Agenda 21: The lunacy infiltrating state leaders
Glenn Beck is an entertainer who pitches his schtick at the eagerly deluded and culturally paranoid. Given that we live in a nation of some 300 million, that’s enough of an audience to make a man wealthy.
So when Beck publishes a book titled “Agenda 21,” a fictional warning of a UN takeover of the United States in which the U.S. government is abolished and its citizens are allowed only two functions, “to create clean energy and to create new human life,” it’s easily dismissed as the harmless lunacy that it clearly is.
However, when seven leading GOP members of the Georgia Senate gather in the state Capitol on state taxpayer dollars to hear a lecture on that same “Agenda 21″ preaching much the same craziness, it gets a little more troubling. When Sen. Chip Rogers of Cherokee County submits legislation attempting to further that outlandish conspiracy theory, it gets more troubling still. (It is somewhat of a comfort that Rogers was deposed yesterday in a Senate Republican Caucus meeting.)
And when you consider that others in attendance included Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Senate Science and Technology Committee; Jack Murphy, chairman of the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee; John Albers, vice chair of the Science and Technology Committee; Bill Heath, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Butch Miller, chairman of the State and Local Governmental Operations Committee, it doesn’t bode well for serious governance.
Now, attendance in a lecture should not be confused with adherence. But based on a 52-minute video and the Powerpoint slides presented, the level of crazy would have sent many a sane person fleeing the room.
For those not well-versed in tin-foil theories, Agenda 21 is an obscure document created in a U.N. conference 20 years ago. If you read the document, it is a perfectly reasonable, utterly harmless recitation of standard land-use planning techniques. It is particularly aimed at developing countries that are trying to adapt to sudden population shifts from rural to urban areas.
But somewhere along the line, sifted through the minds of the paranoid, Agenda 21 becomes something much more sinister. For example, GOP senators attending the Capitol briefing were warned that those spreading the traitorous Agenda 21 have been trained in the use of a mind-control technique known as the Delphi technique. Among the buzzwords that betray influence by Agenda 21 include “best management practices,” “international baccalaureate,” “historic preservation,” “livable communities,” and “public-private partnerships.”
Now, using tax dollars to build a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons would be a public-private partnership. And while personally I think that’s a bad idea given more pressing public needs, I would not have dreamed of attributing the idea to a U.N.-inspired attempted takeover of the United States. Does that make me a victim of the Delphi technique?
According to Field Searcy, who made the presentation, the influence of Agenda 21 can already be detected in the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Cumberland Community Improvement District in Cobb County and in Cobb County itself. Searcy also compared President Obama’s creation of a White House Rural Council to Josef Stalin’s five-year development plan that ended in the starvation deaths of millions of Ukrainians, and with Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward, which also killed tens of millions.
These are the ideas influencing some of this state’s top leadership. Has it become impossible for saner conservative leaders to publicly denounce this stuff for the lunacy that it is? Perhaps so, given that a condemnation of Agenda 21 was even incorporated into the GOP’s 2012 political platform.
– Jay Bookman
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Thomas Heyward Jr
November 16th, 2012
9:50 am
Who would have ever thought that Obama would kill Anwar al-Awlaki Abdulrahman………a sixteen-year-old American citizen.
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Looking for his Pa.
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I read somewhere where the Obama/Holder Justice Department has BILLED the al-AWLAKI family 4.9 million dollars for the Hell-Fire missle spent on executing the sixteen year old boy.
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The parellels of the three that are pictured in Bookman’s article are……………….creepy.
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There’s some sort of Agenda…going on.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
9:50 am
As we curently know it, all those programs will change and must to remain viable,aging population-kept alive for 80-90 years, this is not what the programs as currently implemented can cope with, think……..lib or con, think…..
I would suggest before you buy too heavily into the notion that we need “social security reform” because ZOMG people are living longer! — this has been accounted for. There have been very smart people working the tables all along, that is why the retirement age HAS increased over the years and will continue to do so.
You hear any suggestions that we have to make any major adjustments above and beyond what’s already charted? particularly in the heat of some cheezy-ass budget deal? Hang on to your wallet; someone’s trying to pick it.
MC
November 16th, 2012
9:53 am
Cut Chip some slack. Anybody that spent as much time as he did with that cretin D.A. King is lucky they”re not completely brain dead.
Jay
November 16th, 2012
9:54 am
“what ever they “do” they can only do as much as the electorate will tolerate or abide. This talk that a few politicians will drastically change any landscape against the will of the people is a reach at best…the only mandate they have is to be reelected.
