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 </p><p>jbs ag21 orientation video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3qW2XJZdSA  New American mag</p><p>attacks ICLEI local regs  Int'l council, unconst.; subsidy and regulation regime; BO pick winners  ie green products/energy (note it's an energy indep speech, to stay econ competative</p><p>=</p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/53363841 ">http://vimeo.com/53363841 </a> </p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Georgia Republican leader who organized an October lecture for GOP lawmakers in which a birther activist said that President Barack Obama and the United Nations <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/agenda-21-georgia-chip-rogers_n_2140438.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">are using "mind-control"</a> to implement a sustainability agenda is resigning from the state Senate.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) announced Tuesday that he is stepping down from his Senate seat to take a position with Georgia Public Broadcasting, <a href="http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/breaking-news/chip-rogers-leaving-state-senate/nTMjp/" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">WSB reports</a>. Rogers, who worked in broadcasting prior to his 2002 election to the state House, will assume a position working on combining Georgia businesses with public education. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that<a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/12/04/chip-rogers-exits-to-georgia-public-broadcasting/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">among Rogers' new duties</a> will be hosting a weekly radio show on economic development.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In November, following the disclosure of the "mind-control" lecture, Rogers announced that he would be stepping down as majority leader at the end of the year, saying he <a href="http://www.ledgernews.com/news/state/article_a979bfc0-2f71-11e2-80d9-001a4bcf6878.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">wanted to spend more time</a> with his family. He kept his Senate seat, however and was elected to a third term last month.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The October lecture regarding Agenda 21, the U.N. sustainability program, came to light in mid-November when Better Georgia, a progressive group,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/agenda-21-georgia-chip-rogers_n_2140438.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">released video</a> of the four-hour workshop. In the workshop, Field Searcy, a birther activist who was <a href="http://www.indefenseofliberty.tv/index.php/2012/04/georgia-tea-party-board-member-removed/#.UL54bNPjnlN" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">expelled</a> from the Georgia Tea Party, claimed that Obama and the U.N. were using "mind-control" to implement the program. Agenda 21, which does not contain the force of law in the United States, was designed during an international environmental conference in Brazil in 1992 and has been endorsed by Democratic and Republican presidents.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Searcy <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/agenda-21-georgia_n_2146805.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">also claimed that Agenda 21</a> would eliminate rural development, paved roads, floor and wall tiles, sewers, golf courses and scuba diving, among other issues. Searcy compared Obama's rural agenda to genocide programs employed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chinese leader Mao Zedong.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rogers distanced himself from the lecture, saying that he was <a href="http://www.mdjonline.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Rogers+defends+Agenda+21+session%20&id=20842082" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">letting a constituent group</a> discuss issues with senators. Rogers' spokesman told The Huffington Post last month that Rogers <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/chip-rogers-mind-control-agenda-21-georgia_n_2160328.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">did not know the content</a> of Searcy's presentation beforehand and that the senator didn't attend the entire presentation. Rogers had previously pushed legislation to ban Agenda 21 implementation in Georgia in 2011. Searcy's full presentation can be <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/GeorgiaAgenda21.pdf" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">found here</a>.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I don’t know if he was there for the more salicious parts," Rogers' spoksman, Rogert Trim, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/chip-rogers-mind-control-agenda-21-georgia_n_2160328.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">said last month</a>. "He probably sat politely if he was there, that is his style.”</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Agenda 21 has become a common foe for conservative state legislators, with lawmakers in several states pushing outright bans or resolutions denouncing the moves. Democrats have criticized the anti-Agenda 21 crusade, with New Hampshire state Rep. Christopher Serlin (D-Portsmouth) calling the issue <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/un-agenda-21-new-hampshire-ban_n_1524285.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">"real tinfoil hat material"</a> and Kansas state Rep. Mike Slattery (D-Mission) denouncing his colleagues as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">"stupid is a stupid does"</a> for debating the issue.</p><p style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rogers serves as the treasurer of the American Legislative Exchange Council and was reelected to a third Senate term last month. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/agenda-21-georgia_n_2146805.html" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important;">named Rogers</a> to a state task force on digital learning last month.</p><p>=

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<div class="byline environment"><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="http://alternet.org/" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AlterNet</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span></span> / <em>By</em> <em><a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/shiney-varghese" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Shiney Varghese</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></em></div>

<h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title"><span style=" font-size: medium;">Why Is the US Getting in the Way of International Efforts to Make Clean Water a Basic Human Right</span>?</h1>

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<div class="story-date"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-12-12T12:13:00-08:00">December 12, 2013</span></span></span></span> </em> |  </div>

<p>On 21 November 2013 the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” There, all UN member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living. As a result, these rights are now implicitly recognised as being part of <em>International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights</em> (ICESCR), Convention on the Rights of the Child (<em>CRC</em>) and the <em>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</em> (<em>UDHR</em>).

This means that for the very first time, all UN member States affirm that the rights to water and sanitation are legally binding in international law.  This is indeed a moment for all of us to celebrate.

Yet this agreement is marred by the reluctance of the United States to join all other nations in a universal agreement on the definition of these rights (as defined in a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted by consensus in September 2013).

Writing about this, an Amnesty International <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/IOR40/005/2013/en" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">press release</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span> says: “At the time [of the unanimous adoption of the UNHRC resolution] the United States was the only country that disassociated itself from the definition of these rights and stated that it did not agree ‘with the expansive way this right has been articulated.’ However, it has not explained what aspects of this definition it does not accept.” The press release continues: “Such rights are only ‘expansive’ if one adopts a 19th century understanding of hygiene and of government duties to ensure the provision of public services.”

At the behest of the United States the main sponsors of the <a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/68/L.34/Rev.1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">draft resolution</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span>—Germany and Spain—tried to reach a consensus by removing the following paragraph, which contained a critical affirmation of the contents of these rights, from the resolution that was unanimously passed at the General Assembly this November:</p>

<blockquote>“the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use and to have physical and affordable access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, that is safe, hygienic, secure, and acceptable and that provides privacy and ensures dignity.”</blockquote>

<p>Given that this was the only reference in the <a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/68/L.34/Rev.1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">draft resolution</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span> to the content of the rights to water and sanitation, the final resolution adopted is stripped of essential elements related to these rights. Amnesty International is right that it is “incumbent upon the U.S. government to explain which of these aspects of the rights it cannot accept and why.” The removal of that text from the resolution would seem to indicate that some aspects of our rights to water and sanitation are not guaranteed by the federal government. Which ones?

Quite apart from the domestic implications, such a position by the U.S. government also works against the interests of the billions of people who lack adequate access to water and sanitation.

The debate isn't over yet. Even though the references to the content of the rights to water were removed from the November resolution, UNGA’s Third Committee endorsed the UNHRC resolution of September 2013, which elaborates the underlying essential elements of these rights. Thus, reintroducing the content of these rights in future texts on rights to water and sanitation should be quite straightforward.

The issue will likely come up <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/IOR40/005/2013/en" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">again</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span> at the UN General Assembly next year. For the supporters of the <a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/68/L.34/Rev.1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">draft resolution</a> <span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span> this offers an opportunity to reintroduce the removed language. For the United States too, that will provide a chance to stand on the right side of history, rather than holding back progress.

If and when a UN GA resolution is adopted with these amendments, it will indeed be a big step forward in advancing rights-based approaches to development. Yet, we need to be mindful that this will only be a baby step towards ensuring adequate access to water and sanitation for world’s poor. It will require sustained work at multiple levels and spaces, including rethinking our water intensive development trajectory, to make it a reality for all.</p>

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<p id="eow-description">Agenda 21 is a product of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and it is the means by which Americans may soon be saddled with lower living standards. Agenda 21 is implementing "soft law" through ICLEI, which amounts to bribes and regulations imposed by state and local governments.

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mr land? 19 min <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1ur4-mjuc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1ur4-mjuc</a>  UN army, Beck; ingeram shuts down interviewee? dixie ray

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A Republican state senator in Oklahoma <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/oklahoma_goper_introduces_bill_targeting_agenda_21/" target="_hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">has introduced legislation</a> seeking to block the implementation of United Nations Agenda 21, the international organization's non-binding sustainability program.

State Sen. Patrick Anderson (R-Enid) is introducing legislation for next year that would block local Oklahoma governments from entering into agreements with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, a European sustainability group, <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20121224_16_A1_CUTLIN218146" target="_hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">Tulsa World reports</a>. Anderson's legislation comes after Tulsa officials held a two-year membership in ICLEI in order to use the group's energy software.

<a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20121224_16_A1_CUTLIN218146" target="_hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">Tulsa World reports</a>:</p>

<blockquote style=" list-style: none; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: visible; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a farmer, Anderson said he is concerned about the federal government -- pushed by the U.N.'s agenda of sustainability -- forcing rules on a wide variety of things, including the creation of dust and how land can be used.</span>

<p style=" list-style: none; margin: 8px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"There's a place for all that, but we also need to make sure we're not infringing on the property owners' rights to use their own land," Anderson said.</span>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first and best steward of how land should be used is</span>h<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the private owner, he said.</span></p>

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Anderson is the latest Republican state lawmaker to introduce anti-Agenda 21 legislation, which has become a favorite issue for the Tea Party. Agenda 21 was created during a 1991 U.N. environmental summit in Brazil and signed by President George H.W. Bush. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have all endorsed the compact, which does not hold the force of law in the United States. Among the issues promoted by Agenda 21 are walkable communities and land use planning.

Agenda 21 opponents have said that the program would seize private land and force Americans to live in cities. New Hampshire state Rep. Lenette Peterson (R-Merrimack) told HuffPost <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/agenda-21-new-hampshire_n_2198466.html" target="_hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">that Agenda 21 was "dangerous"</a> and that "citizens would lose their rights." Peterson is promoting a similar Agenda 21 ban in her state next year. Peterson said that while <span style=" color: #ED1C24;">Agenda 21 is not law in the United States, research from the John Birch Society, a conservative political action society, shows it is being implemented in the U.S.</span>

In October, former Georgia state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) hosted a four-hour lecture for Georgia Republican senators on Agenda 21. Rogers unsuccessfully tried to ban Agenda 21 in the state. During the lecture, Field Searcy, a birther activist expelled by the Tea Party, told senators that Obama and the U.N. are using <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/agenda-21-georgia-chip-rogers_n_2140438.html" target="hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">"mind control"</a> to implement Agenda 21 and <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/15/georgia-lawmakers-meet-over-obamas-mind-control-un-dictatorship-plot/" target="hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">said the alleged plot was similar to</a> genocide programs promoted by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Rogers, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/chip-rogers-mind-control-agenda-21-georgia_n_2160328.html" target="hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">who distanced himself</a> from the lecture, later resigned from the Senate <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/chip-rogers-georgia-resigns_n_2239703.html" target="hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">to accept a job</a> with Georgia Public Broadcasting.

Alabama lawmakers adopted a ban on Agenda 21 earlier this year, while Kansas legislators <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html" target="_hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">adopted a resolution</a> opposing the issue.

Democratic lawmakers nationally have condemned the anti-Agenda 21 crowd, with former New Hampshire state Rep. Christopher Serlin (D-Portsmouth) calling the issue <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/un-agenda-21-new-hampshire-ban_n_1524285.html" target="hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">"real tin-foil hat material."</a> Kansas state Rep. Mike Slattery (D-Mission) denounced his colleagues' discussion on the issue as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html" target="hplink" style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">"stupid is as stupid does"</a> during his state's debate on Agenda 21.</p>

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<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jeffrey D. King</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– 21-year old Montana director of prize-winning film documentary, “Crying Wolf” exposing the wolf introduction to Yellowstone Park – “Agenda 21’s Cores, Corridors, and Carnivores”</li>

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<font color="#ff0000">Republican National Committee has adopted oppositions to Agenda 21</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as a core part of its platform and has asked that Mitt Romney include it as a part of his convention platform when the GOP convention gathers later this month....

