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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RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
2:42 pm
Don’t flatter yourself, Joey, Jay banned me because he didn’t want me to keep asking him to back up his claims about a cheap alternative for Xolair that he has yet to provide. Easier to make up some crap and make me go away than to admit he doesn’t have a dam clue.
BTW, if everybody on this blog who called another a liar were banned, there wouldn’t be many left with YOU at the front of the line out the door.
And where does Joey get off demanding I go look up freight haul data when it was YOU who put it our there as something meaningful regarding the cost of diesel fuel? You’ve got to be one arrogant azz to have ignored my request for you to back up your claim, provide NOTHING, and then keep demanding I do your homework for you a week later. Do your own dam homework, Joey!!
Mick
November 16th, 2012
2:42 pm
**Don’t you want to have those answers?**
Yes, with a timeline and facts, not conjecture and made up hypothesis…
cat
Maybe and maybe not, the point is if walmart had to hire replacements it would definitely throw their operations into chaos in the short term. Xmas IS the short term…
MadMax
November 16th, 2012
2:43 pm
JHM – glad we shut off those deductions from those fat cats. So if you and your family pull down a $100,000 and you have $10,000 in medical expenses, that’s a hefty tax increase. Assuming a 25% tax rate, you have to use after tax $ for the $3,500 you could have put in the FSA so that costs $825, and then you can’t deduct until you get to $10,000 so that’s another $625 so you will end up paying another $1450 in taxes now that Obamacare is taking effect. Now we see why the provisions were deferred until after the election.
Peter
November 16th, 2012
2:46 pm
alex. given your thought train……..why did we go to Iraq then ?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
2:46 pm
Petraeus exonerates the White House on Benghazi
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/16/1162311/-Petraeus-exonerates-the-White-House-on-Benghazi
“There was an interagency process to draft it, not a political process,” Schiff said after the hearing. “They came up with the best assessment without compromising classified information or source or methods. So changes were made to protect classified information.
“The general was adamant there was no politicization of the process, no White House interference or political agenda,” Schiff said. “He completely debunked that idea.”
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
2:47 pm
…that control hundreds of millions of Hostess debt…
who better to decide the fate of the company? The union could have save jobs…if that was their priority, ….I guess they showed them huh?
Peter
November 16th, 2012
2:48 pm
RB from Gwinnet……….. Peter, “Holler for the executives that gave themselves……. BIG pay raises while bankrupting the company as well correct ?”
That BS again? Prove it!!!
Prove what please……… thank you !
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
2:50 pm
MM – JHM – glad we shut off those deductions from those fat cats.
does it always have to be personal…next you’ll be picking on me for my lack of opposable thumbs
Mick
November 16th, 2012
2:50 pm
granny
I’m afraid that some people are determined to find something, even if they don’t know what that something is…kinda reminds one of the whitewater investigation fiasco…
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
2:53 pm
“Holler for the executives that gave themselves……. BIG pay raises
Only Congress can do this…or a company owner
alex
November 16th, 2012
2:54 pm
Do try to lay off McCain, 5.5 years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a few angry points, something about “man up” from Obama should make us all puke….
@ welcome..”some would say’…and others would say what and where does that get us beyond our own bias…. “more Twinkies”, can we move on ,please…….
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
November 16th, 2012
2:54 pm
Erwin’s cat, JHM was providing additional information to what I put our there for RB & Debbie on the previous page. It did not sound like any endorsement of policies to me. Neither was my post on the previous page intended to represent a for or against the changes. Just presenting what those changes will be.
But your point is valid. There is nothing to get personal about. Think I will get back to work now.
RAMZAD
November 16th, 2012
2:54 pm
This is the Republican MO. Keep propaganda as the husband and conspiracy as the wife and hate as the children- The Republican Family
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
2:55 pm
Mick
I get that….
I guess it must be hard to accept that we have a President
without the record of scandals of some of the past GOP’ers.
Some sick silly jealousy.
This surely does have whitewhater written all over it.
Silly, silly, silly
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
2:58 pm
Let’s shift to something we all can agree on.
Anyone NOT want Vlad Putin to die in a fire? Show of hands?
getalife
November 16th, 2012
2:59 pm
nero,
“care little which way the economy goes.”
Who cares what you care about.
Welcome to the Occupation
November 16th, 2012
3:01 pm
Erwin’s cat: “who better to decide the fate of the company? The union could have save jobs…if that was their priority,”
The whole cycle from bankruptcy to bankruptcy is a sham that is exploited by crony executives whole line their own pockets while jobs and eventually whole companies are gutted and finally destroyed.
