Monday, June 20, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Bloomington Normal Central Planners Pt8
The City of Normal's defintiton of Sustainable Development directly states its connection to the Bruntland Commission.
From Normal's 2035 Report:
For the purposes of this project, we have used the widely accepted United Nations Bruntland Commission’s definition (1983):
Sustainability: (n) Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
According to wikipedia the Bruntland Report is also known as "Our Common Future."
From Wikipedia :
The publication of Our Common Future and the work of the World Commission on Environment and Development laid the groundwork for the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit and the adoption of AGENDA 21, the Rio Declaration and to the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
This commission was chaired by Gro Harlem Bruntland, Prime minister of Norway and Vice-President of the World Socialist Party. According to the website World Socialist Party US their Objective is:
The establishment of a system of society based on the COMMON OWNERSHIP and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of society as a whole.
Is the city of Normal basing their ideas of Public-Private Partnerships, Social Justice and Economic Justice on the Objective of the World Socialist Party?
From Normal's 2035 Report:
For the purposes of this project, we have used the widely accepted United Nations Bruntland Commission’s definition (1983):
Sustainability: (n) Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
According to wikipedia the Bruntland Report is also known as "Our Common Future."
From Wikipedia :
The publication of Our Common Future and the work of the World Commission on Environment and Development laid the groundwork for the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit and the adoption of AGENDA 21, the Rio Declaration and to the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
This commission was chaired by Gro Harlem Bruntland, Prime minister of Norway and Vice-President of the World Socialist Party. According to the website World Socialist Party US their Objective is:
The establishment of a system of society based on the COMMON OWNERSHIP and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of society as a whole.
Is the city of Normal basing their ideas of Public-Private Partnerships, Social Justice and Economic Justice on the Objective of the World Socialist Party?
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Payday Loans Illinois Peoples Action 36% Cap
The Group pushing for this is Illinois Peoples Action which is the downstate branch of the militant Saul Alinsky schooled National Peoples Action whose founder Gale Cincotta is known as the "Mother of the 1977 Community Re-Investment Act" which after continually being modified pushed the government to force banks to give loans to people who normally wouldn't qualify because they couldn't afford them. Over the years they have participated in protests or some say mob actions on private property along with Acorn and SEIU and at times scaring the heck out of kids home alone. Most recently they have participated in protests along with SEIU big man Scott Lerner who is on audio tape wanting to target JP Morgan Chase as a strategy to collapse the US Economy.
Moreover groups like these use many charts and studies from The Center for Responsible Lending in their efforts to Cap or ban Payday Loans. Ironically, Illinois Peoples Action is always out to fight the supposed predatory Banks and yet the Center for Responsible Lending is the child of a major Credit Union called "Self Help" Credit Union which was heavily involved in the Sub Prime Mortgage crisis. The Self Help Credit Union managed to help turn $30 million into $1 Billion during the Crisis. You may recall Saturday Night Live did a skit about two wealthy individuals (man and wife) from California who bundled together millions or more in bad loans and profited greatly from dumping them. The couple had ties to Self Help Credit Union.
In addition Self Help Credit Union has a financial reason to ban Payday Loans. Payday Loans are their competition. Self Help Credit Union specializes in giving loans to people with few options. They charge high Interest Rates and you may say to yourself well that's better than 400% Interest. No it is not! These low income people now without the option of Payday Loans start a cycle of bouncing checks at a high rate. High $30 - $45 fees among some banks add up quickly and as you can see paying $15 for every hundred borrowed at a Payday Lender is alot better than paying High Interest Rates and numerous bounced check fees at a Bank or Credit Union.
