Agenda 21: Conspiracy Theory or Real Threat?

Townhall.com ^ | July 2, 2011 | Rachel Alexander

[Kaslin]

Americans are so focused on Congress and Obama at the federal level of government right now that most are overlooking the socialism creeping in at the local level through Agenda 21. It is easy to overlook local government since people are saturated with too much information in the internet age. Compounding this is the fact that Agenda 21 is a dull topic, and it becomes understandable how it has been able to fly mostly under the radar since 1992, slowly working its way into our cities and counties.

Agenda 21, which reportedly means an agenda for the 21st century, is a United Nations program launched in 1992 for the vague purpose of achieving global "sustainable development." Congress never approved Agenda 21, although Presidents Obama, Clinton and George H.W. Bush have all signed Executive Orders implementing it. 178 other world leaders agreed to it in 1992 at the Rio Summit. Since then, the U.N. has mostly bypassed national governments, using Agenda 21’s International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (“ICLEI”) to make agreements directly with local governments. ICLEI's U.S. presence has grown to include agreements with over 600 cities, towns and counties here, which are now copying the land use plans prescribed in Agenda 21.

Some conservatives are trying to attract attention to Agenda 21 by labeling it a secret conspiracy to create a one world government. While that will wake some people up, it will turn off others. It does not matter whether it is a conspiracy or not. There are people on the left side of the political spectrum - who may even believe they have good intentions - working together to spread their vision for society worldwide. Whether they meet in dark rooms or openly in public meetings is irrelevant; they are having great success convincing local governments in the U.S. to adopt their socialist and extreme environmentalist programs under the guise of feel-good buzz words. Left wing billionaire George Soros's Open Society has provided $2,147,415 to ICLEI. Van Jones' Green for All and the Tides Foundations’ Apollo Alliance are also reportedly ICLEI contributors.

Agenda 21 ostensibly seeks to promote "sustainability" (the latest revisionist word for "environmentalism," since Americans have learned too many negative things about environmentalism). "Sustainability" is an amorphous concept that can be interpreted to an extreme degree that would regulate and restrict many parts of our lives. When will the level of carbon emissions be low enough? How much must we reduce our consumption of fossil fuels? Preserving the environment is a dubious science, and what steps are really necessary to protect the environment are anyone's guess.

Agenda 21 promotes European socialist goals that will erode our freedoms and liberties. Most of its vague, lofty sounding phrases cause the average person’s eyes to glaze over, making it easier to sneak into our communities. The environmentalist goals include atmospheric protection, combating pollution, protecting fragile environments, and conserving biological diversity. Agenda 21 goes well beyond environmentalism. Other broad goals include combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting health, and reducing private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms. It seeks to cram people into small livable areas and institute population control. There is a plan for “social justice” that will redistribute wealth.

Once these vague, overly broad goals are adopted, they are being interpreted to allow massive amounts of new, overreaching regulations. Joyce Morrison from Eco-logic Powerhouse says Agenda 21 is so broad it will affect the way we "live, eat, learn and communicate." Berit Kjos, author of Brave New Schools, warns that Agenda 21 "regulation would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation - even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system." Even one of the authors of Agenda 21 has admitted that it "…calls for specific changes in the activities of all people…" These steps are already being enacted little by little at the local levels.

Since the U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and uses more energy than any other country, it stands to lose the most from environmental regulations. The goal of "sustainability," which comes down to using government to heavy-handedly accomplish vague goals of caring for the earth, goes contrary to our free market capitalism. Even more unfair, struggling third world countries and communist countries that cannot financially afford to comply with the onerous environmental regulations will continue their high levels of fossil fuel consumption, and the U.S. will be forced by U.N. regulators to conserve even more to make up for those countries.

Obama signed Executive Order 13575 earlier this month, establishing a "White House Rural Council" prescribed by Agenda 21. The amount of government Obama has directed to administer this is staggering. Obama committed thousands of federal employees in 25 federal agencies to promote sustainability in rural areas, completely bypassing Congressional approval. Some of these agencies are unrelated to rural areas. The agencies will entice local communities into adopting Agenda 21 programs by providing them millions of dollars in grants. Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh writing for Canada Free Press analyzed the order and wrote, "it establishes unchecked federal control into rural America in education, food supply, land use, water use, recreation, property, energy, and the lives of 16% of the U.S. population."

Tea party groups, talk show host Glenn Beck, and organizations like Freedom Advocates, Catholic Investigative Agency and Sovereignty International are working hard to expose Agenda 21, but there is only so much a few can do. Some local governments have become aware of what Agenda 21 is really about and dropped out of ICLEI this year. The Carroll County Board of Commissioners, Montgomery County in Pennsylvania and the city of Edmond, Oklahoma have all withdrawn their participation.