<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/15/523931/republican-party-officially-embraces-garbage-agenda-21-conspiracy-theories-as-its-national-platform/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/15/523931/republican-party-officially-embraces-garbage-agenda-21-conspiracy-theories-as-its-national-platform/</a>

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<h1 class="node-title"><span style=" font-size: medium;"><span style=" color: #ED1C24;">7 Weirdest Conspiracy Theories Now Taken Seriously by GOP</span></span></h1>

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<p style=" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Once upon a time, the most outlandish fantasies of fringe political fabulists were confined to a narrow spectrum on the AM radio dial. They concocted delusional narratives that ranged from murderous first ladies to galactic alliances with Martians. It was an entertaining world of fiction and a guilty pleasure for some, even as the true believers were convinced of the frightening fate that was unfolding.

Today, however, the boundaries between rational political discourse and raving madness have been erased. The extremist peddlers of nightmare scenarios who were once thought to be charmingly eccentric at 1am are now advising elected representatives of the people to initiate investigations and draft bills addressing these non-existent threats. Here are just a few of the urban legends that are circulating in the halls of state and federal legislative bodies courtesy of the whack job broadcasting set.

<strong>1. The UN Arms Treaty and US Sovereignty</strong>

The United Nations recently passed an initiative to address the proliferation of “illegal” arms trading amongst terrorists and rogue nations. As expected, the right-wing Chicken Little Brigade <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=7530" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">immediately began protesting</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> that this was another attempt to dilute national sovereignty and bring about a one-world government. Of course, there is nothing in the proposal that would infringe on the rights of any nation to set their own standards for gun ownership. The actual resolution explicitly states that countries will “exclusively” maintain the right within their borders to, “regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownerships.“

This perfectly reasonable attempt to disarm criminals and tyrants was opposed initially by Alex Jones and similar fringe broadcasters. But eventually their outrage bubbled up to singe Republicans <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/290001-senate-votes-to-stop-us-from-joining-un-arms-treaty">in congress who managed to prevent the treaty’s ratification.</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>The GOP opposition was notable for the fact that it concurred with the only three UN nations that also opposed it: Syria, Iran and North Korea.

<strong>2. Commies?</strong>

This may seem like a throwback to the 1950s and the Red Scare promulgated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and others. But make no mistake, this is all too current. Commie hunters in the fringe media are still accusing all liberals of having pinko sympathies. And they have an ally in former representative Allen West, who is now hosting his own webcast. West told a group of supporters that “I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” West lost his seat last November, but it is important to note that the leadership in the House never rebuked him or dissociated themselves or the GOP from his remarks.

<strong>3. Muslims?</strong>

This is a corollary to the commie conspiracy updated to smear a more contemporary foe. Originally this allegation was espoused by the infamous Islamophobe Pamela Geller. She latched unto the fact that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a close aide with a Muslim-sounding name.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma_Abedin" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Huma Abedin</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span> has worked for Clinton for more than a decade and is respected by all who know her. She was even defended by House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. John McCain. That didn’t stop a cabal of House members, led by Tea Party queen Michele Bachmann, to fire off a letter to the State Department demanding an investigation and alleging that Abedin had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

There was never any evidence provided to support these allegations. Nor is there any evidence accompanying the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/04/27/1931051/tea-party-congressman-obama-bungled-investigation-of-boston-bombings-because-he-is-being-guided-by-muslim-brotherhood/" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">new accusations</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span> by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, who told WorldNetDaily that Obama deliberately “bungled” the investigation of the Boston marathon bombing because “this administration has so many Muslim Brotherhood members that have influence.”

<strong>4. Benghazi</strong>

The king of right-wing talk radio, Rush Limbaugh got the ball rolling with this one. He alleged on his program that Obama was deliberately blocking the investigation into the attack on the US facility in Libya. Limbaugh could not come up with an explanation for why Obama would want to stymie the inquiry, so the implication left hanging was that he had some connection to the attack that he wanted to cover up.

Numerous other media outlets jumped on this mini-bandwagon with <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8117" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Fox News assuming a prominent role</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span>. Every Fox program began banging the Benghazi drum, and integral to their publicity push was escalating the scandal to include congressional players to add Washington credibility (such as it is). Republicans like Lindsey Graham and John McCain were happy to comply.

<strong>5. The Most Important Story In History</strong>

Not one to be ignored, Glenn Beck joined the fray with what he considered to be the <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=9526" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">“most important story in history.”</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span> The plot involved a Saudi man who was briefly questioned following the Boston marathon bombing. It was quickly discovered that he was a victim, not a suspect, and he was released to recover from his injuries. Beck, however, would not let go of the story. He threatened the White House that if it was not forthcoming with the truth, he would reveal the evidence he had that would blow the roof off the White House.

Beck’s deadline came and went with no revelations of scandal. He merely repeated what he had previously alleged, which had already been debunked. Which makes it all the more curious that four members of congress are officially <a href="http://wonkette.com/513260/looks-like-glenn-beck-has-at-least-four-listeners-in-the-house-who-want-to-know-about-saudi-bomber" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">demanding answers</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span> from the Department of Homeland Security based on what they call “media reports,” but are really just Beck’s psychotic discharges.

<strong>6. The Government Is Stockpiling Ammunition To Kill Us All</strong>

Last year there was a <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=9126" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">flurry of panicky hand-wringing</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span> by notorious conspiracy mongers over reports that agencies of the federal government had purchased large caches of ammunition. In the minds of the nutcases on the right, that was evidence that the DHS was plotting a response to some impending disaster scenario wherein they will be forced to kill every person in America five times. That is precisely what <span class="il" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Mark</span> Levin, Sean Hannity’s replacement for Sarah Palin, is terrorizing his radio listeners with.

This phony horror story was summarily dismissed by the DHS with documentation and proof that nothing out of the ordinary was occurring. It was merely a purchase contract to lock in lower prices for ammunition used commonly by several law enforcement agencies for regular use and training. Nevertheless, <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/04/29/gao-now-investigating-dhs-ammo-purchases" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">congressional overreaction</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span> to the “news” has resulted in a General Accounting Office inquiry into the purchase request. That inquiry was spurred by GOP senator (and Levin listener) James Inhofe, who has also drafted a bill to prohibit ammunition purchases in amounts larger than those of previous administrations. Presumably that’s to make sure that the black guy doesn’t get any ideas.

<strong>7. And Then There’s Agenda 21</strong>

Among the conspiracy theory elite there is only one supreme and all-encompassing doctrine of apocalyptic disaster: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Agenda 21</a> <span class="print-footnote">[12]</span>. The furor over this initiative dates back to the John Birch Society. In reality it is just a UN guide to sustainable environments that recommends some completely voluntary measures aimed at advancing smart growth and safer, more livable communities. It was adopted by 178 countries and signed for the U.S. by President George H.W. Bush. It was, however, never ratified by the senate.

Somehow this benign project was transformed in the minds of conservative mythmakers into a monstrously evil plot to steal the liberty of all mankind. Glenn Beck even <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8507" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">wrote a book</a> <span class="print-footnote">[13]</span> describing it as “centralized control over all of human life on planet earth.” But the panic doesn’t stop there. Multiple state resolutions banning its implementation with a foreboding tenor have been enacted. For example, Tennessee’s resolution condemned its “destructive and insidious nature” and began by saying…</p>

<p>“WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development…”</p>

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<p style=" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That’s fairly typical of the numerous legislative measures aimed at defending America from a tyrannical, global, one-world government, orchestrated by despotic environmentalists and the liberal media. And we might as well throw in George Soros because that’s who freshman senator <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/agenda-21-update-prospective-senator-cruz-texas-agender.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Ted Cruz of Texas believes</a> <span class="print-footnote">[14]</span> is responsible for the whole affair. Cruz has promised that he will “…continue leading the fight, to stop Agenda 21 and any other globalist plan that tries to subvert the U.S. Constitution and the liberties we all cherish as Americans.”

These delusional and thoroughly discredited inventions from the paranoia factories of Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, etc., were once the province of the radio backwoods and militia ham operators. And as frightening as these grim fairy tales are, what’s truly scary is that this conspiratorial fiction is now being embraced by elected officials in Washington and state houses across the country.</p>

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<p><strong>JEFFERSON CITY</strong>   •   The Missouri Legislature has approved a bill that seeks to block the implementation of <font color="#FF0000">Agenda 21,</font> a non-binding United Nations action plan that promotes sustainable development.

The anti-Agenda 21 bill now goes to Gov. Jay Nixon, following the House’s final approval of the bill Wednesday night.

“This is truly a bill that’s going to help protect Missourians and their private property rights,” said state Rep. Lyle Rowland, R-Cedarcreek.

The U.N. adopted the voluntary action agenda in 1992. It was meant to address issues of poverty, management of natural resources, and other goals The United Nations initiative does not hold the force of law in the United States, but it has drawn recent attention from some conservatives who have pushed similar bans in other states.

The far-right<font color="#FF0000"> John Birch Society, </font>one of the leading anti-Agenda 21 advocacy groups, claims on its website that the plan will "curtail your freedom to travel as you please, own a gas-powered car, live in suburbs or rural areas and raise a family.”

“Furthermore, it would eliminate your private property rights through eminent domain,” <a title="Agenda 21 page" href="http://www.jbs.org/issues-pages/stop-agenda-21" target="_blank">it claims</a>.

Rowland, during a debate on the legislation last month, said the bill is about <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">protecting property rights.</span>

“Just because Agenda 21 hasn’t been approved by the federal government – there’s a lot of things that we get hit with that there hasn’t been any legislation passed on,” he said, suggesting that initiatives could come through the executive branch.

House Minority Leader Jake Hummel, D-St. Louis, compared the bill to legislation that would regulate “space aliens.”

Other Democrats questioned why the Legislature was spending time on that legislation and not other bills they deemed more pressing.

But many other Republicans have bristled at suggestions that the legislation is silly or unnecessary.

“This isn’t a far-fetched idea or issue,” Rep. Diane Franklin, R-Camdenton, said during the recent debate. “We have to protect private property rights.”

Rep. Jeff Grisamore,<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> R-Lee’s Summit, said he believes there are ties between Agenda 21 to the Occupy movement and anti-Walmart sentiment.</span>

“This piece of legislation is a very legitimate concern,” he said.

The passage of the anti-Agenda 21 legislation is among several bills the GOP-controlled Legislature has tackled this year that observers have sought to mock because of their right-wing ties.

The House passed a bill, which has not been approved in the Senate, that would <a title="Earlier story" href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elizabeth-crisp/missouri-house-passes-bill-targeting-drones/article_933c3659-2f10-54a9-b826-cbcf2c389a46.html" target="_blank">ban the use of surveillance drones</a>. Proponents say the bill will ensure privacy rights and have implied that it’s needed to keep the federal government from spying on Missouri residents.

Following the Agenda 21 vote Wednesday, the House gave final approval to legislation that targets the use of <font color="#FF0000">Sharia</font> and other foreign laws in the United States, which Democrats also questioned.

“We’re talking about the boogey man in Sharia land,” said Rep. Mike Colona, D-St. Louis. “It’s a waste of time. There is no boogeyman out there.”

It's unclear whether Nixon, a Democrat, will sign the bills, quietly let them pass or try to block the bills from becoming law by veto. Both were approved with slight veto-proof margins.

