… to control and govern the world! More of the same, as in the previous post. He knows what he is talking about. Worth a careful watch. But I doubt that it will be global though. I doubt that all countries will go along with it. [NOTE: That was a video by Sky News, hosted by presenter Rowan Dean, which has now been made unavailable. But I have kept the transcript, which can be seen below. Now the city of Canterbury in the UK is also adopting the same policy as Oxford, and lots of people are talking about it, so they are not shutting down the conversation by blocking that video. An Internet search will provide more info.] Here is the video transcript:
“And remember, if you only watch one hour of telly tonight, you will be glad it is this one, because I am going to give you a very specific warning, and you won’t hear it from anyone else. I believe we are facing a sinister threat to the freedoms and everyday liberties that we and our grandparents have taken for, and our parents have taken for granted all our and their lives—but are being squeezed out of us by woke, left-wing, authoritarian governments more effectively than a python crushing the breath out of Mrs Kafook’s pet, Pekingese. And, if we don’t wake up soon, and start saying, No, it will be too late.
“Yesterday I read a very disturbing story that comes out of Oxfordshire in Britain, but it offers a terrifying glimpse into what the future, the ‘net zero’ future, could well look like, under the climate renewables tyranny of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese, of Dan Andrews, of Palashay, of McGowan, of the loonies that seem to inhabit so many of our left-wing councils, and the ACT labor councils and governments. According to Darrenbergs at the independent website, Vision News—and you can also read the same story on the Daily Skeptic, an excellent website; the Joe Nova blog; and elsewhere—Oxford County Council are planning on embarking in 2024, not on covert lockdowns, but as I and many others have long predicted, climate lockdowns. Yes folks, the Great Reset is going to begin in earnest among the dreamy spiers of Oxford—once the very center of learning and enlightenment in the English-speaking world.
“How will it work? Well, scarily, much of the infrastructure of oppression and surveillance is already in place, as it is here; but recently Oxford County Council started to spell out the details—and yes, it is all being done in the name of ‘saving the planet from climate change’. According to Vision News, last week Oxfordshire County Council finally approved their plans to lock residents into one of six zones across the city of Oxford. They have divided the city (this is the council) into six zones, as the latest stage in what is called the ‘15-minute city’ agenda (remember that phrase). And they are actually boasting about this agenda. According to an October article in the Oxford Mail, the local newspaper there, quote Duncan Enright: ‘Oxfordshire County council’s cabinet member for travel and development strategy, has explained how roadblocks, stopping most motorists from driving through Oxford city center, will divide the city into six 15-minute neighborhoods. He insists the controversial plan will go ahead, whether people like it or not’. There is your covert mentality at work. The Oxfordshire Council will place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighborhoods. Even the Times Newspaper has reported on this travesty without batting an eyelid, that motorists will be fined simply for leaving their neighborhood once too often. So, how does this Communist style activity work, in what is supposedly the heart of a liberal democracy? Well, here is how the boffins explain it:
“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 plates recognition cameras. People can drive freely around their own neighborhood, and must apply for a permit to drive through the filters and into other neighborhoods, which they can apply to for up to 100 days per year. The council will then track their movements via smart cameras positioned all around the city. If any of Oxford’s 150,000 residents drives outside of their designated district more than 100 days in the year, he or she can be fined a hundred and fifty dollars a pop.
“Now think about how easily we motorists and pedestrians are hurdled around like sheep in our own cities; how often the concrete and plastic barriers suddenly appear out of nowhere. Notice how you can barely find anywhere to park in Sydney’s CBD these days; and how instead, there is all these empty bike lanes for miles and miles, that have taken over so much space on our roads, and yet completely empty, because even the cyclists hardly ever use them. There is a perfectly wide four-lane stretch of road in Paddington that I drive down, where inexplicably the speed limit was lowered to a measly 40, for no sensible reason that I can tell; and cars crawl along there at half the speed they could be going. Notice how more and more surveillance cameras are popping up all over the place. Stop at the traffic lights, and look up at any intersection these days, and the chances are you will see a little white camera peering down into your lap, checking whether you are on your mobile phone, or whatever—cameras everywhere, monitoring our every move. Go to Bunnings and other stores nowadays, and facial recognition cameras are monitoring your every move, logging in your details and data, without you having any say in the matter. When I was in Britain recently, I went to pay at one of those loathsome self payment things, that have tossed perfectly good check out chicks and other workers on the scrap heap in all our supermarkets, or so many of them. Well in the UK, when you go to those self-serving friggin things, the checkout machine photographs your face as you are paying—coming here too, I have no doubt.