Illinois Peoples Action talks about capping loans at 36% which in the real world is proven to put PayDay lenders out of business. 36% would be less than a $1.50 per every hundred borrowed to process a small $200-$300 high risk of default loan. As any reasonable person can quickly see it is not profitable. In Oregon they did a 36% cap and within a year the Payday Loan Industry was basically dead. In North Carolina where 'Self Help" credit Union is based they banned Payday Loans and studies by the New York Federal Reserve showed low income families were devastated by the ban. Bankruptcies soared and the banks immediately made SIX TIMES more (Billions) in Bounced Check Fees. Banning or Capping Payday Loans takes away options from the poor and in some instances they are now forced to turn to Real Loan Sharks, Bankruptcy, Pay Out more in NSF Fees to Banks, Lose Jobs due to no gas Money, Can't repair their cars, buy medicine or food, etc, etc, etc. Other Studies have shown that Communities with PayDay Loan vendors hold up better when they are ravaged by disasters such as Hurricanes or Tornadoes.
Also in Illinois payday Lenders employee 5080 people. Putting them out of business would send thousands to the Unemployment Lines, cause commerical properties to sit vacant, greatly reduce badly needed tax revenues to the State and the local community, cause bankruptcies to soar and cause utter devastation in the low income community. Lastly, they call it payday loan for a reason. You are supposed to pay it back on payday! Stand up for liberty, the working poor by giving them options so they can run their own lives and oppose groups like Illinois Peoples Action who want to run yours!
Moreover groups like these use many charts and studies from The Center for Responsible Lending in their efforts to Cap or ban Payday Loans. Ironically, Illinois Peoples Action is always out to fight the supposed predatory Banks and yet the Center for Responsible Lending is the child of a major Credit Union called "Self Help" Credit Union which was heavily involved in the Sub Prime Mortgage crisis. The Self Help Credit Union managed to help turn $30 million into $1 Billion during the Crisis. You may recall Saturday Night Live did a skit about two wealthy individuals (man and wife) from California who bundled together millions or more in bad loans and profited greatly from dumping them. The couple had ties to Self Help Credit Union.
In addition Self Help Credit Union has a financial reason to ban Payday Loans. Payday Loans are their competition. Self Help Credit Union specializes in giving loans to people with few options. They charge high Interest Rates and you may say to yourself well that's better than 400% Interest. No it is not! These low income people now without the option of Payday Loans start a cycle of bouncing checks at a high rate. High $30 - $45 fees among some banks add up quickly and as you can see paying $15 for every hundred borrowed at a Payday Lender is alot better than paying High Interest Rates and numerous bounced check fees at a Bank or Credit Union.
Illinois Peoples Action talks about capping loans at 36% which in the real world is proven to put PayDay lenders out of business. 36% would be less than a $1.50 per every hundred borrowed to process a small $200-$300 high risk of default loan. As any reasonable person can quickly see it is not profitable. In Oregon they did a 36% cap and within a year the Payday Loan Industry was basically dead. In North Carolina where 'Self Help" credit Union is based they banned Payday Loans and studies by the New York Federal Reserve showed low income families were devastated by the ban. Bankruptcies soared and the banks immediately made SIX TIMES more (Billions) in Bounced Check Fees. Banning or Capping Payday Loans takes away options from the poor and in some instances they are now forced to turn to Real Loan Sharks, Bankruptcy, Pay Out more in NSF Fees to Banks, Lose Jobs due to no gas Money, Can't repair their cars, buy medicine or food, etc, etc, etc. Other Studies have shown that Communities with PayDay Loan vendors hold up better when they are ravaged by disasters such as Hurricanes or Tornadoes.
Also in Illinois payday Lenders employee 5080 people. Putting them out of business would send thousands to the Unemployment Lines, cause commerical properties to sit vacant, greatly reduce badly needed tax revenues to the State and the local community, cause bankruptcies to soar and cause utter devastation in the low income community. Lastly, they call it payday loan for a reason. You are supposed to pay it back on payday! Stand up for liberty, the working poor by giving them options so they can run their own lives and oppose groups like Illinois Peoples Action who want to run yours!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Bloomington - Normal Central Planners Pt.7
Illinois Wesleyan University, Tallories Declaration, Agenda 21
Outside of the word "government," education appears more than any other word in Agenda 21. Chapter 36 of the United Nations Bible(Agenda 21) titled "Education, Training and Public Awareness," makes the case "education is critical for promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of the people to address environment and development issues."
