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$2 Billion Bet on Your Virtual Future: Facebook and Virtual Reality is Agenda 21

3/27/2014

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting $2 billion that you'll prefer virtual reality to the real thing. He has just invested in Oculus, a company that makes headsets for virtual reality personal imaging. The 'story' is that this is all about gaming but it's not a big leap to virtual classrooms, virtual travel, virtual relationships, and virtual meals. What does this mean for your future?

It's not a new idea to say that internet use is habit-forming. You've also experienced or witnessed the gaming 'addiction' either personally or in your family members. Now get ready for obsession on steroids with virtual reality. When you put on this headset your body will respond to the 3D images as if they are truly reality. If you're wearing it and you look down you'll see your feet -- but they'll be the feet of the supermodel you see when you look in the virtual mirror. When you look up you'll see the cosmos through the space capsule window, or the Sistine Chapel ceiling as you walk alone through the building. Lift the virtual fork to your virtual mouth and eat the gorgeous meal in Paris. Look into the eyes of your virtual partner as you profess eternal love. Walk across a tightrope over a deep canyon. Kill an enemy.

Your palms will sweat, your heart will beat faster, your eyes will dilate, your lungs will suck in air more deeply, and your nervous system will respond. Although your physical responses with the current virtual reality headset are not exactly like they would be if the experience were real, the future will most certainly include smells and sensations---like the 'Feelies' described in Huxley's Brave New World. The addition of these sense stimulators will fool the brain.

Yes, it's a movie, a 3D virtual surround movie, but your body will respond as if it were real. Your brain will believe that it is real. It will, in fact, be far more appealing than your actual un-virtual life. The stimulation your brain receives will be thrilling, and you'll be content to sit strapped in your chair living your virtual life. Is this a fantasy? No. Look at this 1978 study in Science Magazine stating that Rhesus monkeys, when caged and given the choice of food or cocaine, chose cocaine 'almost exclusively.' The addiction to virtual experience may likely lead to people sitting at their computers starving to death in their Smart Growth unit. Who needs living space or transportation when they're strapped to a virtual reality unit? Who needs relationships or families or pets when virtual reality is so much more satisfying and uncomplicated? Children will be extremely vulnerable to this fabulous new life---virtual teachers in virtual classrooms will teach limited learning for lifelong labor. Rewards for correct behavior may be virtual, but the brain and body will accept them as real. Real personal interaction will be miserably inadequate when compared to the ecstatic joys of virtual life.

According to Stanford Professor Jeremy Bailenson, whose book Infinite Reality examines all aspects of virtual reality research, the time is coming when holograms will be in use by average people--you'll be able to take a virtual walk with a friend in real time and that friend will appear to be with you. You won't be able to trust your eyes when you see what appears to be reality. There will be no objective reality.

Just like you asked for Facebook, and begged for smart phones, and jumped on Second Life, you'll love the novelty of virtual reality---until it is no longer a novelty. It will be a health care requirement to provide virtual reality to the handicapped, it will be used to perform mental health assessments, it will be a virtual teacher and a virtual classroom to billions, it will be used to keep prisoners quiet, it will be used to dumb down and pacify the populace. It is the face of UN Agenda 21.

Can you resist or will you accept it as an inevitability?

RESIST SOCIAL MANIPULATION.
THIS IS UN AGENDA 21.

EXPOSING THE GLOBAL ROAD TO RUIN THROUGH EDUCATION

3/25/2014

Charlotte Iserbyt's ground breaking conference DVD set is now available. If you're wondering how education became a nightmare and what the future will bring grab your copy of this exceptionally interesting and thought-provoking multi-DVD set now. Charlotte has also made the full conference available on YouTube. Watch it.

Note from Charlotte: "SHARE! SHARE! SHARE!
Those of us involved in the production of Exposing the Global Road to Ruin through Education (ETGRTRTE) are calling on viewers, here and abroad, to make this YouTube version go VIRAL/GLOBAL.

We have stalled their efforts by at least 39 years! We MUST continue the opposition/resistance. Future generations (your children!) are counting on us.

One cannot win a war without identifying the enemy. One cannot win a war without ammunition.

