WHAT'S BEHIND THE WAVE OF STORE CLOSINGS?

    While the American public is busy this Easter weekend obsessing over politicians' sex-lives and celebrating trans-positivity, Corporate America quietly has been engaging in a series of drastic cutbacks across the country---mostly in urban areas. In the last month, at least thirty major box-store chains have closed locations in major cities. The corporations mostly doing this are Walmart, Target, and Amazon. 

   A few decades ago, these predatory organizations moved into neighborhoods, driving out of business their smaller local competitors. This massive wealth-transfer created monopolies in most cities; but today, these same robber-barons are abandoning their captive consumer bases leaving what sociologists call 'food deserts' in their wake: that is, no supermarkets or retailers within convenient distances for most shoppers. 

     What is behind this sudden decline? According to Wall Street, these stores have become 'unprofitable.' This is after decades of having zero competition. Conservative pundits have noted that these stores are victims of rising crime and lack of will from City officials to stop any of it. While that is true; it doesn't add up as the whole story.

     Most of us understand by now that Corporate America and the American Government are essentially the same things. We also know that these same Corporate interests are subsidizing supporting political leaders who defund the police and are soft-on-crime. On the surface, this would seem to be a contradiction in purposes. Obviously, it would make more economic sense to invest in these communities to make them safer and more profitable. 

    But this is assuming that the Oligarchs actually want to save these neighborhoods. The fact is that have been set up to fail and urban blight is what these leaders actually. Remember that we're talking about a gang who employed a fake epidemic to crush the Middle Class and currently are managing hyperinflation under the guise of fake shortages. Their ultimate plan---which they've not been reticent about advertising---is to depopulate our cities and build back better with new so-called 'smart cities' which they wholly own and manage. 

     The Official Narrative behind the Smart Cities concept is that our old models of urban growth based on freedom of movement and association---as well as the Free Market---are outdated and unsustainable. We have the technology to design new, more efficient urban areas from scratch from top-down planning. The reality is that, in our current trend towards Inverted Totalitarianism, the Smart City is a modernized Concentration Camp. In the new model, dissidents aren't rounded up, imprisoned and subject to forced labor: instead, they throw themselves in voluntarily for the safety and security that a de facto prison camp offers. 

    In other words, the urban blight we're seeing in major American cities is part and parcel of the Strategy of Tension, which we've discussed here before, showing its roots in the psychology of cults. The Strategy of Tension is defined as "a method of social control involving a series of covert attacks upon a population, intended to promote stress and fear amongst them. The purpose is, by inducing a mistrust of one another and of the world at large, to increase child-like dependence upon perceived authority figures such as national governments." Economic insecurity is being sown deliberately amongst the population to 'force' the authoritarian system of the Smart City into being by popular assent.

   Prophecies of Economic Collapse have been circulating for the last three decades, but as we've argued all along, there will be no 'collapse' in the same sense as the Great Depression of a century ago. What we are witnessing is a controlled demolition, where the economy gradually declines for the middle and lower classes while becoming more heavily concentrated in the hands of the upper classes. In reality, the Great Reset has no use for a Middle Class---at least not in the sense that we understand the term. Their concept of a Middle Class resembles more the privileged class of Feudalism: i.e., the non-nobles who live better than their peers by enforcing and promulgating the will of their overlords. Postmodern newspeak has given this concept the more pleasant-sounding term of a Social Credit System, but the concept is the same. 

    These same would-be Elites likewise haven't been silent about their beliefs that only about 1/5 of the world's population is necessary to sustain them and their parasitic lifestyles. The oft-heard term during the Scamdemic of freezing out of society of those unwilling to go along with the New Order wasn't simply a talking-point dreamed up on the spot. In a recent interview, Klaus Schwab was asked what would become of the other 80%, to which Schwab equivocally replied "They'll be taken care of." How exactly this is going to happen appears to be a gradual phasing-out of the subspecies---the class that most of us belong to---who'll largely be relegated to living in the ghettos of our decaying cities or in dying small-towns of rural America. 

   This isn't some far-fetched conspiracy theory: the Elites have been discussing it for the last 25 or so years, and continue to do so. In 1997, two journalists published a book titled The Global Trap based upon the 1995 State of the World Forum sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation. Deep State operative Zbigniew Brzezinski suggested to the Global Elite gathered there that "a mixture of intoxicating entertainment and sufficient nourishment can tranquilise the frustrated minds of the globe’s population."

   "A fifth of all job-seekers will be enough to produce all the goods and perform all the top-flight services that the world society can afford…. What about the others? Will 80 percent of those willing to work be without a job? 'Certainly'… The question in the future will be 'to have lunch or be lunch,' to eat or be devoured...The term 'tittytainment' makes the rounds...The frustrated population of the world could be kept happy with a mixture of numbing entertainment and adequate food. The managers soberly discuss the possible doses and reflect how the wealthy fifth can employ the superfluous remnant.

