Classified info on Clinton server, thumb drive violation of law, national security lawyer says

By Catherine Herridge

Published July 31, 2015

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Classified emails on Hillary Clinton's personal server, and a back-up copy on a thumb drive held by her lawyer David Kendall, appear to be a violation of the U.S. code governing the unlawful removal and storage of classified information, according to a leading national security lawyer.
"In most situations like this you'd expect that a warrant would be issued and that the Marshals and the feds -- FBI, somebody would go and get that thumb drive and take it somewhere where it would be considered safe by the government," said Edward MacMahon Jr., an attorney who has handled major national security cases including the leak investigation of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling.
Under 18 USC 1924, the unlawful removal and storage of classified information is described as when a person "knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location." The law sets punishment of a fine or prison term of "not more than one year."
Attorney General Loretta Lynch made no commitment Friday to secure the classified information. "The inspectors general for the State Department and at least one other IG are reviewing how material was handled," she said. "We will review it as we review all referrals to us and take whatever steps are appropriate, if any, at this time."
Fox News is told the information on Clinton's emails came from the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National-Geospatial Agency, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency. Dozens of additional emails released by the State Department Friday were retroactively classified, some as recently as Thursday.
A CIA spokesperson had no public comment, and the ODNI referred calls to the intelligence community inspector general, who could not comment on the intelligence's source.

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• Double standard over Hillary's handling of classified info?

The details about classified and sensitive material are putting new pressure on Clinton to turn over her server and thumb drive for inspection. It was revealed last week that intelligence community and State Department watchdogs warned potentially "hundreds" of classified emails were on the system. Clinton has said all along she never sent or received information that was classified at the time.
But the revelation that her attorney has a thumb-drive back-up copy on top of Clinton's personal server at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., strongly suggests a double standard in the application of the law is at play -- as former CIA Director David Petraeus was prosecuted for removing classified information in his personal black notebooks, improperly sharing it with his biographer who had a security clearance, and storing the notebooks at his Virginia home, rather than a secure facility.
Court documents in that case said the FBI "executed a court-authorized search warrant at the PETRAEUS Residence and seized the Black Books from an unlocked desk drawer in the first-floor study of the PETRAEUS Residence."
A State Department spokesman told Fox News that Clinton's lawyer has "clearance. We've provided the lawyers with instructions regarding appropriate measures for physically securing the documents and confirmed via a physical security expert that they are taking those measures." Fox News was told the thumb drive is being held in a safe, but the State Department statement did not address the issue that classified information should never have been on the private server, or the thumb drive, and stored outside of a secure government facility.
At Friday's press briefing, department spokesman Mark Toner also said comparing the Clinton and Petraeus situations is "apples to oranges." Toner denied that any laws had been broken.
"There are rules that guard how [classified information is] supposed to be ... with how information is supposed to be stored and requires that it be handled in what's called a SCIF mostly -- a classified information facility with only limited access -- certain people can get into it," MacMahon said.
A source close to the intelligence community inspector general said they are increasingly confident the server and thumb drive will be physically recovered.
In a letter to FBI Director James Comey and Secretary of State John Kerry, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked why the FBI had not acted as classified information has not been physically secured according to the statute.  
He cited recent inspectors general warnings that classified information was found in a sample of her emails, and said, "These recent revelations raise important questions about the role the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken and will continue to take in this matter."
He noted that "a notification from the IC indicates that these classified emails existed on a thumb drive and may exist on a server," citing a briefing by inspectors general in saying Kendall "was in possession of the thumb drive at the time of the notice to the FBI and other IC components."
He added, "This raises very serious questions and concerns if a private citizen is somehow retaining classified information. Accordingly, please explain whether Mr. Kendall had the requisite security clearance and authorization to be the custodian of classified national security information. If not, please explain what steps the FBI has taken or plans to take to secure and prevent further dissemination of the classified information contained on the thumb drive."
A senior government official, such as a secretary of state with a high level security clearance, agrees to safeguard classified information -- that includes the use of a SCIF, which stands for sensitive compartmentalized information facility. In almost every case, a SCIF is build right into the home, and then removed after their term has concluded.
After he resigned from CIA in 2012, Petraeus' home was raided shortly after his CIA SCIF was removed.
"The crime of improperly storing classified information is actually a misdemeanor," MacMahon said. "Most of the people that plead guilty to those crimes plead to misdemeanors, they lose security clearances they have to go through the whole criminal justice process which is no fun, but, what we don't know is what she did -- who is she emailing this information to?"
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson and Matthew Dean contributed to this report. 
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.

Habitat II The UN Plan For Human Settlements by Berit Kjos, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1996 (I attended this UN Conference as a registered reporter sponsored by two Christian organizations) Skip down to Community & Solidarity or Communist Manifesto Local Agenda 21 (Compare the US and UN plan for solidarity)

UNESCO Gorbachev's Plan For A United World Home

"Land...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership  is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...." (Item #10 in the UN agenda at the 1976 Habitat I.  American delegates supported this policy)