It will be difficult to defeat Agenda 21 because it requires changing the attitudes of over 600 separate localities across the U.S. Ideally, a conservative president could roll back the executive orders implementing it, but considering Republican President H.W. Bush was a disappointment in this area that may be too much to hope for. If Republicans take over Congress they could challenge the huge power grab Obama made with Executive Order 13575 and ban Agenda 21 in the U.S. For now, local activists must champion this issue, much like Texans for Accountable Government has done, educating local boards and commissions and serving on them. Agenda 21 is a tedious and overwhelming topic, and until it can be explained in an easy-to-understand way that interests the average American, it will be tough to beat back.

[Eva]

You have no idea how far along the Democrats are with implementing the Agenda 21 goals, especially the Wildlands projects which attempt to link urban areas around the world and move people and freight through rural areas that the left would like to put off limit to human activity. The idea is to herd people into urban areas, to mixed used communities (like big communes) where they would have little need for cars.

I have been following this because of a Gateway project that is planned for my neighborhood. I was astounded to read just recently that they are using the wildfires as an excuse to further limit human access to large sections of the west, as a form of fire prevention, they are claiming. They want to create access corridors through the areas, putting large swathes of land off limits.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***It seeks to cram people into small livable areas and institute population control. *****

Think of everyone living in a Cabrini Green housing complex or a Stalinist cement style complex with no choice but that of some bureaucrat.

Oh dam! METROPOLIS comes to mind!

[B4Ranch]

>>Hopefully a President Palin, Bachmann, or Cain would put an end to this insanity. Problem is, A21 is so entrenched in most of our state and local communities that I’m not sure if any President as the power to eradicate it at this point.<<

Hopefully when enough people learn that the United Nations has one goal and one goal only. It is in their name “United Nations”, one world where all nations forfeit their sovereign individuality and become truly united under a single leader. Believing that our American legislators would surrender our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence to become a part of the this One World is more than most citizens can comprehend.

One problem is it is already happening. Piece by piece they are taking away our individual liberty. All in the name of national security, of course. Agenda 21 has hundreds of individual tentacles. There is no possible way to shut it down as long as we are a member nation of the United Nations. We are funding 25% of the UN’s annual costs now. In effect we are paying to disassemble our own form of government. we must convince our legislators to get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN.

[Quix]

Prayer may alter the timelines and severities in SOME locales.

Scripture is clear

that the global government of satan/anti-Christ

WILL control every nation for at least 3.5 years and most of the world for 7 years.

And, that it will be a time worse than the world ever has known or ever will know again . . .

and that unless God shortens the days as He said He will—no flesh would be saved.

That much is plain Bible.

Working back from that broad outline it is fairly easy to see how the globalists are shoving the world headlong toward such events and conditions.

Folks who don’t believe that . . . simply are Biblically ignorant; Biblically obtuse; willfully blind; uninformed or sleep-walking.

[Quix]

YUP.

However, there’s no real stopping this train.

Scripture is clear about that.

Those who want FREEDOM MUST walk in intimate relationship with Christ whether they live or die.

HE ALONE IS THE SOURCE OF FREEDOM AND ALL PROVISION OF ANYTHING GOOD.

[Ohioan]

"it establishes unchecked federal control into rural America in education, food supply, land use, water use, recreation, property, energy, and the lives of 16% of the U.S. population."

What is really chilling in that sentence, is that it interjects the Federal Government, now under a despicable anti-American crack-pot, into local education. Any small town or rural school board that allows Obamanist values to be taught to its local children, needs to be replaced--and replaced immediately, if recall is available in the State.

One of the reasons that we are already in crisis mode, is from the corruption now permeating the youth of America, as witnessed in the last election, where thousands were seen chanting like 1934 Nazis in support of Obama's vow to "change" America. Let us hope that many folk will rededicate themselves this Monday (the 4th) to changing America back to what we were promised originally--no central interference in our daily lives; local control over local institutions.

William Flax

[Ohioan]

The cult of "Diversity," which is actually a war on the true diversity of nations--an attempt to homogenize peoples so that they will not resist the movement for World Government--is a cultural attack in the same direction as are the other projects discussed in this thread.

The folly of this collectivist/humanist project is unlike anything seen since the ancient event at Babel, where Nimrod--according to the brief account--sought to unite the peoples in building an absurd tower. For a current reflection on the hubris involved, now as then, Pursuit Of "Diversity"--A Return To Babel?.

