Club of Rome and the Origins of Global Warming

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." George Orwell, Animal Farm 

Edgar Allen Beem of The Forecaster called those not believing global warming is caused by human activities releasing high levels of CO2 emissions "Neanderthal climate change deniers". And after reading many comments following articles on global warming, it seems the corporate elite are likely pleased their divide and conquer tactics remain intact; and they're winning over the minds of the multitudes through propaganda techniques which include distraction, misinformation, and creating confusion through duplicity.

We're at a time, for now, when technology enables accessibility to vasts amount of information which we need to critically sort through, but it's there to search for just about anyone who's willing to question. I'd read about the Inuits reporting the Elders observed a shift, or tilt of the earth to the north; and they knew this as fact because, unlike most of us, their daily activities of living revolve around knowing the patterns of the sun, moon, and stars. And I'd also read about there being approximately 176 such "shifts" and resultant changes on Earth throughout its history, in which we humans are just a blink of an eye. It just seemed Al Gore's well-scripted presentations were too pat; yet he was deemed the originator bringing together the scientific information as well as solutions in hand. The poster boy of global warming.

Then I came upon some information about the Club of Rome, which Al Gore is a member, along with many other corporate elite, politicians, the well-known, and well-connected. The Club of Rome was created in 1968 as a crisis think tank and the origins of the environmental movement today, including global warming. From the Club of Rome's "The First Global Revolution":

"...in searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming (my emphasis), water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill."

I don't know if there's any legislative representative in the U.S., at any level, who's knowledgeable about the changes taking place under Agenda 21, the Club of Rome and the origins of the agenda; aware of where our country is headed; that the U.S., being complicit with the global process, has deemed democracy and our Constitution are dead; or is even willing to make a stand on our behalf. Clearly, the information is spreading in Australia to some degree as evidenced by the YouTube clip "Honourable Ann Bressington Exposes UN Agenda 21 Club of Rome Population Control World Government".

Ms. Bressington says, "My dad always said to me that people only lie for two reasons. One reason is you're ashamed of what you're doing. And the second reason is that you don't want people to be warned just before you screw them."

We're given both the history and road map, along with a mission statement in published documents provided by the Club of Rome, the UN, and many other associated entities under the UN umbrella. Therefore, it's best to simply provide some words from the Club of Rome. From the horses' own mouths:

"The Earth has cancer and the cancer is man." 1974

"...the earth is facing an imminent catastrophic collapse if human civilization continues on its current trajectory." 1972 Club of Rome publication "The Limits to Growth"

"democracy has failed and new forms of governance are required" 1992 Club of Rome publication "The First Global Revolution"

"a common enemy must be found, one either real or invented, to unite humanity" (ibid)

"world collective economic security" (ibid)

"resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion" (ibid)
http://green-agenda.com/ 

The Club of Rome's intention is to divide the world into 10 economic/political regions called "Kingdoms" and unite the world under a common leadership. The ten Kingdoms are: North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and South Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East, Main Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Centrally Planned Asia (http://www.opsecnews.com/?s=Club+of+Rome ).

There doesn't appear to be significant alarm that eugenics and population control are a major focus of the UN/Club of Rome plan, even when it's well-documented:

1973 Club of Rome "Limits of Growth" report: "In the August 1980 edition of Fusion magazine, Howard Odum, a marine biologist at the University of Florida, who was a member of the Club of Rome, was quoted, saying: 'It's necessary that the U.S. cut its population by 2/3 within the next 50 years'. He did not mention how this should be accomplished."

Ted Turner, Club of Rome member said, "A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." and that a one-child policy like China's would help humanity and avoid cannibalism in the future.

1992 Earth's Summit in Rio, Maurice Strong, Secretary General of UN's Earth Summit and member of the Club of Rome: "It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, ownership of multiple small electric appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable."

Duplicitous - because if we look at the actions, possessions, and behaviors of those elitists fabricating global warming, there's no discussion of what they will give up, including volunteering for sterilization. Will those few in charge give up their multiple homes, cars, yachts, planes, helicopters, energy and food consumption, and lifestyles? I think not.

Low Gas Prices to be Followed by a Bank Bail-In?

In a recent Edgar Allen Beem opinion from The Forecaster, Beem admits enjoying the low cost of gas, but knows he's living in a Fool's Paradise. At the beginning of the piece, one of Beem's questions was when will Obama get the credit for the low prices? (and Beem answered never). While the Keystone tar sands pipe should be vetoed because of its environmental impact, lack of necessity, and benefits for big money corporations' self-serving interests, considering Obama should be given credit for low gas prices is too simplistic. Although Beem's op-ed made for interesting comments following the article, the big picture is missing and what's going on is not a bi-partisan issue.  (The Universal Notebook: Veto the Keystone Frack Pipe ).

The low gas prices are not for our personal benefit nor to boost the U.S. economy. We're reaping a short-term side-effect. The collapse in the price of oil is largely due to geopolitical warfare against Russia and Iran (Ellen Brown/The Corbett Report). This is how governments roll; our relief at paying lower prices at the gas pumps may be short-lived and we'll all pay more down the road. Much more.