Bicycles instead of cars? Dense apartment clusters instead of single homes? Community rituals instead of churches? "Human rights" instead of religious freedom?
The UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), which met June 3-14 in Istanbul, painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways-free speech, individualism, travel, and Christianity-are out. A new set of economic, environmental, and social guidelines are in. Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Handpicked civil leaders will implement UN "laws", bypassing state and national representatives to work directly with the UN. And politically correct "tolerance"-meaning "the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism" as well as "appreciation" for the world's religions and lifestyles-is "not only a moral duty, it is also a political and legal requirement."1
Hard to believe? Not for veteran UN observers who faced boos and hisses for expressing concern in open UN assemblies. Nor for pro-family members of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) who faced exclusion from public dialogues for opposing feminist commander Bella Abzug and her radical agenda. And not for those who watched the ecstatic welcome given Fidel Castro and his anti-American diatribe.
Yet, our president and our non-elected American delegates, headed by U.S. Secretary Henry Cisneros, endorse this revolutionary plan, and our U.S. Department of Education is already establishing the framework for its local implementation. Why? What is happening?
PRO-COMMUNIST IDEALS
"We are the world and the world does not yield to masters nor to suicidal policies," declared Castro, concluding his June 14 plenary remarks aimed at Western capitalist nations. "The world does not accept that a minority of selfish, insane and irresponsible people lead it to annihilation."
"Fidel, Fidel..." shouted the audience. The thunderous applause followed him all the way back to the Cuban section on the other side of the hall, where fans lined up to shake his hand.
Why are you so enthusiastic?" I asked some of his fans after the session.
"Because he stood up to America," someone answered.
"Because he is a living myth," explained another. "He was a simple guerrilla, fighting for the oppressed against the rich and powerful."
"Fighting for the oppressed..." The UN claims that mission, but third-world women who have faced its abusive birth control practices tell a different story. Like the Communist Manifesto, the alluring UN promises designed to win support cloak an agenda that shows little compassion once power has been won.
In fact, Communist ideology permeated major NGO (non-governmental organizations) workshops, official UN literature, and the organizational guidelines for local communities. Entering the massive "Best Practices" exhibition of model cities, visitors immediately faced wall-sized pictures and elaborate models of Chinese housing projects and community plans. Displays from the rest of the world shared the strips along the outer perimeter of the cavernous hall.
Behind the huge Chinese section, visitors watched Turner Broadcasting videos. Featuring Jane Fonda who once brought anti-American greetings to North Vietnam, each film taught a politically correct plan for personal empowerment: A roomful of men learn to use Singer sewing machines. Women are trained to run a collective construction company. A sad mother holding a crying baby brings a politically correct message: "Baby Miguel's life would be different if his mother was educated and working." A tough Jamaican supervisor at a women's collective shouts, "We don't want to make babies, we want to make money! We can become meaningful people to society without having children! WE MUST PRODUCE, NOT REPRODUCE!"
POPULATION CONTROL
The Turner-Fonda message matches the feminist agenda. Former U.S. congresswoman Bella Abzug,[2] who had led the onslaught on traditional values at the 1995 UN conference in Beijing, now helped engineer an official partnership between UN leaders, national delegates, and NGOs that support the UN gender agenda. Stationed around the world, her feminist troops promise to serve as watchdogs, making sure "civil society" implements their program for indoctrinating students with feminist ideology. Inspired by the spirits of earthy goddesses such as Athena and Ishtar whom they worshipped in Beijing, they have little tolerance for Christians and others who oppose their agenda.
"We want to change things," declared Abzug. "We'll be on executive boards. We want the participation of NGO's on the security council."
She serves the globalist purpose well. Mobilizing worldwide rebellion against Christian values, pushing birth control and gender-role equality for every family, demanding sex education for every student, and requiring international surveillance to monitor compliance, her followers are speeding the global revolution. Like countless other UN partners, they are winning by propaganda, intimidation, and growing popular consent.
Note that population control means controlling people, not merely births. Regarded as international law, the Habitat Agenda negotiated in Istanbul includes all the intrusive action plans outlined at former UN world conferences. "We want to ensure that previously endorses language [from former UN conferences] is upheld and incorporated into this document," declared Henry Cisneros, U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) who led the US delegation.[3]
This "international law" would limit not only the size of the world population but also housing, production, consumption, parenting, communication, and religious expression.[4] Its alarming resemblance to the USSR Constitution [5] implies far greater restrictions than those specifically stated in the Habitat Agenda. Since many specifics were detailed at previous UN conferences, it cannot be fully understood outside the context of the progressive plan for global governance as outlined in all the documents.
Training in global citizenship would begin with the universal education system outlined at the 1990 UN World Conference on Education for All. It matches Goals 2000, America's version of the international education system. Already molding minds around the world, the UN plan for "lifelong learning" indoctrinates young and old with the socialist ideology and earth-centered spirituality designed to create solidarity, an essential element to the envisioned world of peace.
SOLIDARITY
Traditional beliefs simply don't fit the UN vision for 21st Century communities. To find more universal values, Habitat leaders convened a day-long "Dialogue" on the meaning of Solidarity at the elegant Ciragan Palace in Istanbul. The official list of 21 panel members included former Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, and Maurice Strong [6] who led the 1992 UN conference on environment.
"I have gathered leaders with tremendous wisdom and prestige," began Habitat Secretary-General Wally N'Dow. "They are bringing the spiritual dimension-the only ingredient that can bind societies together." He had chosen an American moderator who would add credibility to the discussion: Robert MacNeil (of MacNeil-Lehrer), "one of the spiritual lights of the media industry today."
This hand-picked "interfaith group" left little doubt that solidarity meant a universal shift to the new globalist-New Age paradigm (or world-view). "Change your whole way of thinking, because the new order of the spirit is confronting and challenging you," said Millard Fuller, President of Habitat for Humanity.
"Citizenship for the next century is learning to live together," said Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO. "The 21st Century city will be a city of social solidarity.... We have to redefine the words... [and write a new] social contract."

"We should stop bemoaning the growth of cities. It’s going to happen and it’s a good thing, because cities are the vectors of social change and transformation. Let’s just make sure that social change and transformation are going in the right direction.... The media must act as part of the education process that counters individualism."[5]

The heart of lifelong education would be spiritual training. "What's needed is an interfaith center in every city of the globe," said James Morton, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, who organized the panel. "The new interfaith centers will honor the rituals of every... faith tradition: Islam, Hinduism, Jain, Christian [a cross-less version that blends with other beliefs]... and provide opportunity for sacred expressions needed to bind the people of the planet into a viable, meaningful, and sustainable solidarity."
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The guiding principle of the new universal education system is "sustainable development." People everywhere must be taught "facts" about environmental "risks" that are sensational enough to scare them into compliance. They must be persuaded to accept unthinkable limits on consumption, land use, transportation, and family size. Everyone must protect resources for future generations, say UN leaders, but they agree that the real meaning of sustainability is based on the E's: Environment, Economy, and Equity, which point to a redistribution of the world's resources-money, energy, water, and people-in order to create global equality.
History has shown the emptiness of these promises. Long ago the Communist Manifesto announced a proletarian revolution which would empower the poor by redistributing wealth. Everyone would be equal. Men and women alike would join the socialist workforce, and children would be trained by the state.
It happened! All but the leaders became equally poor, and all the children were indoctrinated with an anti-Christian socialist philosophy. Morally and economically, the masses sank to the level of the lowest common denominator.
The similarities between the Communist Manifesto and the UN agenda (outlined in the Beijing Declaration and incorporated into the Habitat Agenda) should be a call to action. Both revolutions--

• Use psychology and sociology to establish the victimhood, blame and anger needed to fuel the revolution.
• Use education to conform minds to the new ideology.
• Use synthesis (blending opposing views into compromise beliefs that match new goals) to produce group consensus.
• Promise economic equality to seduce the masses.
• Spread hatred toward "extremists" who refuse to compromise.

The Communist Manifesto led to religious, moral and economic bankruptcy. Yet UN-led activists and their US partners are determined to fulfill their utopian visions.
IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN
The US Network for Habitat II is one of a myriad of national and international UN organizations committed to carry out the UN plan in local communities. "The Network is a forum for making sure people are heard," explained one of its leaders. "Its role is to tie together the messages from all six UN conferences into practical action."[7]
"Partnerships will be increasingly important," he continued. "People in faith communities can help us. We use the African proverb: "'It takes a village to raise a child.' ...Collaboration links...government, the private sector, and the civil sector."
Do you see the resemblance to the "People's Government" that characterized the local "soviets" in the former USSR? Lenin knew he couldn't win through representative democracy, so he organized local assemblies called Soviets. Linked through a national federation of Soviets, each local Soviet was ruled by the uneducated proletariat, the "raw material to be molded by an audacious leader"[8]  skilled in the use of propaganda. Private merchants, landlords, and priests were excluded from leadership. The chosen elites were supervised and disciplined by rulers at a higher level. Few dared complain. As Andrei Vishinsky wrote in The Law of the Soviet State, "There can be no place for freedom of speech, press, and so on for the foes of socialism."[9]
The UN plan matches US plans. The UN agenda fits well into the policy-making framework already being established in US communities. Three official plans for transforming cities show how UN tactics for change works hand-in-globe with US strategies.
In 1995, school districts from coast to coast were asked to use Education Secretary Riley's Community Action Toolkit to change public opinion and win support for Goals 2000. In 1996, two similar plans for local transformation were introduced:

• The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, the Habitat II action plan based on Agenda 21, the environmental program negotiated at the 1992 UN World Conference on Environment and Development.
• Sustainable America: A New Consensus, a report by The President's Council for Sustainable Development.

