SMART GROWTH CENTRALIZING WEALTH IN THE NEW EARTH AGE

10' Gertee Travelers ~ home ~ winter 2011

I submitted one of the new chapters in 2020/TACM to newswithviews. The book revisions are underway and it won't be much longer before everyone who pre ordered will have their copies. I know some people are very upset with us because of the long delays and I don't blame them one bit. It has been over a year since some people ordered theirs.

There are several reasons it's so overdue, all of them are of a personal nature and partly health related, so I am extremely grateful to the majority of our customers who have shown us such patience. I am humbled by the people who became so concerned that we were unable to fulfil our obligations that they wrote not to ask for a refund but to ask where to send donations and how else they can help us to finish it. Some people know (from following my blog) how little we have and how we live. There have always been people who respected the way we didn't try to make money off our research, they appreciated the fact that we had no advertisements and flashing banners saying "Buy now!" I always wanted to maintain that kind of presentation, in spite of the reality that sites without ads usually have funding coming from someplace else.

For years I avoided the whole marketing scene because I really believed that this was such essential information that it had to be free. I managed to survive on part time jobs for many years so that I could keep studying and writing continuously. And then my body just gave out after years of sporadic eating, the stress of the topic and constant studying in primitive conditions. I started this work when I was 43 and still felt young enough to go winter camping to research and write ACL articles in a tent. I'm 55 now, and sleeping in a tent on the ground in the rain about killed me this past summer. Anyone who's ever had pneumonia will understand why I almost wished I would die. But somehow a brush with death also brings on a new sense of purpose and determination. Now I feel inspired to put these books out for sale and put the free research back online in the new format. One last time I'll forget about eating and spend the winter writing in a wood heated unplumbed Gertee. But this has to be the last time I do this.

SMART GROWTH
CENTRALIZING WEALTH IN THE NEW EARTH AGE
http://www.newswithviews.com/Raapana/niki121.htm

UN Agenda 21 in Idaho, by Vicky Davis

Last night I was a guest on Rick Adams Radio Avenger RBN Radio show. I totally forgot to post it here. (It dropped back down to 40 below last night and that shifts my focus a bit.) Pete sent me mp3 files so I can make the show available.

Before I forget again, I'll be on the Jeff Rense radio show tonight at 8pm.

During the second hour last night, Rick took calls and I enjoyed it very much. Could be the fact that I'm alone most of the time lately, but every caller touched me and I felt very connected to each one of them. One of the callers introduced herself as Vicky and asked whether Communitarian Law is part of Maritime Law. As this is one of the most serious omissions in my legal research, and very few have ever noticed it, I knew immediately I was talking to another researcher. When it clicked with me that it was Vicky Davis, a woman whose work I've been studying lately... I was like, "Hey! I need to meet you!"

Here's an example of why of her work is so relevant. I chose this article because I have family in Idaho and many friends there too, some of whom may already be familiar with Vicky's work.

UN Agenda 21 in Idaho, by Vicky Davis
http://www.channelingreality.com/IEF_Agenda21/un_agenda_21_in_idaho.htm

Recently, the Citizens for Smart Growth, a citizens group in Star, Idaho asked Idaho Eagle Forum for some help researching what could be done to stop Mayor Nathan Mitchell from turning Star and the surrounding area into a California style suburban bedroom community. Ada County with Mitchell’s support approved a planned community development of over 600 homes near Star with the option to build many more after that. Star does not have the roads or infrastructure to support the Avimor development and apparently there is no market for the homes anyway because many of the homes they’ve already built are being rented.

Star is a rural community. The residents like it that way and they want to keep it that way so the objective is to recall Mayor Mitchell and send him packing.

The parent company of the Avimor is SunCor, an Arizona corporation that has thousands of acres under development in Arizona, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. They also have developments in California and Mexico.

What started out to be a minor research effort became a "Holy Smokes! What Do We Have Here Project!" It turns out that the United Nations Agenda 21 program is being implemented in Idaho. If you don’t know what Agenda 21 is, then you’d better find out in a hurry because it will affect every aspect of your life, your children’s lives and in fact the direction of this country. Here’s a hint: Think Al Gore and ‘Earth in the Balance’ and Mikhail Gorbachev, Maurice Strong and the Earth Charter. Think centrally planned and managed economy hiding behind environmental issues.

“The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.” Maurice Strong

Agenda 21 is not simply about land use. The implementation plan calls for a complete societal ‘transformation’ to make preservation of the environment the single most important thing in a person’s life - a religion as both Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev have said.

So how did Star get caught up in this nasty business? To understand the present, one must understand history. This history begins in 1977 when Ada County surpassed the population density needed to be classified as a ‘transportation management area’. Once that density is reached, the federal government requires that a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) be established and the area is then eligible for federal grant money for planning and infrastructure. Ada County formed an MPO that they named the Community Planning Association. In 2003, Canyon County reached the population needed so they joined the Community Planning Association and it became the Community Planning Association of Southwestern Idaho (COMPASS).