Which is exactly why the people of Georgia should be aware of events such as this.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
9:54 am
He still grew up a Muslim, but switched to black liberation theology camouflaged under the Christian title.
I’m calling you out, JohnnyReb. Kindly provide evidence of this “black liberation theology” of which you speak, and Obama’s supposed connection to it.
BobFromcobb
November 16th, 2012
9:54 am
How did Earl Ehrhart miss the presentation. Oh out of town.
To cure any cancer you need to understand origin and growth.
I continue to spout out, learn about the southern strategy.
Drive minorities out of the Republican party in the south, replace state government with the republican base,
Whatever
November 16th, 2012
9:55 am
Stands,
David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the USA, who was appointed by Clinton disagrees that SS is ok. Our current unfunded liabilities are over $100T.
We have a big problem on our budget and pretending we don’t isn’t going to solve it.
Goldie
November 16th, 2012
9:56 am
I’m afraid the GOP today is hopelessly under the “mind-control” influences of Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity etal — if saner minds in the GOP do not take control of that Party soon, they will be considered the “3rd party” in our 2-party system before too long!
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:00 am
…and J-Reb, I’ll spare you some embarrassment in advance.
If perchance you’re confusing “Liberation Theology” with “Black Liberation”, you’re going to have to throw St. Francis of Assi and a bunch of Catholics in with Obama and his super-scary not-really-Christian-but-Moooslem crew.
so, you know, you can avoid stepping in THAT.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:02 am
Whatever @ 9.55?
Please. What I said you should do when someone talks about “Social Security Reform”? Goes double you start hearing “unfunded liability” numbers being spewed.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 16th, 2012
10:03 am
Well, I’m sorry to see Bookman picking on Chip Rogers again. If it wasn’t for him, we’d all be walking around with chips in our brains that were put there by pinkos wanting to take over our guvmint and turn us into a bunch of librul weenies.
And if you don’t beleive the UN is after us all you got to do is look what happened to this Gen. Petraeus. There he was, the top double-naught spy we had, till the UN turned him into a woman-chasing maniac. Now they’ll put in some pansy that’s liable to get us all killed by the Terrists.
If the UN had their way our troops would all be wearing baby-blue helmets and pink socks and underwear. We’re in danger and I’m awful glad we got a few legislaters willing to listen to the Truth and keep us from being took over by a bunch of Commies and Socialists that want to destroy our Free Innerprize and make us get Gay Married.
Anyhow, I think I’m about as level-headed as anybody in GA and I can see what Bookman is up to. He wants us to laugh at the people that are trying to save us.
Have a good Friday everybody. I’m out here in the cold hauling and lugging and trying to get you ready to swap weird music tonight. And thanks to these good Republican legislaters, you’ll be able to do it in Freedom under a Capitalist system that’s better than anything the UN wants us to do.
Dirty Dawg
November 16th, 2012
10:03 am
Gee what a concept…why didn’t we think of it before. Wait a minute, maybe we have…its called ‘eminent domain’…that’s it. Government takes over private property ‘for the greater good’…and they also get to determine what a ‘just compensation’ is – right after they ‘condemn’ it…and we didn’t need an Agenda 21 or the Delphi Technique – just ask any Native American, or some of the folks that owned property in ‘downtown’ Smyrna. And if you tell a Republican that ‘it’s a profit deal’, you won’t need no Delphi thingy.
TiredOfIt
November 16th, 2012
10:03 am
TaxPayer
November 16th, 2012
9:32 am
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” George W. Bush
Truer words…
++
It sounds like W is talking about his own party.
Brosephus™
November 16th, 2012
10:05 am
I read somewhere where the Obama/Holder Justice Department has BILLED the al-AWLAKI family 4.9 million dollars for the Hell-Fire missle spent on executing the sixteen year old boy.
You also read somewhere that The Obama Administration targeted a Wisconsin wedding party with a drone missile attack. Credibility = Zero when it comes to reading…
Just sayin’
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
10:05 am
So, he want’s to protect the states rights from federal control if the republic comes apart, Jay, so what? Shouldn’t we all want that? Isn’t that pretty much how all of the worlds dictators control their people?
I realize you all want to laugh off these secession petitions as a bunch of nut cases, but you need to start paying attention to them. People are fed up with the take, take, take nature of your party and the arrogant “brush them off” attitude your peeps are treating them with. They know we’ve reached the point of no return where the takers outnumber the producers and they can’t stop it. The only question is, will they slide down the socialism slope quitely as most of Europe has done, or will they tell King George to go to hell like their ancestors did?
