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THE WRENCHING TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

By Tom DeWeese
April 22, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

[Ed note: this speech was delivered in Kalispell, Montana and Spokane,
Washington to County Republican Lincoln Day dinners in late March. The
speech caused a firestorm in Spokane, resulting in a battle with the
local city council over it’s partnership with ICLEI and radical
environmental policy. One elected official said I had exposed too much
– as he walked out on my presentation. The battle goes on today.]

"Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve come a long way to get here and I have such a short time to be with you. So, let’s just get everything out on the table right now, shall we?

I believe the American people, and their every action, are being
ruled, regulated, restricted, licensed, registered, directed, checked,
inspected, measured, numbered, counted, rated, stamped, censured,
authorized, admonished, refused, prevented, drilled, indoctrinated,
monopolized, extorted, robbed, hoaxed, fined, harassed, disarmed,
dishonored, fleeced, exploited, assessed, and taxed to the point of
suffocation and desperation.

America is drowning in a sea of rules and regulations, particularly
under the guise of “saving the environment.”

We all know something is very wrong and we are trying to fix it.

Many in America attempt to fight against one issue or another as they
try to understand what is happening to their country. But most fail to
see the whole picture and are being crushed under a well organized
“divide and conquer” tactic that keeps them reeling from crisis to
crisis.

Tonight, I’m going to try to give you at least a peek at the all-
encompassing, gut wrenching national transformation that we face --
and, hopefully, help to lift the veil of confusion.

To put things in perspective, here are some questions every American
should ask their elected officials – especially those supporting
“climate change” legislation.

If it is proven that climate change is not man-made, but natural, will
you be relieved and excited to know that man is off the hook?

We’ve been terrorized into accepting that human society was on the
brink of extinction because of man-made global warming. We’ve been
warned that, unless we take drastic action to reverse it – then
islands will disappear, whole cities will be destroyed and polar bears
will drown.

So, if it’s not true, will you now help to remove all of the draconian
regulations passed during the global warming hysteria? Will you help
to restore our Republic with common sense and sound economics?

Their answers to these questions should be very illuminating as to the
true agenda they seek to impose.

If they are supporting climate change legislation because of a genuine
concern for the environment, then they should now be greatly relieved
to know that true science is showing more and more evidence that there
is no man-made global warming, and in fact, a natural cooling period
has begun.

I have just returned from one of the most important Climate Change
conferences ever held. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute, more than
700 scientists from all over the world came together to testify that
man-made Global Warming does not exist.

Harvard scholar and climate scientist Willie Soon said it best in a
recent article he titled, “It’s the Sun, stupid.”

Dr. Mark Campbell, professor of chemistry at the U.S. Navel Academy in
Annapolis recently wrote, “The sky is not burning, and to claim that
it is amounts to journalistic malpractice.”

Said U.S. Government atmospheric scientist Stanley B, Goldenberg, “It
is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is
only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global
warming.”

In the past year, more than 650 scientists from around the world have
expressed their doubts. That’s 12 times the number of UN IPCC global
warming alarmists.

Top that with the fact that more than 31,000 American scientists have
signed a petition saying there is no convincing scientific evidence
that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse
gases is causing disruption of the Earth’s climate.


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Of course most of the hysteria has been fueled by Al Gore’s Oscar-
winning, Nobel prize-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth,” which
almost every American school student has been forced to watch endless
times in their classroom.

Well, guess what, the government of Great Britain just ruled that the
film cannot be shown in English classrooms unless it carries a
disclaimer that says the film is full of mistakes and propaganda.

An overwhelming majority of scientist are now telling us that
investigative research shows any warming actually stopped in 1999.
And, in fact, they say the brief warming period we experienced in the
past decade was completely natural, caused in part by storms on the
sun, not CO2 emissions from SUVs.

The Sun storms have ended and now a cooling period has begun.

That’s it. Done. Crisis over. Man is not to blame. Hurray! The nation
should be rejoicing.

No need for expensive green cars, mercury-filled light bulbs, special
home building materials, expensive alternative energy, no bird-killing
windmills, no special energy taxes, no extra government oversight
committees, no more global climate change conferences – and no need
for a Climate Czar. Carol Browner can go back into mothballs.

We can finally clean out the ten feet of fuel on the bottom of the
forests and prevent the massive forest fires. We can reestablish the
timber industry and all the jobs that were killed.

We can drill American oil and end our dependency on foreigners who
hate us. In fact, that stable source of energy will help restore the
Detroit auto industry and all of those jobs. And it will help us to
stop funding terrorists. What’s not to like about drilling American
oil?