Jumping ahead to 1983, the United Nations established a commission to produce a report on the environment and anticipated global environmental problems and to formulate strategies to deal with those anticipated problems to the year 2000 and beyond. In 1987, the commission’s report, the dubbed the Brundtland Report was published. From the Brundtland Report came Agenda 21:

"In 1992 leaders at the Earth Summit built upon the framework of Brundtland Report to create agreements and conventions on critical issues such as climate change, desertification and deforestation. They also drafted a broad action strategy—Agenda 21—as the workplan for environment and development issues for the coming decades." http://sdgateway.net/introsd/definitions.htm

In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12852 which called for the establishment of a commission to oversee the implementation of Agenda 21 in the United States. This was never debated and Congress never voted on it. They just allowed it to become law by doing nothing.

The various federal departments of government have their own programs to implement Agenda 21 in their area of responsibility. Non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) with grant money are being used as the surrogates for federal government implementation. The NGO’s show up in your community masquerading as public interest organizations when in reality they have a very specific agenda towards ‘transforming’ the community. Idaho Smart Growth is one such NGO established for the purpose of implementing Agenda 21 in Idaho.

Timeline of regionalization in Boise Idaho

From this point on, the story is best told by following the timeline of the regionalization project of the Community Planning Association of Southwestern Idaho paying close attention to who did what - when. Before reading the timeline, it is helpful to know that the Communities In Motion Project is a five county regional plan. The 'Blueprint for Good Growth' is the Ada County plan of which Boise is the hub. In reality, it's all one plan with two phases that neuters elected local government and implements unelected regional governance by committee.

I also met Jeff Black from Chicago on Rick's show. He's a candidate for the U.S. Senate who's challenged Rham Emanuel in court. I haven't seen this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIObTCfcvg4

"No Labels" Campaign is the Third Way, by Rosa Koire

No surprise to see Indiana Senator Evan Bayh was part of the start-up committee for No Labels. His ties to the Third Way are direct; Bayh was the leader of the Third Way bipartisan group in the Senate. I used to have a page at the ACL called "Bayhwatch." Following Bayh is how I first heard of Obama.

Read the Label, The new political group No Labels shows why labels exist
"Everything you need to know about the new political group No Labels is contained in its slogan: "Not Left. Not Right. Forward." It's smug. It sounds like an Obama campaign catchphrase. And it ignores the whole reason politics exists, which is that not everyone agrees on what "Forward" is. " By Christopher Beam, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 http://www.slate.com/id/2277783/

From Rosa Koire:

You may have heard about the No Labels campaign. It's a new political movement, a sort of counter to the Tea Party for those on the left or more left-leaning. No Labels. Not Republicans, Not Democrats, Not Independents. No label.

Ok, we took a look.

They're Communitarians.
Another term for this is the Third Way.

The enlightened compromise. The civilized synthesis. The educated answer is consensus, they say. This is the heart of Communitarianism. Why? Communitarianism is the 'balancing of the individual's rights against those of the community.' In the US Constitution we are guaranteed rights that we were born with: life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. That last one, as you know, was to be 'property.' Property is not just land. YOU are your own property. That was an element of fundamental freedom.

So how can you 'balance' those rights with those of the community? The community has no rights under the US Constitution. Individuals have rights and responsibilities, but the community as a whole, what is that? The collective? Whenever you 'balance' or subsume, or subordinate, or consensus-ize the individuals' rights you'll get something different from what we are guaranteed under the Constitution.

Here's an example.
Let's take two glasses and set them on a table.
One glass is full of water. Let's call it a Republic.
The other glass is full of milk. Let's call it a Communitarian state.

Now we'll get a glass pitcher and set it on the table.

Let's balance the water with the milk by pouring them both into the pitcher.

What do you have?
It's not water anymore, is it?
It's milk. Watery milk. But milk. Not water.

The Third Way.

Communitarianism. Balancing your individual rights with the 'rights' of the community. This is being pitched to you as the new enlightened form of political discourse. You are 'selfish' if you insist on your individual rights and freedoms. This is the justification for Agenda 21-Sustainable Development. For the good of the planet. For everyone's security. For your health. To protect your children. To limit workplace violence. To stop bullying.

All of these things are laudable, but somehow they always result in more restrictive laws that affect everyone. They criminalize everyone. In our town, the Civil Code has been criminalized. What does that mean? If you don't mow your lawn it's a misdemeanor.

Will your child have a criminal record if he calls another kid a 'queer?' Will you be held responsible if your employee shoots someone and you knew he was upset over a breakup with his wife? Will your 15 year old daughter be strip-searched at the airport? Will you lose custody of your 10 year old because he is obese? Will you be evicted from your apartment because you smoked on your balcony in violation of a local ordinance? Will you be taxed for driving 15 miles to work instead of riding your bike? Will you be fined for watering your vegetable garden? Will your Smart Meter be used to tell advertisers what to sell you? Will your Smart vehicle with remote shut off capability be shut down by someone in your State capitol while you're driving? Will your neighbor report you to the Community Oriented Policing Unit of your local PD because you seemed to be acting strangely? Your rights have been balanced.

That was easy, wasn't it? No Labels. Why not? Maybe they don't have the guts to say what their label should be. Or maybe they figure you'll never guess.

For more on this please look at the list on the right side of this page and click on 'Communitarianism'.

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