Similar to the local papers' lack of substantive and investigative journalism, mainstream media isn't highlighting anything concerning last November's G20 Summit, nor the recent decoupling of the Swiss Franc from the Euro, resulting in the Euro's collapse. If the majority of people were informed, there'd be an uproar, and the big banks may lose a chance at a well-planned "Bank Bail-In". Yes, not a "Bank Bail-out", but a bail-in; but it all comes down to the same thing. The banks are given a green light to take people's money.

Backing up a bit, here's some information about G20. The Group of Twenty (G20) is a comprised of 20 major, advanced and emerging economies [Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, UK, U.S. and the EU nations (28 member states, which includes some of the G20 already mentioned)]. After the Asian financial crisis, a G7 (Cologne Summit) started a meeting, in 1999, of finance ministries and central bank governors. By 2008, a G20 leader's summit was held to deal with the global financial crisis, and become the world's primary forum for global economic cooperation and decision making. What started simply as advisory boards changed to become global control through regulations by the Financial Stability Board (FSB).

The next G20 Summit meeting will be held in Turkey (2015 Antalya Summit), November 15-16, 2015. The Summit focus includes, but isn't limited to (Turkey's 2015 G20 Priorities):

• "...developing more efficient Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models will be ...targets...",
• International Tax System,
• Climate Change Finance (improve collaboration, dialogue, and cooperation between the climate funds),
• "...for a number of work streams within the G20 including financial regulation, international tax, and international financial architecture, words have played their part. 2015 will be the time for the deeds and the year of implementation (G20's emphasis, not mine)." 

G20 Engagement groups are listed as:  Business-20, Think-20, Civil-20, Labor-20, and Youth-20 (http://www.g200youthforum.org/ ).

Therefore, it appears the U.S. citizens are being mandated among other things, to pay international taxes to support private businesses (globally), including contributions to green global private businesses, and whatever decisions made by G20, including FSB's financial regulations in the U.S. banking system accepted on our behalf by President Obama.

Moreover, as a result of the G20 summit this past November 2014, new G20 rules have been put into place. It's my understanding that there are 5 big derivatives banks holding over $50 trillion in oil derivatives, which oil producers buy to protect their price they're betting on.The Omnibus Budget Act will cover 5% of the derivatives loss, which Ellen Brown (http://ellenbrown.com/ ) says doesn't sound like much, but it's about $14 trillion.

Taxpayers will bail out banks again, except it's called a bail-in. Ellen Brown explains shareholders, bondholders, and depositors of banks will lose money; depositors first, because they're the largest segment. In the U.S. any deposit amounts over the $250,000 FDIC insured will be taken; these are usually local businesses which need larger deposits to cover cash flow and payrolls (in Europe the insurance is 100,000 Euros). Pension funds are usually connected to the bonds, so that'll be the next hit. If the FDIC insurance doesn't have enough money it can borrow from a $500 billion line of credit with the Treasury, but that has to be paid back - by the taxpayers.

Wonder where these ideas come from - that it's all free money because it's "other people's money" (Mr. Poppycock)? When we look closer to home, there are examples in Brunswick. Starting with the now defunct Brunswick Economic Development Corporation (BEDC), that began with taxpayers' money [and few even questioned the board members involved nor asked if there were possible conflicts of interest. Did any of the materials from taxpayer funded projects end up as "contributions" to someone's house(s)]? The taxpayers became a "bank" and a big sucker.

The BEDC morphed into the BDC, and a former town councilor gets a "forgiveable loan" of about a quarter of a million dollars for her taxi business. Interestingly, many have yet to find any bank offering a forgiveable loan/gift. Another example is former town councilor, Gerald Favreau, thinking it was a great idea to give a private business public money to build a road. If there's no astroturfing connections, then perhaps it's part of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America we see manifested.

Remember the saying about a pool of money ("Folks This Ain't Right" Jan. 17, 2015)? There are takers and cons at all levels, but the sharks keep getting bigger, and the stakes higher. Is it too late to stop the momentum now?

Astroturfing the Lexicon

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." Jim Morrison

We love words. "Buzzworthy" words gain a place in the Oxford Dictionaries or Merriam-Webster Dictionary, On-line Slang Dictionary, Urban Dictionary...f-bomb, aha moment, twerking... Words are judged to be politically correct, or not. Do you recall a time when politically correct wasn't even a phrase (or human resources)? Words can separate generations, be fashionable, or not. Booyah is supposedly out, along with awesome. Now it's dope (for awesome), BFF, Ho, hardcore...So much for the Andy Rooney moment.

Astroturf is synonymous with big money, big control. "Astroturf refers to apparently grassroots-based citizen groups or coalitions that are primarily conceived, created, and/or funded by corporations, industry trade associations, political interests or public relations firms." And according to sourcewatch.org the word is credited to long-time Washington and Wall Street Insider, Senator Lloyd Bensten when he coined the term "astroturf lobbying".

