Brookings: Four Strategies On How To Deliver Smart City Vision

Elitist think-tank Brookings Institution has long been closely aligned with the Trilateral Commission, and it has pushed Trilateral policy since inception. In this case, Smart Cities are in view, which ultimately portend scientific dictatorship. ⁃ TN Editor

Promote deeper engagement with residents and businesses.Building a smarter city requires the trust and support of the people who live there. Although public trust in local governments remains high, the plummet in trust in the federal government over the past decade suggests that trust is never guaranteed. Active local engagement can ensure the public’s ideas and concerns are heard and addressed throughout any design and execution process. Engaging citizens not only has inherent value, but also helps garner trust and buy-in throughout the process. You can’t plan city and metropolitan futures in private office rooms; building a smart city requires engagement.

Intentionally build strong, formal collaborations between public, private, and civic actors. If metro areas are collections of people, businesses, and institutions, we must recognize municipalities shouldn’t always run point. The city of Atlanta collaborates with the Metro Atlanta Chamber and its corporate partners, Georgia Tech, and other research and advocacy organizations to make good on commitments like SmartATL. Critically, Georgia Tech is pursuing statewide efforts to scale digitalization strategies, joining a small cohort of other states like Illinois that are exploring the same concepts. Metro areas must find ways to leverage local corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit expertise to both inform long-term planning and establish sustainable efforts focused on digital tech.

https://www.technocracy.news/brookings-four-strategies-on-how-to-deliver-smart-city-vision/

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Alarm Bells: Are UK Employees Ready For Microchips?

Employees and labor unions are worried that employers are pressuring them into being microchipped, which could lead to oppressive micro-managment. This is compelling technology to Technocrat managers because it will squeeze even more efficiency from their fleshly robots. ⁃ TN Editor

Britain’s biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security.

UK firm BioTeq, which offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 implants in the UK.

The tiny chips, implanted in the flesh between the thumb and forefinger, are similar to those for pets. They enable people to open their front door, access their office or start their car with a wave of their hand, and can also store medical data.

Another company, Biohax of Sweden, also provides human chip implants the size of a grain of rice. It told the Sunday Telegraph (£) that it is in discussions with several British legal and financial firms about fitting their employees with microchips, including one major company with hundreds of thousands of employees.

https://www.technocracy.news/alarm-bells-are-uk-employees-ready-for-microchips/

British MPs want conservative to resign for ‘offensive’ views on homosexuality, Islam

UNITED KINGDOM, November 8, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — One of the most influential conservative philosophers in the Western world may soon be out of a job.

Sir Roger Scruton was tapped by the UK Housing Secretary on Saturday to chair a government committee whose purpose is to champion beautiful buildings.

Almost immediately after news of Scruton’s appointment broke, several Labour MPs began calling for his removal from the non-salaried post, claiming he has a history of making “offensive” anti-semitic, Islamophobic, and homophobic remarks.

Scruton, who has taught at Princeton, Oxford and St. Andrews, among other places of higher learning, is 74 and has authored more than 30 books on topics ranging from art and architecture to literature and music. He received the Czech Republic’s Medal of Merit in 1998 for having fought against communism in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. In 2016, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to philosophy and education. Currently, he serves as a senior fellow at the D.C.-based Ethics and Public Policy Center.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-mps-want-conservative-to-resign-for-offensive-views-on-homosexualit

Ecuador’s ex-president ordered to stand trial over kidnapping

An Ecuadorean judge on Wednesday opened a criminal trial against former President Rafael Correa and three others in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a former lawmaker.

However, Judge Daniella Camacho suspended the beginning of the trial against Correa until he surrenders or is apprehended as he cannot be tried in absentia. The former head of state has lived in Belgium since 2017.

Correa, who was president from 2007 to 2017, is suspected of involvement with the attempted kidnapping of former lawmaker Fernando Balda in Bogota, Colombia, in 2012.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2172234/ecuadors-ex-president-ordered-stand-trial-over-kidnapping

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Former Mossad Chief joins private murky international spy firm Black Cube

The company made headlines after initiating an investigation into officials working in the administration of US President Barack Obama.

Efraim Halevy, a former head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, has joined the private intelligence company Black Cube as a member of its board of directors. Halevy will serve as the head of the client screening committee and act as a senior advisor on operational and intelligence matters, according to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

According to the report, Halevy, 83, could be elected as company president.

Halevy previously was the head of the National Security Council of Israel, an Israeli ambassador to the EU, as well as being the ninth Mossad director. The London-born spy chief also served as an envoy and agent for five Israeli prime ministers.

