http://johnconner1984.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/city-planning-and-the-un/
Mike Marnell sent me the above-linked radio show concerning Agenda
21. The hosts, Ron Stephens and John Conner, and their guest,
Jessica Lauren Annis, are knowledgeable. Annis is a trained city
planner who blanched at the indoctrination in her education in
Canadian universites. She heads a group called Operation Pushback.
Be patient with the tape's quality. I listened to the whole show. It is well
worth your time.
Mike Marnell, publisher of The Lincoln Eagle, asked me to listen to it.
I had just written the following introduction to Agenda 21 for The Eagle:
Introduction to Agenda 21
Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.
Agenda
21 celebrated its 20th birthday this month. It is an environmentalist
plan of action that aims to reduce your standard of living. It is not a
fantasy or theory. It was signed under the administration of a Republican
president, George H.W. Bush. According to the UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs' Division for Sustainable Development's website (http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/):
Agenda
21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and
locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major
Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment…
The
United States has agreed to be subsumed under the "United Nations
System" without public debate. According to an informal straw poll
that The Lincoln Eagle has conducted, no politician in Kingston has
heard of Agenda 21; Mayor Gallo and his colleagues cannot assess the degree to
which the proposed city plan reflects it.
The
text of UN Agenda 21 is posted on the aforementioned website. It
combines environmental extremism with economic illiteracy. It advocates
globalization and concentration of corporate economic power. It claims
that because Americans have a high standard of living other countries are
poor. This claim is incorrect. Human capital, entrepreneurship, and
technological innovation create wealth. In the 1940s Henry Hazlitt wrote
an excellent book, Economics in One Lesson, which anticipated and
refuted the fallacies that the UN now perpetuates through Agenda
21.
UN
Agenda 21 serves as a coordinating document for numerous initiatives, including
town and city plans that have been proposed by politically connected
consultants in Olive, Woodstock, and other towns in Ulster County and around
the country. The initiatives tend to reduce or attack small landholders'
property rights while facilitating land grabs by banks and large
developers. Using terms like smart growth, cluster housing, and
green development, the plans combine a pretense of environmentalism with
intended subsidization of well-connected banks and developers. The US
Green Building Council's Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED)
is linked to Agenda 21. I interviewed LEED's sponsors; they told me that
they have designed a building code that they would like to see implemented
everywhere in the country. The code would coerce new building standards;
some proponents advocate making it retroactive, which would force
moderate-income homeowners who cannot afford tens of thousands of dollars in
retrofitting costs into city projects. President Obama's failed Cap
and Trade bill would have enforced expensive regulations on individual
homeowners and initially called for retrofitting. The Olive Town
Plan mentioned, but did not insist on, refitting.
Under Agenda 21, commercial banks benefit by
lending for city projects; developers profit from sweetheart deals; politicians
like Senator Bonacic and Congressman Hinchey benefit from campaign
contributions; environmentalists empty the rural regions of human
population; special interests celebrate while the average homeowner's
life is diminished.