(The anti-Agenda 21 legislation is <a title="SB265" href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/13info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=17912478" target="blank">SB265</a> and the foreign law bill is <a title="SB265" href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/13info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=17912960" target="blank">SB267</a>)</p>

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<p>Elizabeth Crisp covers Missouri politics and state government for the Post-Dispatch. Follow her on Twitter at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/elizabethcrisp">@elizabethcrisp</a>.</p>

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<h1 class="title-news">Oklahoma Agenda 21 Bill Leads To Tea Party Threat Against State Senator</h1>

<p><b>The Huffington Post</b>  |  By <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-celock" rel="author">John Celock</a> <span class="follow-author-mini"><a href="http://twitter.com/@JohnCelockHP" author_nickname="hp_blogger_John Celock" class="twitter-anywhere-user twitter-tooltip" style=" display: inline;"> </a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/oklahoma-agenda-21_n_3001579.html?view=print&comm_ref=false#" class="fb-tooltip" style=" display: inline;"> </a></span><span class="posted-and-updated" style=" display: block;"> Posted: <span itemprop="datePublished">04/02/2013 6:04 pm EDT</span>  |  Updated: <span itemprop="dateModified">04/03/2013 10:46 am EDT</span></span></p>

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<p>An Oklahoma tea party leader has threatened to turn a Republican state senator into a "laughing stock" and "dig into" his family members and associates unless he backs a bill blocking the United Nations' sustainability agenda.</p>

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State Sen. Cliff Branan (R-Oklahoma City) referred a March 26 email from Al Gerhart, co-founder of the Sooner Tea Party, to the state Bureau of Investigation, newsok.com reported. The email attacks Branan for not holding an immediate hearing on a bill to ban local governments in Oklahoma from implementing parts of the U.N. sustainability agenda, better known as Agenda 21.

“Get that bill heard or I will make sure you regret not doing it," <a href="http://newsok.com/email-to-oklahoma-senator-turned-over-to-osbi-for-investigation/article/3778817/?page=2" target="_hplink">Gerhart wrote in the email</a>. "I will make you the laughing stock of the Senate if I don't hear that this bill will be heard and passed. <b>We will dig into your past, your family, your associates and once we start on you there will be no end to it. This is a promise.”</b></p>

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<a href="http://newsok.com/email-to-oklahoma-senator-turned-over-to-osbi-for-investigation/article/3778817/?page=2" target="_hplink">Gerhart told newsok.com</a> that he sent the email and acknowledged it was a political threat. He denied he intended it as a physical threat.

“We want to know what is going on down there," <a href="http://newsok.com/email-to-oklahoma-senator-turned-over-to-osbi-for-investigation/article/3778817/?page=2" target="_hplink">Gerhart told newsok.com</a>. "We want to know if his wife has got a criminal history. We want to know everything about him. We want to find out if this man is a responsible citizen, if he's even got his family under control much less control of his office."</p>

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<b>The Oklahoma legislation has passed the state House of Representatives, but Branan has not brought it before the Senate Energy Committee, which he chairs.</b>

Agenda 21, drafted in 1992 but not ratified by the U.S. Senate, encourages sustainable development, including bike paths, mass transit and walkable communities. The plan does not contain the force of law in the U.S.</p>

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<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Conservative groups, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/john-birch-society-agenda-21_n_2639096.html" target="hplink"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">led by the John Birch Society,</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> have denounced the plan, falsely claiming it would take away private property rights and force people to live in urban centers. They have also wrongly maintained </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/agenda-21-georgia_n_2146805.html" target="hplink"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">that it would end </span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">golf courses, scuba diving and floor tiles.</span> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/john-birch-society-agenda-21_n_2639096.html" target="_hplink">The John Birch Society has advocated for people to pressure</a> state and local officials to pass legislation rejecting Agenda 21, enlisting PTA presidents and milkmen in the effort.</p>

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Oklahoma state Sen. Patrick Anderson (R-Enid), sponsor of the anti-Agenda 21 bill, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/oklahoma-agenda-21_n_2370123.html" target="_hplink">said in December</a> that he wanted to preserve private property rights.

States <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/arizona-agenda-21_n_2925349.html" target="hplink">around the country, most of them Republican-led, have taken up legislation</a> to either<b><span style=" color: #ED1C24;"> prohibit the enactment of Agenda 21 by local governments</span></b> or to pass resolutions opposing the plan. Democrats have largely dismissed the Agenda 21 criticism as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/un-agenda-21-new-hampshire-ban_n_1524285.html" target="hplink">tinfoil hat madness.</a></p>

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<p><em>Memo to suburbanites: Don't believe the "Agenda 21" conspiracy theorists. Nobody's coming for your private property.</em>

<i>Pssst!</i> Have you heard about Agenda 21? The secret plot to collectivize private property -- hatched by United Nations internationalists and midwifed by operatives ensconced within our own government -- all in the name of "ending sprawl" and "encouraging sustainability"? The seizure of suburban homes by jackbooted, gun-toting U.N. thugs? The involuntary relocation of displaced suburbanites to cramped dwellings in densely packed cities?

No? Seriously? You haven't heard about <i>any</i> of this?

Don't blame Glenn Beck. His magazine, <i>The Blaze</i>, put Agenda 21 on the cover of its January/February 2012 issue; the article contained therein, its editors promised, would expose "the global scheme that has the potential to wipe out freedoms of all U.S. citizens." Beck then stretched this warning into a dystopian science fiction novel that came out last November titled (what else?) <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Agenda-21-Glenn-Beck/dp/1476716692" target="_blank">Agenda 21</a></i>. In it, suburban and rural homeowners are stripped of their property and carted off to overcrowded cities, where they're forced to live in bunker-like apartments, wear government-issued uniforms, and generate power for the grid by walking on piezoelectric "energy boards."

In truth, Agenda 21 is the sort of nonbinding, suggestion-filled "action plan" the United Nations generates whenever it holds any kind of major international summit. It emerged from the <a href="http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html" target="_blank">U.N. Conference on Environment and Development</a>, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and dedicated to addressing the most vexing environmental problems of the time. Beck, who has made a fine living catering to the tinfoil-hat crowd, is trying to pass off U.N. bullet points as a precursor to real bullets. But you don't have to believe the folks in the black helicopters are eyeing your redwood deck as a future landing pad in order to push the theory that a cabal of environmentalists and elected officials has it in for the 'burbs, and won't rest until every last Olive Garden in America is razed and turned into, well, an <i>actual</i> olive garden.

Last August, Stanley Kurtz, who has lectured at Harvard and the University of Chicago, wrote an article for the stalwart conservative journal <i>National Review</i> that appeared under the provocative headline "<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312807/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz" target="blank">Burn Down the Suburbs?</a>" It opened with a zinger: "President Obama is not a fan of America's suburbs. Indeed, he intends to abolish them." Kurtz's article was in many ways a rehash of observations made previously by Joel Kotkin, a writer who specializes in analyzing demographic shifts in cities and suburbs. In 2010 Kotkin, a former <i>New York Times</i> columnist, wrote on his <a href="http://www.joelkotkin.com/" target="blank">blog</a> that "for the first time in memory, the suburbs are under a conscious and sustained attack from Washington." He later told one interviewer that the Obama administration was "the first anti-suburban administration in American history."

For Beck, Kurtz, and Kotkin, all the evidence one needs to back up such breathless assertions can be found in the language of sustainability and "smart growth" used by environmentalists and their allies in government. Alas, what's being heard and what's actually being said are two different things. The champion of sustainability says: "We need to reduce sprawl by encouraging greater density." But the anxious suburbanite hears: "We're tearing down the houses on your cul-de-sac and replacing them with a 20-story Brutalist apartment building, complete with its own wastewater treatment plant." The champion of sustainability says: "It's time to shift from last century's car culture to the new century's culture of mass transit." The anxious suburbanite hears: "We'll be sending someone around for your Escalade shortly. Fortunately for you, the D train will soon be stopping at your new building -- right next to your on-site methadone clinic!"

As someone who was raised in the suburbs and still has deep family roots there, I think I know what's fueling this anxiety. And instead of scoffing at it, I believe the champions of sustainability should be emphasizing how ideas that fall under the rubric of smart growth benefit <i>all</i> of us, wherever we reside. Their new message needs to be: if you really love your suburban quality of life, then know that the greatest threat to it isn't coming from bureaucrats, environmentalists, or liberal politicians. It's coming from that brand new, almost-completed housing development going up right next to yours.

Did you move to the outskirts of town to be closer to nature? So did my parents, who relocated from Dallas to a quiet lakeside community in the Texas Hill Country in 1997. Back then, the 15-mile drive to their house from central Austin took 30 minutes and led you through farmland, ranchland, and protected wildlife habitat. A peaceful after-dinner drive to "count the deer" was a favorite pastime. "It wasn't considered a good night if we didn't count at least a hundred," my mother recalls. Now, she says, they're lucky if they see three or four. Between 1990 and 2010, the human population of their community grew by more than 240 percent -- turning it from a quiet refuge to a busy exurb. Once, my parents could look outside their window and see green hillsides; now "it's just the rooftops" of the more than 2,000 single-family homes permitted for construction since the year they moved in.

Did you escape to the suburbs because you hated big-city traffic? Even if all the deer hadn't been run out of my parents' exurb, there's no such thing as a "peaceful after-dinner drive" near their home anymore. The residents of their community average 2.6 vehicles per household, and those vehicles now jam the single artery leading into and out of town. More than three-quarters of these drivers are solo commuters; fewer than 10 percent carpool. What used to be a half-hour drive to and from central Austin can now take twice as long.

Did you move to the suburbs for safety and stability? Perpetrators of property crimes love sprawl; it's great for business. The combination of low-density, single-family housing with an absence of pedestrian culture means more back doors for the jimmying and more windows for the breaking, all conveniently hidden from the eyes and ears of potential witnesses. From 2001 to 2011, my parents' idyllic community saw its own crime index rise substantially.</p>

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Sprawl destroys the defining character of suburbs by conferring upon them many problems associated with urban areas: crime, congestion, paved-over wilderness. And yet Stanley Kurtz assails urban growth boundaries -- which draw a literal line in the sand, then limit development beyond it -- as a liberal scheme "to force suburban residents into densely packed cities." But if that's true, why did the citizens of conservative Virginia Beach, Virginia, <a href="http://www.vbgov.com/government/offices/green/land-development/pages/default.aspx" target="blank">establish one back in 1979</a>? The answer is that their "green line," which has restricted sprawl to the city's northern half, has preserved the unique agricultural character of the southern half; as a result, today there are nearly 170 working farms within the city limits. Similarly, these boundaries didn't seem so sinister to the Tennessee General Assembly, which <a href="http://www.state.tn.us/tacir/growth.html" target="blank">passed a law</a> in 1998 requiring every independent county in the state to adopt them, explicitly citing a statewide need to "minimize urban sprawl."</p>

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Mass transit, too, offers far-flung suburbanites relief from sprawl's ill effects, in this case by reducing their commute times and increasing the amount of time they get to spend at home. So why would Joel Kotkin blithely dismiss it as "offer[ing] little to anyone who lives outside a handful of large metropolitan cores"? Has he ever talked to an exasperated exurban commuter? The first decade of this century saw 60 percent population growth in America's exurbs. As they added 10 million people to their numbers, the number of road miles driven by Americans increased by nearly 200 billion. Even putting aside the amount of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> that all those extra miles represent, you'd think Kotkin would see how giving people mass-transit options promises to improve <i>everyone's</i> commute -- drivers included.

