Global Cities: a big one to watch

Press for Truth

 

Dan Dicks from Press for Truth interviews Mark Anderson of American Free Press on the recent Bilderberg meeting.

"What sort of things are on your radar now as far as Bilderberg is planning this year? " asks Dan.

"Well certainly there`s the unusual number of journalists this year I`m looking at, and the head of Cern ... One that is not on their official agenda is the Global Cities programme. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs - a bird of a feather ally with Bilderberg - is meeting June 7- 9,  Chicago .... I covered their meeting last year because I couldn`t go to Bilderberg in Dresden, Germany, and that was their first. This is their second Global Cities forum and it was covered today June 2nd at the UKColumn.org."

Mark Anderson goes on to explain what the Global Cities programme is. "It is about having the cities network together to succeed from the nation states they inhabit. So the people in the Bilderberg orbit - Bilderberg is part of a larger network -  look at cities as being quasi-independent where they don`t have to obey their whole nations. They can embrace climate change and embrace carbon credits and all these things that are supposed to counteract so-called man-made climate change. They can embrace that, even if a national leader doesn`t. They can embrace Sanctuary Cities even if the national leader of their home nation wants border controls ... So it`s sort of an ideological and operational succession."

Anderson explains that even though it was not on the agenda this year, Smart Cities was discussed explicitly at Bilderberg  in 2014 in Denmark... "The topics don`t die the year they`re discussed. Some of the topics they discuss carry over ... they`re long-term evergreen type of projects.  Global cities is one of those things. So Chicago Council on Global Affairs is a big one to watch."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGwFOoFawXg

 

The topic of Global Cities - also known as Smart Cities - appeared once again on UK Column News (6 June 2017) and this time the absurdity of the climate change propaganda was pointed out. If everything needs to be done to conserve energy in order to save the planet, then the strategy that smart cities have of coordinating their green messages - and other messages -  across the globe through their lit up buildings is proving to be Orwellian doublespeak.

 

Speaking of which viewers and listeners were also informed that the UK`s first ever live start-to-finish reading of George Orwell`s novel 1984 is on Tuesday 6 June 2017.

"Actors, writers, politicians, journalists, academics and members of the public ... read the book over the course of a single day, two days before the UK General Election and the 68th anniversary of the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four on 8th June 1949.^{https://orwellsocietyblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/1984-live-tuesday-6th-june-2017/}

　

Paris agreement on climate change

Theresa`s strong and stable commitment to the Paris climate change agreement is a bit of a waffle.

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There are links between climate change, city mayors, Bilderberg and one world governance as the discussion on UK Column, 2 June 2017, was able to draw out. Because children are made frightened about climate change all through their education in schools and beyond, the evidence suggests they are being prepared by deception to accept one world governance

Bilderberg 2017

Mike Robinson spoke to Mark Anderson of American Free Press who is covering the Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia.

When he was asked for an update Mark said of the Bilderberg attendees: "They started rolling in yesterday... Christine Lagarde just before 7 pm local time. She`s the long time head of the International Monetary Fund. What is notable this year is that there is no less than fifteen members of the press here... mostly from Italy, Spain, Norway. It`s not just Micklethwait of Bloomberg and it`s not just the Economist and it`s not just Peggy Noonan ...Out of a 131 attendees, we`ve got about 11 or 12 percent media...So the media representation here who are not reporting to their public but are participating has tripled for this year. That`s one very notable thing. Another notable thing is the head of Cern super collider is here, the man that runs that out of Switzerland. That`s rather unusual... But Trump`s apparent decision to pull out of the Paris accord is overshadowing everything and the internationalists, neoliberals, monopoly capitalists and Bilderberg press is going crazy over Trump`s apparent decision. So that`s all they`re talking about is the Paris climate accord over so-called climate change."

"Do you think the change in personnel is in anyway indicating a change of role for Bilderberg," Mike Robinson asked.

