Agenda 21: No, the government isn’t going to confiscate your property. Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters Pssst! Have you heard about Agenda 21? The secret plot to collectivize private property—hatched by United Nations internationalists and midwifed by operatives ensconced within our own government—all in the name of "ending sprawl" and "encouraging sustainability"? The seizure of suburban homes by jackbooted, gun-toting U.N. thugs? The involuntary relocation of displaced suburbanites to cramped dwellings in densely packed cities? No? Don't blame Glenn Beck. In truth, Agenda 21 is the sort of nonbinding, suggestion-filled "action plan" the United Nations generates whenever it holds any kind of major international summit. Last August, Stanley Kurtz, who has lectured at Harvard and the University of Chicago, wrote an article for the stalwart conservative journal National Review that appeared under the provocative headline "Burn Down the Suburbs?" Did you move to the outskirts of town to be closer to nature? Did you move to the suburbs for safety and stability?
Agenda 21 Conspiracy The Wildlands Project Many of the areas shown on The Wildland Project maps in RED, as off limits to human use, already have significantly reduced public access and no management or resource harvesting through: Wilderness, Critical Habitat and Roadless Areas. YELLOW Areas are areas of Highly regulated Use where hiking may be allowed, but no homes. Only GREEN areas will allow housing. Are any of the areas that you currently enjoy to recreate shown as RED, or off limits to human activity, on the Wildland map? Is your home in a YELLOW Area, where housing will ultimately be prohibited through increased taxation and impossible regulations such as updating your home to current building code standards or being within a few miles of a fire/police station? The community of Lake Isabella and the entire Kern River Valley are shown as YELLOW or RED which means you will not be allowed to live there. If you want to do something about stopping the Wildlands Project then: Click Here for larger Wildlands Project Map of CA/NV
A ridiculous Common Core test for first graders Why are some kids crying when they do homework these days? Here’s why, from award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York. Burris has for more than a year chronicled on this blog the many problems with the test-driven reform in New York (here, and here and here and here, for example). By Carol Burris My speech teacher came to see me. The test provides insight into why New York State parents are up in arms about testing and the Common Core. Then there is Question No. 12. Keep in mind that many New York State first graders are still 5 years old at the beginning of October, when this test was given. It is easy to point fingers at the teacher or school for giving the test, or to point fingers at Pearson for creating it. Question 1 on the first-grade test is based on the New York Common Core Standard, 1.OA4 Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. This Pearson first-grade unit test is the realization of the New York Common Core math standards.
Black Sea Cruise: Into the Valley Of Death in Ukraine By Frank Barrett, Mail on Sunday Travel Editor Updated: 17:34 GMT, 22 October 2010 Can you take us to the Valley of Death? I asked. Alexei the guide smiled: 'This I have already prepared.' He was waiting at the foot of the ship's gangway as we disembarked at Yalta. Point of order: A gothic castle overlooks the Black Sea in precarious fashion near Yalta This ill-fated adventure - vividly described in the famous poem by Tennyson ('Half a league, half a league, half a league onward ...') - has become an integral part of our national story: the Six Hundred who misunderstood a confused order and rode on ready to face death for their country ('Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die ...'). The chance to visit the actual scene of this glorious and tragic event was far too good to miss. Odessa is a Black Sea port with a significant place in Russian history. Yet Ukraine in some ways can seem as strange and remote as Outer Mongolia. Travel Facts
Agenda 21: Fact, not conspiracy Text smaller Text bigger 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. Noah M. Mr. Mr. President Obama is on the Agenda 21 bandwagon.
Is the Soros-Sponsored ‘Agenda 21’ a Hidden Plan for World Government? (Yes, Only it Is Not Hidden) What is Agenda 21? If you do not know about it, you should. Agenda 21 is a two-decade old, grand plan for global ’Sustainable Development,’ brought to you from the United Nations. George H.W. ‘Sustainable Development’ sounds like a nice idea, right? At risk from Agenda 21; Private Property ownershipSingle-Family homesPrivate car ownership and individual travel choicesPrivately owned farms The Agenda 21 plan openly targets private property. Land… cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Source: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I),Vancouver, BC, May 31 – June 11, 1976. There are two more, very good reasons to be wary of Agenda 21 and the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) that supports it: George Soros and the United Nations. In 1997, George Soros’s Open Society gave ICLEI a $2,147,415 grant to support its Local Agenda 21 Project
Educators Expose Dangers of Common Core National Education A hard-hitting video just released by FreedomProject Education (FPE) exposes some of the myriad dangers to liberty and education stemming from Common Core, a deeply controversial scheme to nationalize education standards being pushed by the Obama administration and a coalition of its establishment allies. While only a little over an hour long, the presentation, led by two education experts, offers a concise explanation of the threat and is sure to outrage parents, regardless of political affiliation. Elements of Common Core are already in place across America, and the picture is not pretty. From the start, leaders at FPE, an online K-12 school offering classical education rooted in Judeo-Christian values, have expressed strong opposition to Common Core and the federalization of schooling. The school boasts of its independence from government — and especially the radical effort to standardize all education by federal authorities and establishment-minded billionaires like Bill Gates. Dr.