Agenda 21 and the Threat in Your Backyard

Heritage  "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."
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"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:"....
"At well over 300 pages, Agenda 21 sets forth hundreds of specific goals and strategies that national and local governments are encouraged to adopt.[3] These policies are presented in four sections:...." One of which is this one: "Strengthening the role of major groups (e.g., women, children, indigenous people, workers and trade unions;..." Emphasis added.



The link sited in the above article, which has this statement:

If implemented, the types of policies encouraged in Agenda 21 would significantly expand the role of government in economic decision-making, impede development and economic growth, and undermine individual choice and policy flexibility for local communities. Opponents should be concerned about efforts by the U.S. government to implement these policies, both nationally and locally.

The Blaze: 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. Bush ...agreed to it back in 1992, and in 1995, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order #12858, creating a Presidential Council on ‘Sustainable Development.’ This effectively pushed the UN plan into America’s large, churning government machine without the need for any review or discussion by Congress or the American people."

UN Preamble to Agenda 21 : 

"We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being. However, integration of environment and development concerns and greater attention to them will lead to the fulfilment of basic needs, improved living standards for all, better protected and managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. No nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can - in a global partnership for sustainable development."

Outline From this UN site: 


Agenda 21 For Dummies  (Nine-minute video)


"Agenda 21 explained very well. Including implications it will have on humanity. Opinions within the video come in some cases from those that were in on the negotiations. Truly an interesting watch."

Hello to a few returning readers

It's always nice to see interesting-looking readers of the TW who return. Some of whom include readers in Wallasey, Wirral in the UK and a reader in Warsaw, Poland. Please drop a line in the comments to a post sometime and tell us all you care to about yourself, bearing in mind that the post would be public.
The Tunnel Dweller

OCCUPY WALL STREET Can some actually compare these people with the TEA Party?

Sent by Bill Pyatt over at The Edge.  Bill writes:

I hesitated to send out anything this disgusting but I think it needs to be seen.
Look at the laughing “99%” in the background. Is this where out nation is heading. If I was a young man I would leave this nation. I am totally disgusted with where it is heading, while I have little time left, my children and their children will still be here. I am fed up and think I have wasted my years defending this nation. We are facing a huge decline.
The Picture that everyone needs to see....and it got worse!

angrywhitedude.com

..."The Tea Party movement came out of nowhere to stand up and speak out against out-of-control government spending. While the Tea Party has been vilified by liberals and the Democrat party, it has continued to grow in strength. Leftists have used everything from Alinsky tactics to lying to name calling to the total use of the mainstream media to destroy the Tea Party. But they underestimated the patriotism of the producers in America who support the Constitution and believe in capitalism.
"Many of the American Idol experts have sat idly by listening to Chris Matthews and Katie Couric disparage the Tea Party movement. They had nothing to compare the movement to. All of that changed when the Occupy Wall Street circus came to New York and spread quickly across the country. Like an infection. Small bands of idiots with stupid signs printed by unions spouting lunacy have littered and shat across the formerly pristine parks they now infest in dozens of American cities.
"What a stark difference from the Tea Party movement."...


"Here’s a few Einsteins getting schooled on socialism by a man who lived in the Soviet Union:" (Above)

The Most Boring Celebrities of 2011

Gaga

This came from Alan Caruba over at Warning Signs and is from The Boring Institute:
"This year’s list is (1) Charlie Sheen, (2) Lindsay Lohan, (3) Lady Gaga, (4) Arnold Schwartzenegger, (5) Anthony Weiner, ((6) Casey Anthony, (7) the cast of the Jersey Shore, (8) Kim Kardashian,(9) Donald Trump, and (10) Occupy Wall Street."....  (emphasis added)

Lohan

"Number three is Lady Gaga. Caruba admits he has no idea why anyone takes Lady Gaga seriously. “Her life is an orgy of exhibitionism.” " I agree; this Victoria has few secrets.

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Number ten is Occupy Wall Street.  ‘’They wore out their welcome so fast that the sale of tents plummeted after they were chased out of town."


