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Comments Off Last night, the President gave his annual State of the Union speech. This is our response, See here
Congressman Sanford Bishop scandal ridden:
Earlier this week, BigGovernment revealed another chapter in the scandal ridden saga of Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop. Representative Bishop has represented South Georgia’s second district for nearly 20 years. He’s an under the radar member of the Congressional Black Caucus, seemingly without the temperament or ambition to achieve the high visibility of a John Conyers or Maxine Waters. His relative anonymity has allowed him to avoid much close scrutiny but because of his active role in helping to cover up the Pigford scandal, we are keeping a close eye on him and his race for reelection in 2012. Click on the link for the full article: http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2012/01/13/congressman-sanford-bishop-d-ga-his-scandal-and-the-pigford-cover-up/
Most Republicans & Independents Share Tea Party Views; Chambliss approval suffers,
by Matt Towery, CEO, InsiderAdvantage, 11/28/2011
A poll of 403 registered voters shows astounding support for GA’s Tea Party. 66% of all Republicans said that they “share the general views of the Tea Party movement”. Nearly 59% of Independent voters in GA also identified with the views of the Tea Party. While some voters were undecided, the percentage of Republicans who stated that they did not share the views of the Tea Party was only 16%. http://www.insideradvantagegeorgia.com/
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Agenda 21 and the Threat in Your Backyard, Heritage Foundation, December 5, 2011
Ready to trade in your car for a bike or maybe a subway instead? Interested in fewer choices for your home, paying more for housing, and being crammed into a denser neighborhood? You can have all this and more if radical environmentalists and “smart growth” advocates have their way and local, state, and the federal government impose the policies set forth in the United Nations’ Agenda 21.
You might have heard of this nefarious-sounding policy in a recent Republican presidential debate, but even if you haven’t, here’s some background information: Agenda 21 is a voluntary plan adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. It calls on governments to intervene and regulate nearly every potential impact that human activity could have on the environment. The end goal? Getting governments to “rethink economic development and find ways to halt the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources and pollution of the planet.”
As adopted, Agenda 21 was described as “a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.” That includes hundreds of specific goals and strategies that national and local governments are encouraged to adopt. And that translates into restrictive zoning policies that are aimed at deterring suburban growth. Ultimately, they suppress housing supply and drive up home prices, in turn imposing unnecessary costs, especially on middle- and lower-income households. These policies contributed to and aggravate the real estate bubble by putting inflationary pressures on housing prices.
But here’s the catch: Nothing about Agenda 21 is binding, and it’s not a threat in and of itself. Instead, the threat Americans need to be concerned about is the one that lies in their own backyard. In a new paper, “Focus on Agenda 21 Should Not Divert Attention from Homegrown Anti-Growth Policies,” Wendell Cox, Ronald Utt, Brett Schaefer explain:
Opponents of Agenda 21 should not be distracted from the more tangible manifestation of the smart-growth principles outlined in that document. If they focus excessively on Agenda 21, it is much more likely that homegrown smart-growth policies that date to the early 1970s and undermine the quality of life, personal choice, and property rights in American communities will be implemented by local, state, and federal authorities at the behest of environmental groups and other vested interests.
In the United States, smart-growth policies started in California and Oregon but then spread around the country to “deter suburban growth for all but the well-to-do,” as Cox, Utt, and Schaefer explain. They also write that those policies were not without detrimental impact:
As they became more prevalent and restrictive, their impact on housing prices and construction likewise expanded. An explosion of exclusionary zoning throughout the U.S. encouraged many communities to adopt zoning policies to ensure that they maintained a certain demographic ‘profile.’ Such zoning limited real estate development to higher-cost homes in order to ‘price out’ moderate-income households, which included a disproportionate share of minorities.
Where do these home-grown smart-growth policies stand today? The Obama Administration has embraced them while also increasing environmental regulations and restrictions on the use of natural resources. But the White House isn’t the only one behind the smart-growth movement. Local and state officials, along with interest groups, are promoting the policies at all levels of government.
