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00:01:04.000The same way that cyberspace has been monopolised by vast big tech powers, actual space will be and is being monopolised by comparable, or in some cases literally, the same powers.
00:01:16.000You're probably interested in why Bill Gates is buying up agricultural space across the United States. Some of you
00:01:21.000will assume that if you can control food sources you could create scarcity, you can control whole
00:01:26.000populations, and these are certainly theories I'm interested in even while they currently remain unproven.
00:01:30.000Although farmers across the world seem pretty angry about something don't they? Now Google and Meta
00:01:37.000and big tech spaces having conquered all of cyberspace like digital Alexander the Great have
00:01:43.000turned to the real world to find new kingdoms to conquer.
00:01:47.000Is it possible that you, unable to afford literal real estate, will have to have Mark Zuckerberg Or the Alphabet Corporation as your landlord.
00:01:57.000Let's first of all see how the legacy media report on this and how this is being presented by the propaganda of these organizations that are acquiring vast tracts of San Francisco and stuff.
00:02:06.000Tonight Google is revealing its plans for a big development in Mountain View that includes affordable housing.
00:02:12.000What that should say is it's planned for world domination, isn't it?
00:02:39.000Because one thing I've noticed about big tech giants is they care mostly about poor people and the concerns of ordinary people.
00:02:46.000There's never been an undercurrent of tyrannical centralisation, authoritarianism and making deals with the state that make ordinary democracy and individual freedom a near impossibility.
00:02:57.000So hopefully we'll all be in lovely little Google homes by, I don't know, end of the month.
00:03:00.000And tonight, we're learning more about its new plan to redevelop parts of Mountain View.
00:03:06.000Here is the bird's eye view of North Bay Shore in Mountain View.
00:03:09.000One of the clues is they're using Google's logo while still doing the report.
00:03:14.000Is there going to be any discernment, analysis, scrutiny, investigation, attack from the legacy media?
00:03:19.000Remember, we're continually telling you now about the Trusted News Initiative.
00:03:23.000A group that includes state media organisations as well as big tech companies.
00:03:28.000You will notice how often their interests absolutely align.
00:03:31.000You will notice now that the legacy media is part of the establishment.
00:03:35.000It's one of the things that Donald Trump noticed and exploited brilliantly.
00:03:54.000Aren't corporations like Google, by their nature, globalist?
00:03:57.000And haven't we heard rhetoric from the WEF saying that you will own nothing and be happy?
00:04:01.000Is it possible that administrative bodies like the WEF are kind of the ideological front For corporations like Google.
00:04:07.000And what will happen is that governments will just start passing legislation that facilitates this kind of stuff and no one's asking any questions.
00:04:13.000And when you do ask questions, for example if you're part of an independent media movement, then you will be shut down.
00:04:38.000If you go to modern, developed places now, it's like they've fallen from the sky.
00:04:42.000Even a city like London, which, when you walk through it, used to have layer after layer of rich, historic buildings.
00:04:49.000A bit of an old Roman wall, and Elizabethan blocks, and Tudor housing, Georgian, Victorian, then a skyscraper, all meshed together like something that had grown, like fungus, like an architectural fungi that was an expression of a collective.
00:05:02.000Now, what you get is things that, like, drop from above.
00:05:24.000This is now the bureaucratising and delivery of those sci-fi dystopias.
00:05:29.000Whether you approach this with centre-left narratives like climate change or centre-right narratives like the deterioration of society, this ain't helping anyone.
00:05:37.000And look how they're repeating the word affordable, affordable.
00:05:39.000Would you like a house that's affordable?
00:05:41.000I would like to be able to afford a house, yeah.
00:06:03.000The legacy media just sort of casts people, trots us out to advocate for their perspective.
00:06:08.000Just get someone, like, that you feel represents that community and get them to say something that's positive about it.
00:06:14.000So the reality we interact with is not actual reality.