JohnnyReb
November 16th, 2012
10:09 am
stands for decibels – it’s amazing you and others are so in the tank for Obama and know so little about him. Do your own research. Here’s a few hints to get you started.
He attended Muslim school in his youth. From there look under Frank Marshall Davis. Then do some digging into Obama embracing black liberation theology under Jeramiah Wright for 20 years. That association was not politically acceptable, so he verbaly threw Wright under the bus and you Moonbats beleived it. His mother was a communist sympathizer and his dad not only Muslim but anti-colonialist. Michelle is right behind him – see her famous remarks of not being proud to be an American until Obama was nominated.
clem
November 16th, 2012
10:10 am
i think all might benefit from this book mentioned on huffington:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-mcraney/10-reasons-why-you-are-no_b_2140136.html#slide=1765491
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:10 am
They want to drug test perry and I think we need to drug test all pols.
Patraeius cleared Rice so the gop are dead wrong as usual.
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
10:11 am
Jay, “See how neatly RB glides from “THERE IS NO SUCH LEGISLATION!!!” to “THAT LEGISLATION IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!!!!”
Now, now, Jay. Where did I say the legislation didn’t exist? I said you hadn’t provided anything about it, yet you stirred up your sheep with your claims about some whacked out legislation. So, tell us Jay, which part of the resolution do you have an issue with?
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
10:11 am
The only question is, will they slide down the socialism slope quitely as most of Europe has done
What the heck…I’ve spent much time in most of the EU…if you want to point to socialist look north to Scandinavia
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:12 am
Then do some digging into Obama embracing black liberation theology under Jeramiah Wright for 20 years.
I have. Several times, over the years. I can’t find anything in there that links Obama to anything that is outside the acceptable theology one finds within a mainline Protestant denomination of which he was a part, the United Church of Christ.
You’ve been asked to provide specifics; I suspected you were talking out of your ass, and now I know you were.
Lord Help Us
November 16th, 2012
10:12 am
‘Michelle is right behind him – see her famous remarks of not being proud to be an American until Obama was nominated.’
And, don’t forget…THE WHITEY TAPE!!!
Dude, you have proven you will swallow anything…
People like you have doomed your party to perpetual irrelevance. Congrats…
Beth Gordon
November 16th, 2012
10:13 am
OBVIOUSLY MOST OF THESE REPLIES ARE EITHER FROM SOCIALIST OR MARXIST ACTIVISTS OR EXTREMELY DUMBED UP PEOPLE….I WILL PRAY FOR THEM ALL AND HOPE THEY WAKE UP BEFORE THEY REACH THE GATES OF HEAVEN AND GET TURNED AWAY. HOW DO I QUALIFY TO SAY THIS: I AM AN ALMOST 70 YEAR OLD WOMAN, LOSING MY HOUSE, MY LIFE SAVINGS, MY HEALTH, ETC. ( BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 21. AND TOO LAZY TO LOOK UP HOW IT HAS INFILTRATED EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES) FEMA (EPA) UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 21 SAYS MY HOUSE IS TOO LOW, HAS COERCED THE PLANNING DEPT. INTO LYING TO POWER COMPANY TO GET THEM TO TURN MY POWER OFF (BLOCKING MY RENTAL INCOME, PREVENTNG ME FROM LIVING IN MY HOME, FORCING ME ON WELFARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES BELIEVES THE LIES OF THE ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORISTS.0 AND, BY THE WAY, IT’S IN ALMOST EVERY PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN THE U.S. SO IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, TOO…..IF YOU DON’T CHECK IT OUT: JUST ASK GOOGLE: “STOP U.N.AGENDA 21″
They BOTH suck
November 16th, 2012
10:13 am
RB
Appears you are stirred up more than any other blogger.
You might want to look in the mirror.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:14 am
Stay the course con kooks.
Lord Help Us
November 16th, 2012
10:15 am
Beth, meet JohnnyReb…JohnnyReb, meet Beth.
You two please do not procreate…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
10:16 am
Jay:
How about “Twinkies 21″ !!
You get what you wish for !
“IRVING, Texas — The maker of the iconic U.S. snack Twinkies said Friday it is going out of business and laying off all of its 18,500 workers after a national strike crippled its operations.”
Peace
November 16th, 2012
10:17 am
Stevie Ray vs Jay, et. al.:
Stevie Ray is winning.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
10:18 am
JKL — “The average Democrat gets their news from Comedy Central”
Oh, look. JKL’s speaking for yet another group he’s not a member of. Military servicepeople yesterday, Democrats today. He’ll probably speak for teh G@yz0rz next.
