Mayor Koos is classified by the Sierra Club and by the United Nations (ngo) International Council on Local Environmental Issues (ICLEI) as a “COOL MAYOR.” The UN (ngo) ICLEI has given Mayor Koos an entire webpage for his “Cool Mayor” profile. ICLEI and the Sierra Club monitor the progress of Cool Mayors in the implementation of Sustainable Development policies. ICLEI provides “toolkits” to local mayors that help influence policy changes in development, watersheds, and land use in exchange for financial rewards. Springfield Illinois is a full member of ICLEI.
Some areas like Edmond Oklahoma and Carrol County Maryland recently withdrew from ICLEI because new elections swept new leaders into office due to public outrage over ICLEI membership and sustainable development policies. The City of Normal is not yet a member of ICLEI; however, having your Mayor become a “Cool Mayor” is a big step. According to the Website freedom advocates the consequences of ICLEI policy changes are as follows:
•Traffic congestion
•Open space where access is not allowed
•Government “partnering” with favored private businesses and non-profit agencies, using your tax money
•Undermining Constitutional administration of government
•Managed control over your life
•Mismanagement of public utilities
•Prohibitions on natural resource management leading to increased fire hazards, lack of water, and private property restrictions,
•Increased taxes, fees, regulations and restrictions
ICLEI's own website says :
Our programs, and projects promote participatory, long-term, strategic planning process that address local sustainability while protecting global common goods. This approach links local action to internationally agreed-upon goals and targets such as:
Agenda 21, the Rio Conventions
ICLEI Website keeping tabs on Normal: http://www.iclei-euro...
Normal, Illinois (Town of Normal, Illinois)
USA - North America
City - Inhabitants (): 52.056
Territory size: 35 km2
Community GDP in USD: 2.469.536.640 Baseline year used: 1990
Targets:
CO2e reduction target: 7% by 2012 (community)
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Bloomington - Normal Central Planning Pt3
The US Mayors Conference which Mayor Koos is a member, also endorses the Earth Charter written by Socialist Maurice Strong and Communist Mikhail Gorbachev former leader of the Soviet Union. Interestingly Strong is a former Secretary General of the United Nations and huge proponent of Sustainable Development even though he currently lives in China, his company builds an average of one Coal Plant per week. Consequently Strong himself is one of the world’s biggest polluters. Maurice Strong was also involved in the UN oil for Food Scandal when he endorsed himself a check for $988,885 dollars. Strong also was a stockholder and board member of the Chicago Climate Exchange and stood to make billions if Cap and Trade Legislation was passed. Maurice Strong after the 1992 Conference in Rio said “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? And isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Mikhail Gorbachev former leader of the collapsed Soviet Union standing with Maurice Strong at a news conference about the Earth Charter stated ““We have, I believe, to gear consumption to peoples cultural and spiritual needs also through culture and education and within the framework of laws, we shall address the problem of controlling the world’s population.” Mr. Gorbachev also stated that he hoped the 16 principles of the Earth Charter would be the New Ten Commandments.
A Normal City Council member two years ago was asked if they had ever heard of the Earth Charter? The reply was “ Yes, we have passed it around the council.” Bloomington City Council Member Jennifer McDade played a active role in bringing Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran an author of “Earth in Action” and a huge proponent of the Earth Charter and an advisor to the United Nations to Illinois State University. As an advisor for the Earth Charter Initiative (ECI), Corcoran provides leadership to guide the transition to a more sustainable global community. An Illinois State University website promoting the event stated “ Corcoran will facilitate a dialogue among the participants about Current and Future possibilities for campus and Community Collaborations.”
Council Member McDade was given all the information in this article and graciously responded to two questions that I asked:
Question 1: Are you a proponent of the Un Earth Charter?
Answer by Council Member McDade:
Outside of my professional responsibilities for the Peter Corcoran event (which was part of my work assignment at Illinois State University), I am not involved with the Earth Charter
Question 2: Are you actively pushing for the principles of the Earth Charter for the City of Bloomington?
Answer by Council Member McDade:
No. I am not familiar enough with the document to comment on the accuracy of your statement below.
The Earth Charter is overwhelmingly about Transnationalism. Why are so many local officals looking at the Transnational Earth Charter instead of the US Constitution?
Some Principles from The Earth Charter:
3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful.
a. Ensure that communities at all levels guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms and provide everyone an opportunity to realize his or her full potential.
b. Promote social and ECONOMIC JUSTICE, enabling all to achieve a secure and meaningful livelihood that is ecologically responsible.
Adopt at all levels sustainable development plans and regulations that make environmental conservation and rehabilitation integral to all development initiatives.
