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Title: Orwell’s Dystopic Nightmare Comes True: Agenda 21 Smart Cities Are Here!
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Truth Stream Media
URL Source: http://truthstreammedia.com/orwells ... enda-21-smart-cities-are-here/
Published: Aug 24, 2013
Author: Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Post Date: 2015-04-19 15:58:25 by Orwellian Nightmare
Keywords: Connect-the-Dots, Freedom is Slavery, New World Order
Views: 5498
Comments: 14
So-called smart cities aren’t just some far off futuristic abstract twinkle in the New World Order’s eye…these are being built right now. Think privacy and freedom are limited commodities now? Try having either of those things living in a smart city control grid where everything you do is tracked, traced, chipped and monitored 24 hours a day. Currently being built in Abu Dhabi at a price tag of $22 billion, Masdar (which means “the source”) is a six-kilometer walled smart city shaped like two squares that resemble The Borg’s Unicomplex from the sci-fi TV show Star Trek. Set for a target population of 50,000 people, the city promises to be carbon emission-free with 100% renewable energy. Traditional cars are completely out; while walking, biking and mass transit are encouraged. Futuristic driverless ‘personal rapid transit’ (PRT) pod cars are being considered, but are apparently quite costly. The tiny cars look like a smaller version of the little electronic cars featured in the 1980s film Total Recall. As a research and testing ground for smart technologies, The National reported, “The officials running Masdar’s power grid will have access to detailed data on how energy is being used at any given moment and will have the means to directly moderate high rates of consumption to balance supply with demand.” [emphasis added] Sensometrix SA – a Geneva-based company and leader in next generation biometric technology with products including “SensoBrain” and the eerie biometric slogan “Your hand is the future” – will work with Masdar to continue developing the company’s security technologies such as identity access management. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) headquarters is set to reside in Masdar as well. After the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed on to the project in 2010, Hillary Clinton spoke at The Masdar Institute, remarking, “the partnership that we have established between the United States and Abu Dhabi around renewable energy and climate change and sustainable development that takes advantage of human capital is one of the most important partnerships for the future that we could be pursuing.” Clinton also noted the work in Masdar is “in the interest of global progress”. While truly sustainable, renewable green energy sources are a positive thing on the surface, the flip side to this community is that everything will be wired into a top-to-bottom, completely controlled smart grid. As experimental technologies are tested out over there, the U.S. deal through the DOE ensures these technologies will be “shared” (or someday imposed?) over here. Considering the rise of these smart cities, NY Times Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote,“What Masdar really represents, in fact, is the crystallization of another global phenomenon: the growing division of the world into refined, high-end enclaves and vast formless ghettos where issues like sustainability have little immediate relevance.” The city was set for 2016 completion, but several delays, including dust storms that incapacitated the solar panels, have set Masdar back to a potential 2020 end date. The 100 million square foot Songdo, a $40 billion project by Gale International and Morgan Stanley Real Estate, has been dubbed the “City in a Box,” and is set for completion by 2015. Smart Data Collective.com reports that Songdo will be completely wired, with microchips and/or wireless sensors in practically everything from houses to cars to children who will wear tracking bracelets just in case they get lost. TelePresence screens will adorn all businesses and shops. Even the garbage will offer the city’s central monitoring unit real-time data for instant analysis via microchip cards. As if the ubiquitous sensors and microchips weren’t enough, everything in Songdo will also be monitored via CCTV cameras as well. “The data will provide valuable insights in how people work, live and think within the smart city,” wrote Mark van Rijmenam of Smart Data Collective. [emphasis added] At first, giving real-time data on everything you do from the utilities you use to the garbage you throw away to a giant computer to help regulate resources and waste might sound helpful. Leave your water running? No worries, a computer can send a signal to the main control hub to shut it off for you. But as David Sasaki points out, smart cities could lead to dumb citizens: “There is a real risk that as our lives become more automated we become more like automatons. We will follow the guidance of our smart phones without reflecting on how we live our lives, and how we engage in our communities.” [emphasis added] Sasaki’s comment recalls the instance of Japanese tourists driving their car into an Australian bay because they followed orders from their GPS over their own eyeballs. Beyond that, while Sasaki notes that citizens could be given tax breaks, for example, if they reduce their water consumption, the same hand that can give can also take away by penalizing those in smart cities who use what might be considered too much of any resource – a determination that could easily adjust over time to become even more restrictive. Ever since 9/11 in America, we’ve seen a government that has completely abandoned the Constitution with undeclared drone wars that lack any form of due process; the declaration of the homeland as a battlefield and the ability to detain and disappear citizens with the National Defense Authorization Act; unprecedented expansion of the National Security Administration big brother surveillance state; the continual militarization of our police and further expansion of the Transportation Security Administration; and unfair targeting practices of certain political groups considered oppositional to the president’s agenda by the Internal Revenue Service just to name a few. Smart grid cities have the potential to bring some really wonderful alternative energy sources to the table, but with the power balance shifted into all the wrong hands, these cities amount to little more than glorified electronic concentration camps with trendy façades that play on “green guilt”. To put tyrannical governments in control of a network of these electronic concentration camps makes George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 look like a Sunday afternoon at a preschool playground.
