One More Month to Block Rejoining UNESCO!

hedgetrimmer, I'm sure you're right about all of those other sites. I've spent thousands of hours since 1998 reading this thing from every angle, as a lot of FReepers have. Another one that's totally NWO is the Smithsonian. They are a major propaganda arm of this thing - their site sounds like it came right off the pages of Agenda 21. There's no doubt in my mind that this is real. I can't escape it. I go to the local school to see a play and see the NWO propaganda the kids are regurgitating posted on all the walls outside of their classrooms. I go to Busch Gardens and kids are giving a production about the wolves, and why they have to 'take their rightful place in the wild'. Same with propaganda TV - Marty Stouffer declaring that we MUST set aside vast tracts for the wolves and grizzlies 'even if we will not be able to live or play there'. You can't get away from it. Now we have the Patriot Act, and the Army's 'honor guard' rapelling from helicopters at night and using night vision technology and all the other tools at their disposal for the express purpose of breaking into houses and stealing from them; swat teams bursting into a restaurant off Times Square and kicking open doors, and training guns on EVERYONE in the restaurant, with one muttering: We're in a war; we're in a war; doesn't anyone understand we're in a war? Cops can break into your house and steal your hard drive or anything else they please (or even plant things) and don't even have to tell you they've been there. People can be hauled off and detained and God knows what else, and no one need be told. Then there is the dentist who has been charged with medicaid fraud and held because he says he's innocent and can prove it, and refused to be drugged to stand trial, even though he passed the government's own competency test 100 percent! I haven't had a chance to check out the thread today, but this was on propaganda TV last week. Do you all know he is an 'enemy of the state' because he witnessed the government setting the fire at WACO? That's what that is all about. The government wants to silence its critics anyway it can. Remember when that Russian mother started yelling at HER government when the Kursk went down? First thing they did was hit her with a syringe. For this, they want to disarm all of us as if WE were the enemy (actually we are, in their minds).

The president tells us 'I pray', and spends a reported $1 million (?) for a photo-op on an aircraft carrier, while there are 350,000 homeless vets, and a lot of vets who are not receiving the health care they were promised, and took low-paying salaries for. I talked to one the other night. He's got service-related arthritis of the wrist and spine, etc., trained for a job and then was told that they couldn't hire him because he would not be able to stand all day, has lost 110 pounds in a year, has been told he was given tainted blood by the army and as a result has cancer, is given $800 a month to live on which hardly pays the rent in the shadow of the Pentagon and the White House, and if he tries to make any more money than that, he will lose the $800. Now we're told to wave the flag on flag day and serve 'our' country, which really means slave and die for the global plantation masters, who have used conflict and wars and thievery and outright murder to advance their agenda for hundreds of years, blithely stepping over millions of dead bodies without missing a beat. I am so disgusted. All I can do is keep hammering away with the truth. Just when I think I'm wasting space, because SURELY everyone knows all this by now, someone comes along and I realize, no, some people are still asleep, and MAYBE I can make a difference.

I have my doubts, though. I, as I'm sure other FReepers do, see this as a spiritual battle more than anything else, and I'm not sure just what plans God has for this country, anymore. But I have parted ways with a lot of Christians on this site. The best way to explain might be to give you another link (!) http://www.preteristarchive.com/Jesus_is_Israel/index.html I think pre-milleniallism is a BIG part of the problem, because it plays right into the hands of the ones who want to enslave us - they've been plotting this for a VERY long time, IMO. Maybe when pastors start teaching what the Bible really says, and Christians know they can wield the mighty sword of God's truth, and are conquerors in Christ, we could make some progress. Until then, I don't hold out much hope for this country.

What recently happened with the UN vote by France and Germany over the Iraq war? If you read any news anywhere, you will see France, Germany and Canada constantly undermining the US.

And we rightly gave them the finger.

Empire of Lies
By L. Neil Smith

http://www.sierratimes.com/03/06/20/lneilsmith.htm

Creeping Tyranny (My two favorite words: "Sustainable Development")
WorldNetDaily ^ | May 31, 2003 | Henry Lamb

Posted on 05/31/2003 1:46 PM PDT by sauropod

Creeping tyranny

Posted: May 31, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Editor's note: The May edition of WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine is devoted entirely to the United Nations and globalism, and includes an in-depth, groundbreaking report by Henry Lamb. The issue focuses on the critical decisions America faces in the near future, which will determine whether it stays a free and sovereign nation or submits to global governance under the authority of the U.N. Readers may subscribe to Whistleblower at WND's online store.