Don’t be an idiot, try to open your eyes just a bit.
Regnad Kcin
November 16th, 2012
3:02 pm
MBetty – I’d like to join the union – you can have 100% of my wages as dues – I’ll just take the bennies.
Thomas Heyward Jr
November 16th, 2012
3:02 pm
RAMZAD
November 16th, 2012
2:54 pm
This is the Republican MO. Keep propaganda as the husband and conspiracy as the wife and hate as the children- The Republican Family
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Keep Dependency on .gov as the absent father, subsidize the single mother………abort the children.
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lol
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just a drive by.
alex
November 16th, 2012
3:04 pm
Peter, I really haven’t examined the issue in detail my remark was to put the maistros thoughts in perspective of other events in his illustrious career. I would think that ,yes and absolutely, oil and Americas dependence on the mideast crude canbe a large part of it..
Granny, you using the daily KOS is like me using the FOX as a reference,objective people simply won’t buy it, …..
Banderson
November 16th, 2012
3:08 pm
Pay raises at Hostess for execs. Is Fortune Magazine ok for a source?
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/26/hostess-twinkies-bankrupt/
“The board replaced Driscoll with Greg Rayburn, a restructuring expert Hostess had hired as a consultant only nine days earlier. Rayburn was a serial turnaround specialist who had worked with such high-profile distressed businesses as WorldCom, Muzak Holdings, and New York City Off-Track Betting. He became Hostess’s sixth CEO in a decade. Within a month of taking over, Rayburn had to preside over a public-relations fiasco. Some unsecured creditors had informed the court that last summer — as the company was crumbling — four top Hostess executives received raises of up to 80%. (Driscoll had also received a pay raise back then.) The Teamsters saw this as more management shenanigans. “Looting” is how Hall described it in TV interviews”
Recon 0311 2533
November 16th, 2012
3:08 pm
The Daily Kos, it’s now clear why Granny and probably many others on here are so misinformed.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:08 pm
alex
“alex
November 16th, 2012
2:54 pm
Do try to lay off McCain, 5.5 years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a few angry points, something about “man up” from Obama should make us all puke….
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all honor to his service….
but don’t be a goofball, it does not excuse his erratic behavior now.
Banderson
November 16th, 2012
3:09 pm
Now, back to Agenda 21. What is the state GOP going to do to protect us?
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
3:09 pm
Ok, so the “die in a fire” bit wasn’t to anyone’s liking. How’bout this?
(h/t to Digbysblog.blogspot.com)
I wasn’t aware of the “majority of the majority” rule apparently in place in the House of Representatives, since the Hastert days, anyone else?
If I understand correctly, it makes it a lot more difficult for Obama (or any opposition-party President) to try to negotiate with the House on bills he’d like to get passed. read on:
The Reagan Revolution was enacted in 1981 by the GOP minority joining with a dissident faction of Boll Weevil conservative Democrats to pass bills. But under modern conditions, bills opposed by the Speaker of the House almost never make it to the floor. If Reagan had to negotiate compromises with Tip O’Neill rather than with a minority of O’Neill’s caucus, he never could have passed some of his key 1981 agenda items.
Dennis Hastert formalized the new rules as the “majority of the majority” principle. For a bill to pass his House of Representatives, it needed two concurrent majorities—the support of both a majority of House members and the support of a majority of House Republicans. That had the effect of shifting the veto point in the House well to the right of the median house member. During the last congress, Speaker Boehner changed the rules again adopting the principle that he only wanted to move legislation that had the support of 218 Republicans which shifts the veto point way further to the right. That absolute majority principle is a common norm of procedure in parliamentary systems. Angela Merkel wants to pass bills through the Bundestag that can pass in principle exclusively relying on the votes of her own coalition. If you require opposition votes to pass your bills, your government is in constant risk of collapse. But those systems generally have fewer veto points outside the lower house of parliament so the practical impact isn’t as gridlockerific.
At any rate, the point is that these kind of things are at least partially under Boehner’s control and his decision-making about them is a huge driver of the odds of compromise. The House Republican majority isn’t that big. If Boehner allowed Boll Weeviling a lot of stuff could pass that won’t pass under the majority-of-the-majority principle, and there’s stuff that can pass under majority-of-the-majority rules that can’t pass under the absolute majority principle. Under the current rule, you’re asking Obama to bargain not with the median House member (a moderate Republican) or with the median House Republican (by definition a mainstream conservative Republican) but with essentially a member of the far-right fringe. That’s tough.
and no, I don’t know what’s involved in getting House rules changed; I assume it’s a simple procedural vote that they could do if they wanted to, at any time, but that in practice it’s not that simple?
