Agenda 21: Preparing America for Poverty - vid

[devil21]

If you feel like you're behind the curve when you read threads in this RPF subforum, you should watch this video for a splash of cold water in your face.

 

[Intoxiklown]

Alabama passed Senate Bill 477, which bans any city or community from adhering to Agenda 21 (ICLEI).

 

[donnay]

Alabama passed Senate Bill 477, which bans any city or community from adhering to Agenda 21 (ICLEI).

Alabama passed an all-encompassing law to protect private property rights against the tyranny of Agenda 21. SB 477, known as the “Due Process for Property Rights” Act was passed in both the Alabama House and Senate, and signed into law by Governor Robert Bentley.

*Applauds Alabama*

These 9 States Have Outlawed Agenda 21 to Protect Property Rights
https://occupycorporatism.com/9-states-outlawed-agenda-21-protect-property-rights/

 

[ShaneEnochs]

The real life Agenda 21 is one those plans that regularly come out of the UN - in this case 20 years ago - full of idealists' ideas of what everyone else should do. Some of it good and realistic, some of it not. Mostly to do with sustainable development.

It's a declaration of principles, not a treaty, not a law. Not legally binding in any way. It has no more legal weight than if it came out of the green club at your local high school. As usual with such UN plans, governments adopt the bits the voters like - and would have adopted anyway - and ignore the rest. Never pass up a good photo op.

Real life sustainable development is little more than simple common sense. Rotate your crops. Leave trees along the side of your field so the top-soil doesn't blow away. Don't pollute. Avoid deforestation. Even the Romans passed sustainable development laws.

Sustainable development was the solution to the dustbowl of the 1930s, where bad farming practices were destroying crop land. School kids here were taught about environmentalism and sustainable development in the 1970s.

Most jurisdictions have sustainable development laws, whether they call them that or not. And they've had them long before the Agenda 21 declaration. Agenda 21 is based on these laws and practices, not the other way 'round. If Agenda 21 never happened we'd still be passing sustainable development laws at the exact same rate.

But then there's the conspiritard version:

Any good conspiracy theory is wrapped around something real. And so the no-legal-power Agenda 21 is combined with unrelated sustainable development laws to create one grand conspiracy theory whereby Agenda 21 has the power to create laws. Any mention, anywhere, of sustainable development becomes part of The Conspiracy. Many things that would go directly against Agenda 21 - like expropriating land for an oil pipeline - are still declared to be driven by Agenda 21.

Imagine if the same conspiritards had discovered that the Soviet Union built cars. (Lada, Niva, Riga, etc.) Today EVERY mention of automobile manufacturing, new models, seat belt laws, traffic deaths, speed limits and parking meters would be declared part of some grand Soviet Conspiracy. That the US was already building cars would make no difference. Use eminent domain to widen a highway - even today - and they would declare it to be the Soviets in action.

Any good wingnuttery is wrapped around a real fact.

 

[donnay]

The real life Agenda 21 is one those plans that regularly come out of the UN - in this case 20 years ago - full of idealists' ideas of what everyone else should do. Some of it good and realistic, some of it not. Mostly to do with sustainable development.

It's a declaration of principles, not a treaty, not a law. Not legally binding in any way. It has no more legal weight than if it came out of the green club at your local high school. As usual with such UN plans, governments adopt the bits the voters like - and would have adopted anyway - and ignore the rest. Never pass up a good photo op.

Real life sustainable development is little more than simple common sense. Rotate your crops. Leave trees along the side of your field so the top-soil doesn't blow away. Don't pollute. Avoid deforestation. Even the Romans passed sustainable development laws.

Sustainable development was the solution to the dustbowl of the 1930s, where bad farming practices were destroying crop land. School kids here were taught about environmentalism and sustainable development in the 1970s.

Most jurisdictions have sustainable development laws, whether they call them that or not. And they've had them long before the Agenda 21 declaration. Agenda 21 is based on these laws and practices, not the other way 'round. If Agenda 21 never happened we'd still be passing sustainable development laws at the exact same rate.

But then there's the conspiritard version:

Any good conspiracy theory is wrapped around something real. And so the no-legal-power Agenda 21 is combined with unrelated sustainable development laws to create one grand conspiracy theory whereby Agenda 21 has the power to create laws. Any mention, anywhere, of sustainable development becomes part of The Conspiracy. Many things that would go directly against Agenda 21 - like expropriating land for an oil pipeline - are still declared to be driven by Agenda 21.

Imagine if the same conspiritards had discovered that the Soviet Union built cars. (Lada, Niva, Riga, etc.) Today EVERY mention of automobile manufacturing, new models, seat belt laws, traffic deaths, speed limits and parking meters would be declared part of some grand Soviet Conspiracy. That the US was already building cars would make no difference. Use eminent domain to widen a highway - even today - and they would declare it to be the Soviets in action.

