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SNAPSHOT: VIBRANT FUTURES MONTANA--Recognizing UN Agenda 21

7/25/2012

 
Here's an article from a small town newspaper in Central Montana.  A city council struggles with the question:  Should we take a federal grant to 'go regional?'  This is going on all across the nation as federal HUD, Dept of Energy, EPA, and Education 'grants' pressure local government to form regional alliances that will pave the way for loss of local decision-making in representative government.  Notice the comments by the pro-A21 council people. Notice how difficult it is NOT to take the money.  You ask:  What does UN Agenda 21 look like locally?  READ THIS.
 
Party line Council vote gives OK to Vibrant Futures
Zach White
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
After taking a few weeks to think about whether to join the Vibrant Futures Consortium, no one changed their minds and a party-line 4-4 vote forced Mayor Tim Solomon to decide, choosing to join.

Havre now joins other city, county and tribal governments in the consortium to think together about regional issues and how to reach common goals.

The debate began with council member Allen “Woody” Woodwick explaining why he thought the city should join.

“I think it would be a good idea, especially if it doesn’t cost any money, ” Woodwick said. “It puts more tools into our hands and Bear Paw Development Corp. to give us a leg up in grant applications. ”

Council member Janet Trethewey asked whether the city had voiced its support for the consortium to get it started. Mayor Solomon said he had written a letter of support in October 2011, which Trethewey said the council should uphold.

“To not join now would be disingenuous, ” Trethewey said.

Council member Bob Kaftan expressed his concern about possible strings attached to the city’s involvement, obligations to the consortium or the federal government.

“We don’t get their approval, ” Trethewey said. “We approve, and they lend their expertise. ”

Council member Rick Dow said he didn’t like the reliance on federal money this would entail and worried about the availability of those funds in the future.

“We are now making federal grants central to our economy, which is not how it’s supposed to be” Dow said.

Dow added this morning that he is wary of the consortium’s resemblance to the United Nations’ Agenda 21, an initiative set up in 1992 to begin “a new global partnership for sustainable development, ” according to the agenda’s preamble.

“This Vibrant Futures program and this private and public alliance, I can’t help but think how similar they are to the U. N. Agenda 21, ” Dow said this morning. “It’s more centralization of power rather than innovation and grassroots. It’s more top down rather than bottom up. ”

He asked what the city would be giving up to enter this contract Council member Gerry Veis chose to answer.

“You’re guaranteed losing absolutely nothing, ” Veis said. “This is about a commitment to the city you live in, Rick. ”

Veis explained that the costs are paid by the federal taxpayers, of which he feels to be a particularly high contributor, and added that if Havre says it doesn’t want the money, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., would be more than happy to send that money to his constituents in that state.

“I would like to thank Mr. Veis for his contributing to the $1.5 million of the grant, ” Council member Brian Barrows said.

How they voted: 

Democrats Bonnie Parenteau, Janet Trethewey, Allen “Woody” Woodwick and Gerry Veis voted yes.

Republicans Brian Barrows, Bob Kaftan, Rick Dow and Andrew Brekke voted no.

Mayor Tim Solomon, a Democrat, cast the tie-breaking vote in favor.

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Do you see?  If you want to fight UN Agenda 21 you have to show up and speak out.  This lost by one vote.  If citizens had been there and demanded that their town refuse that federal money it would have been a victory.  ONE VOTE.
Judith
7/28/2012 03:20:03 am

Thanks for posting this. It really helps to see what it looks like since it's not called A21. We've had this problem in our town too and I get it now that we need to help our council refuse the money. Will work harder. Judith and Gary

Cheryl link
10/11/2012 11:35:13 pm

That reported conversation is verbatim what we have heard in our local city and county meetings....verbatim. "If we don't take the money, someone else will." "It's free money." "They (just) lend their "expertise." What have you got to lose? All of your freedoms and representative government. Very sad. We live among people who would sell their grandmother's shirt right off her back....and they are in our government. Free money? Where do they think this money comes from? It is borrowed on the backs of our children and their children who are inheriting a nation that won't exist by then because of these debts. Generational theft. Nice. Not too mention how limited their lives will be by the "sustainable" options...which are not options at all, but a straight-jacket. Our city took the bait. Our county did not, but we are all forced into it by regional transportation planners anyway. So frustrating. Keep up the great work, Rosa!! Thank you!!


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    And the winner is...

    What is UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development?
    It is the blueprint, the comprehensive plan of action for the 21st century to inventory and control all land, all water, all plants, all minerals, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all law enforcement, all health care, all food, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world
    .

    Your energy consumption will be controlled until you can't farm, can't manufacture, can't travel, can't fish, can't use your land. Productivity and businesses are limited now.

    You've heard that story about Tony Blair asking Angela Merkel how Germany could have such a high GDP when it was such a small country.  Merkel snapped at him: We still make things in Germany, Mr. Blair.

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