This summer, the Post Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition and Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 dot com will be hosting the Behind the Green Mask Conference in Santa Rosa, CA. 

With leaders and activists speaking on topics ranging from UN Agenda 21 to Redevelopment Reform to Exposing New Urbanism to SMART METERS, to Recognizing Communitarianism, the conference will be a forum for those in Northern California and beyond to share information and learn more.  This is a non-partisan event. 

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We were just thinking about the Total Information Awareness Act (TIA) from the early 2000's and wondered what happened with all of those DARPA (Defense Dept) programs that sounded like something out of a bizarre 1984 fantasy or a Men in Black movie.  By the way, did you know that the Defense Department DOES hire Hollywood screenwriters to come up with scenarios for them?  Yep, they do.

Well, anyway, we wondered if TIA was REALLY dead since Congress said that they were not going to fund the surveillance of US citizens within our own borders.  You remember, don't you?  One of the programs was going to allow people to BET on the potential for war in different locales.  We're not making this up.  When Congress realized it wasn't a joke they quashed it. The logo for TIA is particularly creepy; it shows that eye on the pyramid that's on the back of the dollar bill beaming yellow light at the entire planet---the all seeing eyeball.   

We didn't do too much research, just took a look at Wikipedia. And found that some of those programs are still being funded.   Now, total information is vital to Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.  Really, it's all about information.  What you do, what you think, how to identify you, what you write, what you read, where you live, who you know, how you earn money and where you keep it, meetings you attend, conversations you have, your attitude, your hopes, your fears.  Facial recognition software.  Software that recognizes you even if you are completely covered from head to toe.  Remote surveillance with drones the size and shape of a hummingbird.  Audio surveillance.  Infiltration of groups.  Asset Based Community Development.  Community Oriented Policing.  Rails to Trails.  Community Block Grants. Redevelopment.  Neighborhood Stabilization.  SMART METERS.

A vital part of Agenda 21 is PREVENTIVE measures to stop crime (thought crime?) before it happens.  To actually intercede in communities and identify potential criminals and pay them a little visit BEFORE they commit a crime.  OK, you might think to yourself that you like the idea of stopping criminals before they commit a crime.  

What's a crime?  Who decides?  What is a crime against the community?  Who is a criminal?   What is terrorism?  Who is a terrorist?

Here's a program that is being launched in communities across the country:
Sign up for Citizen On Patrol (COP) to become an active partner in your local law enforcement's fight against crime. COP allows your law enforcement agency to send you important crime information and alerts that will allow you to act as another pair of eyes on the street.  (Kind of like the Chinese domestic spying during the Gang of Four era (1960's)---they used neighbors, like the Nazi's did---to spy on people on their block and report on their activities.)

UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development expands the definitions of criminality and terrorism.   Countries that used the Communitarian ideology to determine criminality are Russia, China, Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany...do you see?  

Are you a liberal identified person?  Do you see the protection of the planet as something that you are willing to make sacrifices for?  Fine.  But have you thought about what those sacrifices will be?  Do you feel the stress of money going into 'higher, tighter, and righter hands' as George Bush 1st stated? That was furthered by Clinton, and then Bush, and now Obama.  All faces of the same Agenda. 

Part of Agenda 21 is to limit your choices, restrict your money, exhaust you with overwork and commitments, destabilize your personal environment, subvert your education and discourage critical thinking; the list goes on.

STOP AGENDA 21/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by educating yourself and talking about it.  Turn off the TV.  Make this your hobby, your avocation.  Have the courage to be a bit unpopular sometimes.  

Oppose Agenda 21 in Madison, Wisconsin; Stop Agenda 21 in St. Louis, MO; Fight Agenda 21 in Seattle, WA; Expose Sustainable Development in Camden, NJ; Say NO to Smart Meters in Santa Cruz, CA; Oppose Sustainable Development in Los Angeles, CA---Stand up.  Speak out.  We're with you.
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This post and the one after it are for all of us who think that we could never have participated in the Holocaust.

Programs that are being instituted in your village, town, city, county etc. right now, are programs that carry the stench of the future, and the past. 

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)
Community Oriented Policing (COPS)
Neighborhood Revitalization
Neighborhood Stabilization
Know Your Neighbor
COPE

These programs are sponsored by your local government and are designed to find out everything possible about you.  Why?  Because you're being assessed and mapped.  Your skills are being put on a map, searchable through GIS (global information system), so that you can 'contribute' to the well being of the community.  Your assets---stored food, water, tools, weapons---are being recorded. Click on this paragraph to see the questionnaire.

These programs are being touted as something YOU want, that YOU asked for---at a visioning meeting, perhaps, where you were Delphi'd.  They can't do this without your assistance...and your neighbor's, if you don't cooperate.  What they don't tell you is that they also record your limitations, your handicaps, your resistance, your personal behavior, your private life, your habits.  The skill-sharing is the candy-coating.

Now read this (from Wikipedia):
In Nazi Germany, a blocklieder (block warden) was the lowest official of the Nazi Party, responsible for the political supervision of a neighborhood or city block, and formed the link between the Nazis and the general population.  He was charged with planning, spreading propaganda, and developing an acceptance to the policies of the Nazi party among the typically 40 to 60 households in his area. It was also the duty of the blocklieder to spy on the population and report any anti-Nazi activities to the local Gestapo office.  This allowed for a Nazi terror state and was helped by keeping files on each household.
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They're coming 09/21/2010
 
It's kind of an invasion of the body snatchers moment when you see the full face of Communitarianism coming at you, in your town.

