By Kathleen
Marquardt
February 25, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
February 25, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
Overview
When
public policy is made by elected officials who are accountable to the people who
are governed, then government is truly empowered by the consent of the governed.
Sustainable development has designed a process through which public policy is
designed by professionals and bureaucrats, and implemented administratively,
with only symbolic, if any, participation by elected officials. The
professionals and bureaucrats who actually make the policies are not accountable
to the people who are governed by them. Henry Lamb, Sovereignty
International
Public
Private Partnerships
The third path
to Sustainable Development, is Public/Private Partnerships. PPPs
are business ventures that are undertaken with a partnership between the
government (public sector) and private business entities. The businesses promise
the government that they will operate under the laws of sustainable development
and the government then acts as a bullying big brother to the businesses and
forces onerous rules and regulations on those who won’t play the PPP game; this
tactic often results in putting the competition out of business while the PPPs
get more powerful -- thanks to Congress.
We are
bombarded constantly by the PPPs messages of going “green” with their products
from toilets (that often take several flushes thus negating their claim to use
less water) to wind power to building materials. Are all of these products
really better for us and the environment? What about the new, green light
bulbs?
GE used their partnership with government to ban their own product – the incandescent light bulb and replace it with the new “green” bulbs. Soon we won’t be allowed to buy incandescent bulbs. Why? Because GE can make three times as much from the new ones as they are more expensive. But they are less green than fuel oil. They come with instructions on how to deal with them if they break -- don’t touch with your hands, you could absorb some of the mercury; don’t vacuum, the mercury vapor could be released into the air and you or your children could breathe it causing great harm, etc. It is a miracle they don’t require wearing a Hazmat suit when cleaning one up. Nevertheless they are considered “green” because the government decreed them to be because their manufacturer is a PPP and thus only produces “green” items.
GE used their partnership with government to ban their own product – the incandescent light bulb and replace it with the new “green” bulbs. Soon we won’t be allowed to buy incandescent bulbs. Why? Because GE can make three times as much from the new ones as they are more expensive. But they are less green than fuel oil. They come with instructions on how to deal with them if they break -- don’t touch with your hands, you could absorb some of the mercury; don’t vacuum, the mercury vapor could be released into the air and you or your children could breathe it causing great harm, etc. It is a miracle they don’t require wearing a Hazmat suit when cleaning one up. Nevertheless they are considered “green” because the government decreed them to be because their manufacturer is a PPP and thus only produces “green” items.
And now there
is a new kind of corporation being developed through Public Private Partnerships
–it’s called “benefit” corporations.
As Michael
Shaw of Freedom Advocates describes it, “imagine a legislated brotherhood of
business where favored businesses get to go to the front of the line for
permits, licenses and opportunities merely because they agree to advance the
principles of Sustainable Development and Agenda 21.
Five states
already have Benefit Corporation legislation: Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland,
Vermont and New Jersey. And six more are in the process of making it part of
their states corporate legal system, including California, Colorado, Michigan,
New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.”
Stakeholder
Councils
The fourth
path to Sustainable Development is called Stakeholder Councils. In our local
governments -- city and county -- an unelected, self-selected group of people
are steadily taking over the control of planning and then running the
government. Who are these unelected people? First there are the employees of the
NGOs (Non-governmental organizations affiliated with the UN) that were working
on a visioning plan or another regional planning scheme in the area(see
regionalism coming in subsequent article). The Council usually will be composed
of several of these NGO workers and one or two globalist-leaning, leading
members of the community.
How do these
Councils take control? They usually come into town to help run the process of a
“visioning” plan link or other program designed to regionalize the area. Once
they have completed the plan, if they like that area of the country, they stick
around to take over and become unelected officials who have no allegiance to the
community and no accountability to the electorate while the locally elected, and
thus legitimate, office holders are reduced to being rubber stamps for the
Council’s decrees.
There will not
be just one Stakeholder Council, there will be numerous ones, all overlapping
other Stakeholder Councils (again see regionalism in subsequent article). The
best way I can describe this is like when you make something out of paper mache.
you overlap a piece on top of another and another until you have completed your
piece of art. In this case it is not art but totalitarian control of the
country. Each of these Councils will be autonomous in their sphere. And none of
them will be beholding to the citizenry.
