The following report is from Sputnik International:
Steve Sisolak, the Democratic Nevada governor, has reportedly devised a plan to create new business in the state to boost economic development in the wake of the COVID-fuelled slump. The governor’s plan, however, has a proviso: so-called “innovation zones” would allow companies to create their own governments, which would wield the authority to impose taxes, form school districts, establish justice courts, and provide public services.
On 19 January 2021, Sisolak offered a first glimpse of the initiative during his State of the State address, but did not provide much detail. However, a draft of the new legislation by the Las Vegas Review-Journal sheds some light on his vision.
Company Towns & Sisolak’s Innovation Zones
The proposed bill argues that the traditional local government model is “inadequate” and doesn’t provide enough flexibility and resources to attract new types of businesses, nor foster economic development in emerging technologies and innovative industries. Therefore, the draft advocates the creation of an “alternative form of local government” by companies which focus on various frontier technologies such as blockchain, robotics, AI, autonomous systems, biometrics, and renewables. Applicants would be required to own at least one 50,000-acre plot of undeveloped and uninhabited land within a county that’s not a part of the city or a town; invest at least $1 billion in the new site over the next decade; and posses $250 million in assets.
The Innovation Zone idea may not be as crazy as it sounds, though, says Jeffrey J. Blatt, a high technology attorney from Silicon Valley and Hollywood who has represented a variety of key technology companies including Apple, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Sony. He’s also the founder of X Ventures.
‘Company towns’ are not a new concept. They exist today in a variety of countries and had a heyday in the US in the late 1800’s and declined in the 1920’s. These areas were de facto towns as they were many times located on private property or where the company held a monopoly for an industry like coal, lumber or mining. There are many examples of company towns around the world.
Jeffrey J. Blatt
Sisolak’s proposal is different because each company would be able to effectively create a new county within a county where an Innovation Zone would be disposed, the lawyer explains.
According to the planned legislation, the innovation zones would initially operate within local counties and later be able to take over the counties’ duties to form independent governmental bodies. After becoming autonomous, they will still be subject to federal and state laws and also laws respecting the functioning of counties in Nevada, Blatt explains.
This would be a new type of political subdivision in the state of Nevada ultimately becoming the equivalent of an autonomous and separate county – with the land at least initially being fully owned by the high tech company.
According to the lawyer – who suggests that the current systems conflict with the new ones.
Why Does Nevada’s Experiment Raise Concerns?
Nevada’s contract with Blockchains LLC, which is reportedly planning to build a “smart city” east of Reno, appears to be a cornerstone of the new plan.
My pledge to creating new innovation zones and developing new technology industries will help strengthen Nevada’s infrastructure and economy and help generate new jobs in our state.
Steve Sisolak
While the proposed structure is likely workable the question is whether it actually makes sense and whether there is a real benefit to Nevada for putting this in place. That is really the biggest question. Certainly there will be legal and political issues to work out – but what is the real benefit?
At the same time, the lawyer wonders if other less drastic approaches can be taken by the governor to provide tax, employment, and other incentives for high tech industries to invest in Nevada and develop the large swaths of undeveloped land in the state. “That is not clear and will no doubt be the subject of much debate if his Bill is to move forward,” he says.
Sisolak’s proposal is “mainly coming into existence as a response to pain points articulated by tech companies who believe that they are being overtaxed and over-regulated in Silicon Valley,” suggests Christopher Benek, a global emerging tech expert and founding chair of the Christian Transhumanist Association.
At the same time, “tech-company suitors need to be careful that they don’t do a complete 180 and under-regulate tech giants by removing accountability measures,” the tech expert remarks, warning that unaccountability may lead to systemic injustice within the zones.
Furthermore, the project may translate into a potential unholy alliance between tech companies and the governor, who, according to the bill, would have too much power over the zones, according to Benek.
Nothing seems to hold the Governor accountable or to prevent him from controlling the Board of Supervisors for these proposed innovation regions. It seems plausible that Big Tech companies who inhabited such innovation zones could and would simply lean on the governor to make sure that they get what they want.