We didn’t need a stimulus package after all – the economy will rebound
on its own. We are free. The environment is not in crisis. Rejoice!
Rejoice!

That silence you hear is the news media, which refuses to report what
any skeptic has to say.

That silence you hear is the lack of effort on Capitol Hill to start
to pull back from the climate change hysteria.

That silence you hear is from the White House where President of
Change, Barack Obama now has an EPA director, a Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) director and a full blown Climate Change
Czar, all working to impose huge cut backs in energy use, with more
taxes, and more rules and regulations that will bring an already
damaged economy to its knees – all in the name of man-made Global
Warming – which doesn’t exist.

…And that silence you hear is from global corporations which have
bought into Al Gore’s lie and invested heavily in the promised green
economy. In fact, their dollars are the only thing green about any of
it. Their commercials are promoting the lies and changing our way of
life. “Going Green” is the mantra of the day. None of them are about
to change any of these policies, simply to accommodate a few
inconvenient scientific facts.

In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, in spite of literally
thousands of real scientists joining the ranks of the skeptics, Gore
just told Congress that the Global Warming crisis is even worse than
predicted. Obama, our newly crowned king said, “The science is
settled.”

Why do they continue to promote a lie? Because global warming never
was about protecting the environment. It’s nothing more than the
excuse to enforce global governance on the planet by creating a new
global economy based on the environment rather than on goods and
services.

In fact, the most important debate in the history of the United States
is about to begin – it’s the battle over a completely new economic
system based on Climate Change called Cap and Trade.

It should be called Tax and Trade as it will force up the price of
every item created or run by energy from gasoline to toothpaste to
natural gas to hotel rooms, as we sit in our cold, dark homes.

Cap and Trade will throw out the old system of a free market based on
goods and services and operate on the idea that CO2 is a pollutant.
Instead of money, wealth will be determined by how many government-
issued emission permits you own to allow you to operate your business.

In short, it’s all about wealth redistribution. Your wealth into a
green rat hole.

During the Cold War, communists tried to get us to surrender our
liberties and way of life for the wisdom of Karl Marx. Americans
didn’t buy it.

But now, they have taken the same clap trap and wrapped it all in a
nice green blanket, scaring us with horror stories about the human
destruction of the environment – and so we are now throwing our
liberties on the bon fire like a good old fashioned book burning --
all in the name of protecting the planet.

It sounds so friendly. So meaningful. So urgent. But, the devastation
to our liberty and way of life is the same as if Lenin ordered it.

You know, we have a new language invading our government at all
levels. Old words with new meanings fill government policy papers. The
typical city council meeting discusses “community development,”
“historic preservation,” and “partnerships” between the city and
global corporations.

Civic leaders organize community meetings run by “facilitators,” as
they outline a “vision” for the town, enforced by “consensus.” No need
for debate when you have consensus!

People of great importance testify before congressional committees of
the dire need for “social justice.”

Free trade, social justice, consensus, global truth, partnerships,
preservation, stakeholders, land use, environmental protection,
development, diversity, visioning, open space, heritage, comprehensive
planning, critical thinking, and community service are all part of our
new language.

What are they really talking about? What mental pictures come to mind
when those words are used? George Orwell realized that those who
control language and manipulate key phrases can control policy.

The language is being changed and manipulated to quietly implement a
very destructive policy. One outlined in a UN soft-law document called
Agenda 21, first revealed at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992. The
working name is Sustainable Development.

Rather than good management of resources, Sustainable Development has
come to mean denied use and resources locked away from human hands. In
short, it has become a code word for an entire economic and social
agenda.

I have spent most of the past 12 years studying every facet of this
new political agenda which is fast becoming a revolution -- touching
every aspect of our businesses, our public education system, our
private property, our families and our individual lives.


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Interestingly, it is not a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s not
liberal or conservative. It is being implemented on a purely
bipartisan basis.

It is now the official policy of the United States, put in force by
literally every department of the government.

It is the official policy of every state government, and nearly every
city, town and county in the nation.

But, I warn you, accepting the perception that Sustainable Development
is simply good environmental stewardship is a serious and dangerous
mistake.

So what is Sustainable Development? The Sustainablists insist that
society be transformed into feudal-like governance by making nature
the central organizing principle for our economy and society.

To achieve this, Sustainablist policy focuses on three components;
global land use, global education, and global population control.

Keep in mind that America is the only country in the world based on
the ideals of private property. But, private property is incompatible
with the collectivist premise of Sustainable Development.

If you doubt that, then consider this quote from the report of the
1976 UN’s Habitat I conference which said: “Land …cannot be treated as
an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the
pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is
also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of
wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice.”

