(Zero Hedge)—Trump’s recent announcement that he will be rescinding federal government approval of the NYC congestion toll program has Democrats up in arms. NY Governor Kathy Hochul has vowed to go to war with Trump in the courts in order to keep the program in place. She claims that federal law prevents the White House from unilaterally halting the program and that the toll is necessary to maintain infrastructure in Manhattan while making residents safer.
Congestion pricing was enacted in January and charges drivers $9 each time they enter the Central Business District below 60th Street in Manhattan. It has three stated goals: to reduce traffic, lower carbon emissions and raise revenue for mass transit.
However, congestion pricing is actually rooted in an issue which Governor Hochul tends to gloss over: Carbon taxation. Road pricing is a key element of the notorious 15 Minute City concept often put forward by the World Economic Forum (of which Kathy Hochul is an adherent), and it is specifically justified by proponents as a method for reducing carbon emissions. In other words, road pricing or the “congestion toll” is a way to apply direct carbon taxation on the general public.
The 15 Minute City concept is built around the fallacy that travel reduction is necessary to “save the planet” from global warming. The idea is relatively simple – Create artificial obstacles through law to reduce or remove individual travel. The WEF refers to this as “sustainable and inclusive mobility”. The Davos crowd presents sustainable mobility as a quest for “convenience” to encourage people to stop using private transportation, but nothing is as convenient as having your own vehicle.
The globalists know this, so, in order to create convenience for the public they have to make private transport very inconvenient. Hence, charging multiple tolls per day for accessing certain roads, or all roads, with your own car. The more carbon taxes you pay for simply driving the less you will want to drive and the more convenient “green transportation” options will seem.
Congestion tolls are a negative incentive to keep lower and middle class people from using personal transportation, keeping them trapped within small areas where they can walk (in 15 minutes) or take public transport, but rarely leave.
The ultimate purpose of 15 Minute Cities is to centralize populations into tiny areas, completely eliminate private transportation and control all citizen mobility. The idea received increased attention from the WEF and the establishment media during the covid lockdowns, when it was suggested that covid travel mandates should be kept in place in order to mitigate climate change.
As many critics have noted in the past, there is zero scientific evidence of causation between carbon emissions and higher temperatures. The Earth has had numerous warming periods over its long history, most of them occurring long before human industry existed.
Not only that, but historic carbon trends show no match between rising carbon levels and higher temperatures. That is to say, the entire climate science industry is built on a hoax that falsely connects human activity to climate change.
Road pricing appears to be an attempt to enforce carbon taxation by another name, and initiate the beginning stages of 15 Minute Cities though “sustainable mobility”.
Beyond the hysteria and fraud surrounding climate change, another factor that must be considered is mass surveillance. The spread of thousands of traffic cameras using AI to identify and track drivers in real time is not just a problem in terms of squeezing taxpayers for more money on roads they already paid for. There’s also the question of whether or not these cameras will only be used for collecting license plate numbers.
Why One Survival Food Company Shines Above the Rest
Let’s be real. “Prepper Food” or “Survival Food” is generally awful. The vast majority of companies that push their cans, bags, or buckets desperately hope that their customers never try them and stick them in the closet or pantry instead. Why? Because if the first time they try them is after the crap hits the fan, they’ll be too shaken to call and complain about the quality.
It’s true. Most long-term storage food is made with the cheapest possible ingredients with limited taste and even less nutritional value. This is why they tout calories so much. Sure, they provide calories but does anyone really want to go into the apocalypse with food their family can’t stand?
This is what prompted the Llewellyns to launch Heaven’s Harvest. They bought survival food from multiple companies and determined they couldn’t imagine being stuck in an extended emergency with such low-quality food. They quickly discovered that freeze drying food for long-term storage doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavor, consistency, or nutrition.
Their ingredients are all-American. In fact, they’re locally sourced and all-natural! This allows their products to be the highest quality on the market, so good that their customers often break open a bag in a pinch to eat because they want to, not just because they have to due to an emergency.
At Heaven’s Harvest, their only focus is amazing food. They don’t sell bugout bags, solar chargers, or multitools. They have one mission – feeding Americans in times of crisis.
What they DO offer is the ability for people to thrive in times of greatest need. On top of long-term storage food, they offer seeds to help Americans for the truly long-term. They want them to grow their own food if possible which is why they offer only Heirloom, Non-GMO, Non-Hybrid, Open-Pollinated seeds so their customers can build permanent food security on their own property.
As a native NYer, I can tell you it’s more to cover the costs for livable union benefits where union workers steal overtime. Trust me: it’s that simple. I regret going to undergrad and law school. I should have entered the MTA unions right out of high school.
Steal our tax dollars to pay for illegals in luxury hotels and then charge us to drive into our own city. Hochul and her minions are communist traitors. Time to build more cells at Gitmo.
Why does anybody live there?
And BTW, global warming is a lie.