Christopher Benek
Sisolak’s plan resembles an old Walt Disney idea to create a corporate-run Utopian society coined the “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow,” says Gary Miliefsky, a renowned cybersecurity expert.
The Nevada Governor is showing the American people the real power of corporations.
Gary Miliefsky
Citing increasing instances of censorship by Big Tech as well as political bias and partisanship of Silicon Valley giants, Miliefsky expresses fears that Nevada’s experiment may translate into something “very bad and completely unconstitutional.”
However, it just goes to prove that many government officials do not understand the oath they take when they are sworn in.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This has Agenda 2030 written all over it. These are the automatous cities where the people do not have to physically labor anymore, and the machines run and take care of most of the people’s essential needs. Just as the World Economic Forum (WEF) worded it, “You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy.” The WEF was not creating a conversation piece, they are laying out what was already planned and under development.
Just imagine: Places like Disney World will now become the new automatous, communal, smart city; where you get to bunk with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto: and you’ll ‘be happy.’ Instead of taking a plane to tour the Amazon in South America, you can now live and work for ‘the’ Amazon smart city in North America, China, of where ever else.
This further validates, as the article notates, that the mega corporations run America. The politicians are just puppets for the banksters – who are controlled and manipulated by their handlers, the Vatican. Read our report on the black horse of Revelation for more details.
Covid-19, as we continually reiterate, has nothing to do with a virus, but everything to do with a major power and wealth transfer, the enslavement of the people, the rise of technocracy, and to further the mark of the beast technology.
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Ask a Pennsylvanian, West Virginian or Kentuckian miner, or descendent of such, what they think about ‘company towns’! NOT a good thing. This would also be a feral city bigtime as Jeffrey Prather describes the form of communist-warlord cyber-propaganda-terror strike warfare in the Middle East, now adapting to US attack with the corrupt election fraud metropolitan areas the beginnings of such things here. These would be centers center of operations for propaganda, for organizing forays into and against ‘conservative’, Constitutional, patriarchal, ‘Christian’ holdouts to the Great Reset; and for technological & transhuman genetic biological & hybrid ‘innovations’ unless I miss my guess.
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It also brings ‘Hunger Games’ to mind. The Kjos’ were warning against that and other dystopian materials desensitizing people to stand for and participate in the unthinkable. The love of many waxing cold, searing consciences, and 1 Timothy 6:10 love of money (power form of that) with the merchandising of Revelation 18.
Would note also the source of this…Sputnik? Caution advised. And the fact that Nevada was one of the very corrupt areas of election fraud for a reason. Grain of truth?
Another thought. Minnesota and other areas where Obama area targeted immigration resettlement to ‘transform’ rural and conservative areas ….have large settlements of Somalian & other folks. The Portland area got a large influx of violent Ukainian white supremacists friendly to the faction Biden/Obama promote & have their ‘deals’ with. They have roots going back to the brownshirts under Hitler who were communist AND fascist. The saying goes that the brownshirts were like beefsteak: brown on the outside & red on the inside. Now we have watermelon green: green on the outside, red on the inside. Gorbachev began the green movement here with spiritual overtones & with socialist insiders here at the Presidio near San Francisco from where they organized & branched out, networked with academic & other groups.
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These areas would quickly become like islands of such groups of people. We already have them, but they’re under regular law enforcement. This would become really bad really fast.
I KNOW this isn’t a Christian thing I’m mentioning, but I think of the secular music group Rush and their 1976 title song “2112”. If I remember the lyrics correctly, the rulers were trying to create this Utopian society there! It’s silliness, as there IS no “heaven on Earth”; well, unless you’re lost, then this IS the closest to heaven you’ll ever get. Now THAT is depressing, for sure! For us Christians, though, this world is as close to hell as we have to worry about getting; things get WAY better for us once we pass, as we get to see JESUS then! 🙂
So is this related to the Gates buy-up of farmland in US? He could be a real overlord then…just saying!