The 15 Minute City
Beta Testing a Climate Lockdown
Greetings fellow Plebs & Peasants,
When I previously reported about potentially facing climate lockdowns, I wouldn’t have guessed we’d get to see a real life example so quickly. but such is life in Clown World these days. Always expect the unexpected.
Now, this will be present as usual as something entirely wonderful, and surely will play off some people’s desires to support local businesses, which in general is good, so long as it is completely optional. While the full extent of what a climate lockdown would entail cannot be currently realized due to certain technologies not being in place (mainly programmable CBDCs), it can and will be done on a ‘voluntary’ for the time being in order to accustom people to the idea.
If you have ever heard the term Digital Gulag or Algorithm Ghetto, and are uncertain what is really meant by them, this so-called ‘15 Min City’ and/or Smart Cities, in conjunction with programmable CBDCs (i.e. can be programmed to only alllow spending within a certain radius from home), would be a real world example of the terms.
If this ever takes hold, there is nobody to blame but ourselves. We know the playbook, we know what they are planning. But we do not ever have to go along with it. And if that means your life becomes a bit uncomfortable or inconvenient, so fucking be it. Its time more people make decisions they know will make their lives difficult, in order to be sure the future generations have any senblance of freedom.
So, with that said, enjoy the blueprint for enslavemetnt, The 15 Min City.
- jw
#DoNotComply #NoCompromise #NoSurrender
audio clip courtesy of No Agenda:
Source: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The 15 Minute City
February 26, 2021
Can a new concept of urban living help reduce our emissions?
With cities key to climate action, could a new concept of urban living help us reach the Paris Agreement targets?
The American author Jane Jacobs once wrote that “cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” It's a point that has more resonance now than ever, as we look to reimagine how we live in our cities, both as a result of the urgent need to take climate action, and the ongoing upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic.
How we live is of course continually changing; once we lived transient lives before settling into villages, towns and then cities. In the 20th century, suburban living became popular, and the daily commute – and the emergence of central business districts – was born. However recent years have seen a growing awareness of how destructive (to our own mental health as well as the environment), a long daily commute can be. Indeed, all through the 20th century writers such as Jane Jacobs railed against the destructive influence of cars and urban sprawl. Gradually, things started to change, with Copenhagen the first European city to pedestrianize its main shopping street in 1961, an approach many other cities copied. As we moved towards the end of the 20th century, concerns rose over air pollution and more and more cities enhanced their public transport networks, and started building cycling lanes.
Post-COVID Living
The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced this questioning of traditional ways of living, with many workers now used to working remotely, and at times, restricted to within a few kilometres of their homes due to public health measures. So can living differently change the way we think about our neighbourhoods and our cities, and ultimately help us reach the key Paris Agreement target, which is to reach the global average temperature rise to as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius?
Enter the 15 Minute City, a concept developed by Professor Carlos Moreno at the Sorbonne in Paris. It is a relatively simple idea: where everything we need – workplaces, shops, parks, schools – should be within a fifteen-minute walk or cycle.
It would see the city become decentralized, which would result in less need for cars and the reimagining of public space to include less roads and more green space, bike lanes, and sports and leisure amenities. The idea of self-sufficient neighbourhoods is not new – before cars became omnipresent, most cities were laid out like this. However, given the urgency of the climate action we need, many cities are looking at ways to reduce emissions and improve residents’ quality of life.
Last April, Milan’s mayor, Giuseppe Scala announced he wanted to “rethink the rhythms” of the city, an apt description of the 15 Minute concept. A number of global mayors promoted the 15 Minute City in a report from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group published last summer. The report also reemphasized the need to “reallocate more road space to walking and cycling, investing in city-wide walking and cycling networks and green infrastructure.” It also highlighted the need to prioritize “nature-based solutions such as parks, green roofs, green walls, blue infrastructure and permeable pavements, to help reduce the risks of extreme heat, drought, and flooding, and improve liveability and physical and mental health.”