Astroturfing is nothing new; it's just a new name akin to yellow journalism, but a process on steroids. Astroturfing surreptitiously exists, hiding in forums, comments to articles, blogs, published letters to the editor, ads, in nonprofits, Facebook and Twitter accounts, and faked as grassroots movements. And as a friend says, "Follow the money." Sometimes we can figure out the connections by looking at board members for newspapers and organizations, in the "about" section in websites, conflict of interest relationships, or muckety muck connections, but a lot of the special interest, familial, acquaintance and money connections are difficult to find. In conjunction with the well-paid, ubiquitous lobbyists it's no wonder astroturfing is effective in bombarding, influencing, and confusing the public.

Democracy Now! was a website to visit and on my site list until discovering Amy Goodman is paid $2 Million/year salary, and funded by George Soros (The Corbett Report), billionaire financier, described by some as a former Kapo during the Holocaust while others called Soros' actions a way to survive, called an "economic war criminal" by Thailand, "the man who broke the bank of England", etc. who claims he's a messianic figure and "...I fancied myself as some kind of god...".

Besides looking for the money connections, we can acclimate ourselves with the lexicon of the astroturfers, which include but may not be limited to words such as:

• crank
• myth
• quacks
• railing
• paranoid
• alarmist(s)
• fear monger(s)
• fear porn
• conspiracy theorist(s)
• lunatic(s), lunatic fringe
• tin-foil hat wearer(s)
• truther
• crack
• nutty/nuts
• lies
• witchhunt
• shoddy
• pseudo
• troll 
• moonbats

Astroturfers working in conjunction with Agenda 21 goals may use words such as, but not limited to:

comprehensive list of key words and phrases that are often used at the local level when discussing Agenda 21 related initiatives.
Affordable housing Ballot Box Planning Benefit of all Benefits-Driven Buffer Zones Cap & Trade Choice Climate Change Common Core Curriculum Common good Community Protocol Comprehensive planning Consensus Conservation Easement Direct instruction Downzoning Endangered species Environment Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Environmental Justice Equity Facilitator Fair General Plan Global Warming Good Business Sense Grants Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions Greenways Growth management Habitat HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) Communities Healthy Communities Strategy High Speed Rail Historic preservation Housing Element Inclusive Inter-disciplinary International baccalaureate International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Invasive species Jobs-Housing Connection Land Use Policies Lifelong learning Livable communities Livable Communities Local Local Governments for Sustainability Metropolitan Planning Organizations Mixed Use Development Modeling Multi-Use Dwellings New Economy New Urbanism New World Order One planet communities Open Space Outcome based education Outcomes Parking Policy Precautionary approach Precautionary Principle Preserve Priority Conservation Areas Priority Development Areas (PDA) Prosperity Protect Public/Private partnerships Quality of life Redevelopment Regional Resilient Cities Responsible development Restoration Safe Routes to Schools Sanctuary Scenic views and vistas School to work Sensitive Lands Smart growth Smart Streets Social justice Stack and Pack Housing Stakeholder Sustainable Communities Initiative Sustainable communities partnership Sustainable communities strategies Sustainable development Sustainable Economic Development Sustainable medicine Three "E"s of Sustainablity-Equity, Economy, Environment Traffic calming Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Transportation Justice Triple bottom line Upzoning Urban Growth Boundary Urban revitalization Vehicle Mileage Traveled Tax Vibrant Neighborhoods Vision Visioning Meetings Walkable Communities Watershed Wetlands Wildlands

Words aren't enough, though. In the movie "I am David", the main character asks Sophie, How can I tell the good people from the bad. And Sophie's reply is that sometimes you can't.

 But question. And keep digging.

  

High Speed Rail: Taking Brunswick West's Bouchard Drive Residents and All of Us for a Ride

If anyone's thinking high speed rail doesn't affect Maine, it's time to take a look at master plans in the works. And these planners don't really want input from the people; we'll be placated in thinking we have a say in the green railroad transportation plans, but we don't. As evidenced by the website information, all they want is taxpayers' money (as Mr. Poppycock calls OPM "other people's money", othersideofbrunswick.blogspot) and getting the taxpayers' buy-in through a "change in social consciousness" for a railroad transportation system to personally profit from, while taking away our freedom of choice.

Here's the long-term plan map for high speed rail, http://www.ushsr.com/ 

 Note the marketing (propaganda) from the site:
"The future is now, and it's in high speed rail."
"High speed rail = high tech jobs + big construction + real estate development + manufacturing + tourism + speedy efficient transportation for all."
"88% of Americans support high speed rail."
"There's no reason why Europe or China should have the fastest trains." President Obama

The targeted 2030 completion is to occur in phases, and includes a "complete sustainable transportation system for America", of which other components of the system are connecting regional and commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, trams, electric buses, and bicycles to create a linkage for 80% of Americans at a cost of about $500 billion (ushsr.com).

Under Transportation for America (TFA) vision, taxpayers are to provide the national investment.

The current infrastructure of roads, highways, bridges and dependence on fossil fuel energy sources is deemed "unsustainable" under Agenda 21; therefore, it's noted privately-owned cars are not included in the transportation picture nor the list above.

Looking at the microcosm represented by the events surrounding Brunswick's Bouchard Drive neighborhood http://www.savebrunswickwest.com/Home.html whose residents live less than 100 feet from Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority's (NNEPRA, Brunswick/Portland/Boston) proposed 60,000 square-foot Amtrak Train Maintenance and Layover Facility (MLF), it seems a large mechanism is in place, and has been in place for which these residents have no significant impact to compel nor change.