   "The organisers of the three memorable days in the Fairmont imagined themselves underway to a new civilisation. However, the direction envisaged by the assembled experts from the executive floors and science leads directly back into the pre-modern age. The world model of the future follows the formula 20 to 80. The one-fifth society is brewing in which the excluded will be immobilised with 'tittytainment.'"

     Since 1995, of course, the Elites have learned the effectiveness of adding high-potency narcotics into the mix. At least here in the US, we need little more than common observation to confirm how effective the combination of salacious infotainment, proliferated food assistance, and access to drugs has been in stupefying and pacifying the public. A year later, another deep politician named Lee Silver published in his book Remaking Eden:

    “The GenRich—who account for ten percent of the American population—[will] all carry synthetic genes. All aspects of the economy, the media, the entertainment industry, and the knowledge industry are controlled by members of the GenRich class… Naturals [unaltered humans] work as low-paid service providers or as laborers. [Eventually] the GenRich class and the Natural class will become entirely separate species with no ability to crossbreed, and with as much romantic interest in each other as a current human would have for a chimpanzee."

    Amazingly, as recently as 1997, people actually thought that human-to-chimpanzee love was an unrealistic scenario! That aside, however, it remains highly questionable as to whether Good King Klaus and his merry-men really are determined to leave us 80% to drift off into narcotic and incel oblivion. Considering that his whole Fourth Industrial Revolution philosophy---as well as the fundamental premise behind Inverted Totalitarianism---centers on cost-effectiveness to the Elites, it's somewhat hard to imagine that group floating 4/5 of the world's population on some sort of welfare scheme out of simple humanitarian concerns. Further incidents like the brutal suppression of the Canadian Truckers' Protests, the brutality launched against Dutch farmers, Australia's thuggish measures during the Scamdemic lockdowns, and our own Junta's rather obvious intolerance towards its opposition certainly should give us all grounds for some healthy scepticism here. 

    

    In fact, under the previous very pro-WEF Saudi monarchy, one such Smart City was planned. (It should be noted that, just like American prisons, these smart cities are expected to be constructed in remote areas like deserts. Getting in will be a lot easier than getting out). In the Saudi experiment, "efforts to relocate the indigenous residents of the Neom site, who’ve lived there for generations, have been turbulent, devolving on one occasion into a gun battle," according to one report. Dezeen reported late last year that: 

    "Three men forcibly evicted from the Neom site in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to death...the three members of the Huwaitat tribe were sentenced after being forcibly evicted and displaced to make way for the Neom megaproject, which is planned for the northeast of the country. The men, who are believed to have criticised the displacement of locals to make way for the Neom development, were sentenced by Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court on 2 October. Shadli al-Huwaiti, Ibrahim al-Huwaiti and Ataullah al-Huwaiti "were detained in 2020 for opposing eviction." 

    That gives rather a different construction on Schwab's promise that we'll be taken care of if we find ourselves on the outside of the Great Reset. What of those on the inside? Well, they'll have clean sidewalks, low crime, a free 'living space,' nobody will go hungry (though their diets will be designed), and presumably plenty of access to drugs. Everything that the Elites believe that one needs will be within a 15-minute walking distance of said domiciles in an LGBTQ-positive, smoke-free (well except for marijuana smoke), sugar-free and meat-free (well except for those with high social credit scores), and gun-free (well except for the guards security forces) environment. 

    The downside to all of this is that, as Indian engineer Aman Jabbi pointed out, one of the protocols upon which Smart Cities are based is termed Zero Trust. "Zero Trust is a cybersecurity protocol where by default we are going from a world of implicit allow to default deny." This is something that logically we would expect from a population raised in a Strategy of Tension and intentional fomenting of political and social divisiveness. As one can imagine, spying on one's neighbors will be encouraged, the personal is political is naturally an unspoken truth in such an environment. 

   "The zero trust protocol and 15 minute city / 20 minute neighborhood facilitates mass-surveillance and restriction of the population's freedom of travel. Facial recognition and ubiquitous CCTV is just one way that the population of smart cities could be constantly tracked. If inhabitants attempt to travel beyond their prescribed area may find "smart" devices such as public transport (or doors!) uncooperative, so goods or services might only be available within their prescribed area, which becomes a 'barless prison.'"

    Despite the fact that Soros-backed foundations openly admit that the Climate Change scam is essentially a lockdown/control scheme to which Smart Cities are linked, anyone else who dares suggest such a thing is publicly hooted as a 'Conspiracy Theorist,' so there is, sadly very little use in trying to convince the average Ameroboob NPC into believing otherwise. It does, however, underscore the need of those who still cherish their liberties to organize within our own communities, because the time is coming when the 80% of us expendables are going to have to rely upon each other.