The YouTube version of ETGRTRTE is your Tool Kit (ammunition) to win this war which is determined to destroy the cultural identify of ALL nations. Repeat ALL nations! The 1983 Phi Delta Kappan cartoon by Joel Pett, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, included in this disc set, captures some of the essence of what is taking place right now in ALL schools of the world. "

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt/3D Research Company
EXPOSING THE GLOBAL ROAD TO RUIN THROUGH EDUCATION
Available at Amazon.com by 3D Research Co.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

Response to So-Called 'Whistleblower"--'I was there video'

3/22/2014

There's a video on youtube of a woman speaking; saying that she was there at Rio in 1992 and George H. W. Bush did not agree to UN Agenda 21. Sorry, this is false.

Here is George H.W. Bush's press conference speech following his agreement to UN Agenda 21:

From President George HW Bush's news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 13, 1992:

"We've signed a climate convention. We've asked others to join us in presenting action plans for the implementation of the climate convention. We've won agreement on forest principles. We found a warm reception among the G - 7 and many developing countries to our Forests for the Future initiative. Many U.S. proposals on oceans and public participation on the importance of economic instruments and free markets were included in this mammoth Agenda 21 document and the Rio Declaration.

"Let me be clear on one fundamental point. The United States fully intends to be the world's preeminent leader in protecting the global environment. We have been that for many years. We will remain so. We believe that environment and development, the two subjects of this Conference, can and should go hand in hand. A growing economy creates the resources necessary for environmental protection, and environmental protection makes growth sustainable over the long term. I think that recognition of that fact by leaders from around the world is the central accomplishment of this important Rio Conference."
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UN Agenda 21 in Australia: Our Community Our Future

3/21/2014

I was just reading a 1999 government report from Australia entitled "Our Community Our Future: A Guide to Local Agenda 21" (click here for a link to the PDF). It's a handy little document with lots of suggestions for how change agents can be found and developed throughout the government and 'community.'

You'll be interested to read through this regardless of which country you're in, because you'll find it to reflect policy and behavior in your town. In fact you'll find that your life is now under complete scrutiny and you are being judged, measured, managed, manipulated, and surveilled in accordance with Agenda 21. The Plan is designed for that purpose: FULL GLOBALIZATION REQUIRES STANDARDIZATION OF ALL SYSTEMS WORLDWIDE. ALL ACTIVITY IS MONITORED IN ORDER TO MANAGE SYSTEMS, MAKE THEM FULLY COMPATIBLE, AND INTEGRATE ALL ASPECTS OF HUMAN LIFE. THE GOAL IS NO BORDERS, NO RESISTANCE, AND NO LIMITS ON CORPORATE POWER.

UN AGENDA 21 IS THE BLUEPRINT, THE ACTION PLAN TO FULLY GLOBALIZE THE WORLD'S SYSTEMS.

Here's a quote from the Australian report:

Local Agenda 21 is being promoted by a range of organisations nationally and internationally.

In Australia, the Commonwealth Government, through its ongoing promotion of ESD (Ecologically Sustainable Development), and some state governments have provided support in terms of resources and funding. Environs Australia, the Local Government Environment Network,has been actively promoting Local Agenda 21 since 1993.

Globally, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), an international body representing local governments from around the world, and original drafters of the Local Agenda 21 chapter, is actively coordinating the international Local Agenda 21 campaign.

Independent networks have also played a large part in promoting Local Agenda 21.

For example, in Western Australia much Local Agenda 21 activity has occurred as a result of considerable effort from academics, local government officers and councillors. A Local Agenda 21 Advisory Group has been established to allow members to share their resources and to support local government planning for sustainable development.

In South Australia, a partnership for Local Agenda 21 exists as a collaborative effort between the State Government, the Local Government Association, and now 30 councils in South Australia that have made a commitment to undertake Local Agenda 21 programs. The aim of this partnership is to encourage all councils to be involved and for this Local Agenda 21 activity to help shape and inform state level policy and planning processes.

In New South Wales, the Local Government Act 1993 requires councils to have regard to ESD principles in carrying out all of their responsibilities. This requirement has acted as a catalyst for Local Agenda 21 work in that state especially as it has been tied with local state of the environment requirements and a focus on community participation.