Guarantee the right to potable water, clean air, food security, uncontaminated soil, shelter, and safe sanitation, allocating the national and international resources required.
After reading these brief examples ask yourself who granted the New “Rights” to water, clean air, food, and Security? In Addition, ask yourself who is going to oversee the promotion of Economic Justice or wealth Re-Distribution and the universal development plans? Economic Justice in the Earth Charter is talking about taking from the Carbon Producers (The United States) and giving our wealth and energy to the rest of the world. And who has the capability or would like to have the capability to provide an armed force that can guarantee a right to security? Now do you still really believe that all of these sustainable development ideas are originating from the residents of Bloomington- Normal and it’s all about beautification?
Mikhail Gorbachev former leader of the collapsed Soviet Union standing with Maurice Strong at a news conference about the Earth Charter stated ““We have, I believe, to gear consumption to peoples cultural and spiritual needs also through culture and education and within the framework of laws, we shall address the problem of controlling the world’s population.” Mr. Gorbachev also stated that he hoped the 16 principles of the Earth Charter would be the New Ten Commandments.
A Normal City Council member two years ago was asked if they had ever heard of the Earth Charter? The reply was “ Yes, we have passed it around the council.” Bloomington City Council Member Jennifer McDade played a active role in bringing Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran an author of “Earth in Action” and a huge proponent of the Earth Charter and an advisor to the United Nations to Illinois State University. As an advisor for the Earth Charter Initiative (ECI), Corcoran provides leadership to guide the transition to a more sustainable global community. An Illinois State University website promoting the event stated “ Corcoran will facilitate a dialogue among the participants about Current and Future possibilities for campus and Community Collaborations.”
Council Member McDade was given all the information in this article and graciously responded to two questions that I asked:
Question 1: Are you a proponent of the Un Earth Charter?
Answer by Council Member McDade:
Outside of my professional responsibilities for the Peter Corcoran event (which was part of my work assignment at Illinois State University), I am not involved with the Earth Charter
Question 2: Are you actively pushing for the principles of the Earth Charter for the City of Bloomington?
Answer by Council Member McDade:
No. I am not familiar enough with the document to comment on the accuracy of your statement below.
The Earth Charter is overwhelmingly about Transnationalism. Why are so many local officals looking at the Transnational Earth Charter instead of the US Constitution?
Some Principles from The Earth Charter:
3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful.
a. Ensure that communities at all levels guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms and provide everyone an opportunity to realize his or her full potential.
b. Promote social and ECONOMIC JUSTICE, enabling all to achieve a secure and meaningful livelihood that is ecologically responsible.
Adopt at all levels sustainable development plans and regulations that make environmental conservation and rehabilitation integral to all development initiatives.
Guarantee the right to potable water, clean air, food security, uncontaminated soil, shelter, and safe sanitation, allocating the national and international resources required.
After reading these brief examples ask yourself who granted the New “Rights” to water, clean air, food, and Security? In Addition, ask yourself who is going to oversee the promotion of Economic Justice or wealth Re-Distribution and the universal development plans? Economic Justice in the Earth Charter is talking about taking from the Carbon Producers (The United States) and giving our wealth and energy to the rest of the world. And who has the capability or would like to have the capability to provide an armed force that can guarantee a right to security? Now do you still really believe that all of these sustainable development ideas are originating from the residents of Bloomington- Normal and it’s all about beautification?
Monday, March 28, 2011
Bloomington - Normal Central Planning Pt. 1
The great thing about America up until twenty years ago was in the words of former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill “All Politics are Local.” Speaker O’Neill was correct and that is how our representative republic is supposed to work. Beginning in 1992 with a United Nations environmental conference in Rio de Janerio, Brazil the entire concept of “Local Control” by the People was flipped on its head and the American people didn’t know it than and most still don’t twenty years later. President Herbert Walker Bush signed onto the environmental accords that provided a detailed blueprint of action to be taken globally and locally by countries, organizations, United Nations (ngos), environmental groups, and every President hence forth including President Obama has directed agencies to implement the accords throughout the federal government down to the local level. The new hip catch phrase in the words of David Bower, founder of the Sierra Club is “Think Globally, Act Locally.”
Mayor Koos was quoted in the Pantagraph: "What we're doing in Normal is what the federal and state officials want to see happen along the corridor," Koos said. "The directive from the feds is that sustainable, livable communities should be developed along the corridors.” Do you still really think all of these ideas are coming from locals and it’s simply about beautifying main street?