Mick
November 16th, 2012
3:10 pm
recon
How informed are you? All your information about the election last week proved to be..well…misinformed…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:11 pm
alex
“Granny, you using the daily KOS is like me using the FOX as a reference,objective people simply won’t buy it,”
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You mean “Gonna win by a landslide” Fox?
ah, nope.
not in the same universe
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
3:12 pm
RB — “Don’t flatter yourself, Joey, Jay banned me because he didn’t want me to keep asking him to back up his claims about a cheap alternative for Xolair that he has yet to provide.”
Oh, so he banned you *twice* this week, then? Is that what you’re saying?
“Easier to make up some crap and make me go away than to admit he doesn’t have a dam clue.”
Said the guy who jabbers about fuels and then won’t present any data to support his claim.
“BTW, if everybody on this blog who called another a liar were banned, there wouldn’t be many left with YOU at the front of the line out the door.”
I heartily encourage you to entreat Jay to ban me at any time you believe I deserve it. Or even if you don’t think I deserve it and you just want me gone.
In short, Punkin, Bring. It. On. (giggling)
“And where does Joey get off demanding I go look up freight haul data when it was YOU who put it our there as something meaningful regarding the cost of diesel fuel?”
Wrong again, RB. All I did was post a photograph. (laughing)
I made *no* assertion *whatsoever* about how much or how frequently it was used, and in fact, I explicitly *disavowed* such a claim when you demanded that I explain myself.
“You’ve got to be one arrogant azz to have ignored my request for you to back up your claim”
Uh uh uh, RB. I didn’t *make* a claim. (laughing, pointing) ;D
“provide NOTHING, and then keep demanding I do your homework for you a week later.”
No, RB. The homework is *yours* to do. I didn’t *make* a claim. (laughing)
Do your own dam homework, Joey!!
You will do your own homework, RB. You have your orders. Now hop to it. (laughing)
BTW, RB, if you think you can find a claim *I* made in that thread, then please do post it.
Hint: you won’t find one. (laughing, pointing)
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
3:13 pm
MadMax — “Now we see why the provisions were deferred until after the election.”
FWIW, anyone who was paying attention already knew about them.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:14 pm
Recon 0311 2533
November 16th, 2012
3:08 pm
The Daily Kos, it’s now clear why Granny and probably many others on here are so misinformed.
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Ah, nope
They got it right.
Have you forgotten already or are you bearing false witness?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 16th, 2012
3:16 pm
STANDS
You will be interested to know that Hastert came into office with a net worth of $170,000. When he left his net worth was in excess of $11 million. Apparently, he was on a transportation committee and got heads up on approved construction in Indiana or Illlinois, I don’t recall…he bought up land and voila…
Most of congress have this sort of crap (see Reid and Pelosi) in their DC resumes…
Its all BS and they all do it…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
3:18 pm
Granny, don’t you know you are misinformed on Fast and Furious too. Misinformed now apparently means that you address facts not wild speculation.
Recon 0311 2533
November 16th, 2012
3:18 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/overview-obama-administration-changing-statements-on-libya/
alex
November 16th, 2012
3:20 pm
Granny, The Hanoi Hilton and 5 years, you on the other hand have no excuse….sheesh and yes you are right that right wing Fox is biased…..But the Daily KOS….??? Take your phenergan !
stands for decibels
November 16th, 2012
3:20 pm
You will be interested to know that Hastert came into office with a net worth of $170,000. When he left his net worth was in excess of $11 million.
hey, it’s the best Congrefs money can buy.
But, what’s the deal with that “majority of the majority” rule? Were you aware of it? I wasn’t.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:20 pm
Recon 0311 2533
November 16th, 2012
3:18 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/overview-obama-administration-changing-statements-on-libya/
landslide
landslide
landslide
WAHOO!!
BobFromcobb
November 16th, 2012
3:21 pm
Did Max Cleland get any man up points in Georgia. What idiot waves a flag and calls a Vietnam quadriplegic vet un American…….. Oh that was Saxby Chambliss…..student deferred from the war. What bigger idiot votes for student deferred Sen. Chambliss…..Ga. Republicans. Warrenton N C born, La. raised, Tenn. Educated Sax. Yes Sen McCain has EARNED a break from The critics, but Sen Graham, and Sen Chambliss shouldn’t even be in the conversation.
