The 15 Minute City is a UN and WEF plan, because they care about you want you to drive less.
A cartoon from the WEF just for you good girls and boys:
In the WEF’s own words — this rearrangement of cities is absolutely about climate change:
As climate change and global conflict cause shocks and stresses at faster intervals and increasing severity, the 15-minute city will become even more critical.
And the solution was the pandemic (they really say that):
The obvious, yet incomplete, answer is the pandemic…. with COVID-19 and its variants keeping everyone home (or closer to home than usual), the 15-minute city went from a “nice-to-have” to a rallying cry. Meeting all of one’s needs within a walking, biking or transit distance was suddenly a matter of life and death.
And then the dark hand of the totalitarian managers appears, as James Woudhuysen, warned in Spiked in late October:
The madness of the ‘15-minute city’
The green agenda is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown.
To this end, Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, wants to divide the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts. In these districts, it is said, most household essentials will be accessible by a quarter-of-an-hour walk or bike ride, and so residents will have no need for a car.
On the surface, these 15-minute neigbourhoods might sound pleasant and convenient. But there is a coercive edge. The council plans to cut car use and traffic congestion by placing strict rules on car journeys.
Residents will have to register their cars with the council and they will be tracked to count their journeys through the key gateways. It’s the social credit scheme that starts with your car and works like anti-frequent-flyer points.
Under the new proposals, if any of Oxford’s 150,000 residents drives outside of their designated district more than 100 days a year, he or she could be fined £70.
The concept of the 15-minute city was born with ‘C40’. Chaired today by London mayor Sadiq Khan, C40 calls itself a ‘network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis’.
Climate lockdowns? Seriously?
It all sounds a bit ridiculous to suggest a lockdown “for the climate” but listen to the BBC. They’re working awfully hard to persuade us — they obviously think voters won’t want this. Here they are connecting the “15 Minute City” to the fun of covid lockdowns, and setting this up as though it’s totally normal for the government to decide who your friends are:
How ’15-minute cities’ will change the way we socialise
And furthermore lockdowns in Paris were great social moments where we all made friends. Who knew how much fun it would be to be told you couldn’t drive far?
.. for Fraioli, the two-month lockdown that began on 17 March – confining her to a 1km radius of her home – gave her a nuanced, enriching view of her neighbourhood. “I discovered it’s possible to feel like you’re in a small village in Paris,” she says. “To get to know your neighbours, to maintain good links with shopkeepers, to favour local craftsmen and shops over large supermarkets. I even joined a citizens’ movement where people prepare food baskets for homeless people. I thought I would have a hard time living the lockdown, but I was perfectly at home, in a quiet place.”
I don’t seem to recall “getting to know neighbours” as being part of any lockdown anywhere?
And lookout — the 15 minute city is not just Oxford, but turning up in Brisbane, Melbourne, Barcelona, Paris, Portland and Buenos Aires. It’s everywhere.
Oxford City Council is moving faster than the rest
Apparently, not enough people are catching buses or riding bikes. But instead of making that more appealing, the totalitarians will force it through tracking and fines. Oxfordshire has just approved on November 29th, the “traffic filters” trial which will turn the city into a “fifteen minute city”. The Trial will start in Jan 2024.
It’s a crowded area, Oxfordshire, and no one likes traffic congestion, but in a free world the problem is self-limiting as drivers get fed up with delays and exorbitant parking costs, and they car-pool or choose to catch the bus or ride a bike. But in Big Nanny State the local rulers start making rules about who can and can’t visit and how often, and they want your car registered on their own special list with cameras to track you and fines to punish you. They offer exemptions of course, but then you have to apply for them and get permission.
Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown ‘trial’ to Begin in 2024
Vision News, November 30th
Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.
Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.
Every resident will be required to register their car with the County Council who will then monitor how many times they leave their district via number plate recognition cameras.
In the end, these aggressively overmanaged schemes mean more paperwork, more tracking, more jobs for bureaucrats and more free passes for “friends” of Big Government.
The more rules you have the more corrupt the system gets. For example, some city blocks are included in the favored list with 100 passes, while others get just 25 — so the property values of the inner circle addresses rise. As a bonus, in years to come property developers “in the know” and on the favoured list with certain councilors can arrange for rezoning on the right day (the one after they buy the property) and voila — that’s a nice capital gain for them
“Reconnecting Oxford” wants to end these artificial blockages
From “Reconnecting Oxford” –– a protest movement to stop filters and road closures.
The councilors held a major consultation process but apparently knew the outcome. It says rather a lot about the attitude of one councilor who said it was going ahead whether people liked it or not.
Traffic filters will divide city into six “15 minute” neighbourhoods, agrees highways councillor
Oxford Mail, October 24
ROAD blocks stopping most motorists from driving through Oxford city centre will divide the city into six “15 minute” neighbourhoods, a county council travel chief has said.
And he insisted the controversial plan would go ahead whether people liked it or not.
Businesses in Oxford are not impressed:
Hotelier Jeremy Mogford, who owns the Old Bank Hotel in High Street and the Old Parsonage Hotel and Gees, both in Banbury Road, described the plan as disastrous for business.
He previously told the Oxford Mail: “What we have is people making decisions that don’t live in the city centre or spend much time in the city.
“The council has adopted the position that climate change is real”
Skeptic and long range weather forecaster Piers Corbyn spoke to the council to warn them:
[Piers Corbyn said] “The point is that the basis of these documents are false – man-made climate change does not exist and if you don’t believe me, look at the sky. You should have a special meeting to discuss whether man-made climate change exists or not.”
Responding to Mr Corbyn’s claims, councillor Andrew, the council’s cabinet member for highways management, said: “Mr Corbyn said climate change is not real – this council has formally adopted a position that climate change is real.
“Mr Corbyn you are wrong, we are right.”
Well that’s it then. Councils control the weather. If this had nothing to do with climate change they could have said “we’ll see” and dismissed him anyway. But they have to believe…
Oxfordshire council has already infuriated local businesses earlier this year with road closures and traffic calming measures which have reduced the customer base significantly. Drivers destroyed 20 bollards in less than three weeks, and one frustrated cafe owner put up a giant billboard in protest saying “So much for democracy”. Even cyclists don’t like the traffic slowing measures, saying their road trips are more dangerous. There is at least one Oxford protest group that seems to have some success in stopping the road closures.
So who does want the traffic filters? Oxford University and the bus companies, and the council which expects to make £1.1m from fining errant drivers.
From the Oxford City Council Consultation page we see the plan is to reduce journeys that you think are necessary but the councilors don’t.
Why are we introducing trial traffic filters?
Across our county, we want to reduce unnecessary journeys by private vehicles and make walking, cycling, public and shared transport the natural first choice.
This will help us deliver an affordable, sustainable and inclusive transport system that enables the county to thrive whilst protecting the environment and making Oxfordshire a better place to live for all residents.
And it is about “protecting the environment” by tracking you and resisting your movement.
Canterbury is planning something spookily similar –– dividing up the city into five different districts with drivers unable to cross between zones without being fined. The old grid system of cities made for shorter distances and more choices. The new system offers only more obstacles and less freedom.
h/t David Maddison, John Connor II and Tonyb
UPDATED: the post has been re-edited to clarify exactly what is happening at Oxford, and to spell out the link between the “15 minute cities” plan and climate change and pandemic lockdowns, thanks to comments from Tonyb.