00:06:17.000You're not interacting with whatever manoeuvres have been made with the state or with local authorities to get some special deal to build this.
00:06:25.000All of the things that will have happened behind the scenes to make this profitable and un-ownable and to ensure that power migrates further upwards.
00:06:33.000As happened in the pandemic period, as has been happening in the last 20, 50 years, you tell me in the chat, the legacy media presents this story as entirely positive, doesn't offer any questions, any interrogation, any doubt, any discernment.
00:06:46.000It's possible that you would have a legacy media that would go, listen, we're very concerned about this.
00:06:49.000This Google housing project looks a bit worrying.
00:07:03.000If we're ever going to have the America proposed in the Constitution, these are the very kind of projects that we're going to have to oppose.
00:07:09.000Put aside your cultural war values for a second and see that you are facing a titan.
00:07:14.000And if you don't bind together and face that titan, you will be, some might argue quite rightly, crushed by it because we weren't able to awaken.
00:07:21.000Giving more housing opportunities to people, that's important.
00:07:24.000There's no doubt that the need is immediate for affordable housing.
00:07:29.000The city says it's working with Google on the new plan.
00:07:31.000Better believe the local authorities are working with Google.
00:07:34.000They're not going to oppose them, are they?
00:07:36.000How that is implemented is really going to be something that we as a council are going to be discussing next month in March and really digging into what those details are.
00:07:45.000Really just finding ways to present this so there can be no opposition.
00:07:48.000Back in 2019, Google announced a $1 billion investment in housing across the Bay Area by repurposing its own land.
00:07:57.000That's not investing in housing, is it?
00:08:25.000Google map it, then Google live in it, then Google fuck off to your Google grave.
00:08:30.000In a statement, Google's development director says in part, we're committed to helping our hometown communities recover from the pandemic.
00:08:38.000Oh yeah, no, that is, you are so committed to that pandemic that you exploited, profited from, censored true information about, thanks for all of your help.
00:08:47.000We're looking forward to continuing to work with the city and community on the next steps.
00:09:20.000You have an aspect of consciousness within you that's sort of still some sort of weird miracle or mystery and it's possible to imagine new realities if you're willing to overcome your own obstacles to progress.
00:09:31.000It's extraordinary that we're willing and satisfied to live in some pixelated version of reality that doesn't allow us to be free.
00:09:37.000That was all very complicated and existential.
00:09:39.000Why don't we trust Google to give us a version of reality that's got a lot less questions in it?
00:09:50.000Silicon Valley has been the cradle of this sort of series of innovations that over the last decades have propelled technology and world economy.
00:10:12.000Side effects of its actual function, which is to control you, sell you stuff, prevent you gaining access to information that might activate you, further centralise already centralised authority structures, advance globalist projects, create dissent, disruption and opposition amongst ordinary populations.
00:10:29.000Big tech is not working towards solutions at all.
00:10:32.000It's working towards power You know when they say, we decided to repurpose this land to help poor people.
00:10:37.000If you want to help poor people, society wouldn't look like this.
00:10:40.000If you wanted fairness and equality and freedom of expression, society wouldn't look like this.
00:10:44.000Look, my first suspicions in the pandemic period were not based on data.
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00:13:45.000So why are we pretending that the goal at the end of this is like sort of a happy, diverse family, abundant and robust oak tree?
00:13:52.000We're really making sure that we MakeSpace is very open and accessible, so it's just not for Googlers, but it's for anyone who lives in the area to come by.
00:14:52.000I know that there are no right angles in nature.
00:14:55.000I'm aware of intuitive, natural, biological design.
00:14:58.000I'm aware that we could be living in a different world.
00:15:00.000In fact, as with politics, what's most offensive is that there is so much that's spoken that's actually true.
00:15:05.000It's not that we need new ideas, it's just that we need to use the ones we already have.
00:15:09.000The Magna Carta in this country enshrining the rights of the individual.
00:15:11.000Constitution in your country full of amazing ideas like Can we get round that in some way?