Founded in 1984, The Boring Institute is a media spoof and clearinghouse for information about boredom. Its blog is http://theboringinstitute.blogspot.com. A business and science writer, Caruba is widely known for his popular blog, http://factsnotfantasy,blogspot.com, that recently exceeded a million page views. He resides in South Orange, New Jersey

God Help The USA and Israel

nicedeb 

"I created the above photoshop, last year when Obama’s animus towards Israel first started revealing itself through his policies.....
You need only read the recent headlines (but do click and read some of these) from Commentary’s blog to get a flavor of the disdain, and disappointment from Jewish quarters to Obama’s treatment of Israel:
(These links are active in the actual article.)

Bibi’s Predicament

On Obama’s Behavior Toward Israel

What Did You Do?

Obama’s Humiliation of Israel May Only Be Getting Started

No Denying White House Animus Toward Israel

Nile Gardiner: Barack Obama’s humiliation of Israel is a disgrace (From March, 2011, but reposted in the UK Telegraph blog today. We post it now because of Obama's arrogant claim that he has been the president most supportive of Israel.)  "Benjamin Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an hour after President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of tense talks to have supper with his family, it emerged on Thursday. The snub marked a fresh low in US-Israeli relations and appeared designed to show Mr Netanyahu how low his stock had fallen in Washington after he refused to back down in a row over Jewish construction in east Jerusalem.
"… (Mr. Obama) immediately presented Mr Netanyahu with a list of 13 demands designed both to the end the feud with his administration and to build Palestinian confidence ahead of the resumption of peace talks. Key among those demands was a previously-made call to halt all new settlement construction in east Jerusalem.
"When the Israeli prime minister stalled, Mr Obama rose from his seat declaring: "I'm going to the residential wing to have dinner with Michelle and the girls." As he left, Mr Netanyahu was told to consider the error of his ways. "I'm still around," Mr Obama is quoted by Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper as having said. "Let me know if there is anything new."
"This is no way to treat America’s closest ally in the Middle East, and a true friend of the United States. I very much doubt that even third world tyrants would be received in such a rude fashion by the president. In fact, they would probably be warmly welcomed by the Obama White House as part of its “engagement” strategy, while the leaders of Britain and Israel are frequently met with arrogant disdain."
I'd say pretty much the way Bill Ayers or Rev. Wright would have handled things. Perhaps Obama can name his two teleprompters "Bill" and "Rev".

      Video from David Horowitz Freedom Center

Update: Secretary of Defense Panetta Shows How the Obama Administration Is Selling Out Israel…and US Interests  By Barry Rubin:  "In a major address on U.S. Middle East policy to the Brookings Institution U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region. When taken along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent speech on the same subject, we now know the following regarding Obama’s policy:
It is dangerously and absurdly wrong. This administration totally and completely, dangerously and disastrously for U.S. interests misunderstands the Middle East. They are 180 degrees off course, that is heading in the opposite direction of safety."

Charlie Brown goes to the Republican debates

Jimmy Kimmel may have found a way to liven up the GOP debates with the help of Peanuts.
From Wake up, Black America!
"I haven't been keeping up with the almost weekly GOP Presidential debates for a reason. These debates are simply planned events in order to have the GOP candidates destroy one another prior thus making it easier for Obama Also, the answers and positions of the candidates have been known for several months now. Right now, It's like watching an endless television rerun with no fresh new episode in sight. Be that as it may, Comedian Jimmy Kimmel of ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live put together a very funny skit involving the GOP candidates and the Peanuts Thanksgiving. I'm not sure what Jimmy's political leanings are, but even I couldn't help not to laugh at this."

Dead Movement Walking: Top Six Signs the Left And Mainstream Media Have Hung Occupy Out to Dry

Big Journalism  "A few weeks ago in Denver I had the opportunity for some up close and personal time with the Occupy movement, and what I saw was about what you would expect. These are marginal and marginally intelligent people who have grown up conditioned by public educators and the welfare state to believe that they’re something special and entitled to the good life just because they’re special and entitled to the good life. And they’ve also been brainwashed to believe that if America doesn’t acknowledge their specialness and if, indeed, they’re not enjoying the good life, the problem must be a corrupt America."