The striking similarity between the three plans suggest an alarming cooperation between the UN and US authors. All three share the following buzzwords or concepts: partnerships, consensus, lifelong learning, baselines or benchmarks, monitoring, assessment, data gathering, systemic change, system thinking, social development, etc. All stress the need to measure, assess, and monitor progress.
All are designed to bypass traditional government and govern people through a form of "citizens" or "grassroots participation" which the Encyclopedia Britannica refers to as "totalitarian democracy" and Communist leaders have called "People's Government." In the US, this system is already bypassing both state and national representative governments. As in Lenin's Soviets, neither UN forums nor the US community meetings on education will acknowledge dissenting voices. Resisters are silenced by trained facilitators who only record voices that echo the "right" ideology.[10]
Notice below how the UN's Local Agenda 21 and President Clinton's Sustainable America fit into the new bureaucratic framework already being established through America's official Community Action Toolkit. Note also how they match Hitler's strategies, which he learned from watching the USSR. [They also match the tactics Obama learned during his time as Community Organizer.]
"STEP 1: IDENTIFY A LEADERSHIP TEAM"[11]
Community Action Toolkit: "Concentrate on gaining the involvement of the 15 percent of people typically open to new ideas [not committed to America's traditional moral values] -- and ask them to help involve the other 75 percent.... Try not to spend too much time responding to the... unwelcome actions of the 10 percent [moral conservatives] who may actively oppose your change efforts..."[12] (Community Action Toolkit)
Hitler's Mein Kampf: "The most striking success of a revolution will always have been achieved when the new philosophy of life as far as possible has been taught to all men, and if necessary, later forced upon them." [13] He tells his followers to 'sift the human material it wins into two large groups: supporters and members.... A supporter of a movement is one who declares himself to be in agreement with its aims, a member is one who fights for them.... and corresponds only to the minority of men.'"[14]
Local Agenda 21 (UN): "The proper selection of participants for the Stakeholder Group and its Working Groups is perhaps the most critical step in establishing a partnership planning process. The composition of the participants will determine...consensus for action.... Include... representatives of groups who are traditionally underrepresented" including "special groups of people (women, youth and indigenous people)... media, environmentalists...."[15] Consider "the inclusion of individuals with credibility...." (p. 22)
Sustainable America: "Steps should be taken to ensure that historically under-represented groups are involved." (p. 90) "Building stronger links... can revitalize grassroots democracy...." (p. 89)
"STEP 2: DEVELOP A COMMON VISION"
Community Action Toolkit: "Two vision-building tools are discussed: holding community meetings and conducting surveys."[16]
Local Agenda 21 (UN): "The first task of such a Stakeholder Group is to formulate a Community Vision which describes the community's ideal future and expresses a local consensus...." (p. 8)
Sustainable America: "Through a series of meetings and events, the community develops a vision for its future." (p. 88) 'n Portland, Oregon, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Seattle, WA... citizens are participating in community "visioning" exercises. Through these, they typically envision a safe and healthy community...." (p. 76)
Hitler: When a movement harbors the purpose of tearing down a world and building another in its place, complete clarity must reign in the ranks of its own leadership...." [17]
"STEP 3: DEVELOP A STRATEGY"
Community Action Toolkit: "Specify Goals, Set Benchmarks, Describe Allies and Opponents, Identify Change Agents, Develop Action Steps...."[18]
Sustainable America: "Specific economic, environmental, and social goals are determined.... Next, the community sets priorities for its goals, identifies specific actions, and establishes indicators or benchmarks to measure progress...." (p. 88)
Local Agenda 21 (UN): "Establish distinct Working Group structures under the supervision of the Stakeholder Group... Working Groups are given responsibility for ... priority setting, issue analysis, visioning, action planning, implementation...." (p. 15)
"...it is vital that concrete targets be developed.... They also are used to measure progress...." (p. 103)
"STEP 4: IMPLEMENT... AND EVALUATE...."
"Create a timeline, measure results, gather data...." (Community Action Toolkit)
Sustainable America: "National indicators of public well-being will build on the information identified, gathered, and disseminated...." (p. 67) "Education for sustainability is lifelong....Benefits... include an understanding of... social and economic changes that will affect their lives." (p. 72)
Local Agenda 21 (UN): "The key to successful community-based assessment process is to link the use of participant assessment exercises and expert technical assessments.... The full assessment exercise can be used to educate residents and stakeholders." (p. 51)
"Tools used for the presentation of information can range from workshops to puppet theaters...." (p. 53)
"GUIDE TO GETTING OUT YOUR MESSAGE"
Community Action Toolkit: "Find information that lends credence to your argument and creates a sense of urgency." "One of the best ways to influence public opinion is to influence the news and information that people rely upon in making decisions."[19]
Hitler: "The first task of propaganda is to win people for subsequent organization.... The second task of propaganda is the disruption of the existing state of affairs and the permeation of this state of affairs with the new doctrine...."[20]
Sustainable America: "Community-based coalitions can create educational media campaigns..., disseminate high-quality information on community issues, and promote public discussions that identify solutions to problems." (p. 90)
Local Agenda 21 (UN): Use "neighborhood surveys, community meetings, and public forums to directly engage the resident population in identifying and analyzing issues...." (p. 45)
FALSIFYING EVIDENCE TO WIN SUPPORT
"Accurate information" and "analyzing issues" are two of many seductive euphemism that deceive the public. Truth and facts matter little. What counts are stories and "scientific" arguments that evoke the "right" response: a willingness to submit to unthinkable controls in order to save the earth. For a glimpse at the twisted data used as evidence for environmental risks, ponder the following comment by Dr. Frederick Seitz, past President of the National Academy of Sciences:
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN organization regarded by many as the best source of scientific information about the human impact on the earth's climate, released "The Science of Climate Change 1995".... I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer review process.... More than 15 sections... were changed or deleted after the scientists charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text... The following passages are examples of those deleted:

• "None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to... increases in greenhouse gases."
• "No study to date has positively attributed all or part of the climate change to... man-made causes."