Founded in 2010, private intelligence company Black Cube has been the subject of attention recently, Haaretz reported. The company, often referred to as a "private Mossad," hires former intelligence operatives from various Israeli services, including Mossad, the Intelligence Corps (or Haman, the military intelligence), or Shin Bet (internal security service).

Last Month, Haaretz reported that Tel Aviv-based Black Cube targeted members of the Obama administration over a seizure of some $6 billion in Iranian money worldwide.

According to an earlier Observer report, Black Cube operatives contacted Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes and the national security adviser to the vice president, Colin Kahl, to discuss the Iranian issue. However, the operation failed and was subsequently exposed.

After the Haaretz report, the company issued a statement saying its policy is "never to discuss its clients with any third party, and never to confirm or deny any speculation about its work."

https://www.sott.net/article/400426-Former-Mossad-Chief-joins-private-murky-international-spy-firm-Black-Cube

CDC Warning: People with dirt on Clintons have 843% greater risk of suicide

Atlanta, GA - According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control released on Thursday, people with inside, compromising knowledge of Bill and Hillary Clinton's financial and political dealings are 843% more likely to commit suicide.

"We've never seen a single risk factor cause a spike of this magnitude," a CDC spokesperson told reporters. "Interestingly, in spite of their increased suicide risk, people with dirt on the Clintons rarely show any warning signs of suicide, and they never leave a suicide note."

Remarking about how abnormal it is, the spokesman again stressed the significance of the data.

"Therefore, we advise any American with detrimental information about Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, or the Clinton Foundation to forget about it as quickly as possible to avoid a greatly increased probability of taking your own life," he cautioned.

"And-I swear-that's all we know."

https://www.sott.net/article/400413-CDC-Warning-People-with-dirt-on-Clintons-have-843-greater-risk-of-suicide

Canada has heard Turkish recordings on Khashoggi's killing: Trudeau

Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate by a team sent from Riyadh. Saudi authorities have acknowledged that the killing was premeditated, but his body has not been found.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said over the weekend that audio recordings of the killing had been given to the U.S., French, German and British governments.

When asked on a visit to Paris whether Canadian intelligence had heard the Turkish recordings, Trudeau said: “Yes”, although he added that had not heard them personally.

“Canada’s intelligence agencies have been working very closely on this issue with Turkish intelligence and Canada has been fully briefed on what Turkey had to share,” Trudeau told a news conference.

He added that he had also spoken to Erdogan about the issue in Paris over the weekend.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-canada/canada-has-heard-turkish-recordings-on-khashoggis-killing-trudeau-idUSKCN1NH18Y

Iranian firms dominate Baghdad expo as Saudis steer clear

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - While Saudi Arabia courted Iraqi leaders behind closed doors at the weekend, its arch-foe Iran made a more public showing by turning out at the Baghdad International Fair, a shop window for business in Iraq.

An entire hangar was set aside for some of the 60 Iranian firms participating. Vendors of steel, chemical products and carpets greeted prospective Iraqi customers with tea and sweets, exchanging pleasantries in Persian and broken Arabic.

If the region’s most bitter rivalry was expected to be on display - last year dozens of Saudi companies also took part - it was an indication of how that is playing out in Iraq. No Saudi firms attended this year.

Riyadh instead focused on high-level meetings, with Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih paying a visit to Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad. The countries pledged to co-operate on oil and energy, while new Iraqi President Barham Salih made Gulf Arab states the destination for his first official trip abroad.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-saudi-iraq/iranian-firms-dominate-baghdad-expo-as-saudis-steer-clear-idUSKCN1NH1DP

Western diplomats shun meeting with Sri Lanka minister on political crisis

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Eight Western countries stayed away from a meeting with Sri Lanka’s government on Monday to register their protest against President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament, diplomatic and government sources said.

Sri Lanka has been in political turmoil since Sirisena fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last month and appointed a pro-China former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his place.

Western countries led by the United States and the European Union had been urging Sirisena to convene parliament and let the legislature determine who should be prime minister.

Sirisena reconvened parliament on Nov. 14, but on Friday, he dissolved it and ordered a general election for Jan. 5.

Foreign Minister Sarath Amunugama called the heads of 43 foreign missions for a meeting on the political situation on Monday but only a handful turned up, the sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-politics/western-diplomats-shun-meeting-with-sri-lanka-minister-on-political-crisis-idUSKCN1NH1FG

Rights body Amnesty fears execution of 12 Saudi Shiites ‘imminent’

Amnesty International said on Wednesday it feared 12 minority Shiites in Saudi Arabia faced “imminent” execution after their cases were transferred to a powerful security body that reports directly to the king.