That's the feeling I got when I saw the results of the Neighborhood Summit held just a month ago.  See my 8/29 post.  The plan is to start right up with Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).  That's the smiley faced invader who knocks on your door and wants to know all about you 'for the community.'  You'll be asked to answer a questionnaire about your talents so that you can then be 'volunteered' to do your part in the 'community'.  This is called 'mapping'.  Yes, you'll be entered into a data-base that is coded to your location, and identifies your responses as well as the observations of the 'interviewer'.  These questionnaires are very detailed, extremely detailed, and break tasks down into many parts so that much will be known about you.  The way you respond, your attitude, the condition of your home, who is in it with you, what books you have in your house, your comments, all will be recorded. 
Why? 
Because you'll be needed to do mandatory volunteering, or perhaps because you won't, or aren't able to do it, and that is important information. 
Listen, my friend.  This is serious.  We truly are in a deeply dangerous time.  Share this information with your friends, family, neighbors, in casual conversation.  Spread the word.  Asset based community development is here. 
You are the asset.

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The City of Santa Rosa along with the Neighborhood Alliance, and the Leadership Institute of Ecology and Economy (Tanya Narath is the executive director and also the chair of the city's Community Advisory Board) put on a "Neighborhood Summit" about a week ago.  They were very excited about it.  For some reason they decided that they want to 'empower' the neighborhoods and create more neighborhood associations.  


From our experience with the Junior College Neighborhood Association (JCNA) this doesn't seem to be a good thing.  The JCNA is run like a closed club and has a definite agenda:  high density urban development, transit oriented development, pro-redevelopment, pro-bike to the point that they would endanger all street-users in order to push their ideology, and a zealotry that allows no dissent. Anyone who mistakenly tries to take part in the neighborhood association by  running for office is viciously abused, maligned  and removed if they win without the support of the hand-picked board. The bicycle coalition (itself being used by various parties) uses  the neighborhood associations as  quasi-governmental boards to push a pro-Agenda 21 message into the community.

Jenny Bard, the defacto president of the JCNA, is employed as a spokesperson/advocate by the Lung Association, which advocates for these same positions on its website (see the following post).  Ms. Bard has control over the only two JCNA bulletin boards in the area and refuses to allow anything that conflicts with these views to be posted in them, although they were paid for with community funds. 


Back to the 'Summit'.  This two day event  included an evening lecture by Jim Diers, who was in charge of creating neighborhood associations in Seattle.  Mr. Diers now works for Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD).   That is new-speak for figuring out ways to use the skills of residents in an area for free, apparently, and touting it as a new method of managing communities with those who are completely non-governmental and not accountable to the voters. Changing the community without accountability and directing the change without looking like it's being done.  Picking winners and losers.

I looked up ABCD on wikipedia to see what it was.
Since wikipedia noted that the article sounded like a press release I made a few changes to it.
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Asset-based community development: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 (May 2010)Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology that seeks to uncover and utilize the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable development. The basic tenet is that a capacities-focused approach is more likely to empower the community and therefore mobilize citizens to create positive and meaningful change from within. Instead of focusing on a community's needs, deficiencies and problems, the ABCD approach helps them become stronger and more self-reliant by discovering, mapping and mobilizing all their local assets. Few people realize how many assets any community has, for example:

  • Skills of its citizens, from youth to people with disabilities, from thriving professionals to starving artists
  • Dedication of its citizens associations — churches, culture groups, clubs, neighborhood associations
  • Resources of its formal institutions — businesses, schools, libraries, community colleges, hospitals, parks, social service agencies
By the late 1990s, communities around the country were mapping and using these resources in imaginative ways, bringing them out of the closet and into creative synergy with each other, with dramatic results. Asset-based community development has provided leaders and institutions in all sectors with an approach that is relatively cheap, effective and empowering, that avoids paternalism and dependence — an approach that can be supported by all parts of the political spectrum and initiated at any level of civic life.

The first step in the process of community development is to assess the resources of a community through a capacity inventory [1] or through another process of talking to the residents to determine what types of skills and experience are available to a community organization. The next step is to consult with the community and find out what improvements the residents would like to make. The final, and most challenging step, is to determine how the residents' skills can be leveraged into achieving those goals.[1]

Using this model, the communities who hire ABCD speakers to influence their citizens are looking for an opportunity to create artificial community consensus. By creating farmed neighborhood associations they sideline actual community participants who often do not agree with the city policies. These artificial groups use the Delphi technique to block participation by real community members who raise points that are avoided by city-sponsored neighborhood groups. Under the guise of creating 'sustainable communities' neighborhood associations will be developed that are run by hand-picked city insiders who will rubberstamp city programs like redeveloping neighborhoods and redesigning streets. This visioning is supposedly community based but is not. They shut down any dissenting voices and marginalize, ridicule, attack, silence, and ignore those who do not agree.

'Mapping community assets' is a way of controlling and managing a group of people and directing them to use their skills in a pre-determined way to 'benefit' the community.  Who decides what benefits the community?  The hand-picked 'leaders'.  By mapping a community are these groups determining who has something to offer the collective and who does not?  What happens to those who do not contribute to the collective?  How are they 'leveraged' into contributing?

The Asset-Based Community Development Institute[2] is located at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Its founders, John Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, are the major proponents of this community development philosophy.

I checked back regularly to see if my comments were still on the wikipedia site and, after a few weeks, they were removed.  So I reposted them.  This happened a couple of times, we went back and forth, and then they locked the entry so it can't be corrected.
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