It is a social injustice for some to have prosperity if others do not.
It is a social injustice to keep our borders closed. It is a social
injustice for some to be bosses and others to be merely workers.

Social justice is a major premise of Sustainable Development. Another
word for social justice, by the way, is Socialism. Karl Marx was the
first to coin the phrase “social justice.”

Some officials try to pretend that Sustainable Development is just a
local effort to protect the environment -- just your local leaders
putting together a local vision for the community. Have you heard that
one?

Then ask your local officials how it is possible that the exact
language and tactics for implementation of Sustainable Development are
being used in nearly every city around the globe from Lewiston, Maine
to Singapore. Local indeed.

Sustainable Development is the process by which America is being
reorganized around a central principle of state collectivism using the
environment as bait.

The best way to understand what Sustainable Development actually is
can be found by discovering what is NOT sustainable.

According to the UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report, items for our
everyday lives that are NOT sustainable include: Ski runs, grazing of
livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family
homes, paved and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and
reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to
set proper value on the environment (capitalism, free markets).

Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Rio Earth Summit in 1992
said, “…Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent
middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels,
appliances, home and work air-conditioning, and suburban housing are
not sustainable.”

Are you starting to see the pattern behind Cap and Trade, the Clean
Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and all of those commercials you’re
forced to watch about the righteousness of Going Green?

And one of the most destructive tools they use to force it on us is
something called the “precautionary principle.” That means that any
activities that might threaten human health or the environment should
be stopped -- even if no clear cause and effect relationship has been
established – and even if the potential threat is largely theoretical.

That makes it easy for any activist group to issue warnings by news
release or questionable report and have those warnings quickly turned
into public policy – just in case.

So how is this wrenching transformation being put into place?
There are four very specific routes being used.
In the rural areas it’s called the Wildlands Project.
In the cities it’s called smart growth.
In business it’s called Public/Private Partnerships.

And in government it’s called stakeholder councils and non-elected
boards and regional government.
The Wildlands Project was the brainchild of Earth First’s Dave Foreman
and it literally calls for the “re-wilding” of 50% of all the land in
every state – back to the way it was before Christopher Columbus set
foot on this land. It is a diabolical plan to herd humans off the
rural lands and into human settlements. Crazy you say! Yes.
Impossible? Not so fast.

From the demented mind of Foreman, the plan became the blueprint for
the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty. So now the scheme is international in
scope.

But how do you remove people from the land? One step at a time. Let’s
begin with a biosphere reserve. A national park will do. A huge place
where there is no human activity. How about Yellowstone National Park?
Then you establish a buffer zone around the reserve. Inside the buffer
only limited human activity is allowed. Slowly, you squeeze until you
squash that human activity.

Once accomplished, you extend the area of the biosphere to the limits
of the former buffer area – and then you create a new buffer zone
around the now larger biosphere and start the process over again. In
that way, the Biosphere Reserve acts like a cancer cell, ever
expanding, until all human activity is stopped.

And there are many tools in place to stop human activity and grow the
reserve.

Push back livestock’s access to river banks on ranches. 300 feet ought
to do it. When the cattle can’t reach the stream, the rancher can’t
water them -- he goes out of business.

Lock away natural resources by creating national parks. It shuts down
the mines -- and they go out of business.

Invent a Spotted Owl shortage and pretend it can’t live in a forest
where timber is cut. Shut off the forest. Then, when no trees are cut,
there’s nothing to feed the mills and then there are no jobs, and --
they go out of business.

Locking away land cuts the tax base. Eventually the town dies. Keep it
up and there is nothing to keep the people on the land – so they head
to the cities. The wilderness grows – just like Dave Foreman planned.

It comes in many names and many programs. Heritage areas, land
management, wolf and bear reintroduction, rails to trails,
conservation easements, open space, and many more.

Each of these programs is designed to make it just a little harder to
live on the land – a little more expensive – a little more hopeless.
Now tell me how they can deny that the process is herding people into
human habitat areas?

Today, here in your area, one of the latest Wildlands scheme is called
Yukon to Yellowstone or Y2Y -- a 2000 mile no-man’s land corridor from
the Arctic to Yellowstone.


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The second path is called Smart Growth. After they herd you into the
city, they have more plans for you in regimented and dense urban
communities. They put a line around the city and tell you no growth
can take place outside that line. Urban sprawl, they say disdainfully.

They refuse to build more roads as a ploy to get you out of your car
into public transportation, restricting mobility. Those able to build
apartment houses may find it impossible to provide parking – we don’t
want any stinking cars!

