SMART Cities, Resilient Cities, 15 Minute Cities, Prepared Cities.
What is this?
On September 8, 2022, the Premier of NSW, Dominic Perrottet announced 6 Smart Cities to be established in New South Wales, Australia, to join the existing Smart City of Melbourne in Australia, and others internationally.
The six cities are: Lower Hunter and Greater Newcastle, Central Coast, Illawarra-Shoalhaven, Sydney (divided into “Western Parkland”, “Central River”, and “Eastern Harbour”). “This vision was first revealed in December 2021 and has expanded from three to six cities since.”
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Is the “Smart City" a globalist agenda? Did we vote for this? Where did it come from?
Smart Cities, 15 Minute Cities, 20 Minute Cities, Resilient Cities, Rockefeller Cities – It has been developing for decades, but in 2023 is really escalating and obviously being rolled out and implemented globally.
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What is a SMART City, as defined by the World Economic Forum?
https://www.weforum.org/search?query=Smart+Cities
What Defines a S.M.A.R.T. City?
Surveillance, Monitoring, Analysis, Reporting, Technology?
SMART Water, Smart Meters, digital consumption tracking, SMART Water App?
SMART Meters on power usage?
5G and perhaps 6G towers?
LED Lights?
Tracking and tracing “for your safety, security and wellbeing”?
Surveillance? On the streets, in public parks and within the shops too.
Digital ID, the abolishment of cash and cryptocurrencies not under their control, the introduction of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)?
Financial tracking and tracing?
Centralized data, including medical records, employment, financial information, licences, etc.?
Monitoring your carbon footprint?
What Did National Geographic Say About “Smart Cities” in May 2022?
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/smart-cities/
Learn about it in Sydney, this month, March 2023:
14th International Expo World, Smart City Expo World: 14-15 March 2023, ANMM Sydney:
https://smartcitiesexpoworldforum.com/conference-agenda-2023/
Get your tickets here: (“A hybrid event”.)
Did you know that in 2021 the “Electric Vehicles (Revenue Arrangements) Bill 2021” was passed through both houses of parliament in NSW, Australia?
This bill has not been rolled out, but it raises a number of questions about how the government will know how many kilometres you have travelled in your electric vehicle, why registration would become dependent on the number of kilometres driven, etc.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/w7IRs8abzXMC/
NSW Reconstruction Authority. What is this?
https://www.nsw.gov.au/emergencies/nsw-reconstruction-authority
List of 36 pioneer Smart Cities from the World Economic Forum’s Website – include Melbourne and Newcastle in Australia, 2020:
G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance
https://www.globalsmartcitiesalliance.org/about
Oxford, United Kingdom is a 15 minute city.
https://oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/oxford-15-minute-city-low-traffic-neighbourhood-ltn/.
Residents are not taking it lying down:
The Rockefeller Foundation: 100 Resilient Cities: 2013 https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/100-resilient-cities/
Melbourne is a Rockefeller Resilient City: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-melbourne/melbourne-profile/Pages/100-resilient-cities.aspx
THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
For further Information visit the World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/
Yuval Noah Harari. Lead Advisor, World Economic Forum.
How to Survive the 21st Century, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting January 24, 2020:
World Economic Forum Global Leaders include Gladys Berejiklian, Greg Hunt and Andrew Bragg.
CLOSER TO HOME:
Yarra Ranges Council, Victoria, Australia. A pilot 20-minute neighbourhood.
Police are using the Clearview AI Facial Recognition System with No Accountability, 2020:
Bathurst NSW – A Smart Community?
https://www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au/business/business/bathurst-a-smart-city.html
Electric Vehicles
CCTV
Data Centre
Free Public WiFi
Smart Street Lighting
Smart Water Meters
Smart Benches
Bathurst Spatial Digital Twin Project
Bathurst NSW: CCTV Closed Circuit TV: for your safety and protection?
Smart Street Lighting: https://www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au/business/business/bathurst-a-smart-city/392-business/smartcommunity/3333-smart-street-lighting.html
Bathurst Smart Water Meters: https://www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au/business/business/bathurst-a-smart-city/392-business/smartcommunity/3864-smart-water-meters.html
What does living in a 'Smart City' mean, and what has it got to do with more cameras popping up where you live?
Smart Cities Surveillance.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/what-is-a-smart-city/101943392
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IS MUDGEE A SMART TOWN/CITY?
Smart Water Meters, Mudgee: 2021.
https://www.midwestern.nsw.gov.au/Council/Media-and-news/Latest-news/Smart-water-meter-portal-live
Smart Water, Smart Water meters, YourWater (Smart Water Meter portal), have all been introduced in Mudgee over the last few years. Source: Mid-Western Regional Council Community News.
Water Sensitive Cities. Who are all these new government bodies?
https://watersensitivecities.org.au/flood-resilience-2/
CCTV Cameras, Mudgee. 2021.
Mid-Western Regional Council, Community News December 2022: “we implemented smart technologies to monitor our water usage, reduce our electricity consumption with LED street lighting and in turn offset it with a Council-owned Solar Array”.
How many normal, law-abiding people will NOT go anywhere that has surveillance, face recognition and/or iris scanning cameras?? Think carefully before you install them. They say it is about your “safety and security”, but is it?
MID-WESTERN REGIONAL COUNCIL.
WEBSITE: Built by “Open Cities”/Granicus, based in the US.
https://granicus.com/
“Digital Experiences for Government.”
From the Granicus website: “Informed by Audience Behavior. Our expert design and usability team has worked on more than 1,500 government websites and uncovered user behaviors that guild the most effective digital experiences for each unique community.”
"Two-hundred special districts, including Metropolitan, Electric, Fire, Water, Transportation, Ports, and more use Granicus technology."