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The term "sustainable development" has flooded both the media and public policy since it was introduced to the world in 1987, by the U.N.'s World Commission on Environment and Development. At the time, the term was defined to mean:

... to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Policy makers and wannabe policy makers struggle to interpret this meaningless definition. Nevertheless, there are currently more than 50 bills working their way through Congress to implement some facet of "sustainable development." Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., has introduced a constitutional amendment to guarantee all citizens "the right to a ... sustainable environment."

Stephen Viederman, president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, writes in his article, "Knowledge for Sustainable Development": "It is not so much about what is, but what should be." The question arises: According to whose vision? Viederman continues to offer perhaps the most succinct and honest interpretation: "sustainability is a community's control of capital, in all of its forms – natural, human, human-created, social and cultural. ..."

This interpretation begs for a definition of "community." If community means the collection of individuals who have chosen to invest their capital in a particular place where they live, then we have had "sustainable development" since long before the term was ever coined. This, then, cannot be what Viederman means by community. "Community control" must mean something else. (Here note the similarity of Viederman's idea to Webster's definition of socialism: "The system of ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by the community rather than by private individuals...").

The definition of "community control" is discussed extensively in Chapter 8 of Agenda 21. In particular, 8.3 says, "The overall objective is to improve or restructure the decision-making process. ..." This recommendation was amplified in the U.S. by the President's Council on Sustainable Development declaration: "We need a new collaborative decision process. ..."

Through the PCSD, during the 1990s, the federal government transformed the policy decision process into the "collaborative" process used throughout the U.N., and now, throughout all federal agencies and in most communities.

Before the "sustainable development" enlightenment, any citizen could request any elected official, or any elected government body, to consider any policy recommendation or initiative, at any public meeting. Before any government body, or government agency, implemented a new law or policy, every citizen had the right to speak his piece in favor, or in opposition to the proposal. Finally, the elected officials voted, in public, to adopt or reject each proposal. This is an untidy, inefficient, slow, and cumbersome process. It is participatory democracy, in which the governed express their desires and through which the governed hold their representatives directly accountable.

The enlightened process speeds things up and shields elected officials from accountability. It is, indeed, an ingenious win/win design for the advocates of change, and for the elected officials.

The enlightened process avoids the unruly public, and focuses on "stakeholders" to participate in the decision process. The initiators of the proposal decide who the stakeholders are, and choose those who are inclined to support the particular proposal to serve on some kind of "visioning" or "stakeholder" council. Note the similarity to the U.N. procedure that allows only NGOs (non-government organizations) that have been "accredited" by the U.N. to participate in their meetings.

These "selected" councils typically consist of government employees and NGO professionals and are often in place and functioning, long before the public is even aware of their existence or purpose. When they are presented to the community, their work has been mostly completed, they are often presented with great media fanfare for some grand and glorious purpose, and they often employ a few local dignitaries to provide the "Day-Glo" necessary to achieve credibility.

In recent years, organizations such as Alabama's Alliance for Citizens Rights, or Freedom 21 Santa Cruz, and many others, have learned what these selected councils are about and have demanded a seat at the table. Typically, while publicly welcoming their input, dissenters are often ridiculed, circumvented and ignored in the development of policy proposals whose objectives were determined long before the first meeting was ever held.

Policy proposals developed through this process, presented in the press as a wonderful road map to a sustainable future, are rarely challenged by elected officials, who don't want to be seen as bucking the trend toward sustainable development. Consequently, elected officials are bypassed, and power is conveyed to the various selected councils, which, effectively, control and operate the public policies of the community.

This is what Viederman means when he says "community control." This is the transformation that is taking place in communities all across the country, and the world. This is what Al Gore meant when he said in his 1992 book, "Earth in the Balance," that sustainable development will require a "wrenching transformation" of society. The transformation is from a free society, to a controlled society.

Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/920943/posts

To: sauropod

This is the email I got: (it included this link to info on the Pilgrim Family: http://mccarthy-kennicott.com/MJ2003/index.html )

I cannot emphasize too strongly how important this information is. This could well be a life-or-death/injury issue for a wonderful family whose only 'crime' is being an inholder in an Alaskan National Park. The National Park
Service lusts after the four hundred acres that were purchased by and rightfully belong to the Pilgrim family, and NPS is hunting this family like a wolfpack stalks
a pregnant elk. This is criminal and must not be allowed to happen! Please, read this through and share it with many, MANY others -- send it to the far reaches of this country and the world, and help us get a HUGE public outcry and
media attention and the light of Truth focused on this! We only have two weeks, so please, set aside the time it takes to send this on to everyone you know that cares about families and freedom in America! This family -- and through
them, our own freedom -- needs our help!

