Year: 2003

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Articles

Sustainable Indoctrination: Local U.N. Agenda 21-Santa Cruz: Education (Excerpts)

November 17, 2003 pwood Comments Off on Sustainable Indoctrination: Local U.N. Agenda 21-Santa Cruz: Education (Excerpts)

SUMMARY: Excerpts from "An Agenda 21 Report for Santa Cruz County Local Agenda 21-Santa Cruz: Education". Includes: Your child is the prime target; Enlisting the government education system for indoctrination of your children; All subjects ripe for environmental indoctrination; Coming to your schools: all sustainable indocrintation all the time; Get with the program; The "Desired State" of education: getting along; Indoctrinational goals for your children; Sustainable indoctrination. [Note Headlines are editorial comments, emphasis added.]

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Articles

Local Agenda 21-Santa Cruz: Transportation (Excerpts)

November 12, 2003 pwood Comments Off on Local Agenda 21-Santa Cruz: Transportation (Excerpts)

SUMMARY: Unedited excerpts from "An Agenda 21 Report for Santa Cruz County Local Agenda 21-Santa Cruz: Transportation". The headlines are editorial comments, includes: Your car, enemy of the people; Desired state: rebuild your neighborhood sans car; Plans for taxing your car, somebody has to pay for the unused government transportation system; A metropolitan transportation vision for rural Santa Cruz County.

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Illegitimate Government

Patriot Act: Global Connections

August 18, 2003 Joan Peros Comments Off on Patriot Act: Global Connections

8/18/2003 – SUMMARY: Geopolitical Journalist Joan Peros shares what she’s learned at press conferences and meetings o­n the global stage, and exposes a connection between homeland security to an agenda for global governance.

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Water

Water District Educational Programs Promoting Behavior Modification

August 15, 2003 pwood Comments Off on Water District Educational Programs Promoting Behavior Modification

SUMMARY: Something seemed fishy in the San Lorenzo Water District when its Board of Directors introduced plans for using ratepayer fees to fund indoctrination programs. In this commentary, Lisa Rudnick presents the opposition to the Board’s actions, and exposes how the program may not only be a questionable use of ratepayer funds, but that it may be illegal.

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Oceans and Coasts

Getting to the Bottom of the Monterey Bay “National Marine Sanctuary”

August 14, 2003 Michael Shaw Comments Off on Getting to the Bottom of the Monterey Bay “National Marine Sanctuary”

O­n the surface, the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary seems like a good thing but "safeguarding" (enforcement) "goes
beyond protecting the resources within
its boundaries." Eleven major watersheds, from seashore to mountain
summit, encompass a 7,000 square mile landmass that is bigger than the
Sanctuary itself.

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Land Grabbers Use Mob-like Tactics Against Property Owners

August 11, 2003 Kay J. McClanahan Comments Off on Sustainable Land Grabbers Use Mob-like Tactics Against Property Owners

By Kay J. McClanahan, 8/11/2003 –

When Kay McClanahan retired after being recognized as South Carolina Woman of the Year for her pioneering achievements as a forensic detective, she thought she’d settle down to farm the land she and her husband had spent a lifetime acquiring. But, someone else had a different plan for the McClanahan farm — and that plan didn’t include Mr. and Mrs. McClanahan.

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Education Transformation

Millions in Classroom Funds Embezzled by State Education Administrators, Media Silent

August 10, 2003 Michael Shaw Comments Off on Millions in Classroom Funds Embezzled by State Education Administrators, Media Silent

By Michael Shaw, 8/10/2003 –

While Santa Cruz County Schools wrestle with severe budget cuts, few have heard about a huge scandal in the state Department of Education that involved $20 million in fraud, $11 million of embezzled tax funds, harassment of whistleblowers, and a court order for Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin to personally pay damages to the whistleblowers. This Stockton Record story by Steve Wampler exposes something that is potentially more troubling than having an education system that is mismanaged by corrupt administrators who absconded with millions in public funds for themselves and their friends: the media, particularly in Santa Cruz County, seems to have been an active participant in covering up for the Eastin administration. While the author calls his story “Shame o­n Eastin,” it might be better called “Shame o­n us California voters” for failing to monitor fraudulent use of tax dollars meant for our children’s classrooms.

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Smart Growth - Planning

‘Smart-Growth’ Plan Riles Black Farmers

August 10, 2003 John Berlau Comments Off on ‘Smart-Growth’ Plan Riles Black Farmers

By John Berlau, 8/10/2003 –

After being freed from slavery in the 1860’s, Joe Neal’s great-grandfather bought 75 acres of wooded land and turned it into a fertile farmland that has been managed by Neal’s family for three generations. But, if Sustainable Development/Smart Growth planners get their way, Neal and his neighbors will lose their heritage in the name of "the environment". In this Insight story by John Berlau, you will see how the posterity of slavery has long fought for its freedom and rights, but today are faced with threats to their livelihood and property that that are greater than anything they’ve faced from segregationist politicians.

With the Sierra Club, and its government and non-government organization partners, being referred to as a "chapter of the KKK", Smart Growth may be threatening the rights of these citizens, but could ultimately change the political landscape of South Carolina. Santa Cruz residents will find an uncanny similarity between the Town and Country Plan that is threatening Neal’s property and the Santa Cruz Local Agenda 21 Action Plan that has guided our local planners since 1995.

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