In the century since they first appeared on our physical and cultural horizon, the suburbs have earned the right to consider themselves every bit as American as our gleaming cities and rolling farmlands. There's no stealth plan to "abolish" them. There is, instead, a perfectly transparent plan to include them in the list of communities that must be brought into the sustainability fold if we're ever to address climate change effectively, protect wildlife habitat, and ensure that we don't pollute or deplete our resources to the point of no return. Smart growth is great for cities -- but it's great for suburbs too. People who love them should understand that any concerted effort to make them cleaner, prettier, safer, and less congested is a conspiracy worth joining.</p>

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<p class="LGSidebartext">The people who run America's suburbs are fully aware of how sprawl, and blind obeisance to the car culture that feeds it, negatively affect their communities. At last count, more than 1,000 mayors had signed their names to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, formalizing their commitment to meet (or even exceed) standards put forth by the Kyoto Protocol. The wording of the 2005 declaration is unambiguous: to take steps that would "reduce sprawl, preserve open space, and create compact, walkable urban communities" and to promote measures that would reduce car dependence: public transit, carpool incentive programs, and bicycle trails. Tellingly, the majority of signatories aren’t mayors of major urban centers, but of inner- and outer-ring suburbs. Visit <a href="http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/revised/"><i>usmayors.org/

climateprotection</i></a> to see if your mayor is on the list.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.onearth.org/print/34544">http://www.onearth.org/print/34544</a>

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<a href="http://www.infowars.com/agenda-21-for-dummies-new-world-order-depopulation-exposed/">http://www.infowars.com/agenda-21-for-dummies-new-world-order-depopulation-exposed/</a>

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Agenda-21-Glenn-Beck/product-reviews/1476716692">http://www.amazon.com/Agenda-21-Glenn-Beck/product-reviews/1476716692</a></p>

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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Living-Agenda-21-Surrendering-Freedoms/dp/1479711705/ref=pd_sim_b_2" class="sim-img-title"><span title="Living with Agenda 21: Surrendering Our Freedoms">Living with Agenda 21: Surrendering Our …</span> </a></p>

<p>Dr. H. Lawrence Zillmer</p>

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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/U-N-Agenda-21-Environmental-Piracy/dp/0615716474/ref=pd_sim_b_1" class="sim-img-title">U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy </a></p>

<p>Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

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<p><span id="btAsinTitle">BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21 <span style=" text-transform: capitalize; font-size: 16px;">[Paperback]</span></span>

<span><span class="contributorNameTrigger"><a asin="B006GDWTPY0615494544" id="contributorNameTriggerB006GDWTPY0615494544" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Koire/e/B006GDWTPY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1">Rosa Koire</a><a asin="B006GDWTPY0615494544" href="http://www.amazon.com/BEHIND-THE-GREEN-MASK-Agenda/dp/0615494544/ref=pd_sim_b_7#"> </a></span><span class="byLinePipe">(Author)</span>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?encoding=UTF8&field-author=The%20Post%20Sustainability%20Institute%20Press&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank">The Post Sustainability Institute Press</a> <span class="byLinePipe">(Editor)</span>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?encoding=UTF8&field-author=Barry%20N.%20Nathan&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank">Barry N. Nathan</a> <span class="byLinePipe">(Illustrator)</span></span></p>

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<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2010/11/18/u-n-official-admits-we-redistribute-worlds-wealth-by-climate-policy/">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2010/11/18/u-n-official-admits-we-redistribute-worlds-wealth-by-climate-policy/</a>  </p>

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" This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy.”</p>

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Is this quote from a) a climate change skeptic, or b) an official from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?</p>

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Climate change skeptics have long theorized about ulterior motives behind attempts to legislate and regulate man-made global warming. This speculation reached a fever pitch after data from the University of East Anglia — widely referenced by the United Nations — was found to be flawed and private emails pointed to a broader conspiracy to falsify the so-called evidence.</p>

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But this speculation is only likely to grow after a leading member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told a German news outlet, “[W]e redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.” Via the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/11/18/un-ipcc-official-we-redistribute-worlds-wealth-climate-policy" target="_blank">Media Research Center</a>, Germany’s NZZ Online Sunday interviews Ottmar Edenhofer of the U.N. (emphases mine):</p>

<p data-key="nasdp" data-num="5">(NZZ AM SONNTAG): The new thing about your proposal for a Global Deal is the stress on the importance of development policy for climate policy. Until now, many think of aid when they hear development policies.</p>

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<p data-key="oeuaa" data-num="6">(OTTMAR EDENHOFER, UN IPCC OFFICIAL): That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then <strong>Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there. This will have enormous implications for development policy. </strong>And it will raise the question if these countries can deal responsibly with so much money at all.</p>

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<p data-key="ntdwk" data-num="7">(NZZ): That does not sound anymore like the climate policy that we know.</p>

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<p data-key="ebits" data-num="9">(EDENHOFER): <strong>Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.</strong> The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. Why? Because we have 11,000 gigatons of carbon in the coal reserves in the soil under our feet – and we must emit only 400 gigatons in the atmosphere if we want to keep the 2-degree target. 11 000 to 400 – there is no getting around the fact that most of the fossil reserves must remain in the soil.</p>

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<p data-key="ndfdp" data-num="10">(NZZ): De facto, this means an expropriation of the countries with natural resources. This leads to a very different development from that which has been triggered by development policy.</p>

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<p data-key="efooh" data-num="11">(EDENHOFER): First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. <strong>But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore</strong>, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.

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<p data-key="attgc" data-num="12">According to the Media Research Center, Edenhofer was “co-chair of the IPCC’s Working Group III, and was a lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report released in 2007 which controversially concluded, ‘Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.’”

This week marks the one year anniversary since the “Climategate” scandal erupted.

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media matters:</p>

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<b>  UN Climate Treaties Are "Very Orwellian."</b> Morano claimed in July that the goal of UN climate negotiations is "global governance" and wealth redistribution, adding: "Its very Orwellian... This is stuff Orwell couldnt conceive of, your home energy use, your travel, your train travel, airline travel all monitored by international agencies. It`s not the stuff of science fiction." [Fox News, Your World With Neil Cavuto, 7/6/12, via Nexis]</p>

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   The "Global Warming Apocalypse... Isn't Happening." In April, Morano claimed that renewable energy is unnecessary because the "global warming apocalypse... isn't happening." He added that "even the big green gurus are reconsidering ... the reason we have the wind mandates which is fear of manmade global warming." [Fox News, Your World With Neil Cavuto, 4/30/12]</p>

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<b>Morano Often Appears On Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones' Show. Alex Jones is a radio host who thinks that a "New World Order" of secretive elites is trying to take over the world,</b> impose an authoritarian government and "exterminate 80% of the world's population." Jones, who was one of the most prominent 9/11 truthers, has made outlandish claims, including that the government is trying to "encourage homosexuality with chemicals" in items like juiceboxes, and that Bill Gates is promoting vaccines because he is a eugenicist trying to sterilize people. Morano often appears on Jones' show to promote conspiracy theories of his own:</p>

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   Morano Agreed Obama "Might Start A War" To Win Re-Election. After Morano predicted that Romney would win the election, Jones said that Obama might "start a war" to win re-election. Morano responded, "they could try to do that, yes, that's always possible." [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 9/1/12]</p>

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<b>   Morano Fearmongered About UN Establishing A "Global EPA." Morano claimed that the UN climate summit in Rio was pushing a "global EPA" that is "going to be able to police the world." He added, "Think of our own EPA that speaks French. If that doesn't send chills up your spine, I don't know what will." Morano's fearmongering played into Jones' New World Order conspiracy theory. [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 2/7/12]</b></p>

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<b>   Morano Denied That July Was The Hottest Month On Record</b>. Morano claimed s<b><span style=" color: #ED1C24;">cientists used "data that had been monkeyed around with" </span></b>to state that July 2012 was the hottest month on record in the continental U.S. [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 9/1/12]</p>

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<b>   Morano Accused Scientists Of "Cover[ing] Up" "Dropping" Sea Levels.</b> Morano claimed that the <b><span style=" color: #ED1C24;">UN</span></b> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a leading body of thousands of scientists assessing climate change, is a "small group of scientists" that was "blocking studies that disagreed, blocking data that disagreed, and then essentially, sometimes, generating studies that did." He later added that scientists are trying to "cover up the fact that sea level not only isn't accelerating, it's dropping." In fact, sea levels have been rising for decades and have studies indicate this rise is accelerating.  [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 2/8/12] [Columbia University, accessed 12/17/12]</p>

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<b>   Morano: UN Climate Panel Trying To "Contro[l] The World</b>." Morano said that those concerned about global warming are attempting to exert "a level of control that George Orwell didn't contemplate," adding: "He who controls carbon, and controls land use policy, and even the oceans, controls the world. And that's what they're going for. And this isn't conspiracy talk, this is in their documents." [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 12/10/11]

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woman beats tea party in Az  http://grist.org/politics/stacey-champion-took-on-the-tea-party-and-won/

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<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/27/headlines/texas_judge_warns_of_civil_war_in_obama_re_elected">http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/27/headlines/texas_judge_warns_of_civil_war_in_obama_re_elected</a></p>

<h1 class="headlines" id="seo_headline" itemprop="name">Texas Judge Warns of Civil War if Obama Re-elected</h1>

<p>A Texas judge is drawing controversy for declaring he is prepared to join a civil war to overthrow President Obama. In a televised interview, Judge Tom Head of Lubbock, Texas, said he thinks Obama will hand U.S. sovereignty over to the United Nations if re-elected.</p>

<p><strong>Tom Head</strong>: "He is going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N. OK, what’s going to happen when that happens? I’m thinking worst case scenario here. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we’re not talking just a few riots here and demonstrations. We’re talking — we’re talking Lexington-Concord take up arms and get rid of the guy. OK, now what’s going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He’s going to send in U.N. troops. I don’t want 'em in Lubbock County, OK? So I'm going to stand in front of their first armored personnel carrier and say, ’You’re not coming in here.’ And the sheriff, I’ve already asked him, I said, 'You gonna back me?' He said, 'Yeah, I'll back you.’ Well, I don’t want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."</p>

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ala and tenn http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/alabama-becomes-first-state-officially-adopt-anti-agenda-21-legislation.html

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What's So Terrible about Agenda 21 and Sustainability?

Agenda 21 is a pretty innocuous 20 year old document that calls for "sustainable development." ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability helps local governments build capacity and share knowledge about sustainable development. It is all pretty mild stuff, yet across America, it, and the very word sustainability, are under attack. However, a recent survey showed that most people never heard of it and only 6% say they are against it. so why are politicians from State governments up to the National Republican Party and Presidential candidates like Newt Gingrich make such a big deal of it?

" People don't wake up in the morning sweating bullets about the United Nations."-Robin Rather

Robin Rather of Collective Strength, who commissioned the survey, says " I genuinely believe the Agenda 21 phenomenon is highly manufactured. It's not out there in the mainstream."

Robin lives in Austin, Texas and has a lot of family who are Tea Party members. She respects and agrees with a lot of what they say. But she says "they don't wake up in the morning sweating bullets about the United Nations. Their anger is directed at Washington." Yet the scale of the Agenda 21 campaign is enormous. Who is manufacturing it? Robin continues:

    Usually when you listen to complaints like those of Tea Party members, there are different inflections, a much wider variation. But this isn't organic and local, the same talking points come up everywhere. They are being played and used. The whole campaign serves no interest to anyone who isn't trying to ensure that we keep burning as much fossil fuel as we can for as long as possible.

"The UN’s Local Agenda 21 program may already be in your local community, through your home town or city’s membership in ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. Agenda 21 seeks for the government to curtail your freedom to travel as you please, own a gas-powered car, live in suburbs or rural areas, and raise a family."- Arthur Thompson, John Birch Society.

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John Birch Society

So who is driving this bandwagon? John Laumer wrote John Birch Society Is Back: Municipal Planning & Environmentalism Targeted. Fred Koch, founder of Koch industries, was a founding member. He was also the father of the Koch Brothers who founded Americans for Prosperity. One of the JBS's favorite experts on the threat of Agenda 21 is Tom DeWeese.

"The latest tactics by the American Planning Association reveals the dark intent of the Sustainablists and the lengths they will go to hide their goals. Honest intent doesn’t have to hide in lies and double speak. Those are the tactics of tyranny".- Tom DeWeese

Interview with Tom DeWeese at CPAC 2011 from The John Birch Society on Vimeo.

American Policy Center

When he is not out on the public speaking circuit, Tom DeWeese is President of the American Policy Center, the loudest mouthpiece of the anti-Agenda 21 crowd. He claims that the anti-sustainability movement is not just crazy people: "The tin foil is falling off of our hats rapidly as the fight against Agenda 21 is quickly escalating into the main stream of the political debate."