According to the website, TrainRiders Northeast (http://trainridersne.org/ ) is a non-profit "grass roots", volunteer organization whose mission is to bring modern and efficient passenger rail service to Northern New England, and to educate the public about the benefits of passenger trains and the necessity of moving away from our dependence on highways and airways. Given the mission, number of elected officials on all levels of government seemingly in support, and the amount of funding available, this sounds strangely aligned with the High Speed Rail goals in tandem with Agenda 21; therefore, it's easy to question the genesis and evolution of such a "grass roots" organization.

It also begs the question of why would people want to place the MLF adjacent to a residential area when there are valid concerns regarding safety, pollution, noise, coal ash, and toxins. It's my understanding none of the people aligned with the proposed MLF will be living in the Bouchard neighborhood adjacent to the proposed MLF. Qui bono? (Who benefits?).

Inverse condemnation is a term recently coming to my attention by Laurie Allen (http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/ ). Inverse condemnation sounds relatively new [referring to SCOTUS Nullan v. California Coastal Commission (CCC) 1987, 5 to 4 ruling finding a requirement by CCC was a taking in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments], and basically, my understanding is that a governmental entity may have intentionally (or accidentally in some cases) engaged in inverse taking private property without compensation, or taking by damaging of private property; but unless the property owner becomes the plaintiff by filing a lawsuit, the government can continue the taking/damage without compensation to the property owner. Laurie Allen's situation and another she'd mentioned in her blogspot are very concerning: 

http://archive.wcsh6.com/news/article/225484/2/World-War-II-veteran-in-debate-with-Rockport-over-water-issue

It bears repeating (as written in Revealing the Hydra, Jan. 16, 2015), the majority of the people have no money to take a case to court. The Town of Brunswick also appears aware; it's acted similarly, including but not limited to the 1970's "Twelve Rod Road" issue negatively impacting several private property owners.

Nevertheless, the following information was found (Inverse Condemnation and Regulatory Takings ) which may or may not be applicable to the Bouchard neighborhood, but bears mentioning:

"While it seems improbable that a government entity can take private land without using eminent domain or compensating you, it does occasionally happen. If property has been acquired without the use of condemnation proceedings, the law provides relief in what is called inverse condemnation. Inverse condemnation occurs when the government takes property and intentionally or accidentally fails to bring a condemnation action in court that would require compensating the owner.

The most obvious form of inverse condemnation is when the government physically builds a project, such as a road, on your property. However, inverse condemnation is not limited to the physical taking of property. It can occur when the government creates a nuisance, such as building a sewer treatment plant or airport near a property that interferes with the quiet use and enjoyment of that property. Or, the government can pass a regulation, such as a zoning ordinance, that deprives the owner of the economic use of the property. Simply put, these actions have negative impacts on the value of the property for which the property owner may be entitled to compensation."

Given the above, one cannot help but to offer a voice of support and hope to the Bouchard neighborhood residents that a viable solution will occur from a positive outcome at the DEP hearing in March ("State sets hearing on permit for Brunswick train barn" ). But also given the above, it seems the hearing may be just another example and a flag of insidious gradualism (two steps forward, one step back). Other flags include that public comments will be in a separate portion from the hearing, and even The Forecaster appears to belittle the residents concern by using semantic dialectic in referring to the MLF as the "Brunswick train barn". Rinse, and repeat.

Contribution Post: Getting Old

"Old is good".

"Thousands move to Florida...the great Metamucil migration."

"In America we're in a youth-oriented culture...you're considered a senior citizen when you're over 50 in America, which is ridiculous...at 55 with a hip replacement and a Viagra I can be a porn star. Get out of my way or someone's gonna get hurt!"

Note:
A Viagra costs about $4-$5 per pill.

A cancer drug can cost $100,000. It can cost a quarter million dollars just to get started on treatment for cancer.

Sources:
http://sexuality.about.com/od/viagra/a/viagra.htm 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-eye-popping-cost-of-cancer-drugs/

Folks This Ain't Normal

The frozen tundra of Maine in January is a great time to dream of warmer days to come, the Brunswick Farmer's Market, getting outside, and getting hands dirty. Yes, some have dirty hands year around, 24/7, regardless of environment or season, striving to contribute to the matrix of controlling, deceiving, manipulating, and keeping us in our place as service cash cows so they can get at what they really want - money. But gardening isn't really about that, is it?

A friend has succinctly repeated a single phrase in response to articles about corruption, restrictions on people, inane laws and ordinances, etc.: "Follow the money." And my dad aptly stated that whenever there's a pool of money there will always be some politician (banker, town manager, town councilor, developer, lawyer ...fill in the blank) out there to find a way to take it. Both statements are the truth.

Our food, and how we get it is definitely all about the aforementioned. And if we look at the Hydra (see previous article "Revealing the Hydra", Jan.16, 2015), our food source, including freedom to choose and full disclosure about our foods is one of the Hydra's heads and a way to control us. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the basic foundation of needs such as food, shelter, love, and safety have to be met before we can proceed and become fully actualized human beings. The Hydra hits at our basic needs for nourishment, but we can change the progression, sever this Hydra head, and take back our food.

