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Lesson 4: Smart Growth

Bike at beach.This is the fourth lesson in a series of ten lessons on Agenda 21, commonly known as Sustainable Development.. Today you will learn…

 How Smart Growth Stategies are Used to Control Human Behavior Within the Human Settlement.

One of the goals of Agenda 21 is to re-wild over 50% (plus an additional 10% for buffer zones around the re-wilded areas) of the United States. Out of necessity, this will force the human population off the rural lands and into, using Agenda 21 language, “human settlements”. Once there, the behavior of humans can be more easily monitored and controlled, thus creating, “sustainability”. Continue reading

DANGEROUS BY DESIGN 2020

Bicycling is no doubt good exercise. The point of the article below is not to demonize bicyclists but to explain how bicycle enthusiasts are being used to advance the Leftist agenda-Agenda 21.

Remember the ultimate goal of Agenda 21/sustainable development/Green New Deal is a One World Order where the Elite gain total control of all human activity. One of the key goals to control human activity is to limit the modes of transportation within the boundaries of metropolitan cities, while restricting travel outside of large metropolitan areas (allowing the areas outside of the cities to re-wild). This means travel by car must be replaced by travel on foot, bicycle, or mass transit.

Eliminating cars in a country, which adores its cars and the freedom to travel independently, is no small feat. It requires the use of many strategies. One of the strategies many legislators are considering is taxing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), which will make drivers think twice before taking the much-beloved road trip.  A second strategy is to make the driving experience as miserable as possible. One way to do this is to encourage bicyclists to tie up lanes on the roads-especially busy roads.  This has an added benefit for the politically driven Progressive.  If enough bicyclists clog the roads, predictably some of them will be injured or killed. These deaths and injuries then create a “health issue” allowing the government to get involved, which then can be lobbied by the Progressives to use our tax dollars to redesign our roads to include dedicated bike lanes.

In other words the Agenda 21-pushing-Progressives create the problem-forcing fast moving automobiles to share finite space with fragile, slow moving bicyclists- so they can achieve what they really want, which is to get the government to spend massive amounts of our tax dollar to help build the infrastructure needed to create One World Order cities.

Who cares (certainly not the Progressives), if it costs a fortune, bicyclists are injured and killed, and ultimately and sadly we voluntarily loss our ability to travel freely around our country.

To take a look at how Smart Growth America does its dirty work, while pretending it has your best interest at heart, click on this link.

Smart Growth is Dangerous Growth

Normally the author of the website www.Agenda21course.com  does not compose the articles included in the newsletter. In this the author would like to make an exception.

The official website for Smart Growth, www.smartgrowthamerica.org , is working actively, aggressively, and successfully to advance Agenda 21 in an attempt to transform our cities.

The Smart Growth America website lists 10 principles which are currently being used to transform our cities.  What the website does not tell you are the many negative consequences to the quality life of those living in the cities. Nor does it tell the truly horrible impact these principle will have on those living in the rural lands. Nor does it tell you how Smart Growth will steal freedom from every single American regardless of where they live.  This then is why the information in this article is so important.

Below are the 10 smart growth principles listed on the www.smartgrowthamerica.org website which are being used to convince those going to the site just how wonderful will be the results of smart growth planning. You may click on any of the principles to see more information.

 1. Mix land uses

2. Take advantage of compact design

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As Electric Scooters Proliferate, So Do Minor Injuries And Blocked Sidewalks

Little things can go a long way towards transforming America-and not always in a good way.

One of those “little things” are the scooters, which are suddenly flooding our cities in large numbers.  In Columbus, Ohio eight vendors will each be allowed to put 500 scooters on the streets/sidewalks. Safety wise, what could possibly go wrong in this scenario? Never fear. The solution according to the article is to simply “redesign the city streets” spending untold millions of dollars to allow the safer movement of the scooter riders and bicyclists.

