-Caveat Lector- The following article to some extent is of only local interest, having been sent to a local action coalition, "Control the Loop", pulled together to save a rural area from a new highway. Other parts will be seen to be pertinent to the purposes of this list. I have posted it in its entirety because the original poster stipulated that I could share it with as many people as I wished, but that it had to be uncut and unchanged. Kathleen ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:39:56 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LOOP: Regional Planning ----------------------------------------- FORWARDED BY CTL: ----------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:35:49 EDT Subject: Regional planning Has anyone ever wondered why the "Loop" plan was based on a "2020" plan? Was that year just picked at random or is there a true plan? Look up 'Local Agenda 21 Initiative' on one of your web searchers. ------------------------------------------ RESPONSE: ------------------------------------------ We did explore this situation on the list about seven months ago. For those interested in reviewing the previously posted material, the following is a re-post from March 30, 1999. Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:19:21 -0600 Subject: LOOP: Try to Understand This From: <REDACTED BY REQUEST> Dear List Members-- While reading through the CGA post, I took note of this from the minutes highlights: >- Another purpose of CGA is to provide funds for McClain County, >GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES, AGENCIES AND CITIZENS >to go towards low- to moderate -income housing. (Page 4, (6).) It made me think of many things. I'll try to explain my concerns. Oklahoma may be about to change its traditional roadbuilding tune. Politically, the tide is turning rapidly against road building in rural areas ... all the anti-urban sprawl stuff. All of these things seem to weigh favorably in terms of protecting our properties... OR DO THEY?? There is a political trap here, and one to be considered carefully. The problems are so huge and the plan so big that it will take divine intervention to circumvent it. This whole thing all goes back to the Biodiversity Treaty hacked out at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The overall big objective ultimately (according to their own documents) was to have areas populated by humans and areas populated by animals and vegetation -- with human areas connected by arterial roads where travel could be monitored and controlled, surrounded by what are called "biodiversity corridors," which are the natural areas into which humankind cannot venture -- at least, not without permission -- so that the flora and fauna are "protected". All for a very good reason, of course. The main implementation plans for the objectives of the Biodiversity Treaty are contained in a document called United Nations Agenda 21. And throughout all of the civilized world, you will now find cities and countries (particularly in Europe and South America) implementing the plan under what is called "Local Agenda 21." Do a search engine look at just "Agenda 21" and about 150,000 links will be checkable, many in foreign languages, putting the objectives in place around the world. It really is an amazing thing to see the same words, the same plan, the same "good reasons" being touted everywhere... everyone mindlessly reading from the same script. Truly freaky! In the United States, some communities are actually using the term "Local Agenda 21," but more often you will hear their plans referred to as an "anti-urban sprawl" program, or "green belt development." And it is going to be the big dividing issue politically very quickly. The green belt advocates want the parameters of existing cities to be established by new zoning ordinances (based on federal zoning "suggestions") so that no new commercial, residential or industrial development can occur outside a certain boundary. This would mean that revitalization of crumbling inner cities and so forth would have to occur, new housing would have to be "figured out" within those city boundaries, and space now "wrongly" used would be given new "opportunities" to serve the public. There are BOTH good and bad things about such planning. But anything that abbrogates personal liberty and freedom of choice is going to be on my "no way" list. The way these objectives are publicly motivated is first by inspiring a fear of the death of the planet from pollution and species extinction, etc.; and second, by worship of the planet (Gaianism) to be used as a means of unifying diverse groups in a like effort. In some parts of the world (such as Nicaragua), some biodiversity corridors are already in place, being guarded and "protected" from the big bad humans. It is a process already being tested. Australia is also a huge testing ground, not only for the programs, but also for the social engineering (propaganda education) required to reduce or remove human resistance to the programs. Very interesting thing to study! And not at all subtle. Not hidden. Easy to document and observe. The behind-the-scenes motivation (non-public) goes back to ownership and exploitation of natural resources -- particularly the huge deposits of virgin gold still held on some Indian lands. That is a huge issue! It's a money thing like everything else when you get past the "touchy-feely" rhetoric. The other part is the control of human resources -- the people. It makes it so much easier if people put on the shackles themselves willingly. And that's why all of these huge moves are being made to "educate" the public. We'll do it to ourselves ... In areas where green belt-type construction has occurred, (now going on in a big way in Oregon) there have been some very interesting results -- not the least is that it creates something of a house-housing shortage, causing real estate prices to go through the roof -- more people want private homes on a little piece of property (the American Dream) than there are properties to go around. So more people end up living in apartments... which for many is a fate worse than death. But it is a classic situation -- economic prosperity for realtors, developers, State agencies and Authorities, assisted by the continued squelching of the American Dream