William Flax

[Quix]

From:

http://www.freerepub...osts?page=32#32


~SIGH~ Old news. Goes all the way back to Bush #41, actually.... --ExSoldier; (FR)

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BTW, THANKS FOR REALIZING THE FACTS IN SUCH MATTERS--NO "theory" to it! Prayers that all FREEPERS soon will--while the net is still functioning!

As far as how far back it goes . . . Try at least back to:

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, in a novel he published in 1884 called Coningsby, the New Generation

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"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. "

British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876.

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"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."

[QX: NO "practically" to it--they do--totally--control both.]

New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922.

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"We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world."

Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June 1931 speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.

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"From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."

Winston Churchill, stated to the London Press, in 1922.

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"For a long time I [his son-in-law] felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.

"The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."

Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law

http://www.freerepub...osts?page=60#60 .

colorful NWO QUIXICATION of quotes:

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http://www.freerepub...ts?page=153#153

[hedgetrimmer]

It’s what the Obama administration refers to as a ‘government charity’.

In my view NGOs and nonprofit corporation tax breaks should be eliminated. They become an arm of the government as long as they are tax exempt and that spells U-N-C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L.

[B4Ranch]

>>However, there’s no real stopping this train.

Scripture is clear about that.<<

In reviewing the Bible, I haven’t noticed any dates regarding just when the train is going to pull up to the station. When is the mass disembarkation supposed to occur? This century or next?

[Quix]

I think the Mat 24

THIS GENERATION that sees such things begin, WILL see the conclusion of such a sequence . . .

indicates to me that say

125 years from 1948 or 125 years from 1967 . . . should find the planet in the Millenial reign of Christ.

I say 125 years because some folks are living 120 years already and my personal definition is that as long as there’s one person left alive to see such who was born when Israel became a nation again or recaptured Jerusalem . . . that Mat 24 Scripture would be fulfilled.

My bias is 1948.

I don’t think the rush of the globalists toward utter tyrannical control can go on a great deal longer at a slow pace. They’ve been speeding things up a LOT the last 10-20 years.

Then there’s all the CLUB OF ROME dire predictions re pollution, famine etc. etc. etc. . . . all the worse given their deliberate intensifying of such problems toward population reduction.

So, I doubt that the outside boundary of 125 years from 1948 will be reached before such things are concluded.

[Quix]

All,

I realize some folks have a hassle with my Quixications with fonts, colors etc.

Sometimes I try to remember and do it both ways but most of the time I’m in a hurry and believe that the jangly startling nature of the Quixications catch more attention and cause the visual images to lodge longer in memory.

Sorry to those whose reading is slowed by such. My priorities above are not likely to change. I’ve seen too much benefit over the years from feedback even years later. And, every semester, my students persistently tell me the same thing.

[sport]

Prayer is our only hope at this point. I do believe that we should fight and resist, but, only as directed by the Good Lord. I think that He will see that we are victorus.

[Quix]

CERTAINLY HE WILL BE VICTORIOUS AT ARMAGEDDON as He was at The Cross.

Though the fallen angels have evidently convinced the commie globalist oligarchy/ruling elites that THEY with the fallen angels can defeat Almighty God at Armageddon.

Satan knows better but it helps sell his pride/power-mongering/greed schtick and thereby trap more ignorant folks for hell.

And, I believe that there will be awesome victories for an OVERCOMING CHURCH ALONG THE WAY . . . IN VARIOUS LOCALES AND IN GOD’S ANGEL PROTECTED SAFE-HAVENS.

However, there will also be plenty of victories through martyrdom.

[B4Ranch]

>>They become an arm of the government ...<<

Intentional intervention.

[B4Ranch]

If your clock is correct, I’m glad I won’t be around to see it happen. Society is crazy enough already.

[Quix]

Perhaps that wasn’t clear enough. LOL.

I think we will all be here at least until the Rapture . . .

I HOPE that’s Pre-trib!

Some think Tribulation will begin this Sept.

I’m not sure it’s that soon.

Some think we’re already in it.

I think the AC has to be revealed for the start of it.

[wolfcreek]

There are those who keep the train running on time.

Guess ya’ll have heard the story about what happens after a president in sworn in?

They are taken to a viewing room in the White house basement and shown this film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4

They are then asked if they have any questions.

Nuff said.

[Smokin' Joe]

It's the New World Order Master Plan. It has been advanced regardless of the Constitution, of who is in power (Pubs or Dems), etc., and in the shadows of broad daylight, hidden behind a host of code words such as "sustainable', 'balanced', 'wildlands', 'green', and a host of others.

People need to make themselves aware of the plan, which sounds very reasonable as presented, until you realize it is the justification for all of the onerous regulation/legislation/executive orders which are pressing the American People out of rural areas into 'manageable communities' (cities) where they are easier to control.

[hedgetrimmer]

Yep.