00:15:16.000Yeah, you could get round it this way.
00:15:18.000And what they're doing now is like, can we use the kind of general aesthetic of, let's call it wokeness for want of a better term, to present Google moving into the acquisition of land and the development of real estate and make it look like we're doing everyone a massive favour.
00:15:32.000Yeah, we could, just like, you know, look, I got this thing.
00:16:17.000Who's to say you even need food or healthcare?
00:16:20.000Ultimately, the dream of home ownership or an affordable rental is becoming unreachable for more and more Americans.
00:16:25.000The digital renderings of North Bay Shore, a massive proposed development in Mountain View, California, are crowded with glistening buildings and cheerful animated pedestrians.
00:16:34.000There's a lot to show off, including 7,000 new homes, three distinct neighborhoods, and nearly 300,000 square feet of retail and community space.
00:16:41.000Notably though, the gleaming images don't bear any hints of the company behind the whole endeavour.
00:16:53.000Companies like Google and Facebook's parent, Meta, conquered the digital realm a long time ago, setting the ground rules for how we search, interact and shop online.
00:17:01.000Not content to stop there, however, these firms are now making huge bids to expand their reach.
00:17:17.000Across the country, corporations are using their considerable sway and resources to build modern company towns, mini-cities that will feature all the trappings of traditional civic life, including housing, shops and public spaces.
00:17:28.000These new projects won't have corporate logos on every building, and many of the units will be available for the general public Not just employees.
00:17:35.000But in the grand scheme of real estate, they're distinct.
00:17:37.000After years of running up against housing shortages in their backyards, companies like Google, Meta and Disney, not exactly known for building new homes, are taking matters into their own hands.
00:17:47.000Their creations have boring names like Middlefield Park and Willow Village, but they might as well be called Zooktown or Google City USA.
00:17:54.000And while the developments promise thousands of new homes, the plans are also a tacit acknowledgement of the bleak I like the way it's masked in banality, words that don't cause you to stop and ponder, man in view, willow this.
00:18:14.000Everything now is meant to pass by your eyes unquestioned, that you're only disrupted when the media disrupts you.
00:18:21.000This new thing's happening we want you to care about.
00:18:23.000Meanwhile, it's just been sort of sucked into a banalising, centralised life where you have increasingly less power.
00:18:31.000It seems to me the more that power aggregates and accumulates in these establishment sets of authoritarian systems, increasingly unlikely it becomes that we will ever be able to oppose them.
00:18:39.000If you have an alliance between the media, the state and vast corporations such as Google, great example Google, The companies behind these projects argue that they can help solve the country's lack of affordable housing that they caused.
00:18:48.000Can we have a different vision of America?
00:18:50.000Can we have a different vision of a community?
00:18:51.000I maybe don't want to work 12 hours a day or 10 hours a day.
00:18:54.000You should have as much freedom as possible.
00:19:17.000While the current plans hardly represent a return to those dark days of the 19th and early 20th centuries, they probably won't usher in a new era of futuristic techno-utopias either.
00:19:26.000Judging by the plans that have been publicly unveiled so far, The Googles and Metas of the world aren't aiming nearly that high.
00:19:32.000Instead, their visions of city living spaces look a lot like what we're already used to seeing from the modern real estate developers.
00:19:38.000Glassy office buildings, verdant parks and walkable main streets with coffee shops, salad bars and alluring apartment buildings.
00:19:45.000It's nice, but not exactly groundbreaking stuff.
00:19:48.000In a sense, the new conservatism now is this kind of neoliberalist corporatism.
00:20:03.000Rather than from the floating cities or domed villages once dreamed up by science fiction writers, these watered-down plans show that what these companies have been after all along is a way to one-up their competitors.
00:20:14.000They want to attract and retain top employees.
00:20:16.000And ideally get them back into the office too.
00:20:18.000It doesn't hurt that right now residential real estate looks like a pretty good bet.