A Multi-Use Future
Paris, though, is leading the charge when it comes to the 15 Minute City; its mayor, Anne Hidalgo, appointed Moreno her ‘special envoy for smart cities’, and the city has made a number of decisions – from banning high polluting vehicles from entering the city at certain times to reserving the Seine’s quays for pedestrians and cyclists – to improve residents’ quality of life. Of course, the 15 Minute City is about more than just how we move around, but how we live day to day, such as how we use our buildings. As Moreno recently told the Financial Times: “One building with many applications throughout the day [is ideal]. How, for example, we could use a school for other activities during the weekend. We also want buildings that mix places for living and working at the same time, which reduces commuting time.”
Of course, it is much easier to reconfigure a city that was laid out in the pre-car era (most European cities) than cities that grew around the automobile (everywhere from Melbourne to Jakarta). Indeed many European capitals already have elements of a 15 Minute City in place. The British engineering firm, Arup, conducted a survey of 5,000 residents across five European capitals (London, Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid) in 2019, focused on the 15-Minute City concept. It asked respondents how long it took them to walk or cycle to essential amenities such as parks and shops. It took Milan and Madrid residents on average 13.1 minutes; Paris residents took 15.5 minutes; residents of Berlin took 16 minutes, while London residents faced a journey of 23.5 minutes.
While every city is different, so are the districts within a city, and some worry the emergence of a 15 Minute City will exacerbate existing divisions. If you live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, what’s available within your 15-minute walk, will be very different to someone living in a Bronx housing project. It is vital then that city authorities ensure things like bike lanes and greening projects are spread equally throughout their city.
It is vital that in a post-pandemic world we ‘Recover Better’, and ensure that the rebuilding of our economies features green solutions – in our cities and everywhere else – that will not only spur growth, but safeguard our future on the planet.
Source: The Common Edge
The Surprising Stickiness of the “15-Minute City”
01.25.2022
Urbanism trends come and go: Broadacre City, Radiant City, EcoCity. Yet the “15-Minute City” concept—which implies having all necessary amenities within a short walk, bike ride, or public transit trip from one’s home—has demonstrated stickiness not just as an idea, but as a powerful tool for action, from Paris to Seoul, Bogotá to Houston.
For longtime urbanists, the 15-Minute City seemed to merely repackage the historic urban pattern of development: walkable, mixed-used districts. Old wine, new bottle, as the saying goes. But for a new framing to ignite a global urbanism movement, clearly there’s more going on.
The obvious, yet incomplete, answer is the pandemic. Would Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo have pushed for progressive urban design without this framing? Undoubtedly. But with Covid 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 walking/biking/transit distance was suddenly a matter of life and death. The pandemic created an urgency around equitable urbanism that sidelined arguments about bike lanes and other “amenities” that have roiled communities for years.
The term was coined in 2016 by Sorbonne professor Carlos Moreno, who was given an Obel Award in 2021 for developing the idea. (The award was created by the Dutch-based Obel Foundation “honoring architectural contributions to human development.”) The graph below comes from a Google Trend search of worldwide usage of the term; the peak in the middle is approximately November 15, 2020.
When a new framing meets its moment, something more than a fad is emerging. Prior to the pandemic, few planners would have taken seriously the idea that “home” become the central organizing factor of all urban planning. Despite predictions of increased “telecommuting,” working from home remained an outlier. Indeed, work and commerce have always been the central organizing factors of urbanism, from the post-agricultural revolution to the industrial and technological ones.
Historically, most cities grew up around trade, which then developed into more permanent places of commerce. Cities reduced transportation costs for goods and people by bringing them closer together. By reducing these costs, cities increased productivity and thus further evolved the city as a multiplier of culture and innovation. (As Aristotle said, “The city-state comes into being for the sake of living, but it exists for the sake of living well.”) More than a century after the adoption of automobiles as the dominant mode of transportation, work still dictated urban geography, with increasingly longer commutes. Suburbia, the antithesis of the 15-Minute City, couldn’t exist without proximity to an economic urban engine.
The Creative Destruction of Cities
Covid may now be flipping this on its head, which is why the 15-Minute City concept is taking hold in a way that it would not have before the pandemic. As demonstrated by the illustration below, the 15-Minute City puts home at the center of urban spatial relationships. The point is not to have every cultural amenity and human desire within immediate reach of one’s doorstep. New York can only have one Broadway theater district. But there’s no question that Midtown Manhattan will have to follow a similar recovery pattern that Lower Manhattan did in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack: diversification. And that is true of the suburbs as well, significantly beyond the extent to which they’ve already diversified.