What happens if you go 101 (or more) times, go without asking permission, or travel when permission is denied?
What happens when you disbey more than once?
What happens when you disobey many times?
What happens if you don’t obey any rule that causes no harm?
What happens when they decide your very existence is a harm?
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The “power of sheer numbers” has yet to happen, although I’m somewhat surprised no-one anywhere has “vented their anger” in a very decisive act at the pollies responsible for these events.
It’ll all snap, it has to.
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It may well all “snap”, but mot before a LOT of people have had their “attitudes adjusted”, via fines, imprisonment, confiscation of property, “executive action,all of the above, etc. You know; “the usual”.
This is just more ramping up the calculated provocation for the specific purpose of pushing folk “over the edge”, whereupon said folk will be VERY PUBLICLY given “the treatment”.
A Variation of Mao’s old. “Let a millio9n flowers bloom”. When several million flowers “bloomed”, they were promptly “rearranged”.
Let me know if you think there is nothing to worry about, here.
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These nutty policies have yet to be imposed hence the civil disobedience has yet to occur. Once they implement then watch the destruction of the barriers. They recently put up plastic ‘traffic calming’ bollards. Over 20 of these were destroyed in the first month. They are replacing them with steel ones. Time to ready the angle grinders and stock up on paint spray cans for the cameras.
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I have never heard of ‘Vision news’ which supplies much of the information for this article. It seems to wildly misrepresent what is intended. The actual decisions made last Friday by Oxford council can be seen here which are intended for a six month trial
https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/traffic-filters-2022
Oxford is a medieval city with a very difficult to navigate city centre that is thronged with tourists and students all vying for space. Add in that the population of Greater Oxford is set to increase by 150,000 people in the next 10/15 years and it is clear the status quo is not going to work.
Add in that the parties involved -including the greens-are not keen on motor vehicles but that of course Many thousands of voters are involved in making the mini at nearby Cowley and nothing too drastic is going to be trialed as the greens/labours grip on the council is not strong.
I think to describe this as ‘Climate Lockdowns’ is considerable exaggeration, but it would be fair to say there is a desire to reduce traffic movements in what is a congested and polluted city
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“Which are intended for a six month trial”
You must be looking through rose tinted spectacles if you believe that! The only reason councils announce trials is to appear to be “Going through the motions”. In numerous cases the result is a foregone conclusion…
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The 6 month trials will coincide with local elections. Trials are very often abandoned especially traffic related as they tend not to be possible when people actually come up against the practical problems caused. It is a shame people are not more vociferous and get involved BEFORE stupid plans are implemented.
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What next, fines, uh, licences to:
* be a tourist?
* be a sports competitor?
* be a sports spectator?
* holiday in a caravan at the seaside?
* be with family for Christmas?
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Arch criminals every one of these lying self enriching so called politicians and leaders.
[snip]
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Thanks for your comments Tonyb. I was also relying on Spiked . But I’ve substantially re-edited and added in more links and references to stories from the Oxford Mail, Daily Mail, the BBC and some longer quotes from the WEF as well. They show more definitively that the purpose of the “15 minute cities” is very much about climate change (so the WEF say) and is “inspired” by covid lockdowns. Calling it a Climate Lockdown is a fair thing.
I note the Vision News says that the councilors did not tell people they were going to do this until just after the last election. The shadow cabinet member for highways calls the councilors an “anti-motorist coalition.”
I’ve also explained my big problem with all this is that even if it was a traffic problem, there is a free market solution where they make alternatives better, instead they’ve picked the totalitarian path which involves tracking people and fining them, and dole out permits to “selected” friends.
Reading more of the local news, there have been many protests, and at least 6,000 people opposed. The desire for the traffic measures doesn’t seen to be coming from the people who live and work there.
But I appreciate the feedback and the post is better for it. Thanks.
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Nothing wrong with the concept of designing 15min communities.
It’s the totalitarian instinct that these people find so hard to resist that’s the problem.
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No, there aren’t any cities in the world that would function under such a restriction. People need to get from their places of residence into the city centre to work & return at the end of the day. Medium sized cities like Sydney need one to two hours by car, longer by bicycle. Only the smallest could do it (eg in Denmark, where they think small).
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Simple you stop the city centre thinking. Its just a snap of the fingers after all given work from home
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…or you build those 65storey towers where everyone has to live and all shops are inside them. No suburbs needed and no more lawn mowing!
The WEF has it all planned..
I’v always thought that building a massive city center where everyone goes each day to push paper around is madness, why not put a skyscraper in each suburb and spread the load. However it seems the WEF is doubling down and you need more people in each building to make it work.
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High-density, vertical incubators?
Just what the sociopaths ordered.
NOBODY involved in such schemes seems to give a rats about reality. Water and nutrients in; WASTE products OUT?
The taller the building, the more “interesting” it becomes to handle the “output”, never mind the amount of energy required to pump water to the tanks on TOP of these monstrosities.
Solar-powered air-conditioning?
Fire fighting? I get the feeling that Ray Bradbury inspired these “people”.
Never forget: Mechanical engineers build weapons, electrical engineers build guidance systems and civil engineers build TARGETS.
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Read Asimov’s Caves of Steel.
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The city workers will be travelling by public transport under this scheme I presume. Great for the spread of the latest epidemic of course. Maybe in those circumstances you will need to be vaccinated to get onto public transport. And the nexus develops. Certainly, once the mechanism of control is developed other uses will be found for it. Don’t stand between a self-righteous bureaucrat who cares about you and a regulation.
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There’s plenty wrong! It is no business of the government to tell us anything about how we live within the Common Law. They, like all totalitarians just love control and want to deny people basic freedoms of movement, association and choice because they can.
Looks like England is not only the home of parliamentary democracy, but also its graveyard.
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Theres an article in the Sunday Times today about the scheme. Apparently 30% of all traffic management schemes get removed as they don’t work. At various places in Oxford, Bollards have been removed and some arson carried out. This was a Tory council until May and the scheme as outlined is unlikely to go ahead in its ‘pure’ form. People like their cars and the extreme limitations outlined in this post are intended for better traffic management within this medieval city. It is not intended as climate lockdown except in the fevered imagination of a few greens and the student population who support them who, as yet, don’t need cars to get around. BTW Oxford is a pretty flat place and bikes work pretty well in the city centre with young energetic and idealistic users.
My part of the world is very hilly and full of cynical retired people and there is no chance of anyone attempting to impose traffic bans.
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Not sure I agree Tony. I lived in Oxford for 17 years (1992-2009) and there was a traffic redirection scheme implemented circa 1999 to reduce the amount of cars entering the city centre. Was absolute chaos for months because not only was there redirection but the lights were set to cause major delays. During the initial implementation it took me 1hr and 40 minutes to get from Christ Church to Botley Road – about 1km – in the early afternoon. The traffic lights were backed off, but the road closures remained and it did reduce traffic…for a while, then some streets turned into a torrent of half empty buses. My impression was that it became more dangerous to cross the High Street after the calming measures than before.