The men, sentenced to death in a mass trial in 2016 after being convicted of spying for regional rival Iran, have been handed over to the “Presidency of State Security”, which was set up last year by combining all counterterrorism and domestic intelligence services.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/2172221/rights-body-amnesty-fears-execution-12-saudi-shiites-imminent

The Transformation of America, The Puppeteers: The Red-Green Alliance – The Nexus To Today’s “Socialist States of America

Why Progressives Declared The Founding Fathers Irrelevant

In the seventh lecture of Hillsdale College’s free online Constitution 101 course (which you can take along with me here), Ronald J. Pestritto, dean of the college’s Graduate School of Statesmanship, outlines the critiques of the Constitution from twentieth-century progressives.

Understanding the New Deal Requires Understanding Progressivism

Many scholars agree President Franklin Delano Roosevelt fundamentally altered the American government by ushering in programs and projects under his New Deal. FDR’s inspiration for these taxpayer-funded ventures came from Progressive Era thinkers. So to understand The New Deal and how American life and government changed in the twentieth century and beyond, it is vital to understand the Progressive Era, Pestritto said.

https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/11/progressives-declared-founding-fathers-irrelevant/

https://www.watcherofweasels.org/the-transformation-of-america-the-puppeteers-the-red-green-alliance-the-nexus-to-todays-socialist-states-of-america-a-nation-divided-commentary-by-adina-kutnic/

Globalist Media Tries To Tarnish Polish Independence Day March

As 200,000 Poles took to the streets today to celebrate the centennial of the country’s independence, the corrupt, globalist media came out in force to tarnish the event and attempted to portray the march as an evil, ‘nationalist’ incident. Most of these media outlets also had to bring in French President Emmanuel Macron’s anti-nationalist comments today at the Armistice Day remembrance in Paris.

The celebration in Warsaw commemorated the restoration of the country’s sovereignty from the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires in 1918

Nationalists were among more than 200,000 people taking part in a march in the capital, Warsaw, which was led by President Andrzej Duda, reported the BBC. Most participants in Sunday’s march in Warsaw were seen carrying Polish flags and wearing red-and-white armbands, but some were holding banners representing far-right parties from Poland and Italy, they continued. Halfway through the article they finally mention there was no violence at the event and no offensive banners or shouting.

https://tsarizm.com/news/2018/11/12/globalist-media-tries-to-tarnish-polish-independence-day-march/

Misjustice Across America – What’s Happening To President Trump Is Happening To Innocent Americans Across The Country

What’s happening to the sitting President of the United States today has been happening to innocent American citizens across America for years. If the Department of Justice wants you for any reason, especially if it is for political reasons, they can and will get you. Your innocence is no defense!

It’s no secret that a “fake dossier” alleging misconduct by President Donald J. Trump and initiated by his presidential opponent Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, is the foundation for what became a two-year multi-million-dollar FBI and DOJ investigation into alleged “Russian Collusion” that has turned up zero evidence.

Meanwhile, proven campaign collusion between Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and Russia, the FBI and US Intelligence agencies, as well as former British Intel officer Steele, has gone completely ignored by the Department of Justice even under Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

For years now, the Federal Department of Justice has enjoyed a 99.8% overall criminal conviction rate, considering both plea deals like that of Democrat Trump Attorney Michael Cohen and convictions by jury, such as the Paul Manafort trial. No communist country enjoys such a “penal colony” conviction rate in their justice systems. Yet, the average American believes that our system of justice is fair and impartial, failing to recognize that they could very well be next in the governments crosshairs.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/misjustice-across-america-whats-happening-to-president-trump-is-happening-to-innocent-americans-across-the-country/

Opa-locka Postal Facility: Same Facility Alleged To Be Holding Uncounted Ballots Processed Cesar Sayoc’s Pipe Bombs

What is going on in Opa-Locka, Florida?

The same mail processing facility that is allegedly holding uncounted absentee ballots, was also responsible for sending Cesar Sayoc’s fake pipe bombs through the system.

The U.S. Postal Service is investigating its handling of absentee ballots mailed through a sorting facility in Opa-locka to “verify that all ballots have been handled in accordance to USPS service standards.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/opa-locka-postal-facility-same-facility-alleged-to-be-holding-uncounted-ballots-processed-cesar-sayocs-pipe-bombs/