By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--May 1, 2023
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In a now totally upside-down world, the United Nations/WEF is the shepherd, and unsuspecting masses, the sheep.
The latest move of the largely U.S.-funded UN? The 15 Minute City—a world wide phenomenon, during which the UNFCCC (The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change) gets to brand any and all dissenters “conspirators”.
The 15 Minute City is not a federal initiative, but a municipal one. Thousands of municipal councils in North America alone, are all but owned by the United Nations.
“The new buzzword among urban planners is the “15-minute city,” but it’s the same old idea they’ve been pushing for decades: their dream of getting us all living in small, densified urban condos, and out of our cars. Urban policy analyst Wendell Cox joins host Brian Lilley to explain what the “15-minute city” really is and why it’s doomed. He discusses how planners ignore how we really want to live, how cars and suburbs improve our lives, and how the ways the pandemic changed our work and our world should rightly put an end to these schemes once and for all. (National Post, April 10, 2023
“Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament, believes that COVID passports and QR codes that became widespread during the pandemic were only test runs for implementing “15-minute cities” aimed at tightening government control over people. (Epoch Times, April 30, 2023)
“A 15-minute city is a neighborhood where a resident can reach everything they need, like a grocery store, doctor, and so forth within a 15-minute walk. According to Anderson, such cities are the beginning of tighter government control of people. The administration can exert control by deciding “you are no longer allowed to leave your 15-minute immediate area. They don’t have to fence it in or anything. It will be done via digital ID,” she said in an interview with Jan Jekielek’s “American Thought Leaders” program published on April 25.
“If you now fancy another store and it does not happen to be in your neighborhood, guess what? You won’t be going to that store anymore. Like I said, total control is what we’re talking about.”
“In Europe, legislation is being pushed forward to set up 15-minute cities. “According to Anderson, the Digital Green Certificate, the COVID pass introduced during the pandemic, was only a test run designed to get people used to producing a QR code and related requirements.
“Now, they’re slamming us with these 15-minute cities. Make no mistake, it’s not about your convenience. It’s not that they want you to be able to have all of these places that you need to get to close by. It’s not about saving the planet either,” Anderson said.
“With the 15-minute cities, they will have to have those before they can lock you down, and that’s what we were talking about here.”
“In Great Britain, some counties have already passed legislation. They will be able to impose a climate lockdown. That’s the next step. That’s what we are talking about. In order to do that, they will have to have these 15-minute cities.”
“The next step, Anderson says, will involve restricting people within their localities, only allowing them to leave the place two or three times a year. However, the rich will be able to get away with these rules as they can buy off exit passes from the poorer segments, she stated.
“The poor people will be left in these 15-minute neighborhoods while the ones that are better off get to go wherever they want to go. This is what we are talking about.”
“An article featured on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) website in March last year called the concept of 15-minute cities “a lot more than a fad” and a consequence of the current times, specifically 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,” it claimed, adding, “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.”
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…”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. (The 15 Minute City, March 21, 2023)
“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 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.”
Anderson criticized “The Line” project being constructed in Saudi Arabia. A 200-kilometer-long, 200-meter-wide, 500-meter-high structure, The Line is projected to house up to 9 million people. (Epoch Times)
“If I wanted to get total control of the people, that’s exactly where and how I would house them, and then, have them on a three-meal-a-day prescription. Guess what will happen if you do not do as you are told—they will probably cancel those meals. It’s so easy,” she said.
“That’s what we’re talking about. When you really take all of this together, there is no other way for me to actually say this—it will be a complete impoverishment and enslavement of all the people. I’m stating it so clearly because that’s what it seems like, and that’s what it looks like to me.”
"The concept of 15-minute cities is drawing heated debate on social media. When documentary maker Carla Francome posted a thread in February about the benefits of such cities, it soon attracted criticism.
"One person suggested that though 15-minute cities sound great in theory, it would become a problem once the government tries to enforce it.
"Another pointed out that if 15-minute cities were to become a reality, Francome would have to take a special permit to visit her father if he was living 30 minutes away from her.
“One day, you’ll be trapped in your 15 minute city, waiting for a drone to deliver your sweet and sour bugs and trying to remember what it was like to be on holiday,” author Lisa Keeble said in an April 22 tweet. “You’ll ask yourself- when did it all go wrong. When you applauded lockdowns and masks.”
"Anderson also highlighted the fearmongering employed by governments to control people during the COVID-19 pandemic. “In Germany, there was a manual, an outline on how to get the people to do what the government wanted them to do to adhere to these restrictions,” she said. (Epoch Times)
“They outlined it there specifically, ‘Even though kids are at no risk of this COVID, we have to make them afraid. If they catch it and then they infect their grandparents, they’re responsible for having killed their grandparents.’ That’s the kind of thinking that went on in the governments.”
“A completely blown out of proportion kind of pandemic. For what? It was so the pharmaceutical companies could make billions and billions of dollars.”
"Jekielek noted that there’s “unequivocal evidence” that the UK government was involved in sowing fear among its populace with regard to COVID-19 and had a specific strategy for doing so. Similar things were done in other countries, including the United States, he pointed out.
"When asked whether this was the result of some kind of global coordination, Anderson replied, “Absolutely.”.
“That is actually the scariest part of all of this. Had it only been two or three countries going rogue, we would have had the hopes another country would step in and put a stop to it,” she said.
“They were in lockstep with all of this. They literally read from the same script, repeating the same lines, ‘Build back better, safe and effective.’ Every single Western democracy was pretty much doing the same thing.”
Oligarchs at the United Nations and WEF think they know better what’s good for you, than you do.
Both claim that they “build back better” and that “you will own nothing and be happy”.
Having already gotten away with locking the masses down during three long years of COVID-19 fear mongering, they are now virtue signalling their way toward 15 minute cities.
We should all hope and pray that their latest lockdown strategy lasts only 15 minutes.
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