“So what exactly is a ‘15-minute city?’ The term was coined in 2016 by Sorbon Professor Carlos Marino, who was given a Nobel award in 2021 for developing his idea. I will bet he was. The lovies lapped it up. Quote: ‘A truly livable and sustainable urban future, that places each global citizen at the heart of their own city, was the gushing blurb.’ When they say, ‘places each global citizen at the heart of their own city,’ of course I suspect what they really mean is, ‘imprisons each global citizen within five kilometers of their own home’. Unsurprisingly, we find the concept enthusiastically being sold by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. The same mob who hoped that by 2030, ‘you will own nothing, and you will be happy,’ have even gone to the trouble of drawing you up a cute little diagram [image below paragraph] of your wonderfully new virtual prison, to make the idea look benign and appealing—as well as our funky interactive World Economic Forum graph (Klaus loves these things), where you can learn that urban resilience for example is linked to climate change, cyber security, and of course, systemic racism—all the usual lefty nonsense and garbage designed to keep individuals locked down, and denied freedom of movement—the most fundamental and precious of all our human rights, and the most basic one at that, as Joanna Nova says on the excellent Genova website.
“The ‘15 minute city’ is now already being eagerly embraced by the United Nations, to tackle climate change of course; as well by a host of city councils and local governments all around the world, including popping up in Barcelona, Paris, Portland, Buenos Aires, and even Brisbane and Melbourne—yes, they are everywhere. Interesting, isn’t it, how all these different cities all around the world seem to be kind of hopping on the same bandwagon all at the same time. It is almost as if, oh, I don’t know, we had one big government running the world behind the scenes, telling all the little governments—you know, the democratically elected ones—what to do. Of course I am only joking, that could never happen, could it? Here is French president Emmanuel Macron at the recent APEC conference he scurried off to attend:
“Macron: ‘Are you on the US or on the Chinese side? because now progressively, a lot of people would like to see there are two orders in this world. This is a huge mistake, even for both the US and China. We need a single Global Order.’
“Wow! Hang on, Emmanuel, you are way behind the eight ball there, mon voir. According to our own chief health officer here in New South Wales, we have already got one: ‘We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the New World Order’.
“Anyway, certain folk here in Australia are getting extremely excited about the idea of the ‘15-minute City’. The Brisbane Times were most enthusiastic, quote: ‘The concept of a city in which work, play, and most of life’s necessities are within 15 minutes of home, on foot or by bicycle, gained traction during the pandemic; and today cities around the world, including London, Milan, and Paris are embracing the idea’. I will bet they are! Hilariously in Melbourne, they have also adopted the ‘15-minute City’. But there, they call it the ‘20-minute City’. Can’t you just hear Dan Andrews on the phone with Klaus Schwab, ‘Yeah, Hey Andrews, ve must haf ze 15 minutes to lock down Melbourne, to save ze vorld from catastrophic climate change?’ ‘Ah yes, Mr Schwab, I think it is a great idea; but 15 minutes, that is pretty quick, we do things a little gentler down here in Victoria. How about we call it a 20-minute City?’ Now, ‘plan Melbourne,’ Dan’s exciting new vision for his city, is all built around this notion of the ‘20-minute neighborhood’. There is even a municipal strategic plan, quote: ‘The 20-minute neighborhood is all about living locally,’ boasts the website, ‘giving people the ability to meet most of their daily needs within a 20-minute walk from home, with safe cycling, and local transport options. The current municipal strategic planning project is a joint state and local government project to create better planning for neighborhood activities centers, to deliver 20-minute neighborhoods. Banuli, Daraban, Marunda, Mooney Valley, and Whittlesea city councils are testing draft guidance to support activity center network planning based on their local needs and priorities. The outcomes of the project will inform future guidance developed to ensure it is robust and fit for purpose,’ says the government blurb. How robust? Roadblocks? Electronic filters? Fines if you drive too often into the wrong zone? I guess we will have to wait and see. But Dan is not mucking around, quote: ‘Plan Melbourne aims to make the 20-minute neighborhood concept a reality for every person,’ promises the Victorian Government website. And who can forget, back during lockdown, Victoria Police handing out five thousand dollar fines, with hundreds of police officers stopping literally thousands of people going about their daily business, because they crossed into the wrong zone. Imagine the glee with which those same officers will go about their work next time, when they are saving the whole planet from people driving their motor cars—all in the name of ‘climate change’. We are Marching headlong into a world of technocratic tyranny and control over our daily lives, that is anathema to the spirit of liberty and democracy; where even local government bureaucrats, that have learned big government mandarins, control and survey our every movements, living within our five kilometer boundaries, being on camera all the time, everybody riding around on bicycles. Forget ‘15-minute cities,’ it sounds more like living in the Truman Show.”
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