Prepare to be “transitioned” into your new “habitat”
Paul has a plan for you. It may require “a vast array of policies and regulations,” and heavy taxes, he says.
One of the backers of smart growth plans for major cities envisions a global “Great Transition” of humans into concentrated population centers. Paul D. Raskin, director of the Boston-based Tellus Institute (Note: Tellus is now blocking access to its site, but much of the same material is here), expects people to resist the Great Transition. That’s why intergovernmental organizations and transnational corporations must create a marketing campaign “to inspire people [and] to seize the public imagination,” Raskin says in a Tellus video.
The problem of a push-back from a reluctant populace was echoed by Rappaport Institute Director and Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, in a Boston Globe article this week (see excerpt and link, below).
Both Raskin and Glaeser contributed to what is now called MetroFuture, a smart growth initiative for Greater Boston that will “shift growth from remote new suburbs to existing town centers,” according to the Globe.
A large group of financiers and institutes, the Kraft family, and the real estate tycoon Dick DeWolfe are also members of the MetroFuture initiative.
Similar smart growth plans are underway in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, as well as in Utah, Central Florida, and the Midwest. All of the plans are directly linked to the United Nations plan to create “habitat areas” in which human consumption and labor can be more easily controlled.
Alan Watt has recently been discussing the U.N.’s “Agenda 21“–which outlines the plan for human habitats, at Cutting Through the Matrix and Red Ice Creations Radio. You will not read about Agenda 21 in any mainstream article about “smart growth”–for that I recommend listening to Alan’s blurbs at Cutting Through the Matrix, and his interviews at Red Ice.
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I will never bow down to any corporate or political organization. My loyalty belongs to a higher purpose. I will not be made a slave to anyone. Hear this I am free, free, free and NO one will tell me otherwise. It is time to stop talking and stand up for what is good and just. PLEASE, PLEASE
never compromise with enslavement of any kind nor give “evil” one inch. Most of the world is in denial. Thank you.
A PASSIONATE HUMAN BEING WHO IS FREE!!
And suppose I refuse to move into this Professor’s “soilent green” areas of choice? What then, do I get evicted and my assests sold on the cheap to the state and threatened with prison under the recently enacted “emminent domain” laws? Do the state police come in and drag me away?
Ask the good Professor where his funding and ideas are coming from and for what motives? Once all these folk are transferred to cities who feeds them and supplies them with their daily needs? A corporation? The state? Does Professor Rascal, I mean, Raskin, get to eat well and live his non-productive life off the rest of us?
And if he’s going to be studying the “great mass transfer of people into the cities”, I would suggest he first start studying how to greatly transfer roughly 10 - 30 million Meskins back to Mexico.
Psychopaths do indeed run the “shithouse.”
MAKE ME!!
I double-dare ya.
Why is it that PhDs think they have the right to tell us, mere mortals, what to do?
Hey, I have an idea: what if we turned the tables and all the mere mortals out there decided they had the right to tell all the PhD egghead morons where and how to live? Shit, for sure we outnumber them by at least 100 to 1. So my advice for all eggheads like Il Doctore Raskin: MIND YOUR BUSINESS. You’re NOT making the world a better place and in a fight, we’ll mess you skinny assholes right up.
Raskin, do not speak unless you have been spoken to and given the right to open your mouth. Take your big ideas and sit on them. We don’t need your stinking badges, man.
F*cking eggheads eat it.
this idea is more of the same CONTROL we already have and does not work. that is a man for ya! Control, control, control.
the only way for life to balance out is for it to go through chaos first…. which we are seeing now. chaos is the natural outcome of overcontrol. chaos alows a certain freedom which will establish balance through creative obsitacle hurdleing!
Taxes have cause a HUGE imbalance already. This is so egghead and not “do-able”, as it is unnatural. You have moved away from nature, the true teacher of what works.
Gheeese… look at all the communes and “planned communities” that have tryed and failed… ghost towns…. LOL
So have fun, I won’t be there! LOL
Resist!
No no no ! to obscene social engineering.
Hi Mark,
Your post confuses me, I’m not sure what you are trying to say?