"IPCC reports are often called the "consensus" view. If they lead to carbon taxes and restraints on economic growth, they will have a major and almost certainly destructive impact on the economies of the world.... Their effect is to deceive policy makers and the public into believing that the scientific evidence shows human activities are causing global warming.[21]
"Without "proof" that humans cause global warming, globalist lose their strongest argument for world governance. Therefore they cannot let mere facts slow the spreading public persuasion that humanity's future rests in the hands of UN-US environmental 'saviors.'"
BUT GOD STILL REIGNS
"Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?" asked the psalmist. "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and His Anointed, saying, 'Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us."
The words King David wrote more than 2000 years ago, fit our times. Then as now, the leaders joined together to plot the end of God's reign. They would destroy His influence, break free from His natural order, and establish a new form of government based on their own imagination. History shows the devastating results. But God continues to reign! No matter how much people shun, mock or slander Him, He remains God. We, not He, become the losers when we ignore Him and shun His truth.
"The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing, He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect," wrote the author of Psalm 33. "The counsel of the Lord stands forever." To those who know His wisdom, that's good news!
The bad news is that most of the world is following false counsel. It's time for Americans wake up, return to God, and stand together against the oppressive forces that now surround and permeate America.
Meanwhile there is no need for fear. Someone has wisely said, "Christianity is designed to be lived in difficult places." No matter how hard it gets, He offers shelter to all who trust Him and follow His wisdom.

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;  Of whom shall I be afraid? ...

Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear;
Though war should rise against me,  in this I will be confident.

One thing I have desired of the Lord,  that will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord  all the days of my life..."

Psalm 27:1-4

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ENDNOTES:

1 The Declaration of Principles on Tolerance, adopted and signed by the Member States of the UNESCO on 16 November, 1995.

2 Bella Abzug founded WEDO (Women's Environmental and Development Organization), which has joined with other feminist NGOs to form the Supercoalition.

3 US Press briefing, Istanbul, June 14, 1996.

4 Habitat Agenda items: 54, 103, 16, 9,19, 97, 52 and others.

5 Documented in a report by Linda Liotta and Joan Veon.

6 Maurice Strong failed to come as scheduled.

7 NGO press briefing, Istanbul, June 13, 1996.

8 Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: William Benton, 1968), 19, p. 815.

9 Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 163.

10 The Delphi Technique for producing a semblance of consensus pervades community forums on education. Brave New Schools (Harvest House Publishers) describes the process.

11 Community Action Toolkit (National Education Goals Panel, 1994), cog-5.

12 Ibid., goym-6, 7.

13 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Cambridge: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1943), 582.

14 Ibid., 581.

15 The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide (Toronto: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, 1996), p. 20-21.