Exclude idiots on the fringe, be an Independent.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:24 pm
alex
November 16th, 2012
3:20 pm
Granny, The Hanoi Hilton and 5 years, you on the other hand have no excuse….sheesh and yes you are right that right wing Fox is biased…..But the Daily KOS….??? Take your phenergan !
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Drugs? Don’t be a goofball.
Yes, Kos. Good source, just way to truthful for your average tin foil hatter.
silly silly silly
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
3:24 pm
Oy vey, the stupidty of the GOP is deep. Another GOPper whining about “people of color” voting:
Yeah, a very high concentration of people of color. It’s not a problem, but, you know, when I go to the mall I see, you know this amount. Well I’m seeing at least double or triple that amount here. So what I’m saying is, it looks to me like this voting location was selected as the place they told everyone to come.
Perhaps we need a nationwide “meet some black people” day for the GOP.
TaxPayer
November 16th, 2012
3:24 pm
Twinkies have a 100 year shelf life so it’s the company’s own fault that they are going our of business. They should have made them biodegradable. I’ve heard stories of Twinkies on store shelves in some of the little mom and pop stores that are going on 50 years old and they still look the same as the day they were made.
the cat
November 16th, 2012
3:25 pm
Karma will bite Saxby’s generous azz for what he did to Max Cleland, a good and honorable man.
LUCIFER
November 16th, 2012
3:25 pm
There’s a clear difference between those of us who have brains, and those that don’t. There are smart people and there are dumb people. The dumb people are too dumb to realize they are dumb, and smart people have already figured it out. Smart people rely on facts and scientific truths and empirical evidence to make their decision upon. Dumb people are so gullible that they buy tripe espoused by Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and use their beliefs as their own. Perhaps they aren’t smart enough to think for themselves. What is frightening is that several dumb people are in leadership positions in our government to vote upon legislation that impacts us all. This is why voting is so important, and the last election had a promising result. Or how did “W” put it: “You can fool some of the people most of the time but not all of them forever … or something like that.” I rest my case.
TaxPayer
November 16th, 2012
3:28 pm
“Misinformed”, per the Republican definition, simply means that you have facts as opposed to Fox.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
3:29 pm
Tip of the Day: If you want to become a Fox News Host and you are female, you need the following for your resume:
1. Be in a Victoria’s Secret catalogue
2. Can you talk?
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/11/16/1207641/fox-news-host-our-female-hosts-come-from-victorias-secret-catalogue-luckily-can-talk/
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:29 pm
alex
phenergan…silly goofball
I had to look that up. allergy and motion sickness?
It might have been funny if you had said aricet….
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:31 pm
We really need a better class of right wing posters.
alex
November 16th, 2012
3:31 pm
All started with” Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”…..Don’t forget “book” advances for ex presidents or $50,000 speaches for ex presidents, the list goes on and on. Former Sen, Dodd is a lobyist….lot’s of them are on the right and left….
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 16th, 2012
3:33 pm
STANDS
Not in the least…seems irrelevant to me…they can change the rules any time they want so I’m not sure it matters too much. I do know BO is posturing and laying his terms with some new choice bits that I see as silly but he did win…I think the proposal he has on the table suggests 1.6 trillion revenue increases and $4.4 trillion of cuts..the latter pretty much already guaranteed by ending of wars..alledgedly, he will agree to trim out of social programs but I bet you my favorite pair of tighty whities that these won’t begin until well after he gets the new revenue…
Peter
November 16th, 2012
3:36 pm
well then alex…
You seem to be implying the Greenspan was correct in his assessment of the War in Iraq then ?
alex
November 16th, 2012
3:40 pm
Let’s walk thru it, SLOWLY for you, I referred to Obama’s choice of “man up” as making objective people (you?) want to puke, usually-one pukes(throws up) AFTER getting nauseated. Phenergan is for nausea-are you with me? Do I care?
Stupid, stupid, stupid
Victoria Secret, stupid…Diane Sawyer, now she’s got the right stuff, or drinks too much of it….
the cat, KARMA has taken too long…..
jms
November 16th, 2012
3:42 pm
There is a sizable contingent that wants to pack as many people into as small an urban area as possible. See the ITP/OTP debate, Portland’s land use plan, etc. This is an awesome plan for the environment but not so good for the mental health of those sardines.
cloudodust
November 16th, 2012
3:45 pm
Granny : Re your 1531 : Truth has but one straight line. Lies can be spun like a spider on meth. That’s why Right-Wingers seem boring in your world and why the Left seem so, how do you say, witty…
Jefferson
November 16th, 2012
3:45 pm
Unions cannot exist except for poor manangement, which brings companies down. The union is not the blame, anyone who thinks so is wrong.