Indeed, the decentralization of work is not going to kill the city, it’s going to save it. There will be a lot of creative destruction along the way, but that is how the city renews itself: from within. The cities that don’t decentralize work will struggle mightily in ways both known and unimaginable.
As climate change causes shocks and stresses at faster intervals and increasing severity, the 15-Minute City will become even more critical. Anyone who has followed Erik Klinenberg’s work knows that resilience is rooted in place. Specifically, communities that foster and maintain social and economic relationships don’t have to be wealthy, but they do need to be walkable and safe, with both residential and commercial buildings intact. And, I would add, for 15-Minute Cities to thrive, not just survive crises—and this cannot be stressed enough—they must also have plenty of mixed-income and equitable housing, as well as digital access.
This is how neighbors can know and understand each other: as local store owners and workers, colleagues, caregivers, educators, and friends. These are the people who come together when it matters most. The mutual-aid groups that appeared during the pandemic exemplify the importance of social cohesion in a crisis, which only works if necessities are within a reasonable distance of where people live.
15-Minute Cities are not just a collection of autonomous medieval villages living in a constant state of crisis. The fractal nature of cities is what makes them dynamic places as a collection of connected neighborhoods with their own cultural histories that evolve over time and contribute to the identity of the larger city (such as the Harlem Renaissance, or the Latin jazz and hip-hop cultures of the South Bronx).
The word “connected” is doing a lot of work here. Yes, people need mass transit and other citywide services. But cities are as much an identity as a place. As historian Yuval Noah Harari might say, cities are a “fiction,” a shared concept that organizes society around cooperation (however tenuous that may seem at times). While Harari focused on nation-states and religion as primary human fictions, I would argue that cities are the most enduring human fiction of all.
Dystopia, Utopia, Eutopia
In stark contrast to the 15-Minute City is the predominant urban trend of the 20th century that continues into the current one: namely, rapid urbanization, both dystopian and utopian. An estimated 1 billion urban poor (1 of every 8 people on the planet) live in informal settlements. Then there’s the dystopian ghost towns of China, where 130 million properties are vacant, which could house about 340 million people, surpassing the current U.S. population. The opposing trend is the ground-up construction of “smart city” utopias, such as Songdo City in South Korea and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, among others. Even though they’re largely considered soulless failures, hope springs eternal: Toyota’s Woven City is now under construction in Japan.
Between dystopia (bad place) and utopia (no place) is “eutopia,” a town planning term coined by 19th century Scottish polymath Patrick Geddes. It comes from the Greek origin of eu, meaning good, and topos, meaning place. Comprising “folk, work, and place,” eutopia is the best possible manifestation of a city.
To better quantify and plan eutopias, Geddes developed the concept of a “vital budget.” He argued that “society must transition from ‘money wages’—which tend to dissipate energies toward individual gains at the expense of both natural and cultural qualities—to a ‘vital budget’ which facilitates ‘conserving energies and organizing [the] environment towards the maintenance and evolution of life – social, individual, civic.’”
This sounds a lot like a 15-Minute City, including the circumstances under which it emerged: through the cracks of creative destruction brought on by a technological revolution.
So, what’s new about the 15-Minute City, then? As a concept, not much, which is why I initially dismissed it as a fad. But as the “old wine, new bottle” framing went viral (pardon the pun) and began to spark real change, it became clear the historical roots of the 15 Minute City connected deeply with the current moment, one that we’ll be living with for a long time to come. “There is no such thing as a new idea,” Mark Twain once said. “It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
Source: 15 Min City
About:
Everyone living in a city should have access to essential urban services within a 15 minute walk or bike. The 15-Minute City Project is designed to help access-focused urban transformations be what we need them to be: ambitious, inclusive, measurable and effectively implemented.
The project’s Twitter and Instagram accounts highlight relevant and inspiring efforts around the world to create 15-minute cities. The blog will explore specific aspects and implications of 15-minute cities.
Traffic filters will divide city into "15 minute" neighbourhoods
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.
