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  Smart Cities: They’re NOT “Just a Crazy Conspiracy Theory” Marie Hawthorne After the fires in Maui, a local resident nicknamed Auntie  complained that Lahaina was slated  to become a “satellite city”    Residents posted on X (Twitter) that, before the fire,  rumors had been circulating  about a Digital City, or a 15-minute city, being set up on Maui    Naturally the fact-checkers are treating these people like they’re just “conspiracy theorists,” but let’s look at what the new types of cities – also called Smart Cities – really are. What are Smart Cities? “Satellite city”  just refers  to a smaller city next to a larger one.    Think Fort Worth and Dallas.  It’s possible that Auntie got her words mixed up and meant to say “Smart City” instead of satellite city.  Or, she could have meant that Lahaina was supposed to be a satellite city for something bigger that was slated to be built.   Smart Cities are a different matter entirely. (People often use “smart city” and “digital city” int

  Burning The Last Man America's on fire and the firetruck's EV battery has spontaneously combusted. GOOD CITIZEN Joe Biden doesn’t care about Hawaii. Why should he? A man who doesn’t know what day it is can hardly be bothered to wipe the drool off his chin from the blue polyester beach chairs of Delaware’s most exquisite resorts. He need not concern himself with a thousand charred Americans. It’s not historically unusual for Presidents to shrug about a thousand charred Americans. Democrat socialist hero FDR didn’t care about a thousand sailors charred in nearby Pearl Harbor. He actually spent nine months doing everything possible to help get them charred. “The war begins tomorrow, gentlemen.” 6 Dec.  - the war cabinet : FDR, top advisor Hopkins, Stimson, Marshall, Secretary of the Navy Knox, with aides John McCrea and Frank Beatty "deliberately sat through the night of 6 December 1941 waiting for the Japs to strike." ( Infamy  ch 16 sec 2) President Richard Cheney di