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Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21
SierraTimes.com ^ | Feb 3, 2005 | Nancy Levant

Posted on 02/03/2005 10:37:05 PM PST by hedgetrimmer

Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21 Nancy Levant

I keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting for Bill O’Reilly or Shaun Hannity or Oprah Winfrey or somebody…..anybody, who has daily access to the multitudes, to say the words, “Agenda 21.” I’m still waiting, and for the life of me, I don’t understand the refusal to talk about the greatest threat to America that has ever existed. However, it dawns on me that wrapping a brain around Agenda 21 requires time, effort, interest, and a lot diligence. No one told me about Agenda 21. I found it by accident on the Internet. Then I went to the U.N.’s website and read Agenda 21. From there I went to Buenos Aires, The President’s Commission of Sustainable Development, my local sustainable development commissions and planners, to local visioning commissions, ecology conglomerates, and then back to the U.N.. After about six months of reading about a whole lot of global, national, and philanthropic organizations, I started documenting and keeping running lists because, I discovered, Agenda 21 was huge, highly developed, and a done deal. “How is it,” I asked myself, “that in 50 years, I never heard of any of this before? Where were my trusted newscasters? And why hasn’t my President, or the previous Presidents, ever talked about Agenda 21, the meetings in Buenos Aires, and Agenda 21’s connections to the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and a thousand other global organizations?”

So, I kept researching the Net. And lo and behold, I finally realized that Agenda 21 would never be publicized to Americans. It really can’t be.

As my running lists were now becoming encyclopedic, I also realized that there was no way to explain Agenda 21 easily. It’s too big, profoundly sophisticated, intentionally masked and hidden by corporate agendas and ecological ideologies that are, themselves, exploited by corporate agendas. But more than that, I realized that for Americans to understand Agenda 21, they would have to come to terms with a truth that, I fear, they won’t believe. What would that truth be? Let me try to say it in one sentence: Agenda 21 is the end of America.

As I read that sentence I think, “Well, Nancy, now everyone is going to think you are an extremist and no one will believe anything you say from now on. Everyone knows there can be no end to America….”

But unfortunately, my dear Americans, there can be an end to America, for America is a way of life. The place on Earth - where we are – the beautiful and bountiful lands between Canada and Mexico, might retain the name of “The United States of America,” but I’m not even sure that that is a given. If you believe even half of Agenda 21 and it’s dealings with the World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The President’s Commission on Sustainable Development, The Commission on Global Governance, The World Conference on Global Governance, The Millennium Project, The Court of Criminal Justice, The Nature Conservancy, The World Summit on Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, AND the “visioning” training and manipulation of American people, then you realize what has happened right under our noses over the past 35 years and without one national personality ever mentioning Agenda 21.

So, let me offer a list of website addresses to help readers research for themselves. I suggest you take notes and collect new website addresses. I believe that, as Americans, we owe it to our history and our sense of ourselves, to do the following:

· Read Agenda 21. If you read the other information via the web addresses in this article, you will wrap your brain around Agenda 21. It’s unbelievable and it’s dastardly, because not one politician or national media outlet has had the guts to tell us what was being taken from us.

· Pass your knowledge on to others. Don’t stew and be paralyzed. Take your knowledge to churches, civic organizations, and any other groups or individuals you can, and resolve yourselves to spread the news. Have an Anti-Agenda 21 Parade or Day to draw attention to the cause. Without fail, it’s the most important thing you will ever do in your lives as patriotic people. Write to your representatives and tell them you know what they have hidden, and that their manipulations of American citizens are shameful. Do it.

· Try so very hard to home school your children. Public schools are governmental institutions embroiled in Agenda 21 and its plans for the United States and our children. As you read and study Agenda 21, you will see it alive, well, and operating most obviously in the public schools. You will also see it clearly in the newest communities in all states across the country. Agenda 21 is everywhere, and it wants your children’s intellects and value systems as well as your land and land rights.

· Finally, teach your children about Agenda 21, what it is, and what it is doing to their country. Children have unique wisdoms at every age. Teach them truths so that they can faithfully and fearlessly speak truths. They must understand what is happening in their country. They cannot fight hidden and masked manipulations if they don’t understand how and where they operate.

Now is the time for Americans to help Americans. We cannot fight the loss of our rights unless we understand the game, and most Americans are totally unaware of what is happening to them and their communities. However, I do believe that the bulk of American people “sense” that something is amiss. Let’s commit to them, our children, and our futures. Let’s spread the news and make the media and politicians talk. They have counted on our stupidity, our silence, and our laziness. They have even counted on us not really caring.

We have to remember – it’s our government. It does not belong to politicians. They work for us. Unfortunately, they have not done that, and furthermore, they have advanced a worldwide mission without our knowledge, our votes, or even our opinions. So I say, one town at a time, here we come, and any elected official found to be complicit or a silent player in the Agenda 21 game needs to go.