"Well certainly we have to look at the wake of the very recent death, May 26th, of Brzezinski, a Bilderberger, also connected to one of the spokes of Bilderberg`s hub and that is the Trilateral Commission that he helped found with David Rockefeller who also passed away in March. So you have the old guard beginning to pass away... and now Henry Kissinger has got to be hanging by the proverbial thread."

"Some of the new people coming on board are the head of Cern, also George Osborne, former chancellor of the Exchequer, listed as the London Evening Standard editor. Now he`s listed as some of the fifteen or so news editors. There`s some new twists and turns like that and the exact answer to that question is one we`ll be exploring more over the weekend talking to people on the inside of the Bilderberg, if at all possible, and talking to others who are coming here... but I would say tentatively the answer is very likely yes."

Patrick Henningsen. "What about the... high tech component of Bilderberg this year, Mark?   They seem to be taking a more prominent role in the steering committees and so forth. What are you hearing about that?"

"What I`ve heard last year and ... going back to 2015 in Austria when that was prevalent then is that this represents the focus on sequestering more information... and more of the connivance between people like Erick Schmidt and these high tech attendees with intelligence people that come to Bilderberg, former and current intelligence people. We have Mr Cohen a former assistant director of the CIA who is here this year. You have this collaboration between former and current Intel people and your Facebook people, your Google people...and the concern is that through artificial intelligence surveillance technology there`ll be more insider trading between Intel people and people who work in the information technology realm that you`re talking about, Patrick. And the suspicion is - and I think it`s a valid one -  is that there`s a lot of insider collaboration going on to get these high tech companies to share more data with the government for surveillance purposes... Just like Michael Meacher said back in 2013, Bilderberg is part of a deal making conference. It`s not just a world planning committee that`s off the grid to chart the basic economic and political and cultural destiny of the world. It`s also a deal making conference. So that`s the general fear. It`s reaching more of a fever pitch this year."

Climate change

Mike Robinson: "Donald Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement and the media is going absolutely nuts. Here is the Independent. Donald Trump might be the dimmest President the US has ever had. Patrick, they`ve got a short memory. Surely George W Bush is the dimmest...?"
 
"They do have a short memory. It is amazing... Yes, they are up in arms that the US seems to be withdrawing its agreement..."

"So EU leaders warn Trump the Paris climate deal can`t be renegotiated. So Trump seems to be taking a leaf out of the British book attempting to renegotiate things after it happened, or whatever. "

"So the media is full of this stuff. So we now have animations appearing of a hundred years of global warming. So we`ve got to make sure that despite Trump`s decision, don`t wonder why he`s made that decision, keep following the rhetoric. "

"Here`s what you were talking about. Sean Spicer pushed this out. It`s a quote from Trump saying I was elected by voters of Pittsburgh, not Paris. I promised I would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve US interests."

"Well, the responses: Fact: Hillary Clinton received 80% of the vote in Pittsbugh, Pittsburgh stands with the world & will follow Paris Agreement. And we get a clue here as to the kind of response we are going to see. This is the same guy, Bill Pedulo, saying, As the Mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy and future and he said: The United States joins Syria, Nicaragua & Russia in deciding not to participate with world`s Paris Agreement. It`s now up to cities to lead and here we get the clue of what`s coming next."

 

"And this is Anne Hildago, Mayor of Paris. Regardless of Donald Trump`s decision, the great cities of the world... remain resolutely committed to doing what needs to be done to implement the Paris agreement."

"So what we`re seeing is this being used as an excuse to push through a form of alternative governance. We`re not going to have national governments any more. It`s going to be city based."

