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Smart Growth - Planning

WSAU Transcript: Smart Growth Parts 3 & 4

By Freedom Advocates Staff, 8/1/2003 –

Panel and callers discuss: Cases where citizens have resisted, and defeated Sustainable Development / Smart Growth programs; Individual and property rights written into the Constitution; How Sustainable Development programs are being implemented by a soviet system — a system of councils that report to the "apex council".

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Smart Growth - Planning

WSAU Transcript: Smart Growth Part 2

By Freedom Advocates Staff, 8/1/2003 –

Panel discusses: How Smart Growth is designed to depopulate rural areas and transition human populations into high-density occupation zones; How Global organizations are gaining control of U.S. water resources; How Sustainable Development plans are being implemented by collectivist counsels outside of the democratic process; and Threats to Private Property in Santa Cruz, California, and throughout the USA.

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Smart Growth - Planning

WSAU Transcript: Smart Growth Part 1

By Freedom Advocates Staff, 8/1/2003 –

Panel introduces Smart Growth / Sustainable Development as a program that will eliminate private property, discusses the effect of Smart Growth policies in Santa Cruz County, and how significant changes to policy and society are being implemented without a vote from citizens.

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Articles

WSAU Transcript: Wisconsin Residents Fear Santa Cruz Style Smart Growth Policy

By Freedom Advocates Staff, 8/1/2003 –

Sound off Central Wisconsin Radio Talk Show presented the Freedom 21 Forum o­n Smart Growth to AM 550 WSAU listeners o­n November 7, 2002. This exciting and informative show featured local Abundance Ecologist Michael Shaw and a national panel of Sustainable Development experts that included: Citizen Activist and Former Vice President of the Independent Truckers Association Bill Elmhorst, Memorial Medical Center Pharmacy Director Clark Palmer, and representatives from the Committee for Fairness In Law, Inc.

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Wildlands Network

Nature Conservancy Under Investigation, Suspends Operations After Post Exposure

SUMMARY: The Nature Conservancy is coming under fire after the Washington Post described how the $3 billion environmental charity may have played loose with IRS laws to benefit supporters, including corporations that have paid millions in environmental fees. This story provides a comprehensive overview of how your taxes and donations have been used by The Nature Conservancy, provides links to the Washington Posts "Big Green" series and to a library of supplementary stories.

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Wildlands Network

Landmark Calls for Probe into EPA Grants to Nature Conservancy

SUMMARY: Landmark Legal Foundation has asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate whether millions of dollars in agency grants to the Nature Conservancy and its state affiliates — the nation’s largest environmental organization with assets of more than $3 billion — were misused. The Foundation has also asked the agency to suspend current and future grant payments to the group pending the outcome of the investigation.

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Wildlands Network

Post’s “Big Green” Series Hits a Nerve

SUMMARY: Liberty Matters News Service (5/22/03) — The Washington Post’s in-depth investigation of questionable land deals made by the giant green Nature Conservancy has kicked up a lot of dust. Joe Stevens and David Ottaway gathered reams of material and conducted exhaustive interviews that revealed the Conservancy may have been playing fast and loose with IRS rules governing the activities of charitable organizations.

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Water

It is Time for Straight Answers from the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency

4/30/2003 – Ray AmRhein asks the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency "Who owns the groundwater in a farmer’s well" and finds the answers, and the agengy’s practices, violate the law — and the private property of Santa Cruz County residents. In this Watsonville Register-Pajaronian article (4/30/2003), AmRhein uses his 49 years of experience in water law to compare PVWMA practices with the law, and finds that "for over 10 years the [PVWMA] directors have been acting under the false premise that the state owns the water."

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Sustainable Development

WorldNetDaily Reveals Plan for World Government through Councils

The United States stands as the "last major impediment to global governance", according to the May edition of WorldNetDaily.com’s magazine, Whistleblower Magazine. Of particular note for Santa Cruz County residents is that this renowned national publication specifically sites Santa Cruz as a ground-zero point for implementation of global government at a local level. This is groundbreaking research for a national publication. Spread the word…

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Private Property

Want to Protect the Earth? Then Protect Private Property!

5/23/2003 –

SUMMARY: Do we have to choose between protecting the environment and growing the economy? J. David Breemer from the Pacific Legal Foundation argues that we don’t. In fact, he says, "environmental improvements happen because of, not in spite of, private property and free enterprise."

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