The Society for College and University Planning published a document called "Planning for Higher Education." On page 22 is a article titled "Transforming the University Campus into a Sustainable Community," by Richard K. Norton, Andrew Brix, Trevor Brydon, Elijah Davidian, Keely Dinse, and Sanjeev Vidyarthi . The article asserts that the "Talloires Declaration and Agenda 21 served as a call to action for higher education institutions."
According to a article featured on the University Leaders for a Sustainable Future's website (ULSF the sponsors of the Tallories Declaration), titled a "U.S. Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education," by Wynn Calder and Richard M. Clugston "there has been growing international interest in the role of higher education in fostering a sustainable future. Agenda 21 and a series of HESD declarations in the 1990s made this agenda explicit." The article also states that HESD Declarations like the Tallories Declaration reaffirms Chapter 36 of Agenda 21.
On April 13, 2007, the President of Illinois Weslyan University Richard Wilson signed the Tallories Declaration (pronounced Tal-WHAR), a Transnational ten point plan of action for incorporating Sustainable Development into higher education. According to the IWU Sierra Student Coalition they approached President Wilson in 2006 about signing the Declaration which was written at a International Conference in Tallories, France. Illinois Weslyan is now an active player in promoting Chapter 36 of Agenda 21.
The Talloires Declaration
1. Increase Awareness of Environmentally Sustainable Development
2. Create an Institutional Culture of Sustainability
3. Educate for Environmentally Responsible Citizenship
4. Foster Environmental Literacy For All
5. Practice Institutional Ecology
6. Involve All Stakeholders
7. Collaborate for Interdisciplinary Approaches
8. Enhance Capacity of Primary and Secondary Schools
9. Broaden Service and Outreach Nationally and Internationally
10. Maintain the Movement
A recent Guest at Illinois State University Peter Blaze Cochran(Promoting the UN Earth Charter)
wrote an article along with Wynn Calder and Richard M. Clugston titled "Higher Education for Sustainable Development." In the article he asserts that four organizations agreed to form a Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership (GHESP), to combine their strengths in an effort to mobilize higher education institutions to support sustainable development. Notice the Fourth group is a United Nations Organization that serves as the Task Manager for implementation of Chapter 36, Agenda 21. Illinois Wesylan University has signed onto a Declaration that makes them partners with the United Nations Task Master in charge of Education and Agenda 21.
. The organizations are:
•The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) serves as the Secretariat of over 280 signatories of the Talloires Declaration in over 40 countries and promotes education for sustainability based on the Earth Charter; (ILLINOIS WESLYAN UNIVERSITY is involved)
•COPERNICUS-Campus, formerly a Programme of the Association of European Universities
•The International Association of Universities (IAU)
•The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the task manager for the implementation of Chapter 36, "Education, Public Awareness and Training", of Agenda 21.
Illinois Wesleyan University has been busy Planning on how to involve the Tallories Declaration not only in their University, but our community, schools, and our local government. Below are some of their plans of action taken from an IWU website:
1. Increase Awareness of Environmentally Sustainable Development
Use every opportunity to raise public, government, industry, foundation, and university
awareness by openly addressing the urgent need to move toward an environmentally
sustainable future.
Past efforts:
• Host the annual Sustainable Living and Wellness Expo at the Shirk Center
• Create a sustainability pledge for signing upon graduation
• Incorporate sustainability within the curriculum6. Involve All Stakeholders
Encourage involvement of government, foundations, and industry in supporting
interdisciplinary research, education, policy formation, and information exchange in
environmentally sustainable development. Expand work with community and
nongovernmental organizations to assist in finding solutions to environmental problems.