Any good wingnuttery is wrapped around a real fact.

Yes, it is all good and loving. The UN is only trying to make us aware of our foolishness.

Agenda 21: Fact, not conspiracy
Exclusive: Henry Lamb combats notion U.N. plan holds no threat to Americans' freedom

While liberal journalists continue to claim that Agenda 21 is just a “conspiracy theory” being advanced by right-wing crackpots, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Council for Environmental Law (ICEL) have released their fourth Draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development. This document was designed from the beginning to convert the “soft-law” non-binding Agenda 21 into firmly binding global law – enforceable through the International Criminal Court and/or the dispute resolution features of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Two excellent analyses of this document are available here and here.

Few people understand that it is standard operating procedure for the U.N. to issue a massive non-binding policy document to test the water and make adjustments to its plans before introducing the real, legally binding treaty. For example, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a “soft-law” instrument, was the precursor to the two 1966 U.N. Covenants on Human Rights. The 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change called for “voluntary” compliance. But at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the group agreed to create a Kyoto Protocol to the Convention that would set legally-binding targets for all member nations.

Noah M. Sachs, a University of Richmond law professor and environmental expert, said: “Agenda 21 has been a dead letter for 20 years; its recommendations have not been implemented by most governments, and the U.S. has largely ignored it.”

Mr. Sachs is either ignorant of the facts, or is deliberately trying to mislead his readers. President Clinton’s President’s Council on Sustainable Development operated between 1993 and 1999 expressly for the purpose of implementing the recommendations in Agenda 21. At the 11th meeting of the PCSD, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce, said that his department could implement 67 percent of the recommendations under his jurisdiction by rule, without the need for new legislation.

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) was created at the behest of the U.N. expressly for the purpose of advancing Agenda 21 around the world. They claim more than 1,200 cities around the globe have joined their organization for assistance in implementing “sustainable development” – defined to be the recommendations contained in Agenda 21. More than 600 of these cities are in the United States.

Mr. Sachs: Agenda 21 is not a dead letter!

A few organizations, Freedom21, Freedom Advocates in California, and the American Policy Center, have been teaching Agenda 21 to people since the mid 1990s. In the last few years, the tea party and 9/12 and property-rights groups have seen how ICLEI and liberal local officials have been converting the recommendations in Agenda 21 into binding law, by incorporating these recommendations into comprehensive land-use plans. Dozens of cities have terminated their membership in ICLEI after local groups showed their elected officials how their plans actually reflect the recommendations in Agenda 21.

Those who like to ridicule by pointing to an imaginary global plot to rule the world are either ignorant of the facts, or don’t want people to know that the IUCN and the ICEL have been working since 1995 to get Agenda 21 converted into binding international law. It is not a plot. It is not a conspiracy. It is a fact. The IUCN is not going to stop until they are successful. Virtually every environmental treaty adopted by the U.N. in the last several decades was written by the IUCN.

The IUCN consists of governments, government agencies and non-government organizations. Seven federal agencies pay more than $500,000 per year to be members of the IUCN. Many of these people are the same people who are delegates and attend the U. N. meetings where these treaties are adopted. Federal employees helped write this fourth draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/agenda-21-fact-not-conspiracy/#44VJgCUOCtfKmqVi.99

 

[ShaneEnochs]

Yes, it is all good and loving. The UN is only trying to make us aware of our foolishness.

Agenda 21: Fact, not conspiracy
Exclusive: Henry Lamb combats notion U.N. plan holds no threat to Americans' freedom

While liberal journalists continue to claim that Agenda 21 is just a “conspiracy theory” being advanced by right-wing crackpots, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Council for Environmental Law (ICEL) have released their fourth Draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development. This document was designed from the beginning to convert the “soft-law” non-binding Agenda 21 into firmly binding global law – enforceable through the International Criminal Court and/or the dispute resolution features of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Two excellent analyses of this document are available here and here.

Few people understand that it is standard operating procedure for the U.N. to issue a massive non-binding policy document to test the water and make adjustments to its plans before introducing the real, legally binding treaty. For example, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a “soft-law” instrument, was the precursor to the two 1966 U.N. Covenants on Human Rights. The 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change called for “voluntary” compliance. But at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the group agreed to create a Kyoto Protocol to the Convention that would set legally-binding targets for all member nations.

Noah M. Sachs, a University of Richmond law professor and environmental expert, said: “Agenda 21 has been a dead letter for 20 years; its recommendations have not been implemented by most governments, and the U.S. has largely ignored it.”