Lord Help Us
November 16th, 2012
10:18 am
‘Stevie Ray is winning’
Yes, he is the ‘Charlie Sheen’ of the blog…
monty
November 16th, 2012
10:18 am
THis is incredible. I first heard of this nefarious agenda21 yesterday and just finished watching a youtube video that explains it in detail called Agenda 21 takeover. JUst go to youtube and type in agenda 21 explained. I challenge any reasonable sane person to watch this video, not by Glenn Beck but by a woman who has researched this United Nations plot to form 1 world govt. for several months. How long have you researched this Jay? Information is free, please don’t hide your head in the sand. Like the idea of no more land ownership(house)? car? like living in a highrise complex and have to?Like the US losing it’s sovereinty as a nation? Don’t think there are groups who would love to make us all just one big central controlled state(socialist)? I challenge everyone to do their homework. Take Jay’s word for it and prove to be a sheeple. I know many of you will poo-poo this , but just maybe it will reach someone. THink this idea of the redistibution of wealth is all about getting a few fatcats to pony up a little more taxes? Better think again. THere is a bigger agenda!
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:19 am
Oy. After reading “Beth Gordon” contribution @ 10.13, I must conclude that RB was right. We do, indeed, “need to start paying attention to them”.
Chipping them, monitoring their movements, perhaps deputizing loyal Americans to dispatch them humanely should they pose a threat to themselves or others…
Brosephus™
November 16th, 2012
10:19 am
dB
Black Liberation Theology lives!!!!!! We’re slowly creepin’ up on you. When we get’cha, we’re changing the national anthem….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LoHdNo4RYE
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 16th, 2012
10:19 am
And, don’t forget…THE WHITEY TAPE!!!
Don’t forget his sooper secret Muslim decoder ring!
One ring to bind them….
alittlecommonsense
November 16th, 2012
10:19 am
So is this like when prominant democrats accuse the U.S. government of creating AIDS in order to kill blacks?
For every bit of right wing lunacy you can point out, I can give you at least a comparable amount of left wing lunacy.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
10:20 am
RB — “BTW, Peter, have you noticed how many people on food stamps are obese? Think about that for a moment……”
How can you tell? Do you just ask every obese person you see whether they’re on SNAP or not?
Or do you have some special con radar that allows you to see other people’s character flaws even if you haven’t ever spoken to them?
the cat
November 16th, 2012
10:21 am
My biggest fear right now is I am probably related to some of you by marriage and will be in your midst next week. Crazy isn’t contagious, is it?
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
10:22 am
“see her famous remarks of not being proud to be an American until Obama was nominated”
When you have to lie (or in this case misquote) to make your point, you have no point
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
10:22 am
Yep, looks like another 18,500 on the UE role for next week.
BTW, after all the bashing ya’ll gave me about the numbers, claiming it was all Sandy related, could you explain how there were larger increases in Penn and Ohio than there were in NJ? Were OH and PA hit that hard or do you all really have no clue as usual and make up crap to defend your President at all costs?
How about that Denny’s franchise owner adding 5% to his customers tab to pay his Obamacare bill? Isn’t that a great idea? His employees all get healthcare and his customers get the satisfaction of helping these poor less fortnate souls. Great idea!!
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:23 am
“King: Petraeus Says CIA’s Talking Points Were Edited to Play Down Terrorism…” drudgey.
Apologize.
Lord Help Us
November 16th, 2012
10:24 am
‘My biggest fear right now is I am probably related to some of you by marriage and will be in your midst next week. ‘
You have NO idea how funny that is…(meaning spot on).
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
10:24 am
Good thing there are no crazies on the left.
They BOTH suck
November 16th, 2012
10:24 am
RB @ 10:22
How is that different from any business owner who passes on as much cost as possible in efforts to maintain profit margin goals?
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
10:25 am
“Or do you have some special con radar that allows you to see other people’s character flaws even if you haven’t ever spoken to them?”
JHM – being overweight is NOT a “character” flaw. There are many reasons for being overweight, and not all of them are due to things like poor eating habits.
Brosephus™
November 16th, 2012
10:25 am
So is this like when prominant democrats accuse the U.S. government of creating AIDS in order to kill blacks?
For every bit of right wing lunacy you can point out, I can give you at least a comparable amount of left wing lunacy.