BobFromcobb
November 16th, 2012
3:51 pm
Which entitlement should I give up first…… Hummmm, government backed student loan, small business loan, tax deferred 401k, IRA, child care exemption, unemployment, disability, Workers comp benefits,……..
I DO NOT have a Cobb neighbor who has not used some or all of these. Yet they’re worried about that 1% of the budget that pays out welfare assistance. 4.9% of the population take 1% of the budget without giving back. I agree. While you’re worried about that, another millionaire laughs at you. Honest Warren Buffet, 17.4% tax check was half of the 35% tax rate his earnings started in.
He saved $7million on $63million in earnings. Let’s worry about bread milk cigarettes and beer while someone tells you he’s stealing a G-7 from the airport and you say whhhaaaatttttt.
deegee
November 16th, 2012
3:54 pm
Oh, sure, the union people making $11.00 and $12.00 an hour working at about one-third of Hostess’ 36 bakeries are certainly responsible for the demise of an 82 year old company. It couldn’t be the private equity and hedge funds that control Hostess. Oh, nooooo. It’s gotta be the dough mixers and bakers. They did it. They killed the Twinkie all by themselves.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
3:56 pm
alex
your slowness doesn’t really matter to us
we assume you use whatever you were given the best you slowly can
Jeff Hogan
November 16th, 2012
3:56 pm
There’s no indication in your screed that you have researched Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Smart Growth and the Wildlands project at all. Because the social and environmental justice movement that is Agenda 21 is becoming much more understood by many, the simplistic castigators of those who oppose Agenda 21 are looking increasingly naive and stupid. Read this essay if you don’t want to remain ignorant: http://deltacountyagenda21.yolasite.com.
jms
November 16th, 2012
3:59 pm
“I DO NOT have a Cobb neighbor who has not used some or all of these.”
Who doesn’t pick up the candy they throw off the parade float. Rather than tell the crowds to stop, we should be canceling the parade.
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:01 pm
degree….http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-workers/
deegee
November 16th, 2012
4:15 pm
Let’s look at this another way, Erwin’s Cat. Does an 82 year old company with a good business plan, a product that is in demand, and a solid growth plan let their bakers and truck drivers put them out of business?
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:29 pm
deegree
no not in itself….nor would it let CEO salaries put it under either
Mary Elizabeth
November 16th, 2012
5:43 pm
alex, 2:40
Alex, your post is not only condescending, it is wrong factually, and it is full of stereotypical thinking. None of those are traits that a good teacher should have.
You assume that I taught younger children because, as a substitute teacher after I had retired, I had one class, one day, of middle school students, and one of those particular 12 year olds had said that I was his favorite teacher. I found that to be very human and caring.
For your information, I have been second in command of a school, directly under the princial when I functioned as an Instructional Lead Teacher for nearly a decade, and for 16 years I taught seniors in high school who ranged in age from 17 to 20. When I was an Instructional Lead Teacher, I did not teach for 6 years, but instead I worked with teachers to improve their instruction with students in grades 1 – 8. So you can understand that I also spent a good part of my educational career working with late adolescents and adults who were teachers.
You make a stereotypical assessment that I want “everyone to get a trophy,” which is not only erroneous but very telling about your thought processes.
When I taught juniors and seniors in high school, I also worked with over 100 teachers in that school to improve the academic standing of 1800 students, grades 9 – 12, and I also led a group which worked with counselors, parents, administrators, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals to pinpoint areas that might cause students to fail or to drop out of school.
Your post tells me more about you than I think you would have liked. I never “wasted” a moment of time when I was actively employed in the business of creating tomorrow’s leaders and well prepared citizens. Your post is a disappointment to me precisely because you identify yourself as a teacher.
Bill
November 16th, 2012
5:44 pm
Here’s my conspiracy theory: People like Glenn Beck and Field Searcy are secretly conspiring to take advantage of hordes of the intellectually weak and vulnerable in order to amass personal fortunes that they can then employ to their own evil ends. They prey on these weaklings using their own special mind-control technique called the Private-Public Co-Opt. The result: the intellectual death of millions.