in a people who have lost their political will and have been made so incredibly ignorant that they cannot figure out what is happening to them -- and who have been made so exhausted and fatigued by just trying to "make it" that they have no strength with which to battle philosophical and political issues that affect them. The green belt advocates talk about lovely little areas of nature within the cities... parks within walking distance of every residential area... but no one will have a green spot of their own. Look but don't touch. You can enjoy it, but it's not yours. If you are fortunate enough to have a little yard of your own, that's about as good as it gets. One of the ways that this whole thing ties in with the Biodiversity Treaty is that it asks for large industries to create tract housing or apartment housing near to work headquarters so that workers do not need to drive to work, or can be bussed by the business to work -- and this will supposedly decrease pollution caused by automobiles. All of the "intelligent transportation systems" options fall into this category of planning. So you end up with little homes or apartment complexes surrounding a large work center, cramming as many people into as little space as possible. A recent article in "Time" magazine glowingly reported all of these plans and gave examples, illustrations and so forth. Nice... if you want to live in a bee hive and be a drone. You ask CGA or International Trade Services why they want "...to provide funds for McClain County ... to go towards low- to moderate-income housing," and they will tell you that the housing is for the expected workers who will labor at the Customs/Compliance Center. Apparently the jobs will pay enough for one to afford low-cost to moderate-cost housing within the parameters of the choices offered... which may or may not be what the individuals want for themselves. But as usual, for the "greater good" we must all lower our expectations and give up all of these "unreasonable" desires for low-density living conditions or small-time family farming on a small acreage outside of the main drag. Choices are being removed even as we speak. And while I'm thinking about it, what does CGA need with court houses, jails, detention or social and rehabilitative service facilities? (Pages 2 and 3, Article III(1).) Now that is something to seriously question. The list of plans, schemes and objectives is a mile long... and they all ultimately lead to a tremendous reduction in individual property rights... perhaps even in the long-haul to the end of private property ownership. If you live in a cruddy part of town, and the city/state decides that your neighborhood of twenty homes could be put to better use and concentrate more people in one area by tearing down the cruddy neighborhood and replacing it with several condo complexes or apartment buildings with a little communal green area in the middle for everyone, your property will be condemned, seized under eminent domain laws, you'll be minimally compensated if you cooperate, and that is the end of your life's efforts at stable, long-term home-ownership. This is already occurring in a big way in the US, and in a huge way in Europe. Very few who fight the system on this are successful. Most lose everything in the effort. So the world is in a tremendous transitional period right now. The main emphasis of planning at this time is the rejuvenation of the cities and the redistribution of the people who live in those cities. The euphemism is "residential displacement." What is never considered in the Biodiversity Treaty, or UN Agenda 21, or Local Agenda 21, or any of Al Gore's anti-urban sprawl programs is the desire held by some people to live in low-density areas -- those who don't want development or improvements in their area... folks who just want to live in peace and be left alone. That is NEVER considered. It is believed that by proper public education, consensus can be reached where everyone understands the "greater good" and cooperates with the plan. It is assumed that resistance is futile, and that it will be minimal. They are probably right. So, here is the political trap: (a) if you want to maintain rural private property rights, you almost have to oppose Agenda 21-type planning... which means that you are in favor of loop and bypass construction, because there is no middle ground in the issue... In that respect, those who opposed the loop road have played right into their hands. (b) if you are a rural property owner and a road is scheduled to go through or near your land, you have only two options: (1) support Agenda 21 (or whatever name it is given in your area) and oppose the road; or (2) support the road in the hope that you can sell your property to a commercial developer for something of a profit and then move elsewhere. Either way, you'll be off of your land and out of your house. Either way, private property rights will be adversely affected or ended altogether. In that respect, those who have supported the loop road have played right into their hands. (c) if you are a city dweller with hopes of someday owning a little piece of rural land, you have to oppose the Agenda 21 plans, which politically puts you in favor of urban sprawl -- a very unpopular position to take these days. But if you want that rural area to remain rural, you have to favor Agenda 21 plans, and that too spells the death of private property ownership rights. While you're busy trying to keep the countryside peaceful, you are losing the right to own any of it for yourself. The problem with all of this is its lack of middle ground. If ever there was an issue that could be used to illustrate the principles of the Hegelian Dialectic of Political Conflict Resolution, this would be it. Absolutely without question. This is the most classic example I've ever seen. Looking at it from a specifically secular perspective: A predetermined outcome has been established (Biodiversity Treaty, UN Agenda 21, Gaianism), and come hell or high water, that is how the powers-that-be are going to have it at the end of the day. But that predetermined outcome is going to be unpalatable to some internationally, and completely unacceptable to most "American dream" Americans (the so-called silent majority). Negotiations are not an option because the plan