EMERGENCY SERVICES, ‘RESILIENCE’, FIRE AND TSUNAMI.
What was Resilience NSW? And why was it abandoned and replaced by the NSW Reconstruction Authority?
https://www.nsw.gov.au/emergencies/nsw-reconstruction-authority
DISASTER RECOVERY, INCLUDING FLOODS
The NSW government announced 27.2.2023 a $ 300 million disaster relief program, a year after the totally inadequate response to the Lismore floods of 28.2.2022 and later.
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2022/lismore-flooding/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-04/resilience-nsw-set-to-be-dismantled/101302574
MUDGEE FLOOD STUDY 2021
Question: What exactly was behind the latest Flood Study 2021?
Why are we planning for an estimated 1 in 5000 year event? The Mudgee Floodplain Risk Management Committee was formed August 2022. What is the follow up exactly?
TSUNAMI
Question: Why was the word “Tsunami” seen on the side of Emergency Services vehicles seen at the Mudgee Small Farms Field Days in 2022?
https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-04/emergency-management-subplan-tsunami.pdf September 2018.
MEDICAL
“Ambulance services across Australia are experiencing unprecedented demand”.
Another 1.76 billion has been spent by the NSW Government 2022-23 on Frontline Emergency Care, including 30 new ambulance stations, 2128 extra staff including 1858 paramedics and 210 ambulance support staff.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/budget-2022-nsw-ambulance-staff
Western NSW Local Health District, WNSWLHD (“similar to the size of Britain”), includes the Mudgee area.
AMBULANCES
Mudgee has gone from 1-2 ambulances to approximately 6 ambulances and 2 patient transport vehicles. Also seen in Mudgee intermittently are the Royal Flying Doctors Service.
“AirMed” a global independent medivac services company (that commenced at the US Mayo complex) has also been seen in Mudgee. This privately owned company has a facility in Sydney. At that facility are a jet, several planes and patient transport vehicles, and other assets that service WNSWLHD and others.
https://airmed.com.au/locations/
SMART NSW ROAD MAP
https://www.dpie.nsw.gov.au/our-work/strategy-and-innovation/smart-places/smartnsw-roadmap-2022-2027
ENDLESS FUNDING?
Australia’s Net Debt is now over $ 1 trillion (www.taxpayers.org.au/debt-clock) 44 percent of GDP.
Yes, you read that right. And NSW accounts for 38.6 percent of the national debt. How much of this debt is being used for the explosion of Smart Cities in NSW? Who approved the breaking of the Australian economy?
Just in Mudgee we have had, and continue to have, excessive spending on the Glenn Willow Sporting Facility, the proposed new Mudgee Training and Accommodation Camp (budget approximately 7.3 million, quotes closed 13.1.2023), 5G communication, new electric car charging stations, new LED public lighting constructions, “Key Worker Housing” on Burrundulla Avenue, NBN and fibre optic coming to individual homes, a proposed new museum for Gulgong, proposed new swimming pools for Mudgee, park camera surveillance, etc.
“Residential housing stock is expected to be further impacted by a number of current and future state significant construction projects, that will require workforce accommodation”. What exactly are these future “state significant construction projects” mentioned in Mid-Western Regional Council’s Community News November 2022?
MUDGEE’S “CARBON FOOTPRINT”
There are new electric car charging stations being installed, the new solar array for electricity, and wind farms in the Mudgee district aimed at reducing our carbon footprint.
But very few conversations, if any, about how coal mining and other industries will develop over the next few years, as the carbon debate develops to the next step. Already connected to the Commonwealth Bank’s carbon tracking app, how exactly will all this pan out when, and if, the proposed Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is introduced?
https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2021/10/CBA-launches-carbon-tracking-feature.html
How will this affect employment, the local economy, local ancillary businesses and Mudgee’s population? Who is managing the transition? Would you trust them?
Conversations to ban offshore gas exploration off NSW and nationally are starting. Will this include all coal mining? How will this effect the availability and cost of available energy sources in Mudgee?
Who is calling the shots? It is definitely not local. Is it international?
IS IT REALLY ABOUT THE CARBON FOOTPRINT? Is that debate final?
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ARTS GRANTS AND OTHER GRANTS: Mid-Western Regional Council and other councils, The Mudgee Arts Precinct.
https://smartygrants.com.au/search/results?q=SMART+CITIES
All applications are made through the “Smarty Grants” online portal. See their information on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our Carbon Footprint and Climate Change.
Every arts grant application, now, and for years, has been required to be applied through the Smarty Grants system to be approved.
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TOWARDS TOTALITARIANISM
Robert F. Kennedy spoke at the Festival for Freedom and Peace, Berlin, Germany. August 29, 2020.
QUESTIONS WE ALL HAVE TO ANSWER, AND NOW:
1. IS IT A SMART GRID OR A CONTROL GRID?
2. WHY ARE THEY INTRODUCING THE CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY, CBDC?
3. WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND?
4. WILL YOU DO EXACTLY AS YOU ARE BEING TOLD? OR WILL YOU JUST SAY ‘NO’?
5. CAN WE CLIMB OUR WAY OUT OF THIS, OR IS IT TOO FAR GONE?
DO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS SEEM RIGHT FOR PEOPLE WHO CHOSE TO LIVE IN AN ETHICAL AND QUALITY RURAL COMMUNITY?
Look outside the main stream media to become better informed.
Unprecedented censorship has driven many leaders and commentators to different platforms, such as Substack, Telegram, Signal, Bitchute and many others.
Remember: We are the 99 percent.
Savy farmers used waste products like manure, used straw, food scraps etc to create beautiful organic crops. SMART Cities too can be used. Smart people use lockdown to spend more time with family, move out of the cities. Looking for the silver lining in all these clouds can be fun.