The town is already quite radial with poor parking and most people already walk/bike to shops within their arm of the city when they can or head out to the major supermarkets on the ring road; you don’t drive through Oxford unless you can’t help it, and there are already four major park and ride car parks on the ring road from which people bus into the centre. Looking at the roads they are blocking, this appears to me to be a first step in completely isolating the various parts of Oxford from each other for little real purpose (other than causing a few people major inconvenience) rather than anything to do with redirecting cars from the city centre – the latter was done two decades ago. I suspect Oxford has been chosen because it already works like a 15 minute city and will be held up to the world as a successful implementation of this great idea. (It will also cause chaos on the ring road from what I can see which will have the added “benefit” of isolating Oxford from the rest of the county.)
The article mentioning Cowley Road which Jo linked to was surprising. Not quite sure how it would be possible to reduce the parking in Cowley Road other than the Union Street cark park which is/was tiny.
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Have you been to Oxford recently? Have you seen the Extinction Rebellion posters all over the place? Perhaps take a walk down the urban-utopia dump of the Cowley road (home to Oxford’s Wokerati) to get a sense of the degree to which the city has drunk the climate kool-aid.
The congestion problem in Oxford was bad, but not much worse than most other UK cities, usually exacerbated by old, narrow bridges acting as choke points on arterial routes out of the city centre (Botley and Abingdon Roads in particular). Decent infrastructure projects could have partially addressed these problems, and the ‘Zero Emissions Zone’ in the centre, was necessary to pedestrianize what was a crowded part of the city.
The council’s ‘solution’ however has been to deliberately exacerbate the congestion problems through the introduction of ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhoods’, making certain routes impassable, doctoring traffic light timing, introducing 20mph limits on main arterial roads and turning sections into road-wide cycle lanes. This has, within weeks, pretty much doubled congestion in the city. The idea is clearly to make life as hellish as possible for drivers in order to create justification for their idiotic, authoritarian plan – itself a sign of the level of dishonesty the green blob is prepared to stoop to.
Short of banning cars altogether – which would be economic death for the city – the ‘traffic filters’ will just create more congestion and misery for residents and workers (and ironically danger for pedestrians and cyclists), as traffic is forced out onto what is misleadingly called a ‘ring road’, on a 15 mile journey to another entry points which will serve as traffic bottlenecks, and need to be used to access the city’s park-and-rides. This ring road is actually a major route from the North to the South of the UK, and already dangerous and inadequate for its purpose.
Oxford council would realise within five minutes of analysing their plans that they are utterly idiotic and self-defeating. The fact they seem unprepared to do this at any cost suggests to me they are acting on instructions from higher up.
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Jo – I just wonder where all this is leading? Is the next step to take away your homes and force you to live in the 15 minute ghettos? A mix of commmuunist and Nxzi ideals? Who will be the new master race? Is there some underlying theme of trying to reduce world populations to “sustainable” levels? Why were they developing bat viruses to attack other species anyway? What was the underlying reason for that – Faucii has a lot to answer for.
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Fellow Resident ,
I have been wondering about the end game myself . So many lies and I think the people in charge are hidden . In the west all politicians are not only corrupt but mentally challenged as well . Qui Bono ?
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Which floors of the high-rises will have the cricket, athletic, hockey or football grounds?
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You are right Jo that this is not a ‘traffic problem’, traffic in oxford has always been difficult as TonyB explains. As such their is alot of cycling and park n ride etc already. The natural constraints have successfully altered movements in Cities like Oxford and London already. Political impositions just distort and disrupt life. I live 15mins outside Oxford and avoid going in unless essential due to the lousy road network and impossible parking. The city does have a world-class orchestra whose concerts in the Sheldonian Theatre (Christopher Wren building) I travel in for. These new restrictions will kill the Orchestra who i expect will move to another City. A great deal of cultural and social life is likely to decamp elsewhere. Oxford city is controlled by nutty green councillors so the city deserves the failure it has voted for.
Once these restrictions are imposed it will be interesting to observe the disobedience and the vandalism of the impositions. Although Oxford is a hive of academics (never actually worked for a living) and thus communists it may make some of them take their blinkers off.
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Great to hear from people who live there. Thank you.
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For Oxford residents, there might be an unheralded benefit to this Ѕchωab-led initiative.
Oxford was one of the places in Britain with a ‘grooming gang’ that was successfully prosecuted.
(I believe there was a correlation with a certain group: the ‘religion of peace’ — term copyrighted by PM David Cameron).
But that must be all sorted now, right? Couldn’t happen again, even with the projected jump in population, who by the way, won’t be native Britons, but anyway, not to worry, they’ll behave themselves because the new smartphone app will tell them–when they try to congregate in one place for an ‘assignation’–that too many left home at the same time, and it’s time to leave. 😉
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Ten years ago, the ACT government introduced a six month trial of 50kph zones. It claimed that it would save 20 lives a year. Six months later, it announced that the trial had been such a great success that it was bringing it in ACT-wide permanently. The ACT never has 20 deaths a year under any circumstances, so it was an obvious fake. They were just going the motions.
Now, they have announced a trial of 40kph zones to soften us up for an ACT-wide limit. Whatever you do, don’t broach the idea of a 15 minute city, we wouldn’t survive.
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This is just a bunch of incorrect information. First – the ACT road toll is currently 18 so, while it is not 20, it is hardly a valid claim to say that it can’t be 20 (and hopefully it wont be).
While there were trials in the ACT (pre 2009, not 10 years ago), they were a prelude to an already agreed multi state (ie not ACT) 50 limit in built up areas. The 40 zones, which are already out of trial phase, are for areas of high pedestrian activity (ie shopping areas).
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Even better I now have numbers. https://www.policenews.act.gov.au/crime-statistics-and-data/road-toll
2005 26 road deaths.
Average toll before introduction of 50 zones in 2009 was 14.7, mode 12
After 2009 average 9.7 mode 7.
ACT population 2009 352000. 2022 430000. A 22% increase.
Seems successful.
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Hivemind,
While I understand your sentiment and acknowledge your point (they love that speed camera revenue) as G A pointed out data says no. I suspect a lot of road toll casualties are due to distractions such as mobile phones . Increased road traffic and population densities are factors too . In Melbourne we have targeted restrictions near schools (40 Kph) and a 50 kph limit in built up areas.
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The last 12 months in the ACT has seen a surge in driver bad behavior related accidents (aka hooning) and drug linked accidents. I am not saying that distraction is not a major and growing problem across many or all jurisdictions. It is a statistical quirk of having small numbers like in the ACT that particular cultural issues can seem to dominate the data at times.
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This is why they want to ban certain vehicles and end private ownership. Already new cars have technology which enables such tracking. Insurance companies want to give a discount if you allow them to use an app which monitors how far, where, how often, how fast, and how you drive. Don’t give in for a few bucks off. BMW has seat heaters which don’t work unless you pay an additional monthly fee. Then they can activate them for you remotely or deactivate them depending on if your extortion payments are up to date. What other operational features can they control or plan on controlling?
Buttigieg has already floated the idea of replacing private ownership with a government owned and controlled green fleet in America.