is set in stone, so the power brokers play both ends against the middle, knowing all along what the outcome will be. You play the consensus game. And you play it in stages. You can't come right out and say, "Private property rights are ended. We will control all of these aspects of your lives now. Here is the new program." Instead, you do everything incrementally... you boil the frog gradually so it doesn't hop out of the pot. To distract the general population from the real issue -- which is control over populations and the end of private property ownership on a global scale -- we are given these sub-issues to fight over, to wear us down, to deplete energies and resources. And while we're bickering and struggling and going broke and becoming fatigued, they are taking it all away behind our backs, a little bit at a time, slowly but surely, and always for a "good reason." The grassroots people are themselves their own worst enemy in this case. No one wants to do any real research to find out what is actually behind these plans, what is motivating it, who is benefitting, where it originated, etc., etc., etc. And when someone really does do some in-depth research on the subject, what you find is so big and so evil and so overwhelming that most people just go into denial. They can't or won't believe it. They resign themselves to fate and figure it is too big to fight. It involves issues so foreign to their normal thinking that they just can't absorb it, and they go into a reactive state (usually an apathetic, can't-do-anything-about-it reaction). The few who become proactive are at great risk, but it's not an impossible task if others can be mobilized in any way. What people fail to realize when studying global planning, is that yes, the plan is global. But the minute it begins to be implemented in an area, it becomes completely LOCAL. And that is where the power to resist lies. You can always resist at the local level, and if people are brought up-to-speed, they can resist successfully. You all did, after all, mobilize 3,000+ individuals in the metro area in the space of one month and successfully shut down the road options of the Outer Loop Major Investment Study. But that was far from being the end of the war. The Turnpike Authority has much greater powers (and no real accountability to voters) than the State Department of Transportation, and NASCO (North America's Superhighway Coalition) is pushing hard in every state to get those roadway arteries that connect the human areas (surrounded by the Biodiversity Corridors) in place. And then there is CGA.... ah, what interesting times in which we live! While NASCO and the NAFTA Bypass efforts use economics as their developmental springboard (their public motivation rhetoric), they are just another arm of the UN Agenda 21 implementation part of the Biodiversity Treaty. It's all the same issue, it's all the same players, it's all the same plan. Those are the real issues. That is what is really at stake. The amount of material to study and master is overwhelming. The odds of raising public awareness on a large enough scale to make a difference at the national level are small. So what's a person to do? Keep on plugging. And live each day one day at a time. Do what you've got to do. Step by step. For starters, begin by doing your own research and learn these issues for yourself. Begin with just a few links below, in no particular order: http://web.icppgr.fao.org/LIBRARY/A21/contents.html This one is the complete text of the Agenda 21. http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/agenda21/ Agenda 21 and Other UNCED Agreements http://www.grude.org.br/age_i.htm Agenda 21 for Schools (text available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish) http://www.engr.utexas.edu/cofe/governance/Default.htm The Rise of Global Green Religion http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/iowa_environment/iowa_un/Iowa_un.html An Earth Charter and Agenda 21 for Iowa http://www.itseasy.demon.co.uk/agenda21.htm Agenda 21 and participation by Ba'hai religion http://www.morrigan.net/gaia-intl/ GAIA International Homesite http://www.nrpe.org/ National Religious Partnership for the Environment http://www.earthscan.co.uk/books/547_1.html "From the Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21" http://themustardseed.home.mindspring.com/local21.htm Index of Local 21 agendas http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/csd/csd1997.html 1997 Meetings of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/csd/ungass.html Special Session of the General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21, 23-27 June 1997 - scroll down to "OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION" for additional useful links http://www.iol.ie/~isp/agenda21/intro.htm Agenda 21 background information http://www.cities21.com/us/la21us.html Local Agenda 21 in the US http://www.la21-uk.org.uk/ Agenda 21 in Great Britain - In left hand column, click on LA21 World Map, then click on "Europe" in the map and it will give you contacts for Local Agenda 21 directors throughout all of Europe http://www.communitytech.demon.co.uk/la21.html The Earth Summit - Local Agenda 21 http://www.idrc.ca/books/801.html Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide http://www.bushtours.com.au/environment.htm Agenda 21 in Australia http://www.iclei.org/europe/rom.htm Mediterranean Local Agenda 21 Conference: Local Environmental Action Plans Towards Sustainability - Rome, 22 - 24 November 1995 http://iisd.ca/worldsd/canada/canada.htm Agenda 21 in Canada (text in English) http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~habitat/yg21menu.html Agenda 21 in Turkey (text in both Turkish and English) http://www.bitel.es/dir~calvia/kagenda.htm Agenda 21 in Majorca (text in English) http://www.agenda21forum.org/index.html Agenda 21 in Sweden (text in Swedish) http://www.i4.auc.dk/ems/foredrag/98-06-04AMT/index.htm Agenda 21 in Denmark (text in Danish) http://www.kleiva.vgs.no/ag21link.htm Agenda 21 in Norway (text in Norwegian) http://www.kaarina.fi/agenda/index.htm Agenda 21 in Finland (text in Finish) http://www.schwerin.netsurf.de/~gn0001/la21bl.htm Agenda 21 in Berlin & Germany (text in German) AND THE LIST GOES ON.................. 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