POWELL SAYS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS COMPELLING ISSUE FOR THE UNITED STATES

The Washington File ^ | Aug. 12, 2002 | Colin Powell

[MadIvan]

Sustainable development is the globalists code word for controlled development.

Precisely, and no industrial revolution, no climb out of the primordial swamp of subsistence agriculture to modernity, is by nature "controlled". It is a wild, rampant thing that defies control. It's not called a "sustainable market" but the "free market".

Powell has apparently heard the siren call of global socialism and bureaucratism. Sack him. And bring in Dr. Keyes!

Regards, Ivan

[philman_36]

Sustainable development is the globalists code word for controlled development.
Just one of the tentacle words of the globalist octopus.
One big umbrella over that octopus too.

[hedgetrimmer]

Controlled development. Hmmmmm where have we seen that before? Thats right! In the Soviet Union! Sustainable development is the globalists word for GLOBAL COMMUNISM. Civil Society is the globalists code word for the good old fashioned soviet council, where the politburo and the government work hand in hand to erase any form of self determination among the unannointed, and create the bureacracies and policies like those that starved and forced submission of the Russian people in the last century.

Yep, the GLOBAL VISION sure sounds good for America and Americans.

[lavaroise]

The spread of democracy and market economies, combined with breakthroughs in technology, permits us to dream of a day when, for the first time in history, most of humanity will be free of the ravages of tyranny and poverty.

THey confuse business and religious messianism. Business was never a religious or cultist goal. These people are nuts indeed.

COMPLETELY NUTS. CAll the ambulance.

[american spirit]

Jeff, do you have any experience with a municipal gov't. that adopts "home rule" status? Our local gov't. is pushing for it and my gut tells me it's a prelude to more annexations under the guise of sustainable development.

[philman_36]

Part of the umbrella...SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

A couple of tentacles...
sustainable urban development
sustainable transportation development

[philman_36]

Sustainable development - what is it?
The evolution of sustainable corporations is no further along than aviation was when Wilbur and Orville were still running their cycle shop. Just as their dreams seemed impossible to most people, so do the dreams of SD pioneers today. But expect explosive growth in sustainability experimentation in the next decade. Many of these experiments will involve new technology, but an even greater number will involve ‘soft innovation’, focusing on new forms of strategic thinking, new styles of networked commerce, and radically new triple bottom line management systems, accountancy procedures and reporting and communication process.

There is a twist. The article even uses the blind people and the elephant analogy.
A whole site to the quasi-god SustainAbility

As you can see this stuff makes me see Red...er...red.

[philman_36]

Yep, the GLOBAL VISION sure sounds good for America and Americans.
America and Americans are going to get poked in the eye with a sharp stick and be blinded with GLOBAL VISION before it's all over with.

[o_zarkman44]

sustainable development only benefits those who are in control of the economics. As for the people sustainable development equates socialism because opportunity to improve their economics is beyond their control. Sustainable development is also equated to the rampant environmentalists who are confiscating land for parks and the buffer zones to shield the wild from human incursion, shield resources from private enterprise, and eliminate free enterprise that revolves upon anything that is produced by the land.

[snopercod]

And to think the republicans were falling all over themselves to get this socialist to run as Bush's VP...

For a military man, Powell doesn't seem to know his history.

[philman_36]

Sustainable Development: How to Make It Work
Most development is still the result of thousands of local decisions made by individual communities about separate projects. Development regulations in the U. S. have traditionally been delegated by the states to local government, and home rule on development issues is strongly established and unlikely to change. Private real-estate investments in separate, competing developments have been the prime mechanism for urban growth; that is not likely to change either.

[american spirit]

Thanks, I bookmarked the article for future reference. Not sure how much experience you've had with home rule but I'm still wondering if there can be an abuse of power if city hall becomes inundated with land and revenue hungry officials. Seems like a small cabal of insiders could make life miserable for everyone through a blizzard of codes and regulations, insider deals, etc.

[RLK]

Time for Mr. Bush to tell Mr. Powell to leave.

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Bush has been making the same speech/

[Free the USA]

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[madfly]

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[madfly]

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[lavaroise]

and this crap is supposed to turn Saddam into a lamb? Bwahahah!!

[headsonpikes]

Fortunately for us all, Socialism is a Religion of Peace.

[madfly]

Ping. This is what is making the rounds at our US Embassies in UN Nation States. Powell wrote this for a special UN magazine and it is being posted the week before Johannesburg!!!!

[philman_36]

and this crap is supposed to turn Saddam into a lamb?
A key concept...supposed to. It won't, but it sure "sounds good on paper".