…insisted the controversial plan would go ahead whether people liked it or not…
…People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week.
Source: garydbarnett.com
15-Minute City Insanity Is Only ‘Climate Change’ Lockdown Madness
December 10, 2022
By: Gary D. Barnett
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
~ Ayn Rand
While the masses continue to happily accept any and every tiny bit of ‘permission’ to have a miniscule amount of ‘freedom,’ all at the whim of the rulers, the drive toward more ‘climate change’ lockdown policy and societal regulation and total control are going forward quickly and without restriction. The candy offered to the herd in the form of temporary lifting of draconian mandates is meant only to satisfy the short-term longing of the proletariat so as to gain future compliance and obedience from the sheep in order for the state to create a true slave society. One of the linchpins of this plot is to concentrate the population into so-called ‘smart’ cities, with 15 minute zones, where no travel outside this time frame is allowed without very restrictive monitoring. This is true insanity sold in the form of convenience, safety, and the bogus claim of protecting the earth.
Preparation, trials, and implementation of these atrocious prison-system cities are fully underway, and are being planned and sold as a public ‘good,’ an atrocious and deceptive lie. As I write this, 15-minute cities are being actively planned in Saudi, Arabia called “The Line,” Dubai, UAE, Oxford, U.K., Australia in Melbourne and Brisbane, in Spain in Barcelona, Buenos Aries, and even in Portland, Oregon in the Fascist U.S. While most have been asleep and basking in ignorance believing that totalitarianism has lessened, the master technocratic plot has never slowed. For those who are feeling left out, worry not, as a 15 minute prison system will soon be in a city or town near you.
Oxfordshire County in the U.K. is moving very fast to set up the first complete 15-minute city scam, and has announced a full “TRIAL” for January 2024. This is simply a climate lockdown trial meant to prepare the citizenry for continuous lockdowns, or more accurately, a minor existence in incarceration centers. Keep in mind that the plot to control the world depends on concentrating populations into smaller centers, with exhaustive technological measures of government regulation and authority that will require complete and total surveillance of all. This will be based on the ‘climate change’ lie, and world domination depends on a controlled, digital monetary system, that is also being structured by the central banking systems worldwide, and privately run by the ruling class. This is the same deep state that controls all government. Once the centralized bank digital currencies become reality, all freedom will end. The idea and implementation of controlled digital currencies is anathema to all liberty, and is mandatory for state control.
Once again I must mention the “big picture,” as everything going on from ‘virus lies,’ ‘variants,’ staged wars, ‘climate change,’ CBDCs, 15-minute cities, transgender nonsense, fake racism, bioweapon injections, and a myriad of current and future control scenarios, are all meant to accomplish but one thing, and therefore, they are all linked, and all part of the singular agenda of total technocratic control of all people on earth. This is exactly what the ‘great reset,’ the new one world government, and the monetary takeover are all about. Regardless of which particular plot is the news item of the day, it is simply all meant to achieve but one end. Do not disregard all of the minor plots, but recognize that the single plot desired is to control you and all on earth, and nothing less.
The case addressed here can be summed up with one statement coming from the World Economic Forum (WEF) weforum.org on March 15, 2022.
“As climate change and global conflict cause shocks and stresses at faster intervals and increased severity, the 15-minute city will become even more critical.”
This single statement connects the entire fake ‘climate change’, and Ukraine (all war) scenarios and agendas as reasoning to lockdown the world. Make no mistake, this is the plan that is and has been in high gear for decades, but especially so since the bogus ‘covid’ lockdown terror levied at the hands of the state in 2020.
Without mass resistance to this totalitarian push, be prepared for more and more restrictions on every aspect of life; including movement, travel, thought, communication, health decisions,’ medical care,’ money and spending, carbon tracking, total and complete surveillance, social credit systems, and renewed climate lockdowns.
Considering the U.S. government and American citizens, remember that this government and all its controlling rule system is nothing more than an organized crime syndicate; an operation based on the mass cooperation and acceptance of a nearly universal, compliant, and submissive population, intent only on getting by and being able to survive with their smart phones, TVs, games, bread and circuses, and dependence on rule. This general attitude will be the death knell of this society, but it does not have to remain as such given the huge numbers of us, and the few who claim ownership of the bulk of the pathetic inhabitants that make up the vast majority in this country.