One minor point, Tellus is not “blocking access to its website” — that sounds vaguely paranoid — it’s an old site that needs to be updated, and it goes down from time to time. The Tellus website is: http://www.tellus.org/
Also, nowhere in the video lecture does Paul call for a marketing campaign led by transnational corporations and intergovernmental organizations. Are you just making stuff up?
Hi Orion, thanks for your comments. I appreciate hearing from Tellus, directly.
I stand by the piece, of course, as Raskin indeed lists intergovernmental organizations and transnational corporations as partners, and the need for a campaign “to inspire people [and] to seize the public imagination.”
Glad the site is no longer requiring a password for access.
Paul’s presentation actually makes the point that Transnational Corporations and government institutions are unlikely to reinvent themselves, unless they are pressured by an active and engaged citizenry.
The call is for people power — for citizens of the world to unite with a shared vision, to create a planetary civilizations rooted in shared values.
Unlike what you imply in your piece above, the video of Paul’s lecture makes it very clear that he does not expect governments and corporations to lead the way. The vision of a Great Transition — a transition to an ecologically sustainable global society rooted in human rights — is only possible if citizens get involved. The message is simple: “the future is not someplace we are going, it is something we are creating” through our choices, every day.
Thanks, Orion. How does your organization propose “to inspire people [and] to seize the public imagination?”
Who do you envision uniting the people in this planetary civilization?
Mark,
I appreciate your question, and what to preface what I say by acknowledging that Tellus and GTI don’t pretend to have all the answers, just some clues and a framework for analysis that we hope is inspiring.
There is clearly a lot of activity bubbling forth at a global level — not simply the advent of transnational corporation and new global institutions such as the World Trade Organization — but also an explosion of citizens groups. These citizens groups include grassroots charities, church groups, book clubs, and global gatherings such as the World Social Forum. Since the 90’s, literally thousands of such groups active on global issues have emerged. The forces and factors underlying this shift in consciousness toward a sense of global citizenship are complex indeed.
Our analysis indicates that what underlies this new conception of our selves in relation to the world is both a Push and a Pull. The “push” of necessity are alarming new problem that can only be solved at a global level through unprecedented cooperation — for example, Global Warming. But also cross-boundary water and air pollution, declining ecosystems, globally connected terrorist networks, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, and population explosion. There are many problems that push us inexorably toward the awareness that our own self-interest and quality of life is increasingly tied to the lives and interests of people in distant corners of the earth.
In addtion to the push of urgent necessity, is the “pull” of desire. This is facilitated through the advent of new information technology (cell phones, internet, satellite TV) that allow people from all over the world to communicate, share experiences and aspirations, and create new friendships, deepen cross-cultural exchanges, etc. We can start to see how we are all part of one human family tree, with many diverse branches. The vision of a virbant world community is the pull that inspires citizen action to create a better world for our children and grandchildren.
So our analysis indicates that these objective and subjective forces are at work in the world today as never before. This creates a latent desire that is expressed through the explosion of activity, which every day is increasing.
I’ve checked out the Tellus video as well as the Metrofuture site and found myself in agreement with the whole sustained development vision. What alternative do you suggest to deal with the global problems of environmental degradation, economic imbalance and social inequity in our world? Do you have any solutions yourself or are you saving all your mental energy for simply attacking those who are doing their best to come up with some answers?
You call yourself a researcher and investigator but on this evidence you seem to simply be a luddite, terrified of the changing times that we live in and anxious to blame somebody ‘out there’ for all your problems.
I repeat, what solutions, answers, ideas do you have to offer to help humanity survive these tumultous times?
Thanks, Bob, for your comments. I would not describe myself as a Luddite. (I’m all for labor-saving technologies.)
Actually, Metrofuture and the other Agenda 21 plans offer no details about how they will solve inequities.
Metrofuture is not the result of a grassroots movement for sustained development. It is actually backed by real estate developers (more country properties for the rich, with the rest of us stuffed into cities).
Just say NO to control freaks.