Patrick Henningsen concurs: "The city state agenda, smart cities, strong cities, resilient cities, we`re back to this theme again, but what it does Mike ... it accentuates the difference politically between urban and rural and definitely if you look at the demographics of the Hilary Clinton campaign .... `I live in the city, so therefore I`m more relevant and people who live outside the city are not as relevant`... "

 

"Anne Hildago was writing in News Week this morning saying Donald Trump has made a dramatic and unpopular mistake in leaving Paris agreement. Of course the image for the video is of the polar bear . That`s got to be the case. She said: `We deem the momentum generated in Paris, December 2015, irreversible . We firmly believe that the Paris agreement cannot be renegotiated since this is a vital instrument for our planet, societies and economies. And of course this is all linked in with Agenda 2030 development goals."

"And just to reinforce that then, of course, she also heads up C40 Cities which is the think tank which promotes city based governance and of course she also heads up Women4Climate."

Let`s just remember who else is involved in this momentum towards city based governance, Ken Livingstone who said: Devolve power to your cities if you want to save the planet. Join the Global Parliament of Mayors. And here`s the Mayor of Hague saying: The Global Parliament of Mayors will deploy collective urban political power manifesting the right of cities to govern themselves, as well as the responsibility to enact viable, cross-border solutions to global challenges. In this era of interdependence, where nation states are increasingly dysfunctional and cities are everywhere rising, the moment has come for cities to take the leap from effective local governance to true global governance."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkR-MrzQLAU

See Martin Edward`s article The Global Parliament of Mayors and the Abolition of the Electorate

For a list of attendees at Bilderberg see http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants.html

Wellbeing that goes beyond GDP

"From 17 June - 24 August, Wikiprogress will be running a Data Visualization Contest, "Visualizing Well-being" with the chance to win a trip to Guadalajara, Mexico to attend the 5th OECD World Forum. The Summary Report of the Wikiprogress Youth Well-being Consultation is also now available..."

"In recent years there has been an explosion of activity with organisations from around the world developing new measures of progress and calling for indicators that look beyond economic growth in measuring wellbeing, including those relevant to children."

http://www.wikiprogress.org/index.php/Category:Child_well-being

"In 2007, the European Commission, European Parliament, Club of Rome, OECD and WWF hosted the high-level conference "Beyond GDP". The objectives were to clarify which indices are most appropriate to measure progress, and how these can best be integrated into the decision-making process and taken up by public debate."

^{http://ec.europa.eu/environment/beyond_gdp/background_en.html}

They go on to say: "The `Beyond GDP` initiative is about developing indicators that are as clear and appealing as GDP, but more inclusive of environmental and social aspects of progress. Economic indicators such as GDP were never designed to be comprehensive measures of prosperity and well-being. "

"The multidimensional nature of child well-being requires measures which pick up on the individual components to ensure the effective tracking of progress or regression in particular areas and to allow for effective and targeted responses. There is widespread evidence supporting this argument as well as that of looking beyond monetary poverty."

Scotland has its own eight SHANARRI wellbeing indicators which can be further sub-divided into more than 100 components to ensure the effective tracking of progress or regression of children`s happiness. Although there is still much confusion about the Named Person scheme, with many seeing it as a way to improve child protection, it is as well to remember that the scheme is part of a global push to monitor human behaviour on a much grander scale.
 
At Westminster, Iain Duncan Smith is looking beyond monetary poverty and has indicated he would move "to repeal the 2010 Child Poverty Act, which committed the government to a target of eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020. In so doing, the work and pensions secretary dispensed with the current relative definition of poverty (anyone in a household beneath 60% of median income.)..."

The government says it plans to develop a "range of other measures and indicators of root causes of poverty, including family breakdown, debt and addiction, which it will put together in a `children’s life chances strategy`. "

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/01/tories-redefined-child-poverty-no-longer-finances

The interest in wellbeing indicators and going beyond GDP is the consequence of technological advances and the potential of big data analytics to profile and track various populations. According to Professor Sandy Pentland, an enthusiastic Bilderberger;

" This is the first time in human history that we have the ability to see enough about ourselves that we can hope to actually build social systems that work qualitatively better than the systems we’ve already had… We can potentially design companies, organizations, and societies that are more fair, stable and efficient as we get to really understand human physics at this fine-grain scale. This new computational social science offers incredible possibilities." (Sandy Pentland MIT ) http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/

Note the word `potentially`.  Like all technological advances big data analytics has the potential for good or ill but is being hijacked by the global ruling elite. See `Beyond Broadband: the true cost of digital Britain.`

http://www.iandent.com/beyondbroadband/_Masters/Beyond_Broadband.pdf

Daniel Ben-Ami is a writer based in London who has written a book defending economic prosperity: Ferraris for All.  Visit his website here. 

