Highly paid consultants and aspiring politicians facilitate transportation funding meetings that have predetermined outcomes. The people drawn from the community to attend these meetings are "just for show."

"Consensus" meetings have predetermined outcomes. They pretend to garner community input.

Many of the attorneys and volunteers dedicating time and energy toward neighborhood improvements actually have ulterior motivations.

In this writing and in his galvanizing new DVD, education expert Michael Chapman, proves how the United States and UNESCO's goals for education are one in the same. Chapman explains how programs like The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) have more to do with controlling the economy and society than sustaining the environment.