Julie, prayerfully

Very Important!

Things getting worse in WRST (Wrangell / St. Elias National Park)

Date: 5/31/03

From: RickK@xxxxxxx (Rick Kenyon)

Thanks, Julie. Things are getting worse. These people have done nothing wrong. They don't deserve to be treated like criminals. Below is an email I sent this morning.

Original Message

RE: Things getting worse in WRST

Date: Sat, May 31, 2003

From: "Chuck Cushman"

To: "WSEN" WSEN@starband.net

"Ray Kreig" ray@kreig.com,

"Jack Phelps" Jack_Phelps@gov.state.ak.us

dshultz@attalaska.net

Rick:

You need to be in touch with all both Senator Stevens' staff as well as Murkowski and Rep. Don Young. They need to know this is escalating.

The Park Service needs to stand down to prevent things from getting out of hand. Neither they or you want to get involved in any violence. I know you know
this. By shining a light on the Park Service actions, they will become more cautious.

Send letters to all three in Washington, DC by fax (not snail mail) and send
a copy to the Park Service.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----

From: WSEN [mailto:WSEN@starband.net]

Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003

To: Chuck Cushman; Ray Kreig; Jack Phelps; dshultz@attalaska.net

Subject: Things getting worse in WRST

The NPS is pulling out all of the stops in their effort to destroy the Pilgrim family. I talked with Assistant Superintendent Hunter Sharp yesterday and he told me the following:

On or about June 14, 2003, a 3-person BLM survey crew will arrive at the Marvelous Millsite property and the Spokane Placer for the purpose of establishing
the boundaries. (That's fine, we want the NPS to know where its property is.)

They will be accompanied by a NPS 'Special Events Team' of 6-8 armed Rangers, plus local Rangers. This is ridiculous. NPS has painted the family as being dangerous and is escalating this thing into something bizarre.

At the same time, a team of "experts" will start up the McCarthy Creek Trail (McCarthy-Green Butte RS135) for the purpose of documenting any "damage" that may have been done to the park lands. (NPS does not recognize that this
as a legal state right-of-way, despite mountains of evidence that it is.)

This team will consist of a Biologist, a Fisheries person, two Botanists, an Archeologist and a Geologist. They will be accompanied by 3 more armed Rangers. Helicopters will be used to transport this army of NPS shooters and
surveyors up the creek, although the Pilgrims have specifically offered use of their airstrip by light plane to avoid the noise and confusion of helicopter landings and overflights near the livestock. NPS specifically announced that "We will take all reasonable precautions to minimize any disruption" during the survey. Another lie.

Bear in mind that these folks are pacifists, very akin to the Mennonite faith. They are a law-abiding, God-fearing family of 17 that dresses differently
and talks differently (they are outspoken in their faith in God and their opposition to evil) but are loving, caring people who have been a real blessing to
their neighbors. The trail in question has been listed in state statute as a legal, valid state right-of-way.

NPS apparently plans to charge the family with any "damage" it may find along this route, although others have maintained the road in recent years and have not been cited or even warned by the NPS.

This is clearly a case where a family has been targeted for punitive action. It apparently is also designed to frighten the other residents into submission. The slander/smear campaign by the park people has been disgusting.

At the same time, the NPS informational office in Chitina as well as the Kiosk at the end of the McCarthy Road has been closed due to "budget cuts." Apparently, the park management is funneling all of its resources into this campaign
to destroy this family and get their property (400 acres in the middle of the park).

The town of McCarthy is very upset about this. We plan to evacuate the children from the property and send observers up to the property, but beyond that, we need help.

What should we do? We feel like the Wrangell / St. Elias National Park has become "occupied territory" and is being ruled by a dictator.

----- ----- ------ ------

Contact information for this very important issue is:

Rick and Bonnie Kenyon Wrangell St. Elias News mailto:RickK@starband.net 907-554-4454.