I’ll match Raskin and his ilk any day, point for point (including IQ), and their ideas are nothing more than another way to control the population for the obscene gain of a few who consider themselves to be the “elite”; they are not improvements. I can punch holes the size of semi-trucks in their silly theories, and have done so enough times to be put on their “subversive” lists. I could never stomach being told how to live by my intellectual and ethical inferiors, Raskin included.
Go ahead, Bob, try resisting and being free, and see what they have in store for you, even if your way of life is more sustainable and eco-friendly than theirs. They cannot allow free thinkers to exist, or anyone whose lifestyle proves to be better than their theories, which theories of course they claim “prove” that they need to control us. Prove by example that they are wrong instead, and you become a target. That tells me what they really are, and how I should stand in relation to them. It saddens me that it does not so inform you. You should test what I say, and try independent resistance in order to assess their response for yourself. If they are not corrupt, they will applaud you. If they are corrupt, they will seek to destroy you, as their plans for our future do not include any measure of freedom, including thought. Check it out; it’s quite revealing. It’s called taking the measure of one’s friends and enemies, and it works every time.
Trading one control-master for another is not a solution. Ever. Don’t be seduced by the appearance of logic created by their rationalizing. It does not withstand serious scrutiny. These control freaks are the same ones who engineered the problems in the first place.
These folks create a problem for their own benefit, then shout that a solution must be found to save us, then offer us the “only” solution, which again benefits only them. Don’t fall for it.
Dr. Raskin,
Be prepared to be transitioned into your new habitat — Federal Prison cell 1244. Perhaps you are bad at math and have not counted the vast numbers of angry citizen revolutionaries now arrayed against your small minority of global elitists. 6 Billion vs. 6,000. Guess who is going to lose. You have plans for us. We also have plans for you and your kind.
DR. V. Bakunin:
My compliments. It seems the good professor here is only functioning as one would expect in a completely deviant psychopathic system.
I think the 6 billion, if they aren’t first exterminated with the now assundry of very capable weaponry, head off to the professor’s currrent residence and shit on his front lawn.
The problem with psychopaths is, they have made life very miserable for a lot of people, like exterminating Africans with their economics, exploitation and fiat currency systems, and actually believe in their lethal policies and see nothing wrong with them.
From the readers’ comments, I get the clear sense that there is a large contingent of people fearful of being dominated by a global elite more than we already are (see the World Economic Forum — a gathering of global elite that meets every year in Davos, Switzerland).
However, it is hard to understand why the United Nations, Smart Growth, and proposals to address climate change are the focus of attention?
Clearly today’s global problems — if they are to be solved at all — require unprecedented forms of global cooperation between numerous actors from the business, government and civil society sectors.
As we face these problems as a global community, I invite you to read my observations on the “American Ethic of Personal Responsibility” — Americans are all called upon to engage these challenges and be part of the solution. Here is a link to this short essay: http://blogs.earthsky.org/orionkriegman/politics/05015/american-ethic-of-personal-responsibility/
In it, I make the point that:
“If you agree with the argument that addressing climate change will require an overhaul of American society and the functioning of our economy, then in addition to choosing energy efficient appliances and homes, Americans need to commit to walking, biking, taking public transit, and eating meat-free meals. Transforming our frequent flyer miles into a frequent flyer surcharge – or rather requiring a carbon offset charge for every mile flown – might be another big adjustment for an affluent generation in love with finding cheap flights to visit family on the holidays.”
I suspect this might be controversial to readers of this blog.
Thanks for the comment BOB, please report to eco-pod 14 immediately to receive your RFID tracking implant. Green badged citizens are advised to stay out of the blue zone boundaries. Thank you.
You now see the reason for amendment #2?
Yo, Orion, I don’t buy it, especially from value stealing non-producers, like the high priest, Al Gore, using fear and non-science to make his ludicrous point.
We’ve been had, the science is starting to come in from alternative and I might add, honest researchers, who might possibly have a better and more believble explanation for “global warming.” The high priests of the psychopathic deviant system are in it for the loot - that’s all.
Have a look through the link and after you’re finished you might want to consider recalculating your “carbon units.”