Most have become disconnected from their food source and think nothing of the nicely plastic-wrapped chicken parts, ground beef, and bacon when buying it. Perhaps if there were live chickens, cows, pigs in the direct vicinity of meat sections of the grocery stores we'd feel some empathy, and eat less meat. But that's not an effective marketing gimmick for those in the business. Some people won't eat chicken eggs raised on small farms or homes, but prefer their eggs from store-bought cartons. All chicken eggs are coming from the hind end of some hen, so understanding this disconnect is difficult except to say the conditioning has been effective.

One of the best crowd-sourcing alternate news sites is: corbettreport.com

Episode 299 - Solutions: Guerilla Gardening is a comprehensive video (or podcast) about our food; where's it coming from, what's in it, who and what is Big Food, what are the health and environmental implications of GMO foods (it used to be called "Frankenfood"; notice the semantic dialectic in play with a change to "GMO", or even "GM"?):

The video of various clips, in total, runs about 55 minutes, and well-worth the time. But directly at the the Corbett Report site there's a listing of the different clips to choose from:

• Horse meat, Hanford leak, Obama's Oscar - New World Next Week
• Question: Why is the McDonald's Website So Scary
• McDonald's Food Scandal in Shanghai/China Uncensored
• Insider Threats, Poor Food, Supreme Genes - New World Next Week
• China's "Garbage Fed Beef" Food Scandal
• Pink Slime - What is REALLY in Your Hamburger
• Chiquita Banana Terrorist Connections?
• Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent
• Dispelling the Big Ag Myth
• Wave of Suicides Among Indian Farmers
• FY2013 Annual Report on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas in Japan
• Episode 241 - The Truth About The Gene Revolution
• William Engdahl: Seeds of Destruction
• 5 GMO Myths Busted
• Joel Salatin - Folks This Ain't Normal
• The EyeOpener Report - How to Boycott Big Food
• Ron Finley - A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA
• Introduction - My Community Garden Journal - Week 1, 2015
• Food is Free Project
• Food is Free Project - How to Build a Raised Wicking Bed
• That's the Catch ("Question Everything") by Hank Musaers
• Become a Corbett Report member 

One of the best parts about this episode is identifying solutions. And one solution was found by Ron Finley, guerilla gardener in South Central LA; he says 26.5 Million Americans live in a food desert and he wanted to change that along with the health problems in his community associated with eating processed "Big Food". Ron's solution was to plant a food forest in front of his house on the little strip of land between the sidewalk and street the city says property owners are responsible for maintaining.

When someone complained, the city told Ron he'd have to rip up his garden or be given a warrant - for growing food. Instead, a campaign was launched, petition signatures gathered (change.org) and LA Green Grounds formed (volunteer, "pay it forward" food source for the people).

Ron says, "I'm manufacturing my own reality, not living in the reality manufactured for me."

And this is something all of us can do, once we understand the truth.

Revealing the Hydra

Seemingly, it's hopeless to fight the Hydra, the guardian of the Underworld in Greek mythology. The Hydra, a beast of numerous heads with lethal breath and bodily fluids, grew two heads if one was severed. But the Hydra was, indeed, defeated by the hero Heracles with the help of his nephew, the Argonaut, Iolaus. First, the Hydra had to be found and forced out of its lair. After each head was severed by Heracles, his nephew cauterized the stump with a branding iron to stop the growth of new heads. But before its demise, the Goddess Hera who saw Heracles was succeeding, sent a crab to distract him. Even so, Heracles crushed the crab, then he and Iolaus dismantled and killed the Hydra.

Charlotte Iserbyt, former U.S. Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education and whistleblower, and many others have identified the creeping process shaping the U.S.A. into a global socialistic entity whose progress is both measurable and well-documented throughout history. The magnitude is seen in the sheer numbers of groups including funding involved which are cohesively working towards the ultimate goal to take our freedoms and rights to: private property ownership and protecting our properties, choice in how we're educating our children, choice in our means of making a living, where we want to live and to be safe in our homes and on the streets, our modes of transportation, choice in using resources for activities of daily living (i.e. the temperature of your home, whether in heating or cooling, and even appliances you choose to purchase, etc.), the number of children we choose to add to our families, and so forth. These changes come through insidious gradualism while our Constitution and Bill of Rights similarily become defunct without the firing of a single shot.

Iserbyt says we're fighting a war here in our own country; it's a war without guns as those in power create the means of pushing forth their own agenda and control the resources and people using taxpayer dollars and a stroke of the pen. And to win a war we need to identify the enemy and we need ammunition. Our ammunition starts with informing the people; exposing the heads of the hydra, and taking away their power source - money - our money.

Most of us, who are paying attention, can think of instances in our own neighborhoods, towns, and State where citizens are being mowed over. Rights are taken away, and some will mumble that "those people" can take the issue to court. It costs money to go through the court system, and municipalities know this reality. Perhaps 95% of the people don't have the money, but the municipality has a seemingly never-ending source at the trough. Some will look the other way and say well, it's not happening to me, so it's not my business; I'm the lucky one! Reality is the courts are inaccessible to the majority of Mainers; as a matter of fact, the courts are inaccessible to the majority of U.S.A.'s citizens.