These climate police type people are tyrants, and it’s about their control, make no mistake.
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And where did Buttigieg get the idea?
Why, from Comrade Herr Klaus Schwab, of course.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/goodbye-car-ownership-hello-clean-air-this-is-the-future-of-transport/
Goodbye car ownership, hello clean air: welcome to the future of transport
Dec 16, 2016
SEE LINK FOR REST
Buttigieg is a tool of the World Economic Forum and Comrade Herr Klaus Schwab. He is definitely not loyal to the United States, but the globalist Elites. See:
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?region=a0Tb00000000DC9EAM§or=Public+Figure
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Well, take a look at China for insight into what happens when people don’t do what is ‘good’ for them (according to their betters).
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Britons turn to pet food amid cost of living crisis
The high cost of living crisis in the United Kingdom has prompted Britons in some cities to eat pet food.
British media reported on Thursday that people were “eating pet food” because they can’t afford real food anymore.
According to the report, parts of Wales were hit so hard by poverty that people were forced to stoop to the lowest levels to just feed their families.
‘I’m still shocked by the fact that we have people who are eating pet food,” Mark Seed, who runs a community food project in Trowbridge east Cardiff, told the BBC.
‘[There are] people who are trying to heat their food on a radiator or a candle,” he said.
Seed noted that nowadays British households that were struggling to survive could be found in areas beyond the regions that were long associated with poverty. He said to tackle the poverty, the government needed to change its policy to focus on people and not places.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/12/02/693749/UK-Briton-Eat-Pet-Food-Seed
I suspect travelling is irrelevant for them.
That’s a pretty damn awful xmas coming up for them.
A can of “Chum” and some tinned peas…
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Apparently the Pakis have doing this for a long. That is eating pet food. They put curry powder in it to improve the taste.
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How many £millions per day of taxpayers’ money is being spent on luxury accommodation and other perks for illegal incomers, mainly young men of fighting sge? Never mind the indigenous population, starving and freezing.
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This is an unlikely story as pet food is more expensive than real food. A Macdonalds is still relatively cheap.
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About 16 Weeks ago I was adopted by a stray tabby cat (likely abandoned by renters).
It costs me $12.50 per week to feed the always hungry little girl – unsurprisingly that is about as much as I spend on meat (mostly cheap chicken cuts) each week.
She does, however, try to make it for me by bringing me gifts, usually @ around 4 in the morning – but I’m not really into mice.
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I’d say not so much “unlikely” as “largely avoidable”; the people buying pet food are probably not society’s thinkers, do-ers or problem solvers. And their mothers must never have taught them anything.
Drumsticks for $4/kg (break the bones to get the goodies out of the marrow), lamb hearts for a bit more, $2/kg flour for flatbread – zero wastage from going stale because you cook it in minutes as you need it (the leftover dough stays in the bowl to leaven the next day’s dough, so no ongoing yeast cost.) A small garden with kale and/or silverbeet. Carrots and onions are always cheap. Spuds getting dearer but still not really worth growing unless you’re into gardening.
Jarred garlic is cheap, lots of herbs are easy to grow on the windowsill if necessary.
V8 original (often on special for $3/litre) makes the best tomato base as the stock veg are already in there (except an onion) without the sickly overblown artificial taste of the jarred simmer sauce abominations. Home brand tinned tomatoes are still cheap. Herbs and spices are cheap in bulk from restaurant supply or asian grocers.
With the V8 tomato base, a few very basic herbs and spices make palatable (but wildly unauthentic) renditions of Italian, Mexican and Indian can be made to go with whatever protein you have.
Things would have to be extremely grim for us here at my place to even eat supermarket sausages, let alone tuck into a feed of Pal. And we ain’t rich.
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Where’s your cheap ‘jarred garlic’ from? The land of golden dragons? It could be imported from there, and repackaged under a European sounding name.
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The emergency jar in the pantry is “The Food Company” brand and claims 100% Aust owned and made. Take from that what you will. Personally, we grow our own.
But I reckon I’d prefer a teaspoon of garlic of questionable origin to a tin of dog food regardless of its provenance.
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I disagree about potatoes.
I plant a yearly crop of Pinkeyes that generates 50-60 kilo’s of this waxy gold.
The only Potato you can freeze (after you have washed them clean) – so nothing goes to seed.
To use simply drop the frozen tater into boiling water and it turns out 90-95% the quality of the day you dug it up.
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I’m in Australia and always grow sweet potatoes rather than the usual kind. Easy to propagate, easy to grow a raised bed full, don’t mind a bit of heat and I think they are supposed to be better for you.
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1. You’ll note the origin of the claim is an established charitable source.
2. A simple supermarket price check will show that to be wrong
eg 1kg pet mince $8, 1kg human rated mince $13.
If you can buy meat so cheap, then let us all know where!
Technically, you can eat pet food but its nutritional spectrum will play havoc after a few weeks.
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John
I am in the UK. I have just been in our local pet shop and the local butchers. Pet food is expensive, mince isnt and to the latter it would be one of a number of ingredients and smell wholeseome when cooked. Heated pet food smells revolting.
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John
Just been to look at the source material in the Metro. Suggest you read the comments. There are far cheaper foods readily available than expensive pet food. As for Trowbridge being in an arc of poverty! It is a very expensive and highly desirable area. Which is not to say there aren’t poor people of course but this story is nonsensical.
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“Heated pet food smells revolting”
Take your word for it
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A Macdonalds is still relatively cheap.
I’ll stick with the Chum…
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Why would anyone do this these days? My wife and I were discussing this last night. Wet pet food is now more expensive per gram than a lot of fresh meat and many other tinned human foods.
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I can see some dimwit trying to tell me how to live and what to do – underestimate me, that’ll be fun.
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It won’t affect me in rural Australia. Meanwhile, all of this social engineering may suit others who are used to controlled urban living – taking orders and obeying them in a comforting communalistic fashion, but not this little black duck.
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Glen,
What we should worry about is when duck season starts . Safety is an illusion . After being under house arrest for months “for my own good” I know that you are underestimating what they can do to you .
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Yes, the only ducks allowed will be caged ones.. Don’t forget they are talking about no meat farming and plants grown in hothouses, all the farmers get sent to towns to live in those lovely tall apartments and not own a car. You won’t have to work, there will be the universal basic income, but you will have to obey.
Its like The Matrix really, just a small step away.
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Pardon but we don’t live in a pure liberalist governed society.
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It will be interesting to see if there’s worldwide mass dissent regarding “the climate catastrophe”, Covid policy, white guilt et al, or if the masses just roll over and take it.
I strongly suspect the latter.
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There will surely be hell to pay when the word gets out that carbon dioxide is not harmful.
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Time and nature will tell. I have a feeling that the clowns at the WEF do know that CO2 is harmless and necessary. They might also know that cold or cooler weather is coming and the lab rats (populace) will not be happy so they must get everything in place first. The only response will be through the ballot box whilst ever we have elections and a few strong oppositions but as we know elections run by crooks deliver the desired outcome e.g. the US Mid terms.
A possible solution to the council plan would be for people to turn outward and radiate away from the city to the country or simple just move to the country and abandon the city to the council rats.