Remember that the term ‘climate change’ is the basis of all future plans to take total control over everything, and that is and will be the weapon of fear used to round up the masses. Every time you hear the word “sustainable” and accept it as legitimate, every time the state claims to be protecting the earth to ‘save it,’ every time ‘sustainable development’ is the term used to create and enforce government policy, you have lost all, while the state has gained more power and control over you. The final agenda of fear called ‘climate change,’ is the hammer, while each of you are only a nail, but acting as one, you can hold everything together.
As I stated in an article earlier this year:
“The intentional manmade ‘climate change’ fraud is continually gaining steam, as it will always be the linchpin to future abuses and control by the rulers and their pawns in politics and mainstream media. While the controllers are destroying economies, decimating all quality food sources and production, eliminating vast amounts of life-sustaining energy, greatly harming the environment and its vital resources necessary for life, pursuing eugenics agendas, and advancing depopulation efforts, the majority of people continue to acquiesce to all orders and propaganda, while completely attached and addicted to their cell phones and their apathetic and pitiful pretend lives. All this is indicative of the downfall of humanity, and the rise of the technocratic oligarchs.”
Reference links:
Oxford County to introduce climate lockdown trial
United Nation Climate Change – The 15 minute city
Construction begins on The Line: Controlled City
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Panem in Process?
Some believe that the creatures behind the curtain give us a preview of the show to come – a kind of anticipatory taunting. To let us know, but also to let us know we can’t do anything to prevent it from happening, prior to it happening.
Perhaps the best example of this being Event 201, which “simulated” a worldwide outbreak of a coronavirus – the cases! the cases! – just months before we all became unwilling participants in the exercise.
Other looks-behind-the-curtain come to us via films, where we are given glimpses of what they have in store for us. Some of that may be just intuitively prophetic; extrapolation from current trends to future probabilities. But perhaps such prophecies sometimes get a little inside-baseball help. This isn’t speculative. There is the fact of Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s infiltration and use of media-celebrity-entertainment stooges to “front” story lines and plot twists the CIA wanted the public to imbibe as true.
Which brings us to The Hunger Games, with its interestingly coincidental use of the term Mockingjay, Part 1 as the second half of the book/movie’s title. Perhaps even more interesting, in terms of what the book/movie was perhaps meant to preview for us, is the book/movie’s fictitious land of Panem, the former United States, ruled “democratically” – in the East German/North Korean/American Leftist – sense – that ” . . .was established sometime after a series of ecological disasters and a global conflict brought about the collapse of modern civilization.”
It consists of a “federal” – meaning, centralized, authoritarian – capitol city, in which all the beautiful and rich (as well as not-hungry) people live . . . and everywhere else.
This brings us to the goings-on in the British city of Canterbury where a kind of Panem is being erected for real, perhaps as a Beta Test, a la Event 201. In the name of “encouraging” – which means of course, coercing – the people of the area to “walk, cycle or use public” (that is government) “transportation” rather than use their cars to move freely about, the area surrounding downtown Canterbury (effectively, the capitol city of Beta Test Panem) will be isolated from the outlying areas, which are each divided into four “provinces.” Each of these will, in turn, be isolated from the other.
Drivers who breach the containment of their “province” would be fined – meaning, if they fail to pay, violent men (and women and probably also “men” who were once women, given the state of things) will force them to pay, using every means necessary until they do pay. Such being the nature of “fines.” And of using them to “encourage” compliance.
People can still leave their province by car – for now. But if they wish to avoid being “encouraged,” they must ” . . . drive out of one neighbourhood onto a new ring road around the city, before re-entering their chosen section,” as the Daily Mail describes the Panem Plan. Which is called the Canterbury Circulation Plan, an ironic thing to call it since it is designed to throttle “circulation.”
The plan’s critics say it “… will stop direct journeys across the virtual lines, meaning that short trips to supermarkets, cafes and GP surgeries in cars will be banned and create more traffic.” ALPERS – automated license plate readers – will be “operating at entry and exit points to each of the area. This will stop drivers from sneaking between neighbourhoods without facing a fine.”
Italics added.
