Here comes the U.N. – again! {Rather STILL!!}

WorldNetDaily / Commentary ^ | Posted: August 28, 2004 | Henry Lamb

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

WorldNetDaily / Commentary
Henry Lamb

Here comes the U.N. – again!

Posted: August 28, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Few people know that back in 1970, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) launched an ambitious program to establish a global network of "Biosphere Reserves." This program, called "Man and the Biosphere," or MAB, is not the result of a U.N. treaty; it is simply an agreement among participating nations to manage designated land masses according to principles and strategies dictated by a UNESCO committee.

In the United States, 47 U.N. Biosphere Reserves were designated without the approval of Congress or of any state legislature. While UNESCO continues to expand the global network of 440 reserves in 97 countries, the last three areas to be designated in the U.S. were blocked by local opposition. Proponents of this program were disappointed, but not dissuaded. Here they come again.

Washington insiders speculate that President Bush rejoined UNESCO in hopes of appeasing his critics, who chastised him for withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court. MAB enthusiasts are ecstatic and are planning a new effort to reinvigorate the MAB program in the United States.

A Biosphere Reserve is a massive land area divided into three zones: core wilderness areas, buffer zones and a transitional area. The plan is to continually enlarge each of the zones. For example, the Southern Appalachian MAB (SAMAB) was originally designated to be the Smoky Mountains National Park, an area of 517,000 acres. It has now grown to embrace an area stretching from near Birmingham, Ala., to near Roanoke, Va.

Why should local residents be concerned about this program? Because it empowers another layer of non-elected government officials to dictate land-use policy.

Eighty-four percent of the land in SAMAB is privately owned. This fact is an obstacle to MAB planners. Much of the SAMAB program is designed to seduce or coerce state and local governments to impose land-use policies that originate with the UNESCO committee in Paris, France. The Strategic Plan - 2002 is a laundry list of "education and outreach" programs promoting sustainable communities and Agenda 21 initiatives.

Each of the 47 Biosphere Reserves has an extensive network of government agencies and environmental groups working to advance strategic plans that conform to the vision of land-use policy established by United Nations agencies.

These policies ignore two fundamental principles that distinguish the United States from most other nations. Private-property rights are, or should be, sacred; and public land-use policy should be enacted only by elected officials who are directly accountable to the people governed by it.

Both of these principles are anathema to the United Nations and to the agencies, organizations and individuals who work to advance Agenda 21 and Biosphere Reserves. They have been successful because they work quietly, behind the pretext of protecting the environment. Working people rarely know what's happening until after the new policies are in place, when they discover that something they would like to do with their property is already prohibited.

The ultimate goal of the Man and the Biosphere Program is described in the U.N.'s Global Biodiversity Assessment (page 993), which cites the Wildlands Project as "central" to the transformation of "at least half" of the United States into interconnected core wilderness areas so wildlife can move, uninterrupted by humans, from Mexico to Canada. Core wilderness areas are surrounded by buffer zones, which are surrounded by transitional areas where people live in "sustainable communities."

Since the Wilderness Act originally designated 9 million acres of wilderness in the U.S., the wilderness system has now grown to 106 million acres in 44 states.

The U.N. plan seeks to eventually eliminate all private property so government can manage land-use and natural resources to achieve social, economic and environmental equity, which is the essence of "sustainable development." This goal and the plans to achieve it are published throughout U.N. literature, particularly in Agenda 21.

The people who implement these programs at the local level rarely admit, or even know, that the policies they embrace are a part of a global plan. When confronted, their response is often ridicule of the questioner, suggesting "blue-helmet conspiracy" paranoia.

But when confronted with the actual U.N. and federal documents that outline the global plans, agencies have no explanation, and, as they did in the last three attempts to designate additional Biosphere Reserves in the United States, they abandon the plan, and withdraw to regroup and form another strategy.

Virtually every community in America is under some form of transformation scheme aimed at imposing the principles and recommendations of Agenda 21. Organized, determined, knowledgeable, local opposition is the only way to stop it.

Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.

THIS article at WND

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"Why should local residents be concerned about this program? Because it empowers another layer of non-elected government officials to dictate land-use policy."

