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International Land Grab Imagine waking up in a country where a high-ranking government official stands in front of citizens and rails against personal property rights: “The American system of justice must be changed to conform to that of the rest of the world, and there must be a shift in attitudes. Individual wants, needs and desires are to be conformed to the views and dictates of government planners. In the process of implementing Sustainable Development, individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” The shocking line that individual rights should be relegated to the rear has...

Traditionally, United Nations Day is celebrated in many cities across the country. Here in Santa Cruz, the United Nations Association will be celebrating with a parade on Oct. 22 on Pacific Avenue -- come rain or shine. The theme of the noon rally following the parade is the Millennium Development Goals, an extension of the sustainability theme that came out of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCED held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, called Agenda 21. I am aware that a radical group that opposes the UN uses Agenda 21 as a red flag.

In March 2010, Nor-Cal Produce, a family-owned produce business in West Sacramento, was fined $32,500 by the California Air Resources Board (ARB, or CARB). The company was not charged with, or even accused of, illegal emissions; like many other businesses, it had merely failed to notice a new regulation posted by CARB requiring all semi-trailers, shipping containers, vans, and rail cars with diesel-powered refrigerators to file a report with the agency. “We had no knowledge of the law,” Nor-Cal’s Chief Financial Officer Todd Achando told CalWatchDog, a news blog that monitors California government. “My operations manager happened to see it...