Police State
Wrong Day Rubbish Disposers
By Nelson LaPlante, 8/6/2007 – City councils across Great Britain use cameras to spy on their citizens in hopes of catching violators of environmental laws or those engaged in ‘antisocial’ behavior.
Year: 2007
Sustainable Development
Transforming America: Understanding the Trans-Texas Corridor in Context of Sustainable Development
Michael Shaw, President of Freedom Advocates made localized editions of the following presentation to audiences in central Wisconsin, Austin Texas, and at the Freedom 21 Conference in Dallas Texas during July 2007. Shaw’s presentation provides a focused assessment of globalist Sustainable policies designed to destroy American values and lifestyles.
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Illegitimate Government
San Francisco Judge Redefines The Word “TEXT” – To Prevent Referendum on Redevelopment
By Ronald A. Zumbrun, 7/24/2007 – In May of 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors added nearly 1,400 acres to the previously-existing 137-acre Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area. Concurrently, the Board authorized the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to undertake a variety of projects and activities to alleviate “blight” in the neighborhood. Local residents harbored myriad objections to the Plan.
Smart Growth - Planning
Bureaucrat Bingo
By Freedom Advocates, 7/9/2007 – Don’t get bored – be creative. Enliven community "consensus" meetings and "visioning" workshops with bureaucrat bingo. Here’s a great example!
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development and the Fraud of Managed “Free Trade”
By Vicky Davis, 6/18/2007 – The link between ‘free trade’ – or more correctly, the fraud of ‘free trade’ and environmentalism is the path to global communism and the redistribution of wealth. The plan is laid out in the Brundtland Report, published in the UN record in 1987.
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Regionalism
Regionalism at the Local Level Strengthens European Union “Top-Down” Authority
6/14/2007 – England implements a path to merge with the European Union through the elimination of local county control. This process, called “regionalization” is being used all over the United States and in other countries as well. In England the origins of Regionalization can be traced to Fabian Socialists. It is no wonder the plan has made such an advance under the leadership of former Fabian Chairman, Tony Blair.
Wildlands Network
The Uses and Abuses of Conservation Easements
By Ronald A. Zumbrun, 6/13/2007 – 20 years ago approximately 300,000 acres of land in the United States were subject to conservation easements donated to private, tax-exempt charitable trusts. Today, over 7,000,000 acres are so held, an almost 25-fold increase. This amount of acreage is in addition to the millions of acres held in trust by federal, state, and local governmental entities.
Smart Growth - Planning
Sustainability in the Core of America’s Big Apple
By Nelson LaPlante, 6/13/2007 – New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg is involved in Sustainable Public Private Partnerships that will result in increased fees and controls on New Yorkers.
Wildlands Network
Wolves in Our Backyard
By Mike Satren, 5/30/2007 – The deliberate "reintroduction" of aggressive gray wolves is causing conflict between environmentalists and multiple-use conservationists and changing how residents interact with their own surroundings.
Oceans and Coasts
Law of the Sea Treaty Headed Toward Ratification
The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) gives the United Nation’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) control over 70% of the earth’s surface. 153 nations have already ratified the treaty. Henry Lamb has put together a 10 minute slide presentation on LOST. Watch it!