Posted on 08/26/2023 8:02:45 AM PDT by Rusty0604
After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.
The land bought by the firm encircles Travis air force base in Fairfield, a city of about 120,000 residents and home to the Anheuser-Busch Co brewery and the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory.
Recently, Flannery has been meeting with local officials and representatives, according to the Times. It has also been sending out opinion polls to local residents to gauge their feelings on an initiative that could appear on Solano county voter’s ballots, according to the newspaper SF Gate.
“This project would include a new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space,” a screenshot of the survey obtained by the newspaper reads.
The poll also asks if residents would support the project if it was placed in an area with “bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production,”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
” Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city”
Been tried before by Libyan dictator Khaddafi. Khaddafi’s wealth was estimated at $200 billion. He hired a mercenary army to protect his utopia. People didn’t like it and killed Khaddafi and slaughtered his deep state bureaucracy.
What’s that slogan about doing the same thing and expecting different results?
LOL! I once lived in a working-class city neighborhood of rowhouses around a huge, beloved old Catholic church. Everybody knew everybody; but the neighborhood eventually became a target for renovators and "new people."
A non-Christian guy moved in who owned a sex-toy store across town in the entertainment district. His property directly abutted the back yard of the church. Guess who started a big complaint because the century-old church bells rang loudly several times a day?
You guessed it!
Now guess whose BMW got vandalized until he moved out?
Yoink! Consider it stolen.
Fabian bump
This is one reason the London School of Economics served as an effective Soviet recruiting ground.
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