• Established a volunteer/internship partnership with the "ECOLOGY ACTION CENTER."
and Sugar Grove Nature Center
• Engaged the local community through the Sustainable Living and Wellness
Expo
Potential future efforts:
• PARTNER with TOWN OF NORMAL with regard to sustainability (per Town
Planner’s request)
* Enhance Capacity of Primary and Secondary Schools
Establish partnerships with primary and secondary schools to help develop the capacity
for interdisciplinary teaching about population, environment, and sustainable
development.
• Encourage Education majors to develop environmentally-themed curricula
for area schools
• Establish “Sustainability Mentor” program with area schools
• Explore potential PARTNERSHIP with EPA (renewable energy grants/programs)
• Utilize new partnership with ULSF
Establish Sustainability Coordinator position or enhance capacity of
GREENetwork to ensure the implementation of the Talloires Declaration
Outside of the word "government," education appears more than any other word in Agenda 21. Chapter 36 of the United Nations Bible(Agenda 21) titled "Education, Training and Public Awareness," makes the case "education is critical for promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of the people to address environment and development issues."
The Society for College and University Planning published a document called "Planning for Higher Education." On page 22 is a article titled "Transforming the University Campus into a Sustainable Community," by Richard K. Norton, Andrew Brix, Trevor Brydon, Elijah Davidian, Keely Dinse, and Sanjeev Vidyarthi . The article asserts that the "Talloires Declaration and Agenda 21 served as a call to action for higher education institutions."
According to a article featured on the University Leaders for a Sustainable Future's website (ULSF the sponsors of the Tallories Declaration), titled a "U.S. Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education," by Wynn Calder and Richard M. Clugston "there has been growing international interest in the role of higher education in fostering a sustainable future. Agenda 21 and a series of HESD declarations in the 1990s made this agenda explicit." The article also states that HESD Declarations like the Tallories Declaration reaffirms Chapter 36 of Agenda 21.
On April 13, 2007, the President of Illinois Weslyan University Richard Wilson signed the Tallories Declaration (pronounced Tal-WHAR), a Transnational ten point plan of action for incorporating Sustainable Development into higher education. According to the IWU Sierra Student Coalition they approached President Wilson in 2006 about signing the Declaration which was written at a International Conference in Tallories, France. Illinois Weslyan is now an active player in promoting Chapter 36 of Agenda 21.
The Talloires Declaration
1. Increase Awareness of Environmentally Sustainable Development
2. Create an Institutional Culture of Sustainability
3. Educate for Environmentally Responsible Citizenship
4. Foster Environmental Literacy For All
5. Practice Institutional Ecology
6. Involve All Stakeholders
7. Collaborate for Interdisciplinary Approaches
8. Enhance Capacity of Primary and Secondary Schools
9. Broaden Service and Outreach Nationally and Internationally
10. Maintain the Movement
A recent Guest at Illinois State University Peter Blaze Cochran(Promoting the UN Earth Charter)
wrote an article along with Wynn Calder and Richard M. Clugston titled "Higher Education for Sustainable Development." In the article he asserts that four organizations agreed to form a Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership (GHESP), to combine their strengths in an effort to mobilize higher education institutions to support sustainable development. Notice the Fourth group is a United Nations Organization that serves as the Task Manager for implementation of Chapter 36, Agenda 21. Illinois Wesylan University has signed onto a Declaration that makes them partners with the United Nations Task Master in charge of Education and Agenda 21.
. The organizations are:
•The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) serves as the Secretariat of over 280 signatories of the Talloires Declaration in over 40 countries and promotes education for sustainability based on the Earth Charter; (ILLINOIS WESLYAN UNIVERSITY is involved)
•COPERNICUS-Campus, formerly a Programme of the Association of European Universities
•The International Association of Universities (IAU)
•The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the task manager for the implementation of Chapter 36, "Education, Public Awareness and Training", of Agenda 21.
