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1. 15 minute cities coming to America?
Doubtless you’ve all at least heard of the 15-minute city plan, and the furore that has erupted over it in the UK.
Earlier this year Oxford announced plans to divide the city into neighborhoods, and make it impossible to drive from one to the other. Essentially, in the name of the environment, they want to make it so people never stray too far from their homes.
It was met with a LOT of protest – as you’d expect. But all of those protesters have been dismissed as “conspiracy theorists”, and at least five other cities have announced they will introducing the scheme in the near future.
…and this week we got a hint that it may be crossing the pond. Yesterday it was announced that New York City will be introducing a “Central Business District Tolling Program”, what we call the congestion charge in London. Drivers will pay up to $23 each time they take their car into the city centre.
If you want to some evidence this is just another aspect of the great reset, well here’s CNN saying so:
New York City is still clawing out of from the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Congestion pricing advocates say it’s a crucial piece of the city’s recovery and a way to re-imagine the city for the future.
Several other cities are already in the planning stages for their own “Central Business District Tolling Program”. Something to keep an eye on.
2. QR Codes to access the Supermarket…
German-supermarket chain ALDI has started requiring a digital pass in order to enter some of their stores, as shown in this video recorded at a london branch:
The store is one of ALDI’s new “shop and go” outlets, which has no checkout counters, and requires an app installed on to enter, at which point they simply monitor what you take with the help of their instore cameras, and then charge your account the amount they think you owe.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are not comfortable with the shop-by-surveillance method, partly because it requires giving ALDI access to your phone, partly because it means they are literally monitoring everything you buy, partly because it means you can’t shop with cash and mostly because…well, it’s just creepy.
Defenders of the practice insist those that don’t like it can simply “go to a shop with old-fashioned check-outs”, but they miss the point: If we don’t oppose this practice now, eventually, there won’t be any of those left.
It will be an interesting acid test for what’s left of true capitalism to see if any supermarket chain decides to go against the grain and pledge to never go the app-based shopping route. Smart moneys on no.
3. Aliens…really?
A “former” US military intelligence officer has come forward claiming that the US government has recovered an “intact non-human craft”. His lawyer told the press the ship was “larger on the inside than out”, it “distorted space and time” and made some recovery workers ill.
This follows the Biden administration releasing alleged UFO documents back in 2021 and then putting together a UFO task force in February of this year.
…you know what? This is too much for TWitNN. Stay tuned for a longer piece in the next few days.
In the meantime, what do you think? Is there something real there? Or is it the silliest psy-op in the history of psy-ops?
BONUS: Not-at-all breaking news of the week
Yesterday, Sky News interrupted their coverage to insert a new banner that declared:
BREAKING: The UK has now exceeded the 30C mark.
OK, so for starters “the UK” didn’t exceed 30oC, one thermometer did…at Heathrow Airport. Everybody knows airports are much hotter than their surroundings, because of the wide, flat open spaces and tarmac and all the heavy machinery and jet exhausts…and you really don’t need me to explain any of this.
In summary, it being over 30 degrees in June would not be “breaking news” even if it were true. And it’s not.
BONUS II: Bye Bye Boris
Former-PM Boris Johnson has resigned his seat in Parliament, claiming he is being subjected to a witch hunt in the form of PartyGate and the Covid inquiry.
We don’t know what high ranking “consultant” or “manager” job he’ll be given at which bank/telecommunications giant/defense company yet, how much he’ll get paid for speaking engagements, what the title of his ghost-written autobiography will be or when exactly he’ll be made a lord…but does anyone really care?
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WEF Orders US Gov’t To Forcibly Seize Farms By 2025 And Burn Millions of Cattle – The People’s Voice. A new #WEF facist order is rising. They have infiltrated our governments and our borders. Destroy the independent farms. Seize control of the #Food
@JimFergusonUK
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
@EvaVlaar
Here’s the undeniable proof that he Netherlands is a pilot country for the WEF’s Great Reset and the 2030 agenda. Straight from
@ProfKlausSchwab
himself to his puppet
@markrutte
( Shows WEF memo on shaping the post covid-19 world . Henry Kissinger called for the need of a ” parallel enterprise ” for the post covid world in the Wall St Journl , April 2020 )
These city center tax schemes may have roots in WEF’s GloboHomo BUT any suggestions to rape taxpayers and business people or tourists has high appeal to the communist porch dweller incompetent class running these places.
More. Bleed them white.
Last time I was in a city was probably 10+ years ago.
I think we should put a big, very high wall around the cities. Those who want to live like that should stay there.