Because there is a restriction on space inside the controlled city
limits there is a shortage of houses, so prices go up. That means
populations will have to be controlled, because now there is a
shortage of land.

Third, inside the human habitat areas, government is controlled by an
elite ruling class called stake holder councils.

These are mostly Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, who, like
thieves in the night, just show up to stake their claim to enforce
their own private agendas.

The function of legitimate government within the system will be simply
to enforce the dictates of the councils.

The councils are unelected, but all powerful. They are controlled by a
small minority in the community. They will make you ask permission for
anything necessary to live in the community. They can dictate the kind
of building materials you may use in your home – or whether you can
build on your property at all.

Then, if they do grant a permit for building, they might not decide to
let you acquire water and electricity for your new home – and they may
or may not give you a reason for being turned down.

They can even dictate that you get the proper exercise – as determined
by the government. San Francisco has built a new federal building –
the greenest ever built. But the elevators will only stop on every
third floor so riders are forced to use stairs – for their own health,
of course.

These councils fit almost perfectly the definition of a State Soviet:
a system of councils that report to an apex council and then implement
a predetermined outcome. Soviets are the operating mechanism of a
government-controlled economy.

The fourth path is Public/Private Partnerships. Today, many freedom
organizations are presenting PPPs as free enterprise and a private
answer for keeping taxes down by using business to make a better
society.

In truth, many PPPs are nothing more than government-sanctioned
monopolies in which a few businesses are granted special favors like
tax breaks, the power of eminent domain, non-compete clauses and
specific guarantees for return on their investments.

That means they can charge what they want and they can use the power
of government to put competition out of business. That is not free
enterprise. And it is these global corporations that are pushing the
green agenda.

For example, using government to ban its own product, General Electric
is forcing the mercury-laden green light bulb on you, costing 5 times
the price of incandescent bulbs. Such is the reality of green
industry.

PPPs are building the Trans Texas Corridor, using eminent domain to
take more than 580,000 acres of private land - sanctioned by the
partnership with the Texas government.

And PPPs are taking over highways and local water treatment plants in
communities across the nation. It is not free enterprise, but a
Mussolini-type fascism that will only lead to tyranny. And it’s all
driven by the Agenda 21 blueprint of Sustainable Development.

Truly, Sustainable Development is designed to change our way of life.
Local communities are now being targeted by international forces.
Here’s how.

In June 2005, I reported on the UN’s efforts to recruit the nation’s
mayors to directly impose Sustainable Development policy into our
local communities. The mayors were invited to attend the UN’s World
Environment Day conference in San Francisco.

The mayors weren’t there to simply discuss policy, they actually
committed to an agenda with specific goals. As part of their
participation, the mayors were pressed to commit to specific
legislation and policy goals by signing a slate of UN accords. Two
documents were presented for the mayors’ signature.

The first document was called the Green Cities Declaration, produced
by the United Nations Environment Programme. This document was
essentially a statement of principles which set the agenda for the
mayors’ assigned tasks.

The Declaration is amazingly bold in that it details exactly how the
UN intends to implement a very specific agenda in every town and city
in the nation. The final line of the Declaration explained the UN’s
goal very explicitly: Each year cities shall pick three actions to
adopt as policies or laws.”

The second document signed by the mayors was called the “Urban
Environment Accords.” The document includes exactly 21 specific
actions (as in Agenda 21), for the mayors to take -- controlled by a
time table for implementation.

For example, under the topic of energy, action item number 1 called
for the mayors to implement a policy to increase the use of
“renewable” energy by 10% within seven years. Energy action item
numbers 2 and 3 dealt with reducing energy consumption.

These action items are classic examples of the UN trying to go around
the U.S. Congress and federal energy policy and force a backdoor
implementation of the UN’s Kyoto Accord, which the U.S. has never
ratified.

Perhaps the most egregious action item offered in the Urban
Environmental Accords dealt with the topic of water. Action item
number 19 called for adoption and implementation of a policy to reduce
individual water consumption.

The UN document begins by stating: “Cities with potable water
consumption greater than 100 liters per capita per day will adopt and
implement policies to reduce consumption by 10% by 2015.” There is no
scientific basis for the 100 liter figure other than to employ a very
clever use of numbers to lower the bar and control the debate over
water consumption.

You must be aware that 100 liters is equal to about 26 GALLONS per
person, per day. According to the UN, each person should have less
than 26 gallons each day to drink, bathe, flush toilets, wash clothes,
water lawns, wash dishes, cook, take care of pets, and more."