00:20:22.000It's interesting that a couple of years ago it was considered ingenious that Facebook and these kind of companies would have nice bars where you could get breakfast and stuff, and little pods to sleep in.
00:20:31.000When I used to visit them when I was working more in legacy media, I'd think, God, this is so ingenious.
00:20:37.000The idea behind them is, you never leave here, you eat those Skittles and then you sleep in that pod.
00:20:41.000Then you can play foosball for a couple of hours and it's back to coding!
00:20:44.000Now what they're doing is, they just want to own all of reality.
00:20:47.000And in a sense, they kind of already do.
00:20:49.000It's just, we're just waiting for the timeline to edge along with us to the point where they own your mind, they own your attention, they own your screen, they own your opinions, they own your office space, they own your home.
00:20:59.000No one is going to prevent this happening, except for you.
00:21:01.000It's literally only you that can do it.
00:21:03.000The noble aim of building more housing, including affordably priced units, is the cherry on top.
00:21:07.000But make no mistake, these companies will only pursue these plans as long as they fit their business goals.
00:21:11.000In June, Mountain View City Council approved the master plan for Google's North Bayshore project,
00:21:16.000a partnership between the tech giant and the Australian real estate firm Lendlease.
00:21:20.000The new community will replace a suburban office park with a sprawling new neighbourhood in the heart of Silicon
00:21:25.000The plans call for as many as 7,000 new homes across a mix of income levels.
00:21:31.000As well as parks, restaurants, shops and more than 3 million square feet of office space on 153 acres.
00:21:36.000Roughly 15% of those units will be priced below market rate, although the city hasn't settled upon the exact income thresholds that will determine who can apply for the units.
00:21:45.000So, 15% of these properties will be below market rate.
00:21:55.000That means that, essentially, they could sell below-market-rate properties to people that it's expedient to sell those properties to, perhaps because they work at Google or whatever.
00:22:04.000So, while it's using the kind of face of, we're helping people, in reality, it's not making any commitment.
00:22:09.000Do you notice how, in our techno-dictatorship, how common the lack of definition around language crops up?
00:22:36.000Mountain View also greenlighted the master plan for Middlefield Park, another Google development that proposes to tear down existing office and industrial buildings and construct nearly 2,000 new housing units as well as more office and retail spaces.
00:22:47.000How can any local authority body oppose a Goliath, a gargantuan company of this nature?
00:22:52.000Think of the type of relationships that exist.
00:22:54.000Remember that content we did where Fauci did an interview with the BBC?
00:23:26.000Other household names are getting in on the action.
00:23:28.000Last year, Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously in favour of the plans for Willow Village, Facebook's 59-acre project that's affectionately, or cynically, referred to as Zooktown.
00:23:37.000It promises more than 1,700 homes, as well as office, hotel and retail, right next to Meta's headquarters at one hack away.
00:23:45.000Walt Disney World also plans to break ground next year on 1,400 affordable housing units across 80 acres, a few miles from its flagship theme park in Florida, the company said in the spring.
00:23:56.000Remember once more that philosophical point that we make sometimes?
00:23:58.000I think it was Baudrillard that said the fact that Disneyland is in America distracts you from the fact that America is Disneyland, that the whole thing is in fact a corporate project, that it's not visible.
00:24:07.000Remember how in the pandemic things became visible to you, or us I suppose, that we hadn't seen before?
00:24:12.000Hang on a minute, the media is just supporting this ban.
00:24:14.000Wait, Wait a minute, they're censoring true information.
00:24:16.000Hey, the deep state are involved in this.
00:24:29.000This just provides you with some context.
00:24:32.000Nearby, the competing resort company Universal is also building a thousand affordable apartments.
00:24:36.000It's interesting actually because what we're seeing is a type of decentralisation like Universal Land, Disney Land, Google World and Metapark or whatever.
00:24:45.000And I sort of think this is the corporatised version of what might work nicely actually.