Rick and his wife, Bonnie, publish the Wrangell St. Elias News at McCarthy, Alaska, semi-monthly.

http://mccarthy-kennicott.com/MJ2003/index.html

To send Letters to the Editor: WSEN@starband.net

The local lodge, the largest business in McCarthy (McCarthy Lodge) owned by Neil Darish, 907-554-4402 Email: help@mccarthylodge.com

Keith and Lauri Rowland, local contractors: 907-554-4498 (no email)

The Pilgrim Family (please use discretion when giving this one out)907-554-xxxx. Papa will not be there as he cannot get up the trail without being cited by the NPS. Country Rose is the name of the mother, give her a call if you
like. They are precious people. Some of the children will be there also, at least for a while. Remember Alaska is 4 hours behind East Coast time.

Thanks for your help,

Rick

28 posted on 06/01/2003 8:20 AM PDT by Kay Ludlow

Creeping Tyranny (My two favorite words: "Sustainable Development")
WorldNetDaily ^ | May 31, 2003 | Henry Lamb

Posted on 05/31/2003 1:46 PM PDT by sauropod

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/920943/posts

To: Eva

Agenda21 is much more comprehensive than the Wildlands Project. It is basically a wish list of every liberal causus belli:

The Agenda 21 uses environmental regulations to institute bureaucratic control at the local level. To impart an inkling of the scope of this monster, we will start by simply listing the Chapter headings:

Social and Economic Dimensions, International Cooperation to Accelerate Sustainable Development in Developing Countries and Related Domestic Policies, Combating Poverty, Changing Consumption Patterns, Demographic Dynamics and Sustainability, Protecting and Promoting Human Health, Promoting Sustainable Human Settlement Development, Integrating Environment and Development in Decision-Making, Protection of the Atmosphere, Integrated Approach to the Planning and Management of Land Resources, Combating Deforestation, Desertification and Drought, Managing Fragile Ecosystems: Sustainable Mountain Development, Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, Conservation of Biological Diversity, Environmentally Sound Management of Biotechnology, Protection of the Oceans, All Kinds of Seas, including Enclosed and Semi-Enclosed Seas, and Coastal Areas and the Protection, Rational Use and Development of Their Living Resources, Protection of the Quality and Supply of Freshwater Resources: Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management and Use of Water Resources, Environmentally Sound Management of Toxic Chemicals, Including Prevention of Illegal International Traffic in Toxic and Dangerous Products, Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous Wastes, Including Prevention of Illegal International Traffic in Hazardous Wastes, Environmentally Sound Management of Solid Wastes and Sewage-Related Issues, Safe and Environmentally Sound Management of Radioactive Wastes, Strengthening the Role of Major Groups: Global Action for Women Towards Sustainable and Equitable Development, Children and Youth in Sustainable Development, Recognizing and Strengthening the Role of Indigenous People and their Communities, Strengthening the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations: Partners for Sustainable Development, Local Authorities Initiatives in support of Agenda 21, Strengthening the Role of Workers and their Trade Unions, Strengthening the Role of Business and Industry, Scientific Technological Communities, Strengthening the Role of Farmers, Financial Resources and Mechanisms Introduction, Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology, Cooperation and Capacity-Building, Science for Sustainable Development, Promoting Education, Public Awareness, and Training, National Mechanisms International Cooperation for Capacity-Building in Developing Countries, International Institutional Arrangements, International Legal Instruments and Mechanisms, Information for Decision-Making, ...

Did you ever read the Gulag Archipelago? If you did, how long was it before you realized that it was not just one case of massive injustice that was the point of the book, but the sheer enormity of it?

The Agenda 21 or Sustainable Development makes a farce of representative democracy. It has no place in a constitutional republic, but you are getting it anyway, unless you do something about it very soon.

"Changing Consumption Patterns" is about changing yours. "Programs for Women" and "Demographic Dynamics and Sustainability" are ways to take control of reproduction through healthcare. They want the children first, with their School-to-Work programs and Outcome-Based Education programmes. They want to control unions to control votes. They will use the claims of "indigenous peoples" as a lever for taking land, even though nobody knows who that really is much less the legitimate extent of their claims.

The civil servants will love Sustainable Development because they get to regulate what is or isn't "sustainable" to suit their purposes. They'll have mass-transit and bicycles. They'll have low-income housing, rent control, overcrowded schools, and the social problems that come with them. They'll mix those used-to-be middle class kids with children of immigrant workers raised on a steady media and public school diet of class warfare. They'll produce an ample supply of customers for the criminal justice system and those Psych Majors at the University.

This is Agenda 21. The UN intends to control your life, through incremental mandates instituted by your local government bureaucracy. You will never see it. You will never vote on it. No matter which path they use, the agencies can pen the new regulations under "threat" of lawsuit and down the pipe it comes: enforceable administrative rules without legislation.

This book has chronicled but a few of the early manifestations of the Agenda 21 in Santa Cruz County (logging, septic, and the listing of coho). Each time there has been a public protest or threat of a lawsuit, the agency formed a TAC to accept public "input." Each time the TAC convened, it was either advisory in nature (Timber-TAC under the control of the Planning Department or coho under CDFG) or manned by a majority of civil servants (Septic-TAC). Consensus, as defined by any normal human being, did not exist. It is fortunate that in California such public meetings are subject to the much-abused Brown Act, which requires that minutes of the meetings be available. T-TAC meetings were taped instead, just try to get a transcript. You would pay thousands of dollars to get one.

Congress? The Constitution? Public takings of private property? You just don't understand. These problems are about transformation products in Global Commons. Those trees on your property make oxygen for the rest of the planet and consume CO2 for the poor in China. Shell wants to trade the carbon credits that should have been yours to sell. You middleclass consumers, on the other hand, are producers of that noxious poison, and you use more of those Global Commons than your share. Have you no compassion?

48 posted on 06/01/2003 6:00 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (California: Where government is pornography, every day!)

Creeping Tyranny (My two favorite words: "Sustainable Development")
WorldNetDaily ^ | May 31, 2003 | Henry Lamb

Posted on 05/31/2003 1:46 PM PDT by sauropod

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/920943/posts

Montana: Civil Disobedience Considered To Battle Federal Grizzly Policy
Report by J.J. Johnson - Sierra Times.com
Flathead County, MT - In a matter that has been brewing for sometime, residents of Montana's Glacier Park area say they are being economically terrorized by federal grizzly policies. The talk has gone beyond just protesting about it. Reports are coming in that Montanans may follow the example of Klamath Falls, and take matters into their own hands.
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/04/26/article_jj.htm

The outrage in northwest Montana is over the Forestry Service's road closures that have been placed in affect to protect the grizzly bear, wolves and other endangered species. There are 2,104 roads in what the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) describes as a forest system. At present, according to the state of Montana, 1,910 of those 2,104 roads (91%) have been gated or rendered impassable by permanent Kelly humps made by bulldozers under federal contract.

In 1997, the Forest Service adopted the Road Management Plan (RMP) which identified forestry roads in the state and scheduled them for either maintenance or obliteration. Although a large portion of Glacier National Park lies within the boundaries of Flathead county, this is a state-wide issue.

Paul Pozin, Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana told the Sierra Times the issue of road closures is not just a Kalispell or Glacier Park issue, it's where ever the USFS makes policy. Still, how each area is affect should be measured differently. "Numbers of individuals are very effected by it", said Pozin. "A [road closure] could for example, close an outfitting business." Outfitters are small businesses that depend on outdoor recreational activity in the local area. It is these small businesses that make up the bulk of the work force in rural Montana.

Other businesses directly affected are logging, and fire suppression. In July of 2000, Western residents defied a federal order and re-opened the disputed Jarbidge Canyon Road in Elko County Nevada. Among the reasons was road access needed for fire suppression.

Montana: Civil Disobedience Considered To Battle Federal Grizzly Policy
Report by J.J. Johnson - Sierra Times.com
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/04/26/article_jj.htm

Will the republicans join the RATS on this issue? We know the rats are in favor.

bump

The following article calls for abolishment of our STATES via Regional Governance. Regions were called "departments" in the article. This is the article to which Ed Balajeski referred in his pamphlet - Regionalism in Pennsylvania. As Ed mentioned, because of the outrage at this plan, they pulled in their horns and began quietly and insidiously implementing the plan laid before the turn of the century. They infer that if they can't get rid of our Constitution, the Supreme Court can do it by creative interpretation. Keep in mind, as you read, that the article was published in 1935. Notice how often the author refers to our Constitution as a major impediment.

Today, January 2000, Regional Governance is being promulgated by the Watershed Approach.
Jackie

http://www.sweetliberty.org/nytm1935.htm

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge has admitted that our local government borders are "artificial". http://www.sweetliberty.org/nytm1935.htm

Regional Governance
Regionalism: Sneaking America into World Government
http://www.sweetliberty.org/region.htm

GOVERNORS for SMART GROWTH -- 1999

PENNSYLVANIA
Governor Tom Ridge, R
Present term began January 1999
Summary

(State of the state) Pennsylvania is a pace-setter in environmental protection, recycling and brownfield redevelopment. It is also one of only three states graded "A" for fiscal management. With a new $37 billion budget, the state will boost e-commerce, redesign economic development tools and advance a number of environmental, educational and growth management programs. They include the Growing Greener initiative, the School District Empowerment Act, CyberStart, Read to Succeed and the Technology Investment Authority.

Quotes

"We're number one in rails-to-trails -- we have converted more abandoned railbeds into enviro-friendly Œlinear parks' than any other state. And we're number one when it comes to cleaning up old industrial sites. Our program is the model for the nation -- 350 sites reclaimed so far, 13,000 new jobs and counting."

"Our efforts to improve Pennsylvania's quality of life must include the protection of our environment. I ask that you put a three-year freeze and a permanent cap on landfills in Pennsylvania."

"This budget offers the most sweeping change in Pennsylvania's environmental spending policy in the last 30 years. It will lead Pennsylvania down the path of "Growing Greener" in the 21st century. Changing how we spend that money will enable us to focus like never before on cleaner water, better parks, preserving open space and farmland and controlling sprawl. "Growing Greener" is a new way of looking at our environment -- and the role government should play in protecting it."
http://www.smartgrowth.org/library/governor99.html

Regionalism: The Implementation
of the New World Order

http://www.penncrier.com/penncrier/pcnwoimp.html

Today, January 2000, Regional Governance is being promulgated by the Watershed Approach.
Jackie
HEADS UP, RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VA, YOU MAY BE ABOUT TO BECOME A WILDLANDS PROJECT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/621506/posts

"Metropolitan government would eliminate the individual States as meaningful political entities, would divide the nation into metropolitan regions sprawling across State lines, and would place the management of these regional governments in the hands of appointed experts answerable not to local citizens but to the supreme political power in Washington."

"PROFESSIONALS" TO REPLACE ELECTED OFFICIALS

As mentioned previously, the 1966 CED report calls for "professional staffing for all local units" of government at the State level.

Who are these unelected "experts" who, according to the long-laid plans of the pushers of Metro, will take over the administration of government at the local level -- and who, being appointed -- not elected -- will be able to control local-level government in all of the 50 States?

What are their theories on local government -- and who financed their training for this planned take-over of positions of power -- positions formerly occupied by officials elected by the people?

The answer is "1313" -- the founding, financing, power and influence of which is discussed in the next chapter.

http://www.sweetliberty.org/beware_metro.html

"1313" CONSTRUCTED WITH ROCKEFELLER FUNDS

http://www.sweetliberty.org/beware_metro2.html

REGIONAL COUNCILS - "1313's" APPARATUS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

At an increasing rate, regional councils are being formed throughout the United States. The names vary in different localities, but the objectives are always the same. For instance, there's the Denver Regional Council of Government (COGs). In California there's the Association of Bay Area Governments (SKAG) [sic] and Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), but mostly the names contain the name of the city followed by the words "Council of Governments" or "Regional Council of Governments". (Note the plural "s" on the word "Government", thereby showing that such regional councils are each composed of several local governmental structures.)

[CDR NOTE: We've just discovered that the word "Soviet" -- as in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- means "Council". Think about THAT! In your mind, as you read, replace the word "Council" with the word "Soviet". How does that sound/feel? Soft and safe and warm and fuzzy?

An editorial in the Charleston (South Carolina) NEWS AND COURIER OF February 15, 1973, stated:

"The newly organized Regional Council of Governments should not be underestimated. They are formidable new governmental divisions which most citizens have yet to comprehend…"

Regional councils of governments (COGs) are deeply involved in local allocation of Federal funds.

In this connection, the NEWS AND COURIER editorial had this to say:

"As it happens, some administrators, who have no direct responsibility to the people hold positions of considerable power. A professional planning staff, operating under the auspices of the Charleston County (South Carolina) Planning Board, an appointive body, screens and reviews each funding application.

"Five of the ten members of a Regional Council subcommittee, including the chairman, are non-elected appointees. This subcommittee considers the planners' recommendations and decides on its own recommendation before passing applications to the Governor's office. In Columbia, other non-elected personnel funnel applications to non-elected bureaucrats in Washington, where a final decision is made…"

"In sum, the local picture of regional government shows a new governmental system with burgeoning authority functioning primarily under the direction of non-elected individuals."

http://www.sweetliberty.org/beware_metro2.html