Posted on 01/28/2015 6:23:37 PM PST by Whenifhow
During his trip to India, President Obama declared America’s commitment to “help design smart cities” and “bullet trains” in the country. The main selling point for “smart cities” is that they are “sustainable,” a vague but applauded term that often used in context of combating what this author strongly believes is a non-existent problem: man-made climate change.
During a speech at the Siri Fort Auditorium in India, Obama, who met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the tour, declared:
We are ready to join you in building new infrastructure…roads and airports, the ports and bullet trains to propel India into the future. We are ready to help design smart cities…
President Obama declared that taxpayers will foot the bill for $4 billion dollars in “investments and loans” as reported at Reuters.
Obama’s visit was discussed on Twitter under the hashtag #ObamaInIndia.
EconomicTimes ✔ @EconomicTimes Follow #ObamaInIndia: India wants to build better infrastructure, airports & smart cities, we want to be the 1st in line to help be a part of this 12:45 AM - 27 Jan 2015
Smart cities are a part of the United Nations Agenda 21 plan and are defined in “fuzzy” ways as acknowledged at Wikipedia, which highlights several vague definitions. Some of the biggest common threads is “smart governance,” “smart technology,” “smart mobility,” and of course, “sustainability.”
Although rarely discussed, it seems that the ongoing “open data” initiative is heavily intertwined with the concept of “smart cities” (see here, here, here, here and here).
“Open Data” is a benign-sounding initiative dedicated to “transparency” in data, but falls under the “Open Societies” concept of global governance as promoted by billionaire George Soros, who “proposes that the open societies of the world should form an alliance for the dual purpose of fostering the development of open society within individual countries, and to lay the groundwork for a global open society by strengthening international institutions and rules of behaviour,” according to an Amazon description for his book “Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism.”
Under President Obama, OpenData.gov was born.
The Economic Times in India laid out the involvement of the U.S. Taxpayers in India’s smart cities,
…the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed Memorandums of Understandings (MoUs) with Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh for cooperation to support the development of three smart cities.
The cities are Allahabad, Ajmer and Visakhapatnam. Under the MoUs, the USTDA will contribute funds for feasibility studies and pilot projects, study tours, workshops or trainings and other projects that would be determined mutually.
The Times of India reported:
As per the agreements, USTDA will collaborate with other US government agencies like the Department of Commerce, the US Export Import Bank and other trade and economic agencies to promote greater US-India infrastructure development cooperation and to support development of smart cities.
USTDA will enable US industry bodies to mobilize private sector expertise and resources to address important aviation and energy related infrastructure connected to developing smart cities.
The USTDA twitter feed promoted the initiative and posted a press release on the effort:
USTDA ✔ @USTDA Follow We’re ready to help design smart cities to serve citizens better & we want to develop more advanced tech with India - President Obama
USTDA ✔ @USTDA Follow "As we deliver more energy/electricity, let’s do it with clean, renewable energy" - President Obama at India's Republic Day @WhiteHouse
STDA ✔ @USTDA Follow USTDA Director Zak signed a grant in India with IL&FS Energy Development Company to support wind & solar PV projects 12:31 PM - 27 Jan 2015
USTDA ✔ @USTDA Follow Video: President Obama Speaks at the U.S.-India Business Council Summit http://youtu.be/fYENqUfJljM
Video
President Obama Speaks at the U.S.-India Business Council Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYENqUfJljM
In the above tweet with the embedded video, President Obama further discusses the American “investment” into India’s “smart cities.” It should be noted that through the USTDA, taxpayers fund similar initiatives around the world.
Part of the award to India will involve financing of small business loans.
OPIC.gov ✔ @opicgov Follow New #blog post: @BarackObama highlights OPIC’s role supporting #development in #India http://1.usa.gov/1De6mh6
Trevor Loudon, author of “Barack Obama and the Enemies Within,” and his latest jaw-dropping book, “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress” told the author that he believes the ultimate goal of Agenda 21 (smart cities) is to move the populations of the world into small urban areas.