"What the critics of GDP miss is that economic growth is central to human welfare. Rising output provides the basis for prosperity, including consumer goods and all the other paraphernalia of modern life, such as airports, art galleries, electricity grids, hospitals, museums, roads, power stations, schools and universities. Greater affluence is not the whole story, but it will remain a central part of human advance until global scarcity is abolished."

"Indeed, the critics of GDP are motivated primarily by a hostility to popular prosperity rather than a desire to measure wellbeing accurately. Their approach is essentially a sneaky way of claiming that environmental and social problems mean that economic growth must be curtailed. The possibility that greater affluence would put humans in a stronger position to overcome the challenges they face does not seem to occur to them."

"In retrospect, it is ironic that the EU held its own `Beyond GDP` conference back in 2007. That event was hosted by the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Club of Rome (an organisation that has long promoted the ‘limits to growth’), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (a think tank) and the WWF (an environmental and wildlife charity). Shortly after the conference, the EU descended into several years of economic stagnation. Austerity, social dislocation, misery and a surge in unemployment were the inevitable results. It is hard to think of a better illustration of what ‘Beyond GDP’ means in practice. (Daniel Ben-Ami )

For another example, see the risk indicators which the Scottish Government will use to profile families.
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2012/11/7143/9 

Child Poverty

It`s ironic that in the same week there is a large gathering in Hyde Park campaigning against malnutrition and the millions of children who die globally each year, there are figures out that show an increase of 300,000 children in the United Kingdom are experiencing poverty. This makes a total of 2.6 million facing hardship.

According to David Cameron the appearance of more and more food banks is a sign that Big Society is working.  If David Cameron does not know that the coalition`s austerity measures are the reason for the food banks and increasing child poverty then he has nothing worthwhile to say about anything.

From the Save the Children UK website we are told that Eglantyne Jebb, one of the founders of the charity, wanted to make the rights and welfare of children a major issue around the world and she has nearly succeeded. Her "Declaration of the Rights of the Child" was adopted by the League of Nations and inspired the present UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Whenever this legislation is introduced into a country it invariably undermines parental rights and allows the State, by acting for the child, to dictate what should happen to families.

Another NGO, UNICEF which was behind the Big IF rally against child malnutrition at Hyde Park is also United Nations based. But it is important to know that these non-governmental organisations have a hidden global agenda.

There`s been a lot of rhetoric about tax since the Bilderberg meeting in Watford last week where it is believed by some that tax evasion by big corporations was discussed and has been hyped up in the mainstream media in order to begin to push through a world tax system as the solution. Then at the Big IF rally in Hyde Park, tax evasion was cunningly linked to child malnutrition in order to play on people`s emotions and muster support.  A global taxation system would be one step along the way to a one world government, something the United Nations and Bilderberg globalists have been working for through their various NGOs and charities for years.

Please read about Big If`s celebrity speaker Bill Gates and his global vision and involvement with Monsanto, agriculture and eugenics HERE. Also note his involvement in planned parenthood and population control HERE  All these issues are part of the United Nations global agenda.

Let`s see what comes out of the G8 summit in Ireland next week, but whatever it is, it will be important to read between the lines, unless of course Syria tops the bill.

 

guardian.co.uk,               

13 Jun 2013 17:37  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shocking-child-poverty-figures-show-1950944

http://www.endagenda21.com/bilderberg-policy-makers.html