New Discovery Evidencing Solar System Traveling Different Direction To Milky Way Substantiates Astounding New Theories — Coming To Be Called The 3 Most Pivotal Discoveries Of Our Time:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=1207&i=2
When I got to the part about possible reasons for “global warming” I headed out back to my shed, fired up my twelve cylinder diesel driven electric generator and worshiped great clouds of black exhaust gas.
Hey Tim,
I’m skeptical of the money trail you imply.
First, who is making the money? Oil Industry, Car Industry — these are huge corporations in the US.
Second, who is making the propaganda? Exxon-Mobil has been actively spreading mis-information, hiring corrupt “scientists” and funding “think tanks”.
Third, how would honest climate scientists make money from promoting the theory of climate change? I don’t see a lot of money in this.
Given that billions of dollars in profits are already being made by vested interests who don’t want to change (i.e., Oil companies) — why would you trust the scientists that they are funding more than the independent scientists????
For a good overview of the science of global warming, I recommend this website: http://www.earthsky.org/
There articles are short and the discussions that follow are often highly informative — including links to both “skeptics” and those who show the so called skeptics’ ties to corrupt money.
Do you have children or grand kids?
Tim,
Here is an example of how honest scientists lose their funding for speaking clearly about their research:
“I suspect the existence of what I call the `John Mercer effect’. Mercer (197
suggested that global warming from burning of fossil fuels could lead to disastrous disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet, with a sea level rise of several meters worldwide. This was during the era when global warming was beginning to get attention from the United States Department of Energy and other science agencies. I noticed that scientists who disputed Mercer, suggesting that his paper was alarmist, were treated as being more authoritative.
It was not obvious who was right on the science, but it seemed to me, and I believe to most scientists, that the scientists preaching caution and downplaying the dangers of climate change fared better in receipt of research funding. Drawing attention to the dangers of global warming may or may not have helped increase funding for relevant scientific areas, but it surely did not help individuals like Mercer who stuck their heads out. I could vouch for that from my own experience. After I published a paper (Hansen et al 1981) that described likely climate effects of fossil fuel use, the Department of Energy reversed a decision to fund our research, specifically highlighting and criticizing aspects of that paper at a workshop in Coolfont, West Virginia and in publication (MacCracken 1983).”
(see the full article at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/2/2/024002/erl7_2_024002.html )
Orion wrote: “Clearly today’s global problems — if they are to be solved at all — require unprecedented forms of global cooperation between numerous actors from the business, government and civil society sectors.”
Here is the disconnect, Orion. “today’s global problems” are perceived as manufactured from pseudo-science purely to justify global domination by a neo-elite set against the old elite. The environmental movement was hijacked by socialists/communists long ago. Free people don’t buy into the idea that all these “global problems” are necessarily problems at all. The “science” behind “global warming” is extremely thin and highly propagandized. It would better be called “urban warming” as most of the temperature increases measured have been in urban areas while rural temperatures are growing much more slowly. And the case that solar activity is at the root of any warming is much more compelling. But scientists that have found and replicated these results that are counter to the Algorean Church of Globalism are harassed as heretics.
The assumptions that because the UN is involved that somehow this kind of globalism is “benign” is patently ridiculous. The underlying premise seems to be that if socialism is behind globalism (i.e. in the UN and in the environmental movement) then it is “good” globalism.
In other words, the apparent prime assumption behind your arguments seems to be that world socialism is correct and inevitable.
But I think that view is completely wrong.
Having a central planetary bully pulpit for all egomaniacs to fight over is the last thing this planet needs.
What we need are free sovereign states all very healthily wary of any group trying to set themselves up as “global leaders” whether it be the UN, or a world socialist movement.
Show me one “central planning success”. Show me one weather forecast that was good for more than a few days. Show me any group of people that can be trusted to “centrally plan” the entire planet based on climate predictions and I’ll show you a group of power hungry social engineers who will ultimately justify any means to meet their ends.
Never trust centralized power. Never.
Orion wrote:
“There articles are short and the discussions that follow are often highly informative — including links to both “skeptics” and those who show the so called skeptics’ ties to corrupt money.”