Let me give
you an example from here in Knoxville. We are being “sold” on planET
(plan East Tennessee), also called Five Counties, One Vision. The areas of
our lives that will be controlled by this stakeholder council will be
transportation, housing, economic development/jobs, environment and community
health. Think about it, a group of people who have very different views on what
is needed vis a vis these areas of our lives is going to be controlling every
aspect of housing, the environment and transportation. Here is the UN’s
Conference on Sustainable Development’s description of what defines good jobs “.
. . green and decent jobs defines these as positions across all
sectors that contribute to greening, preserving or restoring the quality of the
environment, promoting social inclusion and aiding in a transition to a
low-carbon economy.” Those are necessary factors in jobs for the future in
America; if a job doesn’t fit all those qualifications then it must be phased
out.
And let me
tell you what they mean by community health. Have you heard of Gross National Happiness? No?
Well you better learn about it now, it is going to replace Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) as the measurement of our national well-being. I said replace not
complement.
Here are The
Four Pillars of GNH
• the promotion
of equitable and sustainable socio-economic development
• the preservation and promotion of cultural values
• the conservation of the natural environment, and
• the establishment of good governance.
• the preservation and promotion of cultural values
• the conservation of the natural environment, and
• the establishment of good governance.
By now you
should be able to figure out what most of that Newspeak means to us normal
people. Equitable and sustainable socio-economic development means to take us
back from industrialized society to a meaner, more primitive one thus we are all
poor together struggling with survival. You can bet the cultural values being
promoted are not those of Western Culture and Judeo-Christian values. The
so-called conservation of the natural environment is actually the preservation
of pre-Columbian environment and the establishment of good governance is global
government.
Education
The fifth path
to Sustainable Development is education. Perhaps I should have made it the
first, but one needs to know what the goal is to understand what is happening in
our schools -- or a better term is retraining facilities. Our children are no
longer being educated or taught as we think of education -- reading, math,
science, history. To cut to the chase, let me quote from the introduction to
Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, “ Iserbyt has
also documented the gradual transformation of our once academically successful
education system into one devoted to training children to become compliant human
resources to be used by government and industry for their own purposes. This is
how fascist-socialist societies train their children to become servants of their
government masters. The successful implementation of this new philosophy of
education will spell the end of the American dream of individual freedom and
opportunity. The government will plan your life for you, and unless you comply
with government restrictions and regulations your ability to pursue a career of
your own choice will be severely limited.”
Our children
are being programmed to be good global citizens, to believe in social justice
instead of equal justice thus to sublimate themselves to the common good. Their
values, attitudes and beliefs are being altered to make them viable citizens of
a serfdom with earth worshipping as their religion. Again from the intro to
DDDoA, “Americans forget that the present government education system started as
a Prussian import in the 1840’s–’50’s. It was a system built on Hegel’s belief
that the state was “God” walking on earth. The only way to restore educational
freedom, and put education back into the hands of parents where it belongs, is
to get the federal government, with its coercive policies, out of education. The billions of dollars being spent by the federal government to
destroy educational freedom must be halted, and that can only be done by
getting American legislators to understand that the American people want to
remain a free people, in charge of their own lives and the education of their
children.”
You know how
the globalists are effecting the so-called education of our children, but how
are they effecting the transformation from a Republic (the greatest one the
world has ever known) to a Regionalized slave state? Through the International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and the American Planning
Association (APA) and a myriad of other programs to achieve the same goals
(Green Cities, Cool Mayors, Urban Environmental Accords, etc).
This is a lot
to grasp, but you must realize that it is but a drop in the bucket of what is
being done under the guise of protecting the environment. As I put it at the
beginning of this piece, back in part One, Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the end of civilization
as we know it. It is the end of private property, the elevation of the
collective over the individual. It is the redistribution of America’s wealth to
the global elite, it is the end of the Great American Experiment and the
Constitution. And, it is the reduction of 85% of the world’s
population.
There are a lot more aspects that you need to understand. But most importantly, we -- every American who loves his or her country and the republic formed by the most incredible forefathers the world has ever known -- must fight this with everything we have. There are so many of us and we have reason, right, sound science and the glory of Western Culture and our Judeo-Christian heritage behind us. If we truly want to win this fight, we can.
This is the
end of the overview of Agenda 21, the end of Western Civilization or a wake-up
call. The next part will cover ICLEI, the APA and the other means of achieving
the goals set out in the Agenda.
© 2012
Kathleen Marquardt - All Rights Reserved
No comments:
Post a Comment