Coming across this blogspot, it's easy to see help isn't forthcoming from any level for Laurie Allen of Belfast:
http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/ 
Looking at the pictures, how can anyone in charge of the Town think they'd like the same happening to their own property? It's my understanding the Town of Belfast purposefully placed massive drainage systems knowing certain properties would be negatively affected by the amount of redirected water which ultimately ends up in the harbor.A DEP agent had once said to me, he (DEP) "likes to work things out with the town"; in other words, they're not looking to have the towns follow regulations, nor cite them, even when informed.

https://plus.google.com/105736045670734847961/posts/cgsRMGCaGqG?gpinv=AMIXal-jTaR6IUriiIidUMZeXRP0Mfc0pvSNtCiOKqNHKtWjjPLCGEz6p0Zz23oUjOaZ5Uj6Q8WeL7U4Dfk7sg75yi5zwJv3s-cnVF46lmSbkSYue_fuljE&cfem=1&pid=6052716949375264466&oid=105736045670734847961

And according to an article from Bangor Daily News, it seems the town is further planning on dredging and draining a man-made pond known as The Muck (which would similarly follow a drainage path through Allen's and others' properties in the same neighborhood). Someone wrote a comment about feeling sorry for the people who'd be affected by the foul-smelling, cheesy-like goo headed their way from the draining of The Muck. Seems there's a logical reason the pond is named The Muck.


The example here is just one of the many heads of the Hydra. With internet access it becomes easier to find many more instances of how the people's rights are continually violated across the nation, including through police brutality, and instances of misconduct in the judicial system. Seems the citizens' freedoms and rights are taken lightly, while the violator's are protected.


Getting back to the point of Iserbyt, and the purposeful conditioning of our children with Skinnerian/Pavlovian animal-training techniques, perhaps her explanation of what can be observed in the behaviors of people, in general, is actually showing the efficacy and success of the programming. And perhaps this is the reason too many are looking the other way. Expressing exasperation (beating head against a wall) because too many lack comprehension, Iserbyt said she realized it's not their fault.

(Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, pg. 37):

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf 

"[Ed. Note: The reader should refer back to the preface of this book, the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, for discussion of the need to create robots who do not know right from wrong and who do not have a conscience—leaving the determination of right and wrong to the proposed United Nations “Global Conscience.”]"

"C.S. Lewis's uncanny ability to predict accurately how society would be manipulated into acceptance of totalitarian control was displayed in the following excerpt taken from a conversation Lewis's fictitious Lord Feverstone had with a young man named Mark:

[Feverstone] "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest - which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can. You and I want to be the people who do the taking charge, not the ones who are taken charge of. Quite."

"What sort of thing have you in mind?"

"Quite simple and obvious things, at first - sterilization of the unfit, liquidation of backward races (we don't want any dead weights), selective breeding. Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning in the end and direct manipulation of the brain..."

"But this is stupendous, Feverstone."

"It's the real thing at last. A new type of man: and it's people like you who've got to begin to make him."

"That's my trouble. Don't think it's false modesty, but I haven't seen how I can contribute."

"No, but we have. You are what we need: a trained sociologist with a radically realistic outlook, not afraid of responsibility. Also, a sociologist who can write."

"You don't mean you want me to write this all up?"

"No. We want you to write it down - to camouflage it. Only for the present, of course. Once the thing gets going we shan't have to bother about the great heart of the British public. We'll make the great heart what we want it to be." (pg.42)"

A Brunswick Education: Sit, Ubu, sit. Good Dog!

"Coexistence on this tightly knit earth should be viewed as an existence not only without wars...but also without (the government) telling us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and what not to know." Alexsander Solzhenitsyn  (September 11, 1973)

It's said understanding occurs when one can see the pattern(s) ...and then connect the dots. Sometimes the revelations are followed by a sense of shock. How can this be? Why didn't I see this before? A recent Bangor Daily News comment to an article related a loss of innocence when he/she realized the truth, followed by the accompanying feeling of sadness. Once known, there's no going back. That comment resonates with me. Having a gut feeling alone isn't enough; the intuition is there for a reason and a niggling feeling begs asking why... to start searching, and then to act. And so it's been with the questions about education. What's going on in this country and why are we failing so miserably, in general, to educate our children when they are our hopes for the future?

First of all, to be perfectly clear, the failures in education are not the teachers' fault; we're losing a lot of excellent teachers because many are realizing what's been going on. As Charlotte Iserbyt (former Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education, and whistleblower) explains, a model for teaching, based upon a goal, has been forced from the top, down; and the only mechanism currently stopping it has been by informed citizens, including parents, pressing elected officials to represent them in the form of school boards.