He has a well-connected board of directors and advisors that includes:

Bonner Cohen, who, according to Sourcewatch, ran EPA watch, which was funded by Philip Morris and accused the EPA of "everything from destroying the US economy to trying to stop people from taking showers." He was the sole director of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition with his partner Steve Milloy of Junk Science fame. TASSC was funded by Amoco, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Exxon, General Motors and many more.

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Cohen is also senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, which received $ 445,000 from ExxonMobil.

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He is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which gets most of its money from the Carthage Foundation and Sarah Scaife Foundation. Oh, and ExxonMobil, to the tune of $ 577,000 between 2000 and 2007 according to ExxonSecrets.

John Meredith is a director as well; he is a Washington lobbyist (and the son of civil rights icon James Meredith) and is on the Advisory Board of CFACT. He goes way back in the conspiracy, speaking in 1977, suggesting that there was:

    what he termed the "radical green agenda" to "restructure American society." In particularly, he discussed a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Community Sustainability: Agendas for Choice-Making and Action) which calls for the elimination of single-family dwellings, curbing suburbs, reducing the population's meat consumption, imposing population control techniques and more. This document, Meredith said, was submitted to the June 1996 "Habitat II" United Nations Conference in Istanbul as official U.S. policy.

His consulting company's skills include

    The ability to motivate people into participating in the public policy process and providing them the tools to be effective when they do engage is a cornerstone of Meredith Advocacy Group services. Our grassroots techniques include creation of electronic distribution systems for issue education and action alerts, coalition building and coordination of like-minded groups and individuals, establishment and maintenance of key contacts, as well as Congressional and agency outreach programs.

Which is often called astroturfing.

The Board of Advisors includes Alan Caruba, who is a major contributor of articles to CFACT, which, by the way, was a gold sponsor of the Heartland Conference on Climate Change, infamous for its Unabomber ads (along with Americans for Prosperity)

Deweese has other opinions to offer beside just Agenda 21; his thoughts on botany:

    The bottom line is, CO2 is not a poison to human beings, CO2 is not affecting the atmosphere, there is absolutely no evidence, I can say this with absolute confidence, there is no evidence of man-made global warming causing problems…..Trees give off carbon dioxide; all the plants around us give it off. The fact is some scientists have done some studies saying we’ve got a carbon dioxide shortage right now. That then causes plants to die, that causes environmental damage.

"When government makes decisions on behalf of others about how much consumption, what types of living arrangements, and what types of transportation are “sustainable,” this can directly conflict with individuals’ freedom."- Americans for Prosperity

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Americans for Prosperity

As Far as the Koch's Americans For Prosperity goes, they hand out brochures about Agenda 21 that are almost fair and balanced compared to some of the stuff I have read.

    Some conservatives worry that sustainable development is just a disguise for a larger scheme to adopt radical environmentalism, wealth redistribution, or some form of “world government” through local initiatives. But whether this is true is largely irrelevant: regardless of the underlying motives and regardless of the source, the policies themselves prove to be an affront to property rights and harmful to the American economy. To those who favor economic freedom and limited government, this alone is grounds for concern.

AFP branches from Kansas to Oregon appear to have Tom Deweese constantly on the rubber chicken circuit, he is everywhere.

"Under Sustainable Development, the recognition of the Unalienable Right to one’s life, liberty and property is lost. This war on freedom is a Global to Local one."- Freedom Advocates

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Freedom Advocates

The other organization that seems to do the most pushing of the Agenda 21 conspiracy is Freedom Advocates, run by Patrick M. Wood, who in the late seventies was obsessed with the Trilateral Commission, the conspiracy du jour. Information about him is sketchy, and there is little on any of his board members; they all appear to be big in Santa Cruz, California. He offers a downloadable handbook that tells you everything you need to know to scupper an urban planner and keep government small enough to drown in a bathtub.

    1. Recognize and resist the trend to replace political boundaries with “regional governance.” Recognize that this form of government leads to a breakdown of accountability to the citizenry.

    2. Refuse local government receipt of federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs because they breach the American system of federalism and raid the treasury. Withdraw from established Sustainable Development programs.

    3. Avoid local government partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations and corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda. Do not surrender your town or county to the insider privilege of Sustainable Developers and their monied interests….

    6. Kick ICLEI out of your town.

Their website is published on The Patriot's Web, a hosting company for right wing websites, which is owned by the August Corporation, which is owned by Patrick Wood, who also publishes the August Forecast and Review. He appears to be a one man media empire, but so far as I can tell, not the major force behind the Agenda 21 conspiracy.

In the end, there was no direct link from the Koch's Americans for Prosperity to any of the people I could find on the boards of either organization. Sue Sturgis of the Institute for Southern Studies thinks there might be one, writing:

    It isn't difficult to understand why the men behind Koch Industries -- a major emitter of carbon and other pollution -- would be interested in discrediting a sustainability initiative.

    For example, the Koch’s have been major funders of efforts to discredit climate science in order to scuttle regulatory action on greenhouse gas pollution. A 2010 Greenpeace report documented how the Kochs contributed more than $48.5 million from 1997 to 2008 to a network of several dozen think tanks that work to sow doubt about manmade climate change.

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It is pretty clear that there are direct connections from the American Policy Center to The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, (CFACT , which is funded by right wing foundations and big oil, not to mention Daimler Chrysler and Ford in the past.

It is also clear that the anti-agenda 21, anti-sustainability movement is punching way above its weight in terms of public awareness and support. It's not a grass roots movement of concerned local activists, but, as Robin Rather puts it, "a brilliant campaign, preying on real fears that people have" about their homes and property.

How do we fight this? Lessons from Proposition 23

One of the reasons that California's Proposition 23, which would have suspended air pollution controls, was defeated was that it became clear that the whole thing was being funded by oil companies and Koch Industries. As the Bay Citizen reported, "Opponents of the measure successfully painted Prop. 23 as the handiwork of out-of-state oil companies bent on messing with California’s laws."

Bike lanes, transit and higher density are evil because they give people alternatives to cars, and that can never happen in America.

Fundamentally, that is what is happening here. Big Oil is paying for CFACT and either directly or indirectly the fight against Agenda 21; The Kochs are promoting it like mad, right across the country. Same big companies, same reason: to keep America in its happy motoring ways, to make any alternative just about impossible. And that is how we have to paint them: not concerned citizens worried about the United Nations, but representatives of big oil out to preserve their turf.

Tags: Activism | Agenda 21 | longreads

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fun cartoon http://grist.org/politics/agenda-21-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-secret-u-n-plot-in-one-comic/

beck: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esJY2SK_4tE&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esJY2SK_4tE&feature=related</a>

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=birVw3mYGlE

baer: I am endorsing Ted Yoho because I after having a good discussion with Ted this past weekend I knew that he is the person that we must have in Congress to unseat Cliff Stearns. I am on the National Speaker's Board for Agenda 21 with Tom DeWeese. I am on Sheriff Mack's Constitutional Posse and I am also on the vetting committee for Alex Snitker for Liberty Takeover 2012. I knew immediately after having an in depth conversation on several issues in this country including our debt, Agenda 21, the attack on our Constitution and Sharia Law that this MUST be the man that we send in TO REPLACE CLIFF STEARNS!! If you are looking for a CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN to stand up and help put our government back on the track of SMALL Govt and who can't be bought by big lobbyist groups...THIS IS OUR MAN! And I should have known he was a former US MARINE!! I should have recognized that immediately being from a Marine family myself!!! I can NOT vote for TED... I am in Ander Crenshaw's district (and he's going to be out of office soon too) but I am going to do my best to make sure others in Cliff Stearn's district know that this is the MAN that we need to get behind and send to DC who is going to start the clean up!!! Please get behind Ted Yoho...get out the VOTE for YOHO...tell your friends... CLIFF STEARNS MUST GO!! If you want to Vote for FREEDOM AND LIBERTY you MUST VOTE FOR TED YOHO! Victoria Baer, Agenda 21 Activist.

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<h1><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/15/523931/republican-party-officially-embraces-garbage-agenda-21-conspiracy-theories-as-its-national-platform/">Republican Party Officially Embraces ‘Garbage’ Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theories As Its National Platform</a></h1>

<p class="byline">By <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/author/stephen/">Stephen Lacey</a> on Aug 15, 2012 at 2:08 pm

If you want to understand just how extreme and conspiratorial many in the “mainstream” Republican party have become, look no further than a resolution on Agenda 21 passed quietly in January.

Agenda 21 is a completely non-binding international framework for sustainability passed in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit. The framework, which sets out very loose aspirational goals for making communities more efficient and less carbon-intensive, was signed by then President George H.W. Bush and later upheld by Presidents Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush.

Since the framework was adopted, right-wing conspiracy theorists have pushed bizarre theories about Agenda 21 being a central tool for the United Nations to create a one-world government and take away the rights of local property owners. In recent years, elevated by the <a title="beck" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p0sfF7jE78" target="blank">megaphone of extreme pundits</a> like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, these conspiracies made their way into mainstream politics. Today, Agenda 21ers — many affiliated with the <a title="john birch" href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/12/05/john-birch-society-agenda-21-is-stealth-plot-to-steal-freedom/" target="blank">Tea Party and the John Birch Society</a> — are peddling fears about Agenda 21 <a title="stop" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/04/457941/tea-party-conspiracy-bill-to-shut-down-arizona-energy-efficiency-programs/" target="_blank">in order to stop</a> basic efficiency and renewable energy programs on the state level.

Conspiracy theorists active in politics <a title="agenda 21" href="http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2012/07/15/green-schemes-make-activists-see-red/" target="_blank">have called Agenda 21</a> “socialism on steroids” that would cause Americans to be “herded into centers like the UN wants.”

And in <a title="presentation" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=birVw3mYGlE" target="_blank">an April presentation</a> on Agenda 21, activist Victoria Baer had this to say about John McCain’s support of ethanol, which she also claimed was part of a UN plot: “We should have left him in Hanoi with Jane Fonda…he is a traitor, a pure traitor.”

Yes, Baer called John McCain — a decorated Vietnam War veteran who spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war — a traitor who should be “left in Hanoi” because he supported minimal increases in domestic ethanol production.

Baer also claims that the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. National Parks Service, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture — agencies founded more than 100 years before Agenda 21 — are “all out of the UN to have these wonderful little furry animal organizations to cut our land away from us.”

In fact, the Agenda 21 language explicitly states that countries and local communities have “the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies.”

So what do these historically-challenged and completely inaccurate claims have to do with the Republican party? The Republican National Committee has officially adopted these conspiracy theories as its national platform. In January, the RNC <a title="insidious" href="http://www.republicanassemblies.org/rnc-adopts-resolution-exposing-agenda-21/" target="_blank">adopted a resolution</a> calling Agenda 21 “insidious” and “covert.”

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<p>The United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local “sustainable development” policies such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other “Green” or “Alternative” projects

The Republican National Committee recognizes the destructive and insidious nature of United Nations Agenda 21 and hereby exposes to the public and public policy makers the dangerous intent of the plan.</p>

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<p>Interestingly, Agenda 21 activist Victoria Baer is a <a title="yoho" href="http://www.tedyoho.com/endorsements-3/" target="blank">big supporter</a> of Florida Tea Partier Ted Yoho, a man who unseat Republican Representative Cliff Stearns in a major upset during a primary race yesterday. Along with supporting the Agenda 21 conspiracy, Yoho also believes <a title="abolish" href="http://www.tedyoho.com/issues/" target="blank">we should abolish</a> the Department of Energy — the agency tasked with protecting our nuclear waste and nuclear weapons arsenal.

This is where the mainstream Republican party is headed.

So what are the origins of this bizarre shift in policy? And why have Agenda 21 activists gained such prominence within mainstream politics?

