The Blaze (excerpts):  What is Agenda 21?  If you do not know about it, you should.  Agenda 21 is a two-decade old, grand plan for global "Sustainable Development," brought to you from the United Nations.  George H.W. Bush (and 177 other world leaders) agreed to it back in 1992, and in 1995, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order #12858, creating a Presidential Council on "Sustainable Development."  This effectively pushed the UN plan into America's large, churning governmental machine without the need for any review or discussion by Congress or the American people.  "Sustainable Development" sounds like a nice idea, right?  It sounds nice, until you scratch the surface and find that Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development are really cloaked plans to impose the tenets of Social Justice/Socialism on the world.  At risk from Agenda 21:  * Private ownership  * Single family homes  * Private car ownership and individual travel choices  * Privately owned farms.  The Agenda 21 plan openly targets private property.  For over 35 years, the UN has made their stance very clear on the issue of individuals owning land:  "Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market.  Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes.  The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole."  Source:  United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I) Vancouver, BC, May 31 - June 11, 1976.  Preamble to Agenda item 10 of the Conference Report.  

There are two more very good reasons to be wary of Agenda 21 and the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) that supports it:  George Soros and the United Nations.  Soros's money has been tracked to funding parts of (ICLEI):  "In 1997, George Soros's Open Society gave ICLEI a $2,147,415 grant to support its Local Agenda 21 Project.  Currently in California, Agenda 21 is working to implement plans to create plans for sustainable management of "open spaces."  The definition of what is to be considered an "open space" has sparked some heated exchanges between those directing the planning meetings and citizens who want private property rights to be respected and protected.  This type of global plan could not be implemented without a large well-funded group pushing through its priorities.  For that, Agenda 21 has the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), and ICLEI is deeply entrenched in America.  ICLEI USA was launched in 1995 and has grown from a handful of local governments participating in a pilot project, to a solid network of more than 600 cities, towns, and counties actively striving to achieve tangible reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable communities.  ICLEI USA is the domestic leader on climate protection and adaptation and sustainable development at the local government level.  Over 600 cities, towns and counties in America are members of ICLEI.  Do you support your local government agreeing to rules and regulations set up by a UN-based organization that wants private property transferred to government control?  If you would like to see if your community is a member of ICLEI, you can visit their website.  In the world of business, Agenda 21 is not a free market friend, preferring PPPs or Private Public Partnerships, and with such, the government decides which companies will receive tax breaks and are allowed to stay in business.  In light of this realization, the cozy relationship between the current administration and GE (a company that paid no tax in 2010) should raise eyebrows.  The White House efforts to tell Boeing in which state they can operate seems to further bolster the belief that Agenda 21 ideals are already making headway in America.  In recent months, citizen groups across the country have organized and become involved in the removal of towns and cities from membership in ICLEI.  The Roanoke, VA Tea Party is holding a rally this week in an effort to have ICLEI removed from their local government.  For a better understanding of Agenda 21 and ICLEI, we suggest:  The American Policy Center offers a one-page primer on Agenda 21.  


My Comments:  As I read this, my first thought was, why would the rich get involved in this Agenda 21, because part of the "agenda" is to confiscate private property for government purposes and certainly the rich have enough property to protect.  As I investigated Agenda 21 further, I realized that "outs" have been developed for the rich and elite.  For example, the wealthy have the ability to buy into Public Private Partnerships and essentially they are never touched.  It's only the middle class who get the shaft from these UN/ government projects.  The poor they need for labor purposes, and the poor like these government strategies because they only stand to gain, they don't have anything anyway - nothing to lose.  The middle class are basically moved into the "poor sector" and everyone's personal, constitutional rights are stripped from them.  Basically, we become governmental slaves.  Has this worked in Germany or Russia?  The great big answer is NO!  It never works because the rich get richer and more powerful and more greedy and because they ultimately never have enough to hand out to all of the rest, hyperinflation kicks in, the poor begin to lack basic needs, then famine and gross poverty ultimately prevail and humans begin wasting away, unless you are among the government megalomaniacs and the filthy rich.  We have seen it happen in communist societies throughout the world, but they never seem to get it.  In fact, they commonly blame capitalistic societies for "holding everyone else back."  Now, they are going to try the global enslavement, thinking that's going to work, but it won't.  It is just going to fail on a much BIGGER scale.  Nothing takes the place of freedom in societies and throughout the world, but there are always some devils out there trying to enslave everyone and be rulers over the masses.  Sound like someone in particular we, as Christians, are expecting.  This is right up the Antichrist's alley.  I planted a couple of pictures of people starving above this article.  What do they have to do with this issue?  The first picture shows a family starving in Russia before the communist regime collapsed; the second picture shows German children starving during the Nazi socialist regime.  Barack Hussein Obama is a socialist.  It all ties in.  Do you think any of these socialists would care if we begin starving off and looking like the people in the above photographs?  No, they don't care!  Their next agenda is downsizing the population!  Starvation fits their bill perfectly.  Wake up America!  Oh, you say "it can happen in Russia, it can happen in Germany, but it can't happen here."  Oh really?  Jesus said there will be famines just before His return:  Mark 13:8, "Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom and there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows."