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What could Marion County, Indiana, and Lincoln County, New Mexico, possibly have in common? In Marion County, nearly a million people are packed into 403 square miles, with a density of 2172 people per square mile. Lincoln County stretches over 4,831square miles, and on a good day, can muster only 19,411 people - that’s four people per square mile. Nevertheless, both counties - as is the county where you live - are targets for transformation into "sustainable communities," as defined in Agenda 21. Neither Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, nor Lincoln County Planning Technician Curt Temple will admit that their efforts...

CHINA, Texas - "There used to be more rice fields, but they keep on urbanizin' and urbanizin,' " George adds, nodding at an unsightly McMansion that recently parked itself in an open pasture. There's an irony here, because for nearly all of recorded history, rice has been one of the world's most basic foodstuffs. Even today, it's the dietary mainstay of an estimated two-thirds of the earth's population. In Cambodia, for instance, the verb for to eat, translates literally as to rice. Across the globe, there are nearly 40,000 varieties grown. Rice has little or no fat, no cholesterol and...

While Sen. Joseph Biden has been one of the most vocal critics of Sen. Bill Frist's plans to employ the so-called "nuclear option" to end Democrats' use of the filibuster to block President Bush's judicial nominees, he is less concerned about Iran going "nuclear," and has perhaps encouraged Iran's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Recently, Biden sat down for an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace and stated that nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranians was unacceptable. Yet this is the same who Biden has gone out of his way to reach out to Iran's mullahs and...

Someday, large-scale solar power stations in space could beam electricity to the surface of the moon, the earth and other planets, decreasing our dependence on a dwindling fossil-fuel supply. Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are developing the next generation of solar cells, advancing the technology that could put a solar power system into earth's orbit. The National Science Foundation recently awarded a three-year, $200,000 grant to Ryne Raffaelle and Thomas Gennett, co-directors of RIT's NanoPower Research Laboratory, to develop nanomaterials--no bigger than a billionth of a meter--in support of NASA's space solar power program. The notion of space solar...

On any given day, you can go to the Google News website and type the words dependence on foreign oil and see the phrase mentioned in literally hundreds of newspaper and blog articles. Understandably, the issue has received greater coverage in recent months due to rising gas prices, but it doesn't take a news junkie to know that the phrase has been an underlying theme in news articles for decades. Politically motivated geologists and various other academics have declared each year, for the last fifty years, that there is only a twenty year supply of oil remaining in the world....

Transportation money better spent on urban revival, Rooney says. ___ State Rep. T.J. Rooney jumped into the Lehigh Valleywide battle between urban planners and suburban developers Tuesday when he urged state transportation officials to cut off public money to road projects in Upper Saucon and Bethlehem townships. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler, Rooney suggested funneling more money to Allentown's American Parkway and Bethlehem's widening of Route 412 on the South Side. He asked Biehler not to deliver millions of dollars being requested to upgrade roads around the Stabler Center development in Upper Saucon Township and The...

Published In: New Coalition News & Views Publication Date: January 1, 2005 Publisher: The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change On October 2, 2004, Lee H. Walker addressed The Philadelphia Society’s fall meeting. This year’s topic was “Black History and Conservative Principles.” His remarks were made during a panel discussion, which he moderated, and were delivered as follows. Black conservatism has been an overlooked aspect of American history since the collapse of Reconstruction. Any comprehensive history of black American thought that ignores or isolates the conservative influence will be lopsided. Conferences like this are usually held during the month...

LOS ANGELES - The federal government announced the nation's largest conservation plan for 9.5 million acres of desert in Southern California that would protect wildlife but make development easier in fast-growing regions. The 30-year plan unveiled Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management seeks to balance an ancient landscape of rugged volcanic mountains, 11,000-year-old creosote bushes and more than 100 species, including the threatened desert tortoise and the Mohave ground squirrel, with developers' push for new homes and businesses. More than 10 years in the making, the plan covers parts of the Mojave Desert, Joshua Tree National Forest and...

Keeping developing countries cute, indigenous, electricity-poor — and impoverished Critics are "lying about environmentalists" and "willfully representing facts" about them and their views, concerns and agendas. So says a recent commentary by the Earth Island Institute and Environmental News Network. A principle object of their wrath was a recent article by this author, shredding lofty claims about wind turbines, much as these towering "Cuisinarts of the air" eviscerate birds and bats. They particularly objected to this statement: The Earth Island Institute longs for the day when Africa’s poor made clothing for their neighbors "on foot-pedal-powered sewing machines" and says, "once...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How long a man's second finger is relative to his fourth finger appears to predict whether he is prone to be physically aggressive toward others, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. But it's not finger length that causes aggression, study author Allison A. Bailey warned in an interview. She explained that the important factor is the male hormone testosterone. Fetuses are exposed to various levels of this hormone in the womb, and research shows that men who were exposed to higher levels tend to have shorter second...

All taxpayers should vote NO on all school levies because all public schools in America need to be closed. Our schools are teaching multiculturalism, globalism, conservation U.N.-style, and secularism, which means no God and no faith – all of which are un-American and go against the beliefs and values of most American people. Can we please and finally say ENOUGH! Can we please stop funding the curriculum and people training our children to be globalist socialists and not Americans who value their liberties? Since when did American schools become blatant centers of Socialist re-engineering? Well, my first guess takes me...

Through the Wednesday fog, Roy Anderson saw a President Casino barge that he really didn't want. "It's a nice structure," the future owner of the Broadwater property said. "But overall aesthetically, it's not going to fit into our master plan." At about the time Anderson's Broadwater ownership group decided to get rid of the casino barge, Silver Slipper general manager John Ferrucci contacted him. "This President barge as it sits right now doesn't figure into their long term plans. But it fits perfectly with ours," Ferrucci said. The Silver Slipper executive wants a barge and not a riverboat to be...

On February 18, The Nature Conservancy partnered with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is another “partnership” with immense powers and no public input, whatsoever – no knowledge, no discussion, no opinion, no vote, nothing. The Nature Conservancy is a non-profit. That is laughable. TNC is a multi-billion dollar “non-profit” biodiversity conservation organization with assets nearing 3 billion dollars. They are a global land acquisition group up to its eyeballs in U.N. global governance missions and Agenda 21 implementation, and it partners with anyone who will further its agenda...

An Ominous Pairing By ELAINE SHANNON The two countries whose nuclear programs have raised alarms of late may be cooperating more closely than previously known. North Korea agreed six years ago to stop flight-testing longer-range ballistic missiles, which could deliver nuclear or chemical warheads, in exchange for relief from U.S. economic sanctions. Pyongyang still claims it is sticking to the deal, but some Administration officials think it may be cheating by using Iran as its proxy. Iran's new Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile is closely based on North Korea's Nodong missile. After Iran test-fired the Shahab-3 last summer, there have been...

The visioning process includes: “values” research, how to run "facilitated" workshops and to how to use “consensus building” to create scenarios for area “change”. When public officials and NGO's (non-government organizations) use the term "visioning" it really means Agenda 21 principles are being implemented. Television makeover programs that transform men and women from sloppy to slick are popular. Makeup artists, hair dressers and clothing specialists remake their passive subjects and the new look is shown off to gasping friends and family. Transformational changes are not limited to people these days. American neighborhoods, swarming with central planners and government funds are...

It takes two to tango By George Zhibin Gu In this era of globalization, the elephant and the dragon are finally running fast, together. There is a sense of urgency for the two ancient peoples to catch up with the developed world. True, there is a high degree of rivalry between them, but all that this competition will produce in the end is a creative and productive partnership.

The China Factor and the Overstretch of the US Hegemony 3 books that can change your mind in 2005 about the geo-politic and geo-economic dynamics going on Interviews by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of Gurusonline.tv, Jannuary 2005 Transition Report is a quarterly online journal edited by Gurusonline.tv George Zhibin Gu, the Chinese consultant based in Shenzhen and author of the forthcoming "China's Global Reach" (Haworth Press, US) Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and author of "The Sorrows of Empire" (Metropolitan Books, US) André Gunder Frank, associate of the Luxembourg Institute for Education and International Studies and...

Conservative opposition to government spending programs doesn’t stem from a lack of compassion for the unfortunate as some claim. Rather, it’s because we have compassion that others may live their lives as they choose and use their wealth in the way they choose.

Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21 Nancy Levant I keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting for Bill O’Reilly or Shaun Hannity or Oprah Winfrey or somebody…..anybody, who has daily access to the multitudes, to say the words, “Agenda 21.” I’m still waiting, and for the life of me, I don’t understand the refusal to talk about the greatest threat to America that has ever existed. However, it dawns on me that wrapping a brain around Agenda 21 requires time, effort, interest, and a lot diligence. No one told me about Agenda 21. I found it by accident on the Internet....

http://netwmd.com/articles/article878.html Those of us following the development of Islam in America have for years worried about the unhealthy influence of Saudi money and ideas on American Muslims.We watched apprehensively as the Saudi government boasted of funding mosques and research centers; as it announced its support for Islamist organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations; as it trained the imams who became radicalized chaplains in American prisons, and as it introduced Wahhabism to university campuses via the Muslim Student Association.But through the years, we lacked information on the content of Saudi materials. Do they water down or otherwise change the...