Illinois Wesleyan University has been busy Planning on how to involve the Tallories Declaration not only in their University, but our community, schools, and our local government. Below are some of their plans of action taken from an IWU website:
1. Increase Awareness of Environmentally Sustainable Development
Use every opportunity to raise public, government, industry, foundation, and university
awareness by openly addressing the urgent need to move toward an environmentally
sustainable future.
Past efforts:
• Host the annual Sustainable Living and Wellness Expo at the Shirk Center
• Create a sustainability pledge for signing upon graduation
• Incorporate sustainability within the curriculum6. Involve All Stakeholders
Encourage involvement of government, foundations, and industry in supporting
interdisciplinary research, education, policy formation, and information exchange in
environmentally sustainable development. Expand work with community and
nongovernmental organizations to assist in finding solutions to environmental problems.
• Established a volunteer/internship partnership with the "ECOLOGY ACTION CENTER."
and Sugar Grove Nature Center
• Engaged the local community through the Sustainable Living and Wellness
Expo
Potential future efforts:
• PARTNER with TOWN OF NORMAL with regard to sustainability (per Town
Planner’s request)
* Enhance Capacity of Primary and Secondary Schools
Establish partnerships with primary and secondary schools to help develop the capacity
for interdisciplinary teaching about population, environment, and sustainable
development.
• Encourage Education majors to develop environmentally-themed curricula
for area schools
• Establish “Sustainability Mentor” program with area schools
• Explore potential PARTNERSHIP with EPA (renewable energy grants/programs)
• Utilize new partnership with ULSF
Establish Sustainability Coordinator position or enhance capacity of
GREENetwork to ensure the implementation of the Talloires Declaration
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Bloomington - Normal Central Planners Pt.6
Mike Matejka is a former Bloomington City Council member, Union activist, Task Force member of Community-Wide Sustainability Development Plan 2035 for the City of Normal , and a former Board Member of the Central Illinois Organizing Project, now known as Illinois Peoples Action.
On July 27th, 2006. The Pantagraph published a article by Mr. Matejka about former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “Inconvenient Truth.” This movie helped launch the End of World hysteria that Central Planners around the Globe used to push their sustainable development agenda on trusting populations. Gore’s movie has since been discredited with over thirty known falsehoods. In 2006 Gore said we only have Ten Years left to save the planet from scorching. Not Surprisingly, Al Gore was also involved in the Chicago Climate Exchange and it has been said he would have been a Multi Billionaire overnight if Congress would have passed Cap and Trade Legislation. Here are some exerts from Matejka’s article:
"That's why McLean County residents should hurry to see Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth." Using hard science, careful data and a strong moral message, the film's conclusion is inescapable - unless we change our consumption patterns and our rate of CO2 emissions, we are heating up our planet. And heating up our planet alters weather patterns, leading to unpredictable and powerful storms, hurricanes and tornadoes."
." And right now, our current risk of long-term environmental damage is stark and immediate, with the planet's 10 hottest years in the past 14 - this is not a cycle, this is a disaster warning. Run, bike or walk to the nearest theater or video store and screen"
Mike Matejka is also a former board member of CIOP / Illinois Peoples Action and he recently spoke on a topic at the Illinois Peoples Action’s candidate forum. Illinois Peoples Action is the downstate branch of the militant National Peoples Action whose mission would make the Constitutionally uncompatable term Social Justice come to life in a complete transformation of American Society. According to National Peoples Action this is their “Big”mission:
1. TAKE BACK our power to USE THE GOVERNMENT as OUR TOOL to promote the COMMON GOOD, CORRECT THE INJUSTICES of the past, and REDISTIBUTE resources equitably and sustainably.
