Dr. Steven Yates discusses Public-Private Partnerships with host Jim Stack of Florida’s WSTU 1450 AM

By Wynne Coleman, 8/11/2011 – Imagine a legislated brotherhood of business where favored businesses get to go to the front of the line for permits, licenses and opportunities merely because they agree to advance the principles of Sustainable Development and Agenda 21. SB 26, the North Carolina Benefit Corporations Act contains boilerplate legislation from B Labs. The following points are applicable to activists or concerned citizens who want to understand why they should oppose Benefit Corporation legislation in their States. […]

By Stephen Poole, 8/17/2011 – When most people first hear about legislation to create a new type of corporation in which the directors must provide a “general public benefit” while being freed from bothersome constraints such as maximizing profit or considering the needs and concerns of shareholders, their usual response is, “So what? If people want to invest in a company that doesn’t care about making money, go ahead and let ‘em.”
I’ll admit that was my immediate reaction when I was told about the North Carolina Benefit Corporation Act, or SB 26, which is now in the House Judiciary Committee. […]

By Stephen Poole, 8/15/2011 – Any reasoning citizen is bound to ask why there is a third-party standard, and who creates it? After all, corporations are under the bailiwick of the Secretary of State – so why isn’t the Secretary of State responsible for creating the standards for the corporations they are licensing? Because the entire scheme is just another “public-private partnership” so cherished by the globalist, Agenda 21-loving crowd intent on wealth distribution not only inside countries, but also among countries – and public-private partnerships play an integral role because they bypass free-market competition. […]