16 Community Action Toolkit, cog-8.

17 Hitler, 581.

18 Community Action Toolkit, cog-33.

19 Ibid., Goym-12, 28.

20 Hitler, 581-582.

21 Frederick Seitz, "A Major Deception on Global Warming," The Wall Street Journal, 12 June 1996.

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July 31, 2015 Search GDAE Subscribe for E-mail Updates Recent Publications GDAE in the News Upcoming Events Publicaciones en Espanol Jobs and Resources	GDAE Researchers and Staff Printable Version Kevin Gallagher Global Development And Environment Institute Fletcher School, Cabot Center Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 tel. - 617-627-5467  fax - 617-627-2409 kevin.gallagher@tufts.edu Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION Ph.D. International Political Economy, Tufts University, 2003 M.A. International Environmental Policy, Tufts University, 1999 B.A. Political Science/Biology, Northeastern University, 1991 EXPERIENCE 2000- Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Research Associate, Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. Examine the social and environmental effects of economic integration in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in Mexico. Conduct research; author articles, reports, policy briefs, and books; conduct workshops; deliver lectures at conferences; raise funds. 1994-1999 Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Project Manager/Research Analyst, Frontier Issues in Economic Thought Project. Co-edited and managed six-volume research and publication project on the economics of sustainable development. Edited, researched, summarized, and assessed academic articles and reports; conducted and facilitated project planning and research; authored articles; organized conferences and seminar series. 1992-1994 Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA. Public Education Organizer, Energy and Climate Change Program. Coordinated a national renewable energy and global climate change education program. Researched local renewable energy projects in the United States for book length volume. Assisted in the incorporation of renewable energy and energy efficiency in low income housing in Boston; conducted workshops at high schools and college campuses. 1991-1992 Offices of U.S. Representative Chester G. Atkins, United States Congress, Washington, DC. Fellow. Helped prepare legislative agenda for national water conservation policy, national energy policy, and international population policy. Assisted Americans in efforts to adopt Romanian orphans. Monitored environmental clean-up after Persian Gulf Crisis. Attended courses on the global environment at the Congressional Research Institute. TEACHING Spring 2003 Adjunct Professor of International Economics, Department of International Relations, Boston University. Course: Introduction to International Economics Summer 2003 Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University. Course: Globalization and the Environment. PUBLICATIONS - Kevin Gallagher Books International Trade and Sustainable Development, edited jointly with Jacob Werskman. (London: Earthscan, 2002). Transboundary Environmental Negotiation: New Approaches to Global Cooperation, edited jointly with Lawrence Susskind and William R. Moomaw. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002) Reforming the International Environmental Treaty-Making System, edited jointly with Lawrence Susskind and William R. Moomaw. (Cambridge, Harvard Program on Negotiation Press, 2001). International Environmental Negotiation: An Integrative Approach, edited jointly with Lawrence Susskind and William R. Moomaw. (Cambridge: Harvard Program on Negotiation Press, 2000). Frontiers Issues in Economic Thought series (published by Island Press, Washington, DC), co-editor, researcher, writer, and project manager for: A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions, edited jointly with Jonathan Harris, Neva Goodwin, and Tim Wise (2001). The Political Economy of Inequality, edited jointly with Frank Ackerman, Neva Goodwin, and Laurie Dougherty (2000). The Changing Nature of Work, edited jointly with Frank Ackerman, Neva Goodwin, and Laurie Dougherty (1998). Human Well-Being and Economic Goals, edited jointly with Neva Goodwin, David Kiron, and Jonathan Harris (1997). Renewables Are Ready: People Creating Renewable Energy Solutions, written jointly with Nancy Cole, P.J. Skerret and others (White River Junction: Chelsea Green, 1995). Articles and Book Chapters "The CEC and Environmental Quality: Assessing the Mexican Experience." Greening NAFTA: The Experience and Potential of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. David Markell and John Knox, eds. (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003). "Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Did NAFTA Matter?" Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade. Carolyne Deere and Daniel Esty, eds. (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2002). "Mixed Signals: Recycling, Price Incentives, and the Crisis of 1995," Resources, Conservation & Recycling vol. 35 no. 4, August 2002, pp.275-295 (jointly with Frank Ackerman). "The Fiscal Impacts of Investment Provisions in United States Trade Agreements." Study prepared for Taxpayers for Common Sense (jointly with Frank Ackerman), May 2002. "Environmental Reviews of Trade Agreements: Assessing the North American Experience." Study prepared for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (jointly with Frank Ackerman and Luke Ney), January 2002. "Environmental Impacts of the Changes in US-Mexico Corn Trade Under NAFTA." Study prepared for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (jointly with Frank Ackerman, Luke Ney, and Regina Flores), January 2002. "‘Dirt' is in the Eye of the Beholder: The World Bank Air Pollution Intensities for Mexico." (jointly with Francisco Aguayo and Citlalic Gonzales) GDAE Working Paper 01-07, 2001. "The Limits of Economic Modeling in the FTAA Environmental Review." (jointly with Frank Ackerman and Alejandro Nadal). GDAE, Official comments to the United States Trade Representative, submitted in January, 2001. Available at ase.tufts.edu/gdae. "Trade Liberalization and Pollution Intensive Industry in Developing Countries: A Partial Equilibrium Approach." The Environmental Assessment of Trade Liberalization Agreements. (Paris: OECD, 2000). (jointly with Frank Ackerman) "Pollution Intensive Industry in Mexico Under NAFTA: Model and Empirical Evidence," to Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies, Volume XV, 1999. "Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy." (2001) Taking Sides on Economic Issues, T. Swartz and F. Bonello eds. New York, McGraw-Hill. (jointly with Frank Ackerman). "Civil Society, the Environment, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas," International Environmental Negotiations: An Integrated Approach, 2000. (see above) "The Kyoto Protocol: A Blueprint for Sustainable Development," (jointly with William R. Moomaw, Kilaparti Ramakrishna, and Tobin Fried). Journal of Environment and Development, March 1999. Popular Articles/Opinion Sustainability Assessments: Tools for Effective Trade Policy, Americas Program Policy Report, April, 2003 (Silver City, NM:Interhemispheric Resource Center). NAFTA: A Cautionary Tale, Foreign Policy in Focus, October, 2002 (jointly with Tim Wise). The Year of the Price Spike. Resource Recycling, August 2002 (jointly with Frank Ackerman). Fast Track Trade Authority: Fix its Environmental Problems or Nix it. San Diego Union Tribune, May 1, 2002. Bring a Greener Trade Bill to the Senate, Providence Journal, April 19, 2002. Fast Track: Fix it or Nix it, Americas Program Commentary, January 21, 2002 (Silver City, NM:Interhemispheric Resource Center). The Panacea Myth, The International Economy, July/August, 2001. Have Faith in Free Trade –The Greatest Story Over Sold, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 2001. LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS Greening the FTAA Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 2003. Delivered presentations on Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in the Americas, and Sustainability Assessments of the FTAA. Hemispheric Trade and Environment Forum, Quito, Ecuador, October 2002. Delivered paper titled: Economic Analysis in the USTR's Environmental Review of the FTAA: A Critical Assessment. World Summit for Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2002. Delivered paper titled, "Liberalizing Environmental Goods and Services Trade Under the WTO: Should the Developing Countries Give it the Green light?" World Wildlife Fund, Brasilia, Brazil, April, 2002. Peer review participant on a study of the environmental impacts of trade-led expansion of the Brazilian Soy Sector. North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada. Expert Meeting: Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade, January 17-18, 2002. Presented paper: "Environmental Reviews of Trade Agreements: Assessing the North American Experience." Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Panama City, Panama. Gave workshop on the environment and development implications of proposed investment provisions in the FTAA. China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, Trade and Environment Working Group Meeting, August 26 -September 1, 2001, Beijing, China. Helped design assessments of the potential environmental effects of China's Accession to the WTO. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Integrated Program on Urban, Regional and Global Air Pollution's Mexico City Project, May 2001. Lecture with Francisco Aguayo "Complications in the Design of Air Pollution Data for Mexico." Fourth US-Mexico Joint Workshop on Air Pollution, 8-10 March, 2001, El Colegio de Mexico. US and Mexico expert workshop on strategies to abate air pollution in Mexico. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), January 2001, Mexico City, Mexico. Lecture, "Air Pollution and Industrial Development in Mexico." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Integrated Program on Urban, Regional and Global Air Pollution's Mexico City Project, December 2000. Lecture, "Industrial Air Pollution in Mexico." El Colegio de Mexico, August 2000, Mexico City, Mexico. Delivered paper, "Pollution Intensity of Manufacturing in Mexico and the United States." National Wildlife Federation/Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, April, 2000, Washington DC. Presented paper on trade liberalization and air pollution in Mexico at conference, "The Environment and FTAA: What Can We Learn from the NAFTA Model?" University of Americas, January 2000, Puebla, Mexico. Delivered paper on trade liberalization and industrial pollution at conference, "The Mexican Economy in Transition During the Next Presidency." Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, October, 1999, Paris, France. Paper at workshop "OECD Workshop on Methodologies for Environmental Assessment of Trade Liberalization Agreements." Transatlantic Environmental Dialogue, March 1999, Brussels, Belgium. Invited as one of 30 experts to be part of dialogue on Trade and Environment Issues with EU/US governments. International Society for Ecological Economics Conference, November 1998, Santiago, Chile. Presented Paper: Pollution Intensive Industry in Mexico Under NAFTA." CURRENT RESEARCH Principal Investigator on: New Models for Hemispheric Integration, proposal to Ford Foundation, C.S. Mott Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Fiscal Impacts of "Investor Protection" Provisions in US Trade Agreements, John Merck Fund. 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Agenda 21 The U.N. Plan for "Sustainable" Communities

Agenda 21 The U.N. Plan for "Sustainable" Communities By Berit Kjos - 1998  (information added) Note: This global contract binds all nations to the collective vision of "sustainable development." They must commit to pursue the three E's of "sustainability": Environment, Economy and Equity referring to the UN blueprint for environmental regulations, economic manipulation, and social equity. (See also Habitat 2)	Skip down to Maurice Strong UNESCO's Philosophy Home
The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide -- a UN manual for global transformation (which I brought home from the 1996 UN Conference on Human Settlements in Istanbul) was prepared by The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). Community leaders around the world are now called to implement a new "Communitarian" system of governance which overrides our constitutional rights and freedoms.       "Land...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership  is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...." (Item #10 in the UN agenda at the 1976 Habitat 1. American delegates supported this policy) The New ‘White House Rural Council’ = UN’s Agenda 21?  "On June 9, 2011, President Obama signed his 86th Executive Order....E.O 13575 is designed to begin taking control over almost all aspects of the lives of 16% of the American people....      "Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase 'sustainable rural communities' came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America.'  But how will burdened farmers and other tax-payers pay the extra costs...?"

"...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

Agenda 21, the UN blueprint for global transformation, sounds good to many well meaning people. Drafted for the purpose of creating "sustainable societies", it 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. They hide the lies behind its doomsday scenarios and fraudulent science. Relatively few 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 Clinton is leading the way. A letter I received from The President's Council on Sustainable Development states that -

"In April 1997, President Clinton 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..." (Emphasis added)

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 (emphasis added)

This agenda may already be driving your community "development", 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 Biodiversity 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 biodiversity 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.