And that’s where smart growth must also be thwarted. It’s not just a matter of standing against the implementation of Agenda 21 at the national level; it’s also about protecting our own backyards against the home-grown threat.
| ICLEI: Linking Local Governments to the UN Agenda by Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum International Issues Chairman, cathieadams@me.com | |
| December 8, 2011 | |
| National governments will probably not adopt a new United Nations legally binding greenhouse gas emissions treaty in Durban, South Africa, but that does not protect Americans from the UN’s tentacles. The globocrats are employing its non-governmental organizations to entice local and regional governments to allow global bureaucrats to measure, report and verify their municipalities’ greenhouse gas emissions. Read entire report | |
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Obama Signs Agenda 21-Related Executive Order
President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a White House Rural Council on June 9, 2011, the first entity of its kind established to focus on policy initiatives for Rural Americans.
Regional Planning – Key to Rural Economic Strength, November 28, 2011 Kathleen Merrigan, USDA Deputy Under Secretary, and Bob Perciasepe, EPA Deputy Administrator, discuss the importance of a strong rural economy.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7958-obama-signs-agenda-21-related-executive-order
http://americanpolicy.org/alerts/we-can-stop-obamas-rural-council.html/
Websites about Agenda 21:
Bear Witness Central, Website
Sovereignty.net, Website
Tea Party Solutions. Website
Democrats Against Agenda 21, Website
http://www.slideshare.net/regsgridlock/smart-growth-the-wolf-at-your-front-door
Articles:
AGENDA 21 in One Easy Lesson, Tom DeWeese, Article
“Artificial Paradise, Inc.” – Article in Canada Free Press
“Coming to a Neighborhood Near You” – Article in American Thinker
http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2011/07/02/agenda_21_conspiracy_theory_or_real_threat
Videos:
“Agenda 21 for Dummies” – video
“Agenda 21 Alert; Public-Private Partnerships” Part 1 of 2, Video
“Agenda 21″ – Michael Shaw, Video
Inside the Beast: “Their Websites and Sources”
Cool Cities – Pro-Global Warming Website
U.N. Division for Sustainable Development – Website
| EAGLE FORUM EXCLUSIVE REPORT! Sustainable Development Puts American Lifestyles in UN’s Crosshairs, by Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum International Issues Chairman, |
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| June 1, 2011 | |
| Americans do not like having our standard of living in the United Nations’ crosshairs, especially considering we pay 22% of its $2.5 billion regular budget, plus 27% of its $9.5+ billion peacekeeping budget.Since 1987, the UN has plied a borderless issue called “sustainable development” to demean American lifestyles and demand economic, social and environmental “justice.” They use it to agitate class warfare and control the behavior of people, businesses and organizations. It is the UN’s cure-all for the world’s real and imagined problems including global warming/climate change, poverty, conflict, etc.Read entire report | |
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Dr. Larry Bell is a professor of space architecture at the University of Houston. He authored the book Climate of Corruption about the global warming hoax and those who profit from it. Read his article: The U.N.’s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds: http://blogs.forbes.com/larrybell/2011/06/14/the-u-n-s-earth-summit-has-its-head-in-the-clouds/2/
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Hot Air, scientists who falcify data on global warming & polar bears
http://netrightdaily.com/2011/08/the-hot-air-effect/
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Sen. Rand Paul gives passionate speech against the Patriot Act. May 27, 2011
http://townhall.com/video/a-symbolic-victory
Why oppose the Patriot Act?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead25.1.html
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105h.asp
http://biggovernment.com/tmcclintock/2011/02/16/the-patriot-act-is-a-threat-to-our-liberty/
http://extremeprejudiceusa.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-patriot-act-when-truth-becomes-treason/
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
Conservative Action Alerts.com reports on 5-26-2011:
Supreme Court Overrules Fourth Amendment!
Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano reports that Supreme Court has given police the right to invade your home on a whim.
NAPOLITANO: “SAFETY WITHOUT LIBERTY IS TYRANNY.”
The Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling in Kentucky v. King now gives law enforcement officials the authority to enter your home without obtaining a search warrant!
The purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to protect citizens’ privacy and property rights; but the Supreme Court’s decision now allows authorities to violate those rights, and to stage a search and seizure of property without obtaining a warrant from a judge.