More importantly the result, as more and more of the road is being dedicated to the use of scooters and bicycles, is greater congestion for those driving cars. This in turn encourages more and more folks to move closer to the downtown resulting in the building of more and more high rises to accommodate the influx of people to the downtown.

Voile! The city is redesigned into a Smart Growth city where the lives of the now packed and stacked citizenry can be more easily controlled by the Elite.

Perhaps a “little thing” like adding scooters to the city streets and sidewalks is not such a “little thing.”

To read more on this topic click on this link.

Michigan Tax Assessor Attempts Interior Home Inspections

Being sure that the homes in this Michigan town were assessed correctly for taxes was the excuse used by assessors to trespass INTO the town’s homes. When some  homeowners refused the assessors entry, the homeowners were punished through their wallets.

Only because these policies were created by elected officials, who could be threatened with being “unelected”, was there a happy ending. Without this happy ending, would the next bureaucrats have attempted to invade the homes to check the amount of insulation in the walls or the efficiency of the appliances?

Watch the citizens in this short video sort out their elected officials by clicking on this link.

Eco Freaks Want YOU to Eat Bugs.. You ARE What You Eat!

This video is done by an extremely dedicated activist in California. I will have to say this is one of his best videos. In spite of the fact that everything he says about the effort by the United Nations to convince us to eat bugs is crazy and scary, it is also just so darn absurd that you have to laugh (mostly to prevent yourself from hitting your head repeatedly against the desk top.) To watch this short video, click on this link.

Rep. Gosar Blocks $500 Million Obama Wanted for New, Wasteful Grant Program, Keeps Money in Highway Trust Fund

Do yourself and your blood pressure a favor and read about the successful attempt in the U.S. House to block any funds from being used for the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) proposed Rapid Growth Area Transit Program. If passed, this will decrease the theft from the federal highway fund of tax dollars that were going to be thrown down the mass transit black hole. To learn more about this amendment click on this link.

California vs. The Suburbs: Planners, Smart Growth, and the Manhattan Delusion

This short video uses information about development in Los Angeles, California to debunk the supposed necessity of creating a multitude of high rises to replace the suburbs. Further, the video explains how by following the money you can see who will really benefit if pack and stack is achieved, and why it is a mistake on all levels to allow this densification to occur. To learn more click on this link.

Americans Want to Drive, Not Take Mass Transit. But Government Spending Doesn’t Reflect That

The federal government is diverting transportation dollars away from the roads and bridges to “transportation alternatives” in order to transform/control how (and if) Americans are allowed to travel around the country. 

The federal highway trust fund that funds our roads and bridges runs out of funds at the end of May (2015). A significant part of the problem is that 19 cents of every dollar that should be spent on roads and bridges is being diverted to things like bicycle and walking paths, scenic overlooks, and environmental pollution mitigation.

This article does such a great job of explaining why it makes absolutely NO sense to be diverting this money away from the building and repairing of roads and bridges I suggest strongly that you send it, or a link, to all of your representatives; federal, state, and local. To learn more, click on this link.

“Stopping Obama’s Assault On the Suburbs”

The article, “Stopping Obama’s Assault On the Suburbs” by Stanley Kurtz, provides a chilling explanation of how Obama’s recent ruling, Affirmatively Forwarding Fair Housing (AFFH), goes way past preventing discrimination and moves on to creating rules to force integration of minorities into our neighborhoods (aka social justice) on the taxpayer’s dime. In addition, these social engineering policies concentrate even more people in our population centers where they can be more easily controlled and monitored through Smart Growth regulations.

This article, which was written in mid-2014, also discusses an effort by Arizona Congressman Paul Goser to create legislation to prevent funds from being used to implement the AFFH rules.

Note: I contacted Congressman Goser’s office on 3/2/15, to see if he was still attempting in 2015 to defund these efforts at forced integration of our neighborhoods, and was told he is indeed again this year (2015) working towards that goal. I will attempt to let you know in the future of the progress of this effort. To learn more about the impact of AFFH social engineering rules and Representative Goser’s effort to thwart them, click on this link.