Making Ripples: post-corporate adventures in Floyd County Virginia

We are invited to be the Earth Healers

I see that the Concerned Citizens Network has the solution to global warming, unemployment, and our huge deficit and it will only require a totalitarian government, presumably run by the CCN.

For those of you who are skeptics and unbelievers, the following quotes are taken verbatim from their latest letter which urges us to support their version of the 2012 Farm Bill.

The fundamental point of their ultimate solution is this:

"For the continual survival of the human race, food choice is no longer a personal preference."

How could we have overlooked that fact? We must obviously adopt a slave mentality and eat what the government tells us to eat.

Their way to attain this utopian state is unbelievably simple:

"A shift to plant-based Organic Agriculture is the quickest way to restore the health of each American and the health of our Planet."

Just in case you missed the flag they are waving, it is vegan totalitarianism:

"We urge you to help American recognize the cruel truth about the meat culture."

They want to subsidize plant-based organic agriculture, not sustainable organic farming. This isn't about making healthier people, it is all about taking control of your life and your diet. These are fascists masquerading as vegans.

Kiss those cheeseburgers goodbye if these zealots ever get their way.

Here is their letter in full:

December 6, 2011

Food Policy Determines Our Destiny

Dear Fellow Journalist David,

If you know of an important solution which could save millions of lives and the world, would you choose to keep quiet or to help to put out  the fire?

We all want a healthier nation with cleaner water, cleaner air, food free from toxic chemicals and genetic modification, and to curb the climate change crisis. With a huge financial deficit, high unemployment, food security issues, water shortage crisis, and rising health care costs, with just one single change in our food policy, we can significantly alleviate each  of the issues above and reset things back to the right track. Now is the time to do it.

The 2012 Farm Bill does not only impact to the future of United States, it also affects the welfare of people all over the world. Tell Congress to start subsidies for Organic Plant Farming. By helping farmers transition and succeed in Organic Plant Farming, United States will build a solid foundation for sustainable agriclture. It is a win win policy for the government, farmers, taxpayers, consumers and the world. This new food policy will determine our destiny.

A good practice goes a long way beyond staying with the law. We urge you to help American recognize the cruel truth about the meat culture. A shift to plant-based Organic Agriculture is the quickest way to restore the health of each American and the health of our Planet. For the continual survival of the human race, food choice is no longer a personal preference.

Join us. Sign the letter today and  share the solution.

For more information, please visit http://http://www.concernedcitizensnetwork.org/take_action/.

Agenda 21: US and UN Share a Global Vision - can we in Floyd resist it?

We have in Floyd the culmination of many dreams. We love the land and appreciate the people whose efforts make the county what it is today. The banner of international sustainable development is a screen for the implementation of communitarian wealth sharing and centralized control. It has little to do with actual conservation of resources.

If local planning efforts actually listen to the citizens living here, we may be able to implement needed changes without losing local control and losing private property rights. If we eagerly jump for the government grants held out as carrots for compliant communities, we can find ourselves obligated to turn control of our communities over to unelected regional authorities.The blueprint for this bleak future is shown below:

Agenda 21: US and UN Share a Global Vision

- reposted from biggovernment.com

by Laura Rambeau Lee

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) was held on June 14, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  At this conference, referred to as the Rio Earth Summit, the participants crafted a blueprint for the world, commonly known as Agenda 21.

In its preamble, Agenda 21, Chapter 1 states “Humanity stands at a defining moment in history. We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being.  However, integration of environment and development concerns and greater attention to them will lead to the fulfilment of basic needs, improved living standards for all, better protected and managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. No nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can – in a global partnership for sustainable development.”

In other words, the goal of the United Nations is social and economic justice through a redistribution of wealth scheme using the threat of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming or climate change to implement the market based solution of carbon emissions trading. The International Monetary Fund has proposed a plan for a Green Fund to achieve this goal.

Following this Earth Summit President George H. W. Bush declared:

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced –a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”

–signed by G.H. Bush, 1992

Despite pressure from the United Nations partners, U.S. delegates did not sign on to the convention.

On June 29, 1993 President Clinton issued Executive Order 12852 establishing the President’s Council on Sustainable Development as a result of the Rio Earth Summit in an effort to cooperate and implement the goals of Agenda 21.  That EO was revoked by Executive Order 13138 on September 30 1999.

During George W. Bush’s two terms as President he continued to further the goals of this UN agenda, following his father’s lead.

Why is all of this important?  This ties in directly with the push for cap and trade legislation that had been floating around the House and Senate the past few years.  When Congress failed to pass a cap and trade bill, on May 14, 2010 the E.P.A. unveiled their rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the largest industrial facilities, with a phased in approach that began on January 1, 2011.  As a result we are hearing about the many coal plants that will be forced to shut down in the next few years, because they cannot meet these emissions reduction numbers, and it will be too expensive to retrofit their plants.  President Obama announced new CAFÉ standards for automobiles that will require them to achieve 36.5 miles to the gallon by 2016 and 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2025. The talking points are that this will help us achieve energy security and reduce our use of foreign oil.  But the truth is that the United States has committed to the United Nations and its partners to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and these CAFÉ standards will have to be met in order to achieve this goal.

When the cap and trade legislation failed to pass, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) said “The Obama administration has again reminded Washington that if Congress won’t legislate, the EPA will regulate.  Those who have spent years stalling need to understand: killing a Senate bill is no longer success.   And if Congress won’t legislate a solution, the EPA will regulate one, and it will come without the help to America’s business and consumers contained in the American Power Act.”   It is apparent in his statement that this administration is intent on pursuing this agenda with or without Congressional approval.

In April of 2010 Jon Stewart, of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, interviewed Lisa P. Jackson, the Administrator of the E.P.A.  During their discussion she stated that they were waiting for the price of carbon to be established so that we could meet our obligations to the country and the entire world.  At the time I did not understand what she was talking about, but it is apparent now what she meant.

The United States made commitments to the global community that it would implement emissions reductions, and even though this country never ratified this treaty it is intent on complying with its dictates.

Click below to see the Daily Show interview with Lisa P. Jackson

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-26-2010/lisa-p--jackson

 

Another disturbing trend - weaponizing government bureaucrats

If you have not seen reports of Department of Education SWAT teams and armed raids by other bloated government agencies, you have not been trying.

Putting weapons in the hands of non-law enforcement bureacrats is an invitation to disaster. Its smacks of a major move toward implementing a totalitarian state.

What's next? Armed school crossing guards?

Here are a few recent stories:

Weaponizing the Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board

Quin Hillyer discusses the increasing armed firepower of the federal government.  Most people expect agencies like the FBI to be well armed for law enforcement purposes.  But the Railroad Retirement Board?  He reports that federal agencies far and wide now have armed agents, including the Small Business Administration.  For what?  To scare away phony 8(a) applications??  The United States Department of Education bought 27 Remington Model 870 12-gauge shotguns last year.  Here is the request for proposals to sell the weapons.  Perhaps the contracting officer, Holly Lee, knows why on earth the Department of Education needs a weapons arsenal. Maybe for the Department of Education SWAT team.

Here is a partial list of agencies that have decided to arm their agents so they can carry out their duties with lethal force:

• Department of Education
• Small Business Administration
• Departments of Health and Human Services
• Agriculture, Labor, and Veterans Affairs
• Bureau of Land Management
• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Fish and Wildlife Service

We are already seeing tragedies as a result of this trend: Ninja Bureacrats on the Loose

It seems that many in the government are not content with disarming the American public, now they want to carry arms to enforce their capricious and unconstitutional policies.