The goal put in place by those in control of our government (not us) is to create compliant human resources which is "...necessary to the U.S.' participation in a socialist world government scheduled for the early years of the 21st century..." 

http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/Back%20to%20Basics%20Reform_Iserbyt_book.pdf

The insidious gradualism (two steps forward, one step backwards) has been part of the long-term strategy. Seems the public can be easily manipulated if the goals are couched in certain words, and common ground and consensus created so long as those in control maintain the control, and are willing to practice patience.

How are they doing this? B.F. Skinner, a social engineer in totalitarian theories says human beings' behaviors are easily sculpted like a lump of clay. Children are viewed as human animals, akin to rats, chickens, and dogs; and through operant conditioning (stimulus-response-stimulus conditioning techniques) human organisms' behaviors can be shaped, conditioned, reinforced, extinguished, rewarded or punished until learners achieve the target behavior.

The public is buying into this scheme because there are tools, proven in effectiveness, over many years of experimentation on people. One such effective tool is "semantic deception". Similar to Rosa Koire's comment about U.N. Agenda 21 environmental strategy guise to take private property rights (who doesn't like the words: walkable, bike-able, vibrant, progressive, etc.?), who would object to the words regarding educational goals, such as: back to basics, excellence, accountability, equity, effective schools, critical thinking skills, etc.?

The programs used include: Whole Language, Mastery Learning/Outcome-based Education, Direct Instruction, Moral Relativism (no right/no wrong, the end justifies the means), No Child Left Behind, School-to-Work, etc. Sound familiar? If the programs don't appear to be working, a new method will be substituted (Hegelian dialectic), but it's the same Skinnerian/Pavlovian animal-training methods - programming for a desired behavior only if the positive reward or response is forthcoming.

When parents catch on and start resisting the programming, there's still another effective control tool: dialectical process - deliberately creating an educational "crisis". Radical reforms are then sold to the public, which wouldn't have been accepted without the "crisis" (pick your poison). The "change agents" are ready and continually deceive because, after all, most will only believe the "experts".

Iserbyt says the high cost of education is because of the Skinnerian program put in place, and that money predominantly comes from the American taxpayers. We're paying for an education not with an outcome of how to think, but rather what to think in order to fulfill an international elite's socialist quota for human resources. Most may believe the U.S.A. is mandating our country's education independently, but that's not true. Iserbyt's The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America shows the history, and the players:

http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf 
 
The U.N.'s original reason for existence immediately following World War II is defunct; the U.N. today is a different animal. Major contributors in funding education globally include the U.N.-created UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization; nineteen out of twenty members are from Russia), OECD (Office of Cooperation and Development), the World Bank, with oversight by organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)... and think of names like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, etc.

Lastly, Iserbyt warns of the Charter School Trojan Horse. She warns the Charter schools are tax-funded - no books (focus on technology/computers), workforce training, no grades, no competition. No elected board. Common Core cannot be fought, because the name will be changed, and it'll be taught in Charter schools because there's no elected board to stop it. So kudos to those parents and citizens in Brunswick paying attention and staying connected with elected officials of the Brunswick School Board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDClJ7wv70 

In all, it sounds similar to the movie, The Matrix. One can choose to know or not to know. Take the red pill and there's no going back.

Smells Like Agenda 21 in Brunswick

Did you ever read comments following articles and noticed later they disappeared? Not even with a notation of "deleted", or "comment awaiting moderation", simply vanished? It was the disappearing lengthy comments in last month's The Forecaster which piqued my interest. What were "they" trying to hide? And who were they trying to squelch? More importantly is why. Here are some of the comments copied and saved after noticing the deletions were occurring:

Brunswick women need help • 3 hours ago

Perhaps the Portland Police Department will consider offering a self-defense class for women who live in the upscale section of Brunswick so they can protect themself from unknown males who target them when appear to be alone on their private property and try to harass them and frighten them into giving their private property away to a very suspicious "non profit" charity: the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust.
There have been MULTIPLE incidents of harassment, trespassing and aggressive solicitation by well educated males - all who will personally financial benefit - if the women in Pennellville agree to legally
give away their private property or sign a legal document called a "conservation easement". The men identify themself by name and where they live and say they are working closely with a person named Angela Twitchell. She lives in Topsham and is married to a cabinet maker named Scott LIbby. Angela Twitchelli has aggressively solicited "targeted" homeowners because she wants their property and she may have worked with "The Nature Conservancy", a very large national land conservation "non profit". Angela Twitchelll may have also worked previously in Northern Maine and it is unknown if she has "re-sold" private property - acquired by the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust through real estate tarnsfers - to other parties FOR A PROFIT. She has been directly involved in aggressive conduct as a State of Maine "public charity" PUBLICLY FUNDED "non profit" leader.
Everyone who is reading this should know the State of Maine became the 2nd highest ranked state in terms of the total amount of land transferred for "conservation" in the past few years. What exactly is going on? Law enforcement community: heads up, the extreme environmentalists are now here, front and center in Maine...and they are aggressively soliciting the elderly, the disabled, their neighbors, business owners and the general public. Extreme environmentalists are being actively monitored by federal law enforcement for breaking the law, targeting and harassing people FOR YEARS and encouraging "civil disobedience" among their followers (including trespassing on private property). They have contributed to political campaigns (both Republican and Democrat) to avoid being investigated and prosecuted. And they are doing it all in the name of "preserving the environment"
Have you noticed how many more stories are being printed in Maine newspapers about the "good deeds" of these local land trust? They support the environment! They help local farmers! The stock food pantries! They teach children about where food comes from! And while they are doing their PR stories, they are violating all standards of ethical conduct for any non profit in the State of Maine.
The Brunswick Police Department Police Chief Rizzo and Captain Waltz have not acted alone. The former, very long time "Finance Director" John Eldridge is the new Brunswick Town Manager - and he has refused to bring in an independent investigation of Rizzo and Waltz. The Brunswick Town Council is not responding either - they are "REMAINING SILENT". Benet Pols, Chair of the Brunswick Town Council has just announced he is "retiring" after many years on the Council. He is an attorney so has he ever represented the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust or paid for real estate title searches with Mark Waltz' business Casco Bay Title? And Steve Walker, Brunswick Town Council member is a former State of Maine employee - and paid by another land trust located in the same town where Angela Twitchell lives. There is a cover up involving 2 senior commanders of the Brunswick Police Department, the Town Manager and the entire Brunswick Town Council.
Hopefully, folks from federal law enforcement are reading this and taking note:
3 former residents of Pennellville were aggressively harassed and trespassed for 8 (EIGHT!) years
by many of the exact same males (and a few equally aggressive females)
who are still harassing and trespassing women and the eldelry in Pennellville NOW.
The 3 former federal workers lived out of state and inherited property from when they lived in Pennellville while growing up. One of them was harassed and her private property was trespassed upon repeatedly while she was terminally ill and dying. She has since passed away. What kind of people would do this? Despicable, no conscience eco-cons. All for money and greed, while claiming they are saving the environment.
Can you imagine 8 years of this aggressive conduct by extreme environmentalists? Federal law enforcement in Portland: PLEASE HELP.
Please investigate the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust and Brunswick Police Chief Rizzo and Brunswick Police Captain Waltz and members of the Brunswick Town Counci and...their small network of attorneys, real estate appraisal people, real estate title service companies and which banks/financial institutions have been involved. Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson REFUSED TO ANSWER PHONE CALLS. No short letter stating "our office cannot help you" (so therefore no evidence they refused!). The State of Maine Office of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife subcontracted with the Brunswick Tospham Land Trust for a federal grant AND KNEW there were very serious complaints against Angela Twitchell and the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust. But the State of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife stated it was NOT applying for another 2015 federal grant. Someone at the State of Maine electronically submitted the federal grant anyway? Who? Do NOT permit Governor LePage or Commissioner Chandler Woodcock to sign the contract for services for this federal grant and subcontract again with the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust and their "partner" land trusts in the Middle Bay area.

Instead of asking questions, I noticed someone commented by poking fun at this poster. But some of us get it; and for those not up-to-speed there's Agenda 21 for Dummies on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM


Agenda 21 is global in scale, but taking root at local levels; it's a long-term comprehensive plan of action at global, national, state, and local levels with a goal to deprive Americans of independence, privacy, and substantive rights.

Beginning in 1976 with the UN Habitat I, private land ownership was seen as a major obstacle in planning and implementation of development schemes for land deemed in the best interests of society as a whole. In 1992's Rio Declaration Earth Summit, Agenda 21 became U.S. supported when then President George H. W. Bush executed the Agenda 21 protocol; and Bill Clinton followed-up with an Executive Order establishing the Presidential Council for Sustainable Development.

Agenda 21 seeks to put socialist control mechanisms in place, put an end to national sovereignty, abolish private property, restructure family units, and increase limitations and restrictions on mobility and individual opportunities. The "green goal" of not sustainable listings include: fossil fuels, golf courses and ski lodges, consumerism, irrigation, paved roads, commercial agriculture, herbicides, pesticides, farmlands, pastures, grazing livestock, family unit.

It's not just private property, Agenda 21 includes our children's education. UNESCO's 2005-2015 federal education for sustainable development is a national curriculum preparing our children for a "world of work", building consensus, and what some call a "deliberate dumbing down".

ICLEI (International Committee for Local Environmental Initiatives) is helping to implement Agenda 21 in local communities. Rosa Koire, author of Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 says this is a non-partisan issue, and "...the biggest public relations plan in the history of the world...Who doesn't like the jargon terms: vibrant, walkable, bike-able, progressive?" Koire encourages us to look at our local planning departments. Land use plans, regional plans, re-development projects, Your Town 2035, Vision 2020 - all plans are the same throughout the U.S., but with different names. Koire also warns that the American Planning Association hosted a 12-week long communications program to re-indoctrinate, re-propagandize planners to inoculate elected officials against citizens speaking against the Agenda 21 program.

American taxpayer dollars are used to support Agenda 21, and some is being funneled to concentrate populations along rail tracks (Biodiversity and Wildlands Project map, http://www.permanan.org/agenda-21-wildlands-map/). Some future human populations will be concentrated in resettlement zones, and some "sustainable developers" will be building high-rise "stack-em and pack-em" units. Sounds like 1984. Big Brother's watching you.

Bottom line: Qui bono? Who benefits? Follow the money.