Why are you ignoring the science and relying instead on predatory correlational hack job between who these scientists have worked with in the past and their present results? Why are you not addressing their points and instead focusing on thin ad hominem attacks? This is typical of the pseudo-scientific dialog in environmental science where socialistic “correct” views get a free pass with regards to scrutiny and real scientific objectivity gets slimed and panned.
You tend to “follow the money”, but what you need to take the time to do is to also “follow the idealogy”. Ideology drives history at least as much as money, and more so with regards to this “globalism” issue. Socialism can be just as harmful to life on this planet, but because it gets labeled as “altruistic” (never mind whether recipients want to be “helped” or even agree there is a “problem”
it is presumed free of suspicion by those who only “follow the money”.
Finally, I think you need to “follow the money” much more completely. You seem to imply that a scientist must work for an “evil corporation” for their money trail to be important. But there are very large money trails leading out of left-wing think tanks, NGOs, statists governments (redistribution others money), etc. Scientists not linking grant requests to “global warming” and not agreeing with the ideological consensus on “global warming” can’t get grants these days. That is what a previous poster meant by people making money off this issue. Where does this pro-global-warming research money come from? What real science backs them up? What ideologies do they espouse? Look very closely indeed.
Socialism is at root the denial of the primacy of the individual as the basic unit of sentient consciousness in our species. It seems to assume that individualism is something to be overcome, when in fact it is herd mentality that must be overcome.
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Orion:
Yes, the globe is warming.
No, CO2 didn’t cause it.
Global warming caused a rise in CO2.
If we look at graphs without distorting them for political purposes we can see that ice ages do indeed occur and temperatures do go up and down. We can’t fight ice ages.
Global taxes on emissions are for the purpose of promoting a world government.
Scaremongering dodgy science is not going to make me into a cheerleader for global carbon tax.
But, for the health of every individual, I am anti fossil fuels/nuclear fission and pro free energy.
Chris,
I’ve heard this argument about the ice-ages before. It is now very out of date, thoroughly debunked and today’s science clearly does not support your assertions.
A global government is not an necessarily a bad thing — it all depends on the details, and how citizens voices are involved. Currently decisions that effect the life of all are being made by an elite few — a global government could change this, giving voice to you and me.
This is the main problem with Libertarian ideology — it mouths freedom while creating conditions of servitude. Most Libertarians I know are so ideologically (emotionally) anti-government that they fail to look at empirical realities. Theory is no substitute for fact, and what actually happens in a free-market no-tax no-government situation is that an elite few have immense freedoms while the rest of us become trapped under their boot.
I’m glad you are anti-fossil fuel and nuclear fission! That’s good common sense — alternative sources of energy need our support.
The global government being formed (already formed, really) will be run by the elite few you mention a global government would protect us from (international bankers and corporations).
The “citizen voices” will be shepherded by Fabian-style Non-Governmental Organizations, institutions and think tanks, (working for the global elite) who use Hegelian guile and mellinea-old rhetorical/dialectical techniques. They will lead people, as they always have, to demand government to assume more power over them, to protect them from their neighbors.
I don’t trust a thoroughly corrupt, thoroughly compromised world government ushered in by the butchers of the previous century (including the pro-UN, pro-environment Rockefellers). The current-day Malthusian environmental movement carries with it an inhuman legacy of poor houses, debtor’s prisons, eugenics, forced sterilization, mandatory abortions, and genocide. It has lost its credibility in the compassion and humanity department.
Carbon offsets are a new form of indulgence from the new version of the universal church. The rich, as always, will be sin-free since they can buy off their sins.
Instead of telling us useless eaters that we have to forego having children, endure feudalism-levels of taxation, give up all forms of property and transportation, and live packed like sardines into mega-slums, the environmental elite should put their money where their mouth is, eschew their vehicles and private jets, sacrifice their swimming pools and hot tubs, get a bike and move to the tenements. The environmental clean-up bill should be footed by the descendants and beneficiaries of the bloodlines who profitted beyond avarice during the Industrial Revolution by forcing farmers off the land and into the factories that destroyed our environment in the first place.