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I suspect your suspicion is on target.
But I’m not sure ‘roll over’ is the right way to put it.
The curious thing to me is the development of opposing public realities, literally constructed in plain sight by the government/media cooperation.
People surrender because they are overwhelmed with carefully crafted lies that they intuitively know are BS but can’t say anything about for fear of their jobs or often rejection by their own families.
If I’m not mistaken, you have spoken of this.
It has the feel to me of witch scare hysteria.
So folk are not rolling over as much as they are being rolled over.
Why the brouhaha over Twitter?
Because it may soon come to light that is where the cabal of elites unleashed their Panzer divisions.
Thar rolled over the American electorate, and everything else that stands in the way of the Climate/Trump/COVTD Blitzkrieg.
And are desperate to keep us from finding out.
If they can establish the kind of control featured in this post, it won’t matter.
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I have spoken of this previously as you say.
I agree, “roll over” may be too strong a term. There are a proportion of the population however who willingly roll over, and some who are “rolled over”!
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It’s the frog in the pot thing.
I remember speaking to immigrants/refuges from Zimbabwe about 30years ago.
They reckon they didn’t fully realise just how bad things had gotten, until they came to Australia.
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My view is half the population cant think critically, some are profiting from being PC in the short term, some are distracted by real life dramas and some just want to earn a living and look after there families. That leaves precious few to fight the good fight.
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Since white people are hardly worldwide, I cant see a lot of people protesting about white guilt.
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For non-UK readers we have local elections here next May which may see change providing that there is somebody to vote for who opposes this lunacy. The preferred option would be residents representative. In my council we kicked out the Tory scum over their plan for a new town. Looking on the positive side, with all the gates around it Oxford would look ideal as a place to dump the immigrants.
What they may not envisage is how people react to this lunacy. The morons in charge decided to remove the hard shoulder breakdown lane on some of our motorways which to no great surprise has caused more deaths – in fact this week’s transport moron claims they are safe! Your stopped vehicle is supposed to be seen on camera but there are wholesale failures of this system. In response it now appears that drivers are not using the inside lane over concerns that they might come across a stopped vehicle thus making the motorway the same width as it was before.
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It’s all still very, very unclear.
Is this lunacy already in actual existence ? Is it a proposal ? What do next May’s elections have to do with it ? Can such lunacy be appealed to the court system ? Will the local police actually enforce it ?
I did look at a map to find Oxfordshire County. Smack in the middle of the country – and presumably no-one can get in as well as out.
So please answer the hard questions I’ve outlined above. No arm waving, just direct facts.
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Ianl
Please see my reply above. The article substantially exaggerates what is intended
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IanL, the Council voted for the “traffic filter” plans on Nov 28th. They appear to be largely what news articles in October were warning about, despite the protests and petitions.
The six month trial will not start til Jan 2024 in Oxford.
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You have already been (very softly) corrected with respect to that view. By Jo no less.
[Adellad, I did add quite a lot to the post after IanL’s comment. So I’m not correcting him so much as replying to a fair question. – Jo]
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tonyb,
I recall governments, Trudeau, Biden, saying vax mandates (an exaggeration pf government power) would never happen.
Net Zero/Decarbonization seems an absurd exaggeration.
LGBTQXYZ also an absurdity.
So your “it can’t happen here” protestations are unpersuasive to me.
Of course, my government no linger even pretends to try to persuade me.
Didn’t Tony Blair just say the UK government should just drop Brexit?
I don’t think your government retains much interest in persuasion either.
I suppose us Cold War children just grew up with a myth of representative governance.
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The moron who came up with those ‘smart lanes’ obviously doesn’t have a drivers licence.
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As someone writing elsewhere had said: ‘Don’t blame Putin or China for this……’ .. Who voted in those councillors. Just get rid of them.
INVERNESS in the UK began
cityTown revelopment way back and created a magic roundabout ( must have been around timeof that kiddies program, …. Hmm is that who was running the council ? ) They blocked off the 200 yard long Highstreet and cars had to go the LONG way around adding a mile or so to the journey and increasing congestion on what was also a part of the TRUNK road in those days. ( that’s consideration for others, that you get from councillors / PLANNERS ( ie anti motorists & Locals ) and now to get their share of a £300Million “scottish” gubbermint aka various Things to do with hitler and fishing, without due consultation with the locals, they are CLOSING off part of what remains of that route – Academy Street for pedestrians. NO passing thru’ direct access to Bus or Train station and increased congestion at all the weird roundabouts on the periphery. YOu can get sucked in to theToon( city now ! ) but it’s hell on all to get out again at Lousing time. As for the Bypass, full of roundabouts and leisurely lazily going about their non urgent duties. That was some Carrot .. and so it gors on. and who are are these councillors ? ….. guess by listening to them. Haven’t been shopping there for YEARS and they wonder why town centres are dying.81
I assume that the people of Oxford City voted this council in ??
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Yes, but the councilors apparently did not reveal their plans until after the election.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/oxfordshire-county-council-pass-climate-lockdown-trial-to-begin-in-2024
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Time for a citizen’s revolt then.
Dump the council and demand a re-election.
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Well the elite have done the experiment with lockdowns and found it works.
Compliance of the public to rules is largely accepted by the plebs it seems.
A 15 minute metropolis that I am trapped, surveyed and locked in seems unappealing.
Ohh well I will need to change my career choice if any of us are to have any future fun.
It seems I will have to become an elected politician. Or a self appointed “world leader” in business and bureaucracy.
Sadly, I will have to party whilst the rest of you go without. This is not my call, it is part of the job description.
Understand that I will have to suffer, more than you. It will be a millstone around my neck.
Unlike you, there will be so many problems that I will have to deal with outside our lockdown world.
The first is finding that there will be no insects for me to eat! I am crushed! I will have to suffer caviar, wagyu beef, the finest champagne and travel to distant places 10000 klm away.
Secondly, against my core beliefs, understand that I will have to use 5 star Hotels with power backed up by diesel generators.
Ohhh The Humanity!
My friends, you can truly see that I am willing to suffer for your benefit.
So I implore that in these catastrophic, unprecedented and armageddon type times, we all pull together to change the earths temperature.
So please stay within a few miles of your home. Listen to the experts like me, otherwise I fear the planet will be destroyed by the year 1467, 2008, oops 2016. or was it 1970?
Sadly I’m not good with numbers. I’ll ask the UN or the Oxford city council to help me find the answer.
Remember the old slogan… We are all in this together!
*Disclaimer, there maybe some sarc.
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Yes ..it worked to a point except now, with the virus wandering around still, our betters aren’t trying it on again.
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Oxgulag?
Gulagford?
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Oxymoron
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that was Pauline Hanson – from Oxley
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Oxbridge. There’s two of them, inhabited by Gnomes.
And Pauline Hanson? She came straight out of middle Australia.
It was John Howard who created The Hanson Phenomenon by trying to boycott her.
She didn’t come to represent the forgotten people. She was one of the forgotten people, who accidentally became their representative.
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Not so sure this isn’t fake news
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Absolutely not fake news.
It is a global/globalist concept as well. See references I posted below.