All, Socialism at it's best. Unaccountable people who "know best" running YOUR life. Peace and love, George.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"Organized, determined, knowledgeable, local opposition is the only way to stop it."

Guys, The ONLY way! "All politics is local" does hold true. Even at the global level. Peace and love, George.

[tdadams]

UNESCO is one of the few things (the only thing maybe) that I think the UN is good for. And WND has gotten so nutty I can't even read them anymore.

[o_zarkman44]

The foot hold of socialism already exists in America. All it takes is the likes of a John Kerry to be elected to become fully activated. Does central planning sound surprisingly similar to the failed Communist nation the USSR??

[ikka]

Are you saying you disagree with the characterization of the MAB program as written in this article?

[visualops]

This is your UNESCO tdadams:
I also suggest you go here, selected United States from the list and see who is involved-
http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/uk/uk_sum_national.htm

Culture of Peace
Find out how the United Nations define the Culture of Peace and how a global movement is developing in the framework of the International Decade (2001-2010). Before visiting this web site, read first the Ethical Charter.
Celebrations of International Day of Peace 2003

some tidbits:
(h) Respect for and promotion of the right of everyone to freedom of expression, opinion and
information;
(i) Adherence to the principles of freedom, justice, democracy, tolerance, solidarity, cooperation,
pluralism, cultural diversity, dialogue and understanding at all levels of society and among nations;
and fostered by an enabling national and international environment conducive to peace.
(a) Reinvigorate national efforts and international cooperation to promote the goals of education for
all with a view to achieving human, social and economic development and for promoting a culture of
peace;
(b) Ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education on the values, attitudes, modes
of behaviour and ways of life to enable them to resolve any dispute peacefully and in a spirit of respect
for human dignity and of tolerance and non-discrimination;
(c) Involve children in activities designed to instill in them the values and goals of a culture of
peace;
(e) Encourage revision of educational curricula, including textbooks, bearing in mind the 1995
Declaration and Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy3
for which technical cooperation should be provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization upon request;
(b) Strengthen the national capacity for implementation of policies and programmes designed to
reduce economic and social inequalities within nations through, inter alia, international cooperation;
(d) Reinforce actions at all levels to implement national strategies for sustainable food security,
including the development of actions to mobilize and optimize the allocation and utilization of resources
from all sources,
(a) Promote general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, taking
into account the priorities established by the United Nations in the field of disarmament;
(g) Discourage the adoption of and refrain from any unilateral measure, not in accordance with
international law and the Charter of the United Nations, that impedes the full achievement of economic
and social development by the population of the affected countries, in particular women and children, that
hinders their well-being, that creates obstacles to the full enjoyment of their human rights, including the
right of everyone to a standard of living adequate for their health and well-being and their right to food,
medical care and the necessary social services, while reaffirming that food and medicine must not be used
as a tool for political pressure;
(h) Refrain from military, political, economic or any other form of coercion, not in accordance with
international law and the Charter, aimed against the political independence or territorial integrity of any
State;

[tdadams]

UNESCO is more than just the MAB programs. The World Heritage endevour is very worthwhile and valuable.

Some people have a stupid, kneejerk reaction to anything associated with the UN. Should we not preserve historical sites just to spite the UN? That's pretty dumb.

[tdadams]

Thanks, but I'm very well aware of what UNESCO is and what it stands for. Save your enlightening for some of the more ignorant on this thread.

[libs_kma]

"UNESCO is one of the few things (the only thing maybe) that I think the UN is good for"

I have to disagree with that. The UN and UNESCO are both trying to push a global agenda that takes money out of our taxes already.

Part of the UNESCO strategy is "An educated population, aware of its fundamental rights, is more likely to share in the fruits of democracy."

That line seems innocuous enough, but it says two things that I take for the worst. Their idea of an "educated population" is global propaganda at the expense of teaching sovereignty and American history. I would rather my children learn American History. And the line about sharing the fruits of democracy to me means "US funds it all and we take it all" This organization is not benign. Ronald Reagan didn't think so and removed the US from UNESCO. We've taken a huge step backward by getting back in.

