The hole, revisited

Long ago (the autumn of 2023) I told you about Joel Sussman, the conspiracy dude.

He spent a career in the travel business before having an epiphany – that they’re out to get us. “They” turn out to be the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, central banks and the global elitist consortium of corporatists. Oh yeah, and the lackey political structure supporting them. Now that AI has arrived, things are way, way worse.

Well, Joel (who lives in the GTA) saw Covid as a plot to control, enslave and medicate the masses. He took up the torch of anti-vax (Vaccine Choice Canada), then moved on to whip up public sentiment against the idea pf fifteen minute cities (FMCs).

Here is what we reported to you then, after Joel appeared at his local Town Hall:

The chamber of Aurora town council was packed with over 100 frightened residents as Sussmann lectured for five minutes on how the globalist cabal is moving closer to forcing a permanent Covid-type societal lockdown in all communities, using the climate emergency as a rationale.

Joel in action. Check out the standing ovation.

Background: the 15-minute city is an urban planning concept fleshed out a dozen years ago by Carlos Morena, an academic based in (evil, lefty) Paris. It’s actually an old idea. Instead of needing a minivan to travel to the mall six miles away to get a quart of milk or having to drive to see the doctor, visit your lawyer or buy stuff, you can walk. Or bike. Because these services are close enough – which makes sense. This is the way people used to live. It’s the way small towns are still organized. It works.

The WEF-haters and pandemic warriors see it differently, supported by high-profile nutbars like Jordan Peterson. To them, it’s all about control – virtual AI-driven digital gulags where travel is controlled and citizens contained, all in the name of a global net zero extremist green agenda, plus the enrichment of our rulers.

First come the digital IDs, they warn, then digital currency (our CB is already working on it) to control spending and freeze bank accounts, followed by social credit scores, communal housing (like Mark Carney’s prefab units on government land) and the end of private ownership.

And, finally, here is the list of things Joel and his wife Margaret have warned their fellow residents are planned:

• 24/7 surveillance for the Internet of Things inside your home, and 5G and LED streetlights outside monitoring, tracking and recording everything;
• implementation of exclusion zones and geofencing to restrict the ability of people to freely move and travel;
• ability to control behaviours through military-directed energy technologies;
• property and car ownership will be outlawed;
• evictions from farms and rural areas to gather people into cities;
• digital passports, which are – as publicised by WHO, UN and WEF – in the final stages of planning and implementation.  Digital passports that are tied to social credit scores and control all aspects of our lives;
• digital currency is being implemented to remove all cash and monitor all of our spending; and,
• universal basic income will be our state allowance which will enforce compliance by restricting access to food, services and education.

Now, two-and-a-half years ago, before Nvidia and AI dominated the market, before Trump 2.0 or Carney, before the real estate meltdown, before tariffs, protectionism or the 51st state, this blog said Joel “is so far down the rabbit hole of conspiracy it’s unlikely he’ll ever again see the sky.”

But he says phooey. I just heard from him again.

“Thank you for writing the article,” he says. “It contributed to the millions of views that the video presentation garnered worldwide. Glad to tell you that I’ve actually never been down the rabbit hole of conspiracy. So many of the fears shared by everyday citizens in regards to FMC’s have been proven to be accurate and true. Also, I’m happy to report that I’ve seen the sky every one of the 863 days since I delivered that presentation.

“As it turns out, the true nature and purpose of “FMC’s” has been revealed for all  the world to see. For example, FMC’s are expanding and exploding in Britain,  a once free and proud country which has devolved into a Communist Globalist nightmare!”

He sent me a fringe article written by a fellow UK whackadoodle alleging urban planning initiatives in Oxford and Bath are merrily enslaving people and stripping them of basic human rights and freedoms through things like traffic restrictions on major routes. After that, we’re told, it’s a slippery slope to this:

“In a 15-minute city, your local unmanned AI controlled convenience store—owned by your  friendly local multinational retail corporation—will require you to submit your digital identity to buy food; your local-GP will be available locally via a convenient online video consultation; your prescribed drugs will be delivered by drone and all your retail purchasing desires will be met by processing your orders online and shipping goods to your door from distant mega-warehouses. If and when the next round of lockdowns arrive, if you already live in your allocated FMC zone, why would you ever be permitted to leave?”

It’s worth mentioning Pierre Poilievre says if he ever becomes PM no member of his government would be allowed to attend a WEF meeting because, of course, it’s a globalist cabal intent on enslaving people. He won his Conservative leadership review with 87% support yesterday in Calgary.

This is the same WEF where Carney told Trump to pound salt.

At least we know how Joel votes.

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Source: https://www.greaterfool.ca/2026/02/01/the-hole-revisited/