I find it a strange coincidence that an environmental spokesman has such militaristic esoteric name. (Orion = constellation of the hunter, Krieg = german for War). When our time to be transitioned comes, are you going to “TellUs” at gunpoint?
Orion,
I believe the conversation in this forum, up to this point, has pretty much all been a wonderful red herring. I have a few simple questions for you, for which I would be surprised, though delighted, to receive a response.
Why is it, do you suppose, that only what mainstream media might term “fringe groups” like many of us folks reading this seem to be at all cognizant of what is going on? I have extensive family in the Boston area and they had never heard of this before. Of course they draw from mainstream media for their information on world and national matters. Oh sure, maybe there was 2 sentence blurb in the Globe on page 4,230, but the lack of publicity and general openness on the part of the idea men and the legislatures creates this atmosphere of distrust and panic. I point to the Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America as a prime example. Obviously this is not an agenda that can be blamed solely on everyone’s favorite fall guy, G Dubya, there must be a much larger agenda at hand. Why is it essentially secret to the people of all 3 nations? If these changes in the way we are to be governed and the way we are going to live are simply the result of good people working together towards a better future for humanity, why are they covered up largely with what appear to be pure misinformation or trivia?
Let me ask you the most important question of all. May we put the controversy aspect over man’s impact on the planet and environment aside for a moment? While both perceptions may be the result of the fact that most of us are packed tightly into centralized living areas of the Earth as it is, there is a “common” understanding that we are ruining the planet, and that human beings are multiplying at an unsustainable rate. World population issues are something I never hear mentioned in politics or in media, other then what some say are the “unethical” laws regarding parenting in China. Yet, to me, it seems it would be an area worthy of study by any self respecting think tank or planning group with concern for the future of civilization. I would pose to you the question, if there have been any considerations in the planning done on the part of Tellus in regard to the obvious problem of accelerating human procreation, why is that information unavailable? Obviously, if the answer to that question is that there has been consideration, then I would like to hear what those plans might entail.
Orion - Your arguments reek of a transparent dialectic, of which you’re either an intentional part or into which you’ve bought without undertaking any semblance of serious, objective research.
The elitists plan to completely enslave what’s left of the masses, after the elites implement their schemes for the widespread murder of the masses (the overwhelming majority of the “useless eaters” will be eliminated, one way or another).
On its surface, the foregoing sounds absurd, doesn’t it? Do some serious, o b j e c t i v e research and study the writings of the elitists themselves, and you’ll begin to perceive reality in a much, much different light if you’re not self-brainwashed (i.e., a “tool” or a “useful idiot”).
A global government wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing? Name ONE major governmental power that didn’t become more and more corrupt over time. A global government would be no different; once its level of corruption reaches a certain point, there will be no escape for anyone, anywhere from total enslavement.
Today’s world is run by a pathocracy, that is, a control structure dominated by psychopaths with no regard (and utter contempt) for the lives of those that are “inferior” to them (e.g., the common masses). Your “better-world” societal structures will be completely controlled by this exact same pathocracy and their progeny. It will be a utopia, that is, the elitists’ utopia, which equivocates to the masses’ worst nightmare.
To get a brief, limited view of key players in the pathocracy, start here:
http://www.pehi.eu/introduction.htm
Note that the information at the above link, while very well-researched, barely begins to scratch the surface.
Hi Steven and Adam,
It could be useful to define some terms, just to see if we mean the same thing or not when we speak of a global government.
In my point of view, there is no existing global government — there are a hodge-podge of global institutions that exercise varying degrees of governance over certain domains — although many of these institutions are quite small.
The UN for example is a drop in the bucket compared to the flow of material resources and money through a transnational corporation like Exxon-Mobil. The World Bank is a tiny lender compared to all the private banks out there.
The US clearly exercises more power over world affairs through its economic and military policy than any other institution — the UN often acts as a mere rubber stamp for US policy decisions.
Those who exercise real influence over world affairs are currently a small elite (the folks who meet in Davos, Switzerland every year at the World Economic Forum).