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THE WRENCHING TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

By Tom DeWeese
April 22, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

[Ed note: this speech was delivered in Kalispell, Montana and Spokane,
Washington to County Republican Lincoln Day dinners in late March. The
speech caused a firestorm in Spokane, resulting in a battle with the
local city council over it’s partnership with ICLEI and radical
environmental policy. One elected official said I had exposed too much
– as he walked out on my presentation. The battle goes on today.]

"Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve come a long way to get here and I have such a short time to be with you. So, let’s just get everything out on the table right now, shall we?

I believe the American people, and their every action, are being
ruled, regulated, restricted, licensed, registered, directed, checked,
inspected, measured, numbered, counted, rated, stamped, censured,
authorized, admonished, refused, prevented, drilled, indoctrinated,
monopolized, extorted, robbed, hoaxed, fined, harassed, disarmed,
dishonored, fleeced, exploited, assessed, and taxed to the point of
suffocation and desperation.

America is drowning in a sea of rules and regulations, particularly
under the guise of “saving the environment.”

We all know something is very wrong and we are trying to fix it.

Many in America attempt to fight against one issue or another as they
try to understand what is happening to their country. But most fail to
see the whole picture and are being crushed under a well organized
“divide and conquer” tactic that keeps them reeling from crisis to
crisis.

Tonight, I’m going to try to give you at least a peek at the all-
encompassing, gut wrenching national transformation that we face --
and, hopefully, help to lift the veil of confusion.

To put things in perspective, here are some questions every American
should ask their elected officials – especially those supporting
“climate change” legislation.

If it is proven that climate change is not man-made, but natural, will
you be relieved and excited to know that man is off the hook?

We’ve been terrorized into accepting that human society was on the
brink of extinction because of man-made global warming. We’ve been
warned that, unless we take drastic action to reverse it – then
islands will disappear, whole cities will be destroyed and polar bears
will drown.

So, if it’s not true, will you now help to remove all of the draconian
regulations passed during the global warming hysteria? Will you help
to restore our Republic with common sense and sound economics?

Their answers to these questions should be very illuminating as to the
true agenda they seek to impose.

If they are supporting climate change legislation because of a genuine
concern for the environment, then they should now be greatly relieved
to know that true science is showing more and more evidence that there
is no man-made global warming, and in fact, a natural cooling period
has begun.

I have just returned from one of the most important Climate Change
conferences ever held. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute, more than
700 scientists from all over the world came together to testify that
man-made Global Warming does not exist.

Harvard scholar and climate scientist Willie Soon said it best in a
recent article he titled, “It’s the Sun, stupid.”

Dr. Mark Campbell, professor of chemistry at the U.S. Navel Academy in
Annapolis recently wrote, “The sky is not burning, and to claim that
it is amounts to journalistic malpractice.”

Said U.S. Government atmospheric scientist Stanley B, Goldenberg, “It
is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is
only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global
warming.”

In the past year, more than 650 scientists from around the world have
expressed their doubts. That’s 12 times the number of UN IPCC global
warming alarmists.

Top that with the fact that more than 31,000 American scientists have
signed a petition saying there is no convincing scientific evidence
that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse
gases is causing disruption of the Earth’s climate.

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Of course most of the hysteria has been fueled by Al Gore’s Oscar-
winning, Nobel prize-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth,” which
almost every American school student has been forced to watch endless
times in their classroom.

Well, guess what, the government of Great Britain just ruled that the
film cannot be shown in English classrooms unless it carries a
disclaimer that says the film is full of mistakes and propaganda.

An overwhelming majority of scientist are now telling us that
investigative research shows any warming actually stopped in 1999.
And, in fact, they say the brief warming period we experienced in the
past decade was completely natural, caused in part by storms on the
sun, not CO2 emissions from SUVs.

The Sun storms have ended and now a cooling period has begun.

That’s it. Done. Crisis over. Man is not to blame. Hurray! The nation
should be rejoicing.

No need for expensive green cars, mercury-filled light bulbs, specialhomebuilding materials, expensive alternative energy, no bird-killing
windmills, no special energy taxes, no extra government oversight
committees, no more global climate change conferences – and no need
for a Climate Czar. Carol Browner can go back into mothballs.

We can finally clean out the ten feet of fuel on the bottom of the
forests and prevent the massive forest fires. We can reestablish the
timber industry and all the jobs that were killed.

We can drill American oil and end our dependency on foreigners who
hate us. In fact, that stable source of energy will help restore the
Detroit auto industry and all of those jobs. And it will help us to
stop funding terrorists. What’s not to like about drilling American
oil?