Local Agenda 21

Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 specifically calls for each community to formulate its own Local Agenda 21:

"Each local authority should enter into a dialogue with its citizens, local organizations, and private enterprises and adopt 'a local Agenda 21.' Through consultation and consensus-building, local authorities would learn from citizens and from local, civic, community, business and industrial organizations and acquire the information needed for formulating the best strategies." (Agenda 21, Chapter 28, sec 1,3.)

This tactic may sound reasonable until you realize that the dedicated "Stakeholder Group' that organizes and oversees local transformation is not elected by the public. And the people selected to represent the 'citizens' in your community will not present your interests. The chosen 'partners', professional staff, and working groups are implementing a new system of governance without asking your opinion.
They probably don't even want you to know what they are doing until the regulatory framework is well under way. You may read in your local paper about "visioning", working groups, Total Quality Management, and partnership between churches, welfare and social service agencies, and other community groups. These are clues that, behind the scenes, the plan is moving forward.
The goals and strategies are outlined in Sustainable America, the report from our President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD). President Clinton's PCSD is merely one of about 150 similar councils established by nations around the world, all following guidelines from the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.
The same steps and strategies are detailed in The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide: An introduction to Sustainable Development. This "planning framework for sustainable development at the local level" was prepared by The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the International Development Research Centre of Canada. Remember, UNEP also prepared the GBA which supposedly proves the environmental "crisis." Could there be a conflict of interest here?
ICLEI's step-by-step plan for transforming communities was made available to reporters during the 1996 UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II). I started to read my bulky copy on the flight home from Istanbul. I soon learned how Stakeholders can broaden their working base and still maintain the original consensus: they simply seek partners who share their vision. After all, partners who challenge the Stakeholders' ideology would cause gridlock and slow progress. (Such gridlock is one of many criticism of the American political system voiced at various global conferences.)
The ICLEI Planning Guide suggests that Stakeholders select two kinds of people to serve their agenda: (1) ordinary people who don't have "a stake" in the old system and would expect to gain power by establishing a new political system, and (2) media, business, political, church, and education leaders who must be wooed and persuaded to promote the transformation within their sphere of influence. The following ICLEI list includes both:

A. Community Residents: women, youth, indigenous people, community leaders, teachers

B. Community-Based Organizations: churches, formal women's groups, traditional social groups, special interest groups

C. Independent Sector: Non-governmental organizations (NGO). academia, media

D. Private/Entrepreneurial Sector: environmental service agencies, small business/cooperatives, banks

E. Local Government and Associations: elected officials, management staff, regional associations

F. National/Regional Government: planning commission, utilities, service agencies, financial agencies.7

All participants must embrace the collective vision of a "sustainable community". They must commit to pursue the three E's of "sustainable development": Environment, Economy and Equity referring to the UN blueprint for environmental regulations, economic controls, and social equity.
"Sustainable development is a process of bringing these three development processes into balance with each other," states ICLEID's Agenda 21 Planning Guide on page 21. "The implementation of a sustainable development strategy therefore involves negotiation among the primary interest groups (stakeholders) involved in these development processes. Once an Action Plan for balancing these development processes is established, these stakeholders must each take responsibility and leadership to implement the plan."
Meanwhile, opposing voices must be silenced. "Implementing the 'sustainable agenda' requires marginalizing critics," says Craig Rucker, Executive Director of CFACT, a conservative public interest group in Washington, D.C. dealing with consumer and environmental issues. He explains,

"Distinguished scientists who disagree with the globalist agenda are ridiculed and said to speak for conservative interests or industry (whether or not they receive industry funding) and their scientific arguments are never heard. Some of these marginalized critics are very distinguished scientists, like Dr. Frederic Seitz, former president of the National Academies of Science and a sharp critic of ozone depletion and global warming theories, Dr. S. Fred Singer, who help establish the satellite and balloon measuring devices to track global warming, and Dr. Edward Krug, who served on NAPAAP, among others. Some, like Dr. William Happer were even fired from their jobs questioning environmental dogma (in his case, on the issue of ozone depletion)."8

Ignoring these facts, nearly two thousand communities around the world are following this UN blueprint for change with support from ICLEID - and subject to its tracking system. Apparently the Santa Cruz model is leading the way in the United States.
Local Agenda 21-Santa Cruz was birthed in 1993 by the local chapters of the United Nations Association and ACTION (Agenda 21 Community Team Work in Operation). The original stakeholders began to "envision a sustainable future," choose compatible "partners", and organize the twelve Round Tables which evolved into twelve Special Focus Areas (for summaries of each plan, read Local Agenda 21 Pt.2 -Santa Cruz - Key points from the twelve Focus Groups):

Agriculture
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Management
Education
Energy
Housing
Population
Public Health
Resources and Recycling
Social Justice
Toxic Technology & Waste Management
Transportation
Viable Economy

Each item is linked to special interest groups, non-governmental organizations, and globalist advocates who have been given authority (by no elected official) to plan the regulations that will control our lives.

Would you like a glimpse of the special interest groups that guide this Agenda? Its list of donors and supporters includes feminist, globalist, environmental, and welfare organizations such as the Sierra Club, Earthlinks, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Greener Alternatives, Pacific Bell, Peace Child, United Nations Association-USA, Environmental Ecological Services, Change Management System, Countywide Joint Task Force on Sexual Harassment, Prevention and Education, and the Human Care Alliance (about 80 service providers and community groups), and the Welfare and Low-Income Support Network. Remember, "welfare" means far more than caring for the needy. Social service leaders tend to push a socialist agenda and many have little tolerance for Christians who resist their intrusive family policies.

The National Organization for Women (NOW), The Regional Alliance for Progressive Policy, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, and Beyond Beijing (primarily feminists who attended the 1995 UN Conference on Women) are all part of a Task Force helping establish the guidelines for the Social Justice (Equity) and welfare branch of the Agenda. According to Local Agenda 21-Santa Cruz, their focus is the exploration of viable means to "alleviate the violence of poverty."
To eliminate poverty and to create the laws and incentives that will establish environmental, social and economic "equity", the people must embrace the new paradigm (or world view). They must accept the new global values touted by the GBA and learn to see social issues from a global perspective. "Local efforts should focus on community education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and monitoring the impacts of federal welfare reform implementation," states Santa Cruz' Local Agenda 21 Action Plan. Indeed, life-long education is the heart of the agenda. Who would willingly give up cars, private back yards, and freedom to hike in local forests unless they share a vision that's worth the sacrifice?
The agenda for education. In the fall of 1994, President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) came to the Presidio - the former army base in San Francisco that now houses the Gorbachev Foundation USA and dozens of other globalist and environmental organizations networking with the United Nations. Here, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, they met with The National Forum on Partnerships supporting Education about the Environment.