A population confined to “concentrated areas,” Loudon explained, would make citizens much more manageable. In his view, it is a part of an age-old battle between the “collective versus the individual,” a concept that can be illustrated in ideologies as far back as Plato and Aristotle, who both advocated for what they believed was “the superior role of the collective and the relatively inferior position of the individual.”
In an article at Forbes magazine, author Sarwant Singh wrote glowingly of “smart cities” in light of “urbanization.” Singh’s organization Frost & Sullivan “identified eight key aspects that define a Smart City: smart governance, smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart healthcare and smart citizen.”
It should be noted that while the term “Agenda 21″ has been progressively scrubbed from America’s newsrooms as it became marginalized in America, the plan lives on throughout the country in “sustainable” city planning initiatives.
An interesting discussion of smart cities can be found here from an Alternative Media source, TRUTHstreammedia:
Video
Agenda 21 Smart Cities: Orwell's Dystopic Nightmare Comes True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DK0JThOio
Are Americans happy about their tax dollars going toward such a venture? Does Congress even have a say anymore?
Listen around the 52:00 minute mark:
Video
President Obama Speaks at Siri Fort Auditorium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422411861&v=loiJASS6jn4&x-yt-cl=84924572
See comments 19 and 20. Don’t fear any man who has ever lived. Be ever more sincere and fearful with the outcry.
Well said.
“It’s the new Empire, and its bosses believe themselves to be deities.”
Exactly. The self-delusion on the part of the power elite is stunning. They have no idea that our only recourse, God, along with His plan of the Government upon His shoulders, is around the corner. We may have a heck of a roller coaster ride until then, but they WILL NOT WIN!
I’m no physicist, but the most common temperature in the universe is absolute zero. The universe is a desert of freezing cold, and we are blessed to live in an oasis of warmth. As always, the wicked call evil ‘good’ and good ‘evil’.
Bi-National Smart Cities Meddling Taxpayer-Funded Nanny State PING!
What I want to know, is who determines what “smart” is. Living in a hive just doesn’t seem ‘smart’ to me.
Jon Gruber.
:-D
Thanks for the references!
I have learned something regarding Agenda 21 and something called, geo-politics of the Third Way. Maybe all of you knew this all along , but it is a revelation to me. I am just going to say this very briefly because ai don’t have the time right now.
First, geo-politics are regional politics, which advocates political control of geographic regions under a single governing body, such as the old USSR, an Islamic caliphate across the whole Middle East and North Africa, or all of North America, Central America and South America. They call this, the Third Way. It organized on the premise of victimhood and the Agenda 21 is just a small part of it that puts the cart before the horse.
All the republican insiders are Third Way advocates. That is why they don’t fight to overturn Obama’s policies. Bush Senior was a Third Wayer and I suspect that Rand Paul is also. I think that is why his policy statements are so confusing. The Third Wayers do not see American exceptionalism. They see the Third Way as the ticket to World Peace, but in giving up our sovereignty to a regional government, we also give up our freedoms and our constitution.
Any Thoughts or questions?
I have learned something regarding Agenda 21 and something called, geo-politics of the Third Way. Maybe all of you knew this all along , but it is a revelation to me. I am just going to say this very briefly because ai don’t have the time right now.
First, geo-politics are regional politics, which advocates political control of geographic regions under a single governing body, such as the old USSR, an Islamic caliphate across the whole Middle East and North Africa, or all of North America, Central America and South America. They call this, the Third Way. It organized on the premise of victimhood and the Agenda 21 is just a small part of it that puts the cart before the horse.
All the republican insiders are Third Way advocates. That is why they don’t fight to overturn Obama’s policies. Bush Senior was a Third Wayer and I suspect that Rand Paul is also. I think that is why his policy statements are so confusing. The Third Wayers do not see American exceptionalism. They see the Third Way as the ticket to World Peace, but in giving up our sovereignty to a regional government, we also give up our freedoms and our constitution.
Any Thoughts or questions?
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