Cherilyn Eagar
November 16th, 2012
6:46 pm
As one who has actually attended UN meetings and who has copies of Agenda 21 and other UN documents in my files (anyone can read them online as well), I really don’t see lunacy in the PowerPoint presentation that was posted here. In fact, I appreciate the fact that you shared the link. However, because most of the slides are original sources from UN documents, the presentation does make a case for lunacy – the lunacy of the UN.
The Mao slide might have been improved to make a more believable case, as well as a few others, but keep in mind that this is the visual side of the presentation, not the verbal, and so it is understandable that some rational connections are not visually communicated as well. Unless you are in favor of the central control of our resources, property and redistribution of population through regulations that control land use, it seemed to me to be fairly well laid out.
You see, I live in Utah where over 70% of the land is owned, managed and controlled by the Federal government. Entire rural communities are like ghost towns and people have lost their livelihoods because recreational roads have been blocked, clean coal industries are going out of business because of government regulation, and oil and natural gas leases are being held up by Czar Salazar and the peasants are restless out here.
We are protecting endangered species such as prairie dogs while the real endangered species is a family’s next meal and a farmer’s right to protect his bales of hay from those pesky little predators that destroy them while waiting for shipment to market. In several counties, the locals aren’t allowed to remove dead timber from the forests. This build up provided super kindling for all the forest fires that destroyed many homes and cost all of us (through federal disaster relief) millions of dollars to contain.
Utah could be one of the most prosperous states in the nation – and provide new jobs for YOU – were it not for Agenda 21’s “lunatic” proposed regulations. These preposterous ideas are taken to DC by the NGO’s who pay big bucks to “consultants” (lobbyists) who then buy votes in Congress (both sides of the aisle), and the administration carries out the policies.
The Antiquities Act is a major culprit because it gives a president SOLE authority to grab whatever land it wishes with the stroke of a pen – no Congressional oversight necessary – executive orders. Who on either side of the aisle would want that sort of unilateral dictatorship? It’s our land and it’s our business and we want the federal government to stay away from our right to own, manage and control our own property. Don’t mess with Utah!
Thank you for sharing. I encourage more intelligent thought here.
Mary Elizabeth
November 16th, 2012
6:48 pm
A poster on Jim Galloway’s blog shared this link with me to the video that I had mentioned earlier on this thread, entitled, “Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream,” so that anyone interested can see it immediately online:
Watch online: http://video.pbs.org/video/2300849486
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November 16th, 2012
7:32 pm
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Mary Elizabeth
November 16th, 2012
8:07 pm
Also, read Hedrick Smith’s book, “Who Stole the American Dream?” to understand the details of why and how the middle class has been so maligned, deliberately and with careful organization, by powerful business interests since the late 1970s.
http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith/dp/1400069661/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353114121&sr=1-1&keywords=Hedrick+Smith%27s+Who+Stole+the+American+Dream%3F#reader_1400069661
And read the reviews on Amazon:
“Journalist Hedrick Smith builds a case one piece at a time in his book Who Stole the American Dream? He shows through multiple examples over the past four decades how public policies that favor the rich have decimated the economic strength of average workers and enhanced the power of the wealthy. He shows how the United States has changed from a fairly level society to a plutocracy. This has been a transformation of American society that has important consequences. There are multiple predators that Smith exposes in this book, and he proposes ways in which we can turn this situation around, if we want. Readers interested in public policy should consider this required reading, whether one agrees or disagrees with Smith’s views.”
http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith/product-reviews/1400069661/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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November 16th, 2012
8:20 pm
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November 16th, 2012
10:01 pm
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November 16th, 2012
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Tap Out
November 16th, 2012
10:32 pm
People all around the nation are laughing at us tonight. Georgia deserves better.
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November 17th, 2012
12:09 am
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November 17th, 2012
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November 17th, 2012
2:12 am
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November 17th, 2012
2:56 am
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Ryan
November 17th, 2012
6:22 am
Terrible journalism. The author took the first chance he got to delegitamize the agenda 21 topic by throwing in glenn beck. Without even adressing the legitamcy of agenda 21 which have readable documents. The author should of first read some of agenda 21 then compare his comprehension to the views at the presentation. So im reallynot sure if this is bad journalism or propoganda.
Brian
November 17th, 2012
8:16 am
“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many…who would actively work to defeat any elected official… undertaking Local Agenda 21.
“So, we will call our process something else, such as ‘comprehensive planning’, ‘growth management’, or ‘smart growth.”