Just like in the book/movie, where the residents of each province of Panem were “encouraged” to remain within the confines of their province. The gleaming Capitol was, of course, off limits.
It has the ring of the pending, doesn’t it?
One of the planners behind the Panem Plan is a “conservative” politician, Ben Fitter-Harding (a name that sounds as if it came right out of the book/movie) who says “I really hope that in 2045 people will look back and see this is what made Canterbury realise the potential it has. No one’s movement will be constrained at all – it’s cars going down the rat runs that will be stopped.”
Italics added.
“No one’s movement will be constrained at all” – provided they walk, cycle or use government transport to move. It is “cars going down the runs that will be stopped.” In other words, your movement will be constrained – if you want to move using a car. Meaning, you will be “constrained” from moving any farther than your feet make feasible, which means only so far. Or as far as you can pedal, using your feet. Or – last resort – according to the government’s timetable and under the government’s control, via a government-controlled bus or train.
Welcome to Panem!
How soon before Panem come to you?
In varying degrees, it is already here. In “provinces” across the United States, planners are busily planning Panems for us. You will perhaps have heard about “road diets,” for instance – by which is meant mobility rationing, if you do not wish to use foot/pedal power, or government controlled forms of mobility. The “diet” is meant to “encourage” you to stop driving. Which means, as a practical matter, you will be “encouraged” to live no farther from where you want or need to go than your feet or bicycle or government transportation can get you. Which will not be very far, because it will not be very convenient. It will take much longer and be much less pleasant and – most of all – it will be entirely out of your control as to when and how you go, unless you walk or pedal.
“For residents within the five zones, they can access the facilities within their neighbourhood by car if they need to, says hyphenated-name politician, who could stand in for Panem’s President Snow. “But if you want to travel into a different neighbourhood, the best way to do that will be by walking, cycling or using public transport.”
Welcome to Panem, for real – which is what they are planning – and have just given you another preview of.
Why You May Soon Find Yourself in ‘Digital Prison’
Story at a glance:
An international vaccine passport, digital identity, a social credit system and a central bank digital currency (CBDC) form a digital control system that will lock down the population in perpetuity.
Facial recognition is an essential part of the control structure, as it’s the “password” to your digital identity.
By the end of 2022, there will be 1 billion data-collecting surveillance cameras in the world, all connected to the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Cameras and audio recording devices in cell phones, automobiles and smart appliances also collect and share data.
All these data are then used to give each person an individual score, based on their behavior, expression and interaction with the world. Ultimately, your social credit score, will dictate what you can and cannot do, what you can buy and where you can go.
AI is an absolutely crucial component, without which the control system cannot work. The easiest way to push against this system is to starve AI of data by refusing to use technologies that collect and share your personal data.
Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it.
The 15 Minute City is a UN and WEF plan, because they
care about youwant you to drive less.
The madness of the ‘15-minute city’
The green agenda is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown.
Global central banks racing to implement digital currencies as cities convert to ‘smart’ infrastructure: Track and control grid being erected right under our noses
The Central Bank of Nigeria announced it will begin, effective in January, restricting cash withdrawals from banks and ATMs to just $45 per day as part of a push to move the country toward a cashless economy.
Digitization Is Humanity’s Demise. The “Smartphonization” of Humanity. The QR code is Everywhere
What if we were really at the point where the arrow indicates on the bar-code cartoon below? Or, it could be much worse, we could already be just a tiny little speck on the all-encroaching and dominating QR code.
The QR code is everywhere. In some places you can’t even open a toilet door without using a QR code, first downloaded on your smart phone.
There is hardly a restaurant – anywhere in the western world – where its menus are not loaded onto a QR code. Screw those who do not have a smart phone, or do not want to use their smart phone to be invaded by QR codes.
See this for a more ample description of the dangers of the QR code.
Digital Currency: The Fed Moves toward Monetary Totalitarianism
The Federal Reserve is sowing the seeds for its central bank digital currency (CBDC). It may seem that the purpose of a CBDC is to facilitate transactions and enhance economic activity, but CBDCs are mainly about more government control over individuals. If a CBDC were implemented, the central bank would have access to all transactions in addition to being capable of freezing accounts.
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