Agenda 21: Conspiracy Theory or Real Threat?
Rachel Alexander
Jul 02, 2011

"Americans are so focused on Congress and Obama at the federal level of government right now that most are overlooking the socialism creeping in at the local level through Agenda 21. It is easy to overlook local government since people are saturated with too much information in the internet age. Compounding this is the fact that Agenda 21 is a dull topic, and it becomes understandable how it has been able to fly mostly under the radar since 1992, slowly working its way into our cities and counties.

Agenda 21, which reportedly means an agenda for the 21st century, is a United Nations program launched in 1992 for the vague purpose of achieving global "sustainable development." Congress never approved Agenda 21, although Presidents Obama, Clinton and George H.W. Bush have all signed Executive Orders implementing it.

178 other world leaders agreed to it in 1992 at the Rio Summit. Since then, the U.N. has mostly bypassed national governments, using Agenda 21’s International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (“ICLEI”) to make agreements directly with local governments. ICLEI's U.S. presence has grown to include agreements with over 600 cities, towns and counties here, which are now copying the land use plans prescribed in Agenda 21.
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Agenda 21 goes well beyond environmentalism. Other broad goals include combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting health, and reducing private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms. It seeks to cram people into small livable areas and institute population control. There is a plan for “social justice” that will redistribute wealth.
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Agenda 21 "regulation would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation - even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system. . . ."

http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelale...reat/page/full/

Here's another shorter article.
It consists of a one page summary and quotes.

Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson
Tom DeWeese
March 31st, 2011

" Sustainable Development
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Social Equity (Social Justice)
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Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
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“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.” – Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, 1992.
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“Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” – Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wildlands Project
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“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society . . . This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21. So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.” J. Gary Lawrence, advisor to President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.
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http://americanpolicy.org/2011/03/31/age...ne-easy-lesson/

The local zoning and planning nazi's keep pushing the A21 agenda. After the hurricanes they got a lot of it pushed through in the rebuilding. The planned communities are aesthetically nice but most are just poorly constructed and way overpriced. Not only that but the rules are ridiculous.

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The local zoning and planning nazi's keep pushing the A21 agenda. After the hurricanes they got a lot of it pushed through in the rebuilding. The planned communities are aesthetically nice but most are just poorly constructed and way overpriced. Not only that but the rules are ridiculous.

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Planned communities make me think of two alarming thoughts. Control of population and loss of cultural distinction.

http://www.salon.com/2002/03/18/kinkade_village/

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The local zoning and planning nazi's keep pushing the A21 agenda. After the hurricanes they got a lot of it pushed through in the rebuilding. The planned communities are aesthetically nice but most are just poorly constructed and way overpriced. Not only that but the rules are ridiculous.

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This is what I fear will happen to the Jersey shore as it's rebuilt. Towns will loose their unique character to one size fits all blob of construction that is sustainable, and just, and fair, and Gaia friendly, and approved by a consensus. With the help of Sorso's Robin Hood Foundation.

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Planned communities make me think of two alarming thoughts. Control of population and loss of cultural distinction.

http://www.salon.com/2002/03/18/kinkade_village/

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