We didn’t need a stimulus package after all – the economy will rebound
on its own. We are free. The environment is not in crisis. Rejoice!
Rejoice!

That silence you hear is the news media, which refuses to report what
any skeptic has to say.

That silence you hear is the lack of effort on Capitol Hill to start
to pull back from the climate change hysteria.

That silence you hear is from the White House where President of
Change, Barack Obama now has an EPA director, a Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) director and a full blown Climate Change
Czar, all working to impose huge cut backs in energy use, with more
taxes, and more rules and regulations that will bring an already
damaged economy to its knees – all in the name of man-made Global
Warming – which doesn’t exist.

…And that silence you hear is from global corporations which have
bought into Al Gore’s lie and invested heavily in the promised green
economy. In fact, their dollars are the only thing green about any of
it. Their commercials are promoting the lies and changing our way of
life. “Going Green” is the mantra of the day. None of them are about
to change any of these policies, simply to accommodate a few
inconvenient scientific facts.

In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, in spite of literally
thousands of real scientists joining the ranks of the skeptics, Gore
just told Congress that the Global Warming crisis is even worse than
predicted. Obama, our newly crowned king said, “The science is
settled.”

Why do they continue to promote a lie? Because global warming never
was about protecting the environment. It’s nothing more than the
excuse to enforce global governance on the planet by creating a new
global economy based on the environment rather than on goods and
services.

In fact, the most important debate in the history of the United States
is about to begin – it’s the battle over a completely new economic
system based on Climate Change called Cap and Trade.

It should be called Tax and Trade as it will force up the price of
every item created or run by energy from gasoline to toothpaste to
natural gas to hotel rooms, as we sit in our cold, dark homes.

Cap and Trade will throw out the old system of a free market based on
goods and services and operate on the idea that CO2 is a pollutant.
Instead of money, wealth will be determined by how many government-
issued emission permits you own to allow you to operate your business.

In short, it’s all about wealth redistribution. Your wealth into a
green rat hole.

During the Cold War, communists tried to get us to surrender our
liberties and way of life for the wisdom of Karl Marx. Americans
didn’t buy it.

But now, they have taken the same clap trap and wrapped it all in a
nice green blanket, scaring us with horror stories about the human
destruction of the environment – and so we are now throwing our
liberties on the bon fire like a good old fashioned book burning --
all in the name of protecting the planet.

It sounds so friendly. So meaningful. So urgent. But, the devastation
to our liberty and way of life is the same as if Lenin ordered it.

You know, we have a new language invading our government at all
levels. Old words with new meanings fill government policy papers. The
typical city council meeting discusses “community development,”
“historic preservation,” and “partnerships” between the city and
global corporations.

Civic leaders organize community meetings run by “facilitators,” as
they outline a “vision” for the town, enforced by “consensus.” No need
for debate when you have consensus!

People of great importance testify before congressional committees of
the dire need for “social justice.”

Free trade, social justice, consensus, global truth, partnerships,
preservation, stakeholders, land use, environmental protection,
development, diversity, visioning, open space, heritage, comprehensive
planning, critical thinking, and community service are all part of our
new language.

What are they really talking about? What mental pictures come to mind
when those words are used? George Orwell realized that those who
control language and manipulate key phrases can control policy.

The language is being changed and manipulated to quietly implement a
very destructive policy. One outlined in a UN soft-law document called
Agenda 21, first revealed at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992. The
working name is Sustainable Development.

Rather than good management of resources, Sustainable Development has
come to mean denied use and resources locked away from human hands. In
short, it has become a code word for an entire economic and social
agenda.

I have spent most of the past 12 years studying every facet of this
new political agenda which is fast becoming a revolution -- touching
every aspect of our businesses, our public education system, our
private property, our families and our individual lives.

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Interestingly, it is not a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s not
liberal or conservative. It is being implemented on a purely
bipartisan basis.

It is now the official policy of the United States, put in force by
literally every department of the government.

It is the official policy of every state government, and nearly every
city, town and county in the nation.

But, I warn you, accepting the perception that Sustainable Development
is simply good environmental stewardship is a serious and dangerous
mistake.

So what is Sustainable Development? The Sustainablists insist that
society be transformed into feudal-like governance by making nature
the central organizing principle for our economy and society.

To achieve this, Sustainablist policy focuses on three components;
global land use, global education, and global population control.

Keep in mind that America is the only country in the world based on
the ideals of private property. But, private property is incompatible
with the collectivist premise of Sustainable Development.

If you doubt that, then consider this quote from the report of the
1976 UN’s Habitat I conference which said: “Land …cannot be treated as
an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the
pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is
also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of
wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice.”