And by the way, I didn't change my tag line for this. Right now it has been less than 12 hours since I've written my Congressman again. It hasn't worked yet, but I have time on my side.

[tdadams]

I have to disagree with that.

You're free to disagree.

Part of the UNESCO strategy is "An educated population, aware of its fundamental rights, is more likely to share in the fruits of democracy."

That line seems innocuous enough, but it says two things that I take for the worst.

Maybe when you read WND too much everything starts looking like a conspiracy.

When they talk about an educated population, they aren't talking about your child's school district, let me assure you. They're talking about the third world countries , where as much as 90% of the population are without any more than a few years of basic education. That makes for a pretty grim outlook and a stagnating future for many countries.

Maybe when they say "an educated population, they don't mean indoctrinating people with propaganda. Maybe they really do just mean they want to see people get an education.

I don't support much of what the UN stands for. It's populated by global socialists and gun grabbers. But historical preservation is important to me and that's one thing UNESCO does well.

I also think it doesn't hurt to have a little awareness and compassion for other cultures around the world and those who were not fortunate enough to be born in the wealthiest nation on earth. But then, most here will probably think that makes me a bleeding heart socialist.

I don't think sympathy, volunteerism, and intercultural understanding is a socialist idea. I think it's a Christian idea. Remember the beattitudes.

[anobjectivist]

In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding bands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply.

The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.

Fred T. Gates of the Rockefeller organization, estabilisher of the General Education Board and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The Rockefeller Foundation later set up The International Bureau of Education, which then became UNESCO.

[libs_kma]

I agree with your assessment of the UN. As far as UNESCO is concerned, I don't believe you can assure me of anything. It is certainly within the realm of possibilities that they will attempt to put their curriculum in our schools. That would be an irresistible coup for them and of course that service would not be rendered without compensation.

I am not a WND conspiracy theorist as you suggest, but I do not trust global organizations to have my best interests as their priority.

[ikka]

Some people have a stupid, kneejerk reaction to anything associated with the UN. Should we not preserve historical sites just to spite the UN? That's pretty dumb.

I am afraid I am one of those people who have that kneejerk reaction.

It is because I have read up on the history of the UN, and have met people who work there, and heard stories from my brother working as a medical missionary in Guatemala.

Tell me, do you truly believe that there are 106 million acres of "historical sites" in the USA alone? And quite frankly, the local historical society is doing quite well by themselves in preserving history.

[tdadams]

quite frankly, the local historical society is doing quite well by themselves in preserving history.

In the U.S. yes, but what about Cambodia, where some enterprising 'businessmen' have tried to sell chunks of the Angkor Wat temples?

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"Should we not preserve historical sites just to spite the UN? That's pretty dumb."

TDA, In the "historical" locations in Annapoils, EVERYTHING has to be built and repaired to the standards of the "society". People who had lived there for generations could no longer afford to maintain their own houses. they were forced to sell at fire sale prices, or lose them anyway to condemnation. The elite {socialists} then moved in at rock bottom prices. Socialism at it's very best. Stone cold EVIL! Peace and love, George.

[tdadams]

What does that have to do with the UN or UNESCO? Blame your local zoning board.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

FACT: "School-to-Work" is alive and well!
International Baccalaureate
EdWatch.org
Eco-Logic / Powerhouse

TDA, The above articles and websites DOCUMENT very well how education in this country is affected by U.N. policy. What passes for education today is stone cold EVIL!! Another book of interest to you might be Charlotte Iserbyt's "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America": A Chronological Paper Trail. I repeat. What passes for education today is stone cold EVIL!! I have been accused of "overusing" the word evil. If, after looking closely at education today, you can come up with a better word, phrase, or short collection of words that better fits, I would be delighted to hear {read} it. Peace and love, George.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

Guys, Please see post #17. Thanks. Peace and love, George.

[libs_kma]

I, for one, do not think you used the word evil too often. Not enough maybe.

But that may just be my knee jerk distrust of all things realted to the UN.

Thanks for the info George!

Everyone please write to congress often. If you live in NY or California I'm afraid your battle will be more difficult because of the liberal factor.

[tdadams]

I think you've missed my point in a zeal to make your own, so nevermind.