I will promise not to come to the cities if they will promise (and we enforce) not leaving them.
Everybody wins. 🙂
An extra charge for entering downtown Chicago? Sure. Fine by me.
I stopped going to the Loop about ten years ago. Good place to get yourself shot,beat up and carjacked. No thanks.
They only way to win this game is not to play.
Then there are those fucking privatized parking meters that are I heard 400% higher than before Democrat shitheads sold rights to them to a private consortium.
How anybody would pay an additional fee after getting off the Eisenhower toll road to a commercial desert getting smaller every day is a mystery to me.
It is only going to get worse with this low IQ stereotype crackpot they supposedly elected Mayor.
It’s time to start boycotting Aldi. Yah! Never patronized them in the first place.
Screw your compliance mandates to gain access. Choke on it.
“. . . the furore that has erupted over it in the UK.”
“It was met with a LOT of protest . . .”
I find it ironic that there are more protests against 15-minute cities than there were against the scamdemic lockdowns. The scamdemic lockdowns restricted much more than the 15-minute cities will, including even restrictions on attending church. But it doesn’t matter how much they protest because there is no way the sheeple are ever going to defeat the NWO. The NWO is eventually going to accomplish all of the goals of their Great Reset, including reducing the world population to 500 million. And ultimately the best way to reduce congestion on the roads is to get rid of most of the useless eaters who are causing the congestion. I agree with the NWO in that regard.
Justify your continued existence.
Actually, I don’t know for sure that I will survive the depopulation, but I am confident enough in my ability to understand the NWO that I think I have an excellent chance of surviving. And that ability is what justifies my continued existence. Many of those who are not smart enough to figure out what is happening will not survive. That is how natural selection works.
the dumb will survive. What other reason is there for feeding the turd world until they drastically outnumber us?
people are upset because the lockdowns and shortages opened at least some eyes about what will happen when you are in a 15 minute city.
The smart cities and market places are to keep the lowest denominator in and out.
It’ll become a necessity the further we go into the Turning.
Ha!
Install stupid devices, win stupid prizes. No sympathy for the idiot.
I bet he keeps all of his ‘devices’ once service is restored, having learned NOTHING.
Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor Has Been Suspended and Arrested After Waging All-Out War on Cash
Something rather out of the ordinary occurred in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy, this past weekend: the (now former) Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, was suspended from office by the country’s newly elected President Bola Tinubuand. Hours later, Emefiele — who had been at the helm of the CBN for nine years, during which time the Nigerian currency lost 65% of its value and inflation almost tripled — was taken into custody by Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS).
Governors of central banks, which are generally independent authorities, are rarely suspended from their posts, and they are hardly ever arrested. For the moment, it is not entirely clear why Emefiele has been detained but there are a whole slew of possible reasons. The arrest follows a months-long investigation into his office by the SSS, which tried unsuccessfully to arrest him in December on allegations of “financing terrorism, fraudulent activities, and economic crimes of national security dimension.”
All-Out War on Cash
Those “economic crimes of national security dimension” presumably now include waging an all-out war on cash, with dire consequences for Nigeria’s already embattled economy. Between January and February, the CBN withdraw all high-denomination notes from circulation and failed to replace them with the newly designed notes it had promised, triggering a cash crunch. The central bank also placed stringent limits on the daily cash withdrawals of anyone who could access cash. As with India’s brush with demonetisation in 2016, the result was unmitigated chaos and economic pain — in a country where 63% of the population was already poor and 33% unemployed….
IMF: “Disappointingly Low” Public Adoption of eNaira
Most of the people who have been able to download the eNaira app and have chosen to do so, have not bothered to use it. In a recent working paper, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — which played a key role in the CBDC’s development and roll-out — described the Nigerian public’s adoption of the CBDC as “disapppointingly low,” with fewer than 2% of the downloaded eNaira wallets actually being used…
But the mere fact that the eNaira has had such an underwhelming impact in its first year and a half of existence while its main architect, Godwin Emefiele, is now under arrest, might give other central banks in Africa pause before launching their own CBDCs. Just over a week ago, the central bank of East Africa’s largest economy, Kenya, which is widely viewed as a pioneer in the “mobile money” space, announced that it did not consider launching a CBDC a “compelling priority” after conducting a public consultation on the matter. It also mentioned the “challenges” that have hampered other central banks’ efforts to implement CBDCs. From Reuters:
Given the role Africa has long played as a testing ground for biometric ID technologies, mobile money initiatives and now CBDCs, this is a welcome development.
Once it gets here, if, Patriots need to surround every checkpoint with snipers, from multiple angles.