It is a social injustice for some to have prosperity if others do not.
It is a social injustice to keep our borders closed. It is a social
injustice for some to be bosses and others to be merely workers.

Social justice is a major premise of Sustainable Development. Another
word for social justice, by the way, is Socialism. Karl Marx was the
first to coin the phrase “social justice.”

Some officials try to pretend that Sustainable Development is just a
local effort to protect the environment -- just your local leaders
putting together a local vision for the community. Have you heard that
one?

Then ask your local officials how it is possible that the exact
language and tactics for implementation of Sustainable Development are
being used in nearly every city around the globe from Lewiston, Maine
to Singapore. Local indeed.

Sustainable Development is the process by which America is being
reorganized around a central principle of state collectivism using the
environment as bait.

The best way to understand what Sustainable Development actually is
can be found by discovering what is NOT sustainable.

According to the UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report, items for our
everyday lives that are NOT sustainable include: Ski runs, grazing of
livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family
homes, paved and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and
reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to
set proper value on the environment (capitalism, free markets).

Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Rio Earth Summit in 1992
said, “…Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent
middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels,appliances,homeand work air-conditioning, and suburban housing are
not sustainable.”

Are you starting to see the pattern behind Cap and Trade, the Clean
Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and all of those commercials you’re
forced to watch about the righteousness of Going Green?

And one of the most destructive tools they use to force it on us is
something called the “precautionary principle.” That means that any
activities that might threaten human health or the environment should
be stopped -- even if no clear cause and effect relationship has been
established – and even if the potential threat is largely theoretical.

That makes it easy for any activist group to issue warnings by news
release or questionable report and have those warnings quickly turned
into public policy – just in case.

So how is this wrenching transformation being put into place?
There are four very specific routes being used.
In the rural areas it’s called the Wildlands Project.
In the cities it’s called smart growth.
In business it’s called Public/Private Partnerships.

And in government it’s called stakeholder councils and non-elected
boards and regional government.
The Wildlands Project was the brainchild of Earth First’s Dave Foreman
and it literally calls for the “re-wilding” of 50% of all the land in
every state – back to the way it was before Christopher Columbus set
foot on this land. It is a diabolical plan to herd humans off the
rural lands and into human settlements. Crazy you say! Yes.
Impossible? Not so fast.

From the demented mind of Foreman, the plan became the blueprint for
the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty. So now the scheme is international in
scope.

But how do you remove people from the land? One step at a time. Let’s
begin with a biosphere reserve. A national park will do. A huge place
where there is no human activity. How about Yellowstone National Park?
Then you establish a buffer zone around the reserve. Inside the buffer
only limited human activity is allowed. Slowly, you squeeze until you
squash that human activity.

Once accomplished, you extend the area of the biosphere to the limits
of the former buffer area – and then you create a new buffer zone
around the now larger biosphere and start the process over again. In
that way, the Biosphere Reserve acts like a cancer cell, ever
expanding, until all human activity is stopped.

And there are many tools in place to stop human activity and grow the
reserve.

Push back livestock’s access to river banks on ranches. 300 feet ought
to do it. When the cattle can’t reach the stream, the rancher can’t
water them -- he goes out of business.

Lock away natural resources by creating national parks. It shuts down
the mines -- and they go out of business.

Invent a Spotted Owl shortage and pretend it can’t live in a forest
where timber is cut. Shut off the forest. Then, when no trees are cut,
there’s nothing to feed the mills and then there are no jobs, and --
they go out of business.

Locking away land cuts the tax base. Eventually the town dies. Keep it
up and there is nothing to keep the people on the land – so they head
to the cities. The wilderness grows – just like Dave Foreman planned.

It comes in many names and many programs. Heritage areas, land
management, wolf and bear reintroduction, rails to trails,
conservation easements, open space, and many more.

Each of these programs is designed to make it just a little harder to
live on the land – a little more expensive – a little more hopeless.
Now tell me how they can deny that the process is herding people into
human habitat areas?

Today, here in your area, one of the latest Wildlands scheme is called
Yukon to Yellowstone or Y2Y -- a 2000 mile no-man’s land corridor from
the Arctic to Yellowstone.

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The second path is called Smart Growth. After they herd you into the
city, they have more plans for you in regimented and dense urban
communities. They put a line around the city and tell you no growth
can take place outside that line. Urban sprawl, they say disdainfully.

They refuse to build more roads as a ploy to get you out of your car
into public transportation, restricting mobility. Those able to build
apartment houses may find it impossible to provide parking – we don’t
want any stinking cars!