Agenda 21 – Learn All About It

Basic Explanation of birth of Agenda 21 http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/basic_info/unced.html

Timeline of development of world governance and agenda 21 http://www.sovereignty.net/timeline.html

Key players of Millennium Project http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/tf6interim.pdf

HABITAT II – U.N. Housing Requirements http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/hab2.html

Brainwashing/education http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/brainwashing.html

Global Governance – key international players http://www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/gganalysis.htm

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Millennium Goals Project http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/about/director/

Rocky Mountain Institute http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid61.php

Sustainable Development in the United States – natural resources goals: http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/usa/natur.htm

Henry Lamb http://www.sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html

The Sustainable Development Institute http://www.susdev.org/

American Policy Center – Tom DeWeese http://americanpolicy.org/ invasive species legislation: http://americanpolicy.org/prop/main.htm the Wildlands Project, Smart Growth Project http://americanpolicy.org/un/darkside.htm

American Farmland Trust & the Nature Conservancy & OSU http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/articles5/rustling_america_in_ohio.htm

Human Settlements – goals http://www.nlihc.org/mahn/habitat.htm ***Education for sustainability: An Agenda Action http://www.gcrio.org/edu/pcsd/toc.html United Nations dissolves USA Sovereignty http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a33916.htm Visioning Training-How To Re-Envision People and Communities www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/rlc/comm/outcome.htm People and their organizations and schemes: http://www.southern-style.com/conspiracy_of_the_left.htm How to force visioning upon the public as quoted from the United Nation’s Agenda 21 document: http://doncasey.home.mindspring.com/vision.htm World Summit on Sustainable Development http://www.minambiente.it/Sito/settori_azione/pia/docs/forum_chairman_summary.pdf


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To: pbrown
What a pittance joke Homeland Security is...with the borders still wide open, we must realize that all the Patriot Acts are meant for you and me - it has zero to do with the "terriers."

Exerpted from the Asia Times, 2 Feb 05:

The Homeland Security State

Asia Times | February 2, 2005
By Nick Turse

THE MILITARY HALF
If you're in the United States and reading this on the Internet, the Federal Bureau of Information (FBI)may be spying on you at this very moment.

Under provisions of the USA Patriot (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act, the Department of Justice has been collecting e-mail and IP (Internet protocol, a computer's unique numeric identifier) addresses, without a warrant, using trap-and-trace surveillance devices ("pen-traps"). Now, the FBI, Justice's principle investigative arm, may be monitoring the web-surfing habits of Internet users - also without a search warrant - that is, spying on you with no probable cause whatsoever.

In the wake of September 11, 2001, with the announcement of a potentially never-ending "war on terror" and in the name of "national security", the administration of President George W Bush embarked on a global campaign that left behind it two war-ravaged states (with up to 100,000 civilian dead in just one of them); an offshore "archipelago of injustice" replete with "ghost jails", and a seemingly endless series of cases of torture, abuse and the cold-blooded murder of prisoners. That was abroad. In the US, too, things have changed as America became "the Homeland" and an already powerful and bloated national security state developed a civilian corollary fed by fear-mongering, partisan politics, and an insatiable desire for governmental power, turf and budget.

A host of disturbing and mutually reinforcing patterns have emerged in the resulting new Homeland Security State - among them: a virtually unopposed increase in the intrusion of military, intelligence, and "security" agencies into the civilian sector of US society; federal-government abridgment of basic rights; denials of civil liberties on flimsy or previously illegal premises; warrantless sneak-and-peak searches; the wholesale undermining of privacy safeguards (including government access to library circulation records, bank records, and records of Internet activity); the greater empowerment of secret intelligence courts (such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court) that threaten civil liberties; and heavy-handed federal and local law-enforcement tactics designed to chill, squelch, or silence dissent.

While it's true that most Americans have yet to feel the brunt of such policies, select groups, including Muslims, Arab immigrants, Arab-Americans and anti-war protesters have served as test subjects for a potential Homeland Security juggernaut that, if not stopped, will only expand....

601 posted on 02/06/2005 9:28:13 AM PST by lodwick (Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus)
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To: lodwick
If Homeland Security had teeth, Pelosi, fat Teddy, sKerry and all the rest of the rats would be in jail for all the anti-American crap they spew. Freedom of speech is one thing, giving aid and encouragement to our enemies during a time of war is something else.

I was watching a documentary last night about intelligence. The F.B.I. was handed information about Mossouie(spel?)> They wanted a search warrant to search his home and computer. The search warrant was turned down by a judge who said there wasn't enough evidence to obtain one.

Imagine how different a day 9-11 would be if they had gotten that warrant.

Let them snoop on my IP, if it can stop terrorist by doing so, so be it.

602 posted on 02/06/2005 9:48:42 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown

Do a search on Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the feds, if you want to get boiling angry this afternoon.