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I looked up the legislation and it looked more like congestion charging
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Brian, it is written up as “congestion” and traffic measures, but the “15 minute City” ideology is there at Oxford, so is “climate change” — and there are many ways to solve congestion without needing to track people, give permits and strangely, bizarrely blocking useful shortcuts and forcing people to drive further on the freeways.
The aim of the 15 minute city — according to the WEF and UN is to change behaviour, to force people to make friends and do their trading etc in little subunit cities. Once they start with cameras and tracking it will be so easy to add in more sites, more hours and more rules.
The fact that the council was already blocking off local roads with bollards that were hated tells us the motivation behind this is not about serving the locals but shaping the locals, creaming off traffic “taxes” as fines, and setting up a tracking system.
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15 minute city?
Well my ancestors in rural USA in the 1850s were limited in how far they could go to find marriage partners. Makes family history research a lot easier (sometimes)
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It appears that the inbreeding has already been underway in Oxford, with the progeny becoming councillors.
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Same as Tasmania and Mukinbudin
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It’s not the only place:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/draconian-traffic-ban-moves-step-forward-275613/
And, no, it is not fake news.
Time for Cantuarians and Oxonians to arm themselves?
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I think this is a nonstarter as one of the alternative routes is a bypass that doers not even exist! What fuels this scheme and Oxford are the facts both are medieval cities with difficult road layouts, both have a high proportion of high-minded students who mostly cycle anyway and the silly numbers of new homes planned which will make existing travel arrangements difficult to maintain.
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I went to Oxford about 6 years ago and it was recommended to me to park outside of town and get the bus in, once we were walking around , it was obvious why.
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same in Cambridge. I grew up there and recently went to my old school – the centre of the city is already blocked off and the “bypass” is more like a strangled hernia. I thought I could navigate my way on memory – not a chance – finally gave in and entered the address on the hire cars awful GPS.
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I gave up watching Apple’s “Foundation” TV series partway through. A big factor was the total absence, on a colony planet, of mining, manufacture and farming.
This appears to be the world as envisaged by Hollywood denizens, with no grasp of reality at all. It seemed completely insane.
I see the same omissions in the picture above.
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Sounds like Soylent Green.
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Soylent Green was set in 2022.
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Try this nonsense in my council area and they will regret the consequences.
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Pretty sure the WEF’s inspiration was the late 60s British television series, The Prisoner, with Patrick McGoohan.
Jo probably isn’t quite old enough to remember it, but I bet a bunch of the commenters do.
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My parents watched it.
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If anyone is ever in the UK, Portmerion=where the Prisoner was filmed- is a wonderful place to visit or stay as can be seen in the opening shot of the link
https://portmeirion.wales/
The Prisoner was an excellent if somewhat enigmatic series and the DVd is available. We have a copy and stayed there years ago. For those that like steam trains there are 3 narrow gauge ones nearby and some nice mountains and an excellent coast plus many castles, one of which =-Harlech-is now inland a mile or so but was on the coast and had a sea gate when it was built 700 years ago
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Visited Portmerion when wandering around Wales a few years ago. Thought it was a faded touristy dump. The place charged a lot for entry, nothing much to see, paint peeling everywhere, buildings in obvious need of some maintenance, disinterested staff in the only cafe. Got out of there quickly and would never return.
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Watched it when I lived in England before migrating to Australia. A very good TV programme.
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Yes my brother worked on that series (music editor) – now very much a cult series – Patrick McGoohan was brilliant – after all what do you do with a spy that has resigned? I watched every episode as a teenager.
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I hope it does not apply to the Duchess of Sussex and her Duke.
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RFID plus the emerged totalitarianism is a scary combination.
Here in Gladysabad (Sydney) we were told to stay within a five kilometre radius of our home address.
We were not allowed to shop as a couple, and had to register our time of arrival and departure from every shop or other place we visited.
Proof of ineffective vaccination was mandatory to go to these places.
Travel to our other home for maintenance could only be done by one of us.
Ineffective masks were mandatory.
Ridiculously large fines were levied.
Police or army personnel might appear and direct you to go home if you strayed outside the limits.
We have seen the future, and it is not good.
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In the miďdle of max stupid covid lock downs in VIC we were oblivious to the “only one goes shopping rule” so we go to town shopping.
We meet three other couples we know (as you do in a small town) and all stand around having a great old chat in front of the supermarket.
Police car crusises by and waves. Our experience of the lockdown(s) was very different to the city.
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For more about the 15 minute city concept see:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city?wprov=sfla1
And it is already in Australia, but sometimes called 20 min. See:
https://www.planmelbourne.vic.gov.au/current-projects/20-minute-neighbourhoods
https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2021/11/18/do-you-live-in-a-15-minute-city/
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0031/428908/Creating-a-more-liveable-Melbourne.pdf
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/workplace/the-parisian-15-minute-city-comes-to-brisbane-20221108-p5bwjs.html
https://www.governmentnews.com.au/type_contributors/the-timeless-appeal-of-the-15-minute-city-how-infrastructure-planners-can-tackle-the-shift-away-from-the-cbd/
https://www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2021/08/04/is-the-15-minute-city-the-future-of-urban-living.html
And the BS just goes on and on. For more l8nks, Goolag “15 minute city Australia” without quote marks.
The Left have always hated the personal freedom given by affordable transport like the motor car. And living in decent size houses. Those are to be for the Elites only. This is one way they will lock us down to achieve their evil objectives if decent people remain silent and let them have their way.
And in Australia’s most regressively Left state, Vicdanistan, look how local suburbs and amenity are being destroyed by bicycle lanes being installed everywhere with consequent destruction of street parking.
I was recently in a fight to stop the installation of a bicycle lane in Inkerman Road, Stkilda East. It was a rare case of a win for the people. The council and state government have been trying to do it for years. Note there are ALREADY bicycle lanes in that street, next to the parking lane. They wanted to remove all street parking on one side to replace it with a full width bicycle lane.
And most recently, they are removing a whole lane of street parking in St Kilda road Melbourne for a bicycle lane, even though there are also existing bike lanes.
There is NO CONSIDERATION whatsoever for local residents or businesses, the elderly, families, shoppers, tradesmen, carers etc. who need to drive and park. It’s all to fulfill a woke BS Leftist fantasy. Meanwhile the people who promote it get driven everywhere at taxpayer expense. They personally don’t ride bikes, of course.
It’s all about locking us down and returning us to pre-Industrial Revolution and pre-Enlightenment times when people (non-Elites) might spend an entire lifetime and not ever leave their village.
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Shout out to you DM, who wrote about this the other day. As suggested by you I did a quick internet search and the “15 minute city” would appear to have a lot of Chinese/CCP origins. That raised by BS antenna big time. 15 min cities will just allow easier lockdowns to occur. In China they have evolved it even more. So that in some cities everyone lives in high rise apartments. Then it’s really easy to achieve COVID lockdowns because each building can be easily secured. Deliveries of food etc are streamlined because with one stop you can supply so many more citizens compared to single dwellings on separate blocks. In Australian cities we are already very close to 15 min access anyway. We have a greater proliferation of supermarkets than most other countries. Once you have access to a supermarket, that’s a huge chunk of your everyday needs. So, yes totally agree, BS.