You've heard the term,"useful idiots"?  Now see them in person:

The Daily Show
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How can democrats fail to see the difference between the quality of this crowd and that of the TEA Party? They don't. The left is made up of liars and demagogues who seek only power and the Occupiers are merely those who vote for people such as Pelosi, Kucinich, Sanders, Waters and Obama, et. al. 

Normandy, 1944; then and now photos

6 Juin, 1944  Our previous emphases on Omaha Beach gave short shrift to the other landing sites. This should do a bit to fill in some of those gaps with photos. Click on some of the WW2 photos of a site and you will also see that location as it is today.  Don't you love stuff like that? TD

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Still deciding; here's a case for Mitt Romney

donkeyhotey

 Ramesh Ponnuru: Romney’s the One   "If Romney was to McCain’s right then, he is still. He’s to George W. Bush’s right, too. Bush never came out for the Medicare reform Romney has endorsed. Bush never said that Roe v. Wade should be overturned, either. Romney has. Romney’s long list of policy advisers includes people who are, within their fields, roughly in sync with the politics of the Bush administration or to its right; almost nobody is significantly to its left.

""If Mitt Romney becomes president, he will almost certainly be dealing with John Boehner as speaker of the House and Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader. While they, too, have their conservative detractors, they are the most conservative congressional leaders Republicans have had in modern times, and they will exert a rightward influence on the Romney administration. If they send him legislation to repeal Obamacare, cut taxes, or reform entitlements, he will sign it where Obama would veto it. If at some other point in his presidency a liberal-run Congress sends him tax increases, he will veto them where Obama would sign. Compared with President Obama, a President Romney would do more to protect the defense budget.

Newt unwilling to say life begins at conception

Charles Krauthammer: Mitt vs. Newt; Republicans must choose between two significantly flawed frontrunners.  "My own view is that Republicans would have been better served by the candidacies of Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, or Chris Christie. Unfortunately, none is running. You play the hand you’re dealt. This is a weak Republican field with two significantly flawed frontrunners contesting an immensely important election. If Obama wins, he will take the country to a place from which it will not be able to return (which is precisely his own objective for a second term).
"Every conservative has thus to ask himself two questions: Who is more likely to prevent that second term? And who, if elected, is less likely to unpleasantly surprise?"

However: Bret Baier to Romney: Didn’t you used to have basically the same immigration position as Gingrich? "If he wants to attack Newt, he should be hitting him on the strange idea of using local community boards to decide legalization issues instead of a national standard to ensure that more liberal jurisdictions don’t become magnets for longtime illegals. Or maybe that’s the whole point of Newt’s plan, to get illegals to flee to blue areas for more forgiving treatment? Bottom line: There’s really no reason to strongly prefer one of them to the other on this issue." (video)

This is how you lower the oceans and make our enemies love us.

http://terrellaftermath.com/



Is he majestic or
 just asleep?



Obama Will Torpedo Tough Iran Sanctions  "Since the administration persuaded the Senate to water the amendment down by giving the president the power to waive enforcement of the law, the Iranians need not fear a swift shutdown of the oil income they get from transactions that are run through their Central Bank. With a six month waiting period before the measure goes into effect and with the president having the right to shelve the bill if he thinks it will hurt either the U.S. economy or that of its allies, it is unlikely the sanctions will ever go into effect."

In a related story, President Obama offered Czechoslovakia to Russia in return for their good will.

Obama Gives SEIU A $4B Christmas Present

Government Policy, Not Laziness, Responsible for Scaring Away Foreign Investors  "President Obama thinks we have been lazy in selling America. But his administration has been anything but lazy in making America a harder sell to foreign investors."