Their joint report, "Education for Sustainability," became a model for sustainable education. According to the Santa Cruz Action Plan, it focused on 6 themes:

• Interdisciplinary approaches
• Lifelong Learning
• Systems thinking (See "World Heritage Protection?)
• Partnerships
• Multicultural perspectives
• Empowerment

To understand these terms and the new international education system they represent, you may want to read Brave New Schools. Those who don't realize that today's change agents hide globalist ideology behind traditional words, can easily be drawn into the web of deception by the noble sentiments. These arguments from the Education section of Santa Cruz Local Agenda 21 show how persuasive their propaganda can be to an unsuspecting public:

"In light of the current world situation, including the obvious degradation of the global ecosystem, population crisis, outbreaks of violence... there is an obvious need for education that puts forth a clear vision of a whole system of ecological thinking. In recent years, there has been a great deal of emphasis on environmental education and nature studies, but little has been done to teach about eco-efficiency, sustainable lifestyle practices, and the worldwide movement concerning sustainable development.
"The overall understanding is that we must learn from nature how to create sustainable communities--- observing: interdependence and organization, form and substance, the pattern of life, cooperation and partnership, and diversity....  A broader perspective (beyond schools) must be encouraged, including proactive learning opportunities throughout the community.
"Educational and rewarding volunteer opportunities exist throughout SCC. Most Americans are ill equipped to make the lifestyle changes necessary to turn the degradation around. Our collective experience over time has shown that knowledge alone does not necessarily change behavior and incite people to action. Support structures and incentives are also needed."

This UN directed education plan has already become familiar to many of us. The international system - built on the UNESCO goals that our government embraced with the introduction of America 2000 and the adoption of Goals 2000 - has already transformed our schools. Listen to these familiar policies listed in the Local Agenda 21.

"Educational systems encourage relevant, experiential learning and promote a sustainable, healthy life for all beings. Students embrace. global interdependence and the need to adopt fully sustainable practices locally and globally.... Focus is placed on teaching how to learn and how to enjoy learning. This involves:

1. Cooperative learning in groups which is learner-directed, empowering and participatory
2. Development of an integrated core curriculum at all levels which emphasized the theme of unity and interdependence of humanity, all species and the Earth.
3. Development of an integrated core curriculum at all levels which emphasized the theme of unity and interdependence of humanity, all species and the Earth.
4. Student participation in developing their own curriculum.
5. Mixed age groups in the learning process."

Learning that seems "democratic" (in contrast to authoritative) and cooperative (in contrast to individual) is key to winning the consent of the masses. All ages must participate, and each group member becomes accountable to the group - and to the politically correct "science" information used by the trained facilitator to move the dialogue toward the "right" choices and actions. Few realize the extent of the manipulation. See Brainwashing in America
In the Soviet Union, this Hegelian dialectic (consensus) process was used to shift the loyalties of Soviet children from absolute truths to the evolving soviet ideology. Today it is used in American schools, communities, and workplaces - with support and direction from the President's Council on Sustainable Development and other NGOs that share its global vision.
Far-reaching Networks. Are you confused by all the organizations, programs, and buzzwords that fit into the big picture? Do you find it hard to match the pieces in this immense puzzle? I do. One reason so few people try to understand the patterns of change is its complexity. And it gets worse.
"Encourage networking," states the Santa Cruz Action Plan. You saw the links between feminist, environmental, welfare, and government groups. But countless other groups and organizations are also involved in the endless web of deception. No wonder, since networking, like dialogue, helps spread the nets that will pull in the masses.
Last year, I received from the PCSD a published report titled Public Linkage, Dialogue, and Education. It was prepared by the PCSD Task Force on Public Linkage, Dialogue, and Education. To plan the initial draft, this group met in the Officers Club at the Presidio with various global, UN, and environmental leaders now housed at the former armor base. This draft included a call for a linkage between "job opportunities" and education standards for politically correct "understanding" of environmental, economic, and social issues from a global perspective:

"Develop essential learning standards on sustainable development for all students in order to promote a basic understanding of the interrelationship between environmental, economic and equity issues and a basic competency in sustainable living. Meeting learning performance standards will help ensure job opportunities in an emerging sustainable economy and promote responsible citizenry in a global, interdependent society."9

Considering the background of this "international roundtable", it's no wonder that the final report calls for a shift in public consciousness from the old nationalistic-free enterprise system to the new globalist-socialist paradigm. Its main three objectives were to-

• Ensure that awareness, knowledge, and understanding of sustainability become part of the mainstream consciousness, both nationally and internationally.
• Awareness and concern about environmental, economic, and equity issues must become firmly rooted in public consciousness.
  Engage key domestic constituencies in a dialogue about sustainability to produce consensus.
• Foster the skills, attitudes, motivation, and values that will redirect action to sustainable practices and produce the commitment to work individually and collectively toward a sustainable world.
• Individuals must bring their actions into accord with a sustainable future. Conflict resolution skills must be applied to organize groups to act on issues related to sustainability."10

Remember, those who define the terms will write the rules. Those whose "science" will "educate" the masses, will control public beliefs and behavior.
In Santa Cruz, the PCSD Task Force on Linkage, Dialogue, and Education helped launch The Household EcoTeam Program and Sustainable Lifestyle Campaign in Santa Cruz County.
Household EcoTeam? Sustainable Lifestyle Campaign? We know the government wants to train parents in politically correct child-raising. Do they also want to train households in politically correct lifestyles?
They certainly do. In partnership with Global Action Plan and ACTION-Santa Cruz, the above PCSD Task Force "helped participants implement sustainable lifestyle practices in their own households as they worked together on a team with a trained coach and followed a workbook focusing in 6 action areas" (reducing garbage, water efficiency, home energy efficiency, transportation, eco-wise consuming, & empowering others).11
Other links include the National Association of Counties and the U.S. Council of Mayors. Following recommendations from the PCSD, they "have established a Joint Center for Sustainable Communities to facilitate collaborative planning."
Remember, the PCSD is linked to the UNCSD (UN Commission on Sustainable Development), which is linked to more than 150 other nations implementing Agenda 21, which are linked to ICLEID, which is linked to the Canadian government, which is linked to the United Nations, which Is linked to the Presidio, which is linked to ACTION-Santa Cruz, which is linked to Global Rivers Environmental Network, which is linked to the American Heritage Rivers Initiative, which is linked to the White House, which is linked to the Department of Education. and on and on.
Everything is linked to Total Quality Management, the process for managing and monitoring the development of human and natural resources as well as commercial products. Schools, corporations, and government are adopting TQM management, and Santa Clara County is no exception. The concept of "continual change" is central to TQM, and the Santa Cruz Action Plan follows suit. Every part of this list from its education plan relates to TQM:

"Continue to prepare students for rapid change by teaching: ...critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving, cooperative learning, student self assessment, multi-cultural equity, the use of interactive technologies to foster learning & collaborative problem solving."