603 posted on 02/06/2005 9:56:22 AM PST by lodwick (Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus)
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To: cgbg
>>Agenda 21 can only be permanently stopped if the UN is abolished. Anything less is just window-dressing to keep the peasants happy and quiet.<<

"You don't kill spiders by crushing a couple of their legs, you have to crush their head to make sure they'll die. The UN is guiding all of these other communist agencies ......." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335656/posts?page=302#302

We need to kill America's participation in the UN and the UN's participation in how the American legislative process funtions if we expect to ever regain what we once had..... well deserved national pride.

Going after these groups that support land grabs probably is a waste of time, money and effort.

I will support killing the UN 150%, with cash, time and certainly a much more concerted effort than mt wife will appreciate. Just being better than the other guy isn't my goal. I want America's REPUBLIC to glow as the sole light of example in the worlds skies.

604 posted on 02/06/2005 9:57:32 AM PST by B4Ranch (Don't remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: lodwick

Thanks, I'll do it now..bbl


605 posted on 02/06/2005 9:59:25 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: B4Ranch
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606 posted on 02/06/2005 10:14:41 AM PST by lodwick (Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus)
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To: Fzob
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607 posted on 02/06/2005 10:17:18 AM PST by B4Ranch (Don't remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: lodwick

I found Sibel Edmonds......it's in another language. All I could make out was 'whistle blower' that was it.


608 posted on 02/06/2005 10:35:56 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: B4Ranch

All the usual suspects. It makes me want to spit.


609 posted on 02/06/2005 10:38:29 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown; All
Sibel Edmonds and other 911 information
610 posted on 02/06/2005 10:41:51 AM PST by lodwick (Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus)
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To: lodwick
I'll use everything from an
to fancy some mid air shooting

because
is the only way to go about protecting our Lady.

611 posted on 02/06/2005 10:45:47 AM PST by B4Ranch (Don't remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: lodwick

Thanks, I'll have a look.


612 posted on 02/06/2005 11:04:10 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: B4Ranch

I think the Statue of Liberty is safely in the hands of the Hertiage Foundation = UN = Agenda 21....as is the Liberty Bell.


613 posted on 02/06/2005 11:06:38 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free -- Ronald Reagan
614 posted on 02/06/2005 11:27:32 AM PST by B4Ranch (Don't remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: lodwick

So as not to hijack this wonderful thread......you have FReepmail.


615 posted on 02/06/2005 11:43:02 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: B4Ranch
Truer words were never spoken.

Reagan saw what treaties such as the L.O.S.T. would do to our country. L.O.S.T. is merely an extention of Agenda 21. They are all linked to handing over control of this country to the UN.

616 posted on 02/06/2005 11:46:19 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: lodwick
This thread is losing it's popularity.

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."

- Edward R. Murrow

"In this administration, you don't have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the president."

- White House aide quoted in Capitol Hill Blue, June 4

When I write a column on an issue about which folks hold passionate views, I get a lot of feedback. Most of the feedback is usually from readers who are supportive of my perspective; some is from those who disagree. And of course, I welcome both. The right to freely express our opinions is one of the things that makes America great.

After my May 29 column featuring Sgt. Jimmy Massey telling of his experiences in Iraq, in addition to the kudos and messages of support for Massey's courageous stand, I got some e-mail messages from readers ardently taking issue with my column. Several of them asked: "Would you rather fight them over there or over here?" Whether they knew it or not, these readers were setting up what is known as a "false dilemma," providing a limited number of options (usually two), when there are actually more than that, in this case dozens, perhaps hundreds more. Fighting them over there and over here for one. Fighting them neither place for another. And it would be helpful to know who "them" is. Another famous example of a false dilemma is President Bush's statement "You're either with us or with the terrorists." Again, many more possibilities exist here than the "either/or" option put forward by Bush.

Another question that was posed by a reader after my last column: "Why do you hate George Bush?" Indeed, it seems that if you disagree with any decision made by George W. Bush, you open yourself to the accusation of Bush-bashing. Former President Teddy Roosevelt had this to say about those who believe we should march lock step with the president: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/columnist/56453? storytemplate=columnist

617 posted on 02/06/2005 11:50:17 AM PST by B4Ranch (Don't remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
>>but I just think there is no reason to believe something like this will ultimately be successful..<<

If we don't stand up and show our rifles they will be successful. We must let them know that this is our country and we are the worlds worst terrorists when it comes to protecting our home.

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain

618 posted on 02/06/2005 11:55:25 AM PST by B4Ranch (Don't remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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Looks to me like a few different states are represented in this post. Lets brainstorm ways we can work together on this issue.


619 posted on 02/06/2005 12:01:52 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain

I like that. It says all that needs to be said.

620 posted on 02/06/2005 12:03:25 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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