NLRB documents shed light on Boeing fight in South Carolina

McClatchy Washington Bureau  "Lawyers for the federal labor agency fighting Boeing’s new factory in North Charleston, N.C., repeatedly joked among themselves about the dispute and exchanged a political cartoon portraying S.C. Sen. Glenn McConnell as a crass-speaking confederate soldier, according to internal documents released Wednesday.
"The emails, memos and other documents from the National Labor Relations Board, which the agency provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, also portray Sen. Lindsey Graham’s behind-the-scenes efforts to prevent it from filing a complaint against Boeing."
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http://floydreports.com/tag/nlrb/

"Rob Godfrey, a spokesman for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, said the NLRB employees’ jokes about the Boeing case didn’t amuse her."

“The NLRB is a disrespectful agency that apparently believes that the jobs and companies they are threatening is all fun and games,” Godfrey said. “They are wrong. These are real people, real jobs and real companies. This is not and has never been a laughing matter.”"

Everything this asinine administration does drags the American free enterprise system further into the trash.
 
Judicial Watch: NLRB Staffers Joke About Economy, Mock DeMint   "In an April 22 email, acting NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon wrote to the organization’s outgoing chairwoman, Wilma Liebman: “The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva [Switzerland] and I get a job with airbus [French company]. We screwed up the us economy and now we can tackle europe.” "

Plea for financial help by someone in Africa

This came to me yesterday. I cannot believe this kind of stuff still goes around, but regrettably, it must be because it still works and Americans are still being fooled by obvious scams of this sort. This came from someone calling themselves "Mrs. Alice Aka" and their email address is cmd99510@pop28.odn.ne.jp.
This is the message, which I'm sure most of you have seen some variation of at other times:

Hello my dear,
How is your day!! hope you are having a great day!!. I am Mrs. Alice Aka, I'm 42 years old of age from North Africa, and presently I am residing in the refugee camp here in Accra Ghana (in Western Africa) as a result of the civil war in my country LIBYA now. My Late husband Aka Saad was the managing director and CEO of (an oil company) Arabian Gulf Oil Company.
The rebels attacked our house during the crisis and killed my husband,that is why I ran for my dear life with the help of the United Nation and Red Cross Charity Society i managed to make my way to this country Ghana where i am living now in the refugee camp as a refugee, my husband deposited the sum $40.5Million in a Security Company here in Ghana which i want invest abroad.
Should you be interested to help me receive the money and invest it for me
Kindly get back to me, your earliest response to this mail will be highly appreciated.
I await hearing from you soonest
sincerely yours

grinningplanet.com

Mrs. Alice Aka,

If you know those who are prone to being fooled by scams such as these, you may want to refer them to some of these links:

AARP .org/scams  "Have you ever been given a "great offer" or a "hot tip" on an investment? Such investments, while tempting, can be risky. Following these five tips can help you keep your money safe from scammers and aggressive sales people."

 Consumer Fraud Reporting  "If you have observed a scam or been the victim of a scam, spam or fraud and want to report it for enforcement, here is a list of where to report different types of scams in the US, UK, Canada and many other countries. In some cases there is more than one agency to contact.  Some scams fit into more than one category, also."

Latest Email Hoaxes - Current Internet Scams - Hoax-Slayer  You may want to bookmark this one because it covers a wide range of hoaxes. Here is the site for the FBI. (Or you could just email Eric Holder directly and he will jump right on it.)
"If you receive unsolicited e-mail offers or spam, you can forward the messages to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov. (Which is where I sent this email)
"Below are some recent scams and warnings."  More....

Here are other links you may find helpful:
http://www.scambusters.org/email-scams.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/emailscams_0905.pdf
http://www.emailscammers.com/
http://www.thereporteronline.net/atf.php?sid=27127  Fake Facebook scams discussed.
http://forum.cartoon-world.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=25703
Here is a source for your own research: Google search

I'm sure most of you would not be fooled by this, but do you have people you look after who are vulnerable and easily deceived by this sort of scheme? Hope this helps; it's a jungle out there.
The Tunnel Dweller