If the average citizen would like to influence world affairs they can only do so by joining together to speak with a loud collective voice — either in protests on the streets (such as the one that shut down WTO talks in Seattle) or through the voting booth removing the parties and leaders from government (e.g., if we want to end this war of empire building in Iraq, we need to vote in a candidate who is committed to bringing American troops home).
The creation of a global government could go a long way to helping the voices of citizens matter. For example, if there existed a Global Parliament elected by citizens that would be an improvement over the UN General Assembly which consists of representatives appointed by their governments. (This example shows how a system of government could enhance accountability and representation at a global level.)
Without government regulations that are enforceable, we find over and over again that powerful corporate interests collude to defraud the public. This was the impetus behind the creation of government agencies such as the FDA. When the FDA does its job, it protects the average person from the greedy elite, ensuring we are not poisoned or lied to about the products we purchase. Under Reagan, the FDA (and most other regulatory agencies) budgets were cut — the public has suffered tremendously, the rich have grown richer.
An example of this is what has happened in the Media industry — as government regulation has be rolled back and agencies like the FCC eviscerated, giant media conglomerations have gobbled up tv, radio, newspaper, billboards, movies, publishers, and vertically integrated them — putting them under the control of an elite few. The result? Americans are misinformed and miseducated.
The airwaves belong to the American People — its part of the commons, our right of birth, but the corporations control them. These corporations increasingly control the government as well — both through bribes to politicians and literally by taking over the very institutions set up to regulate them.
The solution is not “no government” or “less government” but GOOD government and clean and honest governance. Addressing corruption is essential, but without government regulation we’d be back in the 1890’s — talk about humanitarian disaster and rule by an elite.
(by the way, I don’t own a car, I live in a low-income urban neighborhood, and I am actively working to make it a more liveable city)
(EDITED BY MARK BAARD) You are creating the demise of civilized humanity. You seek to control others out of fear. You will lose eventually in ways you cannot comprehend. You can not suppress life without consequences; here and after. (PROFANITIES REMOVED. SPELLING CORRECTED.)
INTERESTING FLOW OF COMMENTS AND COUNTER COMMENTS….
DO ANY OF YOUR CORRESPONDENTS HAVE A FEEL FOR THE “NUMBERS” CONCERNING OUTCOMES OF “SUSTAINABILITY” IN EFFECT ON A PLANET VIEWED BY THE “GLOBALIST THINK-TANKERS” AS BEING WAY OVER THE MARK EVEN NOW LET ALONE THE NEAR TO DISTANT FUTURE…? DO WE ALL THINK OUR “INALIENABLE RIGHTS” ARE SACROSANCT TO THE EXTENT THAT WHOMSOEVER IS BORN TO LIVE IS LEFT ALONE TO LIVE LIFE IN THE GOOD OLD AMERICAN WAY? IF G. DUBYA CAN SIGN AWAY CONSTITUTIONAL PEROGATIVES TO IMPLEMENT A GRAND MERGER OF NATIONS … AND PLAN THE “AMERO ” TO GOVERN OUR SPENDING FUTURES WITHOUT THE PUBLIC PERMIT…. WHY SHOULD WE IMAGINE MARK BAARDS SUSPICIONS ARE NOT GERMAINE????????????
Now, in times where the shit hits the fan, a brilliant and unique human being comes up on the horizon like a knight in shining armour, tackles the problem by the horns and offers a sophisticated, never before troed solution, which is…
- drumroll -
“The solution is not “no government” or “less government” but GOOD government .”
Wow. Who would have thought of that? Shouldn’t we all bow down in awe about Mr. Kriegmanns genius?
Maybe give him the nobel-peace-price like Al Gore? Then they could create something like the “Global Justice League”, including the sporting of fancy costumes.
To many in the world like this guy, If anyone needs to be Transitioned, its his brain.
Orion is an obvious paid shill… most likely working for this Op Centre:
http://scl.cc/home.php
Why is anyone wasting CO2 on this person?
Global warming is a hoax. And he knows it
Where is the productive, innocent, value-producing business upstarts that will outcompete, crush, & obsolete the criminal, commie, sociopathic shills from gay yale & harvard?