Source: J. Gary Lawrence “The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers
TV
November 17th, 2012
8:17 am
I listen to 90 percent liberal left news media and commentators and 10 percent conservative commentators. The biggest difference i see between Glen Beck and the others is that Glen Beck will many times have multiple videos showing officials making statements proving his point. A great example is Van Jones saying ‘a few cracker babies have to die’ . The left media finally finding a video of Romney talking about the 47 percent. Beck is a master at playing recordings and videos to expose the his point. Why can’t the left be better at doing the same thing. I just wish we could get all the truth. Everyone has an agenda!
JKL2
November 17th, 2012
9:18 am
ryan- So im reallynot sure if this is bad journalism or propoganda.
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9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB !!!!
November 17th, 2012
11:17 am
Its real. Agenda21 is real bad . I cant believe people cant grasp it. I guess it just takes a litle more time for some people. Ya know to sink in . Wake up!
Bill Koutalianos
November 17th, 2012
8:07 pm
Agenda 21 is all around us. The key buzzwords coming out of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit which are not mentioned in your article are “sustainability” & “sustainable development”. These are elusive, meaningless “feel good” words which are frivolously applied to everything from avoiding the use of plastic shopping bags to new downtown office towers with clever plumbing and electrical. One might imagine sustainability was about reducing excess and waste and equitably sharing available resources, but one would be wrong to jump to such a conclusion. The “sustainability” buzzword has been absorbed into the climate change fiasco and hence has been translated to argue that we should invest in commercially unviable renewable energy projects. If one wanted to destroy industrial society as has been stated by the green left agenda, investing in exorbitantly costly unreliable renewable energy is the perfect candidate to achieve that end. Instead of the promised equitable sharing, Agenda 21 seeks to spread poverty to a wider population in order to advance its goal of creeping Marxism partnered with NGO and corporate members of a UN one world government. Refer to the 2009 draft Copenhagen Climate Treaty for further clarification, where the nations of the world narrowly averted handing over their sovereignty to the UN and their in-house science fiction team.
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November 18th, 2012
8:59 am
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janet
November 18th, 2012
10:57 am
So Public – Private Partnerships are part of the Agenda 21. Someone should tell the Republican led and controlled Roswell City Council. Last Fall they funded the Roswell Business Alliance to the tune of over $450,000.00 in a public private partnership to try to help the floundering business community in Roswell. Contradictions and hypocrisy are as great a threat to the well being of this state as is the increase in diabetes.
Patrick Thompson
November 18th, 2012
2:50 pm
The scary agenda is the one from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) of which Chip Rogers serves as Treasurer and is a proud, card carrying member. Our GA legislative agenda has been cut and pasted from ALEC. Chip has served as a lobbyist while being a legislator and ALEC is a lobbying organization for corporate lobbyists and is a Republican organization. What seems to be crazy, tin hat stuff has actually been blessed and documented by ALEC lobbyists as a way to govern our people. ALEC and corporate money is the part that’s being ignored here.
the truth
November 18th, 2012
8:05 pm
http://www.actforaustralia.com/articles/threats-freedom-agenda-21
Alvin
November 18th, 2012
11:01 pm
The more I see progressives like you calling names the more I know we are right on target. A21 is real and all the arrogant namecalling won’t hide it. When Clinton created the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, he began to embed it into administrative POLICY stupid.
Quote:
In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation.
David
November 18th, 2012
11:15 pm
I’ll wager none of you have read the 40 chapters of Agenda 21. Try this http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
Then go the the Federal Register August 24 1998 Volume 63, Number 163 pgs 45155-45161 and find quote: The Sustainable Challenge Grant Program is also a step in implementing “Agenda 21, the Global Plan of Action on Sustainable Development” signed by the United States at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. I would give you a lot more credibility if you actually read the info and then offered an informed comment.
Russ
November 19th, 2012
9:41 am
Just because your head is in the sand does not make this situation a reality.
Ed
November 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Another common disinformation trick is take good information and have someone like Beck deliver it > Rove 101 > unfortunately Fukushima and the hundreds of Fukushima’s to follow make all of this a moot point
Forrest
November 19th, 2012
10:51 am
Go to the United Nations website and read it yourself. The UN wants to limit automobiles, wants to concentrate people into the cities (living in 600 square foot apartments like in Europe), and thereby giving government control over the bulk of the excess land. This is not a Republican-only issue. There are Democratic groups opposed to it as well (do a Google search).
Jason
November 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
if you actually read the Agenda 21 it will scare the “blank” out of you. You know what I find troubling Jay? That some of the Agenda is already being implemented. Do some research before you write a article.