Because there is a restriction on space inside the controlled city
limits there is a shortage of houses, so prices go up. That means
populations will have to be controlled, because now there is a
shortage of land.

Third, inside the human habitat areas, government is controlled by an
elite ruling class called stake holder councils.

These are mostly Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, who, like
thieves in the night, just show up to stake their claim to enforce
their own private agendas.

The function of legitimate government within the system will be simply
to enforce the dictates of the councils.

The councils are unelected, but all powerful. They are controlled by a
small minority in the community. They will make you ask permission for
anything necessary to live in the community. They can dictate the kind
of building materials you may use in yourhome– or whether you can
build on your property at all.

Then, if they do grant a permit for building, they might not decide to
let you acquire water and electricity for your newhome– and they may
or may not give you a reason for being turned down.

They can even dictate that you get the proper exercise – as determined
by the government. San Francisco has built a new federal building –
the greenest ever built. But the elevators will only stop on every
third floor so riders are forced to use stairs – for their own health,
of course.

These councils fit almost perfectly the definition of a State Soviet:
a system of councils that report to an apex council and then implement
a predetermined outcome. Soviets are the operating mechanism of a
government-controlled economy.

The fourth path is Public/Private Partnerships. Today, many freedom
organizations are presenting PPPs as free enterprise and a private
answer for keeping taxes down by using business to make a better
society.

In truth, many PPPs are nothing more than government-sanctioned
monopolies in which a few businesses are granted special favors like
tax breaks, the power of eminent domain, non-compete clauses and
specific guarantees for return on their investments.

That means they can charge what they want and they can use the power
of government to put competition out of business. That is not free
enterprise. And it is these global corporations that are pushing the
green agenda.

For example, using government to ban its own product, General Electric
is forcing the mercury-laden green light bulb on you, costing 5 times
the price of incandescent bulbs. Such is the reality of green
industry.

PPPs are building the Trans Texas Corridor, using eminent domain to
take more than 580,000 acres of private land - sanctioned by the
partnership with the Texas government.

And PPPs are taking over highways and local water treatment plants in
communities across the nation. It is not free enterprise, but a
Mussolini-type fascism that will only lead to tyranny. And it’s all
driven by the Agenda 21 blueprint of Sustainable Development.

Truly, Sustainable Development is designed to change our way of life.
Local communities are now being targeted by international forces.
Here’s how.

In June 2005, I reported on the UN’s efforts to recruit the nation’s
mayors to directly impose Sustainable Development policy into our
local communities. The mayors were invited to attend the UN’s World
Environment Day conference in San Francisco.

The mayors weren’t there to simply discuss policy, they actually
committed to an agenda with specific goals. As part of their
participation, the mayors were pressed to commit to specific
legislation and policy goals by signing a slate of UN accords. Two
documents were presented for the mayors’ signature.

The first document was called the Green Cities Declaration, produced
by the United Nations Environment Programme. This document was
essentially a statement of principles which set the agenda for the
mayors’ assigned tasks.

The Declaration is amazingly bold in that it details exactly how the
UN intends to implement a very specific agenda in every town and city
in the nation. The final line of the Declaration explained the UN’s
goal very explicitly: Each year cities shall pick three actions to
adopt as policies or laws.”

The second document signed by the mayors was called the “Urban
Environment Accords.” The document includes exactly 21 specific
actions (as in Agenda 21), for the mayors to take -- controlled by a
time table for implementation.

For example, under the topic of energy, action item number 1 called
for the mayors to implement a policy to increase the use of
“renewable” energy by 10% within seven years. Energy action item
numbers 2 and 3 dealt with reducing energy consumption.

These action items are classic examples of the UN trying to go around
the U.S. Congress and federal energy policy and force a backdoor
implementation of the UN’s Kyoto Accord, which the U.S. has never
ratified.

Perhaps the most egregious action item offered in the Urban
Environmental Accords dealt with the topic of water. Action item
number 19 called for adoption and implementation of a policy to reduce
individual water consumption.

The UN document begins by stating: “Cities with potable water
consumption greater than 100 liters per capita per day will adopt and
implement policies to reduce consumption by 10% by 2015.” There is no
scientific basis for the 100 liter figure other than to employ a very
clever use of numbers to lower the bar and control the debate over
water consumption.

You must be aware that 100 liters is equal to about 26 GALLONS per
person, per day. According to the UN, each person should have less
than 26 gallons each day to drink, bathe, flush toilets, wash clothes,
water lawns, wash dishes, cook, take care of pets, and more."

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom137.htm

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