Mr. Sachs is either ignorant of the facts, or is deliberately trying to mislead his readers. President Clinton’s President’s Council on Sustainable Development operated between 1993 and 1999 expressly for the purpose of implementing the recommendations in Agenda 21. At the 11th meeting of the PCSD, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce, said that his department could implement 67 percent of the recommendations under his jurisdiction by rule, without the need for new legislation.

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) was created at the behest of the U.N. expressly for the purpose of advancing Agenda 21 around the world. They claim more than 1,200 cities around the globe have joined their organization for assistance in implementing “sustainable development” – defined to be the recommendations contained in Agenda 21. More than 600 of these cities are in the United States.

Mr. Sachs: Agenda 21 is not a dead letter!

A few organizations, Freedom21, Freedom Advocates in California, and the American Policy Center, have been teaching Agenda 21 to people since the mid 1990s. In the last few years, the tea party and 9/12 and property-rights groups have seen how ICLEI and liberal local officials have been converting the recommendations in Agenda 21 into binding law, by incorporating these recommendations into comprehensive land-use plans. Dozens of cities have terminated their membership in ICLEI after local groups showed their elected officials how their plans actually reflect the recommendations in Agenda 21.

Those who like to ridicule by pointing to an imaginary global plot to rule the world are either ignorant of the facts, or don’t want people to know that the IUCN and the ICEL have been working since 1995 to get Agenda 21 converted into binding international law. It is not a plot. It is not a conspiracy. It is a fact. The IUCN is not going to stop until they are successful. Virtually every environmental treaty adopted by the U.N. in the last several decades was written by the IUCN.

The IUCN consists of governments, government agencies and non-government organizations. Seven federal agencies pay more than $500,000 per year to be members of the IUCN. Many of these people are the same people who are delegates and attend the U. N. meetings where these treaties are adopted. Federal employees helped write this fourth draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/agenda-21-fact-not-conspiracy/#44VJgCUOCtfKmqVi.99

There's just a ton of "untruths" there, but probably the easiest to disprove right off the bat is the whole notion that Ron Brown had said that he could implement it at the 11th meeting of the PSCD. Mainly because there wasn't an 11th meeting. Or a 10th or a 9th for that matter. The PSCD only met 8 times: http://clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/meetings/index.html

 

[Intoxiklown]

At it's core, it is an attempt to codify private property as public property citing sustainability as its precedent. And they are written in the form of soft law as part of city redevelopment plans. The biggest issue isn't some fear of the UN running the planet, but that of basic property rights of Americans.

I'm not sure how it's a conspiracy, when over 600 cities across the nation have implemented redevelopment plans based on a lot of the Agenda 21 guide lines into city ordinance and statue.

 

[Zippyjuan]

There's just a ton of "untruths" there, but probably the easiest to disprove right off the bat is the whole notion that Ron Brown had said that he could implement it at the 11th meeting of the PSCD. Mainly because there wasn't an 11th meeting. Or a 10th or a 9th for that matter. The PSCD only met 8 times: http://clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/meetings/index.html

WND is also known as "World Nuts Daily". They don't worry too much about facts and more about conspiracies. They still push the "Obama born in Kenya" thing long after it was disproved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21

Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development.[1] It is a product of the Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels. The "21" in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st Century. It has been affirmed and had a few modifications at subsequent UN conferences.

https://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/18/agenda-21-death-by-sustainability/

Agenda 21 is a non-binding, unenforceable, voluntary policy paper, developed in 1992 and signed by 178 countries, including the United States. It is, at its core, a long-term plan for environmentally-healthy development, more efficient use of land and resources, improved urban planning, promoting health, combating poverty and reducing our impact on the world around us. Much of it is tailored to assisting the developing world, but it can be carried out at any level, from the local township to entire countries. It has no penalties for noncompliance, no enforcement arm and you can put into practice any, some, all or none of it. It’s not a treaty, a law or a charter, hence why it was never ratified by Congress. And, unlike most secret plans for world depopulation and domination, it’s available online in its entirety, in a variety of languages.

The entire document is over 300 pages long, and split into four large sections, so it’s hard to summarize all of its many suggestions and ideas. But even a glancing read will tell you that is has no provisions for banning travel, seizing your property, taking babies away, plowing the suburbs under, curtailing gun ownership (the word “gun” never appears in the document) or turning the civilized world into a UN police state/wildlife preserve. Some of what it does deal with can be found in a random sampling of chapter headings:

Promoting an international trading system that takes account of the needs of developing countries
Encouraging data collection and research
Promoting sound economic policies
Enabling the poor to achieve sustainable livelihoods
Encouraging greater efficiency in the use of energy and resources
Meeting primary health care needs, particularly in rural areas
Control of communicable diseases
Reducing health risks from environmental pollution and hazards

Goals and suggestions- not enforceable laws. The UN police are not going to be knocking on you door if you don't follow them.