Our brave new world starts with these brave new cities.
Masdar City: ‘City of the Future’
Songdo International Business District: A ‘City in a Box’
Smart Grid, Stupid Implications
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#1. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
These are cheap charlatan tricks are designed to fool the average person into 'hope for the future' when, in fact it does nothing for the world today. With Billions of people around the planet it is a wonder for why the UN is prominent agency for this sort of trick other than a cheap, salesman gimmick.
Progressives always promise Utopia. They they move into the farmhouse, drink all the whiskey, and soil the sheets.
But I thought "shine" was illegal? Oh wait never mind it's just illegal for the rest of us not for the "chosen ones".
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Dystopian cities -
Now you know you shouldn't post pics that portray the final results of the Lefts agenda, that's very mean of you. I wonder how much in taxes the city still collects to maintain that street and I would imagine a few neighboring streets that are just as bad?? So I wonder where they are putting all of the illegals who are flooding into this country? Obviously not in places like this hoping they will restore the neighborhood to it's former glory.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
I was born in, and lived in Camden until I was 4 years old. But they were able to make the property taxes. It's a problem.
Thanks for that lovely Camden, NJ street scene. The pile of tires is conveniently available amidst the burned out hulk of abandoned, rat-infested Leftist Utopian neighborhood homes. Presumably, juuust in case the word goes down to start necklacing Whitey.
HA! (funny....we never see photos like this in the LeftStream Media that underscores the result of Left's 'Great Plantation Society.') So I wonder where they are putting all of the illegals who are flooding into this country? Obviously not in places like this hoping they will restore the neighborhood to it's former glory. Scary question. The answer's even scarier.
Scary question. The answer's even scarier. That's what ObamaCare and Medicaid are for. The proceeds will be used to give houses to all the illegals they could never afford on their own in exchange for their allegiance/votes.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
The proceeds will be used to give houses to all the illegals they could never afford on their own in exchange for their allegiance/votes. Yup. You and I are totally on the same wave length :-) And don't forget all those unoccupied foreclosed homes and hotels. The middle class is about to forfeit everything they've ever worked for their entire lives -- just to accommodate illegal invaders. Sure it's about votes, but also to poke the white middle class and capitalism in the eye. "Kinda spreading the wealth around" and "fundamental change." This commie-globalist occupied gummint has been about nothing but hanging out the middle class to dry. That included the Bushes and RINOs.
Yes it is especially since it seems to be a pretty safe neighborhood, you hate to have to move her someplace else just cause it's getting too expensive. If you aren't married then you could move in with her or vice versa, if you are then you have a conundrum. My Mom lived in a neighborhood that had only one break in in 50 years, I did all I could to keep her there as long as I could. It helped quite a bit that her brother lived down the street but he ended up having worse health issues than her. They both eventually ended up in a nursing home before it was all said and done.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
The city of Camden gets financially supported by the
Last time I was in Detroit, a whole lot of it looked like your picture. Really sad what has happened to the US
Si vis pacem, para bellum
#2. To: buckeroo (#1)
#3. To: VxH (#2)
hey they move into the farmhouse, drink all the whiskey, and soil the sheets.
#4. To: CZ82 (#3)
Oh wait never mind it's just illegal for the rest of us not for the "chosen ones".
#5. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
Camden, New Jersey - 
#6. To: Chuck_Wagon (#5)
#7. To: CZ82 (#6)
Then - after the inner-city riots of the late 60s -
my parents said: 'We're OUTTA HERE' - and moved to the
suburbs. Which ultimately turned into very affluent
suburbs.
But now with my dad gone now, I'm gonna kick in even
more to keep my mom in that house that she cannot
physically maintain.
#8. To: Chuck_Wagon, CZ82 (#5)
#9. To: CZ82, Chuck_Wagon, sneakypete (#6)
Now you know you shouldn't post pics that portray the final results of the Lefts agenda, that's very mean of you.
#10. To: Liberator (#9)
So I wonder where they are putting all of the illegals who are flooding into this country? Obviously not in places like this hoping they will restore the neighborhood to it's former glory.
#11. To: CZ82 (#10)
(Edited)
That's what ObamaCare and Medicaid are for.
#12. To: Chuck_Wagon (#7)
It's a problem.
#13. To: CZ82 (#6)
...I wonder how much in taxes the city still collects
to maintain that street...
parts of Camden county that are wealthy - because
that's where the looting is good - where the money is.
#14. To: Chuck_Wagon (#5)
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