Kathy Shirley
November 19th, 2012
8:02 pm
I grew up in Atlanta 30 years ago it was a sweet time, but we’ve all moved “forward” in our thinking. Ajc included, I haven’t recognized in the last 15 years I stopped stopped reading the Ajc in 2009 when the economy tanked Ajc never recovered. Mr book man doesn’t speak for Georgians. We’ve moved on and left Atlanta to you and your kind. We’re not delutional, in fact we did not start this”blame” game. Agenda 21 is a FACT look it up on the UN web site. Then, tear up the Ajc and start seeking the “truth”. It will be hard to swallow.
BK
November 19th, 2012
10:58 pm
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
chuck rice
November 19th, 2012
11:14 pm
VICTORY over ICLEI in an unlikely place: SPOKANE, WASHINGTON!
Posted on 25 October 2012. Tags: Activists, Agenda 21, Condon, Creative Ideas, Email, Frank Sinatra, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Iced Tea, Iclei, Mayor Of Spokane, Spokane Washington, Sustainability, Victory, Wall Of Honor
A few years ago, activists, who as it turned out were ahead of their time, tried to get on the ballot anti-Agenda 21 and ICLEI ordinances in Spokane, Washington.
They were basically laughed out of town and were denied the ballot!
Well, as Frank Sinatra once sang: Guess who’s laughing now!
I got an email from the Mayor of Spokane, David A. Condon, Wednesday and he said that “It is my understanding that the City joined in hopes of finding creative ideas to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. We have not renewed our membership and are no longer participating on the ICLEI.”
So I say to the activists in Spokane – have that sweetened iced tea or whatever drink you have! RAH for VICTORY! Then go back and fight sustainability if it is still in town! VICTORY! Over 210,000 freed from ICLEI!
We’ll add Spokane to the Wall of Honor!
Here is just a sample of what has happened across the nation in battle after battle in local communities to remove ICLEI and stop the spread of Sustainable Development – in just the past 6 months:
In February, Carroll County, Maryland elected 5 new county commissioners. Their first act was to close the county’s Sustainable Development Office and fire its manager. They then ended their contract with ICLEI and rejected the county’s ICLEI-written comprehensive development plan – telling the planning commission to re-work it to protect property rights and assure the plan was in compliance with the U.S. Constitution.
Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild called me soon after his election and told me it was APC materials that he used to educate the other commissioners and lead the fight.
Also in February, Amador County, California was the second community to reject its contract with ICLEI and begin to dismantle the Sustainable Development policies that had been put in place. The effort was led by the “Mother Lode Tea Party.”
In March, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania became the third community to reject its ICLEI contract and send them packing. The effort was again led by local activists Ruth Miller and Maggie Roddin, armed with APC materials. I had talked several times with these leaders before they led their successful effort.
In April, Edmond, Oklahoma became the fourth community to reject ICLEI and its policies. The Edmond City Council was confronted by nearly 200 citizens demanding that the city end its contract with ICLEI.
In May, Las Cruces, New Mexico became the fifth community to out ICLEI and I have been invited to be the keynote speaker at a conference there this summer, sponsored by the group that led the ICLEI fight.
In June, Spartanburg, SC became city number 6 to oust ICLEI by a city council vote of six to zero.
Also in June, Albemarle County, Virginia Board of Supervisors voted
4–2 to reject its contract with ICLEI. I spoke there just two months ago.
Daily I receive notes and calls from leaders in communities across the nation who seek to be the next city to defeat ICLEI and Sustainable Development. Currently there are battles waging in Titusville, Florida; Cleveland, Tennessee; Waterloo, Iowa; Wabash, Indiana; Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, Elkhart County, Indiana; Santa Cruz, California; San Antonio, Texas, Chesterfield County, Virginia, and many more.
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November 20th, 2012
7:22 am
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Janie
November 20th, 2012
8:45 am
I guess historic preservation is included in the mind control process because saving an old battlefield or an old house infringes on someone’s rights to develop land as he/she fits. Of course, the developer never sees the fact that he/she is infringing upon numerous people’s rights to learn about history first hand. Might as well throw park land in there, too, who needs wide open spaces and fresh air when such things infringe on development “rights”? Let’s just give the GOP what it wants: complete and full power over everything to just a few people. (tyranny)
David Welsh
November 20th, 2012
11:59 am
Agenda 21 is a real threat. But if you believe in tearing down the U.S. you won’t care.
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/