OUR FIGHT AGAINST PLAN BAY AREA: Step Up Now

3/18/2014

OUR LAWSUIT (Post Sustainability Institute, Rosa Koire, and Michael Shaw v Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Association of Bay Area Governments)
AGAINST MTC/ABAG WAS FILED OCTOBER 2013. YOUR FUNDING ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED TO KEEP THIS MAJOR CHALLENGE TO REGIONAL GOVERNANCE ALIVE. CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOW.

The Post Sustainability Institute strongly objects to the tremendous overreach of Plan Bay Area in the imposition of regional governance over the voters and their elected representatives in the nine county, 101 city San Francisco Bay Area. The elevation of an unelected, unrepresentative body over the people of these municipalities is a violation of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the US and California constitutions. We assert that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments have taken SB 375 and used it to impose an aggressive ideology of land use restrictions and regionalization. Regional governance inserts a layer of unelected boards between local government and the federal and state grant makers/funders. This regional layer (MTC/ABAG), unaccountable to the electorate, sets up de facto mandates for local government--effectively using money as a lure and a bludgeon to cities and counties desperate for funds. As more and more regions are created and imposed on local and state governments across the nation there will be less local control. Local government will exist solely to implement regional regulations administratively without meaningful input from the voters.

The necessity for government subsidies or changes to Proposition 13 (California property tax) to implement this Plan is clearly stated in the Plan itself on nearly every page. Restricting development of both residential and commercial uses primarily to highly urbanized city centers even when the real estate and economic markets do not support it is a recipe for failure and debt. The entire plan is a house of cards based on a financing scheme that does not exist in California: Redevelopment. Redevelopment debt has had a crippling impact on California; bonded debt for redevelopment in our state had reached $81 billion by 2007 and was doubling every 10 years. (Redevelopment: The Unknown Government, Municipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform, 2007). The reinstatement or reinvention of tax increment financing for private development imposes a generational debt requiring 20-40 years of payments to bond brokers. Schemes for assembling and acquiring privately owned fully-developed land parcels in the Priority Development Areas will, as stated in the Plan, require eminent domain. Eminent domain is intended for public use only, and the perversion of the concept of public use to acquire land for private benefit will not be tolerated in California. In any case, at the time that Plan Bay Area is scheduled for adoption (July 18, 2013) none of these potential funding schemes is in effect, therefore the Plan fails the feasibility requirement of SB 375.

Plan Bay Area and SB 375 are predicated on the implementation of Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development was formally defined in the 1987 United Nations publication Our Common Future written by the UN World Commission on Environment and Development (referred to as the Brundtland Commission). Sustainable Development is defined as:

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

All that remained was to state that our current activities and means of living were ‘compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ and then decide what to do about it.

After Our Common Future was presented to the UN General Assembly in 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) was tasked with designing strategies for achieving Sustainable Development by the year 2000. At the Rio Earth Summit in June, 1992, the Brundtland Commission came back with the action plan for implementing Sustainable Development globally: Agenda 21. Referred to as the Agenda for the 21st Century, this document was agreed to by 179 nations, including President George H.W. Bush.

William Clinton was elected President in November, 1992, and six months later he issued Executive Order #12852 which created the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD). It first met in the summer of 1993; and continued until 1999. The members of the PCSD included Cabinet Secretaries for Transportation, Agriculture, Education, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Small Business Administration, Energy, Interior, and Defense. Representing business were CEOs for Pacific Gas and Electric, Enron (Ken Lay), BP Amoco, and Dow Chemical, among others. Environmental organizations rounded out the balance with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, World Resources Institute, the Nature Conservancy, and the Environmental Defense Fund being the most notable.

The PCSD immediately began laying the groundwork for implementing Agenda 21 in the United States. The goal was to change public policy to bring it into alignment with the new agenda for the 21st century. The PCSD formalized its recommendations in ‘Sustainable America—A New Consensus.’

In the PCSD’s list of vital elements to incorporate into their recommendations they included this statement:

‘We need a new collaborative decision process that leads to better decisions, more rapid change, and more sensible use of human, natural, and financial resources in achieving our goals.’

A new collaborative decision process. The new definition for consensus is the neutralization of expressed opposition.

In the old way of doing things, the democratic way, an issue is put before the voters and they vote on it directly, or they have a representative who reviews the issues, debates them publicly, and then votes. If the voters are not satisfied with the outcome, they can initiate a referendum or vote out the representative.