Social Justice. Remember the stakeholders that are defining social justice and preparing its standards? They include NOW, Beyond Beijing, social welfare leaders, environmental groups - all the voices that demand the abolition of Western culture, male leadership, and biblical absolutes. Look at their vision for Santa Cruz County:

"Desired State: A Paradigm Shift
We envision a community that stretches itself from its historical conditioning and ethnocentric comfort zones to increased cross-cultural empathy and understanding - a community that avoids oppressive hierarchies, but instead passionately advocates for inclusion, respect and cooperation with all members."

Politically correct tolerance sets a new standard for communication and inclusiveness. It immediately disqualifies biblical Christianity as exclusive, hateful, patriarchal, and intolerant. Their list of practical suggestions for change matches their vision:

• Train facilitators for the "paradigm shift" to be wholistic supporters of the value of diversity
• Develop an interagency approach to intolerance abatement
• Encourage the business sector to hold managers accountable for promoting minorities and women into management.
• Create a design for teaching the principle of universal security
• Continue with forums, meetings, events, and expand our social justice library with books, tapes, video tapes for community TV, and literature available for interested people...
• Involve college students and professors in social justice issues
• Bring in speakers; support individual clubs.

Of course, their utopian plan won't work. People aren't naturally good. Fifty years ago, the Holocaust opened our eyes to human depravity, but many have forgotten its message.
Modern socialist leaders claim to know how to manipulate human nature. "We have to make better people," urged Shirley McCune at the 1989 Governors Conference on Education. Nineteen years earlier, the ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the curriculum branch of the NEA) published To Nurture Humaneness in which Professor Raymond Houghton wrote,

"The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self-conscious realization that a crisis is at hand. Man will not even know that it is about to happen."12

This horrendous mission is now pressing forward under the banners of Agenda 21 and its partners around the world. Only a solid, unshakable commitment to truth will enable us to stand our ground. Only a clear understanding of the evil forces driving this agenda will enable us to resist the mental manipulation used to induce compliance.
If we didn't know that our God has the future well under His control, we would have every reason to fear. Many live in denial, refusing to face the painful facts that expose this covert revolution and the gradual loss of our freedoms - including the freedom to express our faith and share the gospel.
I don't know when my Lord will return, but I have no doubt that Americans will soon face the hostilities that are part of the normal Christian life. "If they persecute me, they will persecute you," said Jesus - and there is no reason to believe that Americans has somehow earned the right to escape the suffering that has molded faithful, single-minded, pure-hearted Christian for almost 2000 years.
As we stand together against the forces of evil, let's pray that God show each of us how we can best serve His plan and purpose.
Let's not get sidetracked by peripheral issues, but "let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus." (Hebrews 12:1-2)
Remember, when Jesus told His disciples about the hard times ahead, He added these words of comfort,

"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)

See also The U.N. Plan For Global Control: The Habitat II Agenda For information about the role of the feminist movement in this transformation, read A Twist of Faith  These three updates illustrate United Nations' "progress" toward implementation of  its Marxist agenda: 1.  Agenda 21: Fact, not conspiracy. "While liberal journalists continue to claim that Agenda 21 is just a 'conspiracy theory' being advanced by right-wing crackpots, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Council for Environmental Law (ICEL) have released their fourth Draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development. This document was designed from the beginning to convert the 'soft-law' non-binding Agenda 21 into firmly binding global law – enforceable through the International Criminal Court and/or the dispute resolution features of the Convention on the Law of the Sea. 2. The United Nations bans opposition to its Global Tax Design. "When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced his plan 'to fundamentally transform the global economy — based on low-carbon, clean energy resources,' few realized he was calling for a new global tax....The UN's one nation, one vote system has been used since its founding to render the U.S. impotent, regardless of the fact that we are its major financial donor....Banning the press and global tax opponents from its July 13-14 tax design meeting in Tokyo, Japan, for example, is anathema to a democratic process, but the UN is not a democracy. Rather, its unelected bureaucrats use a 'collaborative decision-making process' to reach 'consensus' with no debate or expressed opposition.....       "The purpose of the Fund is to enable the UN to implement its global blueprint for sustainable development called Agenda 21. This green agenda is the new Marxism that requires government ensured economic equity.... Granting the UN the right to tax would be like giving it a blank check for future use. ...Two years ago, it estimated the cost at $600 billion annually for the next decade, but today its estimate is at least $1.9 trillion annually for the next 40 years or $76 trillion." 3. The New ‘White House Rural Council’ = UN’s Agenda 21?  "On June 9, 2011, President Obama signed his 86th Executive Order....E.O 13575 is designed to begin taking control over almost all aspects of the lives of 16% of the American people....      "Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase 'sustainable rural communities' came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America.'  But how will burdened farmers and other tax-payers pay the extra costs...?"

ENDNOTES

1 Henry Lamb, " Meet Maurice Strong," Eco-Logic, November/December 1995.

2 Ibid. Maurice Strong was vice-president of Dome Petroleum (by age 25), first executive director of the UN Environmental Programme, founder of Planetary Citizens, director of the World Future Society, founder and co-chair of the World Economic Forum, member of the Club of Rome, trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Aspen Institute, and member of the UN Commission on Global Governance. He heads the Earth Council, which works with the UN to implement an Earth Charter-a global code of conduct based on earth-centered spirituality and globalist values. Its publication, Earth Ethics, suggests that apes, our "fellow animals", should be treated as "full members of the community of equals."

3 Much of the "peer reviewed" science which "proves" that human activity causes ozone holes and global warming is countered by award-winning non-politicized scientists who are appalled that their names are used to validate the hoax. See "The UN Plan for Global Control."

4 U.S. Congressman Sam Farr represents the 17th district in California. I have a copy of this letter written June 3, 1997 on Congressional stationary.

5 Cynthia Weatherly, "The Second Annual Model School Conference," The Christian Conscience (January 1995); 36.

6 Global Biodiversity Assessment, 837-838, 839. This information was provided by a friend who has a copy of the GBA but is traveling abroad at this time. She had copied many quotations from this report and gave them to me along with chapter and page numbers. I cannot personally verify these references at this time. If you have a copy of the GBA and discover a mistake in my references, please inform me so that I can make corrections. Thank you.

7 ICLEID, p. 21. A similar list is given in the PCSD report, Sustainable America.

8 From a personal note from Craig Rucker, January 20, 1998. To contact CFACT for scientific data refuting ozone holes and global warming theories, write CFACT, P.O. Box 65722, Washington, D.C. 20035.

9 Booklet titled The Seventh Meeting of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, The Presidio of San Francisco, April 27-28, 1995, p. 39.

10 Public Linkage, Dialogue, and Education (The President's Council on Sustainable Development) 1997, p.16.

11 Local Agenda 21--Santa Cruz, Education section, p. 21.

12. Raymond Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness: Commitment for the '70's (The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the NEA, 1970).

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