To explore the issue, I spoke with Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Potok has been tracking the rise of the Agenda 21 movement, which is rooted in the John Birch Society — a radical right-wing group that opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because they said it infringed on states’ rights. But Potok says that the issue is much broader than one single conspiracy and one single group.

<strong>Stephen Lacey:</strong> Many folks within the Agenda 21 movement have come from or are loosely aligned with the John Birch Society. So give us some background, what is the John Birch Society, how did it get formed, and what does it represent today?

<strong>Mark Potok:</strong> Well, it’s no surprise that it’s the John Birch Society that seems to be the primary pusher of the Agenda 21 conspiracy theory. I say that because they are most infamous, really, for two things. One is accusing President Eisenhower of being a “Communist agent,” which was a surprise certainly to Eisenhower. And the other, which is perhaps more like Agenda 21, is for their promotion of the idea that putting fluoride in drinking water is a plot to convert our children and all the rest of us to Communism. In other words, this is an organization that from the very beginning has touted completely ludicrous and baseless conspiracy theories. And, in fact, the John Birch Society was essentially driven out of the Conservative movement because it was such an embarrassment.

<strong>SL: </strong>But they’ve made a resurgence in recent years. What do they represent today? How are they becoming aligned with supposedly more mainstream Conservatives? And how have they regained a foothold in politics?

<strong>MP:</strong> It is hard to understand exactly how the John Birch Society has made itself more palatable to “mainstream” conservatives. The John Birch society began to reappear in a fairly significant way back in the 1990s when virtually every gun show in America, or every large gun show, had a booth with the organization. Back then, they were very heavily promoting the militia movement, as well as various conspiracies they believed the federal government was involved in. Then they sort of went quiet with the rest of the militia movement, which more or less petered out at the end of the 1990s. And in the last few years they have suddenly reappeared with quite remarkable success.

So the real answer to your question is that I do not quite understand how the John Birch Society has gotten so many city councils and county commissions and even state legislatures to listen to their nonsense. But they have. I suspect that it is related less to them having a huge amount of money or enormous numbers of people, and more to do with the idea that we’ve become so polarized politically as a nation that this kind of tripe really sells today. You know, what is most astounding of all is that the Republican National Committee has adopted oppositions to Agenda 21 as a core part of its platform and has asked that Mitt Romney include it as a part of his convention platform when the GOP convention gathers later this month.

<strong>SL:</strong> Well, let’s get into Agenda 21 more. For people who are paranoid about the UN promoting a One World Government, this is a gold mine for conspiracy theories. How has this group evolved and become more vocal?

<strong>MP:</strong> This is very similar to what we see going on with regard to arms control, gun control. The fact is, Barack Obama has done literally nothing on gun control except to allow further loosening of gun regulations to go forward — for instance, to allow people to open carry weapons in National Parks. And yet, there are groups out there that say that as soon as he is reelected — if in fact that happens — he will grab all Americans’ weapons and throw anyone who resists into concentration camps that have been secretly built by the government.

I think what’s happening with Agenda 21 is something very similar. There is an enormous, enormous amount of misinformation and plain foolishness being touted in the political mainstream as fact. We live in an era in which a Congresswoman [Michele Bachmann] is perfectly happy to accuse someone in the Department of State, with absolutely no basis whatsoever, of being an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood. My own Congressman, Spencer Baucus, from the middle of Alabama, has claimed that he personally knows that there are 17 Socialists secretly in the Congress. Alan West, another Congressman, said the other day he knew of 70 Communists in the government.

So, you know, this is the kind of garbage we are seeing every day now. And this has been going on for quite a little while. Let’s not forget that a candidate for President of the United States, Sarah Palin, just a few years ago, suggested that the President’s attempts to pass some kind of national healthcare plan, or extension of healthcare to more people in this country, was actually a plot to set up Death Panels to decide whether your and my grandmothers would live or die. So I just think that we live, sadly enough, at a time where conspiracy theories are pretty much destroying any kind of reasonable political dialogue in this country.

<strong>SL: </strong>You point to political partisanship as a main factor. But as you look throughout history at how conspiracy theorists and hate groups have grown, what other conditions need to be in place to make these theories so prevalent?

<strong>MP:</strong> I think that what is really going on is that the world is changing. And in our country, we’re seeing change in fairly dramatic ways. So, you see these kinds of crazy theories pop up at a time when major changes are a foot in our society — changes that really cause people to struggle, that make a significant number of people out there genuinely uncomfortable.

There are many things happening right now. Probably the most significant is that we, as a country, are losing our white majority. The census bureau has predicted that whites will fall under 50 percent of the population by the year 2050. Well, you know, that’s an enormous change. It’s already happened in California 12 years ago. And as a result, the politics of that state changed significantly. So it’s those kinds of changes, along with the very serious dislocations caused by economic globalization and by the kind of decline in the power of the nation state.

Apart from this, I think, we also have an extremely long tradition — in this country in particular — of distrust of the federal government. There’s also distrust around our government engaging in any kind of an international institution like the United Nations. You know, this fear of One World Government, of some sort of government forcing us all into a kind of global socialist hierarchy, goes all the way back to the League of Nations and Woodrow Wilson’s support for it. And really even before, as early as the 19<sup>th</sup> century, you see people on the extreme right in this country and in Europe voicing fears of One World government.

This country in particular has really been plagued with an irrational fear of the United States somehow being sublimated to a global government. The reality of Agenda 21 is it’s not a treaty, it’s not a legally binding agreement, it forces absolutely no one to do anything at all. It is purely and utterly voluntary. And yet it is being portrayed by the Republican National Committee, among others, as sort of a diabolical plan to strip away private property and to generally impose Socialism and Socialistic ideas upon this country.

<strong>SL:</strong> What does it say to you that the modern Republican party has adopted this as its official platform?

<strong>MP:</strong> I think it’s simply astounding that today’s RNC has adopted this this idea as a core part of its platform. We are looking at a very different Republican party than we were a mere 30 years ago.  We’re looking at a very different Republican party than we were a mere 20 years ago. You know, when George H.W. Bush signed this agreement it was not controversial. Bush was one of 178 national leaders that signed the agreement. It seemed at the time like a perfectly sensible idea — this seemed to be simply a good faith, low-key effort to think about ways we might act better in the future for the benefit of all of us. And today that perfectly sensible, perfectly logical, and very much unenforceable plan on sustainability has morphed into a global plot to impose Socialism on the United States. It’s just ludicrous, and I think it speaks to what politics in this country have really devolved to.

<strong>SL:</strong> And finally, what kind of impact will this brand of politics have on the political future of the U.S.?

<strong>MP:</strong> Well, I think, this kind of politics is clearly hurting us as a nation. It is making it extremely difficult to move forward in any rational way. We can’t debate immigration rationally because we think there is a conspiracy to steal a part of our country on the part of Mexico. We can’t discuss homosexuality or same-sex marriage rationally because these groups tell us that gay people are seeking to forcibly convert our kids to being gay, and so on.

It just seems that on issue after issue after issue we are no longer having disagreements about a certain set of facts. Instead we have two sides presenting absolute alternative realities. And the bottom line, I think, is that from the political right, or the far right, that we are seeing almost nothing but a string of conspiracy theories that have virtually nothing to do with reality. So we cannot even have a rational debate about things that we admittedly disagree about. Instead, we spend our time fending off utterly baseless, fear-mongering conspiracy theories that prevent us moving forward in any way as a society.

At the turn of the 21<sup>st</sup> century we are facing very major problems. We are at a time of great social and environmental change and we need to seriously address them — not poison ourselves with the conspiracy theories and baseless fear-mongering that we see today.</p>

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<h1 class="headline">Romney, once an anti-sprawl crusader, created model for Obama ‘smart growth’ program</h1>

<p class="byline">By <a href="http://grist.org/author/lisa-hymas/" title="Posts by Lisa Hymas">Lisa Hymas</a>

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<p class="wp-caption-text">hoto by Gage Skidmore.)</p>

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<p>Everyone knows that “Obamacare” was modeled on Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health-care law. But did you know that a key Obama “smart growth” initiative — the <a href="http://grist.org/politics/2010-02-24-obama-admin-wants-to-green-your-local-community/">Partnership for Sustainable Communities</a> — was also created in the mold of a Romney program?</p>

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Tea Partiers <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2011/11/29/frugal-answer-zoning-pitfalls-needlessly-slashed/I9OVLx1ORogUj2NPCnNfFN/story.html">rallied</a> to quash funding for this Obama partnership last fall. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), conservative darling, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=433913312447&comments">criticized</a> the idea for the partnership when it first arose and accused the Obama administration of trying to impose “an urban-utopian fantasy through an unprecedented intrusion of the Federal Government into the shaping of local communities.” The Republican National Committee recently <a href="http://grist.org/politics/paranoia-strikes-deep-gop-exposes-dangerous-u-n-sustainability-plot/">warned</a> that smart growth is part of a U.N. conspiracy (green helicopters, anyone?).

This is yet another issue on which the party’s presumptive presidential nominee looks to be seriously out of sync with the GOP base.</p>

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<strong>Romney’s “get smart” phase</strong>

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney actively fought sprawl and promoted density. He ran on a smart-growth platform: “Sprawl is the most important quality-of-life issue facing Massachusetts,” <a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/11/pretend_primary_sprawl_and_los.html">he said</a> in 2002.</p>

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After winning, Romney swiftly set about remaking state government to encourage smarter land use. He created a powerful new Office for Commonwealth Development, and appointed an aggressive environmental activist to run it — Douglas Foy, who for 25 years had headed the Conservation Law Foundation, a litigious regional environmental group. The state’s business community was <a href="http://www.commonwealthmagazine.org/News-and-Features/Features/2003/Spring/The-Sprawl-Doctor.aspx">appalled</a>.

The Office for Commonwealth Development served as a “super-secretariat” or umbrella office for state agencies dealing with transportation, housing, energy, and the environment. It made sure the agencies were all pulling in the same direction toward smart-growth goals — concentrating development in town centers, constructing housing near transit stations, fixing existing roads instead of building new ones.

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<h1 class="title-news">Agenda 21: Robert Bentley, Alabama Governor, Refuses To Explain Ban Of UN Sustainability Program</h1>

<p><span class="posted-and-updated">Posted: <span itemprop="datePublished">07/17/2012 4:42 pm</span> Updated: <span itemprop="dateModified">07/17/2012 6:23 pm</span></span></p>

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he Republican governor of Alabama declined to say why <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/rio-20/item/11592-alabama-adopts-first-official-state-ban-on-un-agenda-21" target="_hplink">he signed a bill</a> banning the United Nations Agenda 21 sustainability program in his state.

<b>"I am not going to answer that,</b>" Gov. Robert Bentley (R) said when The Huffington Post asked about the decision at this weekend's National Governors Association conference in Williamsburg, Va.

Bentley signed the legislation last month, making Alabama the first state in the country to ban the environmental treaty, which does not carry the force of law in the United States. Before answering the question, a Bentley aide told the governor that he didn't have to answer questions about Agenda 21.</p>

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Bentley signed the legislation, which has become a top issue for Republicans around the country, in early June and has not addressed the reasons behind his decision. <b>The law prohibits state, county and local governments in Alabama from adopting policies and programs that originated as part of Agenda 21, including laws regarding property rights. </b>The law says that private property cannot be taken by governments without a due process being used, a common fear expressed by Agenda 21 opponents.

Agenda 21 was adopted in 1992 at an international climate change summit in Brazil but has not been ratified by the Senate.<b> The treaty has, however, been endorsed by all four presidents since it was adopted.</b></p>

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As part of the treaty, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives was created to help local governments implement Agenda 21's recommendations, which include<b> implementing bike paths, solar panels and land use ordinances.</b> ICLEI has been a frequent target for Agenda 21 opponents, who believe it is a way for the U.N. to take a stronger grip on U.S. policy.