The “government has denied property and privacy rights in deference to making the job of the police easier,” Napolitano said on Fox News. “Why would we let our own government do to us, what we fought a revolution against 230 years ago?”
In her lone dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg compares the Court’s majority ruling to a police state: “The warrant requirement ranks among the ‘fundamental distinctions between our form of government, where officers are under the law, and the police-state where they are the law.’” … “In no quarter does the Fourth Amendment apply with greater force than in our homes, our most private space which, for centuries, has been regarded as ‘entitled to special protection.’”
The Supreme Court’s ruling annihilates the Fourth Amendment and gives police the authority to enter your home without obtaining a warrant from a judge. Ginsburg added that the Fourth Amendment was written to protect us from police excess and police mistakes. “In lieu of presenting their evidence to a neutral magistrate, police officers may now knock, listen, then break the door down, never mind that they had ample time to obtain a warrant.”
NO CHECKS AND BALANCES!
We are in the middle of a crisis, and our Constitution is at stake! Law-abiding citizens will now have to live in fear of the government – with every single knock at the door! What if you go for protection in your night stand, thinking there was an intruder. They break down the door, you react in a panic to protect your family, they shoot you and justify it with the New Police State Rules. The new rules that steal your rights under our Constitution. “The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the right to be left alone,” Judge Napolitano added. “It requires that the government can only come on to private property without the consent of the occupant, if it has a search warrant. And search warrants may only be issued by judges, and judges may only issue search warrants after they have found probable cause of a crime on the property.”
But with the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Fourth Amendment has been trampled on and everything has changed! Police will no longer be required to obtain a search warrant from a judge before they can lawfully enter a residence.
The Supreme Court’s ruling threatens law-abiding citizens! By enabling police to circumvent the Fourth Amendment and a judge’s authorization before searching a property, Americans are no longer protected against unwarranted search and seizure. This is an annihilation of your Fourth Amendment rights!
…Consider what Indiana residents are going through after their state Supreme Court ruled that police can enter private property at any time — without a warrant, without suspicion, without reason. Justice Steven David wrote that the Barnes v. State of Indiana decision ruled that “the common law right to resist a police officer illegally entering a home no longer exists.” “A boundary has been crossed, and we’re not just going to tolerate it,” Sean Shepard said to a reporter for the Northwest Indiana Times. “As citizens, it’s our job to be ever-vigilant against our government.”
Read and weep:
He Served the Empire Abroad;The Regime Killed Him in His Home « LewRockwell.com Blog
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/87886.html
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This is a YouTube video from Government Gone Wild that demonstrates the national debt, a must watch.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/VtVbUmcQSuk
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Rescue the Republican Party from the Interventionists, By Doug Bandow, 04/27/11
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1424
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The origin of the income tax:
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“Marxism in America” by Lt. Gen. (Ret.) W.G. Boykin
http://www.morningstartv.com/oak-initiative/marxism-america
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Obama’s Health-Care Law Ruled Unconstitutional Over Insurance Requirement
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-13/u-s-health-care-law-requirement-thrown-out-by-judge.html
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| Cap and Trade by Stealth: U.S. States Partner With Foreign Governments [Regional alliances laying groundwork for unconstitutional regional governance] Alex Newman, December 10, 2010 |
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The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism (Newt Gingrich)
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1997
Gingrich Trained Lobbyists for Freddie Mac; Paid at Least $1.6 Million
Newt Gingrich earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac, and admitted he had a larger consulting role than as a staff historian.
Newt Gingrich: The Establishment’s Conservative
On Gingrich – A Legacy of Surrender, by Howard Rich 7-26-10
http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=2492
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Powerful forces are pushing a Con Con agenda. Learn why calling a Constitutional Convention is a terrible idea:
“States Should Enforce, Not Revise, the Constitution!” Nullify ObamaCare and Stop Con-Con Calls With This New Tool, This article available as a free PDF (just as it appeared in the December 6, 2010 issue of The New American).
http://www.americanpolicy.org/more/powerful.htm
http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/concon/
Phyllis Schlafly recently recorded 3 short videos on the dangers of the proposed Con Con (convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution) Please watch all three videos here.
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” Thomas Paine