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Don’t these fools realise that not everyone can cycle, nor indeed wants to cycle. Are we supposed to be a nation of super athletes who can run and cycle everywhere and in all weather’s, both night and day . .
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Sydney is aiming to eliminate vehicle traffic in the city, nothing to do with climate change. Pedestrianisation and public transport is the main goal.
https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/sydney-city-north-pedestrianisation-clover-moore-council
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I am exceedingly happy to report that I am never responsible for one bit of Sydney’s traffic. Will Mare Clover give me a prize?
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The essence of the city is that within distance (radius) of r kilometers you have r^2 opportunities available. Eg. doubling the r quadruples of what is usable to you, quadrupling city radius r results in 16 more times entities available within such radius. So at the cost of quadrupling your daily distance you get 16 times more opportunities.
Limiting yourself to a small radius you get the opposite – you make your travel radius 4 times smaller than before – you get just 1/16 th of available stuff for you (6.25%).
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Nevertheless ….
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23168053.cctv-ltn-vandalism-oxford-released-residents/
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And every family lives in a 2 room flat?
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On average, yes
If you aren’t average that’s your problem
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And the family with 11 children?
I knew two such locally…. but regional not urban
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The covid lockups weaned people off the last vestiges of cash currency due to people terrified of using cash thinking they will get the virus plus government decrees.
This put in place an almost fully digital currency system which, along with mobile phone data, and street cameras with facial recognition (1) allow 100% tracing, tracking and determination of your “carbon (sic) footprint”. Westpac and CBA bank in pursuit of wokeness already can give you a carbon (sic) score (2) for your purchases.
You might go to buy your monthly ration of 60g of real meat (2oz) but be advised at the checkout that this purchase is prohibited as you have already fulfilled your monthly ration “but may we offer you 600g of cockroaches instead”.
Similar restrictions, tracing and tracking will apply to your movements in the context of the 15 minute city. Penalties will be issued automatically.
Penalties will decrement your social credit score, or alternatively, it will be boosted If you do the woke thing and never leave your home. Get deliveries by drone or the numerous slaves already doing food deliveries on bicycles.
References:
1) https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2022/government-building-national-facial-recognition-database.html
2) https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/westpac-and-cba-to-help-customers-track-their-carbon-with-an-app-20220728-p5b5e0
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I think that I will now go and buy that Hobby Farm, go off the Grid and grow and eat all of my own food.
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Please do not imagine that you will not be subjected to “attitude adjustment” after moving to the rural outdoors. Isolated outposts are easy targets for “predators”, especially “taxpayer-funded” ones.
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Hobby farm? You may be too late.
Unable to look after it and family health too I sold a bit bigger hobby farm three years ago for $695,000. It sold again lately for $1.3 million.
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No not really
I am doing a part time job on weekends and on a typical non holiday weekends we bring in $20k. One third of that is cash. Cash is alive and healthy.
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I’ve gone back to using cash, just ‘cos I can.
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Its really just describing how a lot of small towns and cities work already , at least in Europe. The bit that gets me is dreaming that a local council can get punitive if I go off the reservation oto much in their estimation.
Pi$$ off! comes to mind
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It won’t work…………………
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Vee haff vays off making eet verk, little Johnny.
Signed: Santa Klaus Schwab.
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Herr Schwab lives in Switzerland and sees this working every day.
Sadly he appears to have the American disease that says it will work everywhere and one size fits all.
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Has any reporter investigated Herr Schwab’s lifestyle? I can’t see him living a 15 minute existence.
It would be interesting to see his house, diet, travel and all the other aspects of modern living that he and the WEF seem to be planning for the plebs.
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“I don’t seem to recall “getting to know neighbours” as being part of any lockdown anywhere?”.
It was expressly forbidden.
Soon, everything not expressly permitted will be forbidden.
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In England Everything is permitted except what is expressly forbidden.
In France Everything is permitted even what is expressly forbidden.
In Germany Everything is forbidden except what is expressly permitted.
In NetZero Everything is forbidden even what is expressly permitted.
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I have no problems with councils providing services such that people generally don’t have to travel more than 15 minutes..
Its the totalitarianism of trying to enforce it that really rankles.
Who the **** do they think they are !!!!
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Businesses are naturally upset, having to bring their goods in during the wee small hours, but a lot more think this is a small price to pay for the joy of virtue signalling.
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The businesses tend to note the urban neighbours are pissed over diesel ruckus when they are trying to sleep.
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Won’t it be nice to be able to walk/cycle to a job in a mine/farm (food or wind/solar) within 15 minutes of home?
Local farms, no ‘outsiders’ taking ‘our’ goods and services as out-of-gulag exports won’t be allowed as that encourages travel using vehicles, electric or otherwise.
Every 15 minute gulag will need to supply all of the needs of a modern society within their boundaries to reduce the need for others to travel. ‘Modern society’ will require re-definition and there are plenty of 3rd-world countries to use as a template.
Proponents of this idiocy are the ones that know that milk comes from a supermarket, no cows involved – but there won’t be any supermarkets as they are mostly stocked from out-of-gulag products.
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When conservatives and fellow rational thinkers remain silent, this is what happens.
It’s only the regressive Left that protest. When they do, they nearly always get their way.
Rational thinkers need to do the same.
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Well the double standard will be in full force. Compare AtFA and BLM protests to J6. Dissent by conservatives will not be tolerated.
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Reminds one of the request for directions to some location and the joking absurd reply “you can’t get there from here”. But now it seems less absurd.
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Or ‘ If I was going there, I wouldn’t leave from here.’
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It’s all part of the plan…
Recall the world’s most extensively locked up city during covid? Melbournistan in Vicdanistan, Australia.
Comrade Dictator Dan and his goons imposed a 10km radius in which you could exercise or buy essential items, but only for 1 hour per day.
At an average city driving speed of 40kph, that corresponds to exactly 15 minutes!
Australia was a worldwide test of globalist totalitarian policies. If a supposedly freedom-loving people like Australians would accept it, anybody would.
It worked wonderfully. Not only did Aussies accept the most restrictve lockups in the world, the heaviest fines, compulsory vaccination and criminalisation of HCQ and IVM, they almost rolled over and begged for more.
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But Dictator Dan just got re-elected!
And just asking for a friend, who knows more than I do about the dark corners of private life: Do people in Victoria have a proclivity for sado-masochism? Is there a glut of bondage gear stores, compared to other places?
Did ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ break their box-office records?
I can only conclude that Victorians actually want Dan’s “heavy-handed punishment”, with or without their leather gear on.
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Even though Labor only recieved about one third of the vote they got back in through preferences only , the fact we have no real opposition didn’t help .
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Labor plus Greens plus Teals plus Vic Socialists was around 60% of the primary vote.
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Don’t think that because Dan got re-elected that he is popular. He’s not. No one I know likes him. The CFFMEU (who are his building UNION backers) don’t even like him. At a meeting they literally told members ” We know he is a pr**k (rhymes with kick), but he’s our pr**k. He’s going to keep us in a job for years, so make sure you vote for him”.
