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Refuting a Flyer: Case Study from ‘One Bay Area’ — The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Plan

Posted on December 3, 2012 Written by

We all know how impor­tant it is to be sure that our infor­ma­tion is accu­rate when we’re pre­sent­ing it to the pub­lic and to our allies in the strug­gle against glob­al gov­er­nance.  We received some­one’s fly­er about ONE BAY AREA that was full of exag­ger­a­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion.  It might feel good to put togeth­er some­thing […]

Filed Under: Property Rights, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tagged: , , , , ,

U.N. Agenda 21 being implemented in Solano County, CA

Posted on November 26, 2012 Written by

Opin­ion Let­ter:  U.N. Agen­da 21 being imple­ment­ed in Solano Coun­ty Pub­lished by The Reporter Regard­ing a news arti­cle (“Vacav­ille works to meet hous­ing require­ments,” Nov. 15):  This is Unit­ed Nations Agen­da 21 being imple­ment­ed in our own back yard. So just who is ABAG? The Asso­ci­a­tion of Bay Area Gov­ern­ments is an unelect­ed body that, […]

Filed Under: ICLEI, Property Rights, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Transportation, United Nations Tagged: , , , , , ,

TURF Boycotts SH 130 Tollway

Posted on November 15, 2012 Written by

TURF (Tex­ans Unit­ing for Reform & Free­dom) announces boy­cott of Cin­tra’s SH 130 toll­way.  Ter­ri Hall of TURF leads the pub­lic in under­stand­ing how the Texas gov­ern­ment is sell­ing out Texas tax­pay­ers by sell­ing Texas high­ways to for­eign multi­na­tion­als who intend to con­vert paid off high­ways into toll roads.  This is a pro­gram spread­ing across […]

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Tech­noc­racy and the IMF: New Global Mon­e­tary System?

Posted on October 30, 2012 Written by

Beware of a new tri­al bal­loon being float­ed by the Inter­na­tional Mon­e­tary Fund, that is, “The Chica­go Plan Revis­ited.” Accord­ing to British jour­nalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The con­juring trick is to replace our sys­tem of pri­vate bank-cre­at­ed mon­ey — rough­ly 97pc of the mon­ey sup­ply — with state-cre­at­ed mon­ey. We return to the his­tor­ical norm, before Charles II placed con­trol […]

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Cap and Trade manipulation leads to WCI Inc.

Posted on October 28, 2012 Written by

Cap and Trade is com­ing — good and hard. So far, numer­ous pleas to Gov. Jer­ry Brown, Cal­i­for­nia Air Resources Direc­tor Mary Nichols and the Cal­i­for­nia Leg­is­la­ture to delay the start of the first Cap and Trade car­bon cred­it auc­tion have fall­en on deaf ears.  Fol­low­ing a dry-run test of the pro­gram in August, CARB […]

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Obama’s EPA Plans for 2013

Posted on October 27, 2012 Written by

The Novem­ber elec­tions will deter­mine the direc­tion of US cli­mate pol­i­cy — and there­fore also ener­gy pol­i­cy and the pace of eco­nom­ic growth:  jobs, stan­dards of liv­ing, bud­get deficits and infla­tion. Oba­ma has already promised to make cli­mate change the cen­ter­piece of his con­cern — with all that implies:  “Green” ener­gy pol­i­cy, linked to loss […]

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Obama’s Housing Agency Spending Millions to Transform Inner Cities Into ‘Sustainable Communities’

Posted on October 16, 2012 Written by

(CNSNews.com) – The Oba­ma administration’s effort to cre­ate gov­­ern­­ment-sanc­­tioned “sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties” moved ahead this week, with the announce­ment of almost $5 mil­lion in plan­ning grants.

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Scientists Warn Geo-Engineering Can Kill Billions of People

Posted on October 12, 2012 Written by

Geo-engi­neer­ing is an umbrel­la term for delib­er­ate cli­mate inter­ven­tion that includes spray­ing the sky with aerosols to reflect solar radi­a­tion away from Earth in order to cool the plan­et and to save the envi­ron­ment and human­i­ty from the effects of sup­pos­ed­ly man-made glob­al warm­ing.  There is evi­dence that this pro­gram has already been imple­ment­ed for […]

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