People can get info like that online salvation sermons from old revival days several hundred years ago preached and recorded by evangelists: sermonaudio.com. people don’t like strangers coming to their doors, they won’t answer, too much crime and women alone won’t open door.

Obbledy
Obbledy

IDK,I think a lot of parents are tools themselves… they’re not standing in principle.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

Parents today who allow their kids in gov. schools with lgbt teachings and drag queen’s acting in libraries were raised in back alley’s and gutters, taught no values and decency, probably raised by one parent or g’parent, became parents that bred kids today who are entitled brats who raise themselves on cell phones and answer social media sites that have older men wanting 14 yr old girls for sex parties.

poordude
poordude

Good luck trying to make everyone live in cities. Not going to happen. Just more leftist nonsense.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Probably 99% will embrace it. All they see is the “Good” and they refuse to even contemplate what could be “Bad” about the plan. Critical thinking is near extinct.

I have heard several folks gushing about how great these cities will be. Idiot optimists who actually think the plan (or any governmental plan) is for the benefit of the proles.

Forearmed
Forearmed

No outside control is warranted if humans truly had self control. The NWO is a scam being implemented to make the rich elites more rich as they design cities which are essentially robot control FEMA CAMPS. If you like being a beast of burden for the rich, then rally behind this insanity, but there those of us who would prefer to keep our guns and protect ourselves from their idiocy !!!

Salty Old Cracker
Salty Old Cracker

As long as I can get through the fence to hunt deer in sector 11….

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Sort of sorry I removed that from the old DVR, but it was gettin’ crowded in there.

Machinist
Machinist

I’d be arrested from day one for fishing in the park aquarium.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Use dynamite. You’re in and out in five minutes.

Actually…scratch that. The object is stealth. Use a car battery and some jumper cables. Same results without the noise.

Big fish to you, mate!

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

The majority of people all thru history lacked critical thinking skills, and I know so few now that are informed in retirement age groups. During covid I made hard choices, cutting people out of my life because of their stupidity joining the covid cult and other issues. Having email changed, phone numbers went to spam folder as I am focused on other priorities. During these “iffy” times in this country we don’t need to be tied to anyone not on same page incl. relatives. These smart cities are starting with larger cities then on down to smaller, it will be years to complete, and many will be passed on. Few patriots exist today, real alpha men who will stand up to protect family and community. This country is without hope and informed people know it. Younger generations don’t care what happens anyway, brainwashed in gov. schools. 501c3 veterans org., civic clubs and churches remain silent out of fear of man and losing the tax exemption. Churches for the most part social clubs and apostates. Home church or meeting with sincere people is only solution now to interact. Online meet ups is another solution (zoom, google hangouts) bartering groups is another.

MTD
MTD

These assholes basically want you to live in a coffin sized room in a stack and pack apartment building located on top of a Walmart or Target, just surviving on government handouts until they can turn you into soylent green. Good times ahead.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

40% of the schity dwellers live like this already. Some don’t ever leave their apt. with the ease of Uber delivery. And by the time the people underneath call about the smelly drips coming through the ceiling, they already are Liquified Soylent Green.

Walter
Walter

The video of the chickens in the coop who didn’t even want to go out into the yard was a good fifteen minute city primer. Fundamentally, you stay quiet, stay put and produce for us. We’ll pick up what you produce, feed you and ensure you’re housed. Medical care will be provided within limits and euthanasia will be provided on demand or when deemed necessary.

Who could possibly object to such a scheme?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Medical care will be provided within limits and euthanasia will be provided on demand or when deemed necessary.

So you have been to Canada………

Joselito_LOpez3
Joselito_LOpez3

Total BS the 15 minutes city, it takes more than 15 minutes just to go to a nearby Supermarket a few blocks away to get groceries, what about dropping kids at school, going to a Doctor appointment, going to work, it certainly take more than 15 minutes.
These people are psychopaths!

buffalolips
buffalolips

“15 minute city” seems to me a synonym for “plantation” and all that it implies. You would have a hard time convincing me that the history of slavery is not repeating (in a literal, if not a technological form). I have no doubts the end result is intended to be the same.

Obbledy
Obbledy

Repugnant to the very precious gift that is being human……that’s the idea I’m sure.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I see your 15 minute city and raise you an AR15

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

I think a lot of people are concerned about being inside a 15 minute city. But not too many think about what may lie outside the fifteen minute city.
Inside:
-CBDCs
-Digital ID
-Police state
-Total Control of peeps with only deemed “essentials” allowed.
-Dip baths for unessential people
-Soylent Starbucks for essential people
-mRna shots for good behavior
-mRna shots for bad behavior
-Outright indoctrination
Outside:
-BLM armed Helicopters Eradicating Wild Herds
-Morning DEW Weaponry
-Elite Hunts for Self Sufficient Resisters/Combatants
-Suicidal Drones by Darpa Testing
-Genetic Diversification Testing
-Robotic Mosquitos to Synthetic Squirrel Surveillance Systems
-Unseen Terraforming and Habitation of Off Planet Migrants
-Unprepared Mad Max Preppers killing other Unprepared Mad Max Preppers

Whether inside or outside this is a wipeout of people. Some will move into controlled zoo’s, some will take their chances on the outside.
The world is now completely privatized and they want you off the land or in the coop.
Welcome to the Dark Ages for Humanity.
Welcome to the dawn of a new age for Earth.

BL
BL

And the whole shootin’ match depends on cell phones and grid serveilance. Throw the phones in the river/lake/ f’up towers…..problem solved.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

I wish it were that easy. But definitely a start… that ultimately would depend on how infinite peoples defiance is.

BL
BL

C-B-D-C ain’t S-H-I-T without cellphones. unless you chip the body of each human, those can be removed. Everyone can turn off routers and use 5G towers as target practice …..next.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

Of course, I don’t have a cellphone, turn off my router, refuse the liquid chips but as we saw people will fight to the death for electronic spectrum domination. We’d have to wait for most of to die off or become to weak to pull other people down.

BL
BL

Then Babble, those fukwits can be enslaved. One would surmise that we would be hunted for slaughter. There are worse things than death…..like slavery or being turned into 60% machine Borgs.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn

Yeah I wasn’t going to fill in the blank there, and your statement is totally true.
My line to family and friends is I am more concerned about how I die than how I live.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann

People forced to eat bugs like they are feeding kids for lunch in schools now in the UK.

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