‘Sustainable America—A New Consensus’ does not allow for actual dissent. There can be no opportunity for failure in implementing Agenda 21. In fact the Cabinet Secretaries reported that they could implement approximately two thirds of the PCSD’s recommendations administratively. However, it is not desirable that citizens notice that they are not being given a choice in the most important issues of their lives, so they are given the illusion that they are making decisions for themselves. The real meaning of consensus is to take away your voice and leave you feeling as if you are the only one who has some problem with the results. The President’s Council on Sustainable Development incorporated the Delphi Technique into its recommendations so that ‘more rapid change’ could be imposed on us through clever manipulation. The Delphi Technique was used by MTC/ABAG and their consultants in their ‘visioning meetings’ in order to manipulate the outcome. Although they will say that they have never heard of the Delphi Technique they are in fact using it to direct public opinion, ignore or marginalize dissent, and declare ‘consensus’ on their preferred alternative.

Sustainable Development/UN Agenda 21 is exemplified in the Plan Bay Area documents by the push for high density urban development in city centers by any means necessary while starving the rural and suburban areas for funds and development. Using tactics better suited to criminal gangs, MTC/ABAG is hoping to slam through the most aggressive regional plan in the United States. UN Agenda 21 is a global plan implemented locally, and this is the Plan for the SF Bay Area. Similar plans can be found throughout the United States and the world with names like Envision Utah, Imagine Calgary, Granite State Future, PlaNY, One Valley One Vision, Horizon 2025 (Ontario, Canada), and Hanoi (Viet Nam) Regional Center 2030 Plan. All of these plans are the same plan with the same goal: move people out of the rural and suburban areas into the city centers where they can be more easily managed, controlled, and surveilled. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a conspiracy fact. No amount of government-sponsored shaming, mocking, marginalizing, or lying about those of us speaking the truth can change this fact. The people of the United States of America and of the State of California will not be a party to this plan to destroy private property and civil rights. We intend to fight Plan Bay Area and we intend to win.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN: HOW UN AGENDA 21 KILLS SMALL BUSINESS

3/7/2014

Small business. The chance to conceive an idea and bring it to fruition has appealed to those who hoped to work for themselves and develop a dream into an independent reality. All across the world men and women buy and resell, make, bake, craft, and create goods and services that they hope to grow into something that will enable them to support themselves and their families. UN Agenda 21 pretends to support that process but, like all of its rhetoric, this too is a lie.

The concept of 'capacity building' pervades UN Agenda 21's 300 pages but out in the world the NGO-driven pretense of developing local economies is masking the real goal: destroy independence and eliminate competition for global corporations.

Here is just one example of methods used to destroy independence and small business:

Micro-finance
My last post, The Gap Year, mentions that upper and middle class US students working with non-governmental organizations are sent to lesser developed countries (LDC's) in order to 'teach' the poor about micro-finance. In passing you'll note that these high school students have no experience with or specialized information about micro-finance and are themselves financed by parents paying between $10,000 and $45,000 for their third world vacation. In the post-UN Agenda 21 world, sending high school students to 'teach' the poor how to be successful is really about teaching the high school students how to be poor and find it virtuous in the face of their tremendous first-world shame.

What is micro-finance and what is it doing to the poor of the world? Touted as a way to 'empower the poor, women, youth, minorities, indigenous, under-represented etc', micro-finance is extremely popular with non-profit groups acting as the lowest level of bureaucracy of first world governments. These NGOs act to covertly implement foreign policy and the policy of UN Agenda 21. Micro-finance provides small loans directly to small, often one person businesses in order to assist them in getting started. A charming proposal, but what is the reality?

A February 23, 2014 article in the New York Times and this article in the Business Insider detail just a few of the stories that have filled the news over the last five years. All tell of the miserable struggles that rural Indians are facing through small loan defaults. Debt and spiraling interest payments drive these inexperienced borrowers to suicide. In a horrific nod to the feudal era, the families of the borrowers in India, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda and other countries are responsible for their family-members' debts. Known in pre-twentieth century England as 'entailments,' generational debts are still a devastating crippler of the future across the world. Early American law did away with the entail and ended the practice of chaining future generations to the debt of their ancestors. Present-day micro-finance, pushed by UN Agenda 21 change agents viewing themselves as the saviors of the poor, are destroying fledgling businesses and families across the developing world for generations. Children are born with personal debt---debt that must be paid. For some people suicide seems like the only answer to the tremendous stress in rural areas. According to the NYT article, "the suicide rate for farmers is nearly three times the national average...with global competition and rising costs cutting into their lean profits, their ranks are dwindling."