The <b>Republican National Committee</b> has come out against Agenda 21, along with the state legislatures in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html" target="hplink">Kansas</a>, <a href="http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/2012/03/tn-democrats-defend-agenda-21.html" target="hplink">Tennessee</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/un-agenda-21-new-hampshire-ban_n_1524285.html" target="_hplink">New Hampshire</a>. Arizona legislators defeated a resolution opposing the treaty earlier this year.</p>

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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html" target="_hplink">During debate</a> in the Kansas House of Representatives, Agenda 21 opponents claimed that 600 local land use boards nationally have been "infiltrated" by ICLEI. They also said Agenda 21's "radical" agenda is "destructive to the American way of life." The debate included comparisons between the treaty and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. One opponent of the Agenda 21 opposition resolution, Kansas Rep. Mike Slattery (D-Mission) called his colleagues "stupid" for having the debate.</p>

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The New Hampshire House debate was similar to the Kansas one, minus the Kennedy comparison. A New Hampshire Democrat told HuffPost that he questioned the thinking behind the opposition.

"Agenda 21 has become one of those issues that the far right has latched on to," New Hampshire Rep. Christopher Serlin (D-Portsmouth) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/un-agenda-21-new-hampshire-ban_n_1524285.html" target="_hplink">told HuffPost</a> in May. "It is real tinfoil hat material. It is scary people think this way." <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/agenda-21-ban-alabama_n_1680565.html?ir=Green"> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/agenda-21-ban-alabama_n_1680565.html?ir=Green</a></p>

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Paranoia strikes deep: GOP exposes ‘dangerous’ U.N. sustainability plot 23</p>

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By Greg Hanscom

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Put your U.N.-proof thinking caps on. (Photo by Arden.)</p>

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Things at GOP headquarters are even more crazytown than we could have imagined.</p>

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The Republican National Committee — the group that shapes the national GOP political platform, devises campaign strategies, promotes candidates, and bashes all things Obama — passed a resolution in January warning Americans of a sinister plot hidden in a United Nations report called Agenda 21. Short of suggesting that we all wear tinfoil hats and keep an eye out for contrails, the RNC would have been hard-pressed to put itself further on the wacko fringe.

Here’s the windup to the resolution, unearthed by the New York Times this weekend:

   WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control … and,

   WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local “sustainable development” policies such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other “Green” or “Alternative” projects; and,

   WHEREAS, this United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called “sustainable development” views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment …

What’s that? The America way of life is destructive to the environment? Banish the thought.

After a few more whereases, the committee gets down to the business of “exposing … the dangerous intent of the plan,” resolving to send a copy of this gem (you can download the whole thing from the RNC website) to every Republican candidate and elected official in the country, and pushing for the resolution to be adopted into the official Republican Party Platform at the national convention in Tampa, Fla., in August.

But here’s the thing: Agenda 21 has been around for TWO DECADES, and, as the RNC resolution points out, “the U.S. government and no state or local government is legally bound by [it].” The agenda, which grew out of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, is a call for international cooperation to address poverty, hunger, and a host of other issues tied to the unraveling of natural ecosystems. It calls for “the broadest public participation and the active involvement of the non-governmental organizations.” (You can read the entire report here.)

And what about ICLEI, the U.N.’s alleged agent of destruction? (Those in-the-know pronounce it “ick-lee.”) The group offers services for a growing number of towns and cities that see measures such as energy conservation and mass transit as ways to save boatloads of public money and to attract businesses and economic development. More than 550 local governments in the U.S. have signed up for voluntary membership to date.

The RNC antics would be more amusing if Tea Party Republicans weren’t running the country right now — or at least doing their best to run it off the rails.

House Speaker John Boehner and the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives announced plans last Thursday to cut all designated funding for mass transit. This came just two days after the House transportation and infrastructure committee unveiled a draft transportation bill that would cut funding for bike and pedestrian infrastructure and the Safe Routes to School program.

The New York Times story reports that Tea Partiers are conjuring Agenda 21 in fights against everything from mass transit to energy-saving smart meters. “The real job of smart meters is to spy on you and control you — when you can and cannot use electrical appliances,” one Tea Partier told a crowd at a recent hearing in Roanoke, Va. Newt Gingrich stoked the furor when he referenced Agenda 21 in one of the Republican debates last month.

This isn’t brand new. Dan Maes, a Tea Party candidate for Colorado governor in 2010, claimed that a bike sharing program in Denver was a “well disguised” plot to turn the city into a “United Nations community.” In the San Francisco Bay area last spring, the black-helicopters crowd used the report to rally fanatical opposition to a regional planning effort. Conspiracy theorists in Florida even saw the New World Order lurking in a septic tank inspection law. (They’re in the plumbing!)

The fear mongering and paranoia seem to be on the rise. Here’s a smattering from around the country in recent months:

   On Virginia’s Middle Peninsula, planners called for police protection and hired consultants to calm crowds after anti Agenda 21 protesters shouted down public officials at meetings held to plan for climate-change-related sea-level rise.

   The police were called to a Missoula, Mont., city council hearing in December after an anti-ICLEI protest got out of hand. The Missoulian reported that some of the protesters had ties to the John Birch Society.

   At a city council meeting in San Carlos, Calif., two weeks ago, anti-ICLEI protesters called council members Nazis and fascists. Police were called after similar incidents at a planning meeting in Santa Rosa.

   County supervisors in Sutter County, Calif., rejected a resolution to apply for state funding to update their zoning code after Tea Party activists claimed that language in the grant application echoed Agenda 21. The county will still have to update its code, but will do so without state support.

   The Georgia state legislature has passed a resolution similar to the RNC resolution “exposing” Agenda 21, ICLEI, and the sustainable development threat. Meanwhile, a New Hampshire lawmaker has introduced legislation that would make it illegal for local governments to join ICLEI.

ICLEI deserves at least some of the blame for this. The group does, after all, have one of the crappiest acronyms in the business, guaranteed to set off alarms in backyard bomb shelters everywhere. And I’ll give the Tea Partiers this, too: Sustainability is a hard word to love.

But really, folks, it’s a threat to God, country, and apple pie? If the recent backlash to stripping transit funding out of the federal transportation bill is any indication, most Americans aren’t buying it — and the GOP would be wise to stick to a platform that has some basis in reality.

Grist special projects editor Greg Hanscom has been editor of the award-winning environmental magazine High Country News and the Baltimore-based city mag, Urbanite. He tweets about cities and the environment at @ghanscom.

<a href="http://grist.org/politics/paranoia-strikes-deep-gop-exposes-dangerous-u-n-sustainability-plot/">http://grist.org/politics/paranoia-strikes-deep-gop-exposes-dangerous-u-n-sustainability-plot/</a>

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Naomi Klein on Heartland conf: Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption,

<a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2011/11/capitalism-vs-climate">http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2011/11/capitalism-vs-climate</a>

<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate">http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate</a>

<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate?page=full">http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate?page=full</a></p>

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http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate?page=full

Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein

November 9, 2011   |    This article appeared in the November 28, 2011 edition of The Nation.

There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.

He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?”

Here at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren’t going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is.

<font color="#FF0000">Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute</font> who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. “You can believe this is about the climate,” he says darkly, “and many people do, but it’s not a reasonable belief.” Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: “The issue isn’t the issue.” The issue, apparently, is that “no free society would do to itself what this agenda requires…. The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way.”

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama’s campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about “green communitarianism,” akin to the “Maoist” scheme to put “a pig iron furnace in everybody’s backyard” (the Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels). That climate change is “a stalking horse for National Socialism” (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists’ go-to website, ClimateDepot.com).</span>

Most of all, however, I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate change “has little to do with the state of the environment and much to do with shackling capitalism and transforming the American way of life in the interests of global wealth redistribution.”</p>

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In this case, the Georgia Tea Party is arguing that the county should abandon its light-rail proposal because if the light-rail line were to be completed, it would become a magnet for terrorist attacks. Here's the group's chair, <a href="http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/15508950/article-Georgia-Tea-Party-opposes-TSPLOST?instance=home_news_bullets" target="_blank">J.D. Van Brink</a>:</p>

<p>If anyone doesn't believe me—England and Spain. Now, if we have a more decentralized mass-transit system using buses, if the terrorists blow up a single bus, we can work around that. When they blow up a rail, that just brings the system to a grinding halt. So how much security are we going to have on this rail system, and how much will it cost?</p>

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<p class="print-title" style=" margin-bottom: .2em;">In other words, Van Brink is arguing that because terrorists fantasize about blowing up American infrastructure, we should avoid spending any money on infrastructure. Given tea partiers' opposition to most forms of government spending and their worries that light-rail and sustainable development plans are part of a <a href="https://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development" target="self">United Nations conspiracy</a> to force people to live in miniature, <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/michele-bachmann-light-bulbs-agenda-21" target="self">lightbulb-less</a> "<a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/john-mccain-tea-party-hobbits" target="_self">Hobbit homes</a>," the terrorism concerns here almost seem like a dodge....http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/09/tea-partiers-light-rail-national-security-risk</p>

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Bachman q&A: <a href="http://newhampshireprimary.blogspot.com/2011/12/michele-bachmann-durban-climate-change.html">http://newhampshireprimary.blogspot.com/2011/12/michele-bachmann-durban-climate-change.html</a></p>

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<span style=" font-size: medium;"><b>First They Came for the Lightbulbs...</b></span></p>

<div class="dek" style=" font-style: italic; margin-bottom: .5em;">The conspiracy theory behind Michele Bachmann's war on energy efficiency.</div>

<p class="submitted" style=" font-size: .75em;"><span class="byline">By <a href="http://motherjones.com/authors/tim-murphy">Tim Murphy</a></span> | <span class="dateline">Thu Aug. 4, 2011 3:00 AM PDT</span></p>

<p>Few issues get Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) going quite like lightbulbs. At campaign stops across the country, she has repeatedly denounced a 2007 law that required manufacturers to develop energy-efficient lightbulb varieties. Bachmann sees the law as <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/09/gop-defending-your-right-life-liberty-and-inefficient-lighting">an affront to American values</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span>. "I think Thomas Edison did a pretty patriotic thing for this country by inventing the lightbulb," she told a New Hampshire audience in March. "And I think darn well, you New Hampshirites, if you want to buy Thomas Edison's wonderful invention, you should be able to!"

In reality, <a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/07/incandescent-bulbs-not-banned-repeat-not-banned">no one's stopping New Hampshirites</a> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span> (or anyone else, for that matter) from buying any kind of lightbulb they please—even the incandescent variety that Bachmann warns will be outlawed unless we pass the <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/07/how-many-republicans-does-it-take-change-light-bulb">Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> that she supported. (BULB would repeal the energy-efficiency rules.) But Bachmann's crusade is about much more than energy-conserving bulbs: The Minnesota congresswoman is part of a movement that considers "sustainability" an existential threat to the United States, one with far-reaching consequences for education, transportation, and family values. If Bachmann is right, lightbulbs will soon be the least of our worries.

Bachmann's concerns may have been best articulated in an interview she gave to the American Family Association's OneNewsNow in 2008. As Republicans in Washington revolted over the rising costs of gas, the then-freshman congresswoman outlined the stakes:</p>

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<p>"This is their agenda—I know it's hard to believe, it's hard to fathom, but this is 'Mission Accomplished' for them," <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=205272" target="_blank">she said</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> of congressional Democrats. "They want Americans to take transit and move to the inner cities. They want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, [and] take light rail to their government jobs. That's their vision for America."

Although she didn't say it right then, Bachmann likely had something specific in mind: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development">Agenda 21</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>, a two-decade-old United Nations agreement that has taken on a life of its own on the far-right. The agreement, forged in 1992, nominally committed signatories to a set of shared values designed to mitigate the environmental impact of human development. Member countries agreed to a range of sustainability goals, from preserving the ozone layer to ensuring that forests are managed so they'll be around for future generations. (The United States is a signatory, but the treaty has not been ratified by the Senate.)