00:24:49.000Imagine if it wasn't sort of owned by oligarchs, but your community was owned by you and you democratically vote like
00:24:55.000on "Oh, we want migrants or we don't want migrants. We want
00:24:58.000our schools to teach this or we don't want our schools to teach this.
00:25:01.000We want to send this much money to the Pentagon or we don't want to send this money to the Pentagon."
00:25:04.000Democracy, democracy, democracy. You determine what happens with your resources.
00:25:07.000Where do your taxes go? All of this is possible now.
00:25:24.000That's interesting, you lucky little Googler.
00:25:27.000It's no surprise that the largest of the new developments are the brainchildren of Silicon Valley giants.
00:25:32.000The modern tech industry was built on a California-tinted brand of utopianism and the belief that connecting people is the answer to many of the world's problems.
00:25:40.000After all the digital ad dollars have been hoovered up and all the attention squeezed out of our screen-addled eyeballs, the next logical step is building a new city where the founding principles of the tech world can be put into practice.
00:25:52.000But companies are also ruthlessly pragmatic profit-making machines beholden to shareholders who closely watch their every move.
00:25:58.000High-minded ideals aside, the modern company towns also make for sound business propositions.
00:26:02.000I think that's how you end up with that peculiar mix of idealistic language and visionary rhetoric about actually just sort of traditional hardline profiteering.
00:26:10.000Because underneath it and behind it, they are all owned in quite a conventional way where you can't go, we're just going to build a bunch of affordable housing.
00:26:16.000Well, that doesn't sound very profitable.
00:26:18.000OK, what if we just say we're going to do that?
00:26:28.000Building houses near their HQs checks off both those boxes.
00:26:31.000Commuting is the top reason employees don't want to go back to the office full-time, according to Gallup.
00:26:36.000In a recent piece for Harvard Business Review, the economist Edward Glazer and the consultant Atataki argued that companies should think of housing assistance as just one part of a broader benefits package next to on-site chefs or an office gym that encourages employees to stick around and be more productive.
00:26:51.000People always talk about cults as if cults are a terrifying and bad thing, but this is a type of cult.
00:26:57.000It's just a cult that's so mundane and banal and called such boring things and is Based on materialism and rationalism, so you don't notice that you're in a cult already.
00:27:06.000If a cult goes, hey, why don't we detach from all this?
00:27:07.000Because we're going to die anyway and love's the most important thing in all our lives.
00:27:16.000What about love, you crazy little Googler?
00:27:18.000The company towns of the 19th and 20th centuries also bore some of that utopian flavour, at least in theory.
00:27:23.000In many cases, company towns were a practical response to the need for housing near factories or lumber mills, which were typically located in barren locations without the kind of amenities that would keep workers happy, like churches or libraries.
00:27:35.000But the idea of a place dominated by a single corporation where your boss not only owns your home but also runs your church and your kids' schools and sells you everything you need at the company's store was always a fraught proposition.
00:27:44.000In many company towns, the corporations used the setup to maintain their social control, threatening disgruntled workers with eviction from company housing if they went on strike.
00:27:52.000When your company is your entire world, the stakes are infinitely higher.
00:28:32.000If Hitler had gone, I'm gonna do Hitler housing, he would have gone, well, hopefully this time he's learned his lesson.
00:28:37.000You know, you'd know what the move was gonna be.
00:28:39.000Well, can we just see what they've done in cyberspace?
00:28:40.000Well, they've monopolized it, they've done deals with the state, They're controlling people, they're censoring true information, they're stockpiling our data, their business model isn't even what they tell us it is, they tell us what they're doing is like, say, in the case of Google, providing searches, but what they're actually doing is capturing all of our data and selling it to advertisers.
00:28:55.000So if we start letting them control reality, and I'm not saying that reality is more important than the cyber world, and certainly not any metaphysical prima materia of consciousness itself, which, by the way, they're probably trying to own right now, I would say is a fair bet that the dystopian trajectory is the one that they will be pursuing.