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Both Joan Veon and Henry Lamb have been tireless crusaders against this idiocy

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I would add Dr. Michael Coffman to this list.

Unfortunately we are losing this one. Government schools and television are completely indoctrinating children with this crap.

Michael Coffman http://www.discerningtoday.org/

I would also add Berit Kjos http://crossroad.to/ (If anyone doesn't understand what AGENDA 21 is, Berit explains it here), and Carol W. LaGrasse at Property Rights Foundation of America http://www.prfamerica.org/RussiansMayOwnLand.html. (Notice the title of that article. After reading that article, please take a few moments to read the short articles at the "Property Rights - International" Link, and then link to the homepage.) At the Property Rights International Link is an article entitled "JAPAN RECRUITS THE UNEMPLOYED TO INVENTORY WILDLIFE - Modern Version of "New Deal" Makes Work in Environment and Education (or link here: http://www.prfamerica.org/Japan-Recruits-Unemployed.html.) It talks about make-work entailing counting deer droppings, inventorying litter on city streets, catching snails, etc. PLEASE read this one!

Then go here to Prince Charles' New Deal Program "What is New Deal?" http://www.newdeal.gov.uk/homesub1.asp and the Environment Task Force http://www.thesite.org/newdeal/newdeal_gateway/env1.html. "WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENT TASK FORCE?........It is a network of organisations working to improve our environment. The work they do includes projects which IMPROVE RUN-DOWN ESTATES [The new plantations??], save energy and water, repair homes, RECYCLE WASTE AND LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRYSIDE........" Britain has a lot of this garbage that mirrors our own. We call it School-to-Work (i.e., the Workforce Investment Act. At one time, the Utah school-to-work website was touting taking kids out of class to learn how to clean sewer lines and dismantle bombs, all in co-ordination with their "employment partners". That's not what they called them, but all this is doing is training kids to do the dirty work of the global elite, subsidized by taxpayers of course, while our manufacturing jobs are exported to places where slave labor abounds and worker benefits and environmental controls do not apply.). Joan Veon and others say this is emanating from HRH Prince Charles, and what starts there eventually makes it over here.

At this link FREEDOM ENIGRES http://www.prfamerica.org/FreedomEmigresIndex.html read about a Mennonite family who got tired of fighting UN-driven Uncle Sam and moved to Costa Rica, where "............. After my third visit to Costa Rica this year I'm convinced that there is a place in the world where peace and freedom is respected more than in America. I find it fascinating to see how well a people can coexist and interact without full time government babysitters. Costa Rica's government is not very effective or efficient and thus not awfully powerful. This encourages people to look out for themselves and they do a pretty good job of it.........."

There are many others fighting the good fight.

Freepers, please keep them in your prayers.

Excellent additional information. Thanks.

This activity is going on at an ever increasing rate. Here in the Peoria Illinois area there are many projects underway. All have lofty sounding but vague titles, e.g. "Peoria Vision 2020", or "Illinois River Project 2020" and the like. No detailed imformation is available. Out of the blue a short news report will appear stating that the "Peoria Vision 2020" commision met to engage in regional planning (generally with "sustainable development as the goal) which will affect every taxpayer and property owner in the county.

Through persistent questioning you will be told the commision is comprised of government officials (federal, state, county and city), NGO's, businessmen, and private citizens. All are unelected and the commision will set policy which carries the force of law.

Investigation reveals that the initial meetings which determined the membership were allegedly open to the public. However, they were not well advertised, and occured during the work week during normal working hours. i.e. the only businessmen and private citizens who attended were invited, or had nothing better to do.

These "public private partnerships" are a symbiotic relationship between radical environmentalist NGO's and the state. They provide a vehicle for the radical left to implement it's environmental agenda under the color of law. And it provides the statists and collectivists in all levels of government more control over people.

All at the expense of individual liberty.

Regards

J.R.

Earth Summit 2002: http://www.earthsummit2002.org/
International Environmental Governance http://www.unep.org/ieg/Background.asp
IUCN on Global Environmental Governance http://www.iucn.org/info_and_news/press/globalgov.html

http://www.sdgateway.net/ Sustainable Development Gateway

SD In-Depth - Introduction to Sustainable Development http://www.sdgateway.net/introsd/
Learn about the future of our interlocked ecological and economic systems in a highly populated world that is characterized by major social disparities.

Solutions: * Produce differently - apply concepts of eco-efficiency and sustainable livelihoods (This will require us to think about the cradle-to-grave impact of all goods and services to make wise choices. It will also require a reorientation of industrial economies.)

* Consume differently The ranking of ecological footprints shows which countries are ecologically most sustainable and which are running an ecological deficit. The average American has an ecological footprint 1.7 times larger than a person in Sweden, 3.8 times that of someone in Hungary or Costa Rica, and more than 9 times that of an individual in India. Policies must be developed that promote consumption patterns which reduce our ecological footprint while meeting the needs of all people to enjoy a good quality of life. These policies must also raise the consumption of the world's more than a billion poor who are unable to meet their basic food, shelter and clothing needs.)

* Organize ourselves differently - increase public participation while reducing corruption and perverse subsidies (Good governance will require reforming decision-making processes to increase opportunities for public participation, including a wide variety of activities including co-management of natural resources. In its deepest form, public participation seeks to involve civil society in all steps of planning, implementation and evaluation of policies and actions. The misuse of power for private benefit or advantage, is also necessary to achieve sustainable development. As recent studies from the Earth Council and the International Institute for Sustainable Development have noted, the world is spending nearly $1.5 trillion annually to subsidize its own destruction.)

ENDA - This new approach says that local problems can be solved by local communities, by all groups in the community, including women and young people, working and taking decisions together. The newly empowered local community, through democratic decision-making and problem-solving, matures into a body capable of interacting productively with the local authority and even with the state.

LEAD - Leadership for Environment and Development http://www.lead.org/
LEAD's mission is to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to promote change towards patterns of economic development that are environmentally sustainable and socially equitable.
The Earth Forum http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/ecinfocom.htm
National Councils for Sustainable Development http://www.ncsdnetwork.org/
The Van Lenepp Programme on Economics and Sustainable Development. (The realization of sustainable development requires the mobilization of resources (including a transfer of resources to developing countries)

This will chill you to the bone: education for sustainability: an agenda for action http://www.gcrio.org/edu/pcsd/toc.html (This report is the product of work initiated at the "National Forum on Partnerships Supporting Education about the Environment," a demonstration project of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, held at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, in the fall of 1994.)