Yes, small businesses, farmers in rural India, are trying to compete on the global stage and are falling victim to the true goals of UN Agenda 21.

EXPOSE UN AGENDA 21. SPEAK OUT. RESIST.

The Gap Year ---- Pre-College Students and UN Agenda 21---Common Core

3/4/2014

The Gap Year. What is it? As most middle and upper class parents of high school students are discovering, The Gap Year is the year following graduation from high school when college is delayed for a year or more to 'help the student find his or her purpose.' Rather than wasting a year in college drinking, smoking dope, and drifting about without direction, the student is channeled into an international program to 'give back.' These programs are big business now (click here to see the USA Gap Year Fair) and are mainly designed to send 17-20 year-old white middle and upper class kids into third world countries like Guatemala and Uganda where they can use their 'skills' to teach the locals to develop their economy. That's the story parents and students hear.

Of course that's not the bottom line. The real purpose of The Gap Year is to separate students from their families and from their values and expectations, and help them develop a sense of shame and guilt for their privileged lifestyle that they'll (hopefully) retain for the rest of their lives. This is often referred to as Transformative Learning. They'll be indoctrinated with the religious philosophy of the Far East---give in, give up, accept what is, give back, serve others, renounce the self, trust emotions over facts, humility, live with less, donate, donate, donate, volunteer, volunteer, volunteer---and continue the process of working with a cohort in a collective in order to actualize the dreams of others. One of the major lessons students learn is that information is less important than feelings. Information can be found in a computer, but true value is found in the heart. Instead of developing and acquiring knowledge, the student is responding to emotional stimuli. The 'students' are given college credit for this through Antioch University Seattle. The college president's quote is straight out of UN Agenda 21: “Antioch University Seattle is not a traditional four-year university. Our roots are in service and advancing the causes of political, economic, and social equality.” The costs can range from $10,000 to $45,000 for the year depending on the program.

Giving up the self to serve is a philosophy that is not alien to the West, of course. People in religious orders are taught that the self is there only to serve. Fine. Presumably they're accepted into these religious orders after a time in the novitiate proves they're suitable. This is the sort of philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Martin Luther) that made it possible for the Nazis to motivate Germans to dedicate themselves to their Fuhrer. All for the greater good. All for the common good.

Whatever. High school kids are vulnerable and may be leaving their parents for the first time. They're going to Guatemala and Uganda and India to see squalor and try to 'alleviate it'. They'll be 'teaching' micro-finance to villagers or serving 5,000 Sikhs at a festival for their educational year abroad. Rather than acquiring knowledge, these students will be at their most vulnerable, in stressed conditions of poverty and danger, and will be taking responsibility for the life conditions of others. Is their instruction going to focus on the obvious question: Where is all the aid money going when it's sent to these countries? Instead of seeing that major local and international corruption and corporatization has impoverished whole nations, the message will be that one planet, one family, one future is the philosophy that will save the world from greedy people like your parents.

Here's a posting on the Facebook page of one of The Gap Year purveyors:
There is an expectation in China that a teacher will take responsibility not only for a student's academic progress but also for their development as a person. When did we lose sight of this in our culture?

WHAT? These for-profit partners in UN Agenda 21 are training young adults to be change agents.

LEAPNOW – our primary purpose is nothing less than transformation and ... that explores the essential question: “How can I be a proactive agent of change?

Here's a quote from LeapNow.org (LEAPYEAR2) that you'll appreciate:

Learn to hold a transformative learning container for others to deepen your own transformation

The purpose of The Gap Year is to cement the relationship of the vulnerable student with a collective, to use a sort of shock treatment to break the student's connection to her family and culture, and to further the goals of UN Agenda 21: one world without borders, regulations, restrictions, or limitations for mega-corporations.

The Gap Year is an opportunity to use social manipulation and behavioral modification to mold the New Man, the Sustainable Man for the New Age: obedient, passive, convinced of his non-evident brilliance and goodness, humble and willing to work for nothing, and dependent on the approval of the collective.

UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development crafts the new consciousness of the New Man.
RESIST.