I don’t recall Democratic legislators enacting legislation in regards to that claim, but go ahead with that false equivalency anyway. You are right about their being crazy on both sides, but I don’t think there is equal responses by the crazy. I don’t remember Cynthia McKinney getting boatloads of crazy legislation introduced in the House. Then again, I don’t pay much attention to crazy anyway.
They BOTH suck
November 16th, 2012
10:25 am
The Black Liberation Theology is as close as you can get to Islam was a great post…….
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
10:26 am
RB — “How about that Denny’s franchise owner adding 5% to his customers tab to pay his Obamacare bill? Isn’t that a great idea?”
The even better idea came when he suggested that customers just tip less in order to make up for the 5% surcharge.
So now I know not to eat at Denny’s because some tightfisted, loudmouthed jerkwad franchisee might be in charge there.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
10:27 am
Black Liberation Theology
really only scares those who lean to
Owning Black People Theology.
(I will admit that OBP Theology has modernized by expanding to all brown,red and yellow people and estrogen based life forms)
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
10:27 am
How about that Denny’s franchise owner adding 5% to his customers tab to pay his Obamacare bill? Isn’t that a great idea?
so it’s not really “free” healthcare??….who knew
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:27 am
Bros @ 10.19, seriously, I have gone digging more times than I care to recall, trying to find the sort of nefarious stuff darkly (pun intended) hinted at by the J-Rebs of this world.
this is from memory, but far as I could tell, the closest connection I could get to Teh Skary was that out of all the stuff a 5,000 member congregation published over the years, there was one newsletter that gave some sort of “attaboy” symbolic award to charitable work in the neighborhood that Farrakhan’s folks were doing.
no connection whatsoever to the Obamas of course, but never mind that. This was IT. The rest that I could ever dig out of Trinity United Church of Christ, was the sort of left-leaning Christian theology that, absent Wright’s (obviously) fiery and sometimes offensive rhetoric that *I* have read and heard growing up.
So, you know, I get a little bit PO’d when some know-nothing goes talking smack about it.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
10:27 am
RB — “you need to start paying attention”
The irony, it is thick and deep these days.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:28 am
The gop decided not to leave their bubble.
Reality is just too much for them to handle.
JohnnyReb
November 16th, 2012
10:28 am
stands – if you think what Jeramiah Wright spewed to Obama for 20 years is mainline protestant, you don’t know your butt from a hole in the ground. You are a typcial voter Obama went after. I will refrain from calling you a deserved name as Jay don’t like name calling.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
10:29 am
Doggone — “JHM – being overweight is NOT a “character” flaw.”
I didn’t say or think that it was.
I figured that RB would consider being on SNAP the character flaw.
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
10:29 am
Then again, I don’t pay much attention to crazy anyway.
same here…..well except in dating
BobFromcobb
November 16th, 2012
10:29 am
Continuing, redistrict state and federal political districts, which creates fewer electable white democrats, and black republicans. Polarize and use fear, divisive non political topics such as abortion and gun control. The fruit (cancer), will be the growth of the conservative right which promotes status quo. I want my slaves, my segregation, my guns and my clothes hangers. I want to proclaim them as the will of god and any who oppose are atheist, un-American communist loving UN supporting, traitors. But in a nice way. Ignorance is always the the open door for this fear based cancer. EDUCATION is the cure. But not everyone wants to be healed. The close minded are doomed to ignorance and fear forever.
The universe circles the earth
The earth is flat
And Agenda 21 will replace the US constitution.
From us open minded veterans, we aren’t blind, but we aren’t afraid either. Idiots.
I’m not blind, but I’m not afraid either. Idiots.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:29 am
“Good thing there are no crazies on the left.”
Please do not do that in public.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
10:31 am
Meeting again. Back later.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:33 am
J-Reb, what you know of mainline Protestantism outside your own pathetic, inbred world wouldn’t fill a thimble.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
10:33 am
Okay… I may be going crazy. Mitt just had a good idea: Add dental care to Obamacare. Let’s do it.
Regnad Kcin
November 16th, 2012
10:33 am
“Good thing there are no crazies on the left.”
Thulsa, I agree that no party has a monopoly on irrationality, but the “Whoo-hoo, space alien, Kenyan/Marxist/ Soacialist, UN troop invasion, CIA monitoring my fillings, tinfoil hat,” bat$hit crazies seem to congregate to the right. I don’t have an explanation, just the observation.
Mary Elizabeth
November 16th, 2012
10:34 am
I want to inform readers to watch a very important documentary which will air tomorrow at noon on GPB-Knowledge TV. That channel is 246 on Comcast and it is free to Comcast subscribers. This program will also air on the 29th of November on that channel at 9 am, 3 pm, and 8 pm.
