The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins are about a country that occupies North America and roughly corresponds geographically to the United States, set in the far future. There has been a terrible war resulting in a capitol city ruling over the rest of the country with an iron hand. Except it's not really the rest of the country, most of which is vacant and has reverted to wilderness. There are twelve districts not including the capitol, and each one is fenced in to a small part of the district, and is patrolled by military “peacekeepers” whose job it is to keep a lid on things. Anyone outside of the fence may expect to be shot on sight, by peacekeepers or by armed drones. (There is a District 13 which was supposedly totally destroyed, but there are rumors that it still exists on some level.)
"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times." ~ Suzanne Collins
A feature of the control system is that once a year the capitol hosts the “Hunger Games,” a sort of gladiatorial contest fought to the death by unwilling teenagers, one male and one female, from each of the twelve districts, the winner being the sole survivor out of the twenty four. The capitol treats it as a marvelous game and forces all citizens to watch, rubbing their noses in the fact that, hey, we can take your children away, force them to kill each other, make you pretend to enjoy the games, and there is nothing you can do about it; an object lesson in who has the power. (Did I mention that the districts had no Second Amendment?)
"It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children." ~ Suzanne Collins
On the Fourth of July everyone in your district is expected to assemble in the town square, the districts are that small, and a piece of paper with a victim's name is pulled from each of two barrels as in a lottery, one for the girls and one for the boys, in a ceremony called “The Reaping.” After selection the “tributes,” as they are called, are sent by luxury train to the capitol where they live in fine accommodations, are treated as stars, interviewed, trained a few days in the deadly arts, then at the appointed time are sent to the arena, a large forested area in this case, with a supply of weapons stashed in a pile. Upon a signal the game begins, and will continue until only one survives. Capitol citizens bet on the games, and can pay to send supplies by drone to tributes that they favor.
"The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins." ~ Suzanne Collins
If your instincts tell you that such a situation might ultimately backfire you have the makings of a spoiler alert.
They Who Would Be Kings
Throughout history there have been many who wished to conquer the world and control all of humanity, or at least their part of it. One of the latest such groups would appear to be the United Nations, who seem to have gone from seeing themselves as a safety valve for defusing international crises to seeing themselves as the rightful rulers of the world. …
What does this have to do with the UN’s Agenda 2030? There are some remarkable and chilling similarities. The map below represents the distribution of land in the US under the plan - we live in the tiny green areas. We live in “fifteen minute cities” where you have everything you need within fifteen minutes, and of course you will not need a car, and the plan is to slowly eliminate individual vehicles. Rural roads will be allowed to decay into uselessness. No doubt you could travel by rail to another human occupied area, but there's no guarantee that you would be allowed.
If it looks to you this is much too small an area for the population, with too little farm area, that could be because it's the right size for a world population of five hundred million.
The rewilding project is designed to remove the people from the land and turn it back into wilderness. This is supposed to save the Earth, but maybe it's just control freaks in action. How do they enforce keeping the “rewilded” areas people free? Armed drones, perhaps?
I'm sure to those of a certain mind set this looks wonderful, a sustainable utopian future. To those of another it looks like a control freak's dream, providing a nation wide system of choke points allowing for the domination of the many by the few, and remember that it is sociopaths and psychopaths who are best at ascending the rungs of power. (Choke points are critical for controlling a population.)
Here is a link to a video of Amanda Small speaking to the North Oakland County, Michigan, Republican Club. Her topic is the UN's Agenda 2030, and it’s a chilling explanation of what they want to do, and how they plan to do it. She makes the point that this is all displayed in the UN's official documents, it is not tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff.
Trump removed the US from Agenda 21, and the usual suspects went ballistic. (It was renamed Agenda 2030 when they got behind.) The Agenda is a real Better Living Through Slavery operation. People would be forced off their land by taxation and a carbon credit system, small businesses destroyed and everyone would live in cities. Most would need to be killed off, but hey, it's for the greater good. (It's unclear why all of these globalist leaders are not suiciding themselves, but I'm sure it's for the best.)
The UN Agenda 2030 plan seems to be an effort by the powerful to turn the U.S. citizens, and indeed all peoples of the world, into landless serfs, living in tightly controlled cities in rentals, and not allowed in rural areas. Property tax could be used as a lever to help force this situation simply by raising it to such levels that people are forced out of their homes, with the government then owning all property. Remember, the power to tax is the power to destroy.
Deep In The Heart Of Taxes
The old saying is that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. True dat, but we can hope for a system that interferes with freedom the least, keeps taxes at the level of necessity and not at the level of want, and does not support the production of a totalitarian nightmare.
(The basic idea of a fifteen minute city is to make a city more livable, and some of the aspects are good ideas and could be a good thing if it's not used in the nefarious fashion envisioned, though it necessarily decreases personal freedom. All swords are double edged.)
One wonders about Collins writing of the books. She may have simply had a good idea, she may have heard about Agenda 21 and based the book on it, it might even have been divine intervention, or it could be predictive programming by the dark forces. I lean toward the second, but that's just me.
The result of such a plan would be to make the people helpless in the face of such a system, and only the naive would believe that such power in the hands of the few would not be abused. They might not want to start actual Hunger Games, but what would there be to stop them if they wanted to?
Electric cars are part of the plan, though personal automobiles are planned for eventual elimination. If an idea would have the effect of making it harder to freely move around the country, be suspicious.
Big Brother Under the Hood
When told by an acquaintance that he has bought an electric car I'm tempted to ask him how he likes his new coal-fired one. People seem think that they are environmentally clean even though the energy is produced elsewhere. The power losses that come from turning fuel into electricity and transmitting it a long distance are considerable, making them gre…
Stay Brave, Stay Free, And May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
Just like 1984 They always tell us what they want to do. Most can’t hear it.