8/29/12, "Republican Platform Opposes Agenda 21," NY Times Green blog, Leslie Kaufman
"The G.O.P. platform approved Tuesday in Florida included tough language on many expected issues like abortion, but also takes a stand on an issue that has historically been out of the party’s mainstream: Agenda 21.
“We strongly reject the U.N. Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty, and we oppose any form of U.N. Global Tax,” the platform reads.
Agenda 21 is a 1992 United Nations resolution that encourages sustainable development globally. Although it is nonbinding and has no force of law in the United States, it has increasingly become a point of passionate concern to a circle of Republican activists who argue that the resolution is part of a United Nations plot to deny Americans their property rights.
In a New York Times article in February written with my colleague, Kate Zernike, we reported about activists aligned with the Tea Party disrupting local city and state land use planning meetings nationwide to denounce sustainable efforts to reduce energy use — including bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances. The activists see such community projects as the first steps in a plan to limit individual rights.
Since that article, land use officials in many parts of the country have complained of anti-Agenda 21 disruptions, most recently in Notasulga, Ala."...
- (Ed. note: Note to the NY Times: The entire state of Alabama has banned Agenda 21. 6/7/12, "Alabama Bans U.N. Agenda 21 Sovereignty Surrender," Investors.com
- (Ed. note: Agenda 21 isn't a 'theory,' the author herself describes it as an
- (Ed. note: "Sprawl" means 'suburbs.' They believe 'sprawl' (suburbs) has caused inequity, environmental injustice, and racism).
- (Ed. note: They don't like free speech. Power brokers are allowed to decide what's "beneficial," speak and act about it, and we're supposed to shut up. Perhaps they thought they could roll over us like they rolled over Europe (map below). Europeans are conditioned to accept subjugation, they're proud of it: oppressive governments, parasitic monarchies and the EU order them around all day. The UN is just one more).
Mitt Romney’s campaign did not return e-mails asking whether the nominee supports the inclusion of formal opposition to Agenda 21 in the platform." via Powerline, via Legal Insurrection
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'Smart Growth,' cited in the above article, has been advancing through government for many years. Following from a 2002 paper:
November 17-19, 2002, "Promoting Regional Equity: A Framing Paper," Prepared by PolicyLink for Promoting Regional Equity: A National Summit On Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth," Los Angeles, California. Also sponsored by The Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
"“If smart growth is to flourish, it needs to be applied to the tangled issues of where people of different races and classes live, work, and go to school.” Per Rochester, NY, Mayor, William A. Johnson, Jr., (page 8) 11...
Sprawl, regional inequity, and the hardships they cause are not natural results of a free market economy. Rather, they are direct results of public policies that have provided incentives for suburban growth at the expense of central cities. (p. 6)...
page 8, "One strategic venue where community based
regionalists are advancing regional equity is smart
growth initiatives."...
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"Sprawl" will be eliminated by herding the ignorant masses into crates in cities. Not unlike boarding a train to Auschwitz, we'll surrender our automobiles as we do so:
"The campaign against suburbia is the result of laws passed in 2006 (the Global Warming Solutions Act) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and in 2008 (the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act)."...
4/6/12, "California Declares War on Suburbia," WSJ.com, Wendell Cox, "Planners want to herd millions into densely packed urban corridors. It won't save the planet but will make traffic even worse."...
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It turns out in real life 'smart growth' does the exact opposite of what its ridiculous theories claim. Without smart growth, blacks and whites have much greater equality:
12/8/11, "Income gap stays wide in District, narrows in suburbs," Washington Post, Morello, Mellnick
"The income gap between whites and blacks living in the District is one of the widest in the country, new census statistics show. That stands in stark contrast to the Washington suburbs, where the gaps have become some of the nation’s narrowest.
The per capita income for whites in the District is more than triple what it is for blacks, and the difference has only widened since 1990. In several suburbs, including Prince George’s, Loudoun and Stafford counties, incomes for blacks and whites are closer than ever, and today whites earn $1.30 or less for every $1 that blacks earn....
In the suburbs, the closing of the income gap has been accompanied by a sharp decrease in residential segregation. Increasingly, neighborhoods are filled with people who have similar levels of education and income, regardless of their race or ethnicity."...
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Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 on verbiage in political party platforms including recently by GOP:
"Of course it takes a lot more than just words to repudiate the principles of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. Just making a statement does absolutely nothing -- especially if the programs, plans, subsidies, grants, restrictions, etc. are not identified as Agenda 21. Then it's just placating a faction of the Republican party that is threatening to make trouble for the rulers."...
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12/23/11, "Maryland county charts a path out of Agenda 21," Examiner.com, James S. Simpson
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Map of ICLEI members in Europe (UN Agenda 21's local vehicle):
map from Democrats Against UN Agenda 21
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Below, Goldman Sachs, masters of Eurozone, map from UK Independent, 11/18/11:
Nov. 18, 2011, "What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe," UK Independent, Stephen Foley
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2/4/11, Above, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L) and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy laugh it up at EU Summit in Brussels, Reuters
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Ed. note: Regarding Alabama banning UN Agenda 21, I've heard the Deep South ridiculed at length on places like BBC radio. I had never met anyone from Alabama until a few years ago when I lived in Florida for awhile. If I were in trouble of any kind, I would take one person from Alabama over 50 from anywhere else. In fact, I would take one of them over the entire staff of the BBC and NY Times.
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Chapter 4
CHANGING CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
4.1.
This chapter contains the following programme areas:
a.Focusing on unsustainable patterns of production and consumption;
b.Developing national policies and strategies to encourage changes in unsustainable
consumption patterns.
4.2.
Since the issue of changing consumption patterns is very broad,
it is addressed in several parts of
Agenda 21, notably those dealing with energy, transportation and wastes, and in the chapters on
economic instruments and the transfer of technology. The present chapter should also be read in
conjunction with chapter 5
(Demographic dynamics and sustainability).
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PROGRAMME AREAS
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A. Focusing on unsustainable patterns of production and consumption
Basis for action
4.3.
Poverty and environmental degradation are closely interrelated. While poverty results in certain kinds of environmental stress, the major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialized countries, which is a matter of grave concern, aggravating poverty
and imbalances.
4.4.
Measures to be undertaken at the international level for the protection and enhancement of the
environment must take fully into account the current imbalances
in the global patterns of consumption and production."
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