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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Santa Clara county used geofencing to monitor how many people were inside a church that did not follow the Covid mandates

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

They like Corporate cities and entities - e.g. London, East India Company, Vatican City et al. Governance by the people for the people is so 'Enlightenment' period! Maybe the rise of the West, fuelled by private ownership rights, was a mere aberration in the historical timeline, andn ow we are reverting to normal?

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Mar 16, 2023·edited Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

I live in one of the pilot cities in England destined as a "15-minute city". The first rollout involved setting up "traffic filters" forcing automobile traffic into certain patterns - no side street short-cuts to take you from one major road to another through a residential area, filters so that traffic from one part of the city have to follow a circuitous route around the city in order to reach another part of the city, and next year permits that allow you only so many times to enter restricted areas (these of course can be further restricted later and only apply to cars at the moment, but think about also applying them to everyone eventually!). Bicycle lanes are expanded and car lanes reduced, making it more and more difficult to drive in the city, thus encouraging you to take public transport, walk or cycle. I can well see the possible dystopian world we are entering.

I am in hopes that your predictions of a globalist failure will bear fruit eventually as we pass into a multi-polar world. The Chinese and Russian versions of the national state do not allow corporations to rule as they do in the West, so there is some hope there.

I suspect the world will ultimately coalesce into tow major divisions - a "Free World" consisting of sovereign independent states like China and Russia, and a "Dystopian West", an integrate "Fice Eyes", if you will, ruled with the iron hand of major multinational corporations and international bankers..

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Maybe one of the answers to this dystopian future of globalisation is by Wolfgang Streeck who explains why the sovereign nation-state is the only democratic form of political organization in post-neoliberal capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/live/0nrANgtv3l0?feature=share

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

To achieve that, the future should either be linear (SSDD), either dominated by the globalists; they need to crush Russia and China and use their resources for their wet dreams... lots of good luck with that. US$ is crashing and I don't see non-vassal states accepting Fed digital coupons so everything should be built locally (and I see no effort to re-industrialize anything in US).

I don't see the globalist being willing to invest in any type of infrastructure project; the roads and railways are crumbling... why would they invest anything in building cities, smart or dumb? In my opinion, this is highly unlikely to happen...

China on the other hand, is totally able to implement all the above.

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Forgive me if I get details wrong. A man was chased by a lion to the edge of a cliff. With no where to turn, he hastily scrambled over the side and started down, clinging to a vine. Halfway down the cliff, he looked down to the ground below and saw a tiger pacing back and forth, watching him, licking its jaws. Looking up, he saw a mouse st the edge of the cliff nibbling on his vine. Looking to the side, he saw a big, red, juicy strawberry. It was the best strawberry he ever ate.

We've been between a rock and a hard place since day 1, whenever that was. Sosdd.

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Brilliant article. Concise and most importantly, dispels the fringe "conspiracy" projections of the capabilities and intentions of 5g.

With the truly nightmarish potentialities as described in this comprehensive outline, who needs to postulate reptilian overlords, energy death beams and switch on/off viruses.

This description is as dystopian as it gets within the realms of rationality.

Many thanks for the grim but necessary picture of a reality that rivals anything in my worst dreams🙏

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In view of this essay, perhaps we should put our hopes into a massive CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), disrupting the whole electronic bubble of the globe.

After all, one such happened only a few days ago - on the 'wrong' side of the sun. See this report and the comment posts:

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/extremely-rare-cme/

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Yeah, you lost me at 5G causing cancer. Microwave radiation is non ionising so cannot damage DNA molecules directly any more than infrared can.

Also, 15 minute cities are to stop urban sprawl and ensure services are provided locally rather than wasteful US cities - which have draconian zoning laws and no mixing of house types or utilities. It's not about fencing people into their local area, it's about making their local area livable without massive energy use for car transport.

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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."

~ Daniel Defoe

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Excellent article on the machinations of the idiots trying to run the human race. Some points:

1) All this was predicted by cyberpunk sci-fi in the 1980s. Read the rule books and novels associated with the role-playing games "Cyberpunk" and "Shadowrun." Or play "Cyberpunk 2077".

2) This is why hacking is one of the most important survival skills for the world that's coming.

3) Ninjutsu is another one. Ninjutsu is not a martial art - it is a philosophy of survival and espionage - also critical skills for the world that's coming.

4) Drop your 5G phone in a Faraday bag and forget about it. Learn about burner phones and tradecraft.

I'll be writing about these solutions and others over the wide spectrum of possibilities in my Substack, "The Five Essentials" at https:⁄⁄richardstevenhack.substack.com⁄ As Joe Bob Briggs used to say about drive-in movies, "Check it out!"

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The technology is a tool, be it cars, guns, computers, etc. There are positives and negatives to everything. The real issues that need addressing are the underlaying paradigms driving society.

Given those with the greatest amount of power are the ones benefiting the most from the current cultural beliefs and the rest of us are being divided and conquered, using the modern versions of carrots and sticks, fear and greed, it is that underlaying psychology that needs to be addressed.

While I've been on medium for several years, I posted this on sub stack, as an overview of some of the more basic issues;

https://johnmerryman.substack.com/p/peeling-away-the-layers-of-performative

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A good read. Well intentioned plan apparently by some. One thing I gather they gave overlooked. All industries protect their market share and none do so as well as the cash driven drug industry. They are they only group ruthless and powerful enough if they see fit to destroy that infrastructure. I don’t see them using a cdc for transactions

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Helium is essential and not replaceable for electronics manufacture - from growing silicon crystals for semiconductors to manufacturing optical fibres, thanks to its low reactivity, low density and high thermal conductivity. But humans are fast running out of this vital gas. Most of the world’s helium currently comes from long-ago discovered natural gas fields in the United States which are nearer to the end of their production life than the beginning. Some comes from Qatar and Algeria, both large natural gas producers. Helium extraction will almost certainly peak when production from the natural gas reservoirs containing economical amounts of helium peaks. The electronic future envisioned in this post is not manufacturable nor scalable, since there are bigger competitors for finite helium supply like welding MRI scanners, leak detection, research etc.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-05-19/helium-is-a-finite-resource-who-knew/

Unless new natural gas fields containing economical amounts of helium are found soon—or one company prospecting for economical deposits of helium mixed with non-hydrocarbon gases succeeds in a big way—helium supplies are likely to begin a long, irreversible decline

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Life eventually imitates art. Star Wars communicators were almost prophetic in their prediction of handheld devices. Eventually the real world technology caught up and I will never forget the resemblance of the Motorola flip phone

So, now, what art predict on this tech? Altered Carbon? The Expanse? Minority Report? Black Mirror? A bit of everything?

Asked a different way: is there any way this wounds up NOT being a dystopian authoritarian nightmare?

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