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Smart Growth - Planning

Smart Growth Parallels Russian Soviet Planning

By Freedom Advocates Staff, 11/3/2005 –

"…A new type of living quarters will be developed along the lines of uniting establishments for public use with residential units. This is the trend in many architectural projects represented at the USSR Exhibition of Urban Construction in the spring of 1960…"

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Smart Growth - Planning

Shelf Life: Smart Growth and Walnut Creek

By Camille Giglio, 10/31/2005 –

Residents of Walnut Creek and Contra Costa County, CA will "age graciously" and or "age in place" with the help of the non-profits, faith based groups, foundations and government health care planners according to a two year long planning process called: "Contra Costa for Every Generation."

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Smart Growth - Planning

New Urbanism: Exactly the Wrong Way to Rebuild After Katrina

By Michael Park, 10/26/2005 – With the current hurrican season in full bloom and Houston being threatened as I write this (Vern), it may be a good time to take another look at the "New Urbanists" ideas on community planning. The following were Michael Park’s thoughts when Katrina hit…

Summary: People without cars were far more likely to have perished in the Katrina disaster than those who could drive away. Mississippi officials want “New Urbanists” to design rebuilt communities without planning for functional automobile use. Who will suffer most?

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Oceans and Coasts

Moss Landing Harbor Boat Owners Fearful During Search

Summary: Last month the Monterey County Herald newspaper reported that Coast Guard search crews entered the Moss Landing Harbor in inflatable boats with machine guns mounted on their bows. Then, carrying M-16 rifles, they approached residents and boarded and searched their boats in the name of safety and "homeland security."

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Liberty - Legitimate Government

Automobility and Freedom

By Sam Kazman, 9/29/2005 –

Kazman explains that as convenient as driving may be, it is much, much more than that. It is a lovely activity, and a moral activity, and control over it is one of the last things you would want to give up to any government.

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Sustainable Development

Michael Shaw Outlines the Need for a Redirected American Leadership

By Michael Shaw, 8/16/2005 –

At the concluding session of the 6th annual Freedom 21 conference, Michael Shaw characterized Sustainable Development as “the plan to create a global police state”, and he decried environmental scares as a fraud designed to cover up the Sustainable transformation of America’s systems of government, justice and economics.

Shaw challenged the audience to envision a coming era; “when Natural Law reigns, and the lands and resources are returned to citizen control, when free enterprise is regarded by the law. Then”, he said, “America will lead a global renaissance unimaginable today.”

Read his complete speech notes and view his power point illustrations.

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Water

Setting the Table for a Manipulated Water Crisis – Felton’s Artificial Dialectic in Operation Now

By Freedom Advocates Staff, 6/30/2005 –

Summary Update 2009 – The town of Felton in Santa Cruz County continues to be in dilemma over water. Sustainable Development mercenaries gave the town an electoral “choice” for water controls: Heads insiders win; Tails the citizens lose! If only Felton residents had understood this back in 2005, today they would not be facing rate increases brought on by the phony “Friends of Locally Owned Water” (FLOW) group. FLOW now means government controlled water through the San Lorenzo Valley Water District.

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