(MARXISM my words)
2. DEMOCRATIZE the market to put people above profits. (End of Capitalism my words)
3. ENFORCE fundamental human RIGHTS standards that prevent exploitation of people and the ENIVRONMENT. (Sustainable Development planning your life my words)
4. TAKE ACTION to ensure racial, gender, ECONOMIC , and immigrant justice in ALL social and economic systems. (Replacing the Rule of law in our Civil Society with the Rule of Men. No more Bill of Rights and Constitution)
The first major victory for National Peoples Action occurred in 1977 when partnered with the infamous ACORN pushed for and won the 1977 Community Re-Investment Act passed by Congress. The 1977 Re-Investment Act accompanied with the 1989 Amendment to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and additional regulations issued by the Clinton Treasury Department in 1995 forced banks to make loans to people with bad credit and insufficient income.
. These unwise transactions became known as “subprime loans” and were often given without documenting income, revealing credit scores or requiring a down payment. This should serve as a clear warning of what happens when Planners (National Peoples Action) try to correct what they deem as injustice. Their good intentions (in there view ) caused many poor people to obtain home loans they couldn’t afford causing stress on the poor and the banking system. The More the Planners Plan, The More they Get Things Wrong and create Injustices.
On July 27th, 2006. The Pantagraph published a article by Mr. Matejka about former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “Inconvenient Truth.” This movie helped launch the End of World hysteria that Central Planners around the Globe used to push their sustainable development agenda on trusting populations. Gore’s movie has since been discredited with over thirty known falsehoods. In 2006 Gore said we only have Ten Years left to save the planet from scorching. Not Surprisingly, Al Gore was also involved in the Chicago Climate Exchange and it has been said he would have been a Multi Billionaire overnight if Congress would have passed Cap and Trade Legislation. Here are some exerts from Matejka’s article:
"That's why McLean County residents should hurry to see Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth." Using hard science, careful data and a strong moral message, the film's conclusion is inescapable - unless we change our consumption patterns and our rate of CO2 emissions, we are heating up our planet. And heating up our planet alters weather patterns, leading to unpredictable and powerful storms, hurricanes and tornadoes."
." And right now, our current risk of long-term environmental damage is stark and immediate, with the planet's 10 hottest years in the past 14 - this is not a cycle, this is a disaster warning. Run, bike or walk to the nearest theater or video store and screen"
Mike Matejka is also a former board member of CIOP / Illinois Peoples Action and he recently spoke on a topic at the Illinois Peoples Action’s candidate forum. Illinois Peoples Action is the downstate branch of the militant National Peoples Action whose mission would make the Constitutionally uncompatable term Social Justice come to life in a complete transformation of American Society. According to National Peoples Action this is their “Big”mission:
1. TAKE BACK our power to USE THE GOVERNMENT as OUR TOOL to promote the COMMON GOOD, CORRECT THE INJUSTICES of the past, and REDISTIBUTE resources equitably and sustainably.
(MARXISM my words)
2. DEMOCRATIZE the market to put people above profits. (End of Capitalism my words)
3. ENFORCE fundamental human RIGHTS standards that prevent exploitation of people and the ENIVRONMENT. (Sustainable Development planning your life my words)
4. TAKE ACTION to ensure racial, gender, ECONOMIC , and immigrant justice in ALL social and economic systems. (Replacing the Rule of law in our Civil Society with the Rule of Men. No more Bill of Rights and Constitution)
The first major victory for National Peoples Action occurred in 1977 when partnered with the infamous ACORN pushed for and won the 1977 Community Re-Investment Act passed by Congress. The 1977 Re-Investment Act accompanied with the 1989 Amendment to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and additional regulations issued by the Clinton Treasury Department in 1995 forced banks to make loans to people with bad credit and insufficient income.
. These unwise transactions became known as “subprime loans” and were often given without documenting income, revealing credit scores or requiring a down payment. This should serve as a clear warning of what happens when Planners (National Peoples Action) try to correct what they deem as injustice. Their good intentions (in there view ) caused many poor people to obtain home loans they couldn’t afford causing stress on the poor and the banking system. The More the Planners Plan, The More they Get Things Wrong and create Injustices.
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