Why, they’re out R3volutionizin’, … producing net-value alongside Dr. Ron Paul, MD!
That’s where!
CO2 producers like Rastinks always use their cowardly association with force of guns & fists to murder what they are otherwise too limp-dicked & incompetent to earn.
SOLUTION:
Will your honest “Gov’t Co.” for fun & profit outcompete mine, without homomid default to this common stupid asses’ historical pathology of initiatory force, its threat, or other unearned coercion? For our grandkids sakes, I dare you to become a true entrepreneurial unlimited upstart! I will always institute the competitive advantage of NEVER making any at source deductions for payment-of-warmongers-&-destroyers from my choice producers’ workaday earnings, I can tell you that.
As for this hominid Rastink B.S**T, MoreS**T, PiledHigh&Deep, inflatulatory blithering idiot, … he is s-o-o-o-o-o DONE ~ anyone can tell by merely glancing at him, he’s a turn-tail runner, … & his wife & grandbabies secretly thank us for having kept individual self-defence against initiating offenders like him & his puppeteers always “on the table.”’ ‘Course, when he lays his hominid, greedy lil’ head down next to his headache-ridden spouse every night, he doesn’t fool himself on the fact that he has yet to create an original idea. He knows he’s a mere dog copying his Pavlov-mind-control master. After he’s taken up his new park bench or other dark space, let’s help his progeny invest his usurped pay cheques well, if indeed he was once capable of fertilizing such unfortunate zygotes into this world.
Goes to show you, that just ’cause one’s knees lock him in the upright position, does not mean he is a conscious human being.
LOVE WINS! That’ll be ‘tough-love’ on him, (if he gets lucky.)
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For Kriegman being a paid shill: The GT Initiative Website clearly states, who Kriegmans and Raskins Masters are:
“GTI’s direct antecedent was the Global Scenario Group (GSG), an international group convened in 1995 by Tellus Institute and the Stockholm Environment Institute to examine the requirements for a sustainable and desirable future. Numerous international, regional, and national vision studies have relied on its comprehensive and detailed scenarios, such as the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Environmental Outlook series. UNEP, the Nippon Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation provided major funding for this effort.”
So, clearly a United Nations / Rockefeller henchman.
His role in the whole scheme is this:
“Orion Kriegman is at Tellus Institute where he organizes and manages the work of the Great Transition Initiative. His background is in conflict transformation and democracy building efforts, with extensive experience as a mediator, team builder, and network organizer.”
So basically that which is euphemistically called “Change Agent / Facilitator”. So he has to write the BS like in his responses above. Clearly, most of the readership goes by the premises that all these NGO’s are a front for the global elite, that man-made Global Warming is a fraud and all these nicey-nicey ste phrases like “sustainability” are linguistic manipulations.
Kriegman cannot engage conversation acknowledging that the readership has these premises, although he fully knows it, so instead he imposes his own premises on the readership and continues as if nothing happened. Basically he tries to put people into a dialectic and hopes to get away with it: From the premise, that you are against transnational corporations he concludes that you must be for the counterpart, which are grass-roots foundations like his GTI stuff and similar instituted NWO-Fronts.
This might not work that well on the person adressed, but mind you, it’s really intended to work on the more or less naive readers that just came surfing across here. So it is important to call people like Kriegman on their shit as soon as they appear on the scene.
This is NOT grass-roots, this is about manufacturing a perdetermined consent to make perople agree on perdetermined goals. Have you ever seen any of these globalist greenies suggesting to WORK less and consume less? Now, that would make an instant impact on greenhouse gases (playing devil’s advocate here, of course the CO2 stuff is BS). No, the only thing they advocate is to PAY more and consume less.
Which brings us to the crux of all these utopias: Where the hell does all the workforce and produce end up in these ever-more efficient systems when the living standard of the average person drops and drops? Someone has to profit, and these utopists NEVER address where the goodies go to.
Note also Kriegmanns use of weasel phrases like “citizen of the world”. Citizen of the world presupposes the existence of a global State with a global government. Citizen - not a free individuum not bound by national boundaries. Think about that.