Sustainable Development is code for Central Planners and these planners are making the plans for every aspect of your life. The Goal of Planners like Doug Farr, hired by Bloomington and Normal to design the Main Street Corridor is to force populations into small, highly populated areas, with few cars, a reliance on bicycles, public transit and to herd unsuspecting Americans into a communal society. They are planning what kind of car you will drive, , If you should ride a bike, How many miles you can drive, Can you use your cell and drive, Your weekly water usage, Your thermostat settings, If your TV is too big, What light bulbs you use, Is your home too big, Are you healthy enough, Can you eat food grown on your own farm, and even if you should be allowed to own property at all in the name of serving the “Collective Good.”
US Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood has been a popular guest of the McLean County Chamber of Commerce and he has said “I have joined a transformational adminastration, I think we can change people’s behavior.” Lahood stated on the subject of cell phones and driving… “There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that.” Lahood on mass transit ... "It is a way to coerce people out of their cars. Yeah." Secretary Lahood commenting on a mileage tax…” We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled.” Perhaps Lahood’s most honest comment is “About everything we do around here is intrusion into people’s lives.” Chapter One of author Terrance Jeffrey’s book “Control Freaks” thoroughly illustrates how Secretary Ray LaHood is using the force of government to manipulate markets to force us out of our cars and even our homes to live in the "high density" housing environments they preferred we would inhabit. Sadly it appears local planners and Lahood think we exist to simply fulfill their dreams for our lives and not our own.
New Urbanism Architect Doug Farr of Farr & Associates hired by our community to plan our future isn’t fond of the automobile. His goal is for people only to drive 4000 miles a year like Americans did in the 1970s. Farr has even suggested in interviews that employers start charging their employees to park so people will find a way not to drive. According to the McLean County Pundits website the original Main Street Plan Farr called for banning drive though windows at Fast Food Chains, Dry Cleaners, Pharmacies, etc and even proposed building public showers at taxpayer expense so bicyclist could shower on there way to work. Doug Farr Tweeted at the Gulf Coast Green Symposium “ It will take 5 years to change all the lite bulbs, 10 for the cars, 25 for buildings, 35 for land use.” It is logical to conclude that Form Based Code has nothing to with beautification and everything to do with Behavior Modification and is just the beginning of what the planners are planning.
Mayor Koos was quoted in the Pantagraph: "What we're doing in Normal is what the federal and state officials want to see happen along the corridor," Koos said. "The directive from the feds is that sustainable, livable communities should be developed along the corridors.” Do you still really think all of these ideas are coming from locals and it’s simply about beautifying main street?
Sustainable Development is code for Central Planners and these planners are making the plans for every aspect of your life. The Goal of Planners like Doug Farr, hired by Bloomington and Normal to design the Main Street Corridor is to force populations into small, highly populated areas, with few cars, a reliance on bicycles, public transit and to herd unsuspecting Americans into a communal society. They are planning what kind of car you will drive, , If you should ride a bike, How many miles you can drive, Can you use your cell and drive, Your weekly water usage, Your thermostat settings, If your TV is too big, What light bulbs you use, Is your home too big, Are you healthy enough, Can you eat food grown on your own farm, and even if you should be allowed to own property at all in the name of serving the “Collective Good.”
US Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood has been a popular guest of the McLean County Chamber of Commerce and he has said “I have joined a transformational adminastration, I think we can change people’s behavior.” Lahood stated on the subject of cell phones and driving… “There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that.” Lahood on mass transit ... "It is a way to coerce people out of their cars. Yeah." Secretary Lahood commenting on a mileage tax…” We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled.” Perhaps Lahood’s most honest comment is “About everything we do around here is intrusion into people’s lives.” Chapter One of author Terrance Jeffrey’s book “Control Freaks” thoroughly illustrates how Secretary Ray LaHood is using the force of government to manipulate markets to force us out of our cars and even our homes to live in the "high density" housing environments they preferred we would inhabit. Sadly it appears local planners and Lahood think we exist to simply fulfill their dreams for our lives and not our own.
New Urbanism Architect Doug Farr of Farr & Associates hired by our community to plan our future isn’t fond of the automobile. His goal is for people only to drive 4000 miles a year like Americans did in the 1970s. Farr has even suggested in interviews that employers start charging their employees to park so people will find a way not to drive. According to the McLean County Pundits website the original Main Street Plan Farr called for banning drive though windows at Fast Food Chains, Dry Cleaners, Pharmacies, etc and even proposed building public showers at taxpayer expense so bicyclist could shower on there way to work. Doug Farr Tweeted at the Gulf Coast Green Symposium “ It will take 5 years to change all the lite bulbs, 10 for the cars, 25 for buildings, 35 for land use.” It is logical to conclude that Form Based Code has nothing to with beautification and everything to do with Behavior Modification and is just the beginning of what the planners are planning.
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