So what are ‘Five Minute Cities’?

I have lots to say about this, because it’s all tied into what’s been happening over the last 3 years. In the meantime here’s a recent Jason Liosatis programme about Five Minute Cities…

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7 Responses to So what are ‘Five Minute Cities’?

  1. Freddy says:

    Paris is stinking

    The streets of Paris have been left smelling of rotting fish due to more than 5,000 tons of garbage piling up around the city as workers continue to strike over Emmanuel Macron’s hated pension reforms.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11853859/Paris-protests-5-000-TONS-stinking-garbage-piled-French-capital.html

    Looks like banking and economic collapse is coming.
    General Motors in America is doing rather badly, several banks in the U.S.A. have gone tits up.
    Contagion is expected to spread to Dear Old Blighty.

  2. Freddy says:

    France seems to be an ungovernable country?
    “As the legislation enters the final stretch in parliament, trade unions are set to make another attempt to pressure the government and lawmakers into rejecting the proposed hike in the retirement age to 64.”
    Let the street rubbish pile high.
    https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230315-france-faces-fresh-round-of-strikes-over-highly-contested-pension-reforms

    Meanwhile the U.K. storms ahead building more nuclear powered submarines.

  3. Freddy says:

    Marine Le Pen said opposition deputies would file a motion of no-confidence in the government

    Macron must be the most despised president of France – ever.

  4. Freddy says:

    The scenes in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, on Thursday appeared to have been lifted from historical dramas dating back to the country’s revolutionary past.

    “Aux armes citoyens, formez vos bataillons,” sang opposition lawmakers
    https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230316-a-dog-day-afternoon-in-french-politics-as-macron-uses-nuclear-option-to-raise-retirement-age

    Although we seemed to be deep in union strikes in the U.K.,
    I don’t think we are quite as unruly as France, I might be wrong…
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64981979
    “More than 1,000 Passport Office workers will go on strike for five weeks over a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions.”

  5. Freddy says:

    U.K. firm Rolls-Royce has received funding from the U.K. Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor for a moon base.

    I bet this will piss off Macron?

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