Smart Cities – Part 3
Continued from Part 2 | Part 1
1)
Focusing on some more information from this post, 5G – overview: surveillance and invasiveness:
a) Archived IBM page on Smarter Cities project from 2011:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110821160957/https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
Currently that URL redirects to IBM page with updated project information: https://www.ibm.com/industries/government – topics include IoT (Internet of Things)
b) There is a lot of information and references in Wikpedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smart_cities
c) Smart Cities Council from web.archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190405082506/https://smartcitiescouncil.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190525025614/https://smartcitiescouncil.com/article/about-us-global
d) In that post on 5G, I learned about an important organization, the International Telecommunications Union.
If you search the ITU for the term “Smart City” and “Smart Cities,” there are many pages. There is a lot of information on Smart Cities.
If you search that website for the term “6G” or “5G” also, there are many pages of information.
2) Searching the C40 Cities website for information on “15 minute cities” or “15 minute city,” I found some relevant information such as this page from 2022:
C40, NREP to collaborate on 15-minute city pilots
Carbon neutral cities are good for people’s health
All these names and terms refer to the same agenda.
Wikpedia has an article on the 15-minute city concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city. It references “Smart City” and the C40 organization.
Altogether, there is a vast amount of information in these websites, even just using Wikipedia by itself.
3) It’s my guess that the Delos Symposium discussions on city planning that Marshall McLuhan participated in eventually became discussions about Smart City planning.
The Delos Symposion was a forum for discussion and debate over issues of Ekistics, or the study of human settlements, in its widest sense.
“Human settlements” is a major focus of United Nations Agenda 21. See also UN Habitat I.
Attendees included many other famous academic figures who were heavily involved in planning or laying out visions for the modern world, such as Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Arnold Toynbee, etc These names come up again and again for those of us doing research on topics like the counterculture, Esalen, the Macey Conferences, for example.
4) Going back to the report “Arup C40 The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1 5C World” on C40 cities from Part 2 (go to https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/the-future-of-urban-consumption-in-a-1-5c-world and click “Download”–ignore the link below that), here are the extracts from the austerity sections with their shocking, dictatorial interventions:
6.7.1 Aviation: consumption intervention
The first target is the “progressive” target for 2030 and the second target is “ambitious” target for 2030.
Reduce number of flights:
1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 2 years per person
1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person
6.6.1 Private transport: consumption interventions
For example:
Reduce ownership:
190 vehicles per 1,000 people
0 private vehicles
Also imagine living with the same car for 20-50 years!
This is the same agenda as the “Great Reset.” It’s selling you on living in deprivation.
6.5.1
Clothing and textiles: consumption interventions
This study modelled two interventions that could reduce consumption-based emissions from clothing and textiles across C40 cities.
Example:
Reduce number of clothing and textile items:
8 new clothing items per person per year
3 new clothing items per person per year
6.4.1 Food: Consumption interventions
Example:
Dietary change (this intervention is characterised by three major changes which are described in more detail):
16 kg of meat per person per year
0 kg meat consumption
90 kg dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) per person per year
0 kg dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) per person per year
2,500 kcal per person per day
2,500 kcal per person per day (progressive and ambitious targets are the same in this case)
Some people will not acknowledge the truth about what they’re looking at here. Justifying oppression (and worse) takes years of belief-development, i.e., brainwashing.