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Might have more to do with your social circle than electorate reality.
We are much the same
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
– Plato
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Dictatorship naturally arises from human beings who are mostly greedy and bullies. It has nothing to do with democracy.
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It is inevitable that the governing class will keep ramping up their digital totalitarianism. It is also inevitable that they will ultimately fail to maintain their undeserved power and status.
China has given it a good hard try, but has shown that a simple power/communications failure can paralyse a digital gulag.
Not only is the digital gulag technically fragile, it is politically fragile as well. Those that consider themselves “elite” will exempt themselves from all energy, food and transport restrictions they force on the gulag inmates. And being who they are, they are never satisfied with having more than others. Their egos demand that their status be displayed.
Their limousines and Lear jets might become Molotov magnets …
[Wee edit. – LVA]
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Tony mentions the nature of the city that causes problems moving about.
In some cities connecting buildings with skywalks above the streets is done.
Search using “images” and either of the below:
skywalks Atlanta
skywalks Spokane
When covered and numerous ones traverse blocks, the urban center can still accommodate ground-level traffic.
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Or below street level like Canadia
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The voters have the answer, just votes these parasites out at the next elections.
If they don’t then they really are delusional, but just a pity that sensible, sane people have to suffer as well.
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Is that still possible post 2020?
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Thank goodness my mother is now long passed – she was a member of the Oxfordshire County Council for many years in the 1970s and 1980s – she would be horrified at what these idiots are planning but would have fought tooth & nail against it.
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Oxfordshire councils for plans to control their citizens is insidious.
The people may have other plans. Let’s see what happens . .
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Ah yes, Oxford, home to one of the most famous of all universities – places famed for tolerance, questioning, science, logic and leadership.
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And as we remember all too well for Covid, they said it’s just for 2 weeks, but the reality was far worse. The masses believed and went along with it, and got trapped.
Let’s not fall for it again!
One by one freedoms are disappearing, unnoticed by most and the new abnormal is accepted as normal.
Are we now entering a period where such climate-induced lockdowns will become the norm? Climatistas were clearly envious of government-ordered lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. Perhaps they now wish to duplicate that method for global warming, which many also consider a public-health issue.
Scottish television personality Gillian McKeith foresaw such climate lockdowns back in March, when British citizens were encouraged to work from home three days per week and engage in “car-free” Sundays as a way to combat the “Putin energy crisis.”
“Mark my words….. before you can say ‘climate’ they will be locking you down.. IF YOU LET THEM! This is not over by a long shot…you will see…#resist. Brits told work from home three days a week and ban cars on Sundays to beat Putin energy crisis,” McKeith tweeted.
https://thenewamerican.com/preview-of-climate-lockdowns-french-region-bans-outdoor-events-due-to-heat-wave/
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Sydney was an extremely pleasant city to live in and travel around back in 2000 when private traffic was heavily limited during the Olympic Games. I often wondered why one of the useless Labor governments of that era(particularly Kenneally’s) didn’t say “to hell with it, we’re going to lose government anyway, why not ban private cars in the inner city and see what happens.” They might then have been remembered for something other than epic corruption.
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Roger Bacon, William of Ockham, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Christopher Wren, Jonathan Swift, Adam Smith, James Smithson, William Penn, John Locke, Samuel Johnson, Robert Hooke, William Harvey, Edmund Halley, Edward Gibbon, Oscar Wilde, Cecil Rhodes.
Just a few of many who were Oxford graduates who helped make the UK and Western Civilisation great in numerous areas and who would all be appalled at what these woke idiots are doing.
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Sorry, last I checked they’ve all been cancelled. Got any woke-friendly examples?
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David Cameron, Hugh Grant, Emma Watson and assorted woke luminaries.
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Of course charging vehicles under the pretext of stopping air pollution is again just another mechanism to limit the mobility of less affluent people. After expanding the London charge zone, they want to add road pricing too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11468711/Sadiq-Khan-expand-ultra-low-emission-zone-London.html
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I wonder if the fine for driving a vehicle with the number plates removed is less than the greenie’s tax ?
What happens if you borrow a car from my friend in Eastern Europe who has a habit of emailing back photos of his manhood to UK councils that mail fines and demands. Might be different after Brexit I guess.
Not asking for a friend.
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Once installed they will restrict the number of non-essential trips to zero.
That means if your grandchildren and other family members who live outside the 15 kilometres will never see you again.
The real reason is exposed.
What all Marxists want.
The disintegration of family units.
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Really?!
It seems this is just the perspective of a modern slave that is lucky enough to live in one of the good zones of the current “perfectly good” civilization.
Disregarding the bubbly view, I for sure can’t see anything that makes me qualify this as a “perfectly good civilization”, and I also happen to live in one “good zone”.
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As for the topic in question… There is NO CHANCE to deploy such “cities” using the current ones. They either totally destroy the current ones and build new ones or that is just another one of those usual topics these degenerate animals enjoy talking about during their parties!
I happen to live in a SMALL TOWN and even here I’m not able to do that type of modern slavery when it comes to TIME.
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In response to Elon Musk’s free speech policies on Twitter a Leftoid wrote:
Unbelievable! Most people here would know the history, but if you don’t, look up Operation Paperclip. Musk hasn’t hired a single National Socialist but guess who did?
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There is apparently a huge demand for “pureblood” blood for transfusion. I.e. blood from people who haven’t had the experimental covid “vaccines”.
https://youtu.be/b2Iz5o_bihE
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I used to be fully supportive of an Australian ID until I experienced what totalitarian governments (including those in Aust Fed and at State level) have done through the Covid-19 pandemic.
We now get this announcemenmt out of Bill Shorten: Australia launches myGov digital identity mobile app, ‘at long last’
We know what’s happening in China with its social credit system.
We need to resist these invasion of privacy (partriclarly after the hacking that’s been going on and release of our personal information.
I feel a groundswell of resistance – or will the sheeple just accept it in the hope of promised Govt efficiency and improved support and access?
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Local Neighbourhoods?
My understanding is we essentially lived in easy walking distance to Main Street shops, schools, post office, police station, in fact every service, sporting activity etc was available at a local level. Anything else in a capital city was accessible by tram or train, in a regional city you could walk or ride and in a small town the shop owners knew where you were if you needed assistance.
Now who changed this with the promotion of Los Angeles style sprawl, cheap rural and vacant land covered with little boxes whose residents had to drive to big shopping centres?
The same people who are now telling us this lifestyle is wrong and we need to have the modern lifestyle and the freedoms we enjoy with access to transport restricted by a central authority.
I have been a fan of strong local communities only I would prefer this to occur by removing the controls that have destroyed local business, services clubs, etc; effectively exhausting small communities when they should have been allowed to be innovative and flourish.
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Amazing how every “problem” they identify also requires a “solution” that makes them richer and more powerful over the rest of us, and makes us into poor slaves. And they also have an uncanny ability to “predict” the problems that they tell us only they can solve if they have enough money and power.
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[…] Roberts14 December 20224:00 AM14 December 20224:00 AMOn December 3, Jo Nova penned an article, Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it which caused an outburst of alarm.Casually dubbed ‘climate lockdowns’, it involves a bizarre […]
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