But to some conservatives, Agenda 21 became <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development"> something far more nefarious</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>—a gateway to a global government built on a radical doctrine of secular environmentalism....

Bachmann is not the only Republican politician to raise concerns about the nation's commitment to sustainable development—Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has been <a target="_blank" href="http://freedom21.org/conf/01prog.html">a regular</a> <span class="print-footnote">[14]</span> at the annual Freedom 21 conference, which promotes "property rights and free markets" as an alternative to Agenda 21. But Bachmann has helped bring the issue closer to the mainstream—at least within the conservative movement.</p>

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<div class="before-title"><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/winter">Intelligence Report, Winter 2008, Issue Number<span class="colon">:</span>  132</a></div>

<h1 class="page-title">Earth Worship</h1>

<div class="field-item odd">Environmentalism Seen as Police State Precursor</div>

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<p>Addison, Texas — "Environment is not about saving nature," the founder of Freedom Advocates, Michael Shaw, sternly warned an audience of antigovernment "Patriots" and far-right conspiracy theorists during a mid-July conference. "It's about a revolutionary coup in America. [Environmentalism] is to establish global governance and abandon the principles of Natural Law." Sustainable development policies, Shaw argued, will require "a police state" and ultimately "turn America into a globally governed homeland where humans are treated as biological resources."</p>

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Shaw's fearful call to arms against environmentalism was sucked in whole hog during the Ninth Annual Freedom 21 conference held in a Dallas-area Crowne Plaza hotel. Co-hosted by the Texas Eagle Forum, a hard-line Christian Right organization, and the anti-"New World Order" American Policy Center (APC), the three-day convergence included such right-wing heavyweights as the error-prone conspiracy theorist <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?s=jerome+corsi&submit=">Jerome Corsi</a>, gay- and feminist-hating Phyllis Schlafly, and the far-right Constitution Party's presidential candidate, <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots">Chuck Baldwin</a>.</p>

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One former popular Freedom 21er was disinvited. Bob Barr, a former conservative Republican congressman from Georgia, was asked not to return by the head of APC, Tom DeWeese, because Barr had talked to Al Gore about global warming. "This is not some nice little debate," DeWeese said he told someone in Barr's office. "This is war."</p>

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"An anti-human document, which takes aim at Western culture, and the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions," is how Coffman referred to it. Coffman also alleged that Agenda 21 would lead to a kind of communist reallocation of property rights and redistribution of assets. Using a big word, Coffman labeled the proposed changes "usufructual," which he said means the government would own everything. Michael Chapman of Ed Watch, a group that opposes public education, reiterated Coffman's allegations that Agenda 21's real aim is to redistribute wealth. Coffman added that economic development is not being restricted in order to protect the environment, but rather to give power to the government.

"The new world theology is pantheism," Coffman said, "Nature is God."</p>

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The John Birch Society (JBS), a group that once insisted that President Eisenhower was a Communist Party member but now focuses on immigrant-bashing, agrees with Coffman. JBS was on hand to warn that environmentalists are really out to get your children. The JBS handed out cards featuring a strange depiction of a group of children holding hands under a large, glowing, balloon-like mockup of the earth that warned of "The New False Religion, Worshipping the Earth." "Advocates of a UN world government have drafted an Earth Charter, which they compare to the Ten Commandments and keep in an 'Ark of Hope,'" warns the JBS without any apparent reference to reality. "Will you let the United Nations or any other group undermine the faith of your family?" The JBS is so concerned with this that is has created a new website, <em>www.getusout.org/earthworship</em>, to battle "Earth Worship."</p>

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<h3 id="gen3"><span class="mw-headline">Agenda 21</span></h3>

<p>Agenda 21, the international plan of action to sustainable development, outlines key policies for achieving sustainable development that meets the needs of the poor and recognizes the limits of development to meet global needs. Agenda 21 has become the blueprint for <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Sustainability" title="Sustainability">sustainability</a> and forms the basis for sustainable development strategies. It attempts to define a balance between production, consumption, population, development, and the Earth's life-supporting capacity. It addresses poverty, <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Consumer_society" title="Consumer society">excessive consumption</a>, health and education, cities and <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agriculture</a>; food and natural resource management and several more subjects.

Its 40 chapters are broken up into four sections:</p>

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<li>Social and economic dimensions: developing countries; poverty; consumption patterns; population; health; human settlements; integrating environment and development.</li>

<li>Conservation and management of resources: <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Atmospheric_composition" title="Atmospheric composition">atmosphere</a>; land; forests; deserts; <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Mountain" title="Mountain">mountains</a>; <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agriculture</a>; <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biodiversity" title="Biodiversity">biodiversity</a>; biotechnology; oceans; <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Freshwater_biomes" title="Freshwater biomes">fresh water</a>; toxic chemicals; hazardous, radioactive and solid waste and sewage.</li>

<li>Strengthening the role of major groups: women; children and youth; indigenous peoples; non-governmental organizations; local authorities; workers; business and industry; farmers; scientists and technologists.</li>

<li>Means of implementation: finance; technology transfer; science; education; capacity-building; international institutions; legal measures; information.</li>

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<a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/United_Nations_Conference_on_Environment_and_Development%28UNCED%29,Rio_de_Janeiro,Brazil">http://www.eoearth.org/article/United_Nations_Conference_on_Environment_and_Development%28UNCED%29,Rio_de_Janeiro,Brazil</a></p>

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There’s another aspect to this conspiracy theory that Joshua Holland doesn’t mention. If you’ve read much of Alex Jones’ propaganda or listened to Glenn Beck, you know that another right win obsession is population control. Jones claims that once the “New World Order,” or global government is established, the elites will kill off 90% of the world population in order to make the planet sustainable for the rich and powerful who will remain. This also ties in with the mysterious Georgia Guidestones, pictured at the beginning of this post. <a href="http://www.infowars.com/al-gore-agenda-21-and-population-control/" target="_blank">Here’s an excerpt</a> from an article (also linked above) from Jones’ website Infowars: “Al Gore, Agenda 21 And Population Control.”</p>

<p>When you start doing deep research into Agenda 21, you will find that describing it as a “comprehensive plan” is an understatement. Virtually all forms of human activity impact the environment. The rabid “environmentalists” behind the green agenda intend to take all human activity and put it into a box called “sustainable development”.

One of the key elements of “sustainable development” is population control. The United Nations (along with radical “environmental” leaders such as Al Gore) actually believes that there are far too many people on earth….<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/al-gore-empowers-women-to-have-fewer-children-to-curb-pollution/" target="_blank">Al Gore made the following statement</a> regarding population control….</p>

<p>“One of the things we could do about it is to change the technologies, to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the population, and one of the principle ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and women. You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can choose how many children have, the spacing of the children.

You have to lift child survival rates so that parents feel comfortable having small families and most important — you have to educate girls and empower women. And that’s the most powerful leveraging factor, and when that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices and more balanced choices.”</p>

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<p>Do you notice how whenever global leaders talk about “empowering” women these days it always ends up with them having less children?</p>

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SFU student, published on <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5086">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5086</a></p>

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    With the UN Panel’s judgment in, western politicians are quick to declare that the debate is over, and action must be taken immediately. What is this action that they are planning on taking? The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, Gordon Brown, soon expected to be the next Prime Minister after Tony Blair steps down, has publicly <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6473968,00.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">called for a “new world order”</font></u></a> to combat the threat of climate change. So let’s have a look at this New World Order that’s being implemented to combat the threat of global warming.  One major thing being pushed through with little, cancel that, no debate, is a UN recommendation that we <a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-02-28-voa2.cfm" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">impose “a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions”</font></u></a>. Most people will hear this and think, “Good, polluters need to be taxed”. Well, this means people who drive cars will be taxed, because according to Al Gore, when you drive your car, you’re causing global warming. This is no joke, as an article in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper reported that, “The government is throwing its weight behind a revolutionary plan that would <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1499780,00.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">force motorists to pay £1.30 a mile to drive</font></u></a> on Britain's busiest roads”. That is approximately $3.00 per mile. A study conducted by an expert in transportation and infrastructure found that, “a Birmingham commuter <a href="http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/news/article1392644.ece" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">might end up paying about £1,500 a year</font></u></a> for driving 19,000 miles.” That’s equal to about $3,000 per year. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know many people who can afford that. In the European Union, plans are being made to impose <a href="http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_426235932" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">an increase of taxes on diesel</font></u></a>. The European Commission recently proposed to “raise the minimum tax on commercial diesel fuel by nearly 20% over the next seven years”. This, they claim, is to help protect the environment because it will act as a deterrent for people to drive. This is just excellent news, because as anyone who has driven in the past two years knows, gas prices are just <i>too</i> low. Another concern arising out of the concept of taxing people for how far they drive is how it is done. According to the Transport Secretary in the UK, “<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4610755.stm" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">Every vehicle would have a black box to allow a satellite system to track their journey</font></u></a>”. This has been raising concerns in the UK of an increase in Big Brother technology and government programs. Proposals currently being made in Canada recommend that, “<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070228.wclimateplan0228/BNStory/ClimateChange/home" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">Canadians would pay an extra 10 cents per litre at the gas pumps</font></u></a>”, mirroring plans in the European Union. Another important recent news item is that Toronto “Mayor David Miller said yesterday <a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=db051662-1061-42bf-850b-a8338123a0fb" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">he would support ‘region-wide’ road tolls”</font></u></a>, to combat climate change.</p>

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  The European Union is also imposing <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=380442007" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">a ban on conventional light bulbs</font></u></a>, replacing them with energy-saving bulbs. That ban would fully be in effect within two years, forcing all 490 million citizens of the EU’s member states to switch from the current conventional lights they now have. However, some problems of this plan have been raised considering that the supposed energy-efficient light bulbs “have to be left on all the time, they're made from banned toxins and they won't work in half your household fittings. Yet Europe (and Gordon Brown) says 'green' lightbulbs must replace all our old ones.” They also are <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441881&in_page_id=1770" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">“up to 20 times more expensive” than conventional light bulbs</font></u></a>. They also give off a much harsher light and do not produce a steady stream of light but rather just flicker 50 times a second. These special “efficient” light bulbs also need more ventilation than conventional bulbs, which means that they cannot be in an enclosed light fitting. I’m sure that this won’t inconvenience any of the 490 million who are being forced to switch. In Canada, talk is taking place of having <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/national/story.html?id=ea7c3af2-393a-4681-ba50-c06f6a87bf79" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">a ban on conventional light bulbs</font></u></a> being included in Stephen Harper’s clean air act. This discussion was recently brought about by the act of <a href="http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/183923" rel="nofollow" target="blank"><u><font color="#003399">Australia taking moves to ban conventional light bulbs</font></u></a> by the year 2010. As well as that, a lawmaker in California has introduced a bill to ban the selling of conventional bulbs by 2012, with a similar bill also being introduced in New Jersey. Royal Phillips Electronics, one of the leading corporations in producing light fixtures announced that they would stop selling conventional bulbs by 2016. This will result in a massive cost to the consumer, who is losing their free will in where they spend their money and how they choose to help the environment. Hoping to get by without buying new bulbs and sneak it by the government? Good luck. As a recent report pointed out in the UK, the government has very intrusive plans to make the UK the world’s first green economy. Part of this plan is that every home in the UK is to be ‘carbon neutral’ within 10 years, making every house updated to “green” standards. The government said they would provide the renovators, which has led many to fear that it is a method of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=442150&in_page_id=1770" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u><font color="#003399">spying on homeowners to make sure they go green</font></u></a>. Blair Gibbs, a member of the Taxpayer’s Alliance and critic of the plan stated, “It's bad enough that politicians want to take so much of our money away in tax. For them also to intrude into our homes in order to have the ability to penalise us even further is simply unacceptable.”</p>

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