The name of the program is “Independent Lens: Park Avenue, Money, Power and the American Dream.”
The forces behind the agenda that Chip Rogers, a major player in ALEC, has implemented in Georgia run much deeper than what posters have thus far surmised. That these wealth/power forces exist in our nation, and that they have worked to influence our national and local politicians for their benefit, is not simply an opinion I am putting forth. This is factual knowledge that was aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Channel 8, early this morning from 3 to 4 am. Even I was stunned by the stealthy shift of our nation’s wealth or money from control by the Middle Class to the top 1%, basically since 1977. Since that time these forces, including the Koch Brothers, deliberately have skewed our nation’s wealth upward and they have had a heavy-handed Liberatian ideology which they wish to perpetuate in America, in ways other than the vote. That is why they have been so stealthy in their goals. They could not accomplish their goals by the vote – and they had tried and failed in that democratic avenue. They have had to manipulate the public to distrust their own government to serve their mercenary and ideological goals. They have tried to dismantle our nation’s public institutions for private ones through scare tactics that many – who are unknowing – have bought into, such as that America is becoming more “Socialistic” under Barack Obama and the Democrats. I am grateful that Progressives in our nation have been exposing their stealthy agenda to the American public in the last few years.
Graphs (moving graphs) were shown on this television broadcast in which most of the wealth of this nation can be seen to have shifted from the Middle Class to the top 1% – in a drastic change from 1977 to the present day. This has not occurred through happenstance. It has been by design. We must wake up to what has been happening in America by stealthy design. Please watch this broadcast tomorrow at Noon on Channel 246 Comcast or on your GPB-Knowledge TV channel.
In my opinion, Sen. Chip Rogers has been influencial in this shift of power away from public institutions and public programs that benefit the Middle Class to programs that serve the interests of the wealth/power forces in our nation. Be wary of legislation that Chip Rogers may put forth in the 2013 Legislative Session in Georgia that will further dismantle public institutions and programs such as traditional public schools, and also be wary of legislation that his fellow ALEC members might put forth, including Rep. Jan Jones, Rep. Edward Lindsey, and Sen. Fran Millar.
Aquagirl
November 16th, 2012
10:34 am
Meeting again. Back later.
See, he’s off to plan the U.N. takeover! The cons are right! Load your guns and put on your tinfoil tricorn hats!
GT
November 16th, 2012
10:35 am
Jay backs his assumptions with facts. The drifting away from the mainstream of America to the absurd of entertainment by the right and then having to clarify the difference of sound logic and absurdity as if one was the same as the other, shows the damage to the weaker foundations, this storm of right wing nuts can do. The last election was refreshing in it did not swallow the reality show entertainment and voted for logic. Only the logical can see this or find value in it, but they are still and forever will be in the majority of this country. The last boat for wingnuts set sail in 2012, the last close election of this generation, the last real shot by the right, under perfect conditions and they lost it.
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
10:36 am
Erwin s cat,
You would be surprised the misinformation out there of voters who think obamacare is free. I’ve directly seen 3 people so far who thought they were getting free healthcare. The look on one mans face when I broke it to him was priceless. Lotta people gonna get quite a rude awakening in 2014.
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:36 am
The UN has enough problems in the ME so beck is still bat crap crazy.
That will not change.
It pays well to be a kook these days.
bookman parrot
November 16th, 2012
10:37 am
indigo
November 16th, 2012
8:48 am
“continues …. in other conflicts”
I’m not speaking of continuing in the Soviet Union and Stalin; I’m speaking of current day conflicts.. africa… middle east…. nothing to do with Stalin.
Peter
November 16th, 2012
10:38 am
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801……. WOW this concept………
How about “Twinkies 21″ !!
You get what you wish for !
“IRVING, Texas — The maker of the iconic U.S. snack Twinkies said Friday it is going out of business and laying off all of its 18,500 workers after a national strike crippled its operations.”
I guess if you are still manufacturing typewriters you may be going out of business as well…..
Seems these guys had the option of creating a Healthy snack in the factory don’t you think ?
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:38 am
Mitt just had a good idea: Add dental care to Obamacare. Let’s do it.
gawd, I got a little soundbite of that last night. It speaks volumes that Mitt thinks this might be the craziest, most outlandish sh-t an industrialized nation could provide.
I knew he was probably a flaming a$$hole but didn’t want to assume it… and that’s all I’ll say about that.
