The U.N. Plan for Your Community
 By Berit Kjos http://www.crossroad.to Global action plan matches PCSD
report: Sustainable America
".....current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle
class - involving high meat intake use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and
work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable. A
shift is necessary. which will require a vast strengthening of the
multilateral system, including the United Nations "... 1 Maurice Strong ,
opening speech at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development 2.
 To many well-meaning people Agenda 21 sounds good. This U.N. document,
drafted for the purpose of creating sustainable societies and saving the
earth from environmental catastrophes, has been welcomed by nations around
the world. Political, cultural, and media leaders have embraced its alluring
visions of social justice and a healthy planet. Relatively few are willing
to consider the contrary facts and colossal costs.
 After all, what could be wrong with preserving resources for the next
generation? Why not limit consumption and reduce energy use? Why not abolish
poverty and establish a global welfare system to train parents, monitor
intolerance, and meet all our needs? Why not save the planet by trading cars
for bikes, an open market for self-sustaining communities, and single
dwellings for dense human settlements (located on transit lines) where
everyone would dialogue, share common ground, and be equal?
 The answer is simple. Marxist economics has never worked. Socialism
produces poverty, not prosperity. Collectivism creates oppression, not
freedom. Trusting environmental scientists who depend on government funding
and must produce politically useful information will lead to economic and
social disaster. 3
 Even so, local and national leaders around the world are following the UN
blueprint for global management and sustainable communities, and President
Klinton is leading the way. A letter I received from The President's Council
on Sustainable Development states that -  In April 1997, President Klinton
asked the council to advise him on: next steps in building a new
environmental management system for the 21st century... and policies that
foster U.S. leadership on sustainable development internationally. The
council was also charged to ensure that social equity issues are fully
integrated ...
 Many of our representatives are backing his plan. In a 1997 letter
congratulating the Local Agenda 21 Advisory Board in Santa Cruz for
completing their Action Plan, Congressman Sam Farr wrote,  The Local Agenda
21 Action Plan not only has local significance, it also will have regional
and national impacts. As you know, the President's Council on Sustainable
Development is beginning Phase III of its work with an emphasis on
sustainable communities.4
 This agenda may already be driving your community's development (it is
doing so in Florida!) , so be alert to the clues. Notice buzzwords such as
visioning, partners, and stakeholders. Know how to resist the consensus
process. Ask questions, but don't always trust the answers. Remember,
political activists, like self-proclaimed education change agents , have put
expediency above integrity. As North Carolina school superintendent Jim
Causby said at a 1994 international model school conference, We have
actually been given a course in how not to tell the truth. You've had that
course in public relations where you learn to put the best spin on things. 5
 To recognize and resist this unconstitutional shadow government of laws and
regulations being imposed on our nation without congressional approval, take
a closer look at its history and nature.
 Agenda 21
 This global contract binds governments around the world to the UN plan for
changing the ways we live, eat, learn, and communicate - all under the noble
banner of saving the earth. Its regulations would severely limit water,
electricity, and transportation - even deny human access to our most
treasured wilderness areas. If implemented, it would manage and monitor all
lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system
 This agenda for the 21st Century was signed by 179 nations at the UN
Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Among
other things, it called for a Global Bio-diversity Assessment of the state
of the planet. Prepared by the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), this GBA
armed UN leaders with the information and science they needed to validate
their global management system. Its doomsday predictions were designed to
excuse radical population reduction, oppressive lifestyle regulations, and
a coercive return to earth-centered religions as the basis for environmental
values and self-sustaining human settlements.
 The GBA concluded on page 763 that the root causes of the loss of
bio-diversity are embedded in the way societies use resources. The main
culprit? Judeo-Christian values. Chapter 12.2.3 states that- This world view
is characteristic of large scale societies, heavily dependent on resources
brought from considerable distances. It is a world view that is
characterized by the denial of sacred attributes in nature, a characteristic
that became firmly established about 2000 years ago with the
Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious traditions.
 Eastern cultures with religious traditions such as Buddhism, Jainism and
Hinduism did not depart as drastically from the perspective of humans as
members of a community of beings including other living and non-living
elements.6
 Maurice Strong, who led the Rio conference, seems to agree. His ranch in
Colorado is a gathering place for Buddhist, Bahai, Native American, and
other earth-centered religions. Yet, while spearheading the restructuring of
the United Nations (see World Heritage Protection?), he also helped design
the blueprint for the transformation of our communities. And in his
introduction to The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, he called local leaders
around the world to undertake a consultative process with their populations
and achieve a consensus on 'Local Agenda 21' for their communities.
 Achieving that consensus meant painting scary scenarios of a hurting, dying
planet that frighten children, anger youth, and persuade adults to submit to
the unthinkable regulations. (See Saving the Earth) It means blaming climate
change on human activities and ignoring the natural factors that have -
throughout time - brought cyclical changes in climate, storm patterns,
wildlife migration, and ozone thinning (there has never been a hole ).
 Natural factors you seldom hear about: * the earth's orbit around the sun *
the gravitational pull of the moon (affects tidal forces and trigger
volcanoes which cool the earth and produce El Ninos) * major volcanic
eruptions which affect the ozone layer far more than all human activity *
sunspot activity (times of great solar turbulence which heat the earth and
recurs every nine to thirteen years) * the earth's relationship to other
stars and planets * storm tracks * the earth's magnetic field (deflects
storm tracks) * the annual decrease of stratospheric ozone each southern
winter (our summer) when the sun's seasonal absence prevents ultraviolet
rays from interacting with oxygen and producing ozone.
 

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans." Comrade Pres W. J. Klinton. USAToday. 11 Mar 93. Pg 2A.  "You
know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to
have their fair say." Comrade Pres W. J. Klinton. 28 May 93. The Courtyard.
City Hall, Philadelphia.  "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing
through our papers. We are the President." Comrade Hillary Diane Klinton.