Ronald Reagan
November 16th, 2012
10:38 am
I couldn’t help but laugh when I read where a Liberal Journalist pointed out a waste of taxpayer’s dollars. A GOP waste at that. If we had equal reporting of Liberal waste, Flint ink would be building additional plants.
bookman parrot
November 16th, 2012
10:39 am
To john Konop
November 16th, 2012
8:40 am
Where did i ever say it is more important than the other issues you listed. You didn’t read… you assumed… i am not saying it is more important, but the why it is even an issue is we do not need foreign entities governing the U.S. the U.S. govt is already more than enough…
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
10:40 am
Mary Elizabeth – our conspiracy theorists are better than you conspiracy theorists :p
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:40 am
you know, using “inbred” even in this context was probably a bit over the line. Withdrawn. As them Catholics might say, mea culpa.
That said, J-Reb, please educate yourself on the term I used earlier. Here is a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant
…you’ll find in there, that the TUCC’s denomination is among those listed.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
10:41 am
Well, well, well ………………………
Headline: “Petraeus: I Said Al Qaeda Behind Benghazi — But Line Was Removed”
“Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus testifies in a closed-door hearing that immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack ‘Al Qaeda involvement’ was suspected — but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to Rep. Peter King.”
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
10:41 am
Reginald,
For every Kenyan marxist crazy there is a 9/11 Koch brothers ALEC crazy and then some.
DebbieDoRight - Crazee + Uninformed = Republican
November 16th, 2012
10:42 am
He attended Muslim school in his youth. From there look under Frank Marshall Davis. Then do some digging into Obama embracing black liberation theology under Jeramiah Wright for 20 years. That association was not politically acceptable, so he verbaly threw Wright under the bus and you Moonbats beleived it. His mother was a communist sympathizer and his dad not only Muslim but anti-colonialist. Michelle is right behind him – see her famous remarks of not being proud to be an American until Obama was nominated.
OMG!! DannyX I had no idea!! After I read your postings, and stopped laughing hysterically, I found myself concerned about the PLIGHT OF THE WORLD!!! (< notice the cap letters?, that means that it’s a really, really, really, REALLY big problem!!)
RMBDS is a major problem that Chip Rogers will be holding hearings on soon.
Thank GOD for Chip!! He’s a great American! All republicans please remember to come to the meeting at Don’s tomorrow night. We’ll be having beer, chips, and OLD YELLER! (<< caps again? This is because Old Yeller is really slang for gay porno). Be there or be straight!! Your choice!
JohnnyR: He attended Muslim school in his youth. From there look under Frank Marshall Davis. Then do some digging into Obama embracing black liberation theology under Jeramiah Wright for 20 years. That association was not politically acceptable, so he verbaly threw Wright under the bus and you Moonbats beleived it. His mother was a communist sympathizer and his dad not only Muslim but anti-colonialist. Michelle is right behind him – see her famous remarks of not being proud to be an American until Obama was nominated.
OMG JohnnyReb has it!!! JohnnyReb has RMBDS!!! May Newt have mercy on him.
Soldier Mom
November 16th, 2012
10:44 am
Oh Lord, you just can’t make this stuff up. I proudly wrote in “Mickey Mouse” against Chip Rogers in this election. Truly, a six foot mouse would be better than this guy. What a shame for his party to show how far down they have gone. Or maybe it’s not a shame, maybe this will force them to get rid of their fools and we can get good ideas back into the government again.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
10:45 am
Regarding my 10:41 above, General Petreaus was OBVIOUSLY all wet because our crack senior intelligence expert Jay Bookman stated right after the incident:
“The premise of the entire debate is false, because the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was not an act of terror.”
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/10/17/on-benghazi-the-debate-and-acts-of-terror/
GT
November 16th, 2012
10:45 am
Thulsa Doom if some guy buys your explanation of healthcare I imagine the expression or lack of it on his face was pretty priceless already. You sport got your rude awakening in 2012, maybe you will recover enough to have another one in 2014 when you realize you still don’t know what you are talking about.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:48 am
I’ve directly seen 3 people so far who thought they were getting free healthcare.
Given that right wingers have been incorrectly claiming for years that Democrats are giving away “free stuff”, and given that these same wingers have been incorrectly referring to the PPACA as “socialized medicine” and setting up “free healthcare” strawmen…
this would surprise you, why?
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
10:48 am
Free dental care? People do love they free shyte they do. My dental plan is $19.99 a month. Come to think of it it really is outrageous that one should have to actually pay for their own dental plan. Mr.
Nero
November 16th, 2012
10:49 am
Embrace the Cliff!! Hostess climbed in the back seat. Let’s finish this Thelma and Louise. Just close your eyes and stomp on the gas.
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
10:49 am
BOTH, “How is that different from any business owner who passes on as much cost as possible in efforts to maintain profit margin goals?” It’s not, but when you add 5% to the cost of everything the same poor people you’re trying to help purchase, will they better off at the end of the day, or worse off? Do you think the Denny’s owner will be more or less likely to give his employees a raise?
“So now I know not to eat at Denny’s because some tightfisted, loudmouthed jerkwad franchisee might be in charge there.” Apparently, somebody doesn’t care about all these employees and wants them to join the former Hostess employees at the UE office. Sounds like a GREAT plan, doesn’t it!!
monty
November 16th, 2012
10:50 am
I seriously don’t think Hostess had to close doors because people have developed healthier eating habits.LOL! How stupid can you people be!We’re the fattest nation on earth. They closed because of labor unions,kinda hard to admit it. Blame it on the company, companies are now the bad guys to libs.Talk about paranoia. Comparing a snack cake to an obsolete typewriter, wow! Brilliant anaolgy. MUst of stayed up all night for that one.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:51 am
“The premise of the entire debate is false, because the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was not an act of terror.”
Hey, Scout?
“Unholy denominations.” remember how much fun we had when I started pressing you for specifics on those? to the point where Jay told me I had to stop?
In light of my restraint on that matter, could I ask you just how many times you intend to post your little bit of “gotcha” in here? Because I think I might just go back to asking you to put up or shut up, all over again, if you don’t.
will-o-the-wisp
November 16th, 2012
10:51 am
aftrer reading some of the comments, it is easy to see that, lunacy and paranoia are endemic in georgia, is it in the water, air , or just too many people on porches with banjos inbreeding.
Lord Help Us
November 16th, 2012
10:52 am
‘just too many people on porches with banjos inbreeding.’
Wrong, I have in on good authority that Johnny Reb Does NOT have a porch…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
10:53 am
Stands, I want to add to the Senior Digits demands for answers that he come clean and tell us whether he has signed any petitions to secede from the US. He keeps running from that too.
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
10:53 am
Peter, “Seems these guys had the option of creating a Healthy snack in the factory don’t you think ?”
If you’re not even going to read the news, stay out of the discussion. Do us all a favor and go read WHY they’re closing down before you make any more stupid comments.
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
10:53 am
banjos are inbreeding??
Thulsa Doom
November 16th, 2012
10:54 am
Gt,
So what was my rude awakening in 2012? Unlike you I don’t predicate my success or failure in life on who the hell is potus. I know a helluva lot more about what to expect in 2014 then you do Missy.
lefty_316
November 16th, 2012
10:54 am
“Science” and “Republican” – now there are two words that don’t belong in the same sentence.
Life begins at the moment of conception. The earth is only 6,000 years old. Evolution isn’t a sound theory. Blah blah blah blah blah
Ben Shockley
November 16th, 2012
10:54 am
the cat
November 16th, 2012
9:20 am
“Ben S.-I don’t think anyone called you out on your slip up yesterday. For weeks you have been regaling us with how much money you have, you own your own company, etc. ”
“Then yesterday you made the statement your employer had rights to your emails. You are just another working stiff like the rest of us. Nothing to be ashamed of……..”
“hahahhahahahahahahaha, BUSTED.”
Mr/Mrs Cat….
$10,000 to you if you can cite where or when I said I owned my own company.
What I said was that I earn a six figure income. Which I do, employed by a large corporation.
Will bet you another $10,000 I can produce a paystub to document that fact.
Happy hunting.
Aquagirl
November 16th, 2012
10:54 am
Wrong, I have in on good authority that Johnny Reb Does NOT have a porch…
Well geez, where does he put the couch?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
10:54 am
Agenda 21
I.Q. 21
Or is that too high?
getalife
November 16th, 2012
10:55 am
It is time to label the right as kooks and keep moving forward .
They will keep losing elections until they are gone.
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
10:55 am
banjos are inbreeding?
having little baby banjos?
monty
November 16th, 2012
10:56 am
Every time Obama farts libs take a deep breath and smile and say to themselves,”Ah, life is good.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
10:56 am
Good Fight @ 10:53
I posted my reply to that yesterday. Go find it.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
10:58 am
CBS (not drudgey) Headline: “House Intel chair: CIA story changed”
“Ex-CIA head Petraeus tells House Intelligence Committee investigating attack on Americans in